Comics I Don’t Understand

Makes Snow Sense

Cidu Bill on Mar 2nd 2009

Filed in Bill Bickel, CIDU, Monty, comic strips, comics, humor, snow | 18 responses so far

18 Responses to “Makes Snow Sense”

solarrhino Mar 2nd 2009 at 12:11 am 1

I think the “joke” is that when his Mini is a VUS — Vehicle Under Snow — it sort of looks like an SUV.
Nicole Mar 2nd 2009 at 12:13 am 2

That is it — it looked like an SUV till it was cleared off
Zop Mar 2nd 2009 at 12:53 am 3

I agree with 1 and 2. Gave me a small chuckle.
Charlene Mar 2nd 2009 at 01:58 am 4

What looks like a lovely ice sculpture turns out to be only superficially a lovely ice sculpture.

I wake to that joy almost every morning in the winter.
bAT L. Mar 2nd 2009 at 03:13 am 5

Oh, I see. I don’t pay attention to types of cars, so this was also a CIDU for me until reading the above comments. At first, I thought this was a reversal of a comic I remember from somewhere where someone goes out to see a car-shaped mound of snow. He dutifully clears off every spot of snow, whittling away further and further until he surprisingly reaches ground! He then quizzically searches around until he spots his car a few feet away and realizes he just dug into a snow mound for hours for no reason. I can’t seem to find it on Google Image Search, but I’m sure it’s out there.
Powers Mar 2nd 2009 at 07:56 am 6

Sorry, living where I do, this is just real life, not a joke. I didn’t think the original mound of snow looked like an SUV, just a car with a lot of snow on it.
Mark Jones Mar 2nd 2009 at 10:06 am 7

I agree that the SUV thing was the joke, but I’m with Powers on this one: That’s what your Mini Cooper would really look like if you left it out in a snowstorm for a couple days.
Rainey Mar 2nd 2009 at 11:05 am 8

Monty cleared the snow off his windows so that he could see where he was going but he will still have some trouble because he must drive backwards onto the road.
Chaz Larson Mar 2nd 2009 at 12:35 pm 9

bAT L: I believe you’re thinking of this commercial for Statoil.
John DiFool Mar 2nd 2009 at 03:17 pm 10

#’s 6/7 is why I submitted this. #5 would have been much funnier.
Keera Mar 2nd 2009 at 03:49 pm 11

Statoil is a Norwegian company. Funny that what to me is a typical Norwegian ad got “translated” and shown outside Norway.
Keera Mar 2nd 2009 at 03:50 pm 12

Oh, and I was thinking like #6 and 7, too. I’m glad someone submitted this CIDU. SUVs just aren’t common enough in Norway for me to make that connection.
The Ploughman Mar 2nd 2009 at 04:50 pm 13

I think just the first panel alone is funny, ignoring the remainder of the comic.
Larry Mar 2nd 2009 at 10:43 pm 14

OK, I missed the size element.

Is size important ? (ducks & runs)
DPWally Mar 3rd 2009 at 02:39 pm 15

I was scrolling this page and Larry’s post zipped across the screen. I thought he was saying size only matters in ducks and nuns.
Naomi Mar 3rd 2009 at 07:27 pm 16

OK, I live where there’s a lot of snow, and we actually
have a MINI Cooper. When there’s a ton of snow, it doesn’t
look like an SUV, it looks like a bump in the snow. Maybe
even a snowdrift. Our Jeep, on the other hand, looks like
a really BIG bump in the snow, so even though I recognized
the MINI in the comic, I didn’t get it.
bAT L. Mar 6th 2009 at 02:07 am 17

Chaz Larson: That’s a pretty funny commercial, but I hadn’t seen it before. This was a comic I remember reading from a long time ago. Once the snow was cleared off, there was just plain no vehicle there, but it was an actual lump of snow or snow drift. Most likely a lump of snow that was snowed on. I live in Wisconsin; I know exactly how this is too.
Matthew Mar 6th 2009 at 03:09 pm 18

I think that that WAS what Larry said! Ain’t it the truth?