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Anybody know what’s up with Abstruse Goose?

Cidu Bill on Nov 12th 2012

The site hasn’t been updated in ages.

Filed in Abstruse Goose, Bill Bickel, comic strips, comics, humor | 17 responses so far

Penile Synchronicity

Cidu Bill on Aug 9th 2012

They’re not both comic strips, of course, but they did both go online yesterday. The second item, though a serious attempt to answer a question, is not at all safe for work. Continue Reading »

Filed in Abstruse Goose, Bill Bickel, comic strips, comics, humor, synchronicity | 14 responses so far

(Possibly NSFW) Comic That Made Us Laugh Out Loud

Cidu Bill on Jul 1st 2012

Filed in Abstruse Goose, Bill Bickel, Comics That Made Us Laugh Out Loud, comic strips, comics, humor, lol | 14 responses so far

The Doors

Cidu Bill on Jun 12th 2012

The strip is titled “Let’s Make a Deal” (Geezer alert?), and the metatext is “…or angry monkeys. You can’t fight angry monkeys.”

Filed in Abstruse Goose, Bill Bickel, CIDU, Hey Geezers! Comics!, comic strips, comics, humor | 51 responses so far

Pi

Cidu Bill on Mar 14th 2012

Filed in Abstruse Goose, Bill Bickel, CIDU, comic strips, comics, humor, pi | 19 responses so far

Ready

Cidu Bill on Dec 15th 2011

I think we need a tag for comics like this one that just nail certain truisms about life. Any suggestions?

Filed in Abstruse Goose, Bill Bickel, comic strips, comics, humor | 45 responses so far

Sunday Funnies - LOL November 20

Cidu Bill on Nov 20th 2011

Filed in Abstruse Goose, Arlo and Janis, Bill Bickel, Brevity, Comics That Made Us Laugh Out Loud, Guy & Rodd, Jimmy Johnson, Peanuts, Star Trek, comic strips, comics, humor, lol | 14 responses so far

COMIC CAPTION: Formal Argument META TITLE: I Know Something You Don’t Know. I Am Not Left-Brained

Cidu Bill on Nov 17th 2011

Filed in Abstruse Goose, Bill Bickel, CIDU, comic strips, comics, humor | 7 responses so far

Or Maybe It’s “Top Hat and Monocle Synchronicity” Day

Cidu Bill on Aug 19th 2011

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Filed in Abstruse Goose, Bill Bickel, Rubes, comic strips, comics, humor, synchronicity | 24 responses so far

I-95

Cidu Bill on Apr 12th 2011

Because there was no GPS? Same as in the 1980s, the 1970s, the 1970s…?

Filed in Abstruse Goose, Bill Bickel, CIDU, comic strips, comics, humor | 60 responses so far

Sunday Funnies: LOL September 19

Cidu Bill on Sep 19th 2010

Filed in Abstruse Goose, Adobe, Beetle Bailey, Bill Bickel, Brevity, Comics That Made Us Laugh Out Loud, Dave Coverly, Guy & Rodd, Karl Marx, Lio, Mark Tatulli, Mike Peters, Mother Goose, Pardon My Planet, Speed Bump, Star Trek, Vic Lee, clowns, comic strips, comics, humor, lol | 26 responses so far

Sunday Funnies: LOL August 22

Cidu Bill on Aug 22nd 2010

Filed in Abstruse Goose, Bill Bickel, Bug, Hilary B. Price, New Yorker, Rhymes With Orange, comic strips, comics, comics that made us laugh out loud, humor, lol, xkcd | 52 responses so far

For what it’s worth, there were two metatexts for this one: “Semmelweis reflex” and “Alternative Title - Cognitive Heuristic Shortcuts Commonly Employed by Members of Primitive Hominid Societies on Undeveloped Class M Planets.”

Filed in Abstruse Goose, Bill Bickel, CIDU, comic strips, comics, humor | 28 responses so far

Relatively Synchronic

Cidu Bill on Jun 8th 2010

Filed in Abstruse Goose, Albert Einstein, Basketcase Comix, Bill Bickel, Pardon My Planet, Vic Lee, comic strips, comics, humor, relativity, synchronicity | 27 responses so far

Devil’s in the Details

Cidu Bill on Apr 30th 2010

What I was planning to write here was: “Damn. I just read more than 250 pages of Michael Lewis’s The Big Short, and I could have gotten the same information in less than a minute by reading today’s Abstruse Goose.” Then I realized that the strip’s unnamed artist was way ahead of me: the graphic file was named “the_big_short.”

Filed in Abstruse Goose, Bill Bickel, Wall Street, comic strips, comics, humor | 15 responses so far

Sunday Funnies: LOL April 11

Cidu Bill on Apr 11th 2010

Jennifer Williams sent this one in as a LOL:

but honestly it annoyed me when I first read it: usually, Alix displays a lack of sexual knowledge more appropriate for a child even younger than her ten years; what’s she doing making egg jokes now? Continue Reading »

Filed in 2 Cups, Abstruse Goose, Bill Bickel, Jan Eliot, Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal, Stone Soup, Tetris, Zach Weiner, comic strips, comics, comics that made us laugh out loud, gagh, humor, lol | 30 responses so far