Of Mockingbirds and Sacred Cows: Sunday Funnies 140907

The Sunday Funnies phrase of the week is what goes around, comes around:

Prov. The results of things that one has done will someday have an effect on the person who started the events.

So he finally gets to see the results of his activities.What goes around, comes around. Now he is the victim of his own policies. Whatever goes around comes around.

See also: around, come, goes

The correlative word of the week is cycle

cy-cle |ˈsīkəl|
noun1 [often with adj. ] a series of events that are regularly repeated in the same order :the boom and slump periods of a trade cycle.• the period of time taken to complete a single sequence of such events : the cells are shed over a cycle of twenty-eight days• technical a recurring series of successive operations or states, as in the working ofan internal combustion engine, or in the alternation of an electric current or a wave : the familiar four cycles of intake, combustion, ignition, and exhaust.• Biology a recurring series of events or metabolic processes in the lifetime of a plant or animal : the storks' breeding cycle.• Biochemistry a series of successive metabolic reactions in which one of the products is regenerated and reused.• Ecology the movement of a simple substance through the soil, rocks, water, atmosphere, and living organisms of the earth. See carbon cycle , nitrogen cycle .• Computing a single set of hardware operations, esp. that by which memory is accessed and an item is transferred to or from it, to the point at which the memory may be accessed again.• Physics a cycle per second; one hertz.2 a complete set or series : the painting is one of a cycle of seven.• a series of songs, stories, plays, or poems composed around a particular theme and usually intended to be performed or read in sequence : Wagner's Ring Cycle.3 a bicycle or tricycle.• [in sing. ] a ride on a bicycle : a 112-mile cycle.verb [ intrans. ]1 ride a bicycle : she cycled to work every day.2 move in or follow a regularly repeated sequence of events : economies cycle regularly between boom and slump.ORIGIN late Middle English : from Old French, from late Latin cyclus, fromGreek kuklos ‘circle.’
Warning: Some of the loops and recursions in the comics and comments below may make your head spin.