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Sunday Funnies: LOL August 22

Cidu Bill on Aug 22nd 2010

Elyrest:

Nicole: Clearly this comic was written by a man

Skaloop: So wrong, but so LOL

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52 Responses to “Sunday Funnies: LOL August 22”

mitch4 Aug 22nd 2010 at 03:15 am 1

Bill, if you wanted to credit the artist for the New Yorker cartoon, it’s Tom Cheney.
Keera Aug 22nd 2010 at 03:35 am 2

Several good LOLs today. I’m especially weak for the ouija board one.

The purse comic reminds me of one of the mysteries of life for all women: No matter what size the purse is or what the woman keeps in there (as unique as her DNA), whatever you need out of it will always require a search.
Chuck Aug 22nd 2010 at 03:47 am 3

Keera, that’s a lie. When I use my smaller purse I don’t need to search to find what I’m looking for.
Keera Aug 22nd 2010 at 06:09 am 4

This is why I make categorical comments: To draw out the one(s) with the exception. So, tell me, Chuck, can you get want you want out of your purse - without looking and on your first try? Because the only time I experience that is with pants pockets.
Heather D Aug 22nd 2010 at 06:44 am 5

Oh my, the last one is well done…

Am I the only one who first interpreted the firefly one as a reference to the VAMPIRE Twilight books and movies? I was wondering what the highlighter had to do with vampires, or with Twihards… some sort of tattoo? Fashion? Huh?

Then I figured it out.
Woodrowfan Aug 22nd 2010 at 08:59 am 6

Don’t forget the alt text for the XKCD. “It gets worse! You know that wizened old monk with the gypsy wife whose voodoo shop we smash up every day after school?”
Nicole Aug 22nd 2010 at 10:23 am 7

I am with you Keera… whatever I am looking for in my purse has always migrated to the least accessable spot in it. I will put my phone in my purse, on the top… it rings less than a minute later and it is buried under my wallet, checkbook and makeup bag
Kilby Aug 22nd 2010 at 10:42 am 8

That XKCD was (and still is) a CIDU for me. The Alt-Text made it a double whopper (CIDU + TIDU).
George P Aug 22nd 2010 at 11:11 am 9

I don’t know about the monk, but ancient Indian burial grounds, old gypsy women, and voodoo are common sources of curses in movies, common enough that it makes no sense the people in movies get into those situations.
Elyrest Aug 22nd 2010 at 11:15 am 10

Kilby - I think the point of xkcd is that these two are so stupid that they don’t know it is wrong to play with old Indian bones. They are stupid enough that they don’t even see a correlation between the bones and a burial ground until someone tells them. The alt-text is more of the same. No knowledge that you don’t monkey around with voodoo and wizened monks. It wasn’t that funny to me, but then again, I’m the one who sent in the firefly with a highlighter. There’s no accounting for taste.
Elyrest Aug 22nd 2010 at 11:20 am 11

Keera - I too can find anything in my purse right away. This is of course because I have a purse with many pockets and zippered sections. Everything has a place in it and I always put things back where they belong. My sister laughs at me, but she spends at least an hour (or more) every week looking for things in her purse. This is when being slightly O.C. has it’s benefits.
Keera Aug 22nd 2010 at 11:28 am 12

Elyrest @11, I have yet to come across a purse organized in such a way that it suits me so I default to the one-big-gaping-hole kind. Bought a large wallet recently because I had a well-duh moment watching another woman: If it’s bigger, it’s easier to find. Because I experience what Nicole @7 does.
Lihtox Aug 22nd 2010 at 01:38 pm 13

I hope the penultimate one was written by a man; hate to think that it was written by a bitter woman instead.

Never understood why women are the ones to wear purses, when men’s shoulders are more suited for a strap (broader=less likely to slip off). And why do women’s pants so often lack pockets– that would drive me mad.
Judy Aug 22nd 2010 at 02:48 pm 14

I don’t understand the bank one, can anyone explain?
Kilby Aug 22nd 2010 at 03:26 pm 15

@ Judy (14) - Look at the tops of the teller windows, each one is a guillotine: a pretty stiff penalty.

@ George & Elyrest (9 & 10) - Thanks!
Nicole Aug 22nd 2010 at 03:27 pm 16

Judy @ 14

The penalty for early withdrawal is having your hand chopped off as you take you money. Above each teller station is a guillotine
Nicole Aug 22nd 2010 at 03:30 pm 17

Elyrest @ 11

Finding a purse I actually want carry is difficult enough. Finding one that I like and has lots of pockets to organize it … virtually impossible.

Can someone explain to me why, in this day and age when almost everyone has a cell phone, why every purse on the market doesn’t have an outside pocket for one ?
Keera Aug 22nd 2010 at 03:32 pm 18

Nicole @17, I’ve wondered the same thing re cell phone pockets. What I really need is an outside, waterproof pocket.
Chuck Aug 22nd 2010 at 03:55 pm 19

Keera, as long as I don’t have a notebook, a water bottle, and a novel inside (they’re kind of hard to move around with one hand when they pile up on each other) I can find whatever I want from my large Chococat purse without looking on the first try. With those objects inside I have to look,which was certainly the case yesterday, especially since my cellphone somehow ended up BETWEEN the pages of Odyssey 3.

With my small purse, I can find everything on the first try with not looking unless there are menstrual pads inside. I’m a little more cautious about moving my hand around around in that case because I’m afraid of knocking them out, so I tend to look inside.
Elyrest Aug 22nd 2010 at 04:05 pm 20

Nicole - I will admit to being totally non-fashion conscious when it comes to purses. I consider function over form every time. That’s why when I find a purse I like I will use it till it falls apart.

I have seen purses with cellphone holders, but most don’t have them. I can understand why though - there are too many different size and shape phones out there.
Keera Aug 22nd 2010 at 04:11 pm 21

As purses go, mine are functional and classic and uncluttered. But no matter how I organize them, there are always moments when the contents play hide-and-seek with me. For that reason, I like hanging my keys on my belt.
Kilby Aug 22nd 2010 at 04:41 pm 22

@ Nicole (17) - keeping a cell-phone in a small external pocket is just asking for it to be stolen. Would you put a wallet in such a pocket? No: it’s way too easy to open, and it makes it obvious where the valuable object is located.
Igelino Aug 22nd 2010 at 06:46 pm 23

My wife carries a small backpack and calls it a purse. I carry a backpack and call it a backpack.
Jeff S. Aug 22nd 2010 at 10:30 pm 24

I can feel all the testosterone just flowing out of my body with all this talk of purses.
CaroZ Aug 22nd 2010 at 11:25 pm 25

Am I the only one who thought the Abstruse Goose would have been better without the word “BINARY” there? Let us figure it out…

Nicole@16: thanks! I hadn’t seen the guillotines either and was wondering what was so funny.
Andréa Aug 23rd 2010 at 12:43 pm 26

Cell phones should be in a holster on one’s hip; that way, it’s always with you. That’s why they make cover in a variety of colors.
Tristara Aug 23rd 2010 at 10:08 pm 27

I am not a prude and I love a good Arlo, but I see no humor whatsoever in the last one.
Nicole Aug 23rd 2010 at 10:53 pm 28

Tristara @ 27

I am with you
Keera Aug 24th 2010 at 01:33 am 29

(Apologies to Jeff S. @24. From now on, think “tool box” every time you see “purse”.)

Kilby @22, considering what a pick-pocket is actually capable of, purse design is never a deterrent, and so neither is where you put stuff in your purse. You’re more likely to fool the pick-pocket if you don’t keep things in the conventional places.

Tristara & Nicole @27&28, the cartoon is no joke, but like really good science fiction, it explores our existing real life non-fiction. People seem to believe all pedophiles are born that way. My enjoyment of this cartoon (yes, I liked it) is in the story, not the subject matter.
Meryl A Aug 24th 2010 at 02:19 am 30

Stopped carrying a purse years ago. I wear 2 pocket jeans and fit everything in - cell phone, pen, notebook, car key (huge), spray bottle of alcohol (we had bedbugs, I don’t want again and same kills them), & large pill box in left pocket, wallet, other keys, & bottle of Purell in right pocket. At various times plastic bags, tools, etc. are also or instead in the pockets. When I go to work all goes in zip bags in brief case. If I have to go dressed up somewhere I made a version of a colonial pocket that would normally tie around one’s waist - modern version uses velcro to close, it is a large bag that hangs down and holds lots of stuff, safe & unseen. (Although it helps that I wear loose clothing.)

Oh, and I thought the penalty for early withdrawal was removal of one’s head, since it is a guillotine.
Kilby Aug 24th 2010 at 09:28 am 31

@ Keera (22) - I wasn’t thinking about “real” pickpockets, but rather that putting a valuable object in an obvious location would tempt a casual bystander (in a bar or restaurant) to swipe it. The purse would be too obvious, but once you slip the phone out, who would know?

A friend of mine once had his cell phone swiped from his desk at work. Because of the location, it didn’t seem like it could be an outsider, and we suspected a certain trainee, but had no proof. Later that afternoon, another coworker found a cell phone SIM card on the street about 50 yards away from the building. We tested it with the PIN from the missing phone, and were shocked when it actually worked. The idiot was in fact too stupid to even dispose of the SIM card properly after stealing the phone, and just dropped it on the street.
chemgal Aug 24th 2010 at 11:49 am 32

Lihtox@13 - it does drive me mad when I shop for pants! I refuse to buy them without pockets.
John in Tronna Aug 24th 2010 at 03:53 pm 33

Back when I first joined the Canadian Forces, the men’s service dress uniform had 12 pockets (2 shirt, 2 tunic breast, 2 tunic hip with change pocket, 2 front trouser, two rear trouser, and two more inside the tunic). All the pockets were rather roomy. The female’s uniform had one small pouch on the lower inside of the tunic.

The work uniform was worse — absolutely no pockets for women. Instead, they were issued an Army purse. Which, of course, they were not permitted to carry on parade. Considering one had to keep one’s ID on one at all times, one wonders where women kept their ID cards on parade. Bad enough the uniforms were ugly — they weren’t even functional.

On my leadership course, we were all required to tuck the card under our shirt or jacket shoulder strap, in the slip-on (I think the Americans call it a slide).
Cidu Bill Aug 24th 2010 at 04:01 pm 34

I admit, I’m afraid of my wife’s pocketbook. There are pockets within pockets in that thing some of them only visible when she reaches inside, and I swear she can only fit what she does in there because some oft hem extend into another dimension. Last year I heard the voice of that little girl from the Twilight Zone episode saying “Where am I?”
paperboy Aug 24th 2010 at 04:29 pm 35

I love dark-humor, but I’m with Tristara#27&Nicole#28; that one is just dark.
Lola Aug 24th 2010 at 06:51 pm 36

I assumed the last one was, ahem, self abuse.
Elyrest Aug 24th 2010 at 07:02 pm 37

Lola (36) I had to look at the last comic again after your comment. I missed the you in “I am you from the future” and thought it was just “I am from the future”. I am not sure if this makes the comic more or less disturbing, but I now understand the comic and Keera’s comment (29) better.
paperboy Aug 24th 2010 at 07:09 pm 38

Well,curse me for a fool; I missed the “I am you from the future…” part,too. (hey, I’m BUSY). Now it’s funny. In a sick way.
Lorraine Aug 24th 2010 at 07:58 pm 39

The most obvious and convenient storage spot for a woman’s cell phone is in her bra. Although just be sure you remember to turn the ringer off first!!!!
Elyrest Aug 24th 2010 at 08:03 pm 40

“The most obvious and convenient storage spot for a woman’s cell phone is in her bra. Although just be sure you remember to turn the ringer off first”

If you have it on vibrate though it can be a lot of fun.
Tristara Aug 24th 2010 at 08:28 pm 41

@Lorraine 39

I worked as a clerk in a retail ladies dress store for a short time as a temp. While there we were absolutely not allowed cell phones on the sales floor. I had a small child at home ill with an older sibling so I was worried and felt compelled to carry my phone anyway, but on silent. My job was to re hang clothing and monitor a dressing room so I was sure I could discreetly check my phone often. However, the ONLY place I had to put the stupid thing was in my bra.

Now that cell phone was really weird, it had a bright blue keypad and backlight.

I was assisting an older woman with a purchase, providing of course the finest customer service, when all at once she got the weirdest look on her face, all shocked and frightened. I asked her if she was ok, did she need a chair or perhaps a drink of water?

“I am fine, really, but YOUR BOOBS ARE GLOWING!”

And she ran out of the store!
Lou Avery Aug 24th 2010 at 08:47 pm 42

Who’s the cartoonist for the last one? Does he have a site?
Chuck Aug 24th 2010 at 11:11 pm 43

“The most obvious and convenient storage spot for a woman’s cell phone is in her bra. Although just be sure you remember to turn the ringer off first!!”

But the sweat! Ugh!
Keera Aug 25th 2010 at 12:31 am 44

Er, I honestly don’t know how you’d fit a cell phone in a bra. Mine is filled up with my boobs. It does not have a shape that would hold something in my cleavage (I don’t even have one since my boobs are spaced wide apart), and I have not come across a cell phone that wouldn’t change the shape of whatever it was tucked into.
Nicole Aug 25th 2010 at 10:06 am 45

I’m with Keera … a cell phone tucked in there would defintitely not give me the shape I am looking for. I don’t ever remember trying on a bra and think “No… it just doesn’t have that lumpy look I want”
Lorraine Aug 25th 2010 at 08:21 pm 46

there really isn’t any answer I can give to the previous three comments that won’t incriminate me further . . . and yet, I’m going to try anyway.

Chuck–it doubles as a great way to keep others from asking to use your phone. “Oh, sure, here . . . let me just grab it . . . wipe it off a little bit . . . ” “Ummm, never mind”.

Keera and Nicole . . . how can I put this . . . my real estate in that area is such that a cell phone can kind of get lost in the crowd.

yeah. shutting up now. about three minutes too late!!!!!!!!!
Elyrest Aug 25th 2010 at 08:28 pm 47

Regarding phones in bras - If you have a small phone and a sports bra it works quite well. Phone pops right in the middle and you can’t see it at all. Great for going on walks.
Tristara Aug 25th 2010 at 10:20 pm 48

@46 Lorraine
yep, I was trying to think of a way to put it myself
Lost in the crowd pretty much sums it up well.
CIDU Bill Aug 27th 2010 at 11:14 am 49

Wasn’t there an Arlo and Janis comic not long ago in which Janis kept her cell phone in her bra (it rang when she and Arlo were out walking)?
Nicole Aug 27th 2010 at 11:39 am 50

I was at a friend’s house the other day and her land line phone rang. She put the phone on speaker and stuck it in her cleavage … very odd to watch her walk around talking to her boobs and hearing them answer
Lola Aug 31st 2010 at 07:52 pm 51

CIDU Bill #49 - yes, there was. I think they were out walking or jogging at the time.
Todd Sep 7th 2010 at 01:46 am 52

I think some people missed part of the joke in the xkcd; the Indian bones weren’t buried above an ancient burial ground, they were part of the burial ground. Although, I missed the part about curses.