Friday is for birds (non-Toby edition)
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Pickles, 11/28/25
“Ha ha, I sure hate my mother-in-law!” is of course a time-honored bit for hack humorists everywhere, so naturally it has repeatedly found its way into the comics over the years. I guess I have to respect Pickles for leaning into its setting (a household made up of old people) and doing a version that’s “Ha ha, I sure hated my mother-in-law! She’s dead now.”
Andy Capp, 11/28/25
I personally am a little miffed that we’re only hearing about this incident second-hand. Wouldn’t you love a strip where we see Andy wandering around the pub with a mangy old pigeon in his hands, thrusting it at various drunks demanding they give him enough for it so he can buy one more pint? I’d accept either a version where’s he’s maudlin and pathetic about it or one where he’s really belligerent. Neither scenario would be “funny” per se, but neither would be less funny than what we have here, so why not go for it.
Shoe, 11/28/25
No! No!! You can’t just start acknowledging that your characters are all bird people and then show them feasting on eggs! This is a nightmare!
140 replies to “Friday is for birds (non-Toby edition)”
Mary Worth Mashup: Like it takes a Nostradamus to guess what the next panel will be…
Rex Morgan Interactive Mashup: What do you think Summer’s seen in the book? Fill in the blank on the Missing Final Panel. Good ones may be added to the mashup later in the day.
Pluggers: Paddington Bear keeps a marmalade sandwich under his hat “for emergencies.” Just sayin’, Andy Bear.
Six Chix: How did Tuesday Chix channel her angst through Friday Chix?
Sally Forth: In finding out his stepfather had a part in his beloved Star Wars Christmas Special, Ted just had the biggest orgasm in his entire life.
It’s ok, they’re spider eggs
Phantom:
“Okay, a little off-topic, Bread Slinger, but what with that sudden profusion of scraggly facial hair in today’s first panel, are you going as Kurt Cobain for Halloween next year?”
Pickles:
If there is indeed an ecclesiastical purgatory, these two are going to avoid it, because they’re encountering it right now.
Crankshaft: “Dad!! No!!! Not the hedge shears! Take the chainsaw up the ladder. You show that leaf and that whole branch who’s boss!”
FC: Jeffy, you’re not exactly Jan Stenerud, so one of those “uprights” will be covering Daddy’s groin.
RMMD: Whatever’s going on between Autumn and Iggy Summer wants to do in real life. That includes lips which feel, and look, like they’re touching other lips. (And I’ll leave “lips” up to the reader.)
Our cockatiels loved eating (chicken) eggs.
Andy Capp:
“This one I’m holding here doesn’t need to be sold at auction, though, luv, because he’s already acquired his own substantial portfolio using his wealth management company!”
“Really, Andy? — what investment advisory service does he use?”
“Charles Squab!”
Pickles: The yuks continue when Opal discovers the toilet is clogged with Betsy’s ashes.
Pickles-Have you considered turning the water off to the toilet first?
FC-Protect your end zone, Daddy!
RMMD-That book turned into erotica rather quickly.
Shoe-Roz gets her eggs from unguarded nests.
Birds eating other birds is no different than mammals (humans) eating other mammals (cattle).
Now Shoe constantly being in public without clothing while all the other avian characters wear some, well, that’s the nightmare.
When you consider the dating scene in Shoe, those eggs are unfertilized, anyway.
Family Circus: I wonder who gave Jeffy the sweatshirt with the number of his brain cells on it?
Pickles Ha, yeah my mother-in-law is a real ‘plunger’ too! She’s always there when something goes wrong, doing the dirty work that no-one else wants to, asking no thanks or recognition. God, what a wonderful woman.
AC Ha, it’s funny because the price of goods often varies according to quality. Capitalism be crazy!
Shoe Ha, it’s funny because Skyler just realized he’s probably ingested a fatal quantity of salt. Better start working in your deathbed quips now, buddy!
AC: “A bird called ‘New Kim’ sold for over £1.3 at auction.”
Sid’s ears pick up.
Old Betsy helpfully clears the poop, but who’s so full of crap they clog the toilet? Well, Earl?
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I searched “New Kim” and that story is true.
Reading the comics shouldn’t be radicalizing.
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To be fair, we eat other mammals.
Shoe:
“Go ahead and make fun of my foodstuffs, Shoe, but I’ve managed to accumulate a tidy sum investing the proceeds of my sales into the artwork of the neo-expressionists!”
“Any particular artist whose works you’ve favored when making your purchasing decisions, Roz?”
“Nah. I don’t want to put all of my eggs into one Basquiat!”
I had questions about Andy Capp.
Then I realized, I don’t really care. Not that it’ll make any more sense.
SHOE: Would it make us feel better to think that Roz uses her own eggs? No. No it would not. I’m sorry for thinking of it.
MW: Ian has been through at least two “Toby has a fling” scares, so he should be cool with this. I mean, it’s not like she’s having sex with the bird, right? Right?
RMMD: “And then I read Page Three! I’m overcome with (fill in emotion)! I’ll get back to you when I’ve finished Page Four!
GT: “Let’s come together as a team and ‘accidentally’ trample my bitch of an ex-wife into the turf!”
On the topic of eggs, I was going to ramble a bit, about a particularly sadistic plot in an “Ice Age” easter special I had seen. (The almost killing of dozens of unhatched babies)
But I dunno, I think the ramble is burning out of me.
Wrecks Moregone:
“Autumn turns out to be a heartless murderess! I’ll murder Auuuuughie for this!”
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Wary Morth:
“Ahhhhh yes, a nice meddle coming up the moment Ian comes home and blows his gasket!”
RMMD: When I enlarged the page Summer is reading, it’s just latin filler. Is she saying; “Oh, my goodness! He’s nuts!” or “Oh, my goodness! I’m having a stroke!”
Andy Capp:
I assume Capp’s customer wasn’t Mike Tyson.
New Kim actually sold for 1.6 million pounds. Yes, I Googled “New Kim.” Curse you, Andy Capp, you drunken Cockney caricature.
@Val Dart:
A real life version of
“One, it’s good for you, and
two, it’s no one we know.”
AC: The detail I find most believable here is that Andy is repeating a fact he clearly just read last night on a beer mat or pub’s trivia machine as if it’s a deep insight. The detail I find least believable is that Flo seems to be having breakfast and Andy’s already awake rather than in an alcoholic coma.
“This is a nightmare!”
To be precise, it’s paedophagia.
New Kim sounds like Nuke ’em
That concerns me.
@Baja Gaijin: ian looks like Ahab at the moment he realised Moby was going to dive with him.
Auuuuughie’s book, your version, reads like some zombie fiction I’ve seen.
Shoe: Remember, that Kevin and Kell played up the whole “sapient eat sapient” for laughs….
The anime Beastars was pretty much “What if Kevin and Kell (rightfully) played it for drama instead?”
Both were soul-crushingly depressing.
RMMD:
“I still don’t understand this dedication that Augie has written for me — ‘Summer, this entire novel is an elaborate allegory for the punctuation mark which creates pauses between parts of a sentence, the assemblage of formal men’s wear, and the Egyptian sun god.’ Oh, no! — he’s referring to the comma, suit, Ra!”
“Well, sure, Old Kim contained the soul of Kim Jong Il and the North Koreans paid top dollar for it. Old Alfred only had the remains of Alfred the Great and the Kingdom of Wessex isn’t exactly rolling in cash these days, is it?”
I hope that plunger’s not as old as it looks. Nothing worse than having ancient rubber disintegrate and have to go shopping for a new plunger at 5 am.
Shoe: Here’s hoping Shoe contracts a threadbare shamus who’s no stranger to fisticuffs or the gun to investigate the disappearance of Treetops’ preborn citizens. It’s been a while since I’ve read a good hardboiled detective story.
@I’m Not Cthulhu, But I Play Him On TV: (Bonus points if the detective gets his beak sliced, confirming in the process that nope, no nose hairs up there.)
Pickles: Surely Earl knew Mrs. Earl’s mother’s name already? Surely she’s heard this lame joke a thousand times already? [Checks where comic strip is set] Oh right, right, Pickles Memory Care Community, specializing in alcoholic dementia…
@The Rambling Otter: One thing that I learned, with most anthropomorphic-animal based fiction. In order to be “realistic” it has to be soul-crushingly depressing in every regard. (I rarely find works that aren’t, and furries love making things as realistic as they can with the scenarios given)
Phantom:
“Do we lead her to the general’s quarters?”
“Oh, yes. Now, his Washington Quarter set is pretty pedestrian, but his Seated Liberty, Barber and Bicentennial Quarter collections are all extremely valuable — and they’re all the result of ill-gotten gains through using the muckmen!”
DustinDad is stuffing food down his fat gullet, while sneering at the very idea of using some of his donut money to support deprived young people. Truly, the Christmas Season must be upon us.
@Hibbleton: To be fair, Lorem Ipsum is the perfect text for Rex Morgan.
If you stuff an unwrapped sandwich in your coat pocket you must be a demented vagrant. Or a Plugger.
@29 Ukranazi Stepan: I wrote how I thought Auuuuughie would. I can write better than that. How about you take a stab at writing a page.
@39 Rube: Um, I hate to tell you this, Ed doesn’t contribute to the office donut fund. He’s truly a despicable person. I hope he gets succotash and lemon compote casserole in his Christmas stocking.
The good news is, birds actually will eat their own eggs to recoup calcium so Shoe is accurate. The bad news is, well, everything I just said
MW “I didn’t tell Ian, Mary, I couldn’t! I literally do not have the brain capacity to figure out how to narrate the events into a telephone unless someone shows me first – you know that!”
JP Speaking of soul-crushingly depressing, wow, how great is it that the primary caregiver grandparents of Charlotte could take some time from their alcoholic stupor and online shopping to come here and therefore visit her on the holiday!
AC — Since the record sale seems to have held up for five years, it might have been a manifestation of COVID asset mania. No doubt Andy lost a packet on shares in a crypto Pigeoncoin and has been futilely attempting to recoup his investment ever since.
@Baja Gaijin: Oh, I know that Ed doesn’t kick in for the donuts he eats at the office. I’m talking about the dozen he stops and gets on the way home, so he can eat them while he changes lanes without signalling, and thinks up new insults about the meal his wife has cooked for him after wrapping up her own job.
Why am I not surprised that Marvin is patient zero of the next world wide plague.
FC: Jeffy manages to kick the ball a whole foot-and-a-half.
“Short, dumb, and spastic is no way to go through life, son.” Says Bill
Andy doesn’t even have to be that drunk to mistake a statue of Kim Jong Un for a pigeon.
Zits: A great bit and a repeat from 13 Feb 2017. It’s on the refrigerator door, to be replaced with today’s full color version.
Don Abundio, translated:
“Is the food really worth these prices?”
“Yes, sir! Take my word for it!”
“O-Ooh!”
“I’ll be paying with a rubber check”
Crankshaft : apparently doesn’t own a stepladder. And couldn’t get Jeff, or Max, or Mitch to help him by at least holding the ladder.
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Family Circus : Jeffy realised very young that the only times he’ll ever score points is when his dad has moved the goalposts for him.
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Moose and Molly : “Wow, look at his posture! Look at the way he’s sauntering! He must be in a very good mood!”
“Actually, I’m walking this way because my body locked up due to horrific cramps, I am in horrible pain.”
That’s it, that’s today’s joke everybody!
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Rex Morgan M.D. : “OH MY GOODNESS! After the five first chapters, it’s all just that ‘Lorem Ipsum’ filler! There’s no actual novel!”
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Shoe : Roz is actually glaring at Shoe because she feels VERY strongly about replacing ice salt with that weird “beet juice” stuff, because she heard it damages streets less.
Which infuriates Josh even more with a “THEY’RE BIRDS THEY CAN JUST FLY WHY WOULD THEY NEED ROADS WHERE THEY’RE GOING”Shoe: “Roz, what’s your secret to these scrambled eggs?”
“Did you ever wonder why you don’t have siblings?”
Six Chix: What is the joke here? It strikes me as an anti-trans attack. Am I misreading it?
@Harmless little bunny: I think it’s a work presentation on Zoom by a depressed person, but I fail to see a joke
Pearls Before Swine: Probably better to avoid the comics with children and teenagers. Let’s go with Beetle Bailey and Wizard of Id.
@CanuckDownSouth: I just realized I was looking at yesterday’s comics. Oops.
Pickles – Funny today! That good ol’ ‘Merican spirit!
The modern Daniel Boon….
AC – Andy is the Mighty Quinn….
Shoe – Nuttin like a fetus to feed us….
Adios Amigos, DJ.
Hi and Lois – But the good news is he’s going to start dating her sister, Glockenspiel.
BLONDIE: does she need to check her priorities? Some of is think it’s Shop Local Saturday and Charitable Tuesday. Not that that helps Dagwood or the budget.
BETTY: Priority lesson #2
PLUGGERS: First turkey sandwich joke of the season. (But must be missing cranberries)
@Anonymous: On RMMD: I was about to give Augie Doggy Ding Dong Daddy some credit as a genius of a conman by getting two publishers to mount a bidding war over a book full of lorem ipsum, but then I remembered he never offered any actual proof of such.
S4th: Ronan knew he was kidding, Sally knew he was kidding, we the reading audience knew he was kidding. However, if ‘breaking his brain’ shuts Ted up about his G-D infantile obsession with this piece of chintzy 70s junk and allows his wife and extended family the opportunity to watch something THEY want to watch for once, then that is truly something to be thankful for.
Also Shoe: “That Roz, she’s a regular Madame Ovary!”
[Silence]
“Madame Oviduct? Madame Cloaca? C’mon work with me…”
Also also Shoe: “So Roz, where do you get these eggs?” “You ever hear that expression ‘Lord f*** a duck’? Well, kid, I’ve got bad news for you.”
@Harmless little bunny: That is a weird one. They’re both two-tone unpopular root veg, so the ID depends on the colourist’s mood?
Shoe: Shoe is talking mad shit for someone within boiling hot coffee range.
MW panel 2: props to June Bridgman for Mary’s face. “Hoo boy,” she thinks, “you really are clueless. That old blowhard is going to explode.” Karen may not realize how clueless you are Toby but June does.
Shoe: Honestly I think it’s fine. Lots of birds eat eggs. Humans eat other mammals, fish eat other fish. Clade isn’t species, we’re cool.
This makes me wonder – have we seen non-person birds in Shoe, Goofy walking Pluto style?
Shoe: Look, the Perfessor and Skyler don’t have a close relationship by any stretch of the imagination, but it’s just weird to see a literal child spending the day after Thanksgiving with his guardian’s
friendsassociates.Even weirder to see Roz giving off a mom vibe. Shoe‘s entire world is populated with curmudgeons and friendly dullards; nuance need not apply!
Shoe: Wait, did the Perfessor die? If he died, I understand why Roz is being nice to Skyler, and I get why it’s Shoe insulting Roz’s cooking in the corner and not the kid’s guardian, so let’s just assume he’s dead unless we hear otherwise.
Shoe: Do you suppose birds have their own version of the abortion debate, arguing over what inherent amount of life and individuality should be ascribed to their undeveloped ovum? Do protesters gather outside of Roz’s restaurant, accusing her of slaughtering chicks for profit? I dunno, the more I see of Shoe the more I’m convinced that it’s a concept rife with potential for creative worldbuilding used to make tired, deadpan one-liners.
@Baja Gaijin: Yeah! Time for some unbridled chin-beard rage!
RMMD:
“There must be some forthcoming encounter of the stalker, Iggy and Autumn on a former international trunk carrier in the last chapter, because the penultimate chapter I’m reading right now talks about an upcoming ‘menage a TWA‘ !”
@Baja Gaijin: “Twas a dark and stormy night and the sun was shining bright …”
@FrivYeti: I suppose the equivalent would be humans eating monkey fetuses.
Pounds? Pints? Crisps? Looks like Shoe isn’t the only strip going for verisimilitude today.
C’shaft: Crankshaft, yes!
DT: Dick Tracy was a lot more fun when he didn’t bother with all the procedural stuff before shooting someone.
Dustin: Look at how Dustmom is rolling her eyes. She knows how her husband will respond to this setup, knows it’s useless to get him to care about unfortunates he’s never met when he can’t stir up the slightest amount of compassion for his own children and his only interest in this event is vacuuming down hors d’oeuvres at such a speed that he swallows nearly an entire teeming plateful of them (accidentally gulping down his drink, glass and all, in the process) before making his bitter riposte. And yet, she can’t prevent herself from trying, can’t keep from hoping that maybe, maybe somewhere inside this fat, selfish lump she chained herself to for reasons she can no longer remember is some faint spark of humanity. Saint Stephen thinks she should tone it down on the martyrdom.
GT: “But if you make me look like a wimp in front of my ex-wife, I will personally see that not a single one of you gets an athletic scholarship.”
JP: What, Sophie can rhapsodize on Troll 2 for an hour but she doesn’t watch the MST3K Turkey Day marathon?
Luann: Oh please, like Brad wouldn’t be making Dagwood-sized sandwiches out of the leftovers.
MW: Okay, place your bets: what “irrational” complaint will Ian have to Toby adopting an illegally smuggled exotic bird? The high cost of care? The noise and the mess? The sheer number of logical, moral, and legal steps Toby has skipped throughout this entire process?
RMMD: What, did she just get to the part where Autumn Rook’s boyfriend tries to profit off her experience without telling her, only to feel very, very sorry about it when she tells him what a crummy move that was, that he didn’t mean to hurt her and somehow that makes everything okay?
SH: You don’t remember fertilizing her eggs as she was laying them last night? Jesus, how drunk WERE you?
@The Rambling Otter: I used to play Duke Nukem on my PC. Pretty good game.
RMMD- Looks like Summer finally got to the pop-out page. Enjoy.
DT: Ok – so red garbed redhaired guy was carrying drugs for Rojo Ozob? Or did Ozob built a custom smuggling car?
JP: Forgive me if I missed this but did I miss the part where Emil explains that for religious reasons he has to keep his black beanie on? Or did he just have hair transplant surgery and he is keeping his head covered up until he is ready for a grand unveiling.
MW: It is easy to forget that the creators DO have a sense of humor – Mary’s parting line with her eyes is great!
Phantom: What type of training do the Jungle Patrol members receive? Did this person truly believe she can walk into town and take the General into custody? Where? Whose has jurisdiction? Uh, did she think of the large gang of armed henchmen? The decades of the Phantom has softened the brains of the jungle patrol leadership and their training reflects this!
S4th: Actually pretty funny – at these large family gatherings, every now and then a guest will have a surprising background or experience.
@Baja Gaijin:
RMMD blank page reads “Autumn sat down and was perfectly still. No one realized that she had killed the stalker. Not the cops, not the old man, and not Iggy. It was the perfect crime. She had killed and decided she liked the feeling.”
MW: Your HUSBAND will be home tomorrow? Right, Toby. Like Mary has to be reminded you’re married to that bloviating tub of lard.
Dustin: Speaking of tubs of lard, Dustdad just scarfed down a mile-high stack of horse doovers mid sentence. Whatever that charity event cost him to attend he’s going to make sure he gets it back in food.
Fun fact! Perching birds, like most of the cast of Shoe, and galloanserine birds (ie, fowl) are more evolutionary diverged from each other in terms of time than primates like humans are to artiodactyls (ie, hooved animals and whales).
Lord Flatulence and Treetown: Look at the mashup page to see your additions.
Off The Mark: As we have entered the season of consuming mass quantities, keep this in mind.
RMMD: maybe, just maybe, Augie did some research. Maybe he has insight into the stalker and the guy who killed him and other victims. Nah!
@But What Do I Know?: #45
“ and has been futilely attempting to recoup his investment ever since.”
Don’t you mean “recoop”? Hahahaha…heh heh…eh…meh…
Pickles: If the toilet plunger is named after his mother-in-law, then what is the apparent bathroom emergency “Code 9” named after? Did Matthew Stafford or Drew Brees make Grandpa lose a Super Bowl bet one year?
CS: This is what happens every Thanksgiving when your family revolves around a selfish, obsessive narcissist. He makes his problem everybody’s problem. Crankshaft should be forced to sit at the exile table with Aunt Insufferable Karen and Cousin Conspiracy Theory.
@Baja Gaijin: Thank you! It is an honor to be part of this!
@Baja Gaijin: Yay! I’m published!
@TheDiva: On MW: None of the above. Ian will go blubbering to Mary like a certain other shlub we know and whine about how ‘ever since Toby found that bird, she doesn’t pay any attention to ME!!’
@88 The Quiet Man: Ian’ll be as green as Sunny because Toby likes his pecker better.
in tomorrow’s Mary Worth we find Toby going to bed marking the first day of this story. The story started on November 4th. If we use this as a guideline one day of comic story time equals twenty-five of our days.
@90 Sequitur: It seem so much longer than 25 real days per Mary Worth day. I guess the old saying is true: Time flies when you’re having fun.
@NotImportant:
#80. SHOE: Interesting, NI, and new to me. Then do perching birds have sub-feather hairs as do poultry?
@The Quiet Man: #88: You’re probably right. Ian has been downgraded from a pompous walrus to an emasculated teddy bear.
AC: I’m not sure what posibility would be sadder, if the writer has spent the last five years thinking “Andy keeps pigeons, there’s got to be a joke in this news story about the pigeon fancier fraternity” and this is what he’s finally come up with, or if he happened to hear about this five-year-old record recently and immediately thought “Right, that’s the next strip sorted.”
Curtis: Okay, so half a week of building up to the carnage that is a Wilkins family Thanksgiving dinner, a Happy Thanksgiving message, and now Thanksgiving’s over? We don’t even get to see the aftermath?
JP: It’s funny because either Emil did bring a gift, and now it’s awkward, or he didn’t and was going to be all “Do Americans exchange gifts at Thanksgiving? Because I’m Norwegian and we don’t do that!”
Pluggers: Hmm. On the one hand, that is pretty much why I wear a jacket. On the other hand, I’ve never stuffed a sandwich in there without at least wrapping it in something, so I think I might still be staving off Pluggerdom for the moment.
RMMD: “Oh my goodness! I didn’t expect the stalker to murder Autumn! Still, I guess Augie needed to justify how brutally Iggy took his revenge!”
(By the way, I’m sure someone else has mentioned it, but it’s only now that I type the two names together that I realise just how obvious it would be what a book by Augie Seigel starring “Iggy Shuster” was doing, even if you didn’t already know him and his backstory. I remain baffled as to how you can have a “bidding war” between vanity presses.)
SH: I forgot to say this yesterday, but sure, the frog calls his frog girlfriend “Phibby”, short for “Amphibian”. It’s as totally normal as when a human man gives his girlfriend a nickname based on the fact she’s a mammal!
(Immediately after typing that I realised some human men give women nicknames based on, um, mammalian traits, but that’s a) not the same thing and b) not generally considered acceptable behaviour these days.)
Dustin: “My son is a hopeless loser who can’t take care of himself.”
Several years later, after Dustdad has diabetes and multiple strokes due to being a lazy glutton, he’ll need constant 24/7 care. Then who will be the real burden?
@92 Activist:
And tomorrow in Shoe we see that birds are human again.
The Familliar Mucus: Kick it Jeffy, right between Daddy’s knees!”
@94 Horace Broon: on Curtis: Every year, the strip builds up to the Thanksgiving carnage to come then completely drops the storyline on Turkey Day. Every. Year.
@95 JamesBont: Dustmom’ll have divorced Ed then dropped him in one of those long-term care facilities that “60 Minutes” investigated. The facility that had the most violations.
@Harmless little bunny: Six Chix: What is the joke here? It strikes me as an anti-trans attack. Am I misreading it?
Surely nothing more than a completely on-the-nose and thereby “relatable” expression of angst, prompted by and directed at nothing in particular.
Pickles: How long before these two have the other kind of bathroom mishap, the kind that involves a toaster thrown into the tub?
Shoe: Yeah, these “How do _____ prefer their eggs? A: Unfertilized,” jokes hit way different with bird people.
Is Quality Pellets™ from the same company that makes Good Dog Food™ and Wilber Chow™?
“Pickles” turned into “The Lockhornies” so quickly I hadn’t noticed.
9CL: I’m still foggy on what twin Alistair was/is engaged to, whether or not they’re still engaged, and whether this psycho is the fiancée or the one he sort of made a pass at. And I’m okay with that.
C-Shaft: For most people, and especially most seniors, what Crankshaft is doing would indeed count as a suicide attempt. But since the surviving remnant of the Funkyverse is condemned to his continuing presence, Pam can afford to just chill already.
DT: Haven’t mentioned this before but I’m curious about Deputy Dawg’s tan shirt with the green epaulets and pockets to match his coat and pants. Is there a boutique that serves fashionable law enforcement on the go?
Dustin: Dustdad has no cause to complain given the cash value of the hors d’oeuvres he’s consumed, whether or not he’s had any of the liquor.
GT: That’s nice, Gil, but you should save the “don’t care what happens” speech for after Emily cleans your clock.
JP: Meanwhile Abbey and Neddy couldn’t be bothered to show up so their dialogue is coming out of tape recorders set up next to cardboard cutouts.
MW: “Good luck” and Mary will be back the day after tomorrow. Meddling is life and all, but she’s not gonna be caught in the blast area.
Phantom: The man we can’t tell you about unless we feel like telling you about him.
Zits: No, Walt’s superpower is inaudibility. He’d better get it straight before he tries Charles Xavier’s School for Gifted Middle Agers.
Blondie Spanish to English.
@Harmless little bunny: Six Chix: What is the joke here?
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The joke is the same as always…that the syndicate pays six checks for this “gagging square”.
Mary Worth Spanish to English.
@Sequitur: “How soon until the Baja Gaijin special is ready”
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They bite and barf,bite and barf, bite bite bite, barf barf barf, “The Baja and Scratchy Holiday Special” (brought to you by your.Neighborhood bottlers of Coca Cola and Quality Pellets™brand Toby Food seed cakes.).
@Sequitur: Mary Worth Spanish to English.
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“Chirp*”
*Watch where you put you hand, I’m not that kind of parrot! “(In the parrot tongue).
@Sequitur: Blondie Spanish to English.
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“….And get that guy out of the coffee maker!”
Pluggers: Clothes with lots of big pockets, does that mean that paratroopers are pluggers. I’d love to see an airborne operation involving pluggers. It would probably resemble the infamous turkey drop episode from WKRP in Cincinnati.
“What did Ian say when you told him you’ve been living with a parrot possessed with the ghost of Sonny Bono?”
“I haven’t told him yet, Mary,he’ll be home tonight.”
“Good luck with that, I just checked with the Charterstone Bookie and odds are 6-9 that he is divorcing you.”
The Family Circus Spanish to English.
@110 Guillermo el chiclero:
“As God us my witness; I thought paratroopers could fly.”
@Guillermo el chiclero:
The Pluggers are falling to earth, hitting the ground like bags of wet cement. The people are running for their lives. Rhinoceros Man just went through the windshield of a parked car. Oh the humanity!
They must have taken Crankshaft’s shotgun away.
@GarrisonSkunk:
I like to think of them as “Diet Lockhorns.”
@116 A Grave Mind:
Lockhorns Lite?
@Sequitur:
Skinny Lockhorns.
@GarrisonSkunk:
#105. 6Cx: Garrison, seems to me when we work from home and meet only by zoom, we each lose the collegiality of the office and become a bit more isolated and withdrawn. This future “presenter” has to put on his emotional act as well as putting his presentation in order. Or not.
SHOE: Many bird themes could be horrifying/interesting in SHOE. Cowbirds forcing other bird species to rear cowbird babies, accipiter hawks killing and eating other birds, birds of some species sneaking around and boinking several other birds in a single nesting season, birds of some species doing egg-dumps into nests of other birds of the same species, bowerbirds building elaborate structures and decorating them to attract females, etc. etc. We should probably be grateful that SHOE have carved out a small niche and stays there.
@Poteet: Has carved. Yeesh.
@120 Poteet:
Thank you for giving us the bird.
@Kirk Out: Birds eating other birds is no different than mammals (humans) eating other mammals (cattle).
@Tabby Lavalamp: To be fair, we eat other mammals.
@FrivYeti: Honestly I think it’s fine. Lots of birds eat eggs. Humans eat other mammals
But we don’t, and this distinction is important, eat these other mammals’ eggs.
Calm down, everyone! Roz uses EggBeaters™ brand egg substitute, there’s never been a real egg anywhere near her stove.
@A Grave Mind: Diet Lockhorns
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Now with extra cyclamates!
@The Rambling Otter: In “Vixen Park”….. A barrel of fried chicken gets substituted for a fluffle of rabbits.
Late Thread Cuisine: It’s all business up front, all party out back…
@Sequitur: You are most welcome. And thank YOU for your creative translations!
@Baja Gaijin:
“I can’t believe we died for this!”
“I know, right?!”
PICKLES: Ewwwwww, but at least “Betsy” isn’t dripping.
@127 Baja Gaijin:
Hey! It’s the comedy team of Finn and Gill! I wondered what happened to them.
Now I know. Sauciside.
@GarrisonSkunk: ….also the werevixen keeps the dog from attempting to eat the six foot tall surfer bunny girl.
MT: Were those chops cooked to an internal temperature of at least 145 F, Mark? Let’s hope so. Bon appetit!
@Poteet: PICKLES: Ewwwwww, but at least “Betsy” isn’t dripping.
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That would be your standard Betsy Wetsy™.
@128 Poteet:
Why, thank you! I just write what I see.
Of course I may see what others do not.
@Poteet: I’m glad you were able to salvage something here. Always look for the silver lining.
@GarrisonSkunk: “…six foot tall surfer bunny girl.”
Don’t be a tease.
@137 Ukulele Ike:
Just remember that “wipeout” has nothing to do with anal cleansing.
@Victor Von: nuance need not apply!
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The old ants are still doing a good job!
@Ukulele Ike:
Don’t be a tease.
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Here’s the story from the beginning, the six foot tall surfer bunnygirl comes later.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=sfrOjgIymII&t=476s&pp=ygUKdml4ZW4gcGFyaw%3D%3D