Poet’s Corner

Cidu Bill on Mar 9th 2010

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Not a CIDU; just a “what is Janis holding?”

Filed in Arlo and Janis, Bill Bickel, Jimmy Johnson, comic strips, comics, humor | 21 responses so far

21 Responses to “Poet’s Corner”

  1. Harold Mar 9th 2010 at 02:39 pm 1

    A voice recorder.

  2. Tullia Mar 9th 2010 at 02:41 pm 2

    An iPod or some such. She’s reading off it.

  3. Charlene Mar 9th 2010 at 02:48 pm 3

    A Blackberry or iPod. She’s just Googled “robin poetry” to find something romantic she can recite.

    I suspect the joke is that the first poem to come up in Google for “robin poetry” is Dickinson’s “The Robin” - but the poem Janis is reciting is NOT that poem.

    http://www.poetry-online.org/dickinson_348_robin.htm

  4. Charlene Mar 9th 2010 at 02:50 pm 4

    I should be clearer: Emily Dickinson did in fact write the poem Janis is reciting; it’s just not on the first two or three pages of results when I google “robin poetry”. The above one is.

    Here it is, and I apologize for the lovely compact URL:

    http://books.google.ca/books?id=19ZV3rxPnFkC&pg=PA67&lpg=PA67&dq=%22hurried+few+express+reports%22&source=bl&ots=6Pft1oimmo&sig=hh4JNvF_eusbCYdF7ZI-xcWOC3o&hl=en&ei=JKaWS9H_D4WENpCq5UY&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=2&ved=0CAkQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q=%22hurried%20few%20express%20reports%22&f=false

    The last time I used one of those URL shortening things, it tried to install malware on my computer.

  5. Dave Mar 9th 2010 at 03:10 pm 5

    That’s just the cutest idea ever.

  6. James Schend Mar 9th 2010 at 03:17 pm 6

    I think the “joke” is that in the first panel, you think she’s reciting poetry spontaneously, but the later panels show she’s just Googling it.

    I highly doubt Arlo and Janis would do a comic where the punchline was based around the particular order of results Google’s search engine… that wouldn’t archive well, and frankly could be obsolete between writing and publication.

  7. mdt48302 Mar 9th 2010 at 04:54 pm 7

    James has it. I’m afraid if you don’t know what Janis is holding, it IS a CIDU.

  8. MellowCake Mar 9th 2010 at 04:57 pm 8

    Want to look like you’ve memorized poetry? There’s an app for that.

    And now a poem from my neighbor (which you probably wouldn’t find with Google):

    The Lark

    ‘Twas on a Springtime morning, from slumber I did wake,
    The gentle trill of birdsong soared sweetly o’er the lake,
    I drowsily lay in my repose and to his voice did hark
    Be he Robin, Thrush or Finch? Nay surely ’tis the Lark.

    There fell a sudden silence, and then my heart did thrill,
    As in a feathered flurry he lit upon my sill,
    He sang to me the morning through, then came a deathly lull,
    When I calmly slammed the window shut, and crushed his speckled skull!
    - Ian “Dunk” Duncan, Stratford, Ontario

  9. Tom Mar 9th 2010 at 05:53 pm 9

    iPod? Feh. It’s obviously an iTouch.

  10. John Small Berries Mar 9th 2010 at 05:54 pm 10

    Could be an Android phone, too.

    O pointy birds,
    O pointy pointy.
    Anoint my head,
    Anointy nointy.
    - John Lillison
    (England’s greatest one-armed poet)

  11. Kevin A Mar 9th 2010 at 07:45 pm 11

    All of a sudden this past week, I’m surrounded by people calling Apple’s device an “iTouch”. I caught myself almost calling it that. Is this phenomenon a result of the iPad introduction or did I never notice people doing that before.

    That fancy font on the screen should limit the devices it could be, yes? no? maybe?

  12. Tom Mar 9th 2010 at 07:55 pm 12

    iTouch is a separate device from an iPod. My children have iTouches. Woe to the ignorant parent who calls them iPods!

  13. Judge Mental Mar 9th 2010 at 08:33 pm 13

    Is there such thing as an “iTouch”? I am familiar with the “iPod Touch” and even people who refer to it as an “iTouch”, but it is still an iPod.

  14. James Schend Mar 9th 2010 at 09:29 pm 14

    There is no product called an “iTouch.” There’s an iPod Touch. That’s as close as you get from Apple products. If you Google it, you get this awesome time capsule of a website: http://itouch.net/ (I wonder if they’re still in business?)

    Then again, people called them Palm Pilots a full decade after they dropped “Pilot” from the name, so…

  15. Chuck Mar 10th 2010 at 12:00 am 15

    The product IS called an iPod Touch, but people have been calling it an iTouch pretty much since it came out.

  16. Susan Mar 10th 2010 at 12:33 am 16

    It couldn’t be an iPod Touch unless she has wireless internet outside. More likely one of the smartphones.

  17. Rusty Mar 10th 2010 at 12:44 am 17

    iPod Touch is basically an iPhone minus the phone part.

  18. John Small Berries Mar 10th 2010 at 02:15 am 18

    @Susan#16: It’s quite possible that they’re lucky enough to live in a city with a public wireless infrastructure (e.g. Tallahassee, Florida; Fredericton, New Brunswick), or a place with a lot of unsecured WAPs - but I agree, more probably a smartphone.

  19. DevilDan Mar 10th 2010 at 02:28 am 19

    There is a MyTouch smartphone, which might be the source of the confusion; you can certainly browse the web on it.

  20. Todd Mar 13th 2010 at 03:50 pm 20

    I was going to say it was an iPhone, which is funny considering I own a Nexus One, and the only way I would own an iPhone or iPad is if someone gave it to me free. Or paid me to use it.

  21. RHJunior Mar 15th 2010 at 02:26 pm 21

    She’s “Tweeting!”

    Get it?

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