by multipleciduers

Sunday Funnies – LOLs, February 4th, 2024

TBH, this Rae the Doe isn’t really a LOL; but it needed to go in a list-post as not fully justifying a standalone daily post or even a bonus. What’s special about it is that you don’t often see a genuinely informative infographic as panel or strip of a regular comic (that is, excluding those that purport to bring you facts every day). Also, the artist’s note is endearingly unassertive, as usual (yes, she does put in notes somewhat often).

Happy Belated National Peanut Butter Day (January 24th).

BCN does Alice!

No, I kan’t make any sense of this Calvin and Hobbes:

by multipleciduers

Saturday Morning OYs – February 3rd, 2024

Love that Monty Crisco! (But I don’t know what typo on Nesselrode Pie would be likely, or funny.)

Always go for consistency!

And a P.S. from B.C.

He tries just about every day, so why not give in and post one now and then.

Growing up, I knew only two pasta shapes: spaghetti, for spaghetti and meatballs, and macaroni, for macaroni and cheese. Imagine my surprise to find such an endless variety of shapes coming out of the extruder. And tortellini! And soba! And rice noodles! Now there’s chickpea pasta, etc. It’s a wide, wild world out there.

Just pasta these comics is a place to comment on your own favorite shape/type.

A synchronicity here, with two Dante-themed comics on the same day. What a Paradiso!

by Kilby

How Much Ground…

…could a groundhog hog, if a groundhog could hog ground?

…unless of course Phil beats the believers to the punch:

Here are four different approaches to affecting the prediction:

by zbicyclist

Stoner in the Stone Age

Isn’t the best ending to having a kidney stone to pass it? At least, better than not being able to pass it.

A few of the kidney stone comments on this comic:

“Better pass than fail”

“Well, well, well…Dylan wasn’t right! NOT “Everybody Must Get Stoned””

“Medical students dread the test on kidney stones. It’s the hardest one to pass.”

“Man walks into a bar. Bartender “Do you want to enter our drawing? We’re giving away a set of kidney stones.” Man responds “Nah, I’ll pass””

While we’re on the topic: (not a CIDU)

by EditorM

Prediction: The rescue will be WITTGENSTEIN’S Ladder

the lower one of this pair arrived in the mail and made me say, first, “Huh? What? IDU!” — but then “Maybe this is from an arc and the context will help”. The immediately previous comic did seem to go with today’s, and is printed below, as the upper of the pair. (The Girls are drowning in “history”, so maybe the recent mini-thread on time-travel — discussed here — would also fit as relevant, but it didn’t seem a strong case.)

Well, these do seem linked but different. What can provide a rescue from history? Technology maybe? No, says the top entry. Then maybe philosophy? Dopes the lower entry also say No to that suggestion? Or does it offer some hope? And how the heck can intoning Derrida’s name as parts of other words invoke any magic? 

P.S. Those with behind-the-scenes interest can take a look at this excerpt from the tree of categories:

by EditorM

Bonus: Onomastic question

Okay, so how are those names translational equivalents?

Here is some help for Madariaga, from Ancestry.com:

Madariaga Name Meaning

Basque: habitational name from any of various places in Gipuzkoa province named Madariaga from Basque madari ‘pear tree’ + the locative suffix -aga ‘place or group of’. Compare Madriaga and Maradiaga .

Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022

https://www.ancestry.com/name-origin?surname=madariaga

And then note that, as a noun in German, Mandelbaum would mean almond tree. 

Can we call it? As close-enough? 

BTW, question for fans, is the little bear a recurring character? Is he often addressed by name?

Oh, wait! Why is it they can’t they play with her today? Because she is too busy reading and levitating?