Synchronicity submitted by Mark in Boston:
And to emphasize their simultaneity, he enclosed this clipping from The Boston Globe:
Fans of Wayno’s blog may know he prepares two versions of each weekday Bizarro comic, in the different aspect ratios / formats. Here we see them both.
Camp Swampy may not ever have been a fighting base, but as this shows, they were not entirely outside a world where military conflict was a reality. And we can count all who served as veterans, whether or not they were in active combat or even in a war zone.
This strip seems to be dated 1964, and early enough in that year that “Viet Nam” did not yet mean all of what it would soon take on. Still, isn’t it a bit shocking that this might strike some of its audience as simply funny?
From zbicyclist, who says: “This looks like an escalator, so the hero just has to ride up behind the luggage. […] And why is the monster standing ON (not behind) the top moving step of the escalator?”
Synchronicity from Andréa.
Variations on an Eww snacking theme.
From Andrea.
They can’t decide what flavor!
You can always count on Gargle Seawater for some Oy content!
Here is Baldo (1) using an embattled English expression in its traditional form, not the disputed more-modern form, and (2) making a pun out of it.
For comparison, for those who can make use of it, also providing the Spanish version. The pun doesn’t seem to have been attempted here.
Full-on pun for *Dingbats*.
The sender says: “It’s been over 40 years since Edith Bunker died.
Has anyone used the word ‘dingbat’ as an insult since then?” Probably not, and it may take a geezer to recall it. The *word* of course remains familiar to font-heads.
Dark side of The Horse so often breaks new frontiers in cartoon-physics! And we usually call that LOL, but here there is wordplay on “airplane mode” that should qualify for an OY.
From Andréa.
Oy!
Take a wild guess at why she’s in the dark and taking a shot.
Two CIDUs, or CIDU-Ewws, or meta-semi-CIDUs, from Loose Parts. Well, let’s not shave slivers off categories, just be Loose.
Contributed by Olivier
But can we substitute M&Ms?
Sent as CIDU by Olivier who, bless-his-heart, suggested that Americans would understand it right off.
And this is CIDU-Eww for the logic gap. (Not going to spell it out!)
Do we know what she’s thinking? What he thinks she’s thinking?
It’s two things that are good to do?
CIDU – these reverse or warning sayings are always confusing. “Feed a cold and starve a fever” — Is that two pieces of advice (cold and fever seen as two different conditions to be treated by opposite dietary strategies) or a single one (feed when you have a cold, and it will kill off [starve] the fever, which is this time another name for the cold)?
Mostly from Olivier. Sent as variously CIDU, LOL, and Oy, and then reclassified by the arm-wrestling editors.
Like teenagers with big feet?
Hmmm, “No Pressure” — really?
So she’s coming out as an organizer, but so far just to close friends?
Best seats for the show.
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