Archive for December 23rd, 2009

XmasKCD

Cidu Bill on Dec 23rd 2009

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One of those rare cases where the metatext actually adds to — and is funnier than — the comic itself: “Physicists who want to protect traditional Christmas realize that the only way to keep from changing Christmas is not to observe it.”

Filed in Bill Bickel, Christmas, comic strips, comics, humor, xkcd | 18 responses so far

and aside from the CIDU aspect, isn’t it “GOLDEN rings”??

Cidu Bill on Dec 23rd 2009

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Filed in Bill Bickel, CIDU, Hilary B. Price, Rhymes With Orange, comic strips, comics, humor | 34 responses so far

Headache

Cidu Bill on Dec 23rd 2009

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Okay, if I understand this correctly… Mrs Olsen gets a headache every Christmas season — it’s not stated in the comic that she only gets headaches only during the Christmas season, but that’s implied by the third panel — which the girl attributes to a pine tree allergy but which Frazz knows to be due to a Little Drummer Boy ornament? Which he knows about but Mrs Olsen hasn’t made the connection?

Filed in Bill Bickel, Christmas trees, Frazz, Jef Mallet, comic strips, comics | 14 responses so far

Commuter Rail

Cidu Bill on Dec 23rd 2009

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Filed in Bill Bickel, CIDU, Hilary B. Price, Rhymes With Orange, comic strips, comics, humor | 5 responses so far

and it seems to me that you lived your life like a candle in the window

Cidu Bill on Dec 23rd 2009

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The first two panels comprise a set-up and punchline. The third panel baffles me.

Filed in CIDU, Chanukah, Christmas, Cow and Boy, comic strips, comics, humor | 24 responses so far

Nine

Cidu Bill on Dec 23rd 2009

Did newspapers really find this offensive enough

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that they had to replace it with this?
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And keep in mind this is a strip in which we come pretty close to seeing actual copulation on a regular basis.

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

Moths

Cidu Bill on Dec 23rd 2009

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Laurie B. Wylie: Is there something I don’t know about the life cycle of moths versus that of any other specific insect? And if moths were indeed sold at a regular pet store like this seems to be, wouldn’t they probably be intended to wind up as food for some other pet (probably reptile)?

Filed in Bill Bickel, CIDU, comic strips, comics, humor | 9 responses so far