
Category / Bill Bickel
Um… Shouldn’t it be “Pedants”?

Is it my imagination, or have we been seeing a run of comics that are just mean-spirited rather than attempting to be funny?
Just a small sampling…


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Please note that I’m not singling out any particular comics or artists here: this just seems to be an overall trend, and I’m sure there’ll be several other examples before next weekend.
It takes far less time to keep a beard trimmed than it does to shave every day

Just saying.
Something I’ve been wondering about Mutt and Jeff…

Were jokes like this new when they appeared in the strip, or were they already old chestnuts?
Parking

Yeah, the joke’s ancient, but this made me smile anyway.
Maybe it was the head pat.
Très Off-Topic
No cheating here: Why did Victor Hugo assign Jean Valjean the prisoner number 24601?
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I assume he meant “comic strip characters”?

Because a cartoon character who doesn’t speak would be more like this:
Whither the Random Comments Page
Everybody seems to have gone back to using the version linked to from the left sidebar — which makes sense, because it’s the only one anybody can find. And nobody (including me) likes the idea of linking to it from a post permanently on the front page.
So let’s just go back to using the old one.
There are drawbacks, among them comments not showing up on the Recent Comments list and the fact that there are already 46,000 comments there, but I’m just not going to have the time in the foreseeable future to find a workaround to WordPress’s refusal to let me change the links.
If indeed there is one.