Wizard of Id by Parker and Hart for July 11, 2016

It says in the ‘About Wizard of Id’ intro to this comic that the comic has been ‘enchanting audiences since 1964.’ Please note that part of the audience is not enchanted by today’s ’toon…

What was he trying to do? Test a pendulum?

…Perhaps this is the best way of torture. Shake your blood when it’s all in your head.

Today’s Strip Sick

Used to be funny.

I think it’s still funny.

“Throw him in the dungeon for, um, 50,000 swings”.

Horrible…

I have a Newton’s cradle in my office, but I think one like Fink’s would be a lot more fun to watch…

Well, at least that provides a change of scenery for the prisioners!

Today’s strip IS funny. The drawing is a little screwed up, even when allowing for cartoon physics.

Now grab one from each end and let them go at the same time!

Does that constitute cruel and unusual..? It’s definitely unusual.

It demonstrates transfer of linear momentum. The one striking gives up all momentum and the one at the far end moves with the same amount of momentum, swings out, swings back, strikes, sends the first back, repeating other than frictional losses..To work properly, you need stiff masses, not mushy people and the masses need to be the same for each strikee and striker, or maybe just for the ones on the end, but as it is usually done, you can drop one, two, three, four to strike and the same number from the far end will continue to move.

He is a sickie.

Finkton’s cradle