
Makes you want to share the word toroidal with them!





Speaking of pen names:


Makes you want to share the word toroidal with them!





Speaking of pen names:

This first one may not strictly count as CIDU, since in the end I do understand it. But it took a lot of work!

For this other one, the song quoted and the musician mentioned are easily verified to match up, even if not in your personal playlist. But …

… but I genuinely don’t get the part about “If you’re gonna sound like a Karen…” — there doesn’t seem to be enough basis to take that in the contemporary quasi-political sense of a denigrating term for a woman being fussy in a certain way. And without that, what is there for “sound like a Karen” to mean?
From Usual John, who says “The second panel translates literally as “he runs me on the bean.” Idiomatically, it means “he annoys me a lot.” But I still do not understand why it is supposed to be funny.”

Thanks to Boise Ed for sending IT in….

There’s some mix of Nike’s “Just do it”, Stephen King’s novel IT, and I.T. as abbreviation for Information Technology — but how those are supposed to be cooked into a coherent joke is beyond us.
