by multipleciduers

Sunday Funnies – LOLs, December 17th, 2023

A Sad-LOL for sure!

Or is this maybe a Semi-CIDU for anybody?

McDonald’s decides to open one test site for a new concept, CosMc’s, to overmuch social media hype, and now a tip of the hat from Greg Cravens. In the current iteration, it’s drive-thru only, with no restrooms.

The “5-31” in the panel is easy enough, but I’m having a hard time making out the year in the (c) strip. Scrolling in the Comics Kingdom archive to the previous few strips, I think it could be 1967. 

Which is maybe late enough that she might have turned out to be the surgeon rather than the nurse. (Certainly by that year the joke/riddle of “A father and his son were out for a Sunday drive” was already quite popular.) Or no, how could a surgeon go out with an enlisted man?

[Does anybody need the rest of the story??]

by multipleciduers

Saturday Morning OYs – December 16th, 2023

Frank & Ernest

And Boise Ed provides another One Big Happy:

And Jack Applin suggests this Phoebe and her Unicorn:

(This is apparently the first appearance of this strip in a CIDU post; so far it has only been mentioned a few times in comments.)

Jack further comments, “I was astonished to learn that, according to Wikipedia, all of the *core really exist:“
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cottagecore
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goblincore
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normcore

by Kilby

Riding the Swift Bandwagon

I sincerely hope that this strip was meant as a satiric skewering of all the Taylor Swift hoopla, and not as an even semi-serious attempt to get on the bandwagon with everyone else.

P.S. When I first read the strip, I thought Liniers was in the market for the latest and greatest (overpriced) mobile phone, but when I zoomed in on the fourth panel, I discovered that the last word was “plane”. (I really like hand lettering, but now I wonder who does it for the translated version of the strip.)

by EditorM

What’s the scoop on that?

I didn’t realize how far back Eyebeam goes! But while puzzling over this comic in its November 2023 recycle appearance, it seemed that finding the date of original publication might help. In 1988 simultaneous streaming release was not yet a standard practice ; heck, they didn’t have streaming at all. Distribution for private home viewing was, as shown, mostly tape rentals ; and yes, tape, as DVDs weren’t around until the mid 90s!

And is that what the joke is? That somehow Joe’s Rentals has this title as tape even though it’s just now opening at the theater? Or is it funny-surprising that all these people prefer to see it at the theater rather than in the comforts of home? Or even — but now we’re working too hard — or even that the ice cream shop is a clue that they’re having hot weather, and that gives an answer to “why is everybody going to the movie theater?” : that they are seeking air conditioning?

by multipleciduers

Sunday Funnies – LOLs, December 10th, 2023

Yep, that’s what I thought she meant too! Did anyone here not think that first?

Such a nice use of expressive objects.

BTW, if you are looking for a great read, try The Wager. There’s also a long excerpt in The New Yorker a few months back.

by EditorM

“Hey! That’s not Funny!” (says our translator card)

In case you would like either an introduction or a refresher on Searle’s Chinese Room argument, that link to the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy may be of interest.

That’s what this cartoon on Daily Nous recently seems to be about:

Okay, is it funny, to general audience? Is it funny, to an expert? Is it a good response to the Chinese Room Argument? Is trying to ridicule Searle what finished off Derrida?

P.S. It’s natural for comics fans to try illuminating philosophical point by consulting Existential Comics. But the only archive entry I can find there for Searle does not touch on the Chinese Room Argument at all.