Month / April 2023

by multipleciduers

Sunday Funnies – LOLs, April 9th, 2023

Thanks to Steve S. This is paradigmatic LOL+Ewww!

In the U.S., the deadline for filing income tax is rapidly approaching.

Yes, this was another of those blasted .avif’s!

Even worse than the cartoon-biology here, if you ask me, is the crazy personal dynamic.

Thanks to Mark M for suggesting this Far Side. Can we answer his question about what dialogue or caption or drawn element could go where the bystander’s hand is blocking it out, to make this one of the funniest cartoons ever.

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by EditorM

These are not the ginks you’re looking for

McEldowney’s meaning for gink must be quite different from the one I am most familiar with!

The Urban Dictionary of course gives some dozen unrelated entries of varying plausibility, some of which could work in this cartoon context. (But none of which are exactly mine.) The slang section of dictionary.com is more sober, but the main American entry could work with the cartoon:

noun Slang: Sometimes Disparaging and Offensive.

a person; fellow.

Is that all there is to it? Or do you see a better fit for one of the other definitions?

by EditorM

Hey, Computerworld?

Thanks to Ken the Tutor! He says: “What are those things escaping from her TV? Is that a joystick in her hand? Could you even connect a joystick to a regular TV then? Especially wirelessly?”

Ken scanned this from an OMNI magazine that surfaced in his storage (April 1984 issue) — does anyone recognize the signature, or can figure it out from that info? We’re putting Art Cumings as the tag, on the basis of some memory pages saying he did some work for OMNI; but there doesn’t seem to be enough of a similarity of style. http://mikelynchcartoons.blogspot.com/2012/09/art-cumings-june-9-1922-august-28-2012.html

by multipleciduers

Sunday Funnies – LOLs, April 2nd, 2023

Now that Word Press has adjusted to occasional WEBP format images (and most of our browsers), we face a new challenge: AVIF files. Just in case it doesn’t show properly, I will follow it with a PNG conversion. But here’s hoping the AVIF will work in its given form and in future we needn’t bother producing conversions.

It’s the Final Four in college basketball, and the start of baseball season, so get ready for vicarious excitement!

But is there a Conservation of Vicarious Excitement?

Fact checking: Recent historical opinion tends to exculpate the bovine in question!

And as a gesture of public service, here is a corrected image for those who encountered it horizontal:

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