We're living in... Funny Times

I’m not sure where to put this, so I’ll just start a new thread. Feel free to re-classify this as appropriate.

“We’re living in… Funny Times” is a not quite monthly “newspaper.” Hands down our favorite bathroom reading! We’ve subscribed for years, and I swear this is true, every issue the wife and I each laugh out loud at least once. No shit. There’s really something for everybody.

It comes out 10 times a year. Used to be monthly, but their costs have gone up and the price has remained pretty steady. A bargain in our view.

There’s a mix of narrative comedy writing as well as strips and single cell cartoons. No doubt you will see artists you are familiar with. Zippy, for example, makes regular appearances. The first page is always First Laughs, a potpourri of subjects. Each following page has a theme. Themes may be anything - babies, modern life, the future, the past, points of interest, cars, superheroes, etc. You get the idea, could be anything including our favorite plant. Dave Berry and Andy Borowitz have their own pages. A regular feature is “News of the Weird,” stories from all over the world that are, well, weird. Regularly featured on that page are actual news stories of particularly stupid criminals, people with issues, government inaction, things to worry about, can’t possibly be true, etc. They’re all real! Again, you get the idea. A favorite of mine is The Curmudgeon, a column of quotes on a particular subject. Those below are on Education. Of course there are political cartoons (often with a page heading Politics or News), but they are from both sides. The comedy is pretty non-partisan. There are also, of course, cartoons as well as page headers about religion/atheism, a favorite of mine.

Here are a few examples of what you might expect. Sorry, cropping photos isn’t in my toolbox.

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Cool man :+1: :peace_symbol:

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Old school brilliance in purest possible form. Love it. :heart_eyes:

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I think ‘Things That Make You Go Hmm’ Volume 3 or whatever is on the forum. :sweat_smile:

:evergreen_tree:

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That made me laugh :rofl:

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Awesome love the sarcasm and humor!

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It’s been several months since this thread has been looked at, and there are a bunch of new OGs who probably haven’t seen it.

Funny Times is a not quite monthly humor periodical. I encourage you to subscribe.

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I quite enjoyed the “grown locally but not locally around here.”

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