
I get that the babysitter shouldn’t be sleeping on the job. But “pay up”?

I get that the babysitter shouldn’t be sleeping on the job. But “pay up”?


Hens’ teeth may have been rare, as the probably geezer idiom says, but apparently they could be fitted by a properly prepared dentist.

Why is she giving it five stars if she doesn’t like it? I get that humor often (usually? always?) comes from the contrast between what you would expect to happen and what’s actually happening, but I don’t understand what’s happening here.
Sent by Boise Ed as “Just flat-out funny, to me at least.” He also shares some info about the strip: “Andy Marlette is an editorial cartoonist in Florida who just started Shrimp and Grits this past Memorial Day. His uncle Doug was a Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist and also wrote the Kudzu comic strip.”




LOL and only slightly Eww!

And what th’ heck, let’s indulge with another Liz Climo using the same idea of two species treating something according to their differing natural perspectives:


A LOL-Eww from Bob Ball, who adds: “At least she’s fully clothed in the comic.”




Not a difficult pun, but amusing.




From Boise Ed, who adds “Nomophobia” is now a real word, derived from “NO MObile.”


From Jack Applin who says “I accept that fashion and fascin’ are homophones, but I don’t know what fascin’ is.”
A friendly reminder to avoid political arguments; we’re just trying to understand the comic.

This isn’t really a CIDU. Given this comic’s schtick, I assume the joke is that he’s attacking Loretta because she’s taken something classy (classical music), and made it dumb and low class by playing it on the bongos. But as I commented to SingaporeBill when he sent this in, it just seems like a really strange and difficult-to-understand attack, because playing on the bongos and making it sound like “Flight of the Bumblebee” would actually be pretty impressive. And then he sent this in:

From Singapore Bill, who asks “If it is solar powered, why is it walking around at night? And why is it in the dark and glowing? Seems kind of the opposite. And how does that make it like Maria?”