Brewster Rockit by Tim Rickard for April 22, 2023

Hmm, I love the idea.

More like an engineer lardoate.

In the real World Cliff would have been sacked a long long time ago!

Well, he at something. And a lot of it.

Hmmm … so, we’re all hoping to become Brewster Rockit reader laureates?

lau·re·ate noun: a person who is honored with an award for outstanding creative or intellectual achievement.

Sorry, Cliff. You’re definitely not a laureate.

Sorry, Cliff, engineers don’t get to be laureates. Maybe emeritus when they’ve very, very old and retired. But, lazy ones like you are lucky to still be working for a salary.

There’s no such thing as a lazy engineer, at least in college. That is one of the hardest majors out there.

If that’s the definition then I know several postal management laureates.

Better to give him a splenectomy and reassign him to Dr. Mel and let Winky ( or Blinky or whatever) do the engineering.

Hmm we seem to have a lot of laureates in high positions of authority lately….

Does someone who writes cowboy songs get to be a poet lariat?

He’s more of an “engineer emeritus”.

Montgomery Scott or Geordi LaForge he ain’t.

https://blogs.loc.gov/catbird/2012/02/what-do-poets-laureate-do/

As we prepare Artificial Intelligence to take over the boring and laborious duties of life, Cliff leads the way toward our preferred future.

(If you don’t prefer it, you are of the past and can probably work out your days there.)

Poet laureates have to write poems for special occasions at least.