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!
Mitch4 sends in this OY (maybe a momentary CIDU).
So, as a cure, will that leg have to be Hermetically sealed?
Marrose sends this in:
That famous scene:
This is Dan Thompson’s Brevity, so it’s almost certainly a pun, and probably one that is easily explained, so I’m not posting it as a CIDU. But I don’t get it, so pan-der to your editor and explain it to me.
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?
Mitch4 sends this in: “An OY with a self-conscious (or “meta”) element.”
A zucchini boat would be an alternative.
Quoth the rabbi: “Oy vey!”
Yes, we don’t really do synchronicities any more, but these two were right next to each other in my GoComics feed.
It’s also interesting because the Wizard of Id comic seems outdated: eggs are one of the few items that have come down in price since early 2025, since the flocks that were decimated by bird flu have recovered. A Google image search doesn’t return any earlier version, so I don’t think it’s a rerun.
Above graph is from U.S. Egg Prices (1980-2026)
P. C. Vey died recently. The biography on his website notes ” He sold his first cartoon to The New Yorker in 1993 and has been a regular contributor since. His work has been published in Harvard Business Review, Barron’s, National Lampoon, Playboy, AARP Bulletin, The Boston Globe, The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times.”
But he also did quite a bit of work for Mad Magazine (list here). A curious omission. I am reminded of the ex-priests from my seminary days, some of whose obituaries fail to mention their decades as Catholic priests, an omission that seem clearly intentional from the other information included in their obituary. But Mad is certainly better known for fine comic humor than, say, Barron’s, and, in my opinion, nothing to ignore. But perhaps there’s more to this omission than I know.
This one would certainly have fit into Barron’s:
Tom Toro and Asher Perlman, fellow New Yorker cartoonists, posted some favorites as a tribute:
This one’s in the current issue of The New Yorker:
Casper the Friendly Ghost: the later years?
Mitch4 sends in this concrete example of an LOL:
Bob Ball says this one “appears to lack gravitas”.
Mouseover text: “It does come at the cost of some launchpad expansions and increased fuel requirements, but all that comes out of the facilities budget.”
Mitch4 sends this in: “Well, they don’t even try to handle the “intolerance” part, but even so it was a pretty clever pun.”
Mitch4 sends this in: “Because of whose picture is on which denomination.”
B.C. sometimes has Christian themes, and this one is NOT non-denominational, but we’re posting it anyway.
And while we’re on the subject of George Washington:
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.
Mitch4 sends this in: “A bit labored, but in the end the pun works!”
