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Caterpillars spinning platters

Yesterday’s Wayno/Piraro Bizarro, with songs you just can’t get out of your head: (#1) (If you’re puzzled by the odd symbols in the cartoon — Dan Piraro says there are 6 in this strip — see this Page.)...

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What question are you asking?

The 11/27 One Big Happy strip, which came up in my comics feed recently: The father’s question, asking for a choice, appears to be an opinion-seeking question, of a sort that adults often exchange...

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Frequently asked questions

A Roz Chast cartoon in the latest (2/1/21) New Yorker: Questions asked often enough that they border on clichés. They’re frequently asked questions — but they’re not Frequently Asked Questions,...

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FREDs and their kin

(References in plain language to men’s bodies viewed as sexual objects, with a photo, so not suitable for kids or the sexually modest.) On Facebook yesterday, information from train-watcher Ned Deily...

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The heifer executive

Yesterday’s wry Rhymes With Orange strip, wordless and spare-looking, but packed with tons of meaning on two fronts, the dairy and the managerial; meanwhile, it presents a challenging exercise in...

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BFD is ASC

Yesterday, in my posting “This week’s astounding job offer”: All of this is suppositional, and I haven’t found any source of information about the entity I’ve been calling YangCo and its programs that...

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In the mail: an 8-noun pile-up

Remarkable e-mail. Two days ago (12/2), a message on Sutter Health’s My Health Online site with the header: Sutter Palo Alto Center Laboratory Patient Experience Questionnaire This is an 8-noun pile-up...

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SUMC moments: NPO

On the nurses’ board, under “diet”, it said NPO; and if you asked if you could have some juice or whatever, nurses would tell you no, you were NPO — and then maybe they’d explain that meant ‘nothing by...

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Today’s satiric artwork

Also today’s food art. From Bill Badecker on Facebook this morning: [The Orange Menace]’s lawyers have assailed the Georgia case in their efforts to derail it ahead of any indictments. “It is one thing...

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VIO

Received in e-mail this morning, from Dave Sayers on the Variationist mailing list: We are delighted to announce the next in the 2023-24 series of online guest seminars here in the English section at...

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