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January 15, 2019January 1, 2019 by CIDU Bill

Why is ONPTPOS particularly termination-worthy?

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

onboarding

January 15, 2019January 13, 2019 by CIDU Bill

Crazy Uncle Carl

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  • Bill Bickel, comic strips, comics, humor, Leigh Rubin, Rubes
  • 36 Comments

jan15 rubes uncle carl

Presumably Mom was playing “stray cow” when she was in Texas, but…

Why “Crazy Uncle Carl”?

And what’s the actual joke?

January 14, 2019 by CIDU Bill

alt.arts.comicstrips.arloandjanis

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

chat.JPG

The fourth panel, of course.

January 14, 2019January 13, 2019 by CIDU Bill

He survived all his childhood winter dangers unscathed but was done in decades later by a patch of ice??

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

broken.JPG

January 14, 2019January 13, 2019 by CIDU Bill

So Old

  • CIDU
  • Alley Oop, Bill Bickel, comic strips, comics, humor, Jonathan Lemon and Joey Alison Sayers
  • 19 Comments

little oop

Okay, but… if his gym teacher is a dinosaur, what’s the joke?

January 14, 2019January 8, 2019 by CIDU Bill

Arlo’s Three-Way

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

arlo 3-way

January 13, 2019 by CIDU Bill

Once again, I feel Jimmy’s pain…

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  • Arlo and Janis, comic strips, comics, Jimmy Johnson
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arlondjanis.com

January 13, 2019 by CIDU Bill

Super Strange

  • (Not a Cidu), Bill Bickel
  • comic books, comic strips, comics, humor, John Deering, Strange Brew, Superman
  • 9 Comments

super strange

Okay, not only is the caption absurdly unnecessary. but the show actually ran four seasons.

Unless Mr. Deering is making a very obscure, very specific reference to the show’s third season.

January 13, 2019January 11, 2019 by CIDU Bill

Sunday Funnies – LOL, January 13, 2019

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  • Bill Bickel, Bizarro, comic strips, comics, Comics That Made Us Laugh Out Loud, Dark Side of the Horse, humor, Mark Parisi, Off the Mark, Rhymes With Orange, Rina Piccolo, Samson, Steve Melcher, That is Priceless, Wayno
  • 20 Comments

bizarro waterrhymes king

mark jury

(I was debating whether to run this on the Oy Page

dark side of babysitting andrea

Submitted by Andréa

pole ba

Submitted by B.A.

January 12, 2019January 11, 2019 by CIDU Bill

Saturday Morning Oy

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  • Bill Bickel, comic strips, comics, humor, John Deering, Strange Brew
  • 6 Comments
jan 12 oy andrea eggs

Submitted by Andréa

Only one comic here, but there’s also Saturday Morning Arlo!

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