“Never put off until tomorrow what you can put off until next week”. — Procrastinator’s motto
Mitch4 sends this in: “I’ve been rather unamused by the plethora of robot and AI gags in this and some other strips lately. But this one works for me!”
Next up, “Eat It” by “Weird Al” Yankovic.
And then this one by Mikey Mason: https://mikeymason.bandcamp.com/track/its-thanksgiving
Darren sends this in:
In this comic from 1948, the joke is clear, but the term “somebody call the wagon” isn’t. What does wagon refer to?
A quick internet search isn’t much help: “In Irish slang, the term “wagon” is commonly used to refer to an individual, typically a woman, who is perceived as being overly flirtatious or promiscuous.”
JMcAndrew sends this in: “I don’t ever eat them myself but is this an actual problem that people who do eat sardines encounter? Sardines have tiny bones so I don’t think people are using them for sandwiches either.”
Your editor remembers his father-in-law, of Norwegian ancestry, eating sardines on toast regularly. He lived to be 95 years old, so perhaps the calcium from all those sardine bones kept his bones strong. But I don’t recall problems with the sardines sliding out.
This also leads to a consideration of what can go well in a peanut butter sandwich. Jellies and jams for sure. Marmalade and honey are close relatives. Raisins are also a sweet touch. Peanut butter and dill pickle chips, or peanut butter and sauerkraut are good for a savory change of pace. I’ve never tried a peanut butter and sardine sandwich. Any other nominees?
Usual John calls out to Geezers: “Any reference to Little Lulu, which stopped publication in 1984, is pretty much for geezers, but Dell did not publish the title after 1962 and John Stanley stopped working on it around 1959.”
This reminds me of a fine example of resume enhancement.
I was preparing to interview a candidate who was getting an advanced statistics degree from Northern Illinois University, a respectable institution. He had a link to his website, so I checked that before the interview, and saw that all across the top of the page he had a large picture of himself in front of the building housing the statistics department … at Northwestern, a very respectable institution.
When asked about that, he said, “I was on the faculty at Northwestern”. And, sure enough, he’d listed a faculty job at CTD, Northwestern. As it happens, I knew that CTD stood for the Center for Talent Development, a summer program for middle schoolers and high schoolers on the Northwestern campus. My daughter had attended that for some summers; the instructors were good, but not regular Northwestern faculty. In fact, my daughter was one of the instructors herself one summer. So, he’d actually taught a group of middle schoolers math during one summer, and had expanded this into being on the faculty at Northwestern.
He did not get a job offer.
Boise Ed sends this in:
“(1) “Happy Easter”? Be joyful over an episode of ritual torture?
(2) Do kids really do the Halloween thing at Easter nowadays?”
A few oldies to start us off.
JMcAndrew sends in this pair, which get a Geezer Alert. “Shouldn’t she check to see what the contents of the disk are before she gets upset? I like that she’s holding it by the corner because she assumes it’s filthy and Arlo’s very reasonable confusion here. The antiquated technology only makes it funnier 30 years later.”
If only she could. Gene’s not really wrong about compatibility, though. Our first PC was a Kaypro CPM machine, and its floppies weren’t readable by any other machine.
Boise Ed sends this one in: “Hah! I’d love to see this one in the real world.”
JMcAndrew sends this one in: “Confused about what the creators of this comic think “casual dress” is supposed to be. Is Lieutenant Flap wearing a dashiki? Do they think that Black people wear dashiki as “casual dress”? General Halftrack appears to be wearing a collared shirt and bow tie which is certainly not “casual dress”. I don’t know what is going on with Lieutenant Fuzz. Sarge might be wearing boxer shorts. His shirt just says “Go Sox” but doesn’t say which specific sports team with “Sox” in its name. I’m honestly more disturbed by his grotesque deformed feet than any of these outfits. Also why does Sarge have a different number of toes than Lieutenant Flap?”
Your editor admires the use of “Go Sox” while Sarge is wearing neither red socks nor white socks. No need to offend readers in Boston or Chicago.
JMcAndrew sends this in: “I’m almost afraid to ask what Ditto was doing that resulted in most of the film roll not being viable.”
This definitely gets a Geezer tag. These days, letting a child borrow your phone for a while to take pictures of whatever, and then review them is as common as cell phones.
Targuman sends this in, along with a bit of Johnny Cash trivia:
Johnny Cash once started a forest fire that killed 49 of 53 remaining California condors in a preserve.
” in 1965 that Johnny Cash ignited a wildfire in the Los Padres National Forest that drove off 49 of the area’s 53 endangered California condors. In those days, the gravelly-voiced singer had fallen so deep into amphetamine use that the people around him feared for his life.”
I’ve been to cheesy funerals, but …
JMcAndrew writes,
I had to Google it and apparently Tenafly is a small borough in New Jersey. Is this a cartoon specifically for the 15,000 or so people who live there?
Well, yeah–or that’s all they can get for their “International” film festival!
Boise Ed sends this in: “I wouldn’t have expected this in Blondie, but this is so true!”
billr sends this in, with some CIDU aspects: “Looks like maybe a can of insecticide in Death’s hand? Or maybe the guy in the background is an impending client? Dunno.”
Phil writes: “Make sure to work “scythe sale” into the post, preferably several times!” Yes, that’s a tongue twister!
Bliss is heavy on the Grim Reaper theme lately. An improvement on the talking pet cartoons, IMO. And that sale scythe he got at the scythe sale is pretty good looking for a sale scythe purchased at a scythe sale. I wonder if I can still get a sale scythe at the scythe sale? Let me know in the comments if there’s still a scythe sale. [Happy, Phil?]
OK, I get the overall joke, but what’s with the “Colonel” bit? Is this something cruise companies do–try to flatter people with bogus titles? If so, I need to sign up for a better class of junk mail.
Just seems odd and not relevant to the overall joke. What say ye?
(I’ve lived a version of this joke: 35 years ago, my wife and I were living in a townhouse. We went for a walk on a Sunday and the end unit in our building was having an open house. “Hey, let’s go look”, she said, “I’ve always wanted to see one of those end units”. A couple of months later, I’m carrying boxes down the sidewalk between townhouses as we start our move…)
Awright, going meta on the meta, eh? And why not?
Boise Ed, sending this in, suggested that the cookie-based business card could be a great idea!
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