B.C. by Mastroianni and Hart for October 06, 2020

Soon he’ll be rolling in colly flowers.

I thought collywobbles were weeble dogs

Here’s a “Murder of Crows” for ya -

What’s the origin of the phrase ‘The collywobbles’?

Colly is an English dialect word meaning coal dust. Blackbirds were hence known as colly birds. The song Twelve days of Christmas is usually sung as ‘my true love sent to me, four calling birds’… but the actual line is ‘four colly birds’.

They need to put out a Wiley’s Dictionary book and/or calendar.

See definition of ‘melancholy’ for a similar pun.

May your colly never wobble.

Okay. So now to get the joke I have to look up in another dictionary what a collywobble is.

Is ok to kiss a Collywobble ?

collywobble doodle all the day…hic…

according to the British “Collywobbles” means a stomachache.

Lassie in the briar patch?

Speech-101, knocked it out of me. Came in handy during ’89 and all those public speeches that Y2K will have no effect on telephone service. I guess I can uncross my fingers now.

This strip is getting worse with Mason!

plural noun informal, chiefly humorousstomach pain or queasiness: an attack of collywobbles.• intense anxiety or nervousness, especially with stomach queasiness: such organizations give him the collywobbles.ORIGINearly 19th century: fanciful formation from colic and wobble.