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Ruthie x 3
In my comics feed for One Big Happy: The Huskies play Oregon (11/23), Money is the root of boll weevil (11/28), ABC order (11/30): (#1) (#2) (#3) #1 – What is was WAS football. What’s on tv? Ruthie’s...
View ArticleThe thread drifted in my direction
Conversations typically drift in topic, as one thing suggests another. (Occasionally, the conversation is reset when one of the participants introduces a new topic or external events intrude with fresh...
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Car wash cartoon understanding
Yesterday’s Wayno/Piraro Bizarro cartoon: (#1)(If you’re puzzled by the odd symbols in the cartoon — Dan Piraro says there are 7 in this strip — see this Page.) You need to recognize that the cartoon...
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Contamination by association
(Regularly skirting or confronting sexual matters, so perhaps not to everyone’s taste.) Yesterday’s Wayno/Piraro Bizarro takes us back to the Garden of Eden: (#1) (If you’re puzzled by the odd symbols...
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The hurtful dog
Back on the 13th, David Horne passed on this cartoon on Facebook: (#1) Explosm-style dog hurts man with words This is in fact a Cyanide and Happiness meme, a 4-panel cartoon template with all the...
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Heavenly POP
It’s been about ten days since the last POP (phrasal overlap portmanteau) here — a 10/9/19 posting “Two old cartoon friends”, with doctors without border collies — so, on the theory that regular POPs...
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Roses now, or roses later
On Sunday at the Palo Alto shapenote singing, we came to #340 in the 1991 Denson Sacred Harp, Odem (Second), with the chorus “Give me the roses while I live”. Counterbalanced, as it turns out, on the...
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Zippyphrases 2
Some riffing on yesterday’s posting “Catchphrases for sale”, about this Zippy strip: (#1) Offering fresh phrases — not already in circulation as catchphrases, sayings, proverbs, slogans, famous...
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Pride feet!
So announced Gwendolyn Alden Dean on Facebook yesterday, as she modeled her astonishing new Teva Rainbow Pride platform sandals (black straps, rainbow soles): (#1) The platforms are 2.5ʺ in the back,...
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The proverbial dead cat
The 10/10 Piccolo / Price Rhymes With Orange cartoon is delightful, but incomprehensible if you don’t know the proverb whose standard form is now Curiosity killed the cat: (#1) If you see that the...
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