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    Boise Ed on Underground ReadingApril 9, 2026

    I didn't get that the guy was dying, but now I see the clue: "Notes from the Underground" Mitch4, I…

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    Mitch4 on Underground ReadingApril 9, 2026

    My sister and I would insist "I'm serious!" and the Dad reply was "Hello, Serious, I'm Robot" -- which was…

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    Brian on Underground ReadingApril 9, 2026

    I think I (52) am the wrong generation for this type of 'dad joke'. My dad's jokes were of the…

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    Usual John on Underground ReadingApril 9, 2026

    Sorry, the dying dad, not dying dead.

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    Usual John on Underground ReadingApril 9, 2026

    The dad joke here is that the dying dead is taking the entirety of Notes from Underground (except for the…

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January 13, 2020 by CIDU Bill

Okay, Jeremy [OT]

  • (Not a Cidu), Bill Bickel, OT
  • comic strips, comics, Zits
  • 56 Comments

boomer

  • “Okay, Boomer” is an obnoxiously dismissive shorthand for “I have nothing of substance to say, and please kick me in the teeth.”
  • Um… yes you are, Walt.
January 12, 2020January 12, 2020 by CIDU Bill

“Back to the drawing board”

  • (Not a Cidu), Bill Bickel
  • comics, humor, Peter Arno
  • 35 Comments

drawing board.jpg

I got to wondering… is “back to the drawing board” the most well-known mainstream expression to have originated in a comic panel or comic strip?

Of course this panel is also significant because it might be the only known Peter Arno comic that doesn’t include a naked woman.

January 10, 2020 by CIDU Bill

Luanne, you’re in your third year of college, not middle school.

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  • (Not a Cidu), Bill Bickel
  • comic strips, comics, Greg Evans, LuAnn
  • 25 Comments

gunther.JPG

January 1, 2020 by CIDU Bill

Seriously, do these two live together now?

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

roommates.JPG

January 1, 2020January 1, 2020 by CIDU Bill

But…

  • (Not a Cidu), Bill Bickel
  • comics, humor, The New Yorker
  • 32 Comments

pact

Isn’t this less “suicide pact” than a form of Russian Roulette? Or Railroad Roulette, whatever? Because only one of them is going to die.

December 30, 2019 by CIDU Bill

Tub

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

tub

If you build a hot tub right next to an adjoining home, and you don’t build an appropriately tall fence, it seems to me not only shouldn’t you be surprised if somebody’s watching you, but you probably want to be watched.

December 29, 2019December 29, 2019 by CIDU Bill

Cynthia’s not anywhere as clever as she thinks she is

  • (Not a Cidu), Bill Bickel
  • Barney & Clyde, comic strips, comics, humor, Weingartens & Clark
  • 13 Comments

net.jpg

Never take “net profits.” Ever. She won’t ever see a cent (until Barney dies, of course, but that’s another matter)

December 29, 2019 by CIDU Bill

Shouldn’t the joke be that the letters are distorted or otherwise undecipherable?

  • (Not a Cidu), Bill Bickel
  • Bizarro, comic strips, comics, Dan Piraro, humor
  • 24 Comments

not a robot(And yes, the doctor’s name is Captcha)

December 26, 2019December 26, 2019 by CIDU Bill

B. A.: “Maybe it depends how you define ‘growing up’?”

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  • (Not a Cidu)
  • Bill Bickel, comic strips, comics, Doug Bratton, humor, Peter Pan, Pop Culture Shock Therapy
  • 7 Comments

peter pan

December 18, 2019 by CIDU Bill

He got a meal???

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  • (Not a Cidu), Bill Bickel
  • comic strips, comics, Frank and Ernest, humor, Thaves
  • 15 Comments

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