Of Mockingbirds and Sacred Cows: September 2015

Sunday, September 27, 2015

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The Sunday Funnies theme of the week is inside and outside the box:

Sunday, September 20, 2015

Sunday Funnies 150920

The Sunday Funnies phrase of the week is the end of summer; the beginning of fall:

1. Better Hurry!

In 2015, the autumnal equinox falls on September 23 at 4:21 A.M. (ET).

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2. Birds get ready to migrate.

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3. Tme to prepare the garden for winter and plant mums...

I know Mother's Day is in May; but in September, it's mums for moms...even the four-legged ones.

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4. Is this the summer before the fall?

I believe this qualifies as a Republican cartoonist's pipe dream. The elephant hasn't had a hit in over a decade. In fact, his last score came on a stolen election with a botched call by the umpire.

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5. Cold Weather Preparation

For those who don't follow Doonesbury, Rick Redfern is talking to Alice, who is homeless and never gets names right. She is planning to marry a homeless man named Elmont. Alice is quite practical if nothing else.

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6. Pride goeth before a fall.

I'm a Mac guy, but I can appreciate the humor in poking fun at folks who give a free pass to buggy technology because they're devoted to the company that foists it on the user.

On a related note, recent reports on the instability of Windows 10 show that Microsoft devotees may be climbing a hill of their own.

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7. Coming to A Political Theater Near You this Fall...Reruns!

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8. The End Of More Than Summer

This was the fall that felled those two fellows and all of their followers.

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9. The Fall Of Life Redefined

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10. Free Fall

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11. Finis!

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Sunday, September 13, 2015

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The Sunday Funnies word of the week is garbage in; garbage out:

garbage in, garbage out (abbr.: GIGO) used to express the idea that in computing and other spheres, incorrect or poor quality input will always produce faulty output.

1. Oscar Nomination Refusal?

Let's start off with a trashy pun and slide down the garbage heap from there.

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2. Garbage Man

Look who's at the top of the heap. I guess cream isn't the only thing that rises to the top.

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3. Garbage Reportage (Use your poetic license. Say gar-bahge and make it rhyme.)

The medium is the message. –Marshall McLuhan

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4. Waste Not Want Not (Mostly Want Not)

Speaking of poetry, T. S. Eliot foreshadowed the vapid policies offered by the current crop of GOP presidential wannabes decades ago in The Hollow Men.

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5. One Man's Trash...

Now for a bit of comic relief from a growing concern...

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6. Six Of One; A Half Dozen Of The Other - A Carton Of Rotten Eggs?

ni-dus |ˈnīdəs|
noun ( pl. -di |-ˌdī| or -duses )
a place in which something is formed or deposited; a site of origin.
• Medicine a place in which bacteria have multiplied or may multiply; a focus of infection.
ORIGIN early 18th cent. (in the medical sense [focus of infection] ): from Latin, literally ‘nest.’

thim-ble-rig |ˈθimbəlˌrig|
noun
another term for shell game .
DERIVATIVES
thimblerigger nounORIGIN early 19th cent.: from thimble + rig ²in the sense [trick, dodge.]

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Speaking of thimblerigging, Brooke McEldowney knows quite a bit about the subject. Notice how he attached an advertisement to his cartoon.

7. The Garbage Over People (GOP) Healthcare Plan

Buz would have had better coverage under Obamacare, but he drank the right-wing Kool-Aid and signed up for a GOP-approved plan designed to maximize corporate profit.

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8. Unholy Crap

This is not a rant about the usual, right-wing, politico-religious garbage served up by Fox "News." I honestly don't know what possessed me to include it.

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9. Trolling For Treasure In The Political Garbage Dump...And Finding It

This week Wiley Miller's Non Sequitur comic strip ran the GOP presidential wannabes through a virtual garbage disposal. I call that poetic justice.

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10. The Commander in Chief and the Chief Garbage Recycler

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11. Trickle-down Garbage Scow

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12. Landfill Expert

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13. Garbage In; Garbage Out Peters Out

Until next week...

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Sunday, September 6, 2015

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The Sunday Funnies words of the week are boot and reboot:

boot¹|boōt|

verb [ trans. ]

1 [usu. as adj. ] ( booted) place boots on (oneself, another person, or an animal) : thin, booted legs.

2 [ trans. ] kick (something) hard in a specified direction : he ended up booting the ball into the stands.

• (in an athletic contest) misplay (a ball); mishandle (a play) : the usually dependable infielder booted the ball.

• ( boot someone off) force someone to leave a vehicle unceremoniously : the driver booted two teenagers off the bus.

• ( boot someone out) informal force someone to leave a place, institution, or job unceremoniously : she had been booted out of school.

3 start (a computer) and put it into a state of readiness for operation : the menu will be ready as soon as you boot up your computer | [ intrans. ] the system won't boot from the original drive. [ORIGIN: from sense 2 of bootstrap . ]

4 place a Denver boot on (an illegally parked car).

re-boot |rēˈboōt|

verb [ trans. ]

boot (a computer system) again.

• [ intrans. ] (of a computer system) be booted again.

noun

an act or instance of booting a computer system again.