LOL-August 31
Cidu Bill on Aug 31st 2009
Pinny:
Nicole:
Elyrest: This one was a LOL for me even though I’ve yet to see a cat who looked guilty about anything.
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Chuck Aug 31st 2009 at 01:35 am 1
Mantis is an Ew for me. I don’t like bug sex in my comics.
Winter Wallaby Aug 31st 2009 at 03:20 am 2
The flowchart xkcd itself was just a chuckle for me, but the alt-text was a LOL: “Hey Megan, it’s your father. How do I print out a flowchart?”
cydu Aug 31st 2009 at 03:36 am 3
Woah! Octo-drumstick synchronicity: http://basicinstructions.net/?p=1159
chuckers Aug 31st 2009 at 05:06 am 4
Charlie and the Turnip Factory is a bit too surreal for me.
yellojkt Aug 31st 2009 at 06:04 am 5
The xkcd is guaranteed to be an e-mail along classic. I posted it on my blog just for my parents to see.
thwgt Aug 31st 2009 at 08:18 am 6
@elyrest: I think the cat is cheating and knows he’s going to win.
Wayne Aug 31st 2009 at 08:26 am 7
Best part of the xkcd is what it leaves out: No box for “Ciick on Help.”
Keera Aug 31st 2009 at 12:17 pm 8
Darned xkcd. I have the whole office bowing to me and my “computer expertise”! I hope they never see this comic!
@elyrest, the dog will always look guilty when there’s a cat around. Anybody who has both as pets can tell you.
Dave Van Domelen Aug 31st 2009 at 12:18 pm 9
Cats never look guilty because they cheat at cards. Duh.
Tim Aug 31st 2009 at 01:00 pm 10
I’m a clown, and I’ve been tech support. Both of these are extreme lol’s for me.
Kevin A Aug 31st 2009 at 01:17 pm 11
I’ve always particularly liked the Mr. Boffo “Unclear on the Concept” strips (for decades, I guess) and I’ve been feeling they’d lost something in recent years. Now this one had me laughing again and may be my all-time favorite.
Judge Mental Aug 31st 2009 at 01:22 pm 12
Charlie and the Turnip Factory is CIDU for me.
Donna F Aug 31st 2009 at 03:20 pm 13
@ Judge Mental: You may understand the “Charlie and the Turnip Factory” a little better if you check out the artist’s comments on comic on her site:
http://www.harkavagrant.com/index.php?id=203
bookworm Aug 31st 2009 at 05:11 pm 14
As an IT person, xkcd was a major LOL for me. I sent it to all the friends and relatives that I’ve helped in the past. As yet no one’s responded.
Skaloop Aug 31st 2009 at 05:58 pm 15
For the language gap one, octopus is a pretty obscure delicacy even today, but probably moreso in Granny’s home country way back when; wouldn’t it be more expensive than turkey?
Also, do other countries besides the US and Canada even do Thanksgiving?
(This is assuming that Gran grew up in another country)
Patrick Aug 31st 2009 at 06:37 pm 16
Glad to see Kate Beaton on here. She is one of my favorites.
NoAlias Aug 31st 2009 at 08:35 pm 17
(Octopus for Thanksgiving) - what does being poor have to do with it? If they were richer they’d have 4 turkeys so they’d have 8 drumsticks? And who plans one whole turkey drumstick per person? Who are they feeding? Henry VIII?
(xkcd) - I loved this one. Synchronicity-wise, at approx. the same time, PC World had a list of ‘Unwritten Laws of Technology (http://www.pcworld.com/article/169388/you_must_obey_the_unwritten_laws_of_technology.html). #1 Tech Support Law: “Fix a computer for a friend or family member, and you’ll be tech support for life.”
Keera Sep 1st 2009 at 12:44 am 18
For a lot of people who live on the Mediterranean, octopus is something you fish for free. In Greece, you can see them hung up on clotheslines, drying in the sun. Leaving aside that a boneless cephalopod wouldn’t give drumsticks, the cartoon is a CIDU for me. I’m still not quite sure what the gap (that’s not language) is about. Too wide a gap between the cells in Granny’s brain? Is that it?
chuckers Sep 1st 2009 at 05:22 am 19
Octopus is an obscure delicacy?
Maybe on *YOUR* side of the planet.
Naomi Sep 1st 2009 at 01:01 pm 20
I think the “gap (that’s not language” is the gap between those who think octopus is a reasonable thing to eat on Thanksgiving - or at all - and those who don’t. BTW, I didn’t even notice that Thanksgiving was being referenced, instead my brain kind of filled in having read that old-country Italians eat a 7-course seafood dinner for Christmas Eve (often including octopus, I believe), whereas Americans typically eat meat or poultry. So I was thinking “Christmas octopus - of course”.
Vroshnak Sep 1st 2009 at 01:07 pm 21
The phrase “looking guilty” when applied to a cat means that the cat is simply near something broken.
Brian Leahy Sep 1st 2009 at 08:07 pm 22
The “gap” is: Granny is making stuff up — the octopus story isn’t remotely logical or plausible.
She’s either pulling her granddaughter’s leg, or has dementia and has begun confabulating.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confabulation
(How’s THAT for a grim interpretation?)
Mitch4 Sep 2nd 2009 at 07:00 am 23
Can anybody identify the script used in Granny’s speech balloon?
chuckers Sep 3rd 2009 at 05:03 am 24
Shorthand?
If not that, probably just artistic scribbles.
Mitch4 Sep 3rd 2009 at 07:28 am 25
I was wondering if it might be Greek, or Cyrillic. I know it doesn’t look like either of those in the standard printed fonts, but handwritten scripts can be pretty different.
furrykef Sep 4th 2009 at 12:12 am 26
Doesn’t look anything at all like Greek or Cyrillic. Handwriting doesn’t differ from printed fonts THAT much in any writing system I know of (well, not counting cursive Chinese/Japanese, which not even native speakers can read without some kind of training).
Keera Sep 4th 2009 at 04:51 am 27
If you open up the character map on your computer and go to the part with all the “foreign” letters and copy them down by hand, you get what Granny said.
Julie Sep 4th 2009 at 05:08 pm 28
I really like the xkcd one, but it’s missing how to google something.