Usual John sends this one in.
Celibacy and chastity are often confused. Celibacy means not getting married, although it is often extended to not having sex. Chastity means not having sex, or not having sex outside of marriage.
Regardless of definitional issues, this doesn’t seem to make sense. IIRC, Maude and Jake are long term partners in B.C.’s world. And who’s getting redeemed?
My friends on road trips used to enjoy “What’s that up in the road? A head?”. (Oops, accidental repeat from 25 May.)
Also fun on road trips: Look out, there’s a fork in the road!
TBH, I’m not entirely sure if “branch” in the last panel is actually intended as a pun.
There is a rather old joke involving a misunderstanding of that kind of signage (and based on a now-possibly-objectionable euphemistic term) — but wait!, it turns out this Crabgrass is not using that joke, but rather one based on a different misunderstanding of it.
Picked up from Counterpoint
Is that an electric plug in her hand, at the end of a wire? So she has unplugged a phonograph from playing one of the objectionable original versions?
It’s very simple, but (therefore?) almost perfect.
(it was established in the previous days that these are temporary tattoos)
CIDU? NIMHO. LOL!
Usual John sent this one. The older man is the manager two levels up.
Puzzled? Think “Exit 1, Exit 2, and Exit 3.”
A devoted cat person is going to be reluctant to blame sneezes on sensitivity to the cat. And cats are in return sensitive over human sneezing, as shown in panels 3 and 4. My cats are even more sensitive than Ludwig, and likely would run away at the point of Achoo!
This week’s LOL-Ewww:
I mistook those candles in the background for cat-hair rollers!
And the pun factor is: how about some gin or vodka?
I’m a little dubious how “went on the wagon” works out here. But let it be noted, there are probably several cities with drinking establishments called Crow-Bar or Cro-Bar.
GoComics is running some vintage “B.C” under the title “Back to B.C.”. This strip is from 1966 and seems to be in sequence with others from that time.
But a previous strip already used up the pun on “fresh” to mean mildly impolite, sassy. So, what is this one getting at? Is “floating upside down” still a sign of “fresh” behavior? Or just avoiding being purchased?
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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!
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)
Yep, that’s what I thought she meant too! Did anyone here not think that first?
Such a nice use of expressive objects.
BTW, if you are looking for a great read, try The Wager. There’s also a long excerpt in The New Yorker a few months back.
Thanks to Usual John for suggesting this and providing useful discussion.
How does the mention of the dino’s penguin diet prompt that change of mind about imminent danger? Of extinction? I don’t understand.
Usual John adds “Incidentally, but presumably not germane to the joke, armored dinosaurs like this one were usually herbivorous. I’m not sure what kind it is supposed to be (Johnny Hart probably did not know either, but he likely was basing it on a picture or museum specimen he had seen). Maybe a stegoceras? Not the better-known stegosaurus, since there is no thagomizer.”
“Note that this would have been before the current understanding that birds are modern dinosaurs was widely accepted and also before it occurred to anyone that (non-avian) dinosaurs were killed off by an asteroid.”
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