Not quite CIDU as to overall idea, but invites explications or disputations of how each one works or doesn’t, or how some other plausible candidates could have come out.
How about some Bacon then?
Brick Hand wanted – Apply inside
Ignatz was first disdaining the advertised job of “brick hand”, but according to the printed subhead “Ignatz Will Love His Work” he does get employment at the Kelly brick yard. What accomplished this turnaround? Was it seeing Krazy Kat working there in panel 3? Will he be a “brick hand” or something else?
Maybe some answers are contained in the dialog written under the entrance archway in panel 4, which I really can’t make out.
Yet Another set of Semi-CIDUs, Minor Mysteries, Oopsies, and Not-Quite-Rights
From Chemgal, who says “I thought the highest possible GPA was 4.0. Are they using a different scale in Zits?” She mentions she can think of a possible explanation, and I think I know what it is too, but even if it’s not a full CIDU there may be enough uncertainty for people to discuss as a Semi-CIDU.
This Beetle Bailey is from 1965-05-17, and appeared in ComicsKingdom retro series recently on Thursday 2021-12-02. I wasn’t aware that spray-painting would be part of helmet maintenance, but I guess why not? But what exactly is going on in the aftermath scene that is puzzling the General? Has the grass in general been painted an odd color, but not inside the helmet outlines where it was shielded? But those patches don’t look like they’re supposed to be natural grass. Or has the procedure somehow damaged / killed off the grass inside the helmets, and left it normal outside?
We all know one of the standard time-travel puzzlement plots involves killing Hitler young. But what are the stories about smuggling him away in your luggage?
Call me hidebound and oldfashioned, but I don’t always think open-ended and unresolved are better. MAYBE someone with a lot of insight into snoring does have a principled way of matching these up. But without that, or an official answer key, you have to resort to “Oh, just posing the question is funny, and gives us a chuckle about how much snoring goes on and how bad it is.” But is that really enough?
Sunday Funnies – LOLs, December 12th, 2021
Nice to see the cat and dog working together so nicely!
A small but very nice touch is where the words you and happy are used.
This must be a LOL-Eww:
And an unrelated but very funny Bliss, sent in by Targuman.
Saturday Morning Oys – December 11th, 2021
Let’s just call this format something like “text-added photo” and not get into what can or cannot properly be called “meme”.
There may or may not be a discoverable individual “author”, but I wll lazily enough use the name of the person posting to Facebook Group “The Daily Pun”.
Call the Jazz Police
Thanks to BillR for sending this one:
Is there a song we should be familiar with that *is* about fish and this performer might have in his repertoire? Or wait, that he might have been getting requests for and had to decline?
Family is everything
From Le Vieux Lapin, who says “I get the part where the mobsters aren’t giving him concrete overshoes after all – but why THREE footprints?”.
By the way, in case you were wondering if they are generic or unaffiliated mobsters, the helpful alt hover text says “The Mafia Brothers”.
Right next door, innit?
From Stan, saying “I have one or two ideas about this, but they don’t really hold much water. Wouldn’t mind a solid explanation if one exists. Also, why didn’t Dagwood just drive Herb all the way home? It couldn’t have been too far out of his way.”
Top bird
This was sent both by Emma who says “It may be simple, but I just don’t get it! Thanks!” and by padraig who claims “I actually did get this, but it was more like a picture puzzle than a cartoon”.
And padraig tries to clue us on what he meant by a picture puzzle by adding “The pigeon is standing on a…..” But if he’s being a stool-pigeon, why is it what the cardinal will say that is being made an issue? I’m still thinking mostly they are contesting who will be the top dog, erm, bird.
(And by the way, as long as it’s still signed as Wayno & Piraro we think it should be tagged as both Wayno and Piraro. And their blogs often discuss their collaboration, and make it clear that altho Wayno scripts and draws the Mon-Sat cartoons, Piraro consults and gives a lot of input as well.)
He found the batmobile?
Sent in by Le Vieux Lapin, who asks “He dug into the bat cave and found the batmobile? If so, have Batman and Robin had THEIR rabies shots? Is something else going on here?”
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