Today’s One Big Happy:
(The strip appeared in my feed today, but it’s dated December 25th, in keeping with its content.)
In any case, both Ruthie and her older brother Joe seem to be fully satisfied with their (stereotypically gendered) Christmas presents.
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Back in November, Business Insider posted a piece, “A Leaked Internal Uber Presentation Shows What The Company Really Values In Its Employees”:
One page of the document defined which qualities all Uber employees are expected to possess. Those qualities, or “Uber Competencies,” are: Vision, Quality Obsession, Innovation, Fierceness, Execution, Scale, Communication, Super Pumpedness
Business Insider picked out two of these, super pumpedness and fierceness, as especially worthy of mockery. And now Scott Adams’s comic Dilbert has exploited these in two strips, from yesterday and today.
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Today’s Bizarro:
A long-standing and often troublesome ambiguity, but rarely an issue in restaurants, since there are few restaurants specializing in Native American cuisine.
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In the news from L.A. today:
Yesterday, the LA Conservancy posted an alert on their website that a demolition permit had been approved for the iconic, Googie-style Norms restaurant on La Cienega at Rosewood Avenue. The Norms chain sold late last year. The eye-catching 1957 building was designed by Googie gods Louis Armet and Eldon Davis, and is both a textbook example of the endangered and whimsical Googie style — the Jetsony look emblematic of Southern California in the Jet Age — and the quintessential California coffeeshop. (link)
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Today’s One Big Happy commits a pun:
Wrapping gifts, rapping on gifts. Well, rapping on gift wrapping. Ouch.
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Yesterday it was the noirwhal; today on Rhymes With Orange, it’s the French pastry revolution:
A complex tissue of puns, portmanteaus, and cultural allusions.
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First, today’s Zippy, with Pinheads bonding over pop culture; and then a very serious Zippy, on the occasion of the Charlie Hebdo massacre:
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In today’s One Big Happy, Ruthie once again wrenches unfamiliar vocabulary around to something she knows:
pallbearer to polar bear.
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Today’s Rhymes With Orange, with a kind of visual pun:
(A related pun in Rhymes, from 6/24/12: Venice elbow.)
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