




(Explained as a pun at Arnold Zwicky’s Blog)

See Wayno’s blog for notes on how these two versions came to be.


(Making this a post rather than adding a comment to Random Comments thread only because that provides access to the Image-Compare gizmo.)

Contributed by Andréa:




As with the first literary school of fish, there is no mystery about the point or the kind of joke, but we can exercise our memory and sense of Arizona’s 11th largest city by trying to pinpoint the writer in each case and the reason for the icon.
“Can’t remember if we used this or got sidetracked back then” Dept. Contributed by Olivier:



From Andréa:







From Andréa:

Speaking of grammar:


First appearance of Crabgrass at CIDU.
Can’t remember, has this really not been used? It’s so good!


And a special late-for-Thanksgiving quasi-synchro section of Pilgrim-hat-buckle jokes!

Contributed by Andréa:




So it’s a Ha*Ha more than a LOL?

You can count on Horace for a technicality!

So wrong!

There are lots of comics about pandemic accommodations and inconveniences, some quite good and some not so much. This one struck our funny bone as charming and gentle. (Despite the swordplay!)

Good turnaround joke contributed by Anon.

Wait, are they confederates? Or is the pin guy just horning in?

Reconstituted turtles??
Synchronicity submitted by Mark in Boston:


And to emphasize their simultaneity, he enclosed this clipping from The Boston Globe:

Fans of Wayno’s blog may know he prepares two versions of each weekday Bizarro comic, in the different aspect ratios / formats. Here we see them both.
Variations on an Eww snacking theme.

From Andrea.


They can’t decide what flavor!

Stan: “Wood you explain this, please. I get the idea, sort of, but when has this ever occurred? It seems like a pretty wild stretch just to make a ‘joke’ work. Am I missing a reference to something? Also, if it’s a ‘post-wood’ era, then what is the podium behind him made of? It looks like wood to me.”

And a CIDU-Eww from Ignatz.

Some viewers report “It took a second!”

A Halloween themed LOL from Todd. Also suggested by Olivier.

From Olivier.

A bad joke about making a bad joke!

An OY and a lol wrapped into one!