Ladies and gentlemen, and all the little children we pretend we wouldn't rather be sometimes, it is once again time to throw off the shackles of responsibility and deadlines and marketing and all that other stuff we writers have to do and just have fun. In recognition of the brutal winter we have all suffered through, I thought we'd start with a joke about the weather. Image Courtesy of StayForeverCrossFit.com In B.C . by Mastroianni and Hart, B.C. peeks out of his cave and sees that it is raining, so he goes back inside to get an umbrella. Then the rain stops and he comes out to see that the sun is shining, so he closes the umbrella and takes it back into the cave, coming back out with fishing pole in his hand. Then it starts to snow, which has him go back into the cave and emerge later with a pair of skis. Now the snow has stopped, and the sun is back out, so he once again goes into the cave, coming out with a golf club. As he steps out of the cave, the snow starts agai...

As we look ahead this month to Thanksgiving, I am very thankful for all the cartoonists who brighten our days with their great humor. Enjoy! From One Big Happy As Ruthie's mom hands her a dinner plate she says, "That's one beautiful piece of fish." Ruthie looks at it and makes a face. Mom asks, "You don't think so, Ruthie?" "Well, maybe before it was murdered and set on fire." From Pickles Opal and Earl on sitting on the couch together. Earl says, "I'm amazed when I look back on my day and realize all the faraway places my mind had traveled. Afghanistan. The polar ice caps. The Bay of Bengal, the terraces of Machu Picchu…. The halls of Kilimanjaro, the deep sea depths of the Mariana Trench, Boise, Idaho…" Opal interrupts, "Would you mind going to the store for me? We're out of milk." Earl: "Okay, but only in my mind." From The Argyle Sweater - Cookbooks by hi...