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While the Czar and I don't see Invite contestants' names until after we've judged the entries, I wasn't surprised that several of the inking entries this week are by Judy Freed, who often makes pretty explicit jokes (especially about women) -- and who wrote a song parody of L-O-V-E called L-U-B-E.

Here's the link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5eoM9ciugBs

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She nailed it this week. Rachel's aunt, Kathy Sheeran, a woman from Florida, LOVES Judy Freed because she is a Florida woman and is now famous, from the Invite.

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Happy to be a source of good news coming out of Florida.

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Congratulations, Judy! You always make me laugh out loud 😹

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Thanks so much, Lynne!

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Thanks to both of you for a thrilling week!!!

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Freed at last, Freed at last, Thank God Almighty, Freed at last

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Nicely done.

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Look out; all the haters are gonna be punchin' Judy soon... :-)

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Jon, punchin' Judy is excellent,

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Thank you kindly.

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Reminds me of a horse breeding noink from last year: Hit Show x Work Order = Punch and Duty

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Example of a classic, slightly risque Dad Joke:

Q: What's the word Italians use for an enema?

A: Innuendo!

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About a candidate's chances of being elected. Of course, it's 50/50. Either the candidate wins or loses.

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Procrastinated sending in,

N is for Neighbor, so outwardly nice.

O is for Ohmygod! He voted Trump twice.

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We give you NINE DAYS.

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Pat is grumpy.

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And here I always thought of her as "Snow White." So --- that makes you who, "Sneezy ?" "Scratchy ?" (the eighth uh...Little Person...not usually remembered for obvious reasons).

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Any update on the Diamond dog, or is this not a good time to ask?

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Cant respond yet.

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Ok, thx.

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I see what you did there, Lynne.

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Bullshirt…Gene is demanding servicing every Saturday, Tuesday and Thursday…I’m not 17 anymore.

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And we JUST had a discussion about where not to put no-inks.

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C'mon Pat. It took Michelangelo four years to paint the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. On the other hand, it appears the Invitee in question reached his ceiling in little more than a week.

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That's what the Do Over is for.

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The next time I take a flight, if I feel a little brat kicking the back of my seat, I'll give him a lesson on the letters K and L.

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Aha! A Dad Joke contest. Suggested by a certain person who shall remain nameless in September 2018, but eschewed by The Empress until it was suggested in 2024 by...her own daughter?!? And I thought the Hunter Biden affair was scandalous, LOL!

P.S. Chris's other inker from that 2008 contest ("A gay thief in Riyadh") was a lot more subversive (and funny) than the Barney and Clyde comic, yet it apparently got published in WaPo.

P.P.S. The Czar may suffer from Beltway Bias, judging by the response choices offered in the survey this week. One doesn't need to travel far from the East Coast to find a LOT of people who think that clown's chances of winning are above 50/50. They might be right. God help us.

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I’m not sure what the theme was... but in the NY Marathon, they force you into the park 2 hours early and you drink, drink, then have a 30 minute snaking starting queue of 30000 people. When you get on the bridge, everyone pees on the side, men and women. The elite runners on the lower level stay in a little because of the torrent of piss from above. I guess the them here is always “potty.”

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Way back when, Our Esteemed Czar used a Zippo to light a bong. These days I suspect he's using it to light farts.

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Heywaitaminutethere ... The Washington Post killed that cartoon, but the Washington Post Writers Group (now Washington Post News Service & Syndicate) did NOT: https://www.gocomics.com/barneyandclyde/2013/05/27

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Right, it was a decision of Post editors in the newsroom. The Writers Group, its syndication division that offers Post content to other publications, let other papers make their own calls.

As Gene explained it to a reader who asked him about it in that week's chat (May 2013):

"Q. Were you surprised that the Post wouldn't print yesterday's "Barney & Clyde" strip? Did you know you were pushing the outside of the envelope?

A: Gene Weingarten

Time and again, the Post exercises more delicacy in comics editing decisions than other papers! We've had to rewrite or replace strips several times for the Post, but for none of the many other client papers. This was the one The Post didn't run. [link to the strip at the top of this page.]

For the record, I have no problem with a newspaper editing the comics. It's not censorship, it's editing. I do find the Post's Victorian standards a little amusing, but it's also sort of cute."

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I was selling an antique phone at a flea market a few years back. The kind with no dial but with a cone on a cord to listen and cone attached to the box to speak into and a crank on the side to get the operator. Up comes a woman with a 6-8 year old. He asked her what it was and she told him it was a really old phone. He picked up the earpiece and turned it up and down and around and finally asked "how do you take a picture?" Poor kid, everybody was laughing. He was probably also wondering how you'd get it into your pocket but there was no way he was asking.

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Talk about a grandfather joke. Looks like he needs another cover-up ---quick. A shortened URL from X: https://shorturl.at/ayJZ1

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Mayhap I misunderstood. You want me to send in pictures of my father and grandfather ?

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Nixon was probably practicing the car stand on small crowds to be sure he wouldn’t fall on his ass. He never seemed like a guy with fabulous core muscles. Kennedys on the other hand….(ok not Ted later)

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>>>Q: I once saw a woman win a distance-urinating contest, against men. It was in a bar, obviously. >>>She was dignified about it, considering.

>>>A: Okay this also made me laff. I don’t quite get the physics of it, but am impressed,

I, too, have seen this done. The woman lay on her back. It was impressive. Dignified, no. But impressive.

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I must be drinking in the wrong places. But --- not surprising because of the female anatomy. While women will almost always win in the distance events, males will be more likely to hit the bullseye in the precision uh...face-offs. Has to do with the pathways to success.

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I'm more confused than ever now (and I'm a woman who has practiced peeing while standing up a few times)

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Re the poll, I'd be curious what the results would be if you asked how the orange geezer's chances compare to his chances the last time he won: More likely, less likely, or the same.

Back then (2016) the polling consensus was that he had a 15% chance, and contrary to popular belief, the polls got it right. He lost the popular vote but squeaked in within the margin for error in a couple of key states.

This time I think he has a better chance, like 1 in 5.

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On Nov. 3, 2020, Biden led Trump by 8% in 528ToWin's aggregate of polls. Things will have to change tremendously between now and November given this:

https://www.realclearpolling.com/polls/president/general/2024/trump-vs-biden

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Yes of course, on a superficial level Chris. Ignoring such factors as Margin of Error, and time to election (and events therein), what we saw in the 2020 election, where Biden appeared to be running away with it in polling, is that sizable differences in the margin between the candidates can result from relatively small errors in the composition of the sample. For example, changing the preference of 38 voters out of 1,000 polled shifted Biden's one-time 12-point advantage to about four points, the actual 2020 election result. Also, unlike sampling errors, which can be calculated, other errors --- e.g. estimates of "likely voters" --- are far more difficult to quantify, but are nevertheless present. My long-worded point being, these polling "errors" can work in Biden's favor this time around just as easily --- and especially if disenfranchised or non-Trump voters of the party formerly known as Republican, in the numbers indicated in IA and NH, decide to sit the next one out --- or even in smaller, but significant, numbers, (in swing states, for example) ---cross the party line this one time in frustration.

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