Does this early Peanuts comic may provide Lucy the motivation for her endless football revenge on Charlie Brown?
Mitch4 sends this momentary CIDU in: “I was puzzled until learning that both “Mary Sue” and “plot armor” are fandom terminology.”
Hang on to your wallet, Auntie!
The basic joke is clear: he wants to pretend to be a better person than he is. And if those are clouds they seem to be in line at the Pearly Gates — but, if so, how can he use his phone? And what’s the significance of the way the others are portrayed: golfing, eating a piece of cake, etc.
I feel like this is a parody of a popular song lyric, but I’m not finding it in my memory.
This was tilted in Tom Falco’s original, so I left it that way in case it’s part of the joke.
Mitch4 sends this in:
And one more that seems to involve a gnome … or something:
Mitch4 sends this in: “Well, halfway CIDU. I get it that the hair is given a location-specific styling at each place. But not exactly how.
So, what is #1? A wandering stream? Why?
For #2, I guess it’s spaghetti curling?
For #3, I was thinking French Braid … except it’s not braided. So, soft-serve ice cream??”
Mitch4 sends this in: “Two and a half hypotheses:
1) The intended cartoon was indeed pulled by the editors, for being in one or another aspect beyond the limits of acceptable — political or personally impolite etc.
[1.5 Exactly as reported, it was pulled for being “too humorous” — nah, very unlikely, but maybe this was literally what was stated to him though intended to convey #1.]
2) Nothing of the sort happened, and this is just a variation on “the cartoonist took a day off from drawing”.”
Marrose sends this in: “The penguin throws me. WTH?”
These must have been the frogs used to fill out that Jurassic Park DNA.
Post hoc, ergo propter hoc.
The three theological virtues.
It’s February 1st, whether we like it or not.
This one’s a bit of a CIDU for me.
Mitch4 sends this in.
Anyone else make pretty much the same resolutions every year?
