I’ll fly away (bonus post, synchro-Eww)
Advance … forward … ahead … later …
How could we have a DST day without a few comics about getting it wrong, or complaining about the aftereffects? However, it is especially nice to run across one where you think the cartoonists are the ones misunderstanding and getting it backwards.
Once more unto the Oopsies, Quickies, Semi-CIDUs, Mysteries, and flops? (8th Series)
Maybe it’s a genuine CIDU? But I think that punch line is all there is.
I think we all can sympathize with Duane’s motivations for his … little prank. And that’s the main joke, which is not in need of explication; so this isn’t quite a CIDU. But if we wanted to get into it a little, we could ask whether he’s getting revenge more on the kid or on the mom. And at the practical level, what does it mean that he still has the barber’s customer-apron as he’s leaving?
I guess this Working Daze fits an offshoot of the “CIDU-Quickie” category, where the joke is utterly incomprehensible until you are shown (or realize you already know) an instance of something-that’s-going-around, and then that entirely exhausts the mystery.
Linked here is a compilation of what lies behind the joke. (I can’t watch this all the way thru.)
Sunday Funnies – LOLs, March 13th, 2022
Well, there’s a good OY on the left, and a good LOL on the right, and I’m feeling too lazy to get out the cropper, so let’s print it twice, once today, and once yesterday or tomorrow.
Not a huge LOL, but Tiger and Punkinhead here are reproducing a classic problem in the literature of logical representation, going back to Bertrand Russell.
An Arlo-LOL from Divad who says “I’ve got a pretty good guess what was on Arlo’s mind (in general), but I’m trying to not picture what he’s specifically thinking.”
“Zzz-mailing” makes it worth it…
Saturday Morning Oys – March 12th, 2022
Well, there’s a good OY on the left, and a good LOL on the right, and I’m feeling too lazy to get out the cropper, so let’s print it twice, once today, and once yesterday or tomorrow.
“Told him where to go …”
Middle school favorite: “You’ve got a point there …. But you could hide it under a hat!”
(Bonus) I’m just one for three on this
Okay, I remember Hodor from Game of Thrones (his backstory was a touching moment), but not the others.
What’s old is new
After a gap of not quite a year, the GoComics feed for Randolph Itch restarted. This one for 2022 March 7 seems to be the first cartoon in the cycle.
Which doesn’t make its meaning clear!
Just for interest, here are the next two cartoons in the cycle. Not as puzzling, maybe.
Looks like somebody’s been hitting that Welsh rarebit too close to bedtime!
VSADD
Okay, is it purely nonsense? Or is Pointy Haired Boss thinking of something marginally real? Like, the whole bit about spelling words in a calculator LED panel. …
Would “Welsh rabbit” provoke nightmares too?
Some recent discussion prompted me to add Origins of the Sunday Comics to my read-if-you-get-to-it list, and their recent excursion into Dream of the Rarebit Fiend from 1913 has been an eye opener. This episode differs from the ones right before it in not having the nightmare dreamer awaken in bed to regret consuming the rarebit.
The Wikipedia article for Rarebit comic has an appreciative essay.
Seriously?
