Category / LOL

by multipleciduers

Sunday Funnies – LOLs, December 3rd, 2023

You’d think a company or school or institution could provision their marker-boards with prop-up signs that say “PLEASE DO NOT ERASE!”. The flowchart / architecture sketch on the board does seem to make sense at any rate.

Nice variant on an old theme:

There are worse alternatives, like those strips that get passed down to other, lesser talents. Is Walt still alive in Gasoline Alley?

I have no doubt this month’s tagline, “Deck us all with Boston Charlie” will be familiar, but here’s the rest of Walt Kelly’s fractured carol:

Deck us all with Boston Charlie,
Walla Walla, Wash., an’ Kalamazoo!
Nora’s freezin’ on the trolley,
Swaller dollar cauliflower alley-garoo!

Don’t we know archaic barrel
Lullaby Lilla Boy, Louisville Lou?
Trolley Molly don’t love Harold,
Boola boola Pensacoola hullabaloo!

Bark us all bow-wows of folly,
Polly wolly cracker ‘n’ too-da-loo!
Donkey Bonny brays a carol,
Antelope Cantaloupe, ‘lope with you!

Hunky Dory’s pop is lolly,
Gaggin’ on the wagon, Willy, folly go through!
Chollie’s collie barks at Barrow,
Harum scarum five alarm bung-a-loo!

Dunk us all in bowls of barley,
Hinky dinky dink an’ polly voo!
Chilly Filly’s name is Chollie,
Chollie Filly’s jolly chilly view halloo!

Bark us all bow-wows of folly,
Double-bubble, toyland trouble! Woof, woof, woof!
Tizzy seas on melon collie!
Dibble-dabble, scribble-scrabble! Goof, goof, goof!

by CIDU Bill

He Must Be Nuts

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Kilby writes: This Sunday Kevin & Kell strip‡ was drafted by CIDU Bill in 2019, but never posted. I’m not sure why Holbrook published this strip in February.† I would have thought that late fall or early winter would have been more appropriate, but perhaps the idea was to make the stash revelation completely unexpected.

P.S. (†) – Both the strip one week before and two weeks later are covered in snow; this one and the following Sunday strip look more like springtime.

P.P.S. (‡) – According to the remaining comments on the author’s website, there was originally a misspelling in the first panel, which was later corrected. Nice to see such artistic dedication!

by EditorM

Don’t forget Carol Lay!

Sometimes she’s just so brilliant … even if not actually funny (nor trying).

For the longer-term fans than I have been, has she previously made this much use of photos and photo-realism in drawing?

The sense made of the Memory Palace idea here is more loosely evocative than a strict adherence to the traditional prescriptions for a mnemonic tool (or modern self-help and DIY expositions). It’s a bit more in the direction of emotionally evocative recollection, though not going as far into that mode as, say, Nate DiMeo’s The Memory Palace podcast on Radiotopia. Nor is it madeleine-sniffing. But it’s somewhere in that territory. But jumps back to face its original speculative-fictional premise in practical-level terms.

by CIDU Bill

Books vs. Technology: A Challenge

Judging from the CIDU archive, Stone Soup was one of Bill’s favorite comics, and he originally scheduled this strip to appear shortly after it was published in 2019:

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The problem is that he never finished writing the text to go along with it:

“There seems to be a common theme, especially in comic strips, that physical books are more …”

Would anyone like to take a shot at completing Bill’s sentence, or offer some other perspectives about reading (for enjoyment, not as work) in paper vs. electronic form?

by EditorM

BEEPBEEPBEEPBEEPBEEP-BEEPBEEPBEEP

Thanks to Brian in STL for sending in this FoxTrot Classics:

Brian sez, “Foxtrot dailies are in reruns on GoComics. Today’s is an okay joke on its own. … However, it’s not fully appreciated without —-” But we’re going to “leave you in suspenders” for a moment or two and invite readers to treat this as a CIDU-puzzle requiring the reference to something it was based on. (Which you can read by expanding the block below.))

SPOILER — The backstory of the reference!

“However, it’s not fully appreciated without this Apple commercial that ran around the same time as the original run of the strip:”

Brian continues “The person that provided the link in comments added this: ‘Her side of the story goes that it was late at night when they filmed the ad. It had to be done after school hours for the day. Add to that, she was on allergy medication, which made her a bit “under the influence”.‘ “

by multipleciduers

Sunday Funnies – LOLs, November 26th, 2023

Ewww-LOL here. Or Aaaggghhh-ewwww-lol?

“It’s not a snowman. It’s my grandpa, who froze last night.”

Kilby writes: This was a CIDU until I zoomed in to read the title panel and get a better view of the dummy:

Pick your religion:

But no, kids are NOT that stupid!

One for the cat people here.

Yikes!

But maybe the hippo would enjoy Dance of the Hours more!

by multipleciduers

No-Politics Zone Thanksgivings

Both from 11/26/2020, and submitted by Andréa. Post originally assembled by Winter Wallaby.

Kilby adds: The climate has been changing in recent years, as this Crabgrass strip shows:

And a 2023 addition that seems to hew to the original alignment. (Added by ==mitch)

Frank & Ernest

From Jeff Stahler on Monday:

by CIDU Bill

Bacne

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Kilby writes: When Bill Bickel suddenly passed away three years ago, he left a very large collection of incomplete “draft” posts in progress. Some of these were duplicate copies of comics that did get posted, and others were just empty placeholders, but a number of these drafts still contain comics that are worth posting, if for no other reason than simply for the nostalgia of remembering Bill’s dedication to the CIDU website. I don’t want to release all of these old drafts in a flood, so expect to see them only on an intermittent basis (in addition to Bill’s traditional “evergreens” that get reposted every year).