February 17, 2020February 17, 2020 by CIDU Bill

Monday Morning Personal Synchronicity

Bill Bickel, Synchronicity
comic strips, comics, humor, music, Pinocchio, Rhymes With Orange, Rina Piccolo
14 Comments

My brother, for reasons unknown, texted me asking whether I ate sushi. I told him no, only cats eats raw fish, and illustrated my comment with this:

cat and fish pinocchio

And then a few minutes later as I was checking out today’s comics, this popped up:

cat and fish rhymes

February 5, 2020February 5, 2020 by CIDU Bill

DeathMatch! update

CIDU, DeathMatch!
Bill Bickel, Bizarro, Buni, comic strips, comics, Dave Coverly, Death, humor, Pinocchio, Ryan Pagelow, Speed Bump, Wayno
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Two more for Death today. I assume the Bizarro is somehow related to “cummerbund” and “moribund” sounding a little sort of alike (though I’m open to other suggestions); and the Buni is a full-fledged CIDU.

Well, it doesn’t have to make sense to earn a point.

Submitted by Andréa

buni bones

So that’s Death 4, Russian Clown Gesundheit 0.

Non-participant Pinocchio is hanging in there with 3.
driftwood

(And I assume the joke here is that a puppet made out of driftwood will become a drifter)

For previous updates, please click the DeathMatch tag.

EDITED TO ADD: Okay, “Oh no, I’m just here for your Yogurt” Grim Reaper only, Which returns us to Death 2, Russian Clown Gesundheit 0.

Pinocchio must be enjoying this.

February 3, 2020February 3, 2020 by CIDU Bill

DeathMatch! Update (With bonus CIDU)

Didn’t take long to get started: Saturday, Nathan sent me this Mr. Lovenstein strip (which seems to be designed to make copying the comic impossible; if this becomes a trend, we might be out of business).

So Death drew first blood.

And then Sunday:

death-zits

Clown Cars would have been on the board if we saw through the window a tiny parked car:

clowns mark

And maybe we should have let Pinocchio compete:

pinocchio rhymes

pinocchio mgg

And okay, while we’re here, let’s hit the second one, the Mother Goose and Grimm, with a CIDU tag. Yes, Jonah and Pinocchio both ended up inside whales (though Jonah a few thousand years earlier, but whatever), but why is Jonah holding a sheet of paper (?) and why is Pinocchio disassembled? Is the whale actually an Ikea popup?

Anyway, after the first weekend, it’s Death 2, Russian Clown Gesundheit 0.

(If you have no idea what I’m talking about, click here)

January 28, 2020January 26, 2020 by CIDU Bill