October 17, 2022October 12, 2022 by EditorM

C In The H triplicity

Andréa and Mitch between them observed overlapping pairs of cartoons involving The Cat in the Hat on Tuesday and Wednesday.

October 16, 2022October 12, 2022 by multipleciduers

Sunday Funnies – LOLs, October 16th, 2022

(Not a Cidu), LOL, Synchronicity
Andertoons, Bob Mankoff Presents Show Me The Funny, Dustin, Jeff Parker, Leigh Rubin, Mannequin on the Moon, Mark Anderson, Marty Bucella, Pia Guerra and Ian Boothby, Ruben Bolling, Rubes, Steve Kelley, Super-Fun-Pak Comix
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This may be a case of two overfamiliar clichés combining to give a cynical chuckle.

A couple for those of you counting steps. These were also a synchronicity.

A new twist!

October 15, 2022October 14, 2022 by multipleciduers

Saturday Morning OYs – October 15th, 2022

Some photo puns

À half-full OY from Andréa:

Paired clips of Super-Fun-Pak Comix mini-strips from an assembly published under Tom the Dancing Bug. Oy!

October 10, 2022October 5, 2022 by EditorM

Title of not-quite-CIDU post

Okay, it’s clearly not a CIDU because there’s no doubt what the joke is.

But this is sooooo familiar. But I don’t know from where, exactly. This is thus a Comic Whose Familiarity I Can’t Pin Down.

I think I’m thinking of a classic (or at least “very old”) bit by a comedy sketch group, like maybe Second City or The Groundlings or maybe even Nichols and May. Can anybody ID a sketch using this idea or pattern?

That is: a dialogue in which the actually uttered words are descriptions of the place in the structure of the scene occupied by the character’s turn or line; or description of the tone and effect of a line that would go there; or some similar meta-level description in place of the expected base-level line of dialogue.

Also, can you make a short and snappy name for the trope? And more examples, in any genre?

GoComics commenter “The Brooklyn Accent” posted a link to the song clip below, “Title of the Song” by Da Vinci’s Notebook, which does some of the same things and probably belongs within the same trope.

October 9, 2022October 9, 2022 by multipleciduers

Sunday Funnies – LOLs, October 9th, 2022

The LOL-Yikes (horror) that you were promised, with a dollop of fourth-wall.

And haven’t we been seeing a lot of the Potato Head family of late?

October 8, 2022October 7, 2022 by multipleciduers

Saturday Morning OYs – October 8th, 2022

October 2, 2022September 21, 2023 by multipleciduers

Sunday Funnies – LOLs, October 2nd, 2022

Is it nice to pose a math problem on a Sunday?

I had a stationary bike. After a few years, I had done 12,500 miles on that bike — halfway around, at the equator. But I wondered what degree of north latitude would be12,500 miles long (so I could see what cities were at that latitude). I thought I’d figured it out, but wanted validation; it had been a long time since I was in junior high. We were having parent-teacher conferences, so I asked the 7th grade math teacher. She took the problem and said she’d get back to me. Never did. When my daughter asked about it, she said she’d lost the problem — but didn’t ask for another copy.

I repeated this with math teachers each year. Never got an answer.

Can you finnish this problem?

Thanks to Chemgal for this Zits, which earns a LOL-Ewww!

And here is your LOL-CIDU-Geezer for the week!

Another CIDU-LOL, or Arlo-LOL, and the one calling for the category tag about “There must be a popculture reference that will clear it up instantly” — if you can see putting the chess world in “popculture”. Yes, something upsetting happened recently in the world of chess, and then Twitter has its way with answering some of the questions raised.

Thanks to dollarbill for this DSOH, featuring one of their favorite tropes, counting sheep.
See also the posts in Random Comments and Site Comments on his idea for a structured-commenting game. (Please respond there, not so much here.)