• rickyrigatoni@lemm.ee
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    3 months ago

    I used to observe columbus day by having the day off school. Now it’s meaningless to me like every other “holiday” I have to work through and get pissed off because I drove all the way to the bank to get change and they’re closed.

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      3 months ago

      Do you guys have change for a five?

      Sure what do you want?

      three ones and the rest quarters

      Please fill out this form and I’ll need two forms of ID

      this pen isn’t working

      Hold on I’ve got some bolt cutters back here somewhere …

      [clack]

      Hey Mary, this guy needs a pen

      I gave the supply cabinet keys to Carl. He’ll be back from lunch any minute now

      Hey Carl it’s Mary. We’ve got a gentleman here needs a pen. Are you headed back?

      … …. … …… …

      Oh gosh that’s terrible!

      … …. … . …. ……

      Okay I’ll let him know. [click] Yeah Hon, Carl should be heading back any minute now. He’s just over at the deli having a sandwich. He was having a bother with his car but he’s got the jumper cables and everything

      [ancient clock chimes] [cars pass by outside] [cicadas drone]

      Can I get you a coffee or anything, Dear?

      No thanks … well sure.

      Oh drat! I forgot Mary had that second cup. Here I’ll just make some more.

      Say Mary, do you know where the coffee filters are?

      Should be right there with the coffee.

      Nope, not here. Well we can have Carl pick some up.

    • Flying Squid@lemmy.worldOP
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      3 months ago

      Completely off-topic: That cartoonist is continuing a tradition that goes all the way back to George Herriman near the beginning of the 20th century. He had an incredible strip called Krazy Kat, but it started out like the Tom Waits sub-strip there, under a strip he ended up abandoning.

      I’m betting the cartoonist here knew about that and is continuing the tradition, which is pretty cool.

      • Klear@sh.itjust.works
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        3 months ago

        The strip is a tribute to Tony Millionare, which is also where the sub-strip comes from.

        Dresden Codak used to be a wonderful webcomic with great surreal humour and some super funky layouts. Then over a decade ago the author started a long, boring and confusing storyline which is apparently still ongoing? Crazy.

        Anyway, mostly everything under “One-Offs” in the archive is solid gold and highly recommended. The rest of it… don’t bother.

  • Asafum@feddit.nl
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    3 months ago

    “Listen, I’m white. Columbus is associated with settlers and colonialism which the left unfairly demonized so poor Columbus got cancelled! Because I’m white I feel personally attacked because fox news says I should be so I’m celebrating out of spite even though I don’t really even know what I’m celebrating! Make America Genocide Again!”

    -Some Magoos subconscious probably

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    3 months ago

    Leave home to buy some spices, then go to a wrong grocery store and make a mess there breaking everything on the shelves

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      3 months ago

      Head to Kroger, end up in a ‘Indian’ grocery store instead, scream at the attendees that they don’t have the real ‘chai’, from Teavana, then tell them to go back to their country.

      (Ninja edit: …before heading over to Starbucks to pickup the holiday version of their ‘Chai’ Tea Latte, the one that comes with pumpkin spice added.)

    • Flying Squid@lemmy.worldOP
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      3 months ago

      And the spice isle is twice as long as you think it is, but you keep insisting that it’s that length.

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      3 months ago

      You gotta wipe out 90% of that wrong grocery store’s employees and patrons through communicable diseases, even the ones in corporate who have no idea who you are or have ever met you.

      🫡

  • Björn Tantau@swg-empire.de
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    3 months ago

    Hundreds of years from now people will claim that only you knew that your route to the spice store existed while in reality everyone knew that it was too long.

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      3 months ago

      “Oh, you’re back. Did you bring back the cinnamon and nutmeg?”

      “They were definitely out of those spices, but look at all of these severed hands!”

  • M1nds3nd@lemmy.ca
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    3 months ago

    Columbus Day could also be celebrated by breaking into someone’s house and forcing them to find and bring you money. If they don’t bring enough start killing their family.