Tag / Harry Bliss

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Sunday Funnies – LOLs, May 12th, 2024

For Mothers Day, a bit of both-parental sentiment from Bliss:

Probably obvious, but for the record, it is Susan (the character shown) herself who is trying to give up caffeine.

The Hax advice column this accompanies is here.

TBH, I don’t entirely understand this. I mean, I understand the heartwarming message about group loyalty and generosity — but not whether there was actually supposed to be anything funny.

Wait, could this be heading for an idiom-origins story about “bought the farm”? No? Nah!

by EditorM

Bonus post: You know we’ll have a good time then

Charming vision for the remembering the song.

But forgive the intrusion of an I-don’t-understand element — is there something that makes Harry B recall and want to memorialize Harry C’s song, on this particular date and in this way? Or at any rate, is there meant to be something funny here? (Besides, of course, the normal cartoon non-realities of high-communication musical animals.)

And in case anyone needs a reminder of this song, here is a clip with some family memories followed by a live performance.

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Sunday Funnies – LOLs, April 14th, 2024

Why is this not a CIDU? Because it clears up when you realize that named artist is real, and learn even the first thing about them. Here’s Wikipedia: ” Lucio Fontana was an Argentine-Italian painter, sculptor and theorist. He’s known as the founder of Spatialism and exponent of abstract painting as the first known artist to slash his canvases – which symbolizes an utter rejection of all prerequisites of art.”

Diamond Lil departs from their pun-a-day usual practice, and gives us a nicely planned meta.

A well-executed entry in the own-petard category.

Featured Image (at top)
Concetto spaziale, Attese, 1965
Lucio Fontana

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Sunday Funnies – LOLs, April 7th, 2024

Keep doing variations on a theme, and sooner or later you’ll hit on one the fans don’t remember!

Have you seen the meme about the Welsh translation service?

Is the shell the choice spot for petting a tortoise?

Quite the wily allusion.

But only on condition they walk in together.

Geezer Alert!

This is the LOL-Weird entry for the week. Bizarro in more than name alone!

Thanks to Grawlix and Chemgal for suggesting this artist:

Here’s the LOL-Aww promised in the tags.

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Sunday Funnies – LOLs, March 24th, 2024

A nice Thurber shout-out here. And do you agree the Bliss dogs bear a resemblance to Thurber dogs?

And for fun let’s compare the color version:

I’d say the color is nicer as a mild-humor comic, but the Thurber book identity is obscured.

But no, I can’t figure out what the pairings and lines are doing. It’s certainly not the standard March Madness sort of bracketting. Maybe if I had reread the book at some point in the last 50 years I would do better. … OK, here’s a help page. Wait, how can it fail to mention Dorothea’s nickname, “Dodo”?

Oh, oh, oh! I think I know!

A LOL-Ewww of questionable taste, from Lug Nuts
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Saturday Morning OYs – January 20th, 2024 

This “dogged effort to learn a foreign language” has paid off! 

And as my brother recently messaged me: Yo no soy marinara! Yo no soy marinara! Soy carbonara, soy carbonara, soy carbonara — por ti seré, por ti seré, por ti seré. 

Some celebrity-name pun memes

by EditorM

Clearing a route to the garbage (Random retro LOLs, 2019 or before, Part 3) 

The elevator call button scenario is a familiar trope for Horace :

But others are not banned from exploring a similar idea:

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An OY!