Some oldies from January, 1975.
Office communications are a bit different now.
Buttering up the boss, though, is still in fashion.
This one’s a CIDU for me. Giant hamburger? Portal into another dimension?
50 Years Ago in The New Yorker
Category / (Not a Cidu)
Sunday Funnies, LOLs – January 26, 2025
What’s with their head?
Saturday Morning OYs – January 25, 2025
A Dray of Squirrels
Chipper 42 submitted these comics nine months ago, commenting that he “saw these one after another” (they were both published on April 4th), but I decided that they could wait until Squirrel Appreciation Day to appear at CIDU.
Sunday Funnies, LOLs – January 19, 2025
Following on to Friday’s post (comic repeated below) we have further works of Genii-us.
We should have suspected!
Saturday Morning OYs – January 18, 2025
Mitch4 sends this in, with a history: “The two senses developed together, per https://www.etymonline.com/word/teller “
Dept. of “the throwaway panel is funnier than the main strip”
What it says …
Thirty Years Ago …
Here’s some current comics as they were posted on January 16, 1995
Baby Blues is still building that family.
Big Nate is easily recognizable, without much change.
Arlo and Janis look a big younger, but otherwise the same.
FoxTrot was still in dailies.
I wanted to check Gasoline Alley, which is famous both for being long-running and for aging the characters. But they’ve switched syndicates over time, and I got the message “Gasoline Alley started on April 8, 2001”.
Sunday Funnies – LOLs, January 12th, 2025
Now from the world of potential employment:
Saturday Morning OYs – January 11, 2025
Danny Boy – London Derriere sends this hair-raising one in. Might be a bit of a CIDU, or maybe a Geezer Alert, although Nair is still a brand.
“This one is probably flawed by the last panel, where it seems the cartoonist gave in to the feeling that readers would need help with the senses of pivot word “down”.”
Mitch4 sends in this recently rerun Tiger strip: “The pun turns on a structural ambiguity. “That’s what they call a punching bag” and “Good name for it” (because it has ‘punched’ back at the kid who was using it) . The gerund “punching” takes on two different roles. Similar to (tho not identical to) the classic “Visiting relatives can be tedious”.”
