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    Downpuppy on Saturday Morning OYs April 4, 2026April 4, 2026

    Ack! Careless. Auto racing has Pole Position, Post Position is for horses.

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    Downpuppy on Saturday Morning OYs April 4, 2026April 4, 2026

    You have to be careful saying "postposition". It could draw Gearhead Gertie fans. (There must be some)

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    Lost in A**2 on Saturday Morning OYs April 4, 2026April 4, 2026

    So, I can't type this morning. :(

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    Lost in A**2 on Saturday Morning OYs April 4, 2026April 4, 2026

    (English as she is spoke has postpositions. "Never use a preposition to end a sent with."

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    Brad Walker on Saturday Morning OYs April 4, 2026April 4, 2026

    "I Dreamt of Couth," by Willard R. Espy: I dreamt of a corrigible, nocuous youth, Gainly, gruntled, and kempt; A…

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June 12, 2019June 12, 2019 by CIDU Bill

Maybe my mind’s going…

  • CIDU
  • Bill Bickel, comic strips, comics, Greg Evans, humor, LuAnn
  • 27 Comments

bets.gif

… but wasn’t Bets black on their first date?

Maybe this is the Comic Strip Universe trying to achieve balance after what happened to Val Stone’s boyfriend.

June 12, 2019 by CIDU Bill

Something I’ve been wondering about Mutt and Jeff…

  • (Not a Cidu), Bill Bickel
  • comic strips, comics, humor, Mutt and Jeff
  • 18 Comments

you don't say

Were jokes like this new when they appeared in the strip, or were they already old chestnuts?

June 12, 2019 by CIDU Bill

CIMDB

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  • Baldo, Bill Bickel, cell phones, comic strips, comics, humor
  • 19 Comments

cimdb

Where’s the joke here? What Hector’s saying makes perfect sense, and I’ve said the same thing on many occasions.

June 12, 2019 by CIDU Bill

Strange Spinach

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  • Bill Bickel, comic strips, comics, humor, John Deering, Strange Brew
  • 32 Comments

june13 strange spinich

Something to do with Popeye, probably. Maybe.

Anyway, here’s tonight’s replacement CIDU (or this morning’s, for our European friends, and this afternoon’s for our Asian friends)

June 12, 2019June 11, 2019 by CIDU Bill

Line-up

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  • Bill Bickel, comics, humor, Peter Arno, The New Yorker
  • 11 Comments

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Yes, in fact, Peter Arno did know how to draw fully-clothed women…

June 11, 2019June 13, 2019 by CIDU Bill

Parking

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  • Bill Bickel, comic strips, comics, Comics That Made Us Laugh Out Loud, humor, Retail
  • 13 Comments

parking

Yeah, the joke’s ancient, but this made me smile anyway.

Maybe it was the head pat.

June 11, 2019 by CIDU Bill

What’s it?

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  • Bill Bickel, comic strips, comics, Greg Evans, humor, LuAnn
  • 15 Comments

that's it.gif

I can’t make any sense of the final panel.

(Anybody who doesn’t follow LuAnn, please disregard)

June 11, 2019June 10, 2019 by CIDU Bill

The Chicken and Barney Pillsbury

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  • Barney & Clyde, Bill Bickel, comic strips, comics, humor, Weingartens & Clark
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June 11, 2019June 10, 2019 by CIDU Bill

Strange Inspiration

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  • Bill Bickel, comic strips, comics, humor, John Deering, Strange Brew
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June 10, 2019June 10, 2019 by CIDU Bill

Soufflé

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  • Arlo and Janis, Bill Bickel, comic strips, comics, humor, Jimmy Johnson
  • 61 Comments

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My first interpretation was “Nobody’s going to get excited about it since we already did it 50 years ago.”

(Wait a second while I get my head around that… fifty years ago…)

But Arlo’s also mentioning a permanent base, which is a pretty new thing and still quite science fictiony and therefore something people probably would get excited about.

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