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.


Beware the Ides of March!

Beware the Ides of March! We all know that phrase, but it seems odd that it has crept into the language, since we know few other facts about Roman history. The meaning of “Ides” is a bit confusing to us in the modern world, as these comics show.


Interestingly, the Ides of March were notable in Rome as a deadline for settling debts.


Do the mash

I felt sure CIDU had somewhere printed this Bizarro:

But apparently not. It must have felt familiar because I had seen it the previous week in several places already (email, CK, Wayno’s blog, Piraro’s blog, …). But apparently not right here on these pages.

Why was I looking for it? So that I might drop into a comment on whatever post or thread the Bizarro appeared in, this 1991 Far Side, featuring the same deadly weapon, appearing just recently on the current Far Side archive site.

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Sunday Funnies – LOLs, March 12th, 2023

A case of breaking the third wall?


Maybe this is a bit of a CIDU — I understand how her laptop might need an OS update, or even her nails, but what’s up with the metaphors?



“Pin code”



How many of these would you call arguable?


Here’s a Quote Investigator link for “It got too crowded, nobody goes there anymore”.