

Ben Bass commented upon seeing this comic: “As the resident New York Times cryptogram writer, I consider this aspirational.”
Asher Perlman urges you to create your own joke:

One example:





Ben Bass commented upon seeing this comic: “As the resident New York Times cryptogram writer, I consider this aspirational.”
Asher Perlman urges you to create your own joke:

One example:




Mitch4 sends this in:




The squirrel gets a good OY line.
How many ways can the original Latin “Carpe Diem” be mistranslated?
Seas the Day (take your boat out)
Eat Fish Today
Complain All Day …


It’s free advice, and worth every penny you paid.

Mouseover text: “It comes with a certificate of authenticity, which comes with a certificate of authenticity, which comes with a…”


Not really an OY, but timely since Halloween was yesterday.


Check out his profile on LinkedIn.








Maybe we need a “Yeah, right!” tag.

Other nominees: big hats, bustles and anything else from the Gone With The Wind era.


Mitch4 sends this in: “Finally! An answer to centuries of studying the question of theodicy!”
I’m probably not the only one who had to look this term up:


As I write this, the Jets are 0-6.

Frogs

And more frogs


Mouseover text: “I understand it’s hard to do more than 300 feet on these 90-second rush jobs, but with a smaller ramp I’m worried the gee forces will be too high for me to do any tricks.”



The number to call is 867-5309. Jenny went to law school.




A recent New Yorker Caption Contest winner.

Definitely a Geezer Alert on this one. ASCII art was a big deal in the age of dot matrix printers and fanfold paper: printing out pinups was a rite of passage, along with “Happy Birthday” banners. These are from the ASCII art studio.






A nod to those who worked from home during/after the pandemic and now have had to return to the office.





Usual John calls out to Geezers: “Any reference to Little Lulu, which stopped publication in 1984, is pretty much for geezers, but Dell did not publish the title after 1962 and John Stanley stopped working on it around 1959.”


This reminds me of a fine example of resume enhancement.
I was preparing to interview a candidate who was getting an advanced statistics degree from Northern Illinois University, a respectable institution. He had a link to his website, so I checked that before the interview, and saw that all across the top of the page he had a large picture of himself in front of the building housing the statistics department … at Northwestern, a very respectable institution.
When asked about that, he said, “I was on the faculty at Northwestern”. And, sure enough, he’d listed a faculty job at CTD, Northwestern. As it happens, I knew that CTD stood for the Center for Talent Development, a summer program for middle schoolers and high schoolers on the Northwestern campus. My daughter had attended that for some summers; the instructors were good, but not regular Northwestern faculty. In fact, my daughter was one of the instructors herself one summer. So, he’d actually taught a group of middle schoolers math during one summer, and had expanded this into being on the faculty at Northwestern.
He did not get a job offer.
