And so it begins: this is the first Charlie Brown missing the football gag from Peanuts. Here it’s not Lucy, but Violet, November 14, 1951.
The first one with Lucy is a year later, November 16, 1952.
This one gets a geezer tag. The Heidi game was in 1968, 56 years before Jimmy Johnson drew this comic!
Back to back in my GoComics feed:
Danny Boy – London Derriere sends this one in. You’ll enjoy them, OFC.
I love the phrase “house camping”. It’s a good description of trying to work around a serious remodeling project.
In that column on the left, there is a Suggest-a-CIDU form. If you see something that particularly puzzles you, let us help by sending it in.
In that column on the left, there is a Suggest-a-CIDU form. If you see something that particularly puzzles you, let us help by sending it in.
What’s with their head?
Following on to Friday’s post (comic repeated below) we have further works of Genii-us.
We should have suspected!
Mitch4 sends this in, with a history: “The two senses developed together, per https://www.etymonline.com/word/teller “
Now from the world of potential employment:
Danny Boy – London Derriere sends this hair-raising one in. Might be a bit of a CIDU, or maybe a Geezer Alert, although Nair is still a brand.
“This one is probably flawed by the last panel, where it seems the cartoonist gave in to the feeling that readers would need help with the senses of pivot word “down”.”
Mitch4 sends in this recently rerun Tiger strip: “The pun turns on a structural ambiguity. “That’s what they call a punching bag” and “Good name for it” (because it has ‘punched’ back at the kid who was using it) . The gerund “punching” takes on two different roles. Similar to (tho not identical to) the classic “Visiting relatives can be tedious”.”
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