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    Boise Ed on Something Shady Going On?February 19, 2026

    You have to get up and fight laziness. Yawn.

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    Darren on Something Shady Going On?February 19, 2026

    I'd agree. Horse is showing that fighting is a great tactic until you see the size of the other side...

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    Powers on DatingFebruary 19, 2026

    Boise Ed's comment about "the portrait" and "phone-shaped backdrop" made me think a strip was missing. What strip has a…

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    Max C. Webster, III on DatingFebruary 18, 2026

    The "Dilbert" strip. https://featureassets.gocomics.com/assets/84ff3dc0e5fc013ebadd005056a9545d I can see Rat wanting to keep Dogbert from coming onto his turf.

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    Olivia Jaimes did a series with the Cult of 3 Rocks. Even Gilchrist sent Nancy to a town called Three…

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January 8, 2020December 23, 2019 by CIDU Bill

The Old Gang

  • Art, CIDU
  • Bill Bickel, Charles Addams, comics, humor, The New Yorker
  • 39 Comments

know everybody.jpg

I’m pretty sure this has already been a CIDU. If it was, I no longer remember the explanation.

It seems to me Addams put a lot of work into this, but forgot to include a discernible punchline.

January 1, 2020 by CIDU Bill

Okay, maybe not synchronicity in the usual sense…

  • Art, Synchronicity
  • Bill Bickel, comic strips, comics, Dave Coverly, humor, Jackson Pollock, Speed Bump, Today I Learned, Trivia
  • 25 Comments

pooh

 

pollock

Posted today on the Today I Learned site

December 6, 2019December 6, 2019 by CIDU Bill

Paga-na-na

  • Arlo (Page-worthy), Art, CIDU
  • Bill Bickel, comic strips, comics, humor, Steve Melcher, That is Priceless

This CIDU-DU-DU is over on the Arlo-lo-lo Page.

November 24, 2019November 23, 2019 by CIDU Bill

Sunday Funnies – LOL, November 24, 2019

  • Art, LOL, Thanksgiving
  • Bill Bickel, comic strips, comics, Comics That Made Us Laugh Out Loud, Dave Blazek, humor, Loose Parts, Mark Parisi, Non Sequitur, Off the Mark, Rhymes With Orange, Rina Piccolo, Wiley Miller
  • 10 Comments
NOV 24 ba rhymes even though it makes no sense at all

Submitted by B.A. (“even though it makes no sense at all”)

NOV 24 loose cookies Mitch

Submitted by Mitch

NOV 24once upon a time somebody sent me this

Once upon a time somebody sent me this

NOV off the Mark turkeys

October 28, 2019October 26, 2019 by CIDU Bill

Monday Morning… Arlo?

  • (Not a Cidu), Arlo (Page-worthy), Art, Bill Bickel

Okay, I’m being over-conservative here and moving this to the Arlo Page for language.

October 4, 2019 by CIDU Bill

Identifying Artists [OT]

  • Art, Bill Bickel, OT
  • 14 Comments

A Guide

I’ll never be able to un-see the fact that everybody Jan van Eyck paints looks like Putin.

September 29, 2019September 29, 2019 by CIDU Bill

Why do I NEVER remember when I’m going to be in New York late on a Friday or Saturday night???

  • Art, LOL
  • Bill Bickel, comics, Comics That Made Us Laugh Out Loud, humor, Pablo Picasso
  • 14 Comments

That was rhetorical.

For now, here’s an LOL I can upload from Penn Station…

10427319_597641873691124_692532555239447245_n.jpg

August 14, 2019August 14, 2019 by CIDU Bill

Art I Don’t Understand

  • Art, Bill Bickel
  • Art I Don't Understand
  • 37 Comments

cupid2

Anybody care to venture a theory about what this could possibly mean? It’s called Cupid with a Pistol on Top of a Mountain of Skulls (so pretty much exactly what it says on the tin), and was painted by Gustave Doré in the mid-19th century.

August 6, 2019August 5, 2019 by CIDU Bill

In this case…

  • (Not a Cidu), Art, Bill Bickel
  • comic strips, comics, Steve Melcher, That is Priceless
  • 17 Comments

creepy

… there is nothing Mr. Melcher could have written that would have topped the weirdness of the original painting itself.

July 26, 2019 by CIDU Bill

Painting I Don’t Understand

  • Art, Bill Bickel, CIDU
  • Steve Melcher, That is Priceless

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