cartoon medley #2
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Oooh, comrades is funny and the last one is best. Damn. That’s cold. And very, very funny. I like the devil one, but could be better delivered.
The octopus could be cleverly used.
Back in the old days we had a crank telephone on the wall, the phone company was our township only, To call someone in an adjacent township you had to crank the operator (like dialing zero) and she would connect you and ring it down. Every local call would be heard by everyone in the township. Our number was 15, 1 long, 5 shorts, so you had to listen and count the rings. You could heard more people picking up and listening so classified info was never discussed.
There was a general call, maybe 5 longs (I don’t remember) in case of a forest fire, weather alert, etc. I think our bill was about 2.50 a month
The jelly? That is my 2nd favorite.
LOL well-done, all of these are pretty good. My favorite at first glance is the dino.
That smug bastard! Well. He doesn’t have a club!
I’d like a world where, when I’m full of impotent rage, I shake my fists at dinosaurs instead of clouds.
So after getting dicked around on the surprisingly elaborate Hudson River ferry system, I managed to make it to my hotel room and only missed 5 minutes of USA! USA!
Out ten bucks though. 🤬
“Out ten bucks though. 🤬”
They haven’t lost, yet. I’m sure ya got a friendly Joisey bookie.
It feels like home already.
I tell you what though, after five minutes I’m never staying in another Manhattan hotel again.
For the same money I get nice a brand (“Sheraton”), three times the space, a desk and a chair*, a second television, and a little conversation nook that I probably won’t use.
*To be fair you usually get this in Manhattan but not during my last trip
“and a little conversation nook ”
*stern stare over resting glasses* Oh, so that’s what we’re calling it now?
If you’re implying some sort of other usage for two chairs arranged around a little coffee table, I don’t think that is going to happen.
Jellyfish are among the animals that are literally brainless. Other examples include sponges, coral, and [insert your least favorite group of people here].
alternate devil cartoon: https://platedlizard.blogspot.com/2026/06/damnation.html
bonus cartoon: https://platedlizard.blogspot.com/2026/06/boredom.html
You are doing a funtastic job.
They brighten my day.
Why does Belgium have fairy blue jerseys with pink bubbles on ’em? Sorry, rhy, but why are they making it as gay as possible?
David Beckham in a Home Depot commercial. Huh. Well. *shuffles fingers together, indicating money, likely an anti-Jewish ‘slur’ of some sort* It’s there.
Side note: I think the modern neck-tattoo craze is really fucking dumb. Like, really really fucking dumb. Really. (Fucking. (Dumb.))
René Magritte homage
https://www.fastcompany.com/91556436/adidas-belgium-world-cup-jerseys
Ceci n’est pas une jersey
Now I want to smoke a pipe.
From a distance I thought it was a Spongebob Squarepants homage.
From a distance the world looks blue and green.
Nothing below the elbow
Nothing above the collar.
Preach it, Mr. Door.
Maybe they’re leftover jerseys from June.
With you on the tatts. It’s so ridiculous overblown, practically a requirement. The profession of “star sports person” attracts a certain kind.
Teachers and Satan.
Zing.
No Brainer is T shirt material.
It really is.
Brevity is the soul of wit. Reader’s Digest taught me that when I was little.
Absolutely. ^^ That’s the context. Would buy, if I didn’t ‘believe’ in having non-identifying clothing. (UCS may be with me on that. I want to make it as hard as possible for people to ‘That guy!’ me in public. (Unless someone thinks I’m cute. But. Trade-offs.))
I am also a blend-in type. I refuse to wear a “brand” name for example.
It felt wrong to attach the Glibs pin to one of my hats.
Thanks. I’ve always liked nature and the Far Side sense of humor.
Anybody who wants to be a cartoonist should do stand-up first. If you can’t make people laugh with just words, visual aids will not help.
I kind of like Gallagher for being a one-of-a-kind performer. Prop comedy is harder than stand-up which is harder than improv.
Amy Pohler, back when she made me laugh:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rgCfynbhGFY
Maybe I will watch that later but I still love Parks & Rec. I discovered it long after it ended. I don’t know anything else she did before or after SNL.
I’d say the Grim Reaper one is the best and also T-shirt material.
If I knew I’d succeed, I’d probably be a cartoonist. That’s a better way of looking at things than asking what to do with a million dollars.
AI art is just an extension of memes, which is just modifying an existing image. It’s just another form of the knock-knock joke. I don’t consider my work to be intellectual property since the AI does most of the work. Even so, it takes some skill to get the prompt right.
Heathcliff has been around for 50 years, and the jokes are getting pretty meta.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5PbB4s20zmA
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After taking over authorship, Peter Gallagher introduced recurring elements of surreal humor.[1] A profile in The New York Times identifies a comic published on Oct. 24, 2007 as a turning point toward “surreal, logic-defying” comedy. It depicts the Nutmeg family preparing to eat a ham at the dinner table while Heathcliff wears a helmet labeled with the word “ham” without explanation. The caption reads “Watch out — he’s wearing the helmet.”[7] Subsequently, helmets emblazoned with words such as “meat” and “ham” appeared frequently. Other recurring gags from Peter Gallagher’s era include bubble gum that allows characters to float in the air, Bro Fish (fish who only say “bro”), a fire-breathing Chihuahua, robots, and unauthorized parodic cameo appearances by characters such as Garfield.[10]
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Tartuffe, the spry wonder dog!
This just in: I got the offer and didn’t have to negotiate. $22/hr and Mon-Fri, 9-5. Haven’t looked over bennies, yet, but they’re there. Both this and the Peru Tribune, I didn’t have to ask and was given the top-end pay. And this is $5k/yr more than the Tribune. With regular hours! And less responsibility!
Start Mon, July 13. Wow. This is a biggun’. Funnily enough, updated 2015 Singapore dollars to 2026 USD, and I make the same ‘now’ as I was making then, which was by far my high-water mark.
This is a whole new ballpark. Me in an office. Huh. Wow. I had a great answer in the interview about my biggest strength, which ‘is’ my adaptability. I told ’em six months after graduating IU, I was in S Korea teaching English, having never taught nor studied Korean or teaching, or anything. And I got on just fine. See also: Well. The rest of my life. This is kinda what I *do.*
Hrm. Might take a bit to process. This is quite, quite, quite game changing. I best play well. Better news, I, oddly, was an All-Star catcher and lead-off hitter. Huh. Also oddly, this feels a much bigger shift than moving to Korea+. Hrm.
Resigned from the Tribune June, ‘23. → Phlebotomy, Walmart, Meijer (starting w gas stn!), with two remote testing contracts in between, along with some after-school day care. It’s been an odd three years. Big jump. Still gotta stick the landing, but wowza.
Hrm.
Mazel tov. You’ve come a long way through fire and flames. Treat yourself.
Congrats and keep us posted!
Don’t fuck it up.
I would suggest treating all females in the office as strictly off limits.
Listen to Dean.
So do I, or near as. 😡
Best of luck.
Lovely goalkeeping.
The worst thing is that the terminally online left are going to be creaming themselves.
I was looking at Glibs and still don’t understand how the hell that fuck up happened. Just shambolic.
Embarrassing. They deserve to lose.
Jeez, the Belgians just ran down the field with the ball. Totally unopposed.
Insults for Belgians, from Monty Python:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PrvXoin9NcA
LOL! They’re almost as bad as the French.
Nation of 12 million is handily beating a nation of 340 million. More kids enrolled in youth soccer than Little League but can’t find enough great players to beat some pissant country?
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
We would kill if baseball, football, and basketball did not exist.
And I suspect that “youth soccer” is not taken very seriously – more as a place to park your kids for awhile.
Per Rhy, fathers throw baseballs and footballs, and shoot hoops, with their kids. Culture is a thing.
Tonight, the USMNT’s defense was terrible. Their group was mediocre, so perhaps they were Peter Principled.
Was that Freese?
Of my NYC FC? 😔
Any good US GK ought to be playing in Europe. MLS is a joke.
It’s twue.
I see the other guy got bounced back to MLS too.
Oh Hell. The Sprouts won.
Ya know, in baseball, you’re *really* not supposed to rub it when you get hit by a pitch. Bad look. It best be unavoidable, if ya do. I don’t care so much about flopping to get a call, but exaggerating the amount of pain you’re in? Or are you really just that much of a bitch? Neither one are good looks, and in this sport, it’s actively encouraged through generations, apparently.
And damn. So many whistles. It’s a good example of ‘I like the idea of this game, but not how I’d like it played.’
Ideas, other than turn it into hockey: Well. Pretty much turn it into hockey – way smaller pitch and fewer players, hopefully with handball walls so you can kick the ball and bounce it back in. (Possibly a height on these walls, but a full dome’d also be cool.)
And fuck it, yeah! Add the culture of fighting over disputes instead of bitching about a poor wittle stubbed toey. Goal/goalie sitch to be determined after pitch size is. I’m kinda on to something, here.
/slight French accent
“I think that this will be a reality check for the US”
Was that a dig?