Saturday Morning OYs – October 7th, 2023

OY by virtue of ambiguous parsing of [[comic strip] bar] versus [comic [strip bar]]. But y’know, as Will Rogers is never quite quoted as saying, I never meta man I didn’t like. And also a man’s reach should exceed his grasp, else what’s a metaphor?

Who’s ready for a bit more Fusco?


In case you are unfamiliar with the referenced candy:


Omnibus LOLs and OYs for the weekend, July 09th, 2023


Just BTW, does “aggro” in casual speech these days mean aggressive or aggravating?


Dýou think this is well-positioned to become even more popular than the one about the land of the blind?





A fine line between pun and equivocation.


In the GoComics comments, Teresa Burritt (creator of Frog Applause) revealed that this was a CIDU for her! (Several commenters answered to provide the Stephen King reference.)



Sunday Funnies – LOLs, May 21st, 2023

… at Alice’s Restaurant!

And while we’re at it, another Reply All:


And this was a winning week for Andertoons!



This Lug Nuts is pretty funny, but leaves a mystery. Hence LOL-CIDU.



Thanks to maggiethecartoonist, who says “Always remember pants”.

Sunday Funnies – LOLs, May 7th, 2023


And a counterpoise of business meeting strategy, and who gets to speak up, from 9-to-5:



Do any disguised superheroes actually do this?





Thanks to Usual John for this one!


Some random retro LOLs





This next one depends on remembering when Lars von Trier and friends declared the Dogme 95 principles for filmmaking. (And probably does not require remembering the Kevin Smith film Dogma.)



With this December 2011 Brevity, we’re getting a bit into OYs.








And we interrupt our parade of Oldies to drop in a Duffy Lug Nuts on the same theme from current GoComics publication:




Sunday Funnies – LOLs, April 23rd, 2023





Maybe 2008, but still not an early adopter.


Last week — 4th wall needed for a watching-the-news story. (It’s just the date formatting that makes this look like a panel from the future.)


The joke is somewhat spoiled (or at least delayed) by the way the sightlines are drawn. But it emerges that what sound like rules for a tweenage girl being left home alone are being directed to Baby Bear (the dog); who isn’t agreeing to them.
(And yes, still downloads from WaPo as .AVIF and needs pre-converting.)







And this Wondermark is not really much of a LOL, but it does provide a chuckle, and prompts me to remember encountering another sense of “Bridge club” in some novels of British India (probably Paul Scott) — it was a party with several ethnic groups invited, and intended to bridge the cultural gaps.