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    jajizi on First Book You RememberApril 4, 2026

    My father read to me and my siblings just about every night when we were young. I know he read…

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    ianosmond on First Book You RememberApril 4, 2026

    The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe. Dad would come in and read to me before bedtime. I guess before…

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    I consider myself to be quite ept and quite ane, thank you very much.

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    @BrianInSTL, the metallic color influenced my perception.

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    Brian in STL on Saturday Morning OYs April 4, 2026April 4, 2026

    I would say that it isn't clear at all that a tea kettle is represented, rather than a teapot. It's…

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July 8, 2021July 7, 2021 by Winter Wallaby

Why do philosophy?

  • (Not a Cidu)
  • Corey Mohler, Existential Comics, Philosophy
  • 22 Comments

Is it fair to give “philosophy” credit for all this? Should every human concept or idea that people thought of be attributed to “philosophy”? Should we be criticizing “philosophy” for coming up with racism, sexism, and nationalism? For justifying genocide and slavery? Discuss.

July 7, 2021July 5, 2021 by EditorM

He’s beside himself over this

  • CIDU
  • Bliss cartoons, Harry Bliss
  • 10 Comments

What? Why? How?

July 6, 2021July 4, 2021 by EditorM

Poking at it

  • CIDU
  • Nancy, Olivia Jaimes
  • 18 Comments

Is Sluggo making that other girl cry … by what he’s thinking? But no, he’s just making the girl-in-his-thoughts cry .. by what he’s thinking. So that’s all real clear then, huh?

July 5, 2021July 2, 2021 by EditorM

Try not to mention caviar

  • (Not a Cidu), Arlo (Award), Ewww, LOL
  • Bizarro, Dan Piraro, Wayno
  • 19 Comments

Sent by Powers and Andréa, as some mash of Arlo, Ewww, and LOL:

July 4, 2021July 4, 2021 by EditorM

In de pun dance Bonus

  • (Not a Cidu), 4th of July, LOL, Oy
  • Bill Amend, FoxTrot
  • 5 Comments

Thanks to Andréa for sending this in, and letting us repair the omission of a holiday-themed post.

July 4, 2021July 3, 2021 by EditorM

Sunday Funnies – LOLs, July 4th, 2021

  • (Not a Cidu), LOL
  • Bliss cartoons, Cornered, Frog Applause, Harry Bliss, Liz Climo, Liz Climo Cartoons, Mannequin on the Moon, Mike Baldwin, Pia Guerra and Ian Boothby, Steve Martin, Teresa Burritt
  • 21 Comments

Wait, is this supposed to be holiday themed? Yikes!

Let’s have some special-kind-of applause for skewering familiar messages.

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At first look, I misread the caption as “So long!”. That would almost work too.

July 3, 2021July 2, 2021 by EditorM

Saturday Morning Oys – July 3rd, 2021

  • (Not a Cidu), Oy
  • Mike Peters, Mother Goose and Grimm, Pearls Before Swine, Stephan Pastis
  • 15 Comments
July 2, 2021June 29, 2021 by EditorM

Carpe cargo

  • CIDU
  • Carpe Diem, Niklas Eriksson
  • 23 Comments

So the pirates have taken one of the shipping containers. From the middle. And the stack didn’t fall down, even with a hole in the middle. Was that the goal? Did they win? Is the pile of containers on the big ship really just a single thickness?

July 1, 2021June 25, 2021 by EditorM

No, the other one

  • (Not a Cidu)
  • Randall Munroe, XKCD
  • 57 Comments

For the record, it’s #2480, title “No, The Other One”, and hover text “Key West, Virginia is not to be confused with Key, West Virginia.”

Though “(not a CIDU)” because there isn’t a fundamental mystery or joke to be gotten but missed; there are plenty of questions that can be raised!

June 30, 2021June 24, 2021 by EditorM

What they’re resorting to

  • CIDU, Philosophy
  • dailynous.com, Tanya Kostochka, To φ Or Not To φ
  • 24 Comments

I only recently learned there is a newfangled fabric called “modal”, popular for linens[*] and underwear; which mostly explains the modal-logic joke for me. But some of the rest of these are still puzzling.
[*] No, linens are not presumptively made from linen. Though they can be. Oy!

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