Americans by now should have received W-2s, 1099s and other notices of all the funds that have passed in or near our hands so we can prepare our 1040s with schedule A, B, C, D and so on. So here’s a few tax related LOLs.
Looking for a song to fit your romantic situation? Randall Munroe has the answer:
In the alt-text, Munroe notes The Pina Colada Song covers the entire space in the course of the song.
John Atkinson helps us understand some of the common vocabulary of Valentine’s Day.
They’re outside the zoo, and the turtle and the ?? are walking away. So?
Isn’t the best ending to having a kidney stone to pass it? At least, better than not being able to pass it.
A few of the kidney stone comments on this comic:
“Better pass than fail”
“Well, well, well…Dylan wasn’t right! NOT “Everybody Must Get Stoned””
“Medical students dread the test on kidney stones. It’s the hardest one to pass.”
“Man walks into a bar. Bartender “Do you want to enter our drawing? We’re giving away a set of kidney stones.” Man responds “Nah, I’ll pass””
While we’re on the topic: (not a CIDU)
Pi Day (March 14, or 3/14) gets a lot of play in the U.S., but doesn’t work in other countries that write dates as DD/MM/YYYY, so it becomes 14/3. An alternative in those areas is e day, after the base of natural logarithms, e, (2.71) on 27 January. So, we’re going to avoid the Pi Day rush and post some math cartoons today.
Like pi, e shows up in a variety of places in mathematics, and is associated with some of the greats in mathematical development. From Wikipedia:
“The number e is sometimes called Euler’s number …—after the Swiss mathematician Leonhard Euler —or Napier’s constant—after John Napier. The constant was discovered by the Swiss mathematician Jacob Bernoulli while studying compound interest.”
Some fuzzy math from websites. The first is from Kiva.org.
This one is from MyVirtualMission.com, a site where you can virtually pretend to climb Everest or complete the Camino de Santiago as you run/walk/bike around your neighborhood. Somehow, their counter of missions (trips) has gone awry. Or maybe I did one backwards?
Is this a Noah’s Ark joke? Is there a missing caption? Are they checking the Alaska cruise schedule to see when the tourists with food will arrive? I can’t bear not understanding this.
The joke in this bear comic is clear — the confusing thing is that it appeared December 29. Given that timing, a better punch line would be “Go to sleep. It’s December 29 already!”
Do we need an anti-geezer alert for this one? I would never have understood this joke a few years ago. Actually, depending on your state, it might be a CIDU still.
This is from June 21, 1966, repeated on December 12, 2023. LBJ is president. Bruce Wayne and Dick Grayson are Batman and Robin, but that’s obscure enough without trying to tie it into the national debt.
It’s New Year’s Day, 2024, so why not post some New Year’s cartoons from another NY, The New Yorker? Wait. Wasn’t that yesterday’s theme? But this is a theme so nice, we’re using it twice.
1931 (i.e. first issue of 1931): some wake-up bells to start your year
1930
1932: not a cheerful New Year’s
1933: Roosevelt’s been elected, but not inaugurated. The man here is not hopeful.
1933
Similar theme from 1934:
To all our readers, commenters, editors, and cartoonists who make this possible, best wishes for a wonderful 2023 2024!
Reflect and think? Or maybe just do some things appropriate to the season. Change out that furnace filter that should be changed every 3 months. Is your toothbrush getting too long in the tooth? Check your IRA balances if you’ll need to make RMDs. Check the refrigerator for stuff that expired in 2022. Make some Hoppin’ John with those black-eyed peas in the back of the pantry. Feel free to comment on your own ways to mark (or ignore) the day.
Or, perhaps like Mooch, you’re perfect and can just take a nap.
Let’s end with an OY:
Dirk the Daring sent this one in. Lots of choices: Bat masks? A covid reference a couple of years late? White nose disease?
Is this trying to protect us from the bats, or protect the bats from us?
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