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Tiny Bubbles

Bob Ball sends this in: “Don’t those small bubbles rising from near the stern mean that whoever’s behind the wheel is drunk?”

The bubbles seem like a odd addition to an otherwise clever double pun. There’s the obvious pun around the sailors being on the mast, and the alternative definition of mast: “fruits, seeds, or nuts (such as berries, pine seeds, or acorns) of trees or shrubs that serve as food for wild or domestic animals and typically accumulate on the ground”

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Cotton Gin

jmcandrew sends these in: “I didn’t realize that Eli Whitney was someone 6 year olds were familiar with. Also there’s a pretty funny Bizarro comic.”

But why GIN? Per Wikipedia, “gin” was simply short for engine in the 1700s, “cotton gin” literally meant “cotton engine,” and that name stuck far better than a functional description like “cotton seed remover.”

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My Wife

Warning: you may find some of the references here offensive — because they are!

A momentary CIDU, because it’s explained in the mouseover text: ” Borat came out twenty years ago this year–closer to the breakup of the Soviet Union than to today–but it honestly feels like it’s been even longer, somehow.”

But, before mousing over, I was reminded of Henny Youngman: “Take my wife … please.”

And then “My wife, I think I’ll keep her”, a Geritol ad from long ago.

That Borat reference:

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Allergic to Adultery

Usual John sends this in: “It looks like Goomer has been used only once on CIDU, so it may be unfamiliar to some readers. Goomer is an earthling astronaut who got stranded on an alien planet. The planet seems to resemble mid-century New York City, except that exotic alien life forms fill many roles that on earth are filled by machines or inanimate objects. Goomer recently got married, but does not seem too devoted to his bride. I have not yet seen any indication that he has been unfaithful, though.”

Some earlier Goomer comics, to explain more about his domestic life: