Saturday, January 17, 2009

Cartoon Saturday

It's 3 degrees outside my study window - a heat wave, compared to the Great Plains; Washington DC is bracing for he presidential inauguration by screwing up traffic even more than usual; according to Sheikh Abdul Aziz Al-Sheikh, Saudi Arabia's grand mufti, it's OK for girls as young as 10 to marry; Israel and Hamas are still fighting over what's left of Gaza and the surrounding areas; and the Government Accountability Office is reporting that some large corporations which have received billions of bailout dollars from the taxpayers have set up offshore havens to help avoid paying taxes on their profits.

Once again, Cartoon Saturday rides to your rescue!

I love the Blondie cartoon strip, I understand Dagwood, and this one really had me laughing both as a worker and a linguist ...

Hagar the Horrible used another version of the same metaphor ...

There are some cartoons that just make more sense after you reach a certain age. Or exceed it. Right, Mike?

And where would we be if I couldn't come up with yet another cartoon to keep up Mike and Fiona's Parade-o-Boobs?

I don't think I need that alarm clock any more ...

And finally, I loved this one because it was just plain silly ...

Have a good day. Stay warm (not applicable in Palembang). More thoughts tomorrow.

Bilbo
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7 comments:

  1. The Mistress of the Dark7:57 AM

    LOL those were all great...and yes, if I'm still under warranty, I'm taking myself back. Not sure how mom would feel about that.

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  2. Amanda8:29 AM

    I was laughing at your 'heat wave' as much as the cartoons!

    Try to enjoy your cool weather ;)

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  3. Amanda8:40 AM

    Is that 3 degrees Fahrenheit?? Oh my goodness....that would be -16 Celsius. I commented this in John's blog too... this kind of temperature is unfathomable to me. What do you do with yourself? How do you go out? Do you have to get special shoes?

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  4. Bilbo9:35 AM

    Andrea - ;-)

    Amanda - yes, it's 3 degrees Farenheit. And as I write this, the temperature has gone down a degree to 2! We stay inside a lot and wear lots of clothes to go outside. You don't need special shoes unless there's a lot of snow (which we don't have yet), but the heavy wool socks my mother-in-law makes for me really pay off at times like this!

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  5. fiona11:47 AM

    Boobmeister, Gigglemeister, quite an achievement given the freezing conditions your working in!
    Stay warm darlin...better still stay "HOT" ;)

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  6. Mike1:56 PM

    "Right, Mike?"
    I don't know. I can't remember.

    (We actually do have a heat wave here. It's up to 45f right now. I actually went outside without a coat to get the paper.)

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  7. Melissa B.2:21 PM

    Hey, it's almost a balmy 19 degrees here now! And the weather dude on Channel 4 (the new guy-I HATE his eyebrows & his Eddie Munster hair!) says the cloud cover tonite means temps will only be in the teens! Are you ready for all this Inaugural crapola to end? BTW, don't forget Sx3 tomorrow. We'll be in an Inaugural Type of Mood!

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