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  1. Mitch4's avatar
    Mitch4 on Battering down the hatches?October 9, 2026

    That's also what I thought! And this is the first time I've seen a connection made between "battering ram" and…

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    Andrew Millar on Battering down the hatches?October 9, 2026

    My knee-jerk take is that they're negotiating a treaty banning battering rams, presumably because they both dislike the idea of…

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    Mark in Boston on HoustonOctober 8, 2026

    "Houston, we have a problem" is like "Play it again, Sam" and "Elementary, my dear Watson". It works, even if…

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    beckoningchasm on HoustonOctober 8, 2026

    I wonder if two brides somehow scheduled their weddings for the same day and same time, and that's what the…

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    Swimming Man Burning on HoustonOctober 8, 2026

    Houston is the name of the groom. He is being informed by his pilot that his nascent-launching trip to the…

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March 14, 2021March 12, 2021 by EditorM

Sunday Funnies – LOLs, March 14th, 2021

  • (Not a Cidu), LOL
  • Ben Zaehringer, Bill Amend, Bliss cartoons, Donna Lewis, FoxTrot, Harry Bliss, In the Bleachers, J.C. Duffy, Lug Nuts, Mark Parisi, Off the Mark, Reply All, Steve Martin
  • 20 Comments

It’s 3.14, Happy Pi Day.

Thanks to Andréa for sending this:

Chemgal strikes again:

March 13, 2021March 8, 2021 by EditorM

Saturday Morning Oys – March 13th, 2021

  • (Not a Cidu), Oy
  • Brian and Ron Boychuk, Chuckle Brothers, Dan Piraro, Mike Peters, Mother Goose and Grimm, Non Sequitur, Sunday Bizarro, Wiley Miller
  • 24 Comments

Here’s one from Andréa and Mark Jackson:

This is from Andréa (and was a CIDU for Winter Wallaby, until Andréa explained it):

And this one from Chemgal:

March 12, 2021March 6, 2021 by Winter Wallaby

Shoveling Snow

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  • Brant Parker, Johnny Hart, Wizard of Id
  • 27 Comments

Well, sure. I guess no one who could move snow with a magic wand would bother shoveling snow. But what’s the joke?

Actually, now that I think about it, I don’t understand why he was bothering to shovel snow before.

March 11, 2021March 2, 2021 by EditorM

Anticipating post-pandemic new-normals?

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  • Randall Munroe, XKCD
  • 25 Comments

Sent in by Divad:

The mouse-over text is:
Plus a shirt that says “it feels like you’re making eye contact.”

March 10, 2021March 9, 2021 by Winter Wallaby

Why’d it have to be cats?

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  • 9 Chickweed Lane, Brooke McEldowney
  • 15 Comments

From Unca $crooge.

March 10, 2021March 9, 2021 by Winter Wallaby

Precious Memories

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  • Crankshaft, Dan Davis, Tom Batiuk
  • 14 Comments

From Unca $crooge

Update after this post was first scheduled, the next strip came out, and in it the organist dies.

So maybe the first strip doesn’t have a joke at all, just setting up a serial storyline? Moving up another post, since I suspect there’s not a lot to discuss here. But I’ll leave this post up, in case I’m wrong.

March 9, 2021February 28, 2021 by EditorM

That must be IT!

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  • Jonathan Lemon, Rabbits Against Magic
  • 25 Comments

Thanks to Boise Ed for sending IT in….

There’s some mix of Nike’s “Just do it”, Stephen King’s novel IT, and I.T. as abbreviation for Information Technology — but how those are supposed to be cooked into a coherent joke is beyond us.

March 8, 2021February 28, 2021 by EditorM

Unto the Generation X

  • CIDU
  • Adult Children, Stephen Beals
  • 20 Comments

Contributed by zbicyclist, who asks “Isn’t the guru giving him the answer he wants? Why is he arguing with the guru?”

March 7, 2021March 5, 2021 by Winter Wallaby

Sunday Funnies – LOLs, March 7th, 2021

  • (Not a Cidu), LOL
  • Andertoons, Dave Coverly, John Atkinson, Mark Anderson, Speed Bump, Wrong Hands
  • 17 Comments

From Rob. (Submitted in 2020, although we lost it and just found it recently.)

March 6, 2021March 3, 2021 by EditorM

Saturday Morning Oys – March 6th, 2021

  • (Not a Cidu), Oy
  • Argyle Sweater, Pardon My Planet, Scott Hilburn, Vic Lee
  • 15 Comments

Sent by jlw, thanks!


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