Mine are on a 5.25 inch floppy disk, formatted for the Kaypro, using the Select word processor. I’m good.
Timmy never learns.
Boise Ed sends this in: “Background: Parents are off on a vacation, Dad’s young assistant is staying with the kid while her home is fumigated or something. Kid catches assistant canoodling with boyfriend and uses a fire extinguisher on them. (That part ran March 9-13.)”
Lio works in some of the best known cats in comics. Can you name them all?
Dedicated to all the times we read a comic and say “What’s the joke here?”
Darren throws us a nice compliment: “I consider CIDU our humor professional!
I guess there is a minor question of the text. Best I can do is:
“And this is why you never ever invest in a platypus””
Did I post this before? I thought I had, but it was still in my “to be posted” folder, and I can’t find it in recent posts. If you saw it before, you’re now seeing it again!
Interesting than panel 2 is overlaid over the right side of panel 1, rather than being separate. (Well, maybe not THAT interesting.)
Mitch4 sends this in: “LOL plus some nice word play, but not the sort to make it an OY.
I don’t know if it’s a feature or bug that the reader needs to insert “and” various places in each line to get the limerick scansion.”
Ben Bass commented upon seeing this comic: “As the resident New York Times cryptogram writer, I consider this aspirational.”
Asher Perlman urges you to create your own joke:
One example:
Ellis Rosen has a long post devoted to comics of his that have references that may be obscure.
Obscure references are the bread-and-butter of CIDU; I’m only going to put one here because the comics and the essay are Ellis’s work, not mine. It’s worth reading.
It’s free advice, and worth every penny you paid.
Mouseover text: “It comes with a certificate of authenticity, which comes with a certificate of authenticity, which comes with a…”
… and some non-CIDUs
The joke is clear, if hackneyed by now, but what would the kids tip? A 20% trick?
This execution of the same joke is a bit clearer, since it’s the kid asking for money.
Not so much a CIDU as “way too much work”. Post individual clue solutions in the comments. FYI, complete solution is here.
This one tripped me up, because I assumed a Pumpkin Spice Latte only had the spices used in pumpkin pie. This used to be true: introduced in 2003, Starbucks’ Pumpkin Spice Latte contained only the spices, and no pumpkin. That made sense. Who thinks steak sauce has steak in it? or shrimp sauce has shrimp in it? Or awlspice has an awl in it? But, in response to complaints, in 2015 they reformulated to add some pumpkin puree. That was really unnecessary, because a bit of pumpkin puree adds little taste. But this does mean Blazek’s joke actually works.
Not a CIDU, but definitely an Ewww.
Not a CIDU, either, but cute.
And one last nod to Peanuts:
And, finally, an OY
There’s this synchronicity, sent in by Nebulous:
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