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    larK on Just Stab It AlreadyMarch 23, 2026

    I think it should be "stabable" (one b), in deference to the vowel-consonant-"i/e/y" lengthening rule -- "a" doesn't lengthen the…

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    Downpuppy on Just Stab It AlreadyMarch 23, 2026

    Kung pao is rice, peanuts, and chopped carrots, celery & chicken. Nothing really stabbable. (Stabbable is a fun word, spell…

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    larK on OctoMarch 23, 2026

    Heh, heh... Back in the day, we used to run an Unreal server when our entire internet startup office was…

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    Pete on Just Stab It AlreadyMarch 23, 2026

    You're meant to look at the image of a general pointing with a stick, and think it's planning a military…

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    Dvandom on Just Stab It AlreadyMarch 23, 2026

    It's like the cartoonist started with the visual cliche of generals gathered around a map table, then made up the…

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October 16, 2019October 12, 2019 by CIDU Bill

For what jokes to stop?

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  • Bill Bickel, comic strips, comics, humor, Wizard of Id
  • 8 Comments

fritolay

(There are no clues in the strips leading up to this one)

October 15, 2019 by CIDU Bill

Does this need a Geezer tag?

  • (Not a Cidu), Hey Geezers! Comics!
  • Barney & Clyde, Bill Bickel, comic strips, comics, Doonesbury, humor, Weingartens & Clark
  • 21 Comments

guilty guilty guilty.jpg

Perhaps to the general public but not to comic strip afficianadios?

(And please note that all we’re discussing here are the comics strips in question themselves)

October 15, 2019October 11, 2019 by CIDU Bill

Barney Strangelove

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

Oct15 Barney and Strangelove.JPG

October 14, 2019October 12, 2019 by CIDU Bill

Does the clock mean “wind”?

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  • 1 and Done, Bill Bickel, comic strips, comics, Eric Scott, humor
  • 83 Comments

clock.gif

And is there significance to this being a grandfather clock, other than the fact that it has to be (re)wound?

And as an aside… do/did grandfather clocks have to be manually wound? My grandfather had one (appropriately enough), but I don’t remember ever having seen him to it.

October 14, 2019October 11, 2019 by CIDU Bill

Profiling

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  • Bill Bickel, comic strips, comics, humor, Tundra
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oct12 tundra profiling.jpg

October 13, 2019October 11, 2019 by CIDU Bill

Sunday Funnies – LOL, October 13, 2019

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  • Art, B. Kliban, Bill Bickel, Bizarro, comic strips, comics, Comics That Made Us Laugh Out Loud, humor, Rhymes With Orange, Rina Piccolo, Steve Melcher, That is Priceless, Wayno
  • 12 Comments

bizarro dalipriceless bookmark

rhymes spelling

kliban ideas

Submitted by Andréa

October 12, 2019 by CIDU Bill

The joke is that Baldo is really that clueless?

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  • Baldo, Bill Bickel, comic strips, comics, humor
  • 16 Comments

stupido

October 12, 2019October 11, 2019 by CIDU Bill

Saturday Morning Oy – October 12, 2019

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  • Argyle Sweater, Bill Bickel, comic strips, comics, humor, Scott Hilburn
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Oct 13 oy argyle andrea

Submitted by Andréa

oct 13 oy squid

oct 13 oy tundra

October 11, 2019October 11, 2019 by CIDU Bill

Now we’ve got THANKSGIVING creep…

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  • (Not a Cidu), Bill Bickel, Thanksgiving
  • comic strips, comics, humor, Mike Peters, Mother Goose and Grimm
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MGG-Thanksgiving

October 11, 2019October 11, 2019 by CIDU Bill

Clarinet

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  • Bill Bickel, comic strips, comics, Funky Winkerbean, Tom Batiuk
  • 21 Comments

clarinet.JPG

B.A.: The joke is that the dogs actually did eat the clarinet?

(And she just stood there and recorded it for YouTube like a little sociopath?)

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