JMcAndrew sends this in: “I have no idea what the joke here is. It’s a snowman with a top hat and black cape and the crows like him because they are also black? Why is there fire?”

JMcAndrew sends this in: “I have no idea what the joke here is. It’s a snowman with a top hat and black cape and the crows like him because they are also black? Why is there fire?”


Mitch4 sends this in: “Setup is quite unlikely, but yields a good chuckle.”

But maybe this boat is the Tooth Ferry?



Pretty sure the last panel tech support is Hindu deities.
National Snail Day is May 29, a day is dedicated to appreciating snails and their importance in the ecosystem.





A trainee?






Chemgal sends this in:

Kedamono sends in this questionable sculptural decision — which, luckily, the Egyptians did not make.

Mark Parisi posted: “It had to be done. (On my Patreon page I drew the view from the other side. I then sent that to my editor asking if it was too much to be published in daily newspapers. He suggested it could be newspaper-friendly if it was shown from the other side. Smart.)”
Actual back of the Sphinx:





Kedamono sends in this one: “I can’t decide if this one is a LOL or an OY. Still, there is something graceful in synchronized garbage tossing.”
Not really that much of an Ewww, but seemed close enough to one to put it here.
And another from Mark Parisi:



The servers at the Subpoena Cafe have extra skills.


Mitch4 sends this in: “I’m calling it LOL only because the question I have does not rise fully to CIDU, nor is it a 4th-Wall thing under any narrow definition.
It’s just this: Does she pronounce it as “chitterlings” or treat that as a fancy spelling for spoken “chitlins”?”



Maybe we need a “Yeah, right!” tag.

Other nominees: big hats, bustles and anything else from the Gone With The Wind era.


Mitch4 sends this in: “Finally! An answer to centuries of studying the question of theodicy!”
I’m probably not the only one who had to look this term up:


As I write this, the Jets are 0-6.
August 13 is Left Handers Day.


Speaking of obscure holidays:

What could be in that box?



Once again, Scott Hilburn shows his mettle as a punster.

Backstory: Nate has decided that since he has a math test coming up and a book report due, he’ll take a shortcut and combine math study with the book report.

JMcAndrew sends this in: “I believe the object on the left is an old style computer. I’ve spent longer than I care to admit contemplating the mechanics of how this “affair” might happen.”
This might be filed under “jokes that don’t work well anymore”. At the time this was done (1987), this would be hard. Now, linking computers to TVs is ubiquitous in several ways, most obviously via HDMI, which dates from the early 2000s. There’s some history of HDMI here: https://blog.solidsignal.com/tutorials/sordid-history-hdmi-revised-updated/
Parenting isn’t quite what it used to be, either (or, as JMcAndrew suggested, this deserves an Arlo tag).



And: would Alice’s condition be covered by United Healthcare?



Tony sends this one in, which began as a CIDU: “as I was writing this realized that the punchline was about a nose job. It didn’t even notice the change at first. I guess not having a nose must be pretty miserable, but I couldn’t even tell that sphinx was supposed to be a living creature.”


In that column on the left, there is a Suggest-a-CIDU form. If you see something that particularly puzzles you, let us help by sending it in.