2021 July-December

Weary the Talking Dog

2022 Beckons/Looms

Another year of Healthcare Hero hoopla approaches a bitter end. Though it was a banner year if you’re a totalitarian. By the way, totalitarian was a word coined by Benito Mussolini to describe his type of socialism with business and government working together “for the good of the nation.” Il Duce called it Fascism™. FDR called it the New Deal. Now we call it the public-private partnership. This warmed over Fascism is something the Left, including Antifa, is all for. Just goes to show, selling an unpopular, failed product is all a matter of rebranding.

Filed 12/31/21

Talking Heads

Joke of the Year

Without further ado, a gag cartoon one year in the making:

Filed 12/30/21

Word Balloons

Meow

Filed 12/27/21

It’s Christmas Week Thursday

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Filed 12/23/21

It’s Christmas Week Tuesday

Why the X in Xmas

Well, it had nothing to do with illiteracy or just plain, “I forget, you know, What’s-His-Name.” It also wasn’t an attempt to blot out Christ, for some ungodly reason. That would be very unGodly, indeed. Here’s the real story.

It’s all Greek to me. It’s Greek to everyone. The New Testament was written in Greek and the first letter of ‘Christ’ in Greek is chi, written X. Thus X came to stand for Christ. By the fifteenth century ‘Xmas’ for Christmas was widely used. X in place of Christ also gave you ‘Xian’ for Christian and ‘Xianity’ for Christianity. These are not very much used nowadays, meaning not at all.

So when you see Xmas don’t say “Ex-mas,” say “Christ-mas.” There you go.

Filed 12/21/21

It’s Christmas Week Monday

While it’s too late to snail mail Santa your gift requests, he’s probably got email. I don’t know what his email address is, but as this is the Internet, look it up for yourself. Anyway, here’s my mailing to Santa.

Filed 12/20/21

Thinking Off the Rock

Spelled Just the Way it Sounds

I can answer that; it’s because English spelling is crazy. How else to explain the following spellings for…

Long A sound

ate, bait, bay, eight, feign, great, hey

Long E sound

be, bee, eat, key, mete, either, quay, seize

Long I sound

aye, bite, buy, by, bye, die, eye, guide, high, I, rhyme

Long O sound

beau, dough, hoe, hope, sew, oat, so, tow, whore

Long U sound

boo, cute, dew, due, lieu, suit, to, view, who

And that’s only the five long vowel sounds, there’s a lot more where they came from. Now you know why there’s spell-check.

Filed 12/17/21

One from the Goo Log

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Filed 12/16/21

Word Balloons

Arf Arf

Filed 12/14/21

Kurmudgeon Kat

Wokers of the World Unite!

Filed 12/11/21

Word Balloons

Cluck Cluck Cluck

Filed 12/5/21

Thinking Off the Rock

Can You Hear the Crack of Dawn?

Filed 12/2/21

Still Got Holiday Leftovers? Here’s a Leftover Gag

Filed 11/30/21

Kurmudgeon Kat

Marxist-Brandonism Ahoy!

Filed 11/23/21

Weary the Talking Dog

Carpe Dios

Filed 11/17/21

Thinking Off the Rock

Nothing Succeeds Like Failure

Filed 11/16/21

Word Balloons

What Did You Learn in School?

Gag “borrowed” from Mel Loftus, filed 11/12/21

The Porkadile Shoe Has Spoken

Top 13 Variations of John

Jean (France)
Jan (Sweden)
Johan (Germany)
Juan (Spain)
Joan (Catalonia)
Jon (USA?)
Giani (Italy)
Sean (Scotland)
Ian (England)
Evan (Wales)
Ivan (Russia)
Loo (England)
Head (US Navy)

Filed 11/5/21

Kurmudgeon Kat

Save Yourselves!

Filed 11/3/21

Friday Fungus

Hover for part two

Filed 10/29/21

Yesterday’s News Today

Accidentally funny but true newspaper headline blasts from the past. Before the news media went full fake. You know, accidentally true. And now, three week’s whacky worth (Sunday subscription sold separately) in one day:

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Filed 10/26/21

Warning: It’s Monday

Filed 10/25/21

Friday Family Friendly Fun

Filed 10/22/21

Humpday Ha

Filed 10/20/21

Columbus Day Time Capsule

From American History 101.3

The first people in the New World came across a land bridge from Asia. When is unclear, there are few written records since nomadic hunter-gatherer types didn’t use datebooks or keep diaries. Still, they spread across the Americas starting civilizations, cultures and that sort of thing. They domesticated wild llamas into pack animals and tamed wild maize into corn tortillas. These were the Mayans, Aztecs, Incas, Lakotas and others whose names are lost in antiquity or somewhere in the vast wilderness which, being vast, was all over back then.

Later Columbus stopped by and discovered they were Indians, despite thinking he landed at an outpost of Japan which would have been populated by Japanese and not Indians. One supposed he could have asked, but neither he nor the locals spoke Japanese. What can I say, history doesn’t always make sense. This version of history makes less sense than most.

Anyway, this began what later became the United States and ultimately The Great Satan as we now know it. And if you don’t know it, wise up already.

Filed 10/12/21

Thinking Off the Rock

Wheel Deep, Eh?

Filed 10/8/21

Kurmudgeon Kat

Me-yow, Mao

Filed 9/30/21

Weary the Talking Dog

End of Something Small?

Filed 9/22/21

Kurmudgeon Kat

And Woke Up Dead

Filed 9/13/21

Thinking Off the Rock

Shake It all About

Filed 9/8/21

Labor Day 2021

Like a lot of people, I suppose, I don’t actually celebrate labor on Labor Day. No parading for me, thank you very much. I don’t remember if I ever went to a Labor Day parade. Did they have labor themed floats and a Miss Labor 1965 on a big float at the end? Though, perhaps a Mrs. Labor would have been more appropriate. We don’t want to encourage unwed motherhood. Or at least they didn’t back in 1965.

Anyway, Labor Day is pretty much the American version of May Day, the holiday of international communism. Not being an international communist, or a local communist or communist in any way shape or form, I dont hold much truck with Labor Day. For your bending author it’s just another holiday invented by the government so working stiffs can have a day off. Which isn’t anything different for us old retired folks who are stiff without working. Of course, what with how stores never close on holidays or Sundays nowadays, retail working stiffs get stiffed and have to work anyway.

You pretty much have to be an old fart like me to remember when in the misty past practically everything, with the possible exceptions of some restaurants and gas stations, was closed on Sundays and holidays. Yep, Sundays and traditional holidays were considered holy days, which is where the word holiday comes from, after all. Perhaps all these secular holidays invented by government should be called something else. Unholidays? aholidays? holishdays? I could go on, but that would be work and I’m taking the day off. It is Labor Day after all. BCNU.

Now then, the reader may ask what’s with the marching robots? For the answer see etymology online

Filed 9/6/21

Free Advice

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Filed 8/9/21

Weary the Talking Dog

Start of Something Big?

Filed 8/2/21

Last (and only) Family Friendly Friday in July

Filed 7/30/21

MODERN TIMES!!!!!!

Somebody-or-other once observed that the only truly modern sensation was speed. After all, before trains, planes, and automobiles the fastest you could ever go was on horseback. Or falling off a cliff, I suppose, but that’s largely an unrepeatable sensation. Actually, one you wouldn’t want the first time. The very thought of which gives me the heebie-jeebies, or in technical terms, the willies.

Though I would add a second truly modern sensation, ear-splitting noise. Not only is modern life faster than in olden times, it’s also a lot noisier. We live in a regime of the constant din of the machine age. Relentless, annoyingly loud clatter, whine and thump. Also called modern music, though I use the term music loosely. Nowadays we are speed and noise addicts, which might explain the popularity of straight-piped Harleys and window rattling boom-cars. Well, popular with the owners of said vehicles not the rest of us who just want peace and quiet.

Filed 7/27/21