I didn’t know the poem or what poet it was (until seeing the credits at the end)

I didn’t know the poem or what poet it was (until seeing the credits at the end)

Okay, it’s Resolutions…


“This year we’ll turn it around” counts as a resolution in my book!










Maybe IDU that one?




Nancy: still looking for loopholes after all these years (and cartoonists!)


H.T. Webster drew this in 1923.
Kilby sent it to me a few hours ago, in May of 2020, asking me to queue it up for three years in the future.

So greetings from Month Three of the Coronavirus Lockdown. I hope everybody made it through okay to the other side.
Navigating through 2023 might be problematic – no bull!
Are we post-pandemic? Still in the pandemic? In a tripledemic (covid, flu, RSV)?




OK, let’s hear the pros and cons for whether it’s better with put the garbage out or would be improved with put out the garbage.

A sausage party?


A clever LOL-OY-CIDU from Keith Knight.

The CIDU aspect is not anything deeply puzzling, but let’s just ask how long it took you to see how the bananas got into the discourse.
(not a CIDU) Today we’ll try something different. In the comments, describe a particularly memorable fortune you received, and a bit of any backstory
— OR —
A fortune that would be particularly appropriate for a particular person / group. Give both the person and the fortune. BUT – NO PRESIDENTS OR EX-PRESIDENTS!
I’ll start: I was at my birthday dinner with my wife and two teenaged daughters. The fortune: “All is not yet lost”, which teenagers found hilarious when applied to their aging father. The phrase still turns up: “Remember, Dad, All is not YET lost”.


So in this world, all and everything has wavy lines for edges and surfaces? But this hero inventor has another idea ….
Is such a world even possible?
Could there be a world in which, whenever you put two things down, then another two, there always naturally turned out to be five of them there?

Is there any place around there that actually looks like this? Are the houses crawling up or down the dune?
No, really, who is the Santa, and who are the critters? And what are they taking turns at?
(And is this one of those “It would be perfectly clear to you if you just had the first clue about popular culture” cases?)

Yes, this appeared on Christmas Sunday. Yes, I know there is a performer named Mariah Carey. Is this what she looks like?