Saturday Morning OYs – April 15th, 2023

Hit me again, dealer!




Oy-Ewww



Just in case anyone here had some doubt, “Himalayan” is indeed a recognized breed of cat. My mother had a cat named Hillary, and some people thought that name was in honor of a prominent American politician; but in fact he was a Himalayan cat, and named for Sir Edmund Hillary. Here is a picture of the breed:



Not really an OY, but then tax filings aren’t due until Tuesday, April 18.


Saturday Morning OYs – March 25th, 2023



Almost a pun failure, as it is arguable the joke of her equivocation is already well-cemented in panel 3 and then the clues in panel 4 are just a waste. But probably it is also arguable that many a reader would miss the gag in panel 3 and there is a definite need for panel 4 …


And this dampens my hope of someday understanding what “fugue state” is or is not related to.





Yes, it’s the same David Mamet better known as a playwright.

Saturday Morning OYs – March 18th, 2023

Getting triple duty from one little affix!


Since this is announced as dealing with puns, how could we pass it up?



Interesting – the cartoonist doesn’t actually show us the missing word, which must combine raccoon and centaur.


Saturday Morning OYs – March Forth, 2023


In Chicago we have not exactly Ballet Parking but rather Poetry Parking, close to the Opera House, and with special packages for Opera parking and for Joffrey Ballet. And “ironically” (as the kids like to say) it is very much not valet parking — it is self-parking and their web site brags of “full automation”. As this signage illustrates, you will be aided in remembering what level you parked on by color-coding and iconography of different poets and poems.




Andréa sends these in. Is there an accent where “Potter” sounds like more like “Putter” than it does here in the midwestern U.S.?

This is a bit of deja vu. One of your editors (not saying which one, but their first initial is “z”) accidentally posted these to last week’s OY page, after that page had been published. Proper PUNishment will be forthcoming.

How about some breakfast Grawlix?