Saturday Morning OYs – January 25, 2025
Flying Corgi Predecessor?
Jack Applin sends this in: “The caveman is pleased with the mammoth he drew. Is the mammoth jumping, afraid of a primitive mouse? Is it flying, with its Mercury-like ears, as an ancestor of the modern flying corgi (https://i.imgflip.com/66d5ta.jpg)?”
Shoveling
BillR sends this in: “I know their thing is surreality, but is there something about the shovel I’m missing here? All I can think of is how much manure there’d be to shovel.”
Are there good jobs for a shovel?
Marketing Cat
A Dray of Squirrels
Chipper 42 submitted these comics nine months ago, commenting that he “saw these one after another” (they were both published on April 4th), but I decided that they could wait until Squirrel Appreciation Day to appear at CIDU.
9CL is twice again baffling
Thanks to Mark H.:
These were separated by five days (12/26 and 1/1), but the intervening strips didn’t seem to help.
Mitch suggested “I think there is supposed to be a confusion-of-twins plot going on” but I’m still lost. And Mike mooted “I think newspaper editors have just decided to give 9CL a permanent pass”, which might well be true, but surely Brooke had something in mind!?
Sunday Funnies, LOLs – January 19, 2025
Following on to Friday’s post (comic repeated below) we have further works of Genii-us.
We should have suspected!
Saturday Morning OYs – January 18, 2025
Mitch4 sends this in, with a history: “The two senses developed together, per https://www.etymonline.com/word/teller “
Dept. of “the throwaway panel is funnier than the main strip”
What it says …
Thirty Years Ago …
Here’s some current comics as they were posted on January 16, 1995
Baby Blues is still building that family.
Big Nate is easily recognizable, without much change.
Arlo and Janis look a big younger, but otherwise the same.
FoxTrot was still in dailies.
I wanted to check Gasoline Alley, which is famous both for being long-running and for aging the characters. But they’ve switched syndicates over time, and I got the message “Gasoline Alley started on April 8, 2001”.
