Does this early Peanuts comic may provide Lucy the motivation for her endless football revenge on Charlie Brown?
Mitch4 sends this momentary CIDU in: “I was puzzled until learning that both “Mary Sue” and “plot armor” are fandom terminology.”
Hang on to your wallet, Auntie!
Even as a Michigan alum, I have to admit Script Ohio by the Ohio State Marching Band is one of the best marching band formations ever.
Go ahead … make my marinara.
We’re mostly coffee drinkers, but I do make the occasional pot of tea, particularly to make iced tea. This is new to me. To confess my sins, I usually just rinse out our (glazed) teapots, but that’s more laziness and a desire not to risk that slight aftertaste of dish soap that didn’t get completely rinsed out. So maybe I’m doing the right thing by accident, (which is better than doing the wrong thing intentionally).
Any advice from tea drinkers out there?
Casper the Friendly Ghost: the later years?
Mitch4 sends in this concrete example of an LOL:
A variation on an old joke, good for using with first and second graders just learning basic subtraction:
“Sluggo, if you had five brownies and Nancy asked for two, how many would you have left?”
“Five. I wouldn’t give her any.”
Yes, go where the money is.
Willie Sutton famously said he robbed banks “because that’s where the money is,” but these days the Willie Suttons are mostly trolling the internet, looking for people to scam.
A few months ago, I read “Kenau Reeves is Not In Love With You”, by Becky Holmes. The book centers around romance scams, but also discusses other financial confidence scams. One chapter deals with the scams from the other side: the scammers are pressured / threatened by their managers to achieve certain results, much like any telemarketers.
Ron sends this in:
Dirk the Daring wonders about this one: “This makes no sense. If he is paid by the hour he’d take his time and dawdle. Maybe I’m missing something, it seems back-assward to me.”
Kedamono sends this in as an “Ewww”: “I mean, YouTube videos on potty training? Yikes! Also, isn’t he a bit too young to have his own phone?”
Mitch4 sends this in: “Well, the caption “Goldilocks and the Three Musketeers” is explicitly given. But not printed out for us, left for us to figure out, is that their hair fits her established pattern of “Too much, too little, just right”.”
The Trolley Problem continues to give humor:
“Luckily, the A.I. trolley will decide who to kill all on its own.”
Boise Ed notes: “Okay, so the deer isn’t going to be doing the driving, but it still made me laugh.”
Mitch4 sends this in:
I disagree. And on a similar note:
They’re calling it Fawlty Towers and getting John Cleese to speak at the dedication.
Similarly, hearing one side of a juicy conversation while on public transportation. If you are going to be talking loudly on your phone in public, please put the other person on speaker so we can get some closure. What did Betty say to Barbara?
This Gordo is from 1974. I had to memorize this in Catholic school, possibly less because it’s a great poem to introduce grade school students to poetry than because Kilmer was Catholic, something that was always emphasized by the good nuns. Original poem here. Ogden Nash wrote this parody:
I think that I shall never see
A billboard lovely as a tree.
Perhaps, unless the billboards fall,
I’ll never see a tree at all.
Mitch4 sends this in, along with today’s important medical information: “I noted this because it was a misunderstanding I used to have. The point of the “turn your head” part of the hernia check is really just “so that you don’t cough on me!”. But I long thought it had something to do with some connection between the muscles and tendons in the neck and upper torso with the scrotum and waistline (potential hernia areas), so that the cough-test would work.
“And the cartoonist is here relying on that misunderstanding, or even worse, not only thinking that the turned head is an inherent part of the test, but here seeming to rely on the turned head *alone*, without the visceral grip.”
