Not a CIDU, just a sign of the times to enjoy or tsk, as you prefer.
The post title is from a comedy routine I can’t quite place any more. Something like a woman named India who tells you she wasn’t actually born there, but her parents had been living there the year before her birth. And then she introduces her sister Lexus.
This Cornered probably strays a little closer than we usually like to topical econo-political partisan issues, but it is a clever twist on the “start at the bottom and work your way up” trope.
Sometimes Bliss cartoons portray its absence.
Here the dog’s tear is the extra-poignant touch.
Color and b/w comparison, just for fun/
Nice to see the cat and dog working together so nicely!
A small but very nice touch is where the words you and happy are used.
This must be a LOL-Eww:
And an unrelated but very funny Bliss, sent in by Targuman.
Let’s assume none of this crowd needs help with the allusion here!
Oh my, a sad-LOL from the Moon.
Well well, so the “Wake up and take your sleeping pill!” joke goes back a hundred years.
I suppose this does turn on word play, but it’s a LOL just as easily, and this list is maybe a touch short. (And ngl, I read it on Saturday evening so too late for today’s OYs and next week’s list isn’t set up yet.)
I did find out from a search* that there is a (supposedly) common idiom “money for old rope” meaning something like “easy money”. That doesn’t explain what it’s doing here, really.
Also, is the setting at Sartre’s more meaningful or decorative?
(*And that professional etymologists don’t much like the folk etymology about shipboard use of rope to caulk gaps in wood planks.)
(This one below not a CIDU; more of a LOL.)
When I was saving and then posting the Lard above, I thought the Sartre’s store was one of their fairly frequent locales; but I didn’t find one, on a quick backwards scroll thru the recent archive. Fine, so I treated it as unusual and made it part of this post’s title. And then a couple days later they give us this:
From Le Vieux Lapin:
And still from Le Vieux Lapin, and for that matter still about bees:
Le Vieux Lapin still on a roll!
An Ewww-LOL from Reality Check:
No, we’re not going to call this a synchronicity — there’s nothing surprising about seeing two Thanksgiving cartoons on Thanksgiving. But seeing both taking on the idea of special diets and restrictions is a nice pairing.
(I’m tagging The New Yorker though not sure that’s where the Roz Chast appeared.)
She didn’t save a place for the dog!
H/t to Professor Ceiling Cat (Emeritus) for including this 2003 Off The Mark in last Tuesday’s Why Evolution Is True blog.
A sad-LOL in this The Far Side. (Remote-linked, not copied nor embed-linked.)
This one from Le Vieux Lapin:
This Frog Applause is maybe a semi-Arlo and a LOL, but not at all cryptic.
