Wizard of Id by Parker and Hart for February 05, 2010

Guess you just weren’t serious enough to the Fink. Better luck the next time your parole hearing comes up in 20 years.

Some things you can’t say with a straight face.

Yup, and you’re a little funny yourself.

Honesty is supposed to be the best policy. Here I’m not so sure!

If you go way back, Spook didn’t get imprisoned for calling the king a fink. He called him a two-bit, four-flushing, dirty, rotten, low-down indiscriminate clod. The ISBN of the book it’s in is 449-02842-060.

Fer Lefer are you impugning our ability to make witty and imaginative reposts?

In other words, Edcole1961, he called the King a fink (longhand, as it were). :))

But thanks for that information!

I bet I could say it with a straight face. It’s one of the perks of being a Theatre Teacher.

So that’s what Spook is in for!

There has also been a inference that he is there because he is the only person to ever beat the king at croquet.

I always thought “Spook” was the castle architect and because he knows about all it’s secrets was why he’s been imprisoned all these years… And thinking of the King as a fink was an afterthought…

I think you’re right Susan001. I’d like to see the world’s best poker player try.

No, the King is a fink.

Incredible. I called Rodney “Sir Rodney the Chicken-Hearted” in a tag, independent of any strip or comment I recall seeing. And now I see it tonight on Wikipedia’s article on the strip…I wonder if my memory’s going.

Anyway, here’s the comment on the Spook:

Spook: A miserable, comically destitute prisoner who for many years has lived in the dungeons beneath the castle. He is covered from head to toe with hair, sometimes being likened to a giant rat. His crime was one of a few mentioned things (when a visiting earl expressed an interest in meeting the only person to beat the King at croquet, he is introduced to the Spook. Or when he called the King a “two bit, four flushing, dirty, lowdown, indiscriminate clod” in an early strip), but most of the time it is accepted that the King sentenced Spook to a lifetime in the dungeon for calling him a fink. He is treated poorly by the system, but his best friend is the warder Turnkey, posted outside his cell. He lives happily beneath the level of the moat, eating “swill - a bland, disgusting slop similar to garbage - and for a hobby attempts to escape on a regular basis. He normally tunnels under the walls only to have his plans ironically cut short. His favorite book is “101 Ways to Escape” (coincidentally written by himself). It is mentioned that his full name is Wellington J. Farnsworth Spookingdorf the Third in a strip featured in Volume #10 of the series.

‘Joe Allen’

How do you think the King got his ‘alias’, he told on all the other kids in the castle and finally did it to his Dad. That is how ‘the fink’ became King.