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??”
Kedamono sends:
Something something apples…graduating, to be used elsewhere? WTF?!
Happy Mothers’ Day!
We’re going to lead off today with a nice Synchronicity sent in by Ian C:
Bonus panel:
The mouseover text also plugs his Patreon page.
Yes, we’ve de-emphasized synchronicities because we were getting too much clutter (really, talking animals show up every day in my feeds), but these from April 23 also qualify as LOLs, so here we are.
We definitely passed on a May 7 synchronicity in which both Reality Check and Real Life Adventures featured cat vomit.
Yorick’s absence: was it due to some skullduggery?
But helping the rich pays so much better than helping the poor!
Thanks to Mitch4 for this one:
Mitch4 sends in this OY:
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”
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.”
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:
Is there more to this than just a gratuitous insult?
I’ve not tried it, but matcha latte is a thing:
billr sends this in: “Trying to think of all the Peters from fairy tales and whatnot–the pumpkin eater, Cottontail, Pan, a few others–can’t think of any with a 3 pigs connection.”
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