Archive for November, 2008
Cidu Bill on Nov 20th 2008
According to Newsweek magazine, one of Hillary Clinton’s staffers told one of the magazine’s reporters during the primaries that everybody after a certain point everybody was “fed up with the Bill Clinton mishegoss.”
This word has always been a part of my personal vocabulary, but does the quote make any sense to most of Newsweek’s audience? I’ve noticed that New York City-based magazines and (to an even larger extent) Hollywood screenwriters seem convinced that the entire country is familair with Yiddish (which I suppose, if these magazines and screenwriters keep using it, might eventually be the case).
Filed in Bill Bickel, Bill Clinton, Newsweek, Yiddish, media, politics | 28 responses so far
Cidu Bill on Nov 19th 2008
Unless the order is being placed by an elderly fruit-fly, I don’t get it.
Filed in Baldo, Bill Bickel, CIDU, comic strips, comics, humor | 14 responses so far
Cidu Bill on Nov 18th 2008
Nicole sent this for ChadWatch, Comics That Made Us Laugh Out Loud, the Arlo Page, and the Ewww Files
Filed in Arlo Page, Bill Bickel, ChadWatch, Ewww, comic strips, comics, comics that made us laugh out loud, elections, humor, lol | 13 responses so far
Cidu Bill on Nov 18th 2008
The second strip (Jump Start) is also a CIDU: Doesn’t Jojo win the race if he runs into the tree before his friend gets there? A pyrrhic victory to be sure, but even so…
Filed in Bill Bickel, CIDU, Cleats, Jump Start, Robb Armstrong, comic strips, comics, football, humor, synchronicity | 4 responses so far
Cidu Bill on Nov 17th 2008
This doesn’t strictly qualify for the Synchronicity File, since the comics appeared two days apart (Brevity on Friday and Monty on Sunday), but I’m going to stretch the rules a bit because, well… curling…
Click the thumbnails to see the full comics in separate windows.
Filed in Bill Bickel, Brevity, Guy & Rodd, Jim Meddick, Monty, comic strips, comics, curling, humor, synchronicity | 3 responses so far
Cidu Bill on Nov 17th 2008
L.B. Wylie: I’m generally confused by how Christians seem to be one of the only groups of any sort (religious, ethnic, or otherwise) who are always fair game, and are flatly characterized as uptight and oversensitive and humorless if we don’t laugh at whatever jokes are made about us – especially when the majority of the “jokes”, which some could characterize as sacrilegious or heresy, come from those outside of the faith… Resorting to unprovoked cheap (and not even very funny) jokes about someone else’s savior seems to me to potentially be an even lower form of humor than puns. Humor based on pretty much anything else about a religion but the savior is fair game as far as I’m concerned, but – in a culture where the Braves mascot was deemed inexcusably offensive – I think Jesus, Mohammed, Buddha, etc. deserve the same respect.
Filed in Bill Bickel, Far Left Side, Jesus Christ, Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal, Terminator, comic strips, comics, humor, synchronicity | 72 responses so far
Cidu Bill on Nov 17th 2008
Filed in Batman, Bill Bickel, Bizarro, Brevity, Dan Piraro, Faust, Guy & Rodd, Non Sequitur, Pardon My Planet, Riddler, Santa Claus, Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal, Vic Lee, Wiley Miller, Zach Weiner, comic strips, comics, comics that made us laugh out loud, economy, humor, lol, xkcd | 9 responses so far
Cidu Bill on Nov 17th 2008
… those bicycle riders
Filed in Bill Bickel, Hi and Lois, comic strips, comics, humor, sports | 9 responses so far
Cidu Bill on Nov 17th 2008
Something to do with the traditional “throw a brick through the window” thing. I guess.
Filed in Bill Bickel, Brevity, Guy & Rodd, comic strips, comics, humor, libraries, television | 7 responses so far
Cidu Bill on Nov 16th 2008
Without the Obamaland sign, it makes sense to me. With it, on the other hand…
Filed in Barack Obama, Bill Bickel, George W. Bush, comics, humor, political cartoons, politics | 24 responses so far
Cidu Bill on Nov 14th 2008
Nicole: I don’t usually send in political cartoons for the synchronicity award, but…
Filed in Bill Bickel, Sarah Palin, comics, humor, political cartoons, politics, synchronicity | 20 responses so far
Cidu Bill on Nov 14th 2008
I have to think this was a blown punchline, because Express Mail is in fact a service provided by the Post Office. What Batiuk probably meant for Funky to say was “I’ll FedEx it to you.”
And perhaps in the eventual paperback collection, he will.
Filed in Bill Bickel, Funky Winkerbean, Tom Batiuk, comic strips, comics, humor | 7 responses so far
Cidu Bill on Nov 13th 2008
How old is this girl supposed to be? Even if she’s not a seventh grader herself, if she’s in the same school as a seventh grader, she has to be at least in the fifth grade (depending on how the school district is set up; more likely sixth grade). For a ten-or-eleven-year-old to be this ignorant would require the school to have an abstinence-only teaching policy so severe that even Sarah Palin would disapprove and a mother who’s too repressed to have ever discussed sex with her daughter — and if there’s one thing Eve isn’t, it’s repressed.
Filed in Bill Bickel, Clear Blue Water, Karen Montague-Reyes, Sarah Palin, abstinence, comic strips, comics, humor, sex education | 19 responses so far
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