October 20, 2024October 19, 2024 by multipleciduers

Sunday Funnies – LOLs, October 20th, 2024

Boise Ed submitted this Cornered panel, commenting: “What a great put-down!“

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P.S. A German flasher would hope she says: “That’s gross!“
P.P.S. To which he would then reply: “Dankeschön!“

F.Y.I.: Is everyone is already prepared for the upcoming holiday(s)?

How to tell a fruit from a vegetable:

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Your attitude towards caramelizing may depend on whether you’re the one who does the dishes. Similarly with dishes such as tahdig, “a beautiful, pan-fried Persian rice that is fluffy and buttery on the inside with a perfectly golden crust, which is the layer at the bottom of the pot.” — if you make it right. The first few times might not produce “a perfectly golden crust”.

And we couldn’t leave without a couple of nods to autumn.

The character in the leaf pile is Wallace’s mom:

This one’s from 1962, when leaf burning was still a tradition:

September 27, 2024September 9, 2024 by EditorM

Pardon my anxiolytic

He’s making some kind of statement, but I don’t get the standpoint. Is there some belief system under which all the heavenly host are taken to be bedeviled with fear and trembling?

August 25, 2024August 25, 2024 by multipleciduers

Sunday Funnies – LOLs, August 25th, 2024

Unexpectedly, this was something of a minor CIDU, with comments disagreeing over which partner is actually the neatnik. (Also just a hint of Arlo speculation based on how the drawn legs bend at the knees.)

Nice to find the occasional clear-and-direct LOL from PMP!

For once we can let this stand as a LOL on its own, and not indulge a compulsion to track down the specific advice column it probably accompanied originally.

Mark H. notes “This Arlo is a Janis”.

Or maybe she’s just moving the drapes to give him a better view of the moon. Or of …

Thanks to both Darren and Phred who sent this one in, as mostly LOL but with enough of a factual background question to make it almost a CIDU. Why is it a matter for sticklers?

P.S. It turns out this comic was discussed at Comic Strip of the Day; but we ran across that after this post was already prepared.

July 15, 2024July 13, 2024 by zbicyclist

Not Blind Faith, Bald Faith

Boise Ed sends this in. “I’m unfamiliar with church practices, but it appears that the customer is envious of the priest’s abundant hair, and has asked the priest about using placebo and “alternative reality.” But then why would the priest have to remind him of his baldness? My question: what’s going on here?”

June 3, 2024May 29, 2024 by EditorM

Pardon my Credit Card

Thanks to both Boise Ed and Usual John for suggesting this one.

“First, why these questions? Is the guy on trial for credit-card fraud? Second, why is the judge wearing a ‘smoking jacket’ instead of judicial robes?”

Also of course “What’s the joke?”

April 20, 2024April 18, 2024 by multipleciduers

Saturday Morning OYs – April 20th, 2024

In His Last Bow, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle mentions that Holmes retired to a small farm on the Downs five miles from Eastbourne where he was “living the life of a hermit” among his bees and books. This would hardly be orange and lemon growing territory.

This was initially posted as a CIDU. Then, all at once, ZBicyclist realized it belonged on the OY page.

Fun with homonyms.

March 16, 2024March 16, 2024 by multipleciduers

Saturday Morning OYs – March 16th, 2024

(Not a Cidu), Oy
Bunny Hoest, Dave Whamond, Day by Dave, John Reiner, Lockhorns, Pardon My Planet, Vic Lee
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Okay, but … do people still use the term “operating theater”?

This cartoon was already discussed on The Comics Curmudgeon, but we can certainly take a moment to … admire … it here also.

March 8, 2024March 8, 2024 by zbicyclist

Some Days You Just Can’t Get A Head

January 27, 2024January 23, 2024 by zbicyclist

Saturday OYs — Some math for e day

Pi Day (March 14, or 3/14) gets a lot of play in the U.S., but doesn’t work in other countries that write dates as DD/MM/YYYY, so it becomes 14/3. An alternative in those areas is e day, after the base of natural logarithms, e, (2.71) on 27 January. So, we’re going to avoid the Pi Day rush and post some math cartoons today.

Like pi, e shows up in a variety of places in mathematics, and is associated with some of the greats in mathematical development. From Wikipedia:

“The number e is sometimes called Euler’s number …—after the Swiss mathematician Leonhard Euler —or Napier’s constant—after John Napier. The constant was discovered by the Swiss mathematician Jacob Bernoulli while studying compound interest.”

Some fuzzy math from websites. The first is from Kiva.org.

This one is from MyVirtualMission.com, a site where you can virtually pretend to climb Everest or complete the Camino de Santiago as you run/walk/bike around your neighborhood. Somehow, their counter of missions (trips) has gone awry. Or maybe I did one backwards?