Boy: Because it's not summer if you don't live large, but you don't want to peak early and spend too much of it on injured reserve watching it fly by.
Frazz: You know whose Augusts go fast, I bet? Orthopedic surgeons.
Yes, my first thought also – beautiful drawing today! How I miss those lazy Sunday mornings reading the LA Times, and saving a those 3 or 4 comic pages until last.
Except it doesn’t work quite like that, you take the risks and get the injuries but you don’t die young. Fate mockingly laughs at you and you live a long, painful middle age where no one wants to hire you because you can’t work a full day. Then finish with a hopeless, poverty ridden, old age where every thing you try to do hurts and no one cares.
Bilan about 8 years ago
Apparently the buzzards are all too familiar with that philosophy also.
andy herbert about 8 years ago
he’s going to overshoot the landing ramp
Kind&Kinder about 8 years ago
“He flies through the air with the greatest of ease, but the daring young man’s not on a trapeze!” Watch out below!!!
sandpiper about 8 years ago
Hence the rationale for ‘excess’ in all its forms.
car2ner about 8 years ago
makes me think of “how in the world did we survive our childhoods”. at least he has his helmet on
jessegooddoggy about 8 years ago
Yes, my first thought also – beautiful drawing today! How I miss those lazy Sunday mornings reading the LA Times, and saving a those 3 or 4 comic pages until last.
humorist54 Premium Member about 8 years ago
They (the circling birds) have short tails, so they’d be Black Vultures here in the mid-Atlantic states.
Rista about 8 years ago
Except it doesn’t work quite like that, you take the risks and get the injuries but you don’t die young. Fate mockingly laughs at you and you live a long, painful middle age where no one wants to hire you because you can’t work a full day. Then finish with a hopeless, poverty ridden, old age where every thing you try to do hurts and no one cares.
JP Steve Premium Member about 8 years ago
Was Sellers slated for that role too? I can’t imagine anyone except Slim Pickens riding that nuke to glory!
hippogriff about 8 years ago
JP SteveAnd cue the great Vera Lynn on the soundtrack with We’ll Meet Again.