Comics I Don’t Understand

Bats I Don’t Understand

Cidu Bill on Jan 24th 2012

Filed in Batman, Bill Bickel, CIDU, comic strips, comics, humor, xkcd | 28 responses so far

He’s Toast

Cidu Bill on Dec 29th 2011

Filed in Bill Bickel, CIDU, comic strips, comics, humor, xkcd | 36 responses so far

Sunday Funnies - LOL December 18

Cidu Bill on Dec 18th 2011

Filed in Bill Bickel, Comics That Made Us Laugh Out Loud, Cyanide and Happiness, Dave Coverly, Rina Piccolo, Speed Bump, Tina's Groove, comic strips, comics, humor, lol, xkcd | 35 responses so far

Oregon

Cidu Bill on Nov 8th 2011

(The metatext, for what it’s worth, is “A century later, the harrowing flight of the survivors from Oregon was dramatized in a popular video game.”)

Filed in Bill Bickel, CIDU, comic strips, comics, humor, xkcd | 43 responses so far

The scary thing is, somebody will probably post the answer within an hour…

Cidu Bill on Nov 2nd 2011

Maybe about fifty years ago, Schulz ran a very similar gag in Peanuts; but I can’t remember which two characters were involved. Does anybody recall?

Filed in Bill Bickel, Charles Schulz, Peanuts, comic strips, comics, humor, xkcd | 23 responses so far

Okay, you know what I’M missing here?

Cidu Bill on Oct 31st 2011

Filed in Bill Bickel, CIDU, comic strips, comics, humor, xkcd | 8 responses so far

Sunday Funnies - LOL October 23

Cidu Bill on Oct 23rd 2011

Filed in Bill Bickel, Book of Biff, Comics That Made Us Laugh Out Loud, Mark Parisi, Off the Mark, Zits, comic strips, comics, humor, lol, xkcd | 24 responses so far

Hot Potato??

Cidu Bill on Oct 4th 2011

Filed in Bill Bickel, CIDU, comic strips, comics, humor, xkcd | 24 responses so far

Okay, I’m fine with the general premise, and even the metatext (The Roanoke Lost Colonists founded Roanoke, the Franklin Expedition reached the Pacific in 2009 when the Northwest Passage opened, and Jimmy Hoffa currently heads the Teamsters Union–he just started going by “James”); but I’m not sure why Amelia is suggesting that Out Of The Panel Guy is stupid — because his observation that 74 years for an around-the-world flight is unreasonably long (even if she took a wrong turn at Albuquerque) seems perfectly reasonable to me.

Filed in Bill Bickel, CIDU, comic strips, comics, humor, xkcd | 19 responses so far

Did I list this as a LOL when it first appeared?

Cidu Bill on Aug 5th 2011

Well, it’s a rerun if I did, and a bonus LOL if I didn’t…

Filed in Bill Bickel, Comics That Made Us Laugh Out Loud, comic strips, comics, humor, lol, xkcd | 23 responses so far

Bonus LOL Meets Frankenstein

Cidu Bill on Jul 8th 2011

Filed in Arlo and Janis, Bill Bickel, Comics That Made Us Laugh Out Loud, Dilbert, Garfield, Jim Davis, Jimmy Johnson, Lio, Mark Tatulli, Scott Adams, comic strips, comics, humor, lol, xkcd | 27 responses so far

Hmm…

Cidu Bill on Jul 8th 2011

I think I liked this one because I’ve always sort of suspected that most computer viruses are created by Norton and McAfee. Cui bono, and all that.

Filed in Bill Bickel, Snopes, comic strips, comics, humor, xkcd | 6 responses so far

A Fine Bromance

Cidu Bill on Jul 1st 2011

I figured ‘taint a bad idea to move this over to the Arlo Page Continue Reading »

Filed in Arlo Page, Bill Bickel, CIDU, comic strips, comics, humor, xkcd | 30 responses so far

Metatext I Don’t Understand

Cidu Bill on Jun 1st 2011

I’m fine with the comic itself

but they lost me at the metatext: “This also guarantees he won’t be one of the ones to get a bobcat”

Filed in Bill Bickel, CIDU, comic strips, comics, humor, xkcd | 10 responses so far

Mobility

Cidu Bill on May 20th 2011

It’s been my experience that mobile versions of websites — that is, the versions to which smart phone browsers are supposed to default — have pretty much the same content as the “computer browser” version (is that going to become a retronym, like “analog clock”?); and in many cases they give you the option of viewing the standard version of the page, though it often doesn’t look or work as well (CIDU lies somewhere in between: you can view the standard version — the only version available — on most smart phones, and everything works, but you’ll probably have to scroll all the comics and it’s a bit of a pain to work with).

Okay, where was I?

Oh yeah. This comic seems to imply that mobile versions of web sites are empty pages (which I’ve never seen to be the case) and that the server is at fault, which totally confuses me.

The metatext, by the way, is “They have to keep the adjacent rack units empty. Otherwise, half the entries in their /var/log/syslog are just ‘SERVER BELOW TRYING TO START CONVERSATION *AGAIN*.’ and ‘WISH THEY’D STOP GIVING HIM SO MUCH COFFEE IT SPLATTERS EVERYWHERE”

Filed in Bill Bickel, CIDU, comic strips, comics, humor, smart phones, xkcd | 18 responses so far

Another One That Didn’t Make Me LOL, But Which I Really Liked

Cidu Bill on May 8th 2011

Filed in Bill Bickel, Like, comic strips, comics, humor, xkcd | 10 responses so far

Turtles All The Way Across

Cidu Bill on Apr 26th 2011

Filed in Bill Bickel, CIDU, comic strips, comics, humor, turtles, xkcd | 25 responses so far

LOL - April 11

Cidu Bill on Apr 11th 2011

Filed in Bill Bickel, Bizarro, Buckets, Chuckle Brothers, Comics That Made Us Laugh Out Loud, Dan Piraro, Dave Blazek, Loose Parts, Questionable Content, clowns, comic strips, comics, humor, lol, xkcd | 30 responses so far

Rub

Cidu Bill on Apr 3rd 2011

This one got sent to me by several people, and a LOL, and for both the Arlo Page and the Ewww Files: Continue Reading »

Filed in Bill Bickel, Comics That Made Us Laugh Out Loud, Ewww, comic strips, comics, humor, lol, xkcd | 26 responses so far

XKCD Called…

Cidu Bill on Mar 22nd 2011

Many people sent me this. Can’t think why.

Filed in Bill Bickel, comic strips, comics, humor, xkcd | 24 responses so far

LOL - March 21

Cidu Bill on Mar 21st 2011

Filed in Argyle Sweater, Bill Bickel, Brevity, Comics That Made Us Laugh Out Loud, Darby Conley, Gallagher, Get Fuzzy, Guy & Rodd, Iron Man, Lio, Magneto, Mark Tatulli, Out There, R.C. Monroe, Scott Hilburn, comic strips, comics, humor, lol, xkcd | 14 responses so far

Life Imitates the Comics Page

Cidu Bill on Mar 2nd 2011

The Comic

The News Story

Somewhat of an Arlo warning for both, by the way

Filed in Bill Bickel, TSA, Viagra, xkcd | 18 responses so far

LOL - February 28

Cidu Bill on Feb 28th 2011

Filed in Arlo and Janis, Bill Bickel, Comics That Made Us Laugh Out Loud, F-Minus, Jimmy Johnson, Leigh Rubin, Pearls Before Swine, Rubes, Stephan Pastis, Tony Carrillo, comic strips, comics, humor, lol, xkcd | 19 responses so far

XKCDs That Made Us Laugh Out Loud

Cidu Bill on Feb 21st 2011

Naomi D.: I don’t even know what this game is but I found the last panel extremely funny - especially considering that when my husband’s wisdom teeth came out, I came home to find him speaking gibberish and hallucinating on the painkillers! (that was 25 years ago, it wasn’t so funny at the time.)