Tag / Keith Tutt and Daniel Saunders

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Saturday Morning OYs – June 29th, 2024

And I still maintain that the ugly Internet phenomenon of “trolling” started being called that from a metaphor on the fishing practice (dragging a baited hook behind a quiet small boat), and not the Scandinavian bridge-dwelling threateners.

Are we done with Bizarro for this post? Never say so!

I was preparing to protest that the expression is traditionally “strait and narrow” — which would be preferable despite its redundancy. The pattern of redundancy in rhetorical pairs remains hale and hearty, though some may wish it null and void.

But no! The useful sources recognize only “straight and narrow”, with just a nod to the echoes of “strait”. Here’s Etymonline f’ristance [in entry for straight (adj.2) = “conventional,” especially “heterosexual,” 1941]:

probably suggested by the stock phrase straight and narrow path or way, “course of conventional morality and law-abiding behavior” (by 1842), which is based on a misreading of Matthew vii.14 (where the gate is actually strait); another influence seems to be strait-laced.

No, let’s not get started on straight-jacket!

Et tu, Jeremy?

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Saturday Morning OYs – May 25th, 2024

There is a rather old joke involving a misunderstanding of that kind of signage (and based on a now-possibly-objectionable euphemistic term) — but wait!, it turns out this Crabgrass is not using that joke, but rather one based on a different misunderstanding of it.

Picked up from Counterpoint

Is that an electric plug in her hand, at the end of a wire? So she has unplugged a phonograph from playing one of the objectionable original versions?

It’s very simple, but (therefore?) almost perfect.

(it was established in the previous days that these are temporary tattoos)

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Saturday Morning OYs – December 16th, 2023

Frank & Ernest

And Boise Ed provides another One Big Happy:

And Jack Applin suggests this Phoebe and her Unicorn:

(This is apparently the first appearance of this strip in a CIDU post; so far it has only been mentioned a few times in comments.)

Jack further comments, “I was astonished to learn that, according to Wikipedia, all of the *core really exist:“
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cottagecore
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goblincore
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normcore