And that explains the smell of gas around here …
Chemgal sent this in, and classifies it as an Oy, but avers that she did LOL at it too.
And a final item from Andréa:
Whenever confronted with people who like to insist that JFK’s Ich bin ein Berliner meant that he was calling himself a pastry, I like to think of alternate stories where a President needs to reinforce our commitment to Denmark.
Thanks to Andréa, who called it a “CIDU that I’m too lazy to look up.”
I gave in and looked it up! Alicia Keys had a song “Girl on Fire”. And the lookup also finds a few parodies, under titles like “This girl is on Pfizer,” that predate this cartoon. Indeed it seems to be a fast-moving meme, with hashtags on Twitter and TikTok.
The list of manufacturers sounds like the choices for Covid vaccine, though I guess they would be similar for Flu. The song parody with available lyrics certainly made it Covid, and it’s tempting to suppose that was Hilburn’s idea at first which then got softened, as it were. (The actual song dates from 2012)
Thanks to Andréa for this subtle groaner:
Sources say that either the exclamation “Great Scott” is not attached to any particular person with that name; or else may be associated with Sir Walter Scott, or with U.S. General Winfield Scott. But here, with the talk of Antarctica and the South Pole, surely they intend some kind of glance at famous and unfortunate polar explorer Robert F Scott?
And another from Andréa, who calls this “Barely an oy”. Also fodder for you dialectologists out there.
We can’t let a Whack-a-Mole reference go by without linking to Cameron Esposito’s “Guacamole” bit! (In case the “start at” feature in the link doesn’t work, you might want to skip an intro and jump to about 1:40.)
This LOL-Meta from Argyle Sweater surprises me a little by taking it for granted that kids that age would tease (or try to insult) each other in the terms Sara used.
I just need to say I’m impressed how he selected and wrote out the twenty-five names.
And a thorough Ewww-LOL:
Sent by BillR, who says “I know Scott Hilburn likes puns. A lot, in fact. But I don’t get this one.”
I don’t get it either. The GoComics comments do give a possible explanation, though IMO a rather feeble one — and not much like a pun.
An OY-Ewww :
This semi-CIDU OY is from Boise Ed, who notes the apparent error that they are doing downhill skiing but the text is about cross-country. But why is it not actually in error? Hmm?
TBH, this was for me more a chuckle than a full LOL. But I was wondering if others also see an analogy between the point here and our thread about interpreting “The exception proves the rule” from early January.
For that matter, what sort of thing was a “buck” in that saying, by the time HST talked about it?
Thanks to Boise Ed for this Ewww-LOL!
Okay, okay, Reply All is an acquired taste I guess.
Is anyone ready to name a particular Raymond Chandler title being quoted? Or is Bliss just happily riffing on the voice?
Sad, sad end!
P.S. Who would be customers here, you ask?
Gotta wonder what Grawlix will make of all that punctuation …
BillR sent this in, asking if there is candidate Arlo-award material here. Which I don’t see a basis for. But we can all wonder together what the Peanuts kids are doing there; what the closed-captions are transcribing; and above all, what’s the joke!
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