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Sunday Funnies – LOLs – October 25, 2026

David Montgomery sends in this pair of chiasmuses? chaismi? chiasmae? Both are from October 18.

I went to Merriam-Webster online to look up the plural, but they don’t provide one; nor does the M-W Collegiate Dictionary, 11th edition. The example given online of the use of chiasmus cleverly avoids committing to a particular plural:

The word comes from Greek, so chiasmae would be confusing a Greek root and a Latin plural form, but stranger things have occurred in English. I think Sam Bray had it right: find a way to duck the issue.

File this under “conversations that seldom actually occur” — which is, of course, the joke.

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Sunday Funnies – LOLs – October 18, 2026

All a matter of perspective.

You won’t believe #4!

Boise Ed sends this one in: “The background is that Florence is a dog who was uplifted to human-level intelligence with walking and talking capability. She now interacts with people pretty much like any other human of a different origin. I thought the “two left feet” line was delightful.”

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Sunday Funnies – LOLs – October 11, 2026

Does this early Peanuts comic may provide Lucy the motivation for her endless football revenge on Charlie Brown?

Mitch4 sends this momentary CIDU in: “I was puzzled until learning that both “Mary Sue” and “plot armor” are fandom terminology.”

Hang on to your wallet, Auntie!

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Saturday Morning OYs October 10, 2026

Mitch4 sends in this OY (maybe a momentary CIDU).

So, as a cure, will that leg have to be Hermetically sealed?

Marrose sends this in:

That famous scene:

This is Dan Thompson’s Brevity, so it’s almost certainly a pun, and probably one that is easily explained, so I’m not posting it as a CIDU. But I don’t get it, so pan-der to your editor and explain it to me.

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Sunday Funnies – LOLs – October 4, 2026

Even as a Michigan alum, I have to admit Script Ohio by the Ohio State Marching Band is one of the best marching band formations ever.

Go ahead … make my marinara.

We’re mostly coffee drinkers, but I do make the occasional pot of tea, particularly to make iced tea. This is new to me. To confess my sins, I usually just rinse out our (glazed) teapots, but that’s more laziness and a desire not to risk that slight aftertaste of dish soap that didn’t get completely rinsed out. So maybe I’m doing the right thing by accident, (which is better than doing the wrong thing intentionally).

Any advice from tea drinkers out there?

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Saturday Morning OYs October 3, 2026

Mitch4 sends this in: “An OY with a self-conscious (or “meta”) element.”

A zucchini boat would be an alternative.

Quoth the rabbi: “Oy vey!”

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Saturday Morning OYs September 26, 2026

Bob Ball says this one “appears to lack gravitas”.

Mouseover text: “It does come at the cost of some launchpad expansions and increased fuel requirements, but all that comes out of the facilities budget.”

Mitch4 sends this in: “Well, they don’t even try to handle the “intolerance” part, but even so it was a pretty clever pun.”

Mitch4 sends this in: “Because of whose picture is on which denomination.”

B.C. sometimes has Christian themes, and this one is NOT non-denominational, but we’re posting it anyway.

And while we’re on the subject of George Washington:

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Sunday Funnies – LOLs – September 20, 2026

A variation on an old joke, good for using with first and second graders just learning basic subtraction:

“Sluggo, if you had five brownies and Nancy asked for two, how many would you have left?”

“Five. I wouldn’t give her any.”

Yes, go where the money is.

Willie Sutton famously said he robbed banks “because that’s where the money is,” but these days the Willie Suttons are mostly trolling the internet, looking for people to scam.

A few months ago, I read “Kenau Reeves is Not In Love With You”, by Becky Holmes. The book centers around romance scams, but also discusses other financial confidence scams. One chapter deals with the scams from the other side: the scammers are pressured / threatened by their managers to achieve certain results, much like any telemarketers.