You say tomato, I say potato …
In this Sad-LOL, she discovers why he seemed to be ghosting her.
Some Tom Gauld literary cartoons
Sunday Funnies – LOLs, February 28th, 2021
Author / EditorM
Saturday Morning Oys – February 27th, 2021
XKCD #559. Mouseover text: “Like spelling ‘dammit’ correctly — with two m’s — it’s a troll that works best on the most literate.”
Y’know, it’s true both ways!
Wrong Hands looks at Social Media
CIDU not as a mystery to be solved, but to invite your thoughts on the matchups.
Do you suppose they got genuine maple syrup?
Okay, what are they all grasping?
Is this the line for going into the mess tent? So the info on what is being served gets passed back — that makes sense. But why would the warning about the maple syrup get passed forward?
And finally, what exactly is that warning all about?
Sunday Funnies – LOLs, February 21st, 2021
In your circle of friends, child-raising experts, and ethicists, what generally is the next step in thinking from that kind of statement?
Special section on Policing
And this Whamond was picked up from Arnold Zwicky’s blog, which also discusses the “grammar police” construction for our convenience.
Saturday Morning Oys – February 20th, 2021
Apart from the admirable pun, the line always raises the question of whether a truncated quotation, which changes the meaning, constitutes a misquotation.
Woops, a week late but valid topical pun:
“Requiem for a doorman”?
Systemic
Still looking familiar …
When elGeo saw yesterday’s “Why does this look familiar?” thread, and also saw the current Pardon My Planet, he wanted to create a “Department of Self-Plagiarism” to hold all these. Because the PmP was a clear repeat with minor variation of a 2015 PmP he remembered well, and had liked at the time.
The one elGeo remembered, and sent in:
And yesterday’s:
Assuming we’re all familiar, at least in its outlines, with the O. Henry short story “The Gift of the Magi”, this post is still a CIDU — for questions like “Why change it from a watchband to a belt?”, not to mention “Does a re-purposing come off better than a simple rerun?”.
But wait, there’s more! You say the change of format from squared-off to landscape necessitated a belt longer than the watchband had been, to fill the frame? Well, no: the belt is not shown stretched out horizontally, it just has a downward segment. Further, the comic did not undergo a change of format; it apparently coexists in both on a regular basis. For the GoComics archive delivers this landscape version of the older instance:
Why does this look familiar?
