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

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

Wait, is this supposed to be holiday themed? Yikes!
Let’s have some special-kind-of applause for skewering familiar messages.









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






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?

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!
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!


They have 30 cents, and they buy 30 cents of food. Why is that funny?
A hot dog had a lot less bread than a loaf, and a lot less meat than a pound – is that part of the joke?

Almost makes sense … but not altogether!

Andertoons won’t let up on these figures of speech!











A paradigmatic LOL-OY from Pearls:

And it’s a double-PBS week with this one from Stan:


And Stan further suggests you need geezer credentials to get the reference in this Oy-LOL, but it shouldn’t be hard for any cohort to pick up on:




A pair (will it continue?) of Oy-based punch lines from Keith Knight.
Bet “pleased to meat you” will not become the hot new greeting this year..
(Okay, these are not currently dated.)

