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    beckoningchasm on The New Nancy Cartoonist is Rockin’ ItFebruary 17, 2026

    guero - sounds like a problem Nancy herself would have encountered.

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    Patrick on Honoring PresidentsFebruary 17, 2026

    The $100,000 wasn’t generally circulated and was only for bank to bank transactions. I sometimes carry a McKinley for fun,…

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    Brian in STL on Honoring PresidentsFebruary 17, 2026

    Looks like the $100,000 is Woodrow Wilson.

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    guero on The New Nancy Cartoonist is Rockin’ ItFebruary 17, 2026

    I was going to make a similar comment, and the fact Bill Griffith would joke about it in his Zippy…

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    bensondonald on The New Nancy Cartoonist is Rockin’ ItFebruary 17, 2026

    The formation of three rocks was a frequent device in the original Nancy strip, just enough detail for a deliberately…

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September 2, 2020 by CIDU Bill

Maybe Meg can explain this to me

  • Bill Bickel, CIDU
  • Arlo and Janis, comic strips, comics, humor, Jimmy Johnson
  • 34 Comments

facilities

“With facilities”? And why won’t the health department “bother us this time” as opposed to in the days. and doesn’t this raise the question of why the health department was bothering them last time?

August 25, 2020August 26, 2020 by CIDU Bill

Okay, so this morning’s CIDU was too simple, and then Jimmy posted a cat comic…

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  • Arlo and Janis, Cats, comic strips, comics, humor, Jimmy Johnson
  • 24 Comments

payback

July 8, 2020July 7, 2020 by CIDU Bill

Noon-Time Bonus Funnies

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  • Arlo and Janis, Bill Bickel, comic strips, comics, Comics That Made Us Laugh Out Loud, humor, Jimmy Johnson, Joe Martin, The New Yorker, Tom Cheney, Willy 'n Ethel, Zachary Kanin
  • 9 Comments

strategic nuditywillie and ethel chickenZachary Kanin grandmotherArlo calendar

July 5, 2020September 21, 2023 by CIDU Bill

Sunday Funnies – LOL, July 5, 2020

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2000-06-07-linesanderpencilex_far_side

pizza (took me a minute)

June 29, 2020June 28, 2020 by CIDU Bill

And we’ll have fun, fun, fun…

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june29 arlo fun

June 27, 2020 by CIDU Bill

“Bright side”? The fact that we still have half of 2020 ahead of us is fairly terrifying.

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  • 2020, Arlo and Janis, comic strips, comics, Jimmy Johnson
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half over

June 24, 2020 by CIDU Bill

Not easy at all

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june24 arlo easy

June 23, 2020 by CIDU Bill

Fun Fact: For European newspapers, Jimmy drew this from a different angle.

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  • Arlo and Janis, Bill Bickel, comic strips, comics, humor, Jimmy Johnson
  • 21 Comments

tan lines

Didn’t we see a few weeks ago that Janis is still sunbathing in (effectively) a two-piece? Did something change?

And don’t tan lines fade in the fall, not in June? Or is this a repeat?

(Though if it is, of course, then there’ll certainly be more two-piece tan lines in her future)

June 22, 2020June 22, 2020 by CIDU Bill

Walking the Walk

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  • Arlo and Janis, Bill Bickel, comic strips, comics, humor, Jimmy Johnson
  • 14 Comments

walk

B.A.: Unless she means “social anti-distancing,” I’m stumped.

May 31, 2020September 21, 2023 by CIDU Bill

Sunday Funnies – LOL, May 31, 2020

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airbags

Submitted by Andréa

ex_far_side

arlo swtch

Yeah, we have two of those.

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