But he’ll be issued a citation. And if there’s a citation, it wouldn’t be plagiarism. Right?
Plagiarism
Author / zbicyclist
Profit
What’s confusing to me is that (1) I see ads for stuff like this all the time, and (2) there actually were people who made a lot of profit in the global financial troubles in 2008 (as written up by Michael Lewis in The Big Short). So I don’t see a joke here. Is there one?
Bird Flu?
Remembering Loni Anderson
JMcAndrew sends these in: “Loni Anderson has sadly passed away. Here are a couple comics in her honor.”
Sunday Funnies – LOLs – August 3, 2025
Mitch4 provides a translation: “The bit of dialogue would mean ‘I was an IBM 700 in a past life’.”
Dirk the Daring sends in this one, appropriate for CIDU:
Saturday Morning OYs – August 2, 2025
Their TV series is “As the World Churns”
Why not Clark and Lewis?
Today is William Clark’s birthday.
Right Now?
Thirty Years Ago in The New Yorker
Puzzle over these from July, 1995: some LOL, some CIDU, some …?
July is when the new interns typically start in hospitals.
Rhino
JMcAndrew sends this in: “So this is some kind of skin care product for rhinoceros? The frog “Jimmy Cool” is a celebrity who has a line of skin care products for animals? Is that the joke?”
Your editor isn’t a regular Heathcliff reader. Is Jimmy Cool a regular character? Do rhinos in nature have some method of oiling their skin? Googling “Rhino Tough” shows several products that play off the toughness of rhinos, but not their baby soft skin.
Comics I Don't Understand 