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November 20, 2018November 20, 2018 by CIDU Bill

Q: Do the syndicates have somebody who checks over classic strips to make sure they’re not somehow inappropriate before they’re republished?

  • Bill Bickel
  • comic strips, comics, humor, Nancy
  • 45 Comments

ah choo

A: Probably not.

November 19, 2018November 19, 2018 by CIDU Bill

Doesn’t this suggest the same kids have been in her second (?) grade class year after year?

  • (Not a Cidu), Bill Bickel, Thanksgiving
  • comic strips, comics, Frazz, humor, Jef Mallett
  • 11 Comments

art project

Of course in our reality they all have been repeating the same grade since 2001 — but they’re not supposed to realize that.

November 19, 2018 by CIDU Bill

Um… Arlo got away with one here

  • (Not a Cidu), Bill Bickel
  • Arlo and Janis, comic strips, comics, humor, Jimmy Johnson
  • 7 Comments

old and fat.JPG

Janis asked about a hypothetical future in which she’s old and fat. “You’re as sexy as ever,” in the present tense, suggests she’s already there.

November 18, 2018November 18, 2018 by CIDU Bill

School Book Fairs: totally OT other than the fact that we were discussing them earlier this month so maybe somebody will be interested

  • Bill Bickel, OT
  • Books, school
  • 19 Comments

Article

November 12, 2018November 12, 2018 by CIDU Bill

B.A.: The 11/11 11 question

  • (Not a Cidu), Bill Bickel, Veterans Day
  • 33 Comments

11

“Since this was addressed in a comic, I feel justified asking a question that’s always bothered me: was there a practical reason the war ended on 11/11 at precisely 11, or were the diplomats just being cute? And if it was the latter, did they really not understand it could end badly?”

November 10, 2018 by CIDU Bill

Chadwatch 2018???

  • Bill Bickel, Chadwatch, Politics
  • 22 Comments

Now that Florida’s beginning a recount of Tuesday’s Senator vote, how long until some cartoonist makes a chad reference?

November 6, 2018November 6, 2018 by CIDU Bill

Didn’t we go here last month?

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  • (Not a Cidu), Bill Bickel
  • comic strips, comics, humor, Perry Bible Fellowship, Robert Crumb
  • 8 Comments

truckin'.gif

November 2, 2018November 2, 2018 by CIDU Bill

Lettuce revisit the topic of BLTs [semi-OT]

  • Bill Bickel, OT
  • 1950s, BLT
  • 71 Comments

blt

Okay, so apparently in the 1950s, a BLT was called a Bacon and Tomato Sandwich — although the lettuce is doing a pretty lousy job of hiding.

I wonder why it subsequently changed its name. Maybe because “BLT” is just easier to say?

Maybe it was a meat-and-potatoes decade and “lettuce” carried a stigma?

November 2, 2018 by CIDU Bill

Speaking of Mold-a-Rama (which we recently were, because of course we were)…

  • Bill Bickel, OT
  • 33 Comments

There’s this

November 1, 2018October 22, 2018 by CIDU Bill

[OT] Keep your loved one close to your…

  • Bill Bickel, OT
  • 18 Comments

fanny face

This was a real thing in the mid-60s.

Seriously… why?

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