February 22, 2021February 17, 2021 by Winter Wallaby

Second Person Plural

Bonus Panel:

Is this a real, current, debate? I’m aware of debates about gender neutral pronouns, but not of any debates over second person plural in the last few hundred years.

February 21, 2021February 19, 2021 by EditorM

Sunday Funnies – LOLs, February 21st, 2021

In your circle of friends, child-raising experts, and ethicists, what generally is the next step in thinking from that kind of statement?

Special section on Policing

And this Whamond was picked up from Arnold Zwicky’s blog, which also discusses the “grammar police” construction for our convenience.

February 20, 2021February 15, 2021 by EditorM

Saturday Morning Oys – February 20th, 2021

(Not a Cidu), Oy
Gary Brookins, J.C. Duffy, Lug Nuts, Mike Du Jour, Mike Lester, Shoe, Susie MacNelly
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Apart from the admirable pun, the line always raises the question of whether a truncated quotation, which changes the meaning, constitutes a misquotation.

Woops, a week late but valid topical pun:

February 19, 2021February 16, 2021 by EditorM

“Requiem for a doorman”?

February 18, 2021February 16, 2021 by EditorM

Systemic

February 17, 2021February 17, 2021 by EditorM

Still looking familiar …

When elGeo saw yesterday’s “Why does this look familiar?” thread, and also saw the current Pardon My Planet, he wanted to create a “Department of Self-Plagiarism” to hold all these. Because the PmP was a clear repeat with minor variation of a 2015 PmP he remembered well, and had liked at the time.

The one elGeo remembered, and sent in:

And yesterday’s:

Assuming we’re all familiar, at least in its outlines, with the O. Henry short story “The Gift of the Magi”, this post is still a CIDU — for questions like “Why change it from a watchband to a belt?”, not to mention “Does a re-purposing come off better than a simple rerun?”.

But wait, there’s more! You say the change of format from squared-off to landscape necessitated a belt longer than the watchband had been, to fill the frame? Well, no: the belt is not shown stretched out horizontally, it just has a downward segment. Further, the comic did not undergo a change of format; it apparently coexists in both on a regular basis. For the GoComics archive delivers this landscape version of the older instance: