Loose Parts by Dave Blazek for January 05, 2016

I consider myself fortunate: I have the capacity to eliminate Mr. Blazek’s strip from my daily reading.I’ve been tempted in the past, but this one has convinced me.

And give it back nicely — don’t use that pipette as a blowgun again!

Watch how gently he pets that pumpkin pie.

And that’s why we wore safety glasses in our lab.

I read this three times before I saw the word “pipetter”!

I couldn’t understand what a “pipefitter” would be doing with an eyeball…

should i keep an eye out for roger?

“Would you like your eye back?”“Wood eye!”

Yo ho ho! There’s a lot to be said for wearing an eye-patch!

Even knowing what a pipette is this is just goofy.

Peter Falk had a glass eye for most of his life. As a kid he was terribly self-conscious about it — until the day he was called out at third in a baseball game. He stood up, popped out the eye, and tossed it to the thoroughly startled umpire exclaiming, “Here! You need it more than I do!!”

Talk about loose parts …