This sub-feature of the SFPC repertoire rarely does much for me. But this instance worked well — maybe because it isn’t really “for the epically/brutally challenged” as much as “for the nightly news evaluation challenged”.
This was a momentary CIDU — I was puzzling out which side of the deal was losing, and why — until the GoComics comments cleared it all up. If you still need a clue, look at those pages in his right hand.
Yes, we don’t publish synchronicities any more. But two comics on the obscure theme of squirrel pushing showing up not just on the same day, but right next to each other in my GoComics feed, was too much to resist.
Comics I Don't Understand 
You don’t publish syncronicities anymore?
Now what am I going to do with the one I’ve been trying to remind myself to submit for five years?
Seeing “East-Timor” last Monday was one of those things that set me off on a chase to guess how old the Super Fun Pak comic was. It’s been Timor-Leste for a long time, but still gets called East Timor fairly often. The real problem is that it’s been peaceful for 7 years.
Today’s burr in the saddle was the Mary Worth Aristotle quote “Hope is a waking dream”. Turned out to be from Diogenes Laertius making fun of Aristotle 6 centuries after he died.
I feel at home here.
@Powers, don’t worry, if it’s interesting there will be a way to use it — as you see in today’s instance. We just aren’t counting them as a main category of encouraged submissions, alongside OY, LOL, and especially CIDU. (BTW, OY and LOL submissions are pretty much all accepted without question and used pretty soon in a list-post; whereas for CIDU submissions headed for a standalone daily post, we may circulate some discussion with you, to see if we together end up understanding it after all.)
This is a Zits that I really LOLled at — too clever!
@ Downpuppy (2) – “…been Timor-Leste for a long time…”
I find it absurdly ironic that a former colony should put its foot down and insist upon its right to return to its “authentic” (actually imperialistic) linguistic roots. Another example is “Ivory Coast”, the deprecated name for what is now supposed to be referred to as “Côte d’Ivoire”.
P.S. It remains to be seen how successful Turkey will be in converting all English-language references to the new “official” form “Türkiye”.
Fun fact: Copiers refuse to copy U.S. currency. It sounds like either a prank (like telling someone that “gullible” is not in the dictionary so they look it up) or a conspiracy theory. It is a kind of conspiracy between the Treasury printing office, which puts faint little yellow circles on the money, and the printer manufacturers, who make the printers recognize the pattern. No official explanation has been made public, as far as I know.
Many years ago I tried it. You get part of the picture of the bill and a black rectangle. No government agents came to my house, but I don’t want to try it with a more modern printer that knows my name and address.
Along with what Mark in Boston said –
As treasurer of my Embroidery Guild Chapter and also (separately) of our reenacting unit, I like to keep even better records than I keep for ourselves and our craft business.
I do have times when I get cash for these groups. Sometimes someone hands me $10 for the reenactment unit dues or the Embroidery chapter has a (term has just left my head ) a drawing – everyone puts in a $1 and a winner is drawn; half of what went in goes to the winner and the balance to the chapter (unless the winner donates it back to the chapter). Sometimes at the Embroidery chapter the chapter has bought supplies for a project and laid out the cost and the members pay the cost of the supplies back to the chapter and it may be in cash.
When I make up a deposit for either group I will scan into the computer the deposit slip I filled in and the checks included it with it. I had been also been putting the cash received fanned out on the scanner glass to show it was deposited (a stack with a set of corners showing). I found several times that the cash would not scan. If, however, I put the cash behind the deposit slip I filled in and only let the corners show fanned out it will be scanned. (When I get the printed deposit slip from the bank after making the deposit I add that to the original scan.)
As for the “cc cornered” – Never trust cash which has not yet been cut into individual bills.
The yellow circles are on the back sides of U.S. currency so you may find that you can scan the front side with no problems. For more information, look up “EURion constellation”.