I drove through a side street once where somebody was keeping a flock of turkeys on their property. The turkeys had meandered slowly into the road, and they were so stupid, they wouldn’t move, even when people pulled the car right up to within an inch of running them down, and honked the horn. Traffic was backing up. I finally got out of my own car and walked up to the turkeys, shouting and making threatening moves. They still wouldn’t budge until I started physically nudging them. I used to not believe turkeys would stare up into a rain storm until they drowned, but now I do.
Jay looks just like Jeremy, Roy looks like Jeremy’s dad, Kathy (?) looks like Sarah, Rita looks like Jeremy’s mom. I love these “guess which cartoonist’s style” strips.
I looked it up for anyone else that didn’t get it. H1N1 is the scientific designation of the virus that causes swine flu. So the joke is the “piggy” bank. Swine flu-“swine” bank.
Second guy from the right could try singing, instead of “La Donna e Mobile…”, “Tuvok, I understand, you are a Vulcan man! You’ve been far too long without, it’s been seven years about! Hormones are raging, synapses blazing, it’s all so very… illogical!” Then he could be the Doctor from “Voyager” instead of Rigoletto.
I’m afraid that’s what a lot of people in the small towns south of Tampa Bay were saying. I personally know a woman who just moved there from Tennessee with her husband and two children just a few months ago, and they just had their brand new house heavily damaged by Milton. They had evacuated to a shelter all the way down in Miami, where she started having panic attacks for the first time in her life. When they finally got back home, the house was still standing and habitable, but there’s still no power. They’ve been trying to keep their kids entertained with box games by candlelight.
That prediction wasn’t that far off. When I worked as a temp office clerk in data entry, filing, and copying during the 1990’s, all those jobs were already dying. True, the paper-based office wasn’t dead yet, but it was definitely getting there.
Does anyone else think this dog looks more like a pig?