‘Cause it’s kinda funny
I have a "Far Side" day by day calendar. My favorite cartoon, so far this year on that calendar, shows a family of garden slugs in their car driving down the road. There’s a sign on the side of the road ahead of them that reads, “The Great Salt Lake”. The daddy slug says to the others, “Hey, everyone! Time for a swim!”
The caption of the cartoon is, “Slug vacation disasters”
If you don’t get it, it’s because you have never dealt with slugs in your garden. And no, I don’t do it anymore, but as a kid, I confess that I did.
The caption of the cartoon is, “Slug vacation disasters”
If you don’t get it, it’s because you have never dealt with slugs in your garden. And no, I don’t do it anymore, but as a kid, I confess that I did.
posted by pissed off patricia at 2:30 AM
23 Comments:
The Far Side, what a great way to start a day. ;)~
A million years ago I used to work in a camera store. A customer who was slow to decide which camera they wanted and would spend hours wanting to go over the systems was known by the sales staff as a "slug". A sales person who had one would call for the salt shaker.
We must have the same calendar! ;o) lol great way to start every day.....and as a kid I confess to being guilty of that as well!
Have a great day!
I remember slugs and the cartoon is fitting for them.
Far side is always clever, witty, or just humously mean. Love it.
best cartoons evar!
We always used a small dish of beer to get rid of slugs. The beer evidently attracted them and when they crawled in they would just sort of expire in kind of "Miller Heaven". Much more civilized than salt.
My favorite Far Side is the day scientists finally broke the code and could now interpret dog barks. The dogs were all yelling, Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey, Hey! Hey!
What's wrong with me? I don't remember slugs in the garden ever, but I do know hwat they are, AND no thanks I don't want em.
Joke cute- I have had vacas like that
By far my favorite Far Side was captioned “Jurassic Calendars.” Tyrannosaurus Rex is marking off days on his calendar. Each day has a to-do reminder: “Kill something and eat it.”
Under the Meager Accomplishments of Congress category, the minimum wage increases today for the first time in ten years. Based on a forty hour work week, it is still only about a third of what the missus and I paid in federal income tax last year. From this I conclude that the restaurant owners have struck a better arrangement with the government than we have.
I had forgotten how much I liked the Far Side cartoons. I may have to get a calendar for next year, so I have something to laugh about while I count down the days till the end of Bush's term.
Beer worked well too
Slugs are in my garden right now. I just throw a match on the whole thing, except we've had so much rain that it's too soggy.
Thanks for the reminder of The Far Side!
I need to find some of those books!
I love The Far Side. With a passion.
i live in banana slug land, so i know just what you mean. there have been many tiny babies around. nothing beats stepping on one barefoot!! :0
i give the slugs more credit than the president, as far as intelligence goes.
*snort* Love me some Far Side :)
Being an avid gardner I have done it myself but Sparky duck is right. Beer works very well.
I have to laugh because that cartoon is very fitting and funny.
I remember that cartoon about the slugs! I loved The Far Side. I still have the last Far Side comic strip (it was a takeoff on the end of The Wizard of Oz) hanging on my refrigerator.
Me too. Let's hope there's no such thing as Karma. :)
Well, I'm kind of a slug myself, so, speaking for slugs everywhere: "GIVE US BEER!" There's Heaven...and then, as you say, there's "Miller Heaven". And any of those foreign beer heavens will do just fine too.
Ewwww! Are you a secret football player?
You could be our next attorney general then. iirc correct, the president apparently blew up toads with firecrackers as a boy.
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