Archive for April, 2009
Cidu Bill on Apr 30th 2009
The World Health Organization announced today that, at urging of meat producers, it is officially changing the name of “Swine Flu” to “Influenza A.”
I’m not making this up.
Do they seriously believe that anybody will really start referring to the virus as Influenza A? I’d be shocked if a single news outlet even once uses the new name without at least parenthetically referring to the old name as well.
May 1 update: As of today, neither NPR nor the BBC has gotten the memo: Both continue to refer to “swine flu” (probably because, you know, that’s its name).
Filed in Bill Bickel, WHO, World Health Organization, influenza a, swine flu | 34 responses so far
Cidu Bill on Apr 27th 2009
Filed in Basketcase Comix, Bill Bickel, DNA, Dave Coverly, Doug Bratton, Far Left Side, Francesco Marciuliano, Hogwarts, Mark Parisi, Medium Large, Off the Mark, Pop Culture Shock Therapy, Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal, Speed Bump, Wizard of Oz, Zach Weiner, comic strips, comics, comics that made us laugh out loud, humor, lol | 16 responses so far
Cidu Bill on Apr 27th 2009
What’s Wiley’s actual point here?
Filed in Bill Bickel, CIDU, Moses, Non Sequitur, Wiley Miller, comic strips, comics, humor | 20 responses so far
Cidu Bill on Apr 26th 2009
Dave: Please tell me there’s more to it than this!!
Filed in Bill Bickel, CIDU, comic strips, comics, humor | 17 responses so far
Cidu Bill on Apr 26th 2009
Morris Keesan: The first two panels are fairly typical for a strip involving Dogbert, but I don’t get the last panel at all. Is it just that Dogbert is “in Dilbert’s face”? Or is he standing on Dilbert’s penis?
Filed in Bill Bickel, CIDU, Dilbert, Scott Adams, comic strips, comics, humor | 10 responses so far
Cidu Bill on Apr 25th 2009
Last year, I said that the 2008 March of Dimes Walk America would be the end of an era — for us, anyway — because my son and I would be participating for our sixteenth and final time (we began when he was 2). Turns out we’ve got one more walk in us, since he’s working an internship this spring close to home.
So same as last year, any donations made to CIDU (you can use the button atop the right-hand column of this page) by the end of the day on April 25 (today) will go to March of Dimes tomorrow morning — and I’ll pay the PayPal fee (they help themselves to 6% of all payments, the goniffs) and I’ll match all donations.
Total donations so far: $225
Filed in Bill Bickel, March of Dimes, Walk America | No responses yet
Cidu Bill on Apr 25th 2009
Are we supposed to assume they’re actually doing the ol’ Vertical Arlo and Janis, or are they really concerned that the kids might see them kissing?
Filed in Baby Blues, CIDU, comic strips, comics, humor | 12 responses so far
Cidu Bill on Apr 23rd 2009
Nicole: El Condor Pasa is one of my favorite Simon and Garfunkel songs, but would many people under the age of forty recognize it? Rick is definitely showing his age in this Soup to Nutz
Filed in Bill Bickel, Hey Geezers! Comics!, Rick Stromoski, Simon & Garfunkel, Soup to Nutz, comic strips, comics, humor | 30 responses so far
Cidu Bill on Apr 22nd 2009
Elyrest: I know it’s Earth Day and it’s most likely been done before, but My Cage and Mother Goose and Grimm are doing the Synchronicity thing.
This month’s
Mother Jones magazine, by the way, discusses the dark side of compact fluorescent bulbs: They contain enough mercury-based neurotoxin to be classified as hazardous waste, and must be properly recycled. Most Home Depot and Ikea stores accept used bulbs but Wal-Mart — the company that positions itself as the “champion” for CFLS — does not.
Filed in Bill Bickel, Earth Day, Mike Peters, Mother Goose, comic strips, comics, humor, synchronicity | 28 responses so far
Cidu Bill on Apr 22nd 2009
Haley Salitros:
Filed in Bill Bickel, Ewww, Zits, comic strips, comics, humor | 6 responses so far
Cidu Bill on Apr 22nd 2009
Filed in Argyle Sweater, Arl-ewww, Arlo Page, Bill Bickel, Cyanide and Happiness, Ewww, Scott Hilburn, comic strips, comics, humor, sex | 7 responses so far
Cidu Bill on Apr 22nd 2009
My first thought was that whenever he tries to sunbathe, people think he’s beached himself and moves him back into the water; but the green backhoe is obviously an Earth Day reference, which makes this a CIDU
Filed in B.C., Bill Bickel, CIDU, comic strips, comics, humor | 10 responses so far
Cidu Bill on Apr 22nd 2009
“Little wiener.” I get it; it’s a penis reference. I was once eight years old. But what does any of it have to do with Green Lantern specifically?
Filed in Bill Bickel, CIDU, Doug Bratton, Green Lantern, Pop Culture Shock Therapy, comic strips, comics, humor | 26 responses so far
Cidu Bill on Apr 21st 2009
I can think of very few male friends or relatives who wouldn’t do (or haven’t done) this.
Filed in Arlo and Janis, Bill Bickel, Jimmy Johnson, baseball, comic strips, comics, humor | 20 responses so far
Cidu Bill on Apr 21st 2009
For the sake of argument, let’s assume he’s actually saying “April 22.” The original date for the switchover to digital television, by the way, was February 17: April 8 was never relevant.
Filed in Bill Bickel, CIDU, Dave Whamond, Reality Check, comic strips, comics, humor | 30 responses so far
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