Saturday Morning OYs – October 21st, 2023


His last words will be “This’ll be the day that I die”.




“Uh-oh, I had it mixed up with uxorious!” — from the Comments


They went to the right place for “Dad jokes”, evidently.


And some MORE retro Duffy, just for fun or frustration

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A last few in color again

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And while this post was languishing in Draft queue, there were still good new duffies getting published. This one, for instance, which found its way into one of our weekly OY collections:

.. and prompted this intro: OY by virtue of ambiguous parsing of [[comic strip] bar] versus [comic [strip bar]]. But y’know, as Will Rogers is never quite quoted as saying, I never meta man I didn’t like. And also a man’s reach should exceed his grasp, else what’s a metaphor?

Or similar for this :

Saturday Morning OYs – October 7th, 2023

OY by virtue of ambiguous parsing of [[comic strip] bar] versus [comic [strip bar]]. But y’know, as Will Rogers is never quite quoted as saying, I never meta man I didn’t like. And also a man’s reach should exceed his grasp, else what’s a metaphor?

Who’s ready for a bit more Fusco?


In case you are unfamiliar with the referenced candy:


Saturday Morning OYs – September 23rd, 2023

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:

Saturday Morning OYs – September 2nd, 2023

And another one for official Frankenstein Day:

And one directly addressing the occasion:



This from Chemgal, spotting an OY not in the comic overall but in a particular panel.

That’s right, it’s in what Chemgal calls “the third last panel”. I was going to have a fine old time on how different people, not to mention different nations, have different ways of counting from the back of a series, so the only safe way to label a “third from the end” or “second one from the last” or “position negative 3” is to adopt the technical-looking but easy-enough and safely unambiguous ANTEPENULTIMATE.

Oh but then! — but then I took a closer look, and I think the drawing is misleading, and actually the last panel includes both Adam’s speech balloon “Seriously .. all that?” as well as Katy’s and Clayton’s jibes. So the one with the cute shark tray pun is “second last” … or do you say “next to last”? Or “second back from the end”? Or “first before the last one”? Let’s go with PENULTIMATE!



“We prefer the British spelling diarrhoea as it shows a loss of control of your vowels.”