January 22, 2023January 20, 2023 by multipleciduers

Sunday Funnies – LOLs, January 22nd, 2023

It’s a bit gruesome to contemplate just how her face has been involved in those ship launches!

P.S. Don’t forget the milli-Helen, a unit of facial beauty capable of launching one ship.

October 3, 2022September 29, 2022 by zbicyclist

Tempt it with angel food cake?

The angel isn’t standing down. The angel doesn’t match the characterization of angels I’m familiar with. Are there no uniform designers who made it to heaven, for a more professional look?

September 18, 2022September 17, 2022 by EditorM

Sunday Funnies – LOLs, September 18th, 2022

After a long break recovering from health issues, Brian Basset is back with new Red and Rover strips.

Sent by Whitey, who says “Reading MY mind. My wife, the day she cleaned the aquarium, pointed it out to me.”

July 24, 2022July 24, 2022 by EditorM

At the Gallery (repost as a bonus)

Art, CIDU, LOL, Oy, Poll
Cornered, Far Side, Gary Larson, Harry Bliss, J. B. Handelsman, John Atkinson, Mike Baldwin, New Yorker, Poll, Steve Martin, Tom Falco, Tomversations, Wrong Hands
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This entry was originally posted on 2020-Nov-13. We were reminded of it when reading Tom Falco’s newsletter today (corresponding to this post on his Tomversation blog), which reprints this panel along with pictures and commentary on his recent New York visit.

Tomversation sent in by Ollie. As a CIDU? Didn’t say! Is the joke like those set at modern art galleries, where a frame surrounds a stain on the wall, here turned into a window mistaken for an art object? Or is it just a fond reminder that one can tire of any quality of indoor view and welcome a glance out a window? [2022 comment: Falco’s title “The grass is always greener” would seem to fit better with that latter view.]

Next mystery: Is it meant to be somewhat realistic? So these would be a collection of posters on paper, mounted on somebody’s wall? No? An actual touring exhibition of masterpieces unlikely to be loaned out and then exhibited together? Nah.

Does it remind you of one of those paintings that show other paintings, maybe in a gallery setting? Like this one by Samuel F. B. Morse:

[2022 comment: The Picasso has been identified by commenter Olivier: “BTW, the Picasso is ‘portrait de femme au béret orange et col de fourrure (Marie-Thérèse)’, 1937.”]

And now, for something not quite completely different! Still in the realm of fine arts and popular suspicion, this OY from Cornered, sent by Olivier.

Wrong Hands can be cynical without being mean:

Oh, how those New Yorkers love themselves some art:

And The Far Side on “The Art of Conversation”. Sorry, just a link, not a copy.

https://www.thefarside.com/2020/10/30/2

And just be hush-hush about this, okay? —

July 12, 2022July 9, 2022 by zbicyclist

Stumped

I can see they are unhappy animals huddled under a tree, but what’s the joke? What’s special about this tree, that it was left? Why are there domestic animal in there (a cow, a sheep) that wouldn’t be in a forest anyway?

Another stump theme. This one’s not a CIDU; It might be titled “Pinocchio, the Final Cut”

July 11, 2022July 4, 2022 by EditorM

Holodeck??

(This is half of a Sunday Cornered, using only one of the two separate joke panels.)

Underlying this is a pretty standard modern-office joke — make yourself indispensable and they will go to lengths to bother you on your off-time.

But how are they doing it? Is this just an arty juxtaposition of two well-separated scenes? Or are they linking by video call, so that he can demonstrate the technique, for someone back at the ranch to execute? Or have they borrowed a transporter from a friendly Star Trek franchise; or using a drone to deliver and retrieve the printer and materials to his lake? What is that vertical line? Or are vacations now required to be taken in-office, courtesy of a crack art and special effects department? Or, indeed, by holodeck?

July 10, 2022July 8, 2022 by EditorM

Sunday Funnies – LOLs, July 10th, 2022

Two Andertoons for the price of one.

Well that’s getting down to the point!

Nice to see the secondary characters getting featured on their own.

Here’s that “LOL-Yikes! (horror)” you saw category-tagged and wondered about.

Actually I think this is making a pretty deep point about the relativity of relativity.

June 18, 2022June 18, 2022 by EditorM

Saturday Morning Oys – June 18th, 2022

Thanks to Bill R, who says “It’s like they’re daring us to figure it out”. Which is why there is a CIDU category (“tag”) on this, along with the “(Not a CIDU)” for the OYs list in general. Look, don’t question it too hard. Oh, and it’s not a pun really, but gets an OY as a language-related item. Also this list was sitting bare too long …

The usage they’re disputing over was taught in my schooldays as one of “those common mistakes to be avoided”.

OK, I think (but am not positive) that I get the alternate meaning the joke depends on — from too many crime shows, the best deals a defendant’s lawyer might hope to extract from a prosecutor would involve setting no additional jail time, so the defendant gets to “walk away” or “take a walk”.

First I thought the outside guy was wearing an odd bathrobe; but throw in his laurel wreath and I guess he is at a toga party. But not the inside guy. Oh well, it doesn’t seem to affect the joke.