Mitch4 sends this in: “A pun that surprised me.”
Mitch4 sends this in: “Another pun that tickled me this morning. But with Frank and Ernest, you *always* expect a pun.”
billr sends this in: “oy? or is there an ewww?”
Your editor had a total knee replacement on Monday, and has been using stool softeners of both types all week. (all is well now)
Aye, Matey!
Rob S. sends this in: “Excellent play on words. Didn’t get it at first, then it came to me.”
The number to call is 867-5309. Jenny went to law school.
A recent New Yorker Caption Contest winner.
Definitely a Geezer Alert on this one. ASCII art was a big deal in the age of dot matrix printers and fanfold paper: printing out pinups was a rite of passage, along with “Happy Birthday” banners. These are from the ASCII art studio.
By definition, it’s no surprise when someone orders their usual, but what’s the joke?
BillR sends this without comment:
I sure hope someone has a clue, because I got nothin’.
As a bonus, he included this semi-synchronicity (“semi” because it’s apparently a repost), which I quite like. We’re not really doing synchronicity these days, but while I’m at it:
Boise Ed sends this in.
Flagging the third one as a comic fan’s OY, but need to do two earlier ones in the series as a setup:
Mitch4 sends this in:
And while we’re on the subject of Freud, Mitch4 also sends this:
Freud’s unconscious cravings had more to do with sex, if I recall correctly, but there are other unconscious cravings.
JMcAndrew sends this in: “Why does he have the giant poster of a fly to begin with? Is he going to start eating anything vaguely associated with fruit? This isn’t a comic I normally read.”
BVCC sends this in: “Has Leigh Rubin lost his marbles? Three CIDUs in a row. I almost get see something in Friday’s, with “load” having a scatological connotation. But it doesn’t seem like a joke to me. And I don’t get “horse property” or “Lilliputian Marines” at all.”
Here’s the earlier ones BVCC refers to:
A search for “horse property” pulls up this one: https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/3113-Camino-Del-Rancho-Encinitas-CA-92024/52510076_zpid/ Put in your bids now!
Your editor, a statistician, finds it interesting that the question of “where are there a lot of horses?” depends somewhat on how you map the data. All 3 maps are from Brilliant Maps, with the data originating with the USDA. For example, Fayette County, KY is #1 in horses per square mile, but not even in the top 10 in horses per capita.
Some philosophy showing up in my comic feeds this week.
The term Axial Age is new to me. It comes from a German philosopher, Karl Jaspers, and refers to the 8th to 3rd centuries B.C. For more, see Wikipedia. I note that some major religious thinkers (Moses, Jesus, Mohammed, Joel Osteen) are outside this period. I wonder if Zach’s comic was inspired by some trivial argument with his HOA board.
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.
In honor of what would have been my grandfather’s eleventy-first birthday, here are some hobbit comics:
I have been following Leigh Rubin’s “Rubes” comics for at least a decade, or possibly two. I have to admit that it only rarely provokes an audible laugh, but it is virtually always worth a good smile. It is precisely this dependability that makes it all the more noticeable when a “Rubes” comic just doesn’t work, such as this one:
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Simply telescoping two concepts into one term doesn’t always produce a meaningful (nor humorous) result. The whole point of the “Schrödinger’s Cat” thought experiment is “observability”. In this drawing we can see both the cat and the damage, so there cannot be any quantum (or “cat-tum”) superposition.
I had even more trouble with this second comic, which I would like to call “Stooge Trek“:
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Nobody would ever claim that anything that The Three Stooges ever did was “logical”, but Spock’s reaction (and dialog) seems completely out of place (even more illogical than the picture he is watching). For me, this comic just doesn’t work; YMMV.
P.S. Given the similarity of the hair styles of Moe and Spock, perhaps it would have been funnier to have a second frame, in which Spock pokes Kirk in the eyes.
P.P.S. I initially thought that the “dual nose poke” tableau seemed gratuitously excessive, but I was clearly wrong, as proved by this picture:
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