Comics I Don’t Understand

Archive for July, 2008

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Cidu Bill on Jul 25th 2008

Filed in Bill Bickel, CIDU, Cornered, Mike Baldwin, comic strips, comics, humor | 6 responses so far

Y Indeed?

Cidu Bill on Jul 24th 2008

The fact that Seth is gay only confuses matters more, I think.

Filed in 9 Chickweed Lane, Bill Bickel, Brooke McEldowney, CIDU, comic strips, comics, humor | 15 responses so far

Who Knew?

Cidu Bill on Jul 24th 2008

Why?

Filed in Arlo and Janis, Bill Bickel, CIDU, Jimmy Johnson, comic strips, comics, humor, marriage | 20 responses so far

Synchronicity in Today’s Philadelphia Inquirer

Cidu Bill on Jul 23rd 2008

Spotted by Meanderintiques (and yes, that should be polyester)

Filed in Bill Bickel, Family Circus, Overboard, comic strips, comics, humor, polyester, synchronicity | 14 responses so far

To the Dogs

Cidu Bill on Jul 23rd 2008

William Lynes’s LOL/CIDU combo: “I laughed out loud at the first joke but I don’t understand the last one.”

Filed in Bill Bickel, CIDU, Dogs, comic strips, comics, comics that made us laugh out loud, humor, lol | 8 responses so far

Dial-a-Nun

Cidu Bill on Jul 23rd 2008

Or is this simply supposed to sound a lot like “if you need assistance”?

Filed in Bill Bickel, CIDU, Dave Whamond, Reality Check, comic strips, comics, humor, nuns | 9 responses so far

Final Score: Lesbians 1, Lesbians 0

Cidu Bill on Jul 23rd 2008

Article and your comments

Filed in Bill Bickel, Crimeweek, Greece, Lesbos, Weird World of Crime, lawsuits, lesbians | Comments Off

Okay, so Snow White has a tattoo above her butt, commonly referred to as a “tramp stamp.” What’s the joke, though, as opposed to a similar tattoo being seen above the butt of, say, Cinderella, Dorothy Gale or Hillary Clinton?

Filed in Bill Bickel, CIDU, Pop Culture Shock Therapy, Snow White, comic strips, comics, humor, tattoos, tramp stamp | 26 responses so far

Laces

Cidu Bill on Jul 22nd 2008

Do parents generally bribe their children to tie their shoelaces for them?

Filed in Bill Bickel, CIDU, Jump Start, Robb Armstrong, comic strips, comics, humor, shoelaces | 7 responses so far

Grey Skies Are Gonna Clear Up, so Why Look So Awfully Tragic?

Cidu Bill on Jul 22nd 2008

Filed in Arlo and Janis, Bill Bickel, CIDU, Jimmy Johnson, Weather Channel, comic strips, comics, humor | 11 responses so far

Grumble

Cidu Bill on Jul 21st 2008

Okay, I’m actually with Stuart here: The customer probably pays with Visa anyway, so why not get a Grumbel’s card and save 10%?

I have a Macy’s card I’ve only used once: It was the only store where I could find a ready-to-wear suit for my hard-to-fit son (who told me two days before the fact that he needed one), and they offered me 20% off if I signed up for their card. Hell, yeah.

I also appreciated the symmetry of using a card one time ever for a suit I knew my son would outgrow before he needed to wear it again.

Filed in Bill Bickel, Retail, comic strips, comics, credit cards, humor | 27 responses so far

Watermelon Men

Cidu Bill on Jul 21st 2008

A classic example of how a single panel can begin as a LOL and end as an EWWW

Filed in Bill Bickel, Ewww, Zits, comic strips, comics, comics that made us laugh out loud, lol | 9 responses so far

Tempest in a C-Cup

Cidu Bill on Jul 21st 2008

A federal appeals court today threw out a $550,000 fine levied by the FCC against the CBS television network for showing the momentary exposure of most of Janet Jackson’s breast during the halftime show of the 2004 Super Bowl, saying the agency acted “acted arbitrarily and capriciously” and violated its own policy of only imposing fines when an offense is so “pervasive as to amount to ’shock treatment’ for the audience.” Apparently, an image that can only be seen by somebody with a TIVO does not count.

Incredibly enough, there’s still no mention of any punishment for Justin Timberlake for introducing the phrase “wardrobe malfunction” into the English language.

Nicole reminds me that Billo had a bit to say about this non-issue at the time…

Filed in Bill Bickel, Billo, CBS, FCC, Janet Jackson, Justin Timberlake, Super Bowl, breasts, wardrobe malfunction | 7 responses so far

LOL July 21, Special July 21 Edition

Cidu Bill on Jul 21st 2008

So these two guys were walking in the woods and they come across a severed head. One of them holds it up and says “Oh my God, it’s Kowalski!” His friend says “No, he was taller than that.”

And this one is Arlo Page material…

For the rest of the July 21 LOL Page, which I somehow managed to upload last Tuesday, please click here.

Filed in Arlo Page, Arlo and Janis, Bill Bickel, Godzilla, Jimmy Johnson, Kowalski's head, Natural Selection, Russ Wallace, Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal, comic strips, comics, comics that made us laugh out loud, humor, lol | 8 responses so far

Maybe She’s Been Out in the Sun Too Long?

Cidu Bill on Jul 21st 2008

Yes, I know the song. Comic still doesn’t make sense to me.

Filed in Bill Bickel, Bliss, CIDU, comic strips, comics, humor | 8 responses so far

No Trees

Cidu Bill on Jul 20th 2008

Filed in Bill Bickel, CIDU, Dogs, Hagar the Horrible, comic strips, comics, humor | 11 responses so far

Find the Fallacy

Cidu Bill on Jul 19th 2008

article

Filed in Bill Bickel, civil liberties, libraries | 24 responses so far

Ups and Downs

Cidu Bill on Jul 19th 2008

Okay, until Nicole sent this to me as an Arlo Page candidate, it never occurred to me to interpret it that way. I’d wager it never occurred to Jimmy Johnson either.But hell, that’s just the sort of service the CIDU Page provides to the comic stripping community…

Filed in Arlo Page, Arlo and Janis, Bill Bickel, Jimmy Johnson, comic strips, comics, humor | 10 responses so far

Tulips

Cidu Bill on Jul 19th 2008

Filed in Bill Bickel, CIDU, Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal, comic strips, comics, humor | 9 responses so far

More Outraged Than Thou

Cidu Bill on Jul 18th 2008

The NAACP and David Paterson (New York’s first black governor) have entered the Condemn the New Yorker Cover Derby: The NAACP is calling it “tasteless, Islam-a-phobic, mean spirited and racially offensive” while Governor Paterson, not to be outdone, called it “one of the most malignant, vicious covers of a magazine I have ever seen.”

Out of, you know, all the very many malignant, vicious magazine covers he’s seen.

Now here’s the amazing thing about this story that’s garnered worldwide attention:

And right here I’m warning anybody who’s easily offended to stop reading

Last week, Jesse Jackson told a fellow guest on a television program — when he thought the microphone was off — that he doesn’t like the way Barack Obama “talks down” to black people and that he’d like to “cut his nuts off.”

This week, the network confirmed that he also referred to Obama as a nigger (I refuse to say “the n word,” because I’m not 8 years old).

At the risk of putting things in perspective, shouldn’t this have been a bigger story? Sure, it was reported, but it’s been completely overshadowed by a cartoon which nobody seriously believes was intended to denigrate Obama.

A leader in the black community calls a black presidential candidate a nigger… and a drawing.

I am not seeing worldwide condemnation. I am not seeing the outrage. I am not seeing Governor Paterson and the NAACP making speeches and releasing press statements.

Filed in Barack Obama, Bill Bickel, Governor David Paterson, Jesse Jackson, NAACP, New York, New Yorker, comics, political cartoons | 26 responses so far

Bless His Heart

Cidu Bill on Jul 18th 2008

“You know, God bless him, bless his heart, the president of the United States, a total failure, losing all credibility with the American people on the economy, on the war, on energy, you name the subject” -Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi

This comment amused me, since I’d just read this: