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Penguins Trumpeting by D-Stanley (cc by)

yasaman posted How to Comment on Social Media by Rebecca Solnit and mefites are offering their cheeky addendums.

Illustration by Caroline, from Flickr (https://www.flickr.com/photos/20466740@N00/)

In Metatalk, Monkeytoes is asking folks to Share the Hidden-Gem Comments of 2023!

You may be wary of the speed bump that is a dad joke, but JHarris's sharing of the the website fatherhood.gov and its treasure trove of Dad Jokes, will help you get over that! :)

"nice to see someone leaning in to the core imagery of the loon as a red-eyed nightmare being by really focusing in on the eye part to the exclusion of the rest of the bird; I feel like this is the one Minnesotan who's going to be straight with me about the Horrors" – taquito sunrise.

Minnesotans are submitting their new state flag and seal design ideas, and Mefites have opinions.

stop laughing please... by John Bastoen (cc by)

It's Throwback Thursday to early 2021 (doesn't that seem like forever ago?!) when 'dances_with_sneetches' asked "What are some things that make you laugh every time you think of them?". The hivemind responds with its best!

Image from page 195 of "The naturalist's library; containing scientific and popular descriptions of man, quadrupeds, birds, fishes, reptiles and insects;" (1850) by Internet Archive Book Images

If the leopard caucuses long enough with the face eating party, maybe look askance when it asks you for butterfly kisses. That's all I'm saying. Good general advice, and too-good-to-pass-up quote from sciatrix in the thread on The Next Front in the GOP’s War on Women: No-Fault Divorce from hydra77.

Wheel of Fortune by designsbykari (cc by)

you have elected to spin the wheel, a choice as pointless yet inevitable as life itself ... What if Werner Herzog were Pat Sajak's replacement?

Reading the Fine Print by CaptPiper (cc by-nc)

Comments recently flagged as fantastic:

• warrior queen on anger and the adrenal system
• Tom Hanks Cannot Be Trusted on cars as an extension of ourselves
• adept256 with a story about some accidental / incidental art

Recently made us laugh:

• But also "my personal armored mobile rage cocoon"
• Favorite new euphemism: "adjusting the onion"
• Good times: talking to my own crotch

Good Answer!

• restless_nomad on the long story / short story dilemma
• kevinbelt makes a reasonable observation about honking: danger or menace?
• SageTrail on the pool pooing problem

It's like the only one of my stupid schemes that I rolled a 20 on. outgrown_hobnail shares their secret for a surefire thesis defense strategy.

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JHarris posts The Hole of Cartoon Badness, The Best of the Worst Cartoons Ever, with many illuminating notations!

Food court by ewen and donabel (cc by)

taquito sunrise has an hilarious reminiscence of tween angst in "The Soul of the American Teen Can Be Found Next to the Sbarro" post about today’s mall teens.

Credit: US Army Corps of Engineers/Public Domain

You are the Army Corps of Engineers. You design a cat calendar.

Rescue beaver makes Christmas dam in house

Also, Describe your dog's tail.

Mr. Darcy and Miss Bennet are apparently not on the same page

Mefites discuss the worst Jane Austen covers ever.