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    narmitaj on Saturday Morning OYs October 17, 2026October 18, 2026

    The hoover "just collecting dust" won Tim Vine the award for the funniest joke at the Edinburgh Fringe in 2014:…

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    Mark in Boston on Saturday Morning OYs October 17, 2026October 18, 2026

    Regarding contractions, Lewis Carroll wrote "ca'n't" for "can't" because there are TWO letters left out of "cannot". He may have…

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    phsiii on Sunday Funnies – LOLs – October 18, 2026October 18, 2026

    nebulousrikulau: I think we can assume that your last sentence has never been written before by anyone in any language…

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    nebulousrikulau on Sunday Funnies – LOLs – October 18, 2026October 18, 2026

    @Brad Walker. No, Bowman's Wolves aren't real. In the comic, the geneticist Dr. Bowman is an uplifted chimpanzee.

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    Ooten Aboot on Saturday Morning OYs October 17, 2026October 18, 2026

    I made it 16 instances of NC. We have a shortage of acronyms and initialisms. There are only 676 possibilities…

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May 15, 2019 by CIDU Bill

I’m not sure I want to know.

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

bad news

First thought: “This isn’t mine.”

Second thought: I wish the third and fourth panels had been reversed, so I could have used the subject line “The Bad News Bras.”

 

May 15, 2019May 13, 2019 by CIDU Bill

Yes, Barney’s screwed, but where’s the punchline?

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  • Barney & Clyde, Bill Bickel, comic strips, comics, humor, Weingartens & Clark
  • 31 Comments

right of way

May 14, 2019 by CIDU Bill

So presumably this would be in the Ewww folder if I understood it…

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  • Bill Bickel, Buttersafe, comic strips, comics, humor, Raynato Castro & Alex Culang
  • 7 Comments
buttersafe 2019-05-14-blowout

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May 14, 2019May 14, 2019 by CIDU Bill

Concentrate, Geezers!

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  • Barney & Clyde, Bill Bickel, comic strips, comics, humor, Weingartens & Clark
  • 7 Comments

concentration

Andréa submitted this.

I checked, and the show hasn’t been produced since 1991, with the final rerun airing in 1993.

May 14, 2019May 13, 2019 by CIDU Bill

Asteroid Drill?

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

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May 13, 2019May 12, 2019 by CIDU Bill

Is this the first time a human’s heard Grimm speak?

  • (Not a Cidu), Bill Bickel
  • anthropomorphism, comic strips, comics, Dogs, humor, Mike Peters, Mother Goose and Grimm
  • 8 Comments

grimm speak

I guess it’s always been ambiguous whether Ma Goose can understand him.

May 13, 2019May 12, 2019 by CIDU Bill

Cloudy Geezer Alert?

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  • Bill Bickel, Close to Home, comic strips, comics, humor, John McPherson, Joni Mitchell, Judy Collins, music, YouTube
  • 15 Comments

clouds

(Of course, as all good geezers know, “Both Sides Now” was really Joni Mitchell’s song)

May 13, 2019May 12, 2019 by CIDU Bill

I’m sure there’s all manner of cleverness in that final panel, but…

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  • Bill Bickel, comic strips, comics, Frazz, humor, Jef Mallett
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May 12, 2019May 12, 2019 by CIDU Bill

I’d suspect Jimmy of spying on us, except my wife doesn’t know how to whistle

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  • Arlo and Janis, comic strips, comics, humor, Jimmy Johnson
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whistle

May 12, 2019 by CIDU Bill

Granny’s Selective Memory

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  • Bill Bickel, comic strips, comics, Jan Eliot, parenting, Stone Soup
  • 4 Comments

granny's a hypocrite

While just a few weeks earlier…

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