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Category / Synchronicity

September 12, 2019September 12, 2019 by CIDU Bill

Milled Synchronicity on the Floss

  • Synchronicity
  • Bill Bickel, comic strips, comics, Dan Collins, humor, Lola, Looks Good on Paper, Todd Clark
  • 6 Comments

Boise Ed: Apparently, there is a dance call the floss (which I had never heard of, of course). These two were adjacent in my GoComics list.

floss lola todd clark

floss looks good on paper dan collins

September 11, 2019September 11, 2019 by CIDU Bill

Okay, THIS was super-weird…

  • Bill Bickel, OT, Synchronicity
  • The New Yorker
  • 24 Comments

I changed the site’s tag line to “Starting tomorrow, we’re going to let Shirley Jackson decide whom the Moderation Filter will target.”

An hour later, the New Yorker posts on Facebook that they’ve made The Lottery available for free download.

Coincidence, I’m sure…

September 11, 2019September 11, 2019 by CIDU Bill

Synchronousness in bestest Englishness

  • Synchronicity
  • Bill Bickel, comic strips, comics, humor, Ink Pen, Pearls Before Swine, Phil Dunlap, Stephan Pastis
  • 2 Comments

Submitted by a most anonymest reader:

English pearls

English ink pen

September 2, 2019September 2, 2019 by CIDU Bill

Who

  • Hey Geezers! Comics!, Synchronicity
  • Argyle Sweater, Bill Bickel, comic strips, comics, humor, John Deering, Scott Hilburn, Strange Brew
  • 20 Comments

argyle who

First of all, Geezer?

Second of all, the Beatles obviously.

And Third, Syncwhonicity:

strange owl

August 27, 2019August 27, 2019 by CIDU Bill

Pregnocricity

  • Synchronicity
  • Baby Blues, Big Picture, Bill Bickel, comic strips, comics, humor, Keith Knight, Lennie Peterson, The Knight Life
  • 61 Comments

Submitted by Andréa. The Big Picture is off by a few days, but the other two appeared Monday.
preg picture

preg baby

preg knight

No great shock: The Knight Life showed up exactly three weeks after this.

August 17, 2019 by CIDU Bill

Cenchronicity

  • CIDU, LOL, Oy, Synchronicity
  • Bill Bickel, comic strips, comics, Comics That Made Us Laugh Out Loud, humor, John Deering, Leigh Rubin, Rubes, Strange Brew
  • 33 Comments

Andréa submitted these with the Synchronicity tag, adding an Oy for the Rubes and an LOL for the Strange Brew.

I’m afraid I already had the Strange Brew queued as a CIDU…

cen rubes

cen strange

August 11, 2019 by CIDU Bill

Grillchronicity

  • Synchronicity
  • Bill Bickel, Bill Holbrook, comic strips, comics, humor, Kevin & Kell, Liō, Mark Tatulli
  • 2 Comments

Submitted by Pete:

grill kevin

grill lio

August 5, 2019 by CIDU Bill

Sonochronicity

  • Bill Bickel, LOL, Synchronicity
  • Argyle Sweater, Bill Bickel, comic strips, comics, Comics That Made Us Laugh Out Loud, humor, Mark Parisi, Off the Mark, Scott Hilburn
  • 8 Comments

sono1

sono2

I already had this saved for next Sunday’s LOL page before I saw the Off the Mark strip.

July 30, 2019 by CIDU Bill

Twochronicity

  • Bill Bickel, Synchronicity
  • Bill Bickel, comic strips, comics, humor, Norm Feuti, Retail
  • 8 Comments

2 retail

And about an hour before the comic went live, somebody posted this on Facebook:

2 beers

July 28, 2019 by CIDU Bill

Sunday Funnies – LOL, July 28, 2019

  • LOL, Synchronicity
  • Andertoons, Bill Bickel, Close to Home, comic strips, comics, Comics That Made Us Laugh Out Loud, Cornered, humor, John McPherson, Leigh Rubin, Mark Anderson, Mike Baldwin, Rhymes With Orange, Rina Piccolo, Rubes
  • 14 Comments
rubes death andrea

Submitted by Andréa

hole close

cornered mitch tsk

Submitted by Mitch

rhymes with eggo

And there was a bit of synchronicity the day the Rhymes With Orange saw print…

andersynch

 

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