Suggested by BillR. After some pondering we think we have most of an explanation – but it wasn’t something you can just crank out.

Suggested by BillR. After some pondering we think we have most of an explanation – but it wasn’t something you can just crank out.




Side detail – while Elephant has a laptop like everybody else, Clown has a horn.













I really like treating “erudite” as the name of a mineral. But don’t care for the supposed punch line here that was used to get that across and try to pun on the standard meaning.









First up, Andréa was struck by the treatment of the old Goofy/Pluto problem, in Pearls Before Swine and Strange Brew:



Next up, Jerry found the focus on Feng Shui in Bizarro and Pickles:



Finally, BillR was seeing jigsaw puzzles all over the place, or at least in F-Minus and Rhymes With Orange:


This is from a book, Otto: A Palindrama by Jon Agee. It was brought to our attention by (and we picked up the image from) an online book review by Gene Ambaum, attached to his Library Comic newsletter.


Pastis is trying so hard in this one, how can we pass up enjoying another look?



Unless it’s disqualified because one of the characters is consciously making the pun joke?

Falco titled this “The Red Hoodie” in his enewsletter. But do we accept that these characters would use the plain form “hood” for either of the meanings required here? Mebbe.


From Andréa, a sort of OY-Awww!



















From Andréa, as a kind of Arlo-OY:


Also Andréa:


This is not a full-fledged Sunday comic, but the intro and the two “throwaway” panels. Yet here is where the funny bit was!


From Mark Jackson:



Of course people have always thought “Ira Roth” could be someone’s name.


Oh wait! Just noticed that Arnold Zwicky’s blog goes into linguistic and referential detail about this one.




Getting some ZZZZs is an ongoing theme with Horace; but this seemed an amusing example!













It’s charming that the other guy also seems to be there to work on his poetry.






Do they have something backwards, tho?



Hmm, the status as an OY may be slightly dubious, but it’s worth it.
