Jack Applin sends this in: “Aslant? In what way is Edda aslant? (aslant: in a slanting direction : obliquely) She is absolutely upright. This being 9 Chickweed Lane, the answer involves sex. Panels 5 and 6 focus on her middle region, as does his eyeline. She hasn’t cocked her hip. Are her lady parts somehow aslant, and revealed by her short dress? Also–her mother?”
Targuman sends this in: “I’ve got nothing. I can’t understand it as a pun, visually it doesn’t make sense, it’s a dinosaur, but it’s breathing fire like a dragon? Anyone? Or is this just a humorous drawing that he put a title on?”
CIDU eschews politics and religion, but I’m not sure this is really religion. If the explanation offends someone’s religious beliefs, your editor apologizes. If there’s a follow-up of Mohammed as a dinosaur, for sure we’re not posting that!
Even for Lug Nuts, which tends to the surreal, this one is odd. Any guesses?
Another Lug Nuts example: it depends more on unusual images, and isn’t a typical gag strip:
Brian in STL sends this in: “The strip is in deep reruns. There’s been an arc of comparing Soccer Moms to pit bulls. This doesn’t make any sense in regards to that or anything else. Note, the dog belongs to one of the Soccer Dads shown.”
Mouseover text: “Lander, this is Houston. There’s been a request that you turn clipping back on and instead set the mass to 1kg. The theorists believe that will be pretty funny.”
A variation on an old joke, good for using with first and second graders just learning basic subtraction:
“Sluggo, if you had five brownies and Nancy asked for two, how many would you have left?”
“Five. I wouldn’t give her any.”
Yes, go where the money is.
Willie Sutton famously said he robbed banks “because that’s where the money is,” but these days the Willie Suttons are mostly trolling the internet, looking for people to scam.
A few months ago, I read “Kenau Reeves is Not In Love With You”, by Becky Holmes. The book centers around romance scams, but also discusses other financial confidence scams. One chapter deals with the scams from the other side: the scammers are pressured / threatened by their managers to achieve certain results, much like any telemarketers.
Mitch4 sends this in: “A bit labored, but in the end the pun works!”
Mitch4 sends this in: “I guess it’s his own shadow he’s seen to be catching in the last panel. But how could he have snagged it in the previous panel, when he was on that medium-distant hill and not casting a shadow at all, as far as the drawing suggests?”
Similar shadow physics:
At least, not for travelgirl (or your editor)
She notes:
usually, i’m pretty good about divining intent and context, but this is one for which there isn’t the slightest clue. i know toes / feet can sometimes be nicknamed “hot dogs”, but that’s hardly phunny…
for me, anyway :)
In memory of Bill Bickel, the founder of this site, I’m going to link to the tribute page on this site. This is always available, but it’s particularly appropriate to highlight it today. Bill died September 16, 2020.
Bill Bickel and the history of CIDU | Comics I Don’t Understand
