Catfish Hunter

Cidu Bill on Jul 28th 2008

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The only question in my mind is, when this gets explained, will I have to add an Arlo tag or an Ewww tag?

Filed in Bill Bickel, CIDU, Cleats, catfish, comic strips, comics, fish, humor | 31 responses so far

31 Responses to “Catfish Hunter”

  1. catlover Jul 28th 2008 at 07:18 am 1

    The ultimate bass ackwards, perhaps?

  2. Tweeks_Coffee Jul 28th 2008 at 08:16 am 2

    I think she caught a snake and all the men jumped out when they realized it.

  3. Powers Jul 28th 2008 at 08:42 am 3

    Ah, yes — a snake. I think that’s what it’s supposed to be. For some reason I couldn’t come up with an animal that was long and skinny and had no gills.

  4. Cindi Jul 28th 2008 at 09:10 am 4

    Bill - Do you have a “Shriek!!!!” file?

  5. Erica Jul 28th 2008 at 09:18 am 5

    I agree, I think snake. *Shudder*

  6. Nicole Jul 28th 2008 at 09:32 am 6

    My question would be: Why you put your finger, hand or anything else in the mouth of a wild animal ?

    BTW — till Tweeks pointed out that all the men jumped out of the pond in the last panel, I would have voted for both.

  7. Kaitlyn Jul 28th 2008 at 09:46 am 7

    The guys would have noticed if the snake was not a snake before she (he?) could get that close.

  8. Lola Jul 28th 2008 at 10:19 am 8

    It’s called noodling and you actually let the fish bite your hand. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noodling

  9. Lola Jul 28th 2008 at 10:25 am 9

    I just noticed the disembodied hand pointing up out of the water in the last panel. What the heck is all about?

  10. Kaitlyn Jul 28th 2008 at 10:38 am 10

    Lola - what hand? Where?

    All I see in the water is the little fisher and swirls.

  11. brien Jul 28th 2008 at 10:52 am 11

    Okay, then. I guess I’m the only one who assumed he caught his own penis.

  12. lj Jul 28th 2008 at 11:07 am 12

    brien, i’m with you. s/he caught him/herself…
    eeew.

  13. David Jul 28th 2008 at 11:32 am 13

    brien - that was my thought initially, although it depends whether that’s meant to be a boy or a girl.

    But then, I don’t even want to think how ‘he’ managed to get a finger into its mouth…

  14. Lola Jul 28th 2008 at 12:16 pm 14

    Well, don’t I feel the fool. I looked and looked, but the hand was gone. It was there just as plain as day sticking up out of the water near the shore line. So now I’m thinking I need to get fresh foil to line my hat. While puzzling over my newest symptom of impending dementia, visual hallucinations, the cursor passed over the panel on my way to hit the back button and, voila, again the disembodied hand appeared. Mystery solved (well one anyway). The cursor’s a hand there and an arrow elsewhere. Hard to believe I never took note of this before. Must be because the panel is an active link or some such.

  15. Kaitlyn Jul 28th 2008 at 12:46 pm 15

    Ah, lola, now I see the hand!

    Now I don’t!

    That was pretty funny.

  16. Nicole Jul 28th 2008 at 01:19 pm 16

    While I agree that the child in question is androgynous looking, and I admit to not being a expert in human anatomy, there is no part on the female body that could even remotely be described as “long and wiggly”. Therefore I submit to the jury that the noodler must be male if he has indeed caught himself.

    “There, I’ve run rings around you logically”

  17. greg Jul 28th 2008 at 02:30 pm 17

    OK, look at the ripples in the water on the far right side, just below the bank. Yhe spell “sex”

  18. Nicole Jul 28th 2008 at 02:46 pm 18

    It’s subliminable

  19. Mark in Boston Jul 28th 2008 at 05:14 pm 19

    You can use the disembodied hand to make him pick his nose.

  20. jjmcgaffey Jul 28th 2008 at 05:51 pm 20

    Dee is male, and incredibly stupid. I did assume snake, particularly from the others’ jumping out…but most water snakes are highly poisonous, and Dee didn’t spend any time in the hospital (or at least, hasn’t mentioned doing so…and yes, he could forget to mention a little thing like that), so I’m puzzled. Eel maybe? They bite, but aren’t poisonous. Oh, and they do have gills, so I guess it’s a snake.

  21. brien Jul 28th 2008 at 05:52 pm 21

    I’m going to make this a part of my lexicon, actually. E.g.:

    FRIEND: Hey Brian, how’d your date with Nicole go?
    ME: Let’s just say, I caught a catfish with my bare hands.

    (Yes, my friends misspell my name.)

  22. Kaitlyn Jul 28th 2008 at 06:20 pm 22

    jjmcgaffey - it could just be a one day joke - he dies on monday, but is fine on tuesday. Is that the format of the comic?

  23. jjmcgaffey Jul 28th 2008 at 06:47 pm 23

    No, pretty much a continuity strip. Kids (preteen) who play soccer - and occasionally get interested in other sports, like catfish noodling. But since this is a flashback strip, it’s still possible that Dee will remember to mention being medevaced for snakebite…or not.

  24. eeyore19 Jul 28th 2008 at 08:42 pm 24

    I’m with brien. My immediate thought was that he “caught” himself and nobody wanted to be in the water with him while he tried to struggle with himself.

  25. Nicole Jul 28th 2008 at 09:03 pm 25

    HMMMMM after that last comment I am not sure whether I should be offended or not.

  26. Cidu Bill Jul 28th 2008 at 09:08 pm 26

    It was a show of faith in your abilities, Nicole!

  27. Lorraine Jul 29th 2008 at 12:23 am 27

    I guess she’s a girl, but yeah, I was thinking “penis” all the way . . .

    to add a layer to it, perhaps you could say that the guys all jumped out because they didn’t want their own, ahem, CATFISH to be next.

    “Catfish” has gotta be the new code word–for real!

  28. Tom T. Jul 29th 2008 at 12:32 am 28

    If he’d caught “himself,” he would have figured that out when he put his finger in “its mouth.” OUCH!

  29. Dan Jul 29th 2008 at 10:53 am 29

    Yeah, cmon. There’s no way he caught himself. It’d have to be one huuuuuuge hole in thar, right?

    He’s got a snake, not a catfish, everyone else runs, because snakes are the scary. We’ll pretend for a moment that it’s a harmless water snake.

  30. Elliott Jul 29th 2008 at 01:12 pm 30

    I was thinking Leech, actually.

  31. spiritcatcher Jul 30th 2008 at 12:38 pm 31

    am i the only one who thought “condom” ? which would qualify for EWWWWWW.

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