Fishy Sunday Synchronicity

Cidu Bill on Jan 11th 2010

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Filed in Bill Bickel, Hilary B. Price, Mark Parisi, Off the Mark, Rhymes With Orange, comic strips, comics, fish, humor, synchronicity | 8 responses so far

8 Responses to “Fishy Sunday Synchronicity”

  1. Christian Jan 11th 2010 at 02:03 pm 1

    This isn’t synchronous, but it certainly fits the theme:
    http://www.cartoonbank.com/2004/I-believe-thats-a-Montessori-school/invt/127273

  2. Dyfsunctional Jan 11th 2010 at 04:05 pm 2

    Re the “Ha! Birthday!” one, this is one time when reducing the image actually makes the meaning clearer. I like the Far Side-esque vibe of the “the funny stuff happened before the reader got here” dynamic.

  3. furrykef Jan 11th 2010 at 09:47 pm 3

    Though these weren’t CIDUs, both of them are making me wonder if I’m missing something. I get the idea of both jokes, but they both leave me thinking, “Is that it?”

    I mean, is “I was edited” a reference to any specific event? And why a hammer, exactly?

  4. Kate C Jan 11th 2010 at 11:33 pm 4

    Furry–a vocation school is like a trade school where one learns job-specific, usually physical, skills, such as carpentry.

    The first one was very puzzling for me for a long time, as I thought the big fish was supposed to be a letter itself, and has swum off. His exaggerated belly (which I get now means that he ate the other fish) just added to the confusion.

    The Montessori school one literally made me lol.

  5. Rainey Jan 12th 2010 at 01:05 am 5

    furrykef, “I was edited.” just means that part of his message had been eliminated. If the fish in the second comic were shaped like a saw, would you ask “Why a saw, exactly?”

  6. Jeff S. Jan 12th 2010 at 02:01 am 6

    The green fish took a very skilled bite to pluck out just the right one of the 5 in the line part of the “P” so it looked like an “!”. The specific event was a HAPPY BIRTHDAY! ’sign’ made out of living fish.

  7. Keera Jan 12th 2010 at 03:19 pm 7

    The vocational school one made me LOL, while I considered sending the birthday one to my mother. She got a LOLCat instead. (Whadya mean I give cheap gifts? I give only cheap jokes! Sheesh.)

  8. furrykef Jan 13th 2010 at 05:30 pm 8

    furrykef, “I was edited.” just means that part of his message had been eliminated.

    In other words, no, I wasn’t missing anything. The joke just seems very lackluster if it’s not a reference to current events or something, and “I was edited!” is a slightly odd way of phrasing it (which is why I thought it might be such a reference).

    If the fish in the second comic were shaped like a saw, would you ask “Why a saw, exactly?”

    Yep. I guess it’s because it bears little resemblance to reality to me; I mean, fish aren’t exactly known for traveling in the shape of a tool or even any particularly interesting formation. It reads to me as if the cartoonist was thinking, “OK, I want to make a pun on ’school of fish’, so I’ll just stretch the joke as much as necessary to make it work.”

    But maybe that’s just me. *shrug*

    - Kef

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