Jack Applin sends in this language question: “Heart figures that her team might be able to achieve third place. Tall girl says “we might place”. To me, to “place” as a verb means to come in second (horse racing: 1st/2nd/3rd = win/place/show). Did tall girl truly think that their team might come in second, or is she using “place” to mean any of 1st/2nd/3rd place?”
Joshua K. and Hinches both sent this in: “This appears to be a joke about redaction or censorship, but it would seem like it would need to have *some* visible text to make sense.” and “Is this supposed to be some sort of political statement? What an I missing, besides all the dialogue??
Was this an earlier Sunday Wizard of Id at one time?
Jack Applin sends this in. “Chicken tenders are food. Also, “tender” means to offer, as tender a bid. I live in Colorado, but the strip taught me that corruption in South Africa is rampant. Do the foolish Floyd & Julius think that bids for public works are for sale, instead of a fair bidding process?”
Dan Sachs sends this in: “Huh?”
Not so much an LOL, as food for thought.
Usual John sends part of this series: “In this series, Spud is performing for the Maclellans at breakfast.”
Spud, a neighborhood friend of Wallace, is breaking out of his usual shyness.
Boise Ed sends this in: “I couldn’t pass up submitting this as an “oy.” It’s right there in the punch line.”
An OY by definition.
(Would Apple TV be an OY by high definition?)
Mitch4 sends this in: “Yes, this pun also tickled my funny bone! (And is even a trifle topical, for the “returning to the office” news theme.)”
A nod to the Winter Olympics:
Seattle sends this in: “Not too familiar with Plato & Socrates, but I believe it was hemlock that did one of them in. Five beers? I’ve got nothing…”
billr sends:
and notes:
Never mind that Brontosaurus didn’t actually exist (it was a conflation of a couple other species that did exist) I don’t know what the gag is. Or what the things on the rotisserie are.
The comments seem to confirm my guess, that the things on the spit are supposed to be Bronto-balls™. But I don’t get the joke either, beyond Beavis&Butthead-style humor?!
Mitch4 sends this in: “I think I get it that each phrase in the third panel is supposed to be a disguising rewriting of a phrase which would trigger automated censorship. But the particular translations completely escape me! (Except maybe Crime==>Un-A-Law, on the model of “unalive”.) And tell me, how is “the body, melted Crayola-style” not just as much triggering as whatever it is meant to substitute for?”
billr mused the title above re this:
I guess something about lemons at a lemon funeral, but who would serve long pig at a human funeral? For that matter, who serves refreshments at the funeral??
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