
Vincent van Gogh, 1890

Vincent van Gogh, 1890




Would anybody go to the mall on December 26 and wait in line for an hour to return a pair of mittens?
Wouldn’t the same gag have worked better with something of more substance, like a sweater?

Does this fill our week’s quota?

And for the record, the strip’s referring to this:
CIDUs, LOLs, whatever… Please add “Christmas” to the e-mail’s subject line. I’m way behind on my e-mail and this is likely to get worse over the next couple of weeks, so the notation will assure that I see the Christmas-related stuff before it becomes outdated.
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This is less a CIDU than a “What a weird thing for anybody to say,” but it reminded me of a theatre lyric: “I’m not a horse, I’m not a pony, so my problem is acute: I am too old for Hialeah and too young to shoot.”
(And yes, we know a pony isn’t really a young horse: give Jerry Herman a break!)