Awright, going meta on the meta, eh? And why not?
Boise Ed, sending this in, suggested that the cookie-based business card could be a great idea!
Sunday Funnies – LOLs, June 30th, 2024
Month / June 2024
Saturday Morning OYs – June 29th, 2024
And I still maintain that the ugly Internet phenomenon of “trolling” started being called that from a metaphor on the fishing practice (dragging a baited hook behind a quiet small boat), and not the Scandinavian bridge-dwelling threateners.
Are we done with Bizarro for this post? Never say so!
I was preparing to protest that the expression is traditionally “strait and narrow” — which would be preferable despite its redundancy. The pattern of redundancy in rhetorical pairs remains hale and hearty, though some may wish it null and void.
But no! The useful sources recognize only “straight and narrow”, with just a nod to the echoes of “strait”. Here’s Etymonline f’ristance [in entry for straight (adj.2) = “conventional,” especially “heterosexual,” 1941]:
probably suggested by the stock phrase straight and narrow path or way, “course of conventional morality and law-abiding behavior” (by 1842), which is based on a misreading of Matthew vii.14 (where the gate is actually strait); another influence seems to be strait-laced.
No, let’s not get started on straight-jacket!
Et tu, Jeremy?
60 Years Ago in The New Yorker
This one’s not a mystery. It’s just a reminder that being replaced by machines, especially computers, is not new at all. And not unrealistic at all.
What’s the hat got to do with it? The hat is the punch line; otherwise it’s just two thugs.
Mirages? I note in passing that styles in swimsuits haven’t changed all that much in 60 years. This song is just a handful of years earlier.
Co-inciding idea: cats on prozac
The single-gag-panel version:
And a multi-week storyline:
Is this the end of the story? Possible updates in Comments…
Celibate Good Times, Come On!
Usual John sends this one in.
Celibacy and chastity are often confused. Celibacy means not getting married, although it is often extended to not having sex. Chastity means not having sex, or not having sex outside of marriage.
Regardless of definitional issues, this doesn’t seem to make sense. IIRC, Maude and Jake are long term partners in B.C.’s world. And who’s getting redeemed?
Floating in Time
Mark H. sends this in. “An explanation of sorts for the timeline juggling that has been part of 9CL for the last few months. Lately, we seem to have skipped about 12 or 14 years, to where Polly and Lolly are now late teenagers.”
Help?
I don’t see, even in theory, what kind of help that thing is supposed to offer. Or what its design is meant to do.
Sunday Funnies – LOLs, June 23rd, 2024
Nice variation on a standard cat-behavior joke. (Do you’all remember Business Cat #1?)
I’d call this Andertoons just about perfect!
Hmm, would it be better if the two ideas in the last panel were reversed? First “wonder why” then “and how”?
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Comics Kingdom is heavily promoting Goomer:
Saturday Morning OYs – June 22nd, 2024
It could pass for simply an innocent pun — that’s a screwdriver so it’s driving for the two screws. But doesn’t something foreboding come thru anyway?
I’m stumped!
Thanks to Tim Harrod for sending this in, and for his comments (below).
“Another baffler from the Hart estate. What has the Wizard done that’s transgressive, that he wouldn’t want to be connected to or blamed for? Does he think lumberjacks will be pissed that he’s slightly undoing their labor? I’m pretty sure they just want the wood.”
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