Mitch4 sends in this OY (maybe a momentary CIDU).
So, as a cure, will that leg have to be Hermetically sealed?
Marrose sends this in:
That famous scene:
This is Dan Thompson’s Brevity, so it’s almost certainly a pun, and probably one that is easily explained, so I’m not posting it as a CIDU. But I don’t get it, so pan-der to your editor and explain it to me.
Bob Ball says this one “appears to lack gravitas”.
Mouseover text: “It does come at the cost of some launchpad expansions and increased fuel requirements, but all that comes out of the facilities budget.”
Mitch4 sends this in: “Well, they don’t even try to handle the “intolerance” part, but even so it was a pretty clever pun.”
Mitch4 sends this in: “Because of whose picture is on which denomination.”
B.C. sometimes has Christian themes, and this one is NOT non-denominational, but we’re posting it anyway.
And while we’re on the subject of George Washington:
This one may be a Momentary CIDU:
Mitch4 sends this in:
Mitch4 sends this in:
How cartoonists at a convention decide what bar to go to.
Kedamono sends this in:
Mitch4 sends this in.
For me, it was a momentary CIDU. Mitch4 notes “May be pronunciation dependent (“conch”).”
Whipped potatoes.
This one is somewhere between and OY and a CIDU for me.
Just don’t stick me with the bar bill.
Mitch4 send in this groaner:
Boise Ed sends this in. [Бојси Ед го испраќа ова]
“The modern Macedonian alphabet consists of 31 letters, including 5 vowels (А, Е, И, О, У) and 26 consonants, with six letters unique to Macedonian: Ѓ (gj), Ѕ (dz), Ј (j), Љ (lj), Њ (nj), and Ќ (kj). It was officially codified in 1945 by a commission in Yugoslav Macedonia….Spoken as a first language by around 1.7 million people, it serves as the official language of North Macedonia.[” (Wikipedia)
Six unique letters in a written language that’s the primary language of only 1.7 million people. In the age of computers, that’s a fairly easily solvable problem by designing a font. One wonders, though, how this worked back in the typewriter era. I get the implication that perhaps they used a Cyrillic typewriter with combinations of letters, such as the Cyrillic version of kj for Ќ.
A bit of information omitted.
Speaking of Great Blue Herons, there’s a rookery near me. You can see the nests high up in the trees — about as high up as they could put them, considering the males are about 5 lb and the females about 3 lb, plus the weight of the nest and the eggs / hatchlings. The rookery is persistent — it’s been in the same location at least 5 years now. The arrival of the young roughly coincides with the trees getting covered with leaves, so the nests can’t easily be seen.
