Cartoon Saturday

And another week slides by into history ...

Former First Lady Betty Ford has passed away at age 93; a man in Wyoming is under arrest after killing three of his children and another person and wounding a fourth; tabloid newspaper News of the World has collapsed (and threatened to take the UK government with it) after revelations that its reporters hacked into the cell phones of crime vicitims and others; an Australian man has been killed and several others injured during the annual running of the bulls in Pamplona, Spain; and House Democrats are learning from House Republicans - where the Republicans absolutely refuse to even think about discussing taxes, Democrats are now refusing to discuss cuts to Medicare and Social Security.

Congress may play reckless chicken with your future, but you can always count on Cartoon Saturday to help you grin and bear it.

Following up on yesterday's post about Little Green Men, we lead off with a pair of cartoons about aliens ...

And ...

The linguist in me bubbled to the surface when I saw these three clever cartoons riffing on the symbols we use every day ...

And ...

And this one ...

And then we have the ultimate result of too much use of on-screen symbols (or emoticons) ...

Here's your terrible pun of the week ...

Thinking back to her last guest post, Nessa wanted me to include this one (which, at the rate the economy is going, isn't really all that far-fetched) ...

This one goes out to my favorite 14th-century lady, Craziequeen ...

And finally for this week, a nod to our elected reprehensives in Congress, without whom us would-be comedians would have much, much less to talk about ...

It looks as if it will be another hot and steamy weekend here in Northern Virginia. We'll be visiting our local grandchildren later this morning, after I take one more load of junk to the landfill, and we'll spend the rest of the weekend doing the usual set of quasi-relaxing chores. Maybe I'll even have a chance to relax on The Swing From Hell ...

Stranger things have happened...

Have a good day and a great weekend. More thoughts tomorrow.

Bilbo