First time I heard this I thought I’d hate it… but he does it so well. From 1991:
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Paul McCartney was a huge Gene Vincent fan as a teenager…
And who knew Ronnie Wood had a TV show:
Alexikakos
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3 years ago
@ bambushie
From yesterday
Looking back, I do realize that Susan has given you an answer about the “Spoiler Title” boxes already, but for the sake of completion I’m reposting the…
… that will take you back two days to my attachment about the “Spoiler Title” box.
It was underneath my deletion link, and when you deleted your comment my reply and both my links went with it.
As always, right click….etc. etc. 🙂
On your email question:
Susan’s answer is dead accurate.
When I first signed up, I decided to see what asking for notifications did.
When I found out that I’d be getting email after email instead of on-site notifications as at GoComics, I immediately unsubscribed.
That action has not been breached by the WordPress programming since.
DennisinSeattle
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Well, that was not catastrophic. Do you think Claude will learn a lesson?
“The Sound of Silence” is my favourite song; I liked it the first time I heard it (in Cleo, as it happens) while waiting for my mother to come back to the car.
The D.J. on 1010 WINS made a stupid play on words calling “Simon and Garfunkel” “Simon and Carbuncle;” not even that could spoil my enjoyment.
The deer and its attraction to the harpist and its subsequent starting reminded me very much of Alice and the Fawn in “Through The Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There (Carrol capitalized Fawn, so I’m following suit).”
As for Claude, I wonder if he’ll be singing this after that experience.
After all he did apparently meet him. 🙂 😁
Tigressy
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Katina Cooper
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I was waiting for the trap door to open under Claude so that he would drop into the clogged sewer line.
As for the puzzle – well; I’m not too bad at it now. Spoiler #3 was the first I ever made. I didn’t care about #1 back then and didn’t make #2 (ew). #8, #14 for sure. And there’s no #12.
Here are the 11 I’m sure of, and two that I’m “iffy” on.
Take them for what they’re worth.
1) Better safe than sorry
2) Big fuss over nothing
3) Pineapple upside down cake
4) ?
5) growing old
6) Till the end of time
7) an inside job
8) world peace
9) two peas in a pod
10) missing an initial ?
11) a mixed up life
12) gross injustice
13) ?
14) ?
15) to a “tee”
16) bring on the ballerinas (but I’ve never heard that expression, so I’m probably wrong)
1. Better safe than sorry
2. Big fuss over nothing
3. Pineapple upside-down cake
4. Arctic circle
5. Growing old
6. Till the end of time
7. Inside job
8. World without end
9. Pea in a pod
10. ?
11. Change of life?
12. Gross in justice
13. ?
14. Endless love
15. Tea for two
16. ?
don’t forget the other comic strip gold, you old scalawag. : the little red stars around Claude’s head that is immediately interpreted (by longtime comic fans) as pain and/or
dizziness
SusanSunshine
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3 years ago
It’s the ol’ “Do Not Touch” gag, so I guess Nighthawks decided to punch it up a little.
And just in time for Mother’s Day!
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So have a good one… whether you’re a mother or not, or even if someone just … um… never mind.
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Wish she’d kept playing after the deer startled her…
Be-Bop-a-Lula that’s my Claudie…
Thanks for the earworm….
First time I heard this I thought I’d hate it… but he does it so well. From 1991:
…
Paul McCartney was a huge Gene Vincent fan as a teenager…
And who knew Ronnie Wood had a TV show:
Looking back, I do realize that Susan has given you an answer about the “Spoiler Title” boxes already, but for the sake of completion I’m reposting the…
…link …
… that will take you back two days to my attachment about the “Spoiler Title” box.
It was underneath my deletion link, and when you deleted your comment my reply and both my links went with it.
As always, right click….etc. etc. 🙂
On your email question:
Susan’s answer is dead accurate.
When I first signed up, I decided to see what asking for notifications did.
When I found out that I’d be getting email after email instead of on-site notifications as at GoComics, I immediately unsubscribed.
That action has not been breached by the WordPress programming since.
Well, that was not catastrophic. Do you think Claude will learn a lesson?
Claude? Claude Clifford? Of Cleveland? Impossible!
Never!
@
“The Sound of Silence” is my favourite song; I liked it the first time I heard it (in Cleo, as it happens) while waiting for my mother to come back to the car.
The D.J. on 1010 WINS made a stupid play on words calling “Simon and Garfunkel” “Simon and Carbuncle;” not even that could spoil my enjoyment.
The deer and its attraction to the harpist and its subsequent starting reminded me very much of Alice and the Fawn in “Through The Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There (Carrol capitalized Fawn, so I’m following suit).”
As for Claude, I wonder if he’ll be singing this after that experience.
After all he did apparently meet him. 🙂 😁
I was waiting for the trap door to open under Claude so that he would drop into the clogged sewer line.
more common phrases
First – nice new layout for the comments.
Still working on the others.
For which you have no answers, I presume?
This one kinda looks harder.
Sigh… once again… way past time to sleep…. but I’ll be back,.,,
Here are the 11 I’m sure of, and two that I’m “iffy” on.
1) Better safe than sorry
2) Big fuss over nothing
3) Pineapple upside down cake
4) ?
5) growing old
6) Till the end of time
7) an inside job
8) world peace
9) two peas in a pod
10) missing an initial ?
11) a mixed up life
12) gross injustice
13) ?
14) ?
15) to a “tee”
16) bring on the ballerinas (but I’ve never heard that expression, so I’m probably wrong)
I see a few at first glance. I’ll have to come back later when I have a chance.
It rhymes!
2. Big fuss over nothing
3. Pineapple upside-down cake
4. Arctic circle
5. Growing old
6. Till the end of time
7. Inside job
8. World without end
9. Pea in a pod
10. ?
11. Change of life?
12. Gross in justice
13. ?
14. Endless love
15. Tea for two
16. ?
Really close to my list, except for #11.
ONCE in a WHILE
Thanks, I didn’t get that.
Good job!
I stared at that until I went cross-eyed but it always managed to 🦨 me.
Ok I’m baaack….
1. better safe than sorry
2. Big fuss over nothing.
3. Pineapple upside down cake.
4. Arctic circle
5. Growing old
6. Till the end of time… I think. The end of time should just be an E but I guess no one would get it without seeing more of the word..
7. An inside job.
8. World without end. (Should be worlds, IMHO, but I still think that’s it.)
9. Pea in a pod. (Again, 2 or 3 P’s would be better.)
10. ……. Nothing I can think of really works.
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11. Single file
12. Gross injustice
13. ……… (Ok, I got nuthin’ so far.)
14. Endless love.
15. Tea for two. (Funny)
16. All I can think of is “bring over ballerinas” but who has ever said that, unless maybe Jeffrey Epstein. (Ok ok….. sorry)
Re: clue number nine…
There’s a name for the phenomenon of not seeing the second one, but I forget what it is.
The more popular puzzle of this type is the one where
where the last word of the line above appears as the first word of the line below……..ummm….. 🙂
Gosh…
I know there are two P’s, Alexi!
… It’s so short, you can’t possibly see it with only one,
and it wouldn’t even be a puzzle clue.
If I really thought it just said “POD”, i’d never think to read it as “P in a pod”.
But to me, the first P is part of the pod. So to have more than one IN the pod, it needs another one or two.
E.g. “A pPPod”. … 2 P’s in “a pod”.
I thought the same way. It’s like I’m inside your brain!
Welcome!
Hope you brought a Dust-buster and a broom.
With or without the “a’, as well.
I do prefer making them look different or separated from the pod… as I did above, or even something like
PO(pp)D
But some prefer the puzzle harder, as in your example.
Re: clue number sixteen…
You found an answer sheet?
Ok…
Baconboy must be the only one (so far) correct on #13 … Though
I agree with GerardD on #s 8 and 15… though Alexi’s make some sense too.
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Nobody got #10 either….
Running out of initiative
Looks like nobody really got #16.
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Nobody else gave my answer to 11. I still like it best, but the other two also work.
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Tigressy, sorry… I mostly couldn’t follow you…
But
I meant in this puzzle.
but the correct answers to this puzzle are very familiar expressions or metaphors.
You might hear a sentence like “It’s not a perfect world” but “not a perfect world’ by itself isn’t an expression.
In fact I’ve never heard anyone say “incomplete love” and I don’t really know what it means.
The word-combinations in the answers, by contrast, are so common that we expect them… even children use many of them.
“Endless Love” and also “World Without End” have also been song or movie titles.
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When you said “And there’s no #12.” I thought you meant there’s no gross injustice…
so I replied that I think there’s plenty of it.
I think you’d agree, so I figured, there’s some sort of semantic glitch going on.
“Bring on the dancers”
A bit late, though…
It’s a proven fact: ғʟᴏᴏᴘ! = comic strip gold.
don’t forget the other comic strip gold, you old scalawag. : the little red stars around Claude’s head that is immediately interpreted (by longtime comic fans) as pain and/or
dizziness
It’s the ol’ “Do Not Touch” gag, so I guess Nighthawks decided to punch it up a little.
And just in time for Mother’s Day!
…
So have a good one… whether you’re a mother or not, or even if someone just … um… never mind.
.,..
Whoosh….
Good morning, Cleophans!
Doesn’t look like anything went wrong to me. It appears to be working perfectly.
HAPS MOTHER’S DAY!
Y’all have a wonderful day. (((((HuGz)))))
A moment of silence, please…
Why is it the prettiest socks get lost!
They don’t get “lost,” the rambunctious one of the pair gets tired of being shoed inside all the time and steps out to live a little.
HAPPY MOTHER’S DAY to all the Mom’s and their Assistants!
Another ‘Do Not Touch” by Claude. And of course egged on by Cleo!
One of these days, Claude will discover a brand new car when he pushes the button. But, I don’t think Claude is the lucky type.
Dain Fagerholm
Claude will NEVER learn ~ especially when egged on by Cleo. Sorry – no sympathy Claude.