Stephen Colbert has Tip of the Hat, Wag of the Finger; we have the Chuffington Post. Tigers are known to make a loud exhaling noise when they are pleased, otherwise known as “chuffing.” In this blog, we here at the Free Tiger tell you one thing we think deserves our chuffing and one “bungle in the jungle.” Here we go:

A hearty chuffing:

Xkcd.com. Everyone who’s nerdy enough to enjoy this Web comic probably knows about it already, but I happened to stumble across it when somebody showed me this one:

I couldn’t stop laughing. Shut up, I like grammar jokes.

The art is, shall we say, minimal. Stick figures seem to cut it for most panels, and many of the comics are simply dialogues between two stick people. Yet Randall Munroe, the comic’s creator, is so intelligent and so bitingly insightful that he doesn’t need anything other than faceless stickmen to convey his humor and social commentary. Now that deserves a chuff.

Bungle in the jungle:

Tiger stripe ice cream. I think I can address this bungle best with an open letter to two ice cream flavors we know and love.

Dear Chocolate and Vanilla,

Stop pretending to be Tiger Stripe. I know it’s you in there behind that black and yellow food coloring. You taste exactly the same. Believe me, I ate a lot of you last year as a freshman. It makes me sad how you feel like you have to disguise yourself to fit in at MU. Don’t you know that everyone likes you for who you are? You don’t have to pretend to be gold and black, even if the College of Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources tells you to be. They’re just trying to use you, Chocolate and Vanilla. You need to be yourselves. The food coloring stains my teeth anyway.

Sincerely,

Brendan S. Gibbons