Saturday Morning OYs – August 5th, 2023

Well we’re all familiar with that pun (sez Mitch), but not usually from this perspective, nor presented so starkly.




When I (zbicyclist) saw this on social media, I thought it was probably altered. I don’t think of Charles Schulz using a lot of groaner puns. But it’s legit: it appeared February 9, 1982, as I found out using the Peanuts search engine, https://peanuts-search.com/?q=bush%20pilot





How nice, when you can know just what’s coming, but the joke works fine anyhow!


15 Comments

  1. Unknown's avatar

    A very good collection of OYs! The Chuckle Brothers “bill” pun reminded me of the “beak” gags in Chuck Jones’s “hunting trilogy”. Gemma Correll’s depressed fish should take heart that at least it doesn’t have to swim in Cornered’s chicken soup. My one quibble with Frank & Earnest is that “Boggle” is a stretch, but “Uno” is definitely a card (and not a board) game.

    P.S. @ zbicyclist – That Peanuts strip is also easy to find using the GoComics search.

  2. Unknown's avatar

    P.P.S. The “can” gag reminded me of a scene in “The Disappearance of Mr. Davenheim”, in which a delivery man announces that he has “a parrot for a Mr. Poy-rott”. Hercule Poirot objects that “it is pronounced ‘pwa-reau’”, to which the man replies, “I beg your pardon, guv’, I have a pwa-reau for Mr. Poy-rott.

  3. Unknown's avatar

    In what I take to be the “usual form” of that joke, a duck is buying some chap stick or salve, and says “Just put it on my bill.”

  4. Unknown's avatar

    P.P.P.S. Did someone adjust the order of the comics? I would have sworn that when I first saw this post, the Gemma Correll strip was farther down, and not right next to Cornered.

  5. Unknown's avatar

    Yes, I realized they were both jokes on the same word, so I brought them together.
    If anyone is interested in the technicalities, there is no cut-and-paste needed, the Block Editor has a little operation button meaning “move this block up one step” which is easy to apply repeatedly. (And thus, not dangerous.)

  6. Unknown's avatar

    The sole has one distinguishing feature – both eyes on the same side – but Correll couldn’t commit to it, even though it would make the strip funnier.

  7. Unknown's avatar

    Wow! That peanuts-search.com website is great! Exactly what I was looking for a few threads ago. Too bad neither Google nor duckduckgo offered it up to me.
    It’s fast and seems pretty definitive — I just tried a few searches that I had previously done the hard way, and it got me all the relevant results.

  8. Unknown's avatar

    I want a new duck
    One that won’t steal my beer
    One that won’t stick his bill in my mail
    One that knows the duck stops here

    Weird Al Yankovic, parody of “I Want a New Drug”

  9. Unknown's avatar

    The sole has one distinguishing feature – both eyes on the same side – but Correll couldn’t commit to it, even though it would make the strip funnier.

    So it was a little flat?

  10. Unknown's avatar

    @ Grawlix (12) – The term “neat” is bartender jargon for an alcoholic drink without any water, ice, or other ingredients. Since he didn’t specify that, he got his drink “messy”.

  11. Unknown's avatar

    @Mitch4

    The only version of that joke I’ve ever encountered involves Donald & Daisy going off for a night in a hotel together. She wants him to wear a condom, so he goes down to reception to see if he can get one there.

    Which he can.

    “Shall I put it on your bill, sir?” asks the concierge.

    “What are you – some kind of pervert?”

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