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    I believe that Script Ohio was copied from the Marching Longhorns' Script Texas. I don't have origin dates for either,…

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October 7, 2018October 6, 2018 by CIDU Bill

There’s a New Serif in Town

  • CIDU
  • Bill Bickel, Bizarro, comic strips, comics, humor, Wayno
  • 19 Comments

serif

Okay, basically he’s saying he might as well not have bothered wearing a shirt and shoes because the rule here isn’t “No shirt, no shoes, no service,” but rather “No serif, no service.”

But… is “serif” supposed to sound like “shirt”? I seem not to be getting what makes this an actual joke.

serif graphic

October 7, 2018October 5, 2018 by CIDU Bill

Sunday Funnies – LOL, October 7, 2018

  • LOL
  • Bill Bickel, Close to Home, comic strips, comics, Comics That Made Us Laugh Out Loud, Dave Blazek, Dave Whamond, humor, John McPherson, Loose Parts, Mark Parisi, Off the Mark, Reality Check, The New Yorker
  • 13 Comments

cdc close to home john mcpherson

Loose puppets

paddle

off Rich emoji

Submitted by Rich

 

andrea squirrel

Submitted by Andréa

October 6, 2018 by CIDU Bill

One Hell of a Synchronicity

  • CIDU, LOL, Synchronicity
  • Bill Bickel, comic strips, comics, Comics That Made Us Laugh Out Loud, Dave Blazek, Dave Coverly, Hell, humor, Loose Parts, Pardon My Planet, Speed Bump, Vic Lee
  • 22 Comments

Bonus points for the three of them appearing consecutively in my feed this morning.

hell-loose

hell-english

hell-pardon

And I’m awarding the Speed Bump (English Teacher in Hell) the LOL tag,  while tagging the Pardon My Planet (Toilet Lid) as a CIDU.

October 6, 2018October 5, 2018 by CIDU Bill

Saturday Morning Ewww – October 6, 2018

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  • Bill Bickel, Bill Watterson, Bliss cartoons, Calvin and Hobbes, comic strips, comics, Harry Bliss, humor, Jackson Pollock, Mark Parisi, Off the Mark
  • 5 Comments
oct 6 ewww bliss bob and mitch

Submitted by Bob and Mitch4

 

oct 6 ewww calvin and andrea

Submitted by Andréa

 

Oct 6 ewww gummark

October 5, 2018 by CIDU Bill

Restaurant of Earthly Delights

  • Art, CIDU
  • Bill Bickel, comic strips, comics, Hieronymus Bosch, humor, Zits
  • 35 Comments

bosch.gif

Jeremy’s a busboy at a Medieval Times sort of theme restaurant — but why did one of the waiters apparently escape from an Hieronymus Bosch painting?

(And yes, busboys don’t actually get tips)

October 5, 2018September 26, 2018 by CIDU Bill

Plan

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  • Bill Bickel, comic strips, comics, Frazz, humor, Jef Mallett
  • 5 Comments

oct05 frazz

October 4, 2018October 3, 2018 by CIDU Bill

Because… he doesn’t have holes in his head??

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

holes.JPG

October 4, 2018September 26, 2018 by CIDU Bill

Rhymes with Nogurt

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  • Bill Bickel, comic strips, comics, Hilary B. Price, humor, Rhymes With Orange
  • 11 Comments

oct04 rhymes with yogurt

October 3, 2018October 4, 2018 by CIDU Bill

This is what happens when a cartoonist has the vague sense that a phrase has a familiar ring to it, but doesn’t remember that’s because it’s currently a very popular rallying cry of white supremacist groups…

  • Image
  • (Not a Cidu), Bill Bickel
  • B.C., Bill Bickel, comic strips, comics, whoops
  • 12 Comments

you will not

October 3, 2018October 3, 2018 by CIDU Bill

Any idea what the Squirrel’s talking about?

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  • CIDU, The @$!# Squirrel Must Die!
  • Bill Bickel, comic strips, comics, Dave Whamond, humor, Reality Check
  • 40 Comments

cinderella

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