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!

Okay, this pun is done all the time, not only in cartoons but standup and sketch comedy too. But this is such a nice pure instantiation of it!

Arlo day at the DeGroots’ ?

Yes, the Arlo Award is still an ongoing operation! (The sequestered Arlo Page site is another matter.) The Award is for a somewhat racy or suggestive comic that by virtue of double entendre or sheer bluff can get past newspaper-oriented standards-and-practices.

This LuAnn Sunday strip was sent in by some CIDU stalwarts, most asking about the Arlo Award category, but one also counting it as a CIDU since the “spicy” reading is not unambiguous. And some have taken it to the GoComics comments thread, for that matter. Thanks to Bob Ball, Findus, Unca $crooge, and Karl.

(By the way, their names are Frank and Nancy.)

Wave

Does Tiffany have that startled expression because he knows it wasn’t Les’s hand that was waving?

I think she’s missing a step

Unless her father and his mother are getting married, that’s not how step-siblings work.

1957 called… No, just “1957 called”

Isn’t “when Brad was born” the relevant date here?

VR Room?

I guess I know what it would be; but really why would you need a whole room?

Luanne, you’re in your third year of college, not middle school.

Ōmisoka

I’d never heard of Ōmisoka until few days ago when I updated the site’s subject line. And today…

So I need to add a Baader-Meinhof tag.

And absolutely true story: I’d never heard of the Baader-Meinhof Phenomenon until last month, and then two days later…

LuArt

(Or does this need to be Arlo’ed?)