September 8, 2024September 8, 2024 by multipleciduers

Sunday Funnies – LOLs, September 08th, 2024

(Not a Cidu), LOL
Andertoons, Bliss cartoons, Cat and Girl, Dorothy Gambrell, Frazz, Harry Bliss, Jef Mallett, John Hambrock, Mark Anderson, Robert Leighton, Ruben Bolling, Super-Fun-Pak Comix, The Brilliant Mind of Edison Lee, The New Yorker, Yuval Robichek
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Okay, so exposing and satirizing clickbait and spam is not entirely an original idea. But what excellent execution there is in the deflating domain names!

Possibly inspired by the number of people who refer to a pickleball racquet, rather than paddle. Oar maybe not.

Typically when we’ve dealt with a long-form Cat and Girl, the cartoon has seemed to need some explaining, and we shoehorn it into a CIDU option of some kind. So what a pleasure it is to see them straightforwardly taking on some “complaint observational humor” (well, with exaggeration, but that’s to be expected).

September 1, 2024August 30, 2024 by multipleciduers

Sunday Funnies – LOLs, September 01st, 2024

Such practical good advice!

Chemgal sends in this unusually funny fourth-wall break.

Understanding hotel etiquette.

From Boise Ed, who gets the intended joke but remains dubious about there being something actually funny going on.

And a LOL from Usual John:

August 23, 2024August 23, 2024 by zbicyclist

Heads Up! Tomorrow is Stranger’s Day

Why not a day to celebrate strangers?

Where would we be without strangers? Strangers grow our food. Strangers in factories make stuff we need. Strangers make important decisions for us, like whether we get into our first-choice college, or whether we get audited by the IRS.

Let’s face it. In the aggregate, strangers are more important to us than friends.

But speaking of obscure non-holidays:

Did we post this before?

Adding today’s Arlo and Janis as a late entry:

August 19, 2024August 8, 2024 by zbicyclist

Conventional Wisdom

The Democratic convention starts today, in Chicago. CIDU doesn’t deal with current politics, but 1968 is a long time ago, so let’s revisit some of the cartoons done around the time of that raucous Chicago convention.

A poster, not a cartoon:

August 8, 2024August 6, 2024 by EditorM

The getaway trick

From Bob Quixote, puzzled by a cartoon in the New Yorker — as so many of us so often are!

The quixotic one says: I hope you can help me with this cartoon from the latest New Yorker. I’ve been studying it for way too long but cannot figure it out. Why are the cows cops? Is there a hole under the torn-down fence? Why didn’t the robber just hop the fence instead of taking time to take down a section of the fence? Thanks

Phil of the editorial team adds: That’s a cattle guard, common in the West: you can drive over ‘em, but they stop cattle.

July 28, 2024August 6, 2024 by multipleciduers

Sunday Funnies – LOLs, July 28th, 2024

Just a touch of CIDU perhaps…

CIDU note: So what was their plan? Or is it merely a non-coordination mixup. The usual TV story would be that they planned to go to town and do something wild.

June 28, 2024August 6, 2024 by zbicyclist

60 Years Ago in The New Yorker

This one’s not a mystery. It’s just a reminder that being replaced by machines, especially computers, is not new at all. And not unrealistic at all.

What’s the hat got to do with it? The hat is the punch line; otherwise it’s just two thugs.

Mirages? I note in passing that styles in swimsuits haven’t changed all that much in 60 years. This song is just a handful of years earlier.

April 28, 2024October 18, 2024 by multipleciduers

Sunday Funnies – LOLs, April 28th, 2024

Pete sent this in. It’s also a bit of a CIDU, since wouldn’t knights in armor have metal plate on the bottom of their feet?

And here’s one sent in by Usual John, a bit more of a comic scene-rendering than a gag LOL:

In particular, local rules can cause problems. In the card game Hearts, does the jack of diamonds mean anything special? Can you dump on the first trick? In Monopoly, do you complain that the game takes too long, but put $500 on Free Parking, and allow houses to be turned in for full value? In poker, is the worst low hand A-2-3-4-6 or 2-3-4-5-7? Complain about your favorite example of local rules in the comments.

From the Ask-Me-Anything episode:

April 15, 2024May 3, 2024 by multipleciduers

“The government taking us for a ride – the Rides of April”

The short form deserves a geezer alert, as it was discontinued years ago. There’s a 1040-SR now for seniors — the only difference is that it’s printed in larger type.

https://www.irs.gov/forms-pubs/extension-of-time-to-file-your-tax-return , the instructions to file an extension, might come in handy if you’re like this woman.

It’s not going to work, Larry.

Actual error message from IRS.gov on the day tax forms (and estimated payments) were due, April 17, 2018. Not funny. Note the difference in the set of dates cited for the outage.