Comments on: Fishy Sunday Synchronicity

By: furrykef

furrykef — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 22:30:58 +0000

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

By: Keera

Keera — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 20:19:38 +0000

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.)

By: Jeff S.

Jeff S. — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 07:01:27 +0000

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.

By: Rainey

Rainey — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 06:05:51 +0000

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?”

By: Kate C

Kate C — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 04:33:33 +0000

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.

By: furrykef

furrykef — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 02:47:31 +0000

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?

By: Dyfsunctional

Dyfsunctional — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 21:05:27 +0000

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.

By: Christian

Christian — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 19:03:19 +0000

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