Cartoon Saturday

Aren't you glad you're at home with me, reading this blog, rather than braving the stores for the day-after-Christmas madness?

In Las Vegas, a woman with a three year-old child in her car killed one person and injured more than 30 others when she drove her car down sidewalks crowded with holiday revelers; 76 people were killed in the southern Chinese city of Shenzhen when an enormous mountain of construction waste collapsed, burying homes and factory buildings; Miss Universe Pageant host Steve Harvey threw the pageant into chaos and became a web-wide laughingstock when he accidentally announced the wrong winner of the contest; the newest film in the Star Wars series enjoyed the biggest box office opening in movie history, earning an estimated $248 million in North America alone; and Donald Trump - having reached rock bottom in crude and distasteful remarks about his opponents, continued (to the delight of the GOP base) to seek new depths, saying that Hillary Clinton's bathroom break during the last Democratic debate was just too "disgusting" to talk about, and then claiming that Ms Clinton "got schlonged" by President Obama in the 2008 presidential race.

Since this is the last Cartoon Saturday for the year, I thought it would be fun to roll out some more awful puns to get us ready for the horror of the coming intensification of the Presidential Sweepstakes ...

Sometimes the funny bone just ain't funny ...

I've eaten in places like this ...

You should have seen this one coming ...

Well, what else would you give a retiring dental hygienist ... ?

This one is pretty low ... so to speak ...

Sometimes the ol' lizard just doens't want to come out of the cave ... so to speak ...

Think about it ... it really is funny ...

Perhaps more beans in his diet ...

Oy ...

And finally, a more-or-less traditional Christmas pun ...

I hope you and your families had a great Christmas celebration yesterday, and are able to look forward to a relatively calm and peaceful week before the big New Year celebrations. I, for one, will be glad to see the receding backside of 2015, and I surely hope 2016 will be better for all of us ... of course, there's the awful spectacle of the presidential sweepstakes looming, but we can try to grit our teeth and hope for the best.

Have a good day and a calm and relaxing weekend. More thoughts tomorrow, when Poetry Sunday returns.

Bilbo