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How did that #$%%^^&* pup Ernie get in here? Does he think he’s a squirrel?

The scenario of the elevator call buttons is a familiar trope for Horace :

But other intrepid cartoonists may find their way there too:


A sad-LOL.


This might be a Semi-CIDU, as there is the question of whether this is how the cowboy bathes (and gets the horse to manage the timing and coins), or it’s at the horse’s volition as it wants its gear and rider to be clean.

The “when I look” and “someone will sneak” look like ordinary indicatives, with something like habitual aspect. But surely this doesn’t happen a lot! If we take into account the strip title, that makes this binocular-knocking one of those fears — we just have to understand a “One of my fears is that when ..” at the start and it all comes together.
And here’s our Macabre-LOL for the week:




Background: https://www.space.com/james-webb-space-telescope-question-mark-galaxy-photo

Diacritical impatience?



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Yes, just as you suppose, this did appear on Talk Like A Pirate Day.
And more off the mark…





And a date-topical OY:


That’s what happens when your temps come from crossovers!


In the news, Dave Blazek and Loose Parts have won the National Cartoonists Society 77th Annual Award in the Newspaper Panel division. See The Daily Cartoonist article of September 7th for full results.

In the news, Will Henry and Wallace The Brave have won the National Cartoonists Society 77th Annual Award in the Newspaper Comic Strips division. See The Daily Cartoonist article of September 7th for full results.

In the news, Rich Powell and Wide Open have won the National Cartoonists Society 77th Annual Award in the “Online Comics – Short Form” division. See The Daily Cartoonist article of September 7th for full results.
Here’s an Ewww-LOL, fair warning!



The rare occurrence of a printable Gibbleguts :-)




Today is the third anniversary of Bill’s passing. The fact that it’s on a Saturday this year makes me want to say “OY” in a big way.
I expect I had much the same experience as y’all: there we were in the throes of pandemic lockdown, getting the idea that it wasn’t quite going to be piles of bodies in the streets but was still pretty bad, and one of our daily lifelines to sanity just…stopped for several days. I remember feeling vaguely irritated with Bill, while realizing that was unreasonable of me. Then after a few days I started to worry, and then we got the news.
It’s amazing and wonderful that this wee community has continued.
RIP, Bill.
And here’s a link back to Kilby’s most excellent birthday post for Bill, back in July:
https://cidu.info/2023/07/08/birthday-memorial-for-cidu-bill/



Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo.
Teamwork makes the team work.
Hurt people hurt people.

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Exercise in indexicality.

Quite an interesting question!

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A couple of meta takes on this comic trope. The first one is from Will:







