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Tag / Stone Soup

August 31, 2019August 31, 2019 by CIDU Bill

Firetruck

  • (Not a Cidu), Bill Bickel
  • comic strips, comics, humor, Jan Eliot, Stone Soup
  • 19 Comments

firetruck

Is this a thing? I thought my little brother was the only kid who wanted to be a firetruck (not a firefighter, but a firetruck).

July 27, 2019 by CIDU Bill

Change

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  • Bill Bickel, comic strips, comics, humor, Jan Eliot, Stone Soup
  • 73 Comments

change

So… the joke somehow relates to the fact that “change” has two meanings?

June 16, 2019 by CIDU Bill

Weird Timing on the Stone Soup Repeat

  • Father's Day, Synchronicity
  • Arlo and Janis, Bill Bickel, comic strips, comics, humor, Jan Eliot, Jimmy Johnson, Stone Soup
  • 14 Comments

chips-arlo

chips-stone

Sort of “Bizarro Synchronicity.”

May 12, 2019 by CIDU Bill

Granny’s Selective Memory

  • (Not a Cidu), Bill Bickel
  • Bill Bickel, comic strips, comics, Jan Eliot, parenting, Stone Soup
  • 4 Comments

granny's a hypocrite

While just a few weeks earlier…

holly's top

May 5, 2019 by CIDU Bill

Is this a repeat from before shopping carts had seats for kids?

  • (Not a Cidu), Bill Bickel
  • comic strips, comics, Jan Eliot, parenting, Stone Soup
  • 35 Comments

cart

I swear, the women on this strip are the worst excuses for parents…

February 15, 2019February 15, 2019 by CIDU Bill

Would an 8-year-old have any idea what this means?

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  • Bill Bickel, comic strips, comics, humor, Jan Eliot, Stone Soup
  • 12 Comments

flashes

I figure her mother and aunt are too young, and her grandmother’s apparently too old.

January 28, 2019January 27, 2019 by CIDU Bill

Dance

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  • Bill Bickel, comic strips, comics, humor, Jan Eliot, Stone Soup
  • 20 Comments

dance.JPG

November 8, 2018 by CIDU Bill

Not really a pressing matter, but…

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  • Bill Bickel, comic strips, comics, humor, Jan Eliot, Stone Soup
  • 25 Comments

Are comic strip characters mic'ed now.JPG

What is that hanging off the right side of Val’s face? Looks like one of those really distracting microphones actors wear on stage these days.

November 4, 2018November 4, 2018 by CIDU Bill

Gift Certificate

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  • Bill Bickel, comic strips, comics, humor, Jan Eliot, Stone Soup
  • 21 Comments

gift certificate

If the gift certificate is for kisses, that’s a freakish over-reaction. If it’s not, this seems to be an unaccustomed turn into Arlo territory for this strip.

October 10, 2018October 10, 2018 by CIDU Bill

[OT] Forget it, Holly…

  • Bill Bickel, OT, The Decline and Fall of the English Language
  • comic strips, comics, humor, Jan Eliot, Stone Soup
  • 32 Comments

copy-editor.JPG

By the time you grow up, copy-editors will be harder to find than pagers.

On the upside, though, reader expectations will be low enough that it won’t matter.

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