SUNDAY FUNNIES: BACK TO SCHOOL 2025

Hello Everybody!

Today you have both Piper D. Katt AND Koda Canine here as we present The Sunday Funnies' annual Back to School Salute!

That's right Piper.

This is something we wait until the first Sunday after Labor Day here in America to do because our Editor-In-Chief is old enough to remember when school didn't start until the Tuesday after Labor Day and ended for the year the Friday before Memorial Day that next May.

Yeah. Nowadays most schools here in America start sometime in August and don't get out until June of the following year, depending upon their curriculum.

In any event, it's joke time!

There is a thin line between numerator and denominator.

I bet only a fraction of you get this. 😉

Pizzas🍕 are round, put in square boxes and served in triangular slices.

Who says you don’t need math as an adult?

Do you know how many apples🍎🍏 grow on an apple tree?

All of them.

The first folks who came across fog must have been mystified.

I tried to draw a cube in art, but had a mental block.

I'm reading a book on anti-gravity and just can't put it down.

When writing, remember to close the parenthesis.

You are not air conditioning or heating an entire paragraph.

The Space Program should use LINUX in their computers because you shouldn’t open Windows in outer space.

My brother went off to join a Mime school, never to be heard from again. 

I'm old enough to remember when health and safety was taught in school.

It was called Common Sense.

So on that note♫, have a great week!

Take care.

STAY SAFE!

Stay in school and learn something! Education is a right, not a privilege.

And please be back next weekend for more Sunday Funnies!—PDK & KC.

THE PUZZLE CORNER: SEPTEMBER 7, 2024

 😎FUN FACT

September 8 is Star Trek Day. Among NBC’s complaints when they rejected “The Cage”, the show's original pilot, the network told series creator Gene Roddenberry to “Get rid of the guy with the pointy ears.” (Mister Spock)

TRIVIA TIME⌚

Two members of the Star Trek: Voyager cast had cameos in the Star Trek (The Next Generation) movie First Contact. Who were they?

NUMBER PLEASE

Get ready! We ask the question, but the answer is just a number.

How many eggs🥚🥚🥚 do you need to fill an empty egg container?

We’ll reveal all next weekend but for now, let’s open up THE ANSWERS BOX and discover the results from the August 31, 2024 Puzzle Corner.

BEFORE AND AFTER

Two separate items share at least one word, and so can be combined to create something new. Based upon the clue below, do you know what the new thing is?

Team up between the Dark Knight and Mork.

Batman and Robin Williams.

AKA, ALSO KNOWN AS

Rupert Holmes’ ♫Escape♫ became better known under what title?

♫The Pina Colada Song♫

THE PUZZLE CORNER: SEPTEMBER 7, 2019

😎FUN FACT
Iceland phone book listings are alphabetical by the FIRST name, not the surname!

WHAT’S THAT SONG?
Words from a tune of the past are below. All you have to do is give us the song title. Ready?
♫The whole world looks upon the sight. A beautiful sight.♫

RHYME TIME⌛
The clue to something is below, but no matter how long your answer is, each word within it must rhyme. Ready?
Emoji connection.

We’ll reveal all next weekend, but for now, let’s open up THE ANSWERS BOX📦 and discover the results from the August 31, 2019 Puzzle Corner.

REBUS
Something familiar is represented by the image on the left. Do you know what it is?
♫Rock Around The Clock♫ by Bill Haley and the Comets.

TRIVIA TIME⌚
What are you suffering from if you have Omphalophobia?
The fear of belly buttons!

SUNDAY FUNNIES: REMEMBERING JOAN RIVERS (1933-2014)

Autumn the Puppy's Sunday Funnies post originally scheduled for today will be presented next weekend, as The Free Choice E-zine pauses to remember comedienne Joan Rivers.

I hate housework. You make the beds and do the dishes, and six months later you have to start all over again.

Looking 50 is great, if you're 60.

I was born in 1962, and the room next to me was 1963.

The first time I ever see a jogger smiling, then I'll consider taking it up.

There are new fad diets coming out all the time. On the Vanna White diet, you only eat what you can spell.

The fun of working on the road means you can steal things from hotels. I've been working in show business for so long, I have a set of towels from Noah's Ark.

Thank God we're living in a country where the sky's the limit, the stores are open late, and you can shop from the convenience of your own bed thanks to television.

I'm no cook. When I want lemon on chicken, I spray it with Pledge.

You know it's time to start using mouth wash when your dentist leaves the room and sends in a canary.

I finally found out how priests get holy water. They boil the hell out of it.

We all mourn in our own way. I mourn with a great steak dinner.

At my funeral, I want Meryl Streep crying in 5 different accents.

The Free Choice E-zine does not know whether or not Joan Rivers got her wish about Meryl Streep, but there was a red carpet at her funeral Saturday, September 6, 2014 that she was subsequently buried with.

All material (c) Joan Rivers and/or her estate. Rest in peace ma'am.

THE PUZZLE CORNER: SEPTEMBER 7, 2013

And we're back with more puzzles to entertain and delight you!

Do you know?

TRIVIA TIME
What was the tallest mountain in the world before Mount Everest?

THE LETTER SHUFFLE
We're going to try something a bit different in this edition. All the answers to the clues will involve the same 5 letters, but not every answer will use all the letters!
If you get enough answers early, you'll know what 5 letters are involved, and in the spirit of fairness, all the answers will be in alphabetical order.
Ready?

01. Time?
02. Exist?
03. Cog?
04. Unwanted brightness?
05. A beer?
06. A size?
07. Factual?
08. Royal?

We'll reveal all next weekend. But for now, let's peek inside THE ANSWERS BOX and reveal the results from the August 31, 2013 Puzzle Corner.

And the answers are...

MISQUOTED?
This is the debut of a BRAND NEW GAME! A famous quote is repeated below, or is it?
All you have to do is say whether or not the quote is accurate. Ready?

From the 1977 movie Close Encounters of the Third Kind:
"We are ready on the dark side of the moon. Play the five notes."

This IS MISQUOTED! The correct line is "If we are ready on the dark side of the moon, play the five tones." While some disagree about the opening, it has always been tones, not notes.

BEFORE AND AFTER
Two separate things have been combined to create a new item. Can you figure out what it is, based upon the clue below?

Celebrations of life on a daytime soap opera? = Happy Birthdays of our lives