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    travelgirl on These dogs ain’t barkin’September 17, 2026

    nice to know i'm not the only one having problems figuring this out... LOL

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    Pandamonium on These dogs ain’t barkin’September 17, 2026

    How else would you get the "dirty" in "dirty water dog" except from throwing in a shoe? I was wondering…

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    phsiii on These dogs ain’t barkin’September 17, 2026

    Yeah, I keep noodling around with "hot dogs" and "my dogs are barkin'" but I don't get to a joke…

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    Karl on These dogs ain’t barkin’September 17, 2026

    All I have is the the old idiom "my dogs are barking" meaning my feet are tired or sore. While…

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    Mitch4 on These dogs ain’t barkin’September 17, 2026

    Including Chaplin’s depiction of eating a shoe in The Gold Rush. One memorable nice touch was twirling the laces like…

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April 25, 2019 by CIDU Bill

I’m not sure a correlation between stock price and payroll actually exists

  • Bill Bickel, CIDU, Economics
  • comic strips, comics, humor, Retail
  • 19 Comments

payroll

Of course Stuart might just be using this as an excuse for payroll cuts that were going to happen anyway, but Marla doesn’t seem to be interpreting it that way and why would Stuart resort to weird excuses anyway?

I see this as part of the Questionable Economics trend begun a few days go by Tiffany in LuAnn.

April 25, 2019 by CIDU Bill

Because “parrot” sounds kind of similar to “parent”? And they’re parrots?

  • Image
  • CIDU
  • Bill Bickel, comic strips, comics, humor, John Deering, music, Strange Brew
  • 16 Comments

strange parrot

April 25, 2019 by CIDU Bill

I get a feeling I’m missing something incredibly obvious here…

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  • CIDU
  • Bill Bickel, comic strips, comics, Cornered, humor, Mike Baldwin
  • 29 Comments

April25 cornered

April 24, 2019April 23, 2019 by CIDU Bill

Truthfully, I haven’t a clue

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  • Bill Bickel, comic strips, comics, Dave Whamond, humor, Pinocchio, Reality Check
  • 13 Comments

pinocchio reality.JPG

April 23, 2019April 23, 2019 by CIDU Bill

On the contrary, this would definitely sell

  • (Not a Cidu), Bill Bickel, Passover
  • comic strips, comics, humor, Mark Parisi, Off the Mark
  • 19 Comments

plagues2

I mean, just look at all the companies making Plagues hand puppets:

plagues

And seriously, I mean a lot of companies…

April 23, 2019April 23, 2019 by CIDU Bill

Unless they’re working at Hooters…

  • (Not a Cidu), Bill Bickel
  • comic strips, comics, Greg Evans, humor, LuAnn
  • 30 Comments

hooters.JPG

… there is no way a female server gets triple the tips of a male server. Or even double. Or more tips at all.

Pretty much anybody is likely to get more tips than a really creepy waiter, but that’s not a gender issue.

April 23, 2019April 22, 2019 by CIDU Bill

I really have no idea what tag to use for this one

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  • (Not a Cidu), Bill Bickel
  • comic strips, comics, humor, Pardon My Planet, Vic Lee
  • 30 Comments

Pardon my outfit

April 23, 2019 by CIDU Bill

Duck Fun

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

april22 barney duck

April 22, 2019 by CIDU Bill

Green Geezer Alert!

  • (Not a Cidu), Hey Geezers! Comics!
  • Bill Bickel, comic strips, comics, Green Hornet, humor, Mike Peters, Mother Goose and Grimm
  • 26 Comments

kato

and for you non-geezers…

green-hornet-tv

The Green Hornet (the Lone Ranger’s grand-nephew, for what it’s worth) and his chauffeur Kato (aka his crime-fighting partner Kato, making this the worst secret identity ever)

April 22, 2019April 21, 2019 by CIDU Bill

Pardon My Lateness

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  • Bill Bickel, comic strips, comics, humor, Pardon My Planet, Vic Lee
  • 21 Comments

pardon my lateness

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