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Sunday Funnies: LOL August 29

Cidu Bill on Aug 29th 2010

Mitch: Well Cheese-and-Rice if that isn’t a LOL!

Also submitted by Elyrest

Filed in Bill Bickel, Bizarro, Brevity, Dan Piraro, Dave Coverly, Guy & Rodd, Hilary B. Price, Mutts, Rhymes With Orange, Speed Bump, comic strips, comics, comics that made us laugh out loud, humor, lol, sumo | 38 responses so far

38 Responses to “Sunday Funnies: LOL August 29”

arvy Aug 29th 2010 at 12:08 am 1

I don’t know about that last one. I see it becoming a wedge issue.
Dave Van Domelen Aug 29th 2010 at 12:43 am 2

Of course, in the Walky/Shortpacked universe, that Bizarro wouldn’t even be a pun. It’d be literal.
Frank the curmudgeon Aug 29th 2010 at 12:57 am 3

The CHANGE isn’t what was HOPEd for.
SolarRhino Aug 29th 2010 at 01:06 am 4

Those Swiss guys are annoying, so “holier than thou”.
Molly J Aug 29th 2010 at 02:09 am 5

Ohhhhh Solar! LOL

I love that they even have on the requisite short sleeved white shirt.
Nicole Aug 29th 2010 at 02:37 am 6

I am sure they are there to tell him about the Garden of Edam
Proginoskes Aug 29th 2010 at 03:14 am 7

And the one true Gouda.

(Hey, all the good ones were taken already!)
chuckers Aug 29th 2010 at 03:19 am 8

And how to live a Gouda life.

Although to be perfectly honest, that last one is a bit of a CIDU so it doesn’t cut it for me (even if it is cutting cheese.) Is “good news about cheese” a catchphrase making the rounds? Some of us aren’t up recent memes.
chuckers Aug 29th 2010 at 03:22 am 9

D’oh! Missed it by 5 minutes!

Oh well. Comment on the Sumo one then.

Obviously, he isn’t a Sumo wrestler. He is bald. You aren’t allowed to do Sumo if you can’t put you hair in a topknot.
Kamino Neko Aug 29th 2010 at 03:50 am 10

‘Cheeses’ is a near-homophone for ‘Jesus’ - it’s a really simple soundalike pun.
Sili Aug 29th 2010 at 06:31 am 11

Homophone indeed.
mitch4 Aug 29th 2010 at 08:40 am 12

I like all of these!

The “Mutts” strip reminds me of the “Grue / Bleen” controversy in (I’ll need to take a breath here) Mid- and Late-Twentieth Century Anglo-American Philosophy of Language. (But probably not an intentional allusion.)

My mail-in comment on the Cheeses Bizarro was echoing a TV character (from a show I can’t identify at the moment and will probably be abashed to have fanned publicly) who was very reluctant about swearing but felt the urge anyway, so resorted to exclaiming “Cheese and Rice!” among similar minced oaths.
Nicole Aug 29th 2010 at 09:35 am 13

is someone who doesn’t believe in cheese an a-cheese-ist ?
Keera Aug 29th 2010 at 10:14 am 14

The sumo one was primarily an eww for me. Which is also why it was a LOL.

The first one had me instantly humming, “I’m gonna knock on your door, ring on your bell, tap on your window too”. You’re welcome.
Penny Nickles Aug 29th 2010 at 10:24 am 15

No meme that I know of… however, there is this: http://www.mentalfloss.com/store/product.php?productid=16356&cat=103&page=1
NeilMcD Aug 29th 2010 at 10:58 am 16

There’s also the Bible According To Cheese over at http://www.alltooflat.com/serious/cheese/
Swimming Man Burning Aug 29th 2010 at 11:35 am 17

Bizarre about the Bizarro: none of Dan’s customary Easter eggs.

None apparent, anyway.
Sal Aug 29th 2010 at 11:55 am 18

@ arvy That’s the thin end of the wedge isn’t it?
The Bad Seed Aug 29th 2010 at 12:31 pm 19

I used to work with a man whose favorite expletive was “Cheese and Rice!” I used to always tell him that God still knew what he meant, so he was still going to burn in hell with the rest of us!
fh Aug 29th 2010 at 12:35 pm 20

Swimming Man Burning: There is a K2 in the bushes.
Rusty Aug 29th 2010 at 01:04 pm 21

@16 Dan Piraro always will add the number of easter eggs to be found by his signature, this time there is only “1″, the K2 in the bush.
Nicole Aug 29th 2010 at 01:37 pm 22

The Bad Seed @ 18

You bring up a point I have often wondered about … if you say “Oh shoot” with the exact same intent as “Oh sh*t”, what exactly is the difference and why is one OK and not the other

You can fill in your curse word stand in . frick for f**k or whatever
mathlord Aug 29th 2010 at 01:49 pm 23

@Nicole

According to the late, great George Carlin “shoot” is just ” sh*t” with two o’s.
Swimming Man Burning Aug 29th 2010 at 02:07 pm 24

Dang! Spotted it right off this time around. Thanks fh@19 and Rusty@20.
Gee cry! - Swimming Man
Detcord Aug 29th 2010 at 02:36 pm 25

Nicole (21)

For me the difference is clear. My mother would occasionally say “Oh shoot!”, but never “Oh! sh*t”. The latter from us siblings usually got soap.

I don’t generally use expletives, but when I was with the US Army, I found my soldiers couldn’t understand me unless at least every 3rd word had some version of “f*ck” in it. Indeed, our motor pool Sergent explained the status of one of my trucks very succinctly by simply stating, “The f-ing f-er’s f-ed”…without the dashes

I knew exactly what he meant.
Kilby Aug 29th 2010 at 02:39 pm 26

@ The Bad Seed (18) - Jesus and Mo just reran a strip a few days ago with a punchline reading “Cheeses Swept!“. See: http://www.jesusandmo.net/2010/08/24/name2/
paperboy Aug 29th 2010 at 04:36 pm 27

“Blessed are the cheese-makers…”
AMC Aug 29th 2010 at 04:38 pm 28

Any way you slice it, in this country when people think of cheeses - they see a nice american.
Catlover Aug 29th 2010 at 06:13 pm 29

AMC - if they are Calvinists, they might be more interested in a holey Swiss. (I know - he was French, but then I would have to make some kind of a Munster/Monster joke. I was referring to the Geneva years.)
Mark in Boston Aug 29th 2010 at 08:49 pm 30

Webster’s New International Dictionary, Second Edition: shoot, verb, 14. to eject or discharge, as venom, the bowels, etc. Obsolete.

So it really is the same word.

(Blessed are the cheese-makers? What’s so special about them?)
AMC Aug 29th 2010 at 09:16 pm 31

The cheese-makers know the whey.
Nicole Aug 29th 2010 at 10:24 pm 32

In keeping with the Cheesus theme .. there was this story from a little while back

http://www.myfoxwfld.com/myvoicedc/2008/07/29/cheesus-woman-finds-jesus-in-bag-of-cheetos/
George P Aug 29th 2010 at 10:47 pm 33

Sometimes what appears to be cheeses is actually the product of a creature with horns and cloven hooves.
John Small Berries Aug 30th 2010 at 03:05 pm 34

chuckers, you’ve never heard about Cheeses of Nazareth?
AMC Aug 30th 2010 at 04:10 pm 35

Hmn. Am I missing something on the “good news about cheeses” comic?

Looking at it, I see no pie, and no dynamite….

Are the wedge shaped members of the Jehovah CheeseWhiz-nesses “pie shaped” enough to serve as pieces of pie?
Mark M Aug 30th 2010 at 07:44 pm 36

@Nicole 22 - My grandmother used to say “Dag nam it!” or something along those lines.
chuckers Aug 31st 2010 at 07:32 am 37

Okay, now that it has been explained to me, it makes quite a bit more sense.

I blame my screwed up accent for not catching it.
Todd Sep 11th 2010 at 07:51 pm 38

I didn’t get the cheese joke either. Even now that it’s been explained, it’s still a “I get it, but I don’t get it.” But that just means it doesn’t appeal to my sense of humor. I also don’t see what’s so funny about the Mutts one. But I normally find Mutts to be pretty bland. I did like SolarRhino’s Swiss joke. That was funnier than all the cartoons combined.