Archive for the 'Crankshaft' Category

I finally figured it out:

Cidu Bill on Jul 20th 2010

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Crankshaft is actually Billy from Family Circus, 70 years later.

Filed in Bill Bickel, Crankshaft, Family Circus, Tom Batiuk, comic strips, comics, humor | 10 responses so far

Mitch: ”Where does CIDU start and ‘that’s just wrong’ end?”

Cidu Bill on May 31st 2010

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Mitch: With this one I have a hard time delineating where “I’d like to correct that!” leaves off and “But I still don’t understand why he’d say that” takes over.1) The standard plural of ‘bus’ is ‘buses’. This ‘busses’ is either plain wrong or at least a disfavored alternative.

2) If this is supposed to be a song/rhyme, does he say ‘wuss’ in a way that plausibly rhymes with ‘bus’? For me it’s a pretty bad off-rhyme.

3) And as CIDU, why (besides trying for a rhyme) is he calling anyone a ‘wuss’ for destroying his mailbox? They might be vandals or hooligans or (if he’s blaming the driver) incompetents — but why ‘wusses’?

Filed in Bill Bickel, Crankshaft, Tom Batiuk, comic strips, comics, humor | 27 responses so far

Tapas

Cidu Bill on May 10th 2010

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Does Arlo think Janis is saying “topless bar”? And if so, did they really disappear after the 1970s? And when was the last time Arlo had his hearing checked, because even Crankshaft wouldn’t make this mistake.

Although, I guess, people tend to hear what they want to hear.

If this is what’s going on, we’ve got synchronicity with today’s very NSFW Something Positive.

Filed in Arlo and Janis, Bill Bickel, CIDU, Crankshaft, Jimmy Johnson, Randy Milholland, Something Positive, comic strips, comics, humor, synchronicity | 39 responses so far

Saturday Morning Ewww

Cidu Bill on May 1st 2010

This one might retire the category:
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Continue Reading »

Filed in Alison Barrows, Bill Bickel, Crankshaft, Ewww, Mike Twohy, Preteena, Reynolds Unwrapped, Tom Batiuk, Wizard of Id, comic strips, comics, humor | 9 responses so far

Disconcerting Realization of the Day

Cidu Bill on Mar 19th 2010

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Paul McCartney is probably older than Crankshaft.

Filed in Bill Bickel, Crankshaft, Paul McCartnet, Tom Batiuk, comic strips, comics, humor | 32 responses so far

Um… Isn’t this pretty much what everybody has to do?

Cidu Bill on Jan 5th 2010

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Filed in Bill Bickel, Crankshaft, Tom Batiuk, comic strips, comics, humor, snow | 14 responses so far

”New Year’s Eve.” ”Well, your timing is impeccable.”

Cidu Bill on Dec 28th 2009

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Filed in Bill Bickel, Crankshaft, Tom Batiuk, comic strips, comics, humor | 25 responses so far

Awww… Christmas Edition

Cidu Bill on Dec 25th 2009

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Filed in Bill Bickel, Christmas, Crankshaft, Garfield, Jim Davis, Lio, Mark Tatulli, Tom Batiuk, comic strips, comics, humor | 10 responses so far

More Haloloween

Cidu Bill on Oct 31st 2009

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Filed in Argyle Sweater, Bill Bickel, Crankshaft, Halloween, Scott Hilburn, Tom Batiuk, comic strips, comics, comics that made us laugh out loud, humor, lol | 6 responses so far

Corny

Cidu Bill on Aug 21st 2009

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Um… When was the last time anybody saw a corn maze that didn’t employ this pun?

Filed in Bill Bickel, Crankshaft, comic strips, comics, humor | 14 responses so far

Can’t See It

Cidu Bill on May 12th 2009

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Usual John: You can’t see a thing: I would suppose that this would mean nothing too revealing, but why would the older woman look so concerned about that? Is there another meaning this could have?
 
I’m guessing that she’s wearing little or nothing underneath the gown. That would explain Mom’s reaction, but it wouldn’t explain why nobody noticed this while the old lady was fitting her for the gown moment earlier (and who get’s fitted for graduation gowns anyway?) -Bill

Filed in Bill Bickel, CIDU, Crankshaft, Tom Batiuk, comic strips, comics, humor | 27 responses so far

Blurb

Cidu Bill on May 6th 2009

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Is Batiuk saying that newspaper reporting is so superficial that a blurb is considerd in-depth reporting? If so, I guess I was wrong about all comic strip artists being on the “save the newspapers” bandwagon.

Filed in Bill Bickel, CIDU, Crankshaft, Tom Batiuk, comic strips, comics, humor, newspapers | 25 responses so far

Doodle Dates

Cidu Bill on Mar 15th 2009

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Filed in Bill Bickel, CIDU, Crankshaft, comic strips, comics, humor | 30 responses so far

Plating???

Cidu Bill on Jan 24th 2009

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Filed in Bill Bickel, CIDU, Crankshaft, Tom Batiuk, comic strips, comics, humor | 12 responses so far

My Own Comics List

Cidu Bill on Aug 14th 2008

since i was asked…

Comics I Like So Much, I Would Actually Buy a Newspaper If I Had To

Comics I Read Every Day and If I’m Out of Town For a Few Days I’ll Make Sure I Hit the Archives to Make Sure I Haven’t Missed Any Continue Reading »

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Old Seals

Cidu Bill on Feb 26th 2008

A bit too much information put this one in Sparkle’s Ewww File:
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Filed in Bill Bickel, Crankshaft, Ewww, comic strips, comics, humor | No responses yet