Boise Ed sends this in: “Today (Saturday) is the sixth straight day he’s used the exact same art. I’ve seen such re-use in other strips, but geez, six straight days?”
That one’s the start of the series. As I post this, I don’t know whether it continues further (or whether Brett has used this in past years).
Boise Ed sends this in: “Some commenters feel that the little rectangular solid is supposed to represent a hay bale. From panel 2, I infer that its name is “going.” At this point, I’m totally lost.”
Keeping hydrated??
Here’s a LOL/semi-CIDU courtesy of Dale Eltoft – and thanks for the intro to Ryan Mason / At Random Comics.
I had trouble with the premises of the original Topper TV series because I didn’t understand the distinction between when the ghosts would “dematerialize” and when they were simply invisible.
Rather dumb word-argument. But it prompts memory of an assortment of senior-targeted advertising campaigns which for a while used the phrasing “age 50 or better” or “age seventy-and-a-half or better” etcetera. It was supposed to be obvious, yet a sort of joke, that better would mean older. At least one that I heard regularly for a while did change to older; but then later reverted to better ; so I guess there was some complaint but it got resolved, or just overruled.
Come to think of it, probably the word-level associations of squashing things must have played a role in my lifelong aversion to the vegetable of that name.
Chak notes “I’ve read En attendant Godot several times, and I still don’t have a clue.”
Could one expect Godot to comment? Waiting for your comments below.
Phew, a lot of work to get there!
Indeed, they are said to have a high turnover.
But Day by Dave wasn’t done with punning for the week yet.
Mary Ellen sent this one in. Why backpacking alpacas? Why does everyone look so miserable? And why are the men in what looks like monks’ robes while the alpacas are using folding maps and modern looking backpacks?
It’s somewhere between an OY (wordplay on alpacah and backpackah) and a CIDU.
We’re used to the Diamond Lil strip attempting a pun every day, and often organizing a week’s worth on a repeating pattern. Here it’s even the very same joke mechanism six times over.
Why is this not a CIDU? Because it clears up when you realize that named artist is real, and learn even the first thing about them. Here’s Wikipedia: ” Lucio Fontana was an Argentine-Italian painter, sculptor and theorist. He’s known as the founder of Spatialism and exponent of abstract painting as the first known artist to slash his canvases – which symbolizes an utter rejection of all prerequisites of art.”
Diamond Lil departs from their pun-a-day usual practice, and gives us a nicely planned meta.
A well-executed entry in the own-petard category.
Featured Image (at top)
Concetto spaziale, Attese, 1965
Lucio Fontana
Sad self-imaging.
This “dogged effort to learn a foreign language” has paid off!
And as my brother recently messaged me: Yo no soy marinara! Yo no soy marinara! Soy carbonara, soy carbonara, soy carbonara — por ti seré, por ti seré, por ti seré.
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