



This next one is not terribly retro





This next one is not terribly retro








An Argyle Sweater from maggiethecartoonist




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Has Downton Abbey replaced Upstairs, Downstairs in the hearts and minds of Retro-Anglophiles? Well, not this canine one! …

However, I don’t remember it well enough to know the reasons for Snoopy’s delight at the idea of staying with Georgina. Was she the secretary that the widower eventually married? Or the sort of niece-in-law-once-removed?

“Didn’t we just have a different cartoon with an alligator at the dentists?”
“Maybe, but I thought that was a crocodile.”
Whatever! It was Monday’s CIDU:


Remember when they would say El Greco painted tall narrow figures because of his astigmatism?


Not gonna get that job with HMV Records!


Probably the only pun strictly speaking would be the first bit — there is always a problem with planting impatiens!




Dog people, please help : What breeds are the *Bliss* dogs?

This seems to be among the earliest color Bliss on GoComics:

Speech caption is “They grow up so fast.” [After-posting edit. See comments.]




Speech caption for the milking one is “They’re real.” [After-posting edit. See comments.]

No, it’s not a CIDU (have you been sending in your candidates, eh?), but we couldn’t see confining this to a long LOL list, so here it is on its own!
(And Lay Lines fans may be in for a treat if recent favorites start appearing in the comments!)


Posted to Facebook group “Unappreciated Puns” by user Kerriann O’Sullivan with message “Happy Monday from the Southern Hemisphere “, so I was sort of expecting to have to work out a joke based on Australian accent or usage. But no, as it turns out; this seems to work out okay in General American.
An Argyle twofer!


And do notice where the diploma is from!

Brilliant!



The lion is the king of beasts, And husband of the lioness. Gazelles and things on which he feasts Address him as your highoness.
–Ogden Nash Poems to Carnival of the Animals

Y’know how sometimes when Cornered has a Sunday duplex strip (or higher multiple!), and just one of them hits the funny bone just right? And then CIDU is stuck trying to clip or trim to get that one panel? But this time it’s a case of “Why not both?” Two LOLs for the price of one!



And if we’re still in the Weekend of Remembering nineties/oughties Songs, here is one suggested by that comic:

