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Category / Synchronicity

June 5, 2020 by CIDU Bill

Hair-Raising Synchronicity

  • Synchronicity
  • Bill Bickel, comic strips, comics, humor, XKCD, Zits
  • 18 Comments

Comics and subject line submitted by Chemgal.

hair zits

hair xkcd

 

June 4, 2020June 4, 2020 by CIDU Bill

It’s Zooming Cats and Dogs (Synchronicity)

  • Synchronicity
  • Bill Bickel, Cats, comic strips, comics, Dogs, humor, Mark Parisi, Mike Peters, Mother Goose and Grimm, Off the Mark, Zoom
  • 16 Comments

Submitted by, and subject line by Andréa

zoom cats
zoom dogs

May 31, 2020June 1, 2020 by CIDU Bill

Both in my inbox last night: more coincidence than synchronicity, I guess, but still borders on the absurd.

  • (Not a Cidu), Bill Bickel, Synchronicity
  • comics, humor, Luke McGarry, Mandela Effect, The New Yorker
  • 24 Comments

beren

This article is a year old, but it showed up an hour after I responded to somebody who sent me the McGarry cartoon as a CIDU.

Not the world’s best article, by the way, but that’s not really the point.

May 29, 2020August 27, 2020 by CIDU Bill

Not QUITE synchronicity…

  • LOL, Synchronicity
  • Bill Bickel, comics, Comics That Made Us Laugh Out Loud, humor, Lars Kenseth, mythology, Sisyphus, The New Yorker
  • 10 Comments

… since these were published a week and a half ago; but still:

Lars Kenseth airport

May 23, 2020May 23, 2020 by CIDU Bill

Weird Personal Synchronicity

  • (Not a Cidu), Bill Bickel, Synchronicity
  • B.C., comic strips, comics, gesundheit, humor
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gesundheit bc

My wife just sneezed in the next room, and this came up the exact second I was calling out “Gesundheit!” It was actually disconcerting for a moment.

May 20, 2020August 27, 2020 by CIDU Bill

Sischronicity

  • Synchronicity
  • Bill Bickel, Cats, Close to Home, comic strips, comics, Ellis Rosen, humor, John McPherson, Junk Drawer, Sisyphus
  • 9 Comments

Submitted by Charles:

sys close
sys-junk

May 11, 2020May 10, 2020 by CIDU Bill

Dog Date Afternoon (Synchronicity)

  • Synchronicity
  • Bill Bickel, Bound and Gagged, comic strips, comics, humor, Pardon My Planet, Vic Lee
  • 8 Comments

Mitch:

dog date pardondog date bound

May 9, 2020May 8, 2020 by CIDU Bill

Fetchronicity

  • Synchronicity
  • Bill Bickel, comic strips, comics, Darby Conley, Get Fuzzy, humor, Mike Peters, Mother Goose and Grimm
  • 5 Comments

Submitted by Andréa:

fetch fuzzy dab

fetch mmg

April 30, 2020April 30, 2020 by CIDU Bill

Synchronicity in the Room

  • Synchronicity
  • Bill Bickel, Close to Home, comic strips, comics, humor, J.C. Duffy, John McPherson, Lug Nuts
  • 1 Comment

Submitted by Mitch:

elephant close

elephant lug nuts

April 29, 2020 by CIDU Bill

Not “synchronicity” exactly, but…

  • (Not a Cidu), Synchronicity
  • Arlo and Janis, Bill Bickel, comic strips, comics, humor, Jimmy Johnson
  • 10 Comments

Funny that this gets published
2020 arlo
right after we discussed this
1985 arlo

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