Archive for September, 2009

2 BC

Cidu Bill on Sep 18th 2009

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Ummm… Yes, in fact limericks are poetry…


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Pinny: I understand that the turtle is referring to 5- and 1-dollar bills. But wouldn’t it be just as valid to refer to coins and give Washington 25-to-1 odds over Lincoln?

Filed in B.C., Bill Bickel, CIDU, comic strips, comics, humor | 23 responses so far

Friday Morning Ewww

Cidu Bill on Sep 18th 2009

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Nicole: Perhaps I have a sick twisted mind — I have been told as such, but to me it appears that Obama is getting ready to give congress a proctology exam
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Chuck Douglas and Nicole:

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Sarah-Louise Holmes:
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Mitchell Marks:
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Janice Rey: Definitely an EWWW for me – but I have to give Conley credit for the expression on Bucky’s face in the third panel.
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Filed in Barack Obama, Bill Bickel, Darby Conley, Ewww, Flying McCoys, Get Fuzzy, Reynolds Unwrapped, Watch Your Head, cats, comic strips, comics, humor | 23 responses so far

Facts of Life

Cidu Bill on Sep 17th 2009

Usual John: I’m worried that, although I do find this Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal disturbing, I would probably find it even more disturbing if I understood it better.

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Filed in Bill Bickel, CIDU, Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal, Zach Weiner, comic strips, comics, humor | 13 responses so far

Great Moments in Self-Control

Cidu Bill on Sep 16th 2009

My glasses broke yesterday. More precisely, the tiny screw holding the frame around the right lens fell out and disappeared. So I drove over to LensCrafters , and the girl there asked me whether I had the screw, I said I didn’t, and she said they could fix it for me right away, adding “It’s five dollars for a screw.”

I somehow managed not to ask “The same as in town?”

Filed in Bill Bickel | 23 responses so far

Old Boyfriend

Cidu Bill on Sep 16th 2009

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For what it’s worth, it looks like a burning ice cream cone to me

Filed in Bill Bickel, CIDU, Chuckle Brothers, comic strips, comics, humor | 23 responses so far

Ship

Cidu Bill on Sep 15th 2009

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Timothy Carignan: Okay, I give up. What kind of answer was he going for? For once, the dog seems the more intelligent and articulate.

Filed in Bill Bickel, CIDU, Darby Conley, Get Fuzzy, comic strips, comics, humor | 16 responses so far

LOL-September 14

Cidu Bill on Sep 14th 2009

Morris M. Keesan:

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Nicole:
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Pinny: ELIZA with a Z
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Gelinas:
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Filed in Bill Bickel, Dave Coverly, Speed Bump, William Shakespeare, comic strips, comics, comics that made us laugh out loud, humor, lol, xkcd | 23 responses so far

Friday Morning Ewww

Cidu Bill on Sep 11th 2009

yellojkt: Is there any comic with a baby that doesn’t resort to dirty diaper jokes?

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Filed in Bill Bickel, Dog Eat Doug, Ewww, comic strips, comics, humor | 11 responses so far

Feral Ballerina

Cidu Bill on Sep 10th 2009

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Filed in Bill Bickel, CIDU, Pearls Before Swine, Stephan Pastis, comic strips, comics, humor | 19 responses so far

Ding Dong

Cidu Bill on Sep 9th 2009

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Sure is lucky Arlo has a comic strip character nose, that’s all I have to say.

Filed in Arlo and Janis, Bill Bickel, Jimmy Johnson, comic strips, comics, humor | 21 responses so far

The Check Has No Name??

Cidu Bill on Sep 9th 2009

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Filed in Bill Bickel, CIDU, Rina Piccolo, Tina's Groove, comic strips, comics, humor | 7 responses so far

Obama’s Speech: The Aftermath

Cidu Bill on Sep 8th 2009

So… Was anybody’s kid exposed to Obama’s speech today and come home a gay, socialist Kenyan? My son’s school, which originally offered concerned parents the option of sparing their children from having to listen to the speech, changed their minds and banned the speech altogether.

Today’s civics lesson, kids: School policy should be set based on the fear of upsetting a vocal minority, even if that minority doesn’t even offer a rational explanation of their concerns.

Filed in Barack Obama, Bill Bickel | 50 responses so far

Clicka Clicka Clicka

Cidu Bill on Sep 8th 2009

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So what is that guy doing in the first panel, tweeting about the wedding using a telegraph?

Filed in Bill Bickel, CIDU, Randy Milholland, Something Positive, comic strips, comics, humor | 14 responses so far

This Wednesday, Everybody Becomes a Geezer

Cidu Bill on Sep 8th 2009

Filed in Amazon, Beatles, Bill Bickel, CDs, Rock Band, music, video games | 33 responses so far

Blue Tattoo

Cidu Bill on Sep 8th 2009

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Filed in Bill Bickel, CIDU, Frazz, Jef Mallet, comic strips, comics, humor | 12 responses so far

The Last Major

Cidu Bill on Sep 7th 2009

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Filed in Arlo and Janis, Bill Bickel, CIDU, Jimmy Johnson, comic strips, comics, humor | 7 responses so far

Yesterday’s Geezer Moment

Cidu Bill on Sep 7th 2009

So I go to pick up my son and his two friends, and they’re sitting on the curb in this classic pose

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and I tell them they look just like the Little Rascals and six eyes look at me as if I’m speaking in tongues.

Filed in Bill Bickel, Little Rascals | 16 responses so far

LOLabor Day

Cidu Bill on Sep 7th 2009

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Filed in Bill Bickel, Bizarro, Dan Piraro, Dilbert, F-Minus, Hilary B. Price, Jerry Scott, Retail, Rhymes With Orange, Rina Piccolo, Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal, Scott Adams, Tony Carrillo, Zach Weiner, Zits, comic strips, comics, comics that made us laugh out loud, humor, lol, media | 29 responses so far

GASP

Cidu Bill on Sep 6th 2009

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Techno-idiot Walt knows what it’s called and 16-year-old Jeremy doesn’t???

Filed in Bill Bickel, GPS, Jerry Scott, Zits, comic strips, comics, humor | 21 responses so far

Comics.com

Cidu Bill on Sep 6th 2009

No, it’s not just you, it’s apparently down for everybody. They don’t seem to have shared an explanation with anybody, but it’s a safe bet they know it’s down and they want it back up even more than we do.

Filed in Bill Bickel, comics, comics.com | 38 responses so far

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Cidu Bill on Sep 6th 2009

If anybody has expertise in this sort of thing, I’d appreciate some suggestions:

My brother apparently picked up a computer virus or trojan that accesses his Yahoo Mail account and sends spam to people in his address list (the spam includes an .exe link). He uses a Mac 98% of the time and typically insists that his Mac can’t possibly have this sort of problem. Working under the premise that this is true, I told him to shut down his PC, since the virus/trojan can use it to do its work even if he rarely uses it himself.

I’m working under the assumption that the problem has to be with the computer and can’t be with, say, a Yahoo Mail account itself.

Is he safe as long as he only uses his Mac? Is this the sort of thing an anti-virus program could fix? Does he need something else? Might reverting his PC to an earlier restore point help?

Thanks.

Filed in Bill Bickel, Yahoo Mail, computer viruses, computers, spam, trojans | 16 responses so far

WordPress Stat Counter?

Cidu Bill on Sep 5th 2009

Can anybody recommend a good one? The more-or-less-default Wordpress.com Stats has never worked on my site, and ShortStat suddenly stopped working last month. Either that or this site’s gotten exactly 0 pageviews since early August, and I think that’s unlikely.

All I’m really looking for is a simple headcount.

Filed in Bill Bickel, WordPress | 13 responses so far

A Dog’s Tail

Cidu Bill on Sep 5th 2009

Y’all were pretty evenly divided between sending this to me as an LOL and sending it to me as an Ewww, so I figured I’d post it midway between the Ewww and LOL updates:

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Filed in Bill Bickel, Dogs, Ewww, Mark Parisi, Off the Mark, comic strips, comics, comics that made us laugh out loud, humor, lol | 5 responses so far

President Obama’s Address to Students

Cidu Bill on Sep 4th 2009

I got a message from my son’s high school this afternoon assuring me that he would not be forced to watch Obama’s speech next week, and that the school would provide an alternative educational program for all students whose parents opted them out of watching the speech. I understand this sort of thing is going on in schools all across the country.

Is there any explanation for this other than mass insanity? I could understand it if Obama were intending to ask children to tell their parents to support his health care reform, or suggest they go through their mothers’ pocketbooks and send him all those little pieces of green paper with presidents’ pictures on them… but apparently he’s only going to offer a pep talk about working hard in school.

Just the sort of underhanded thing you’d expect from a native-born Kenyan!

Does anybody sincerely think this is controversial? And if so, why not just follow with an opposing viewpoint such as a clip from Ferris Bueller?

Filed in Barack Obama, Bill Bickel, Ferris Bueller, education, media, politics | 92 responses so far

Pointless Headline of the Week

Cidu Bill on Sep 4th 2009

From AP: Guest: Many wept during Jackson’s Calif. funeral

See, not only is it news that people wept at a funeral, but as responsible journalists, AP even found somebody to attribute this fact to.

Filed in Bill Bickel, Michael Jackson, media | 9 responses so far