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by phsiii

In Memoriam, Bill Bickel

Today is the third anniversary of Bill’s passing. The fact that it’s on a Saturday this year makes me want to say “OY” in a big way.

I expect I had much the same experience as y’all: there we were in the throes of pandemic lockdown, getting the idea that it wasn’t quite going to be piles of bodies in the streets but was still pretty bad, and one of our daily lifelines to sanity just…stopped for several days. I remember feeling vaguely irritated with Bill, while realizing that was unreasonable of me. Then after a few days I started to worry, and then we got the news.

It’s amazing and wonderful that this wee community has continued.

RIP, Bill.

And here’s a link back to Kilby’s most excellent birthday post for Bill, back in July:
https://cidu.info/2023/07/08/birthday-memorial-for-cidu-bill/

by phsiii

The Devil’s

targuman sent:

noting, “I know the phrase ‘Idle hands make the Devil’s workshop’ (or similarly ‘Idle hands make for the Devil’s work’) but I don’t see the Devil working here…just hopping. I get that the idea is sort of like a kid leaving Legos on the floor, but it just doesn’t quite connect for me.”

We have a guess as to the intended story/joke here, but figured we’d let the assembled braintrust have at it.

by phsiii

Excuse ME. I don’t get it.

targuman sends (and provides the title above):

On the gocomics site, various folks suggest there’s a fart joke in there, but my inner five-year-old can’t make that work either.

Meanwhile, https://inflatableblast.com/inflatable-men-car-dealerships/ suggests that those waving inflatable things have a host of names:

  • air dancers
  • tube guys
  • inflatable guys
  • tall boys
  • fly guys
  • sky dancer
  • tube men
  • air rangers

Creepy by any name. Though I did see a desktop-sized one once that was kinda cute.