FoxTrot Classics by Bill Amend for September 28, 2018

the scorched outline will be keeper… for short while until Andy either paints the wall or calls a contractor to replace the wall

Just like in a nuclear explosion.

Check for missing hair, or at least eyebrows.

The scorched outline should serve as a reminder, but with this bloke…I’m not so sure!

C’mon Bill, let us see the scorched outline of Roger!

He forgot to duck and cover.

May I suggest coal.

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Famous last words: “I know what I’m doing.”

Dunning-Kruger effect: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect

Years ago, there was a gas leak in a house here. Something ignited it. The “explosion” lifted the house a short distance off of the foundation. It landed back on the foundation, but at a slight angle. The walls were bowed out. It had to be destroyed.

Umm… the giant fireball would have at least made the pilot light stay on…

Shades of Mr. Bean! ☺

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T9MAmWnOznI

Almost any Air Conditioning service person has had a similar experience, don’t ask how I know.

Nice to know he is teaching young kids shops courses ;-)

To paraphrase Darth Vader, “The Dunning-Kruger effect is strong in this one…”

We had an old gas drier that I was always having to relight the pilot light on by holding down a button until my thumb almost dropped off. One evening I was doing that and reached up to turn on the ceiling fan, and discovered what can happen with an old non-grounded electrical system. My hand clamped down around the light chain, and I couldn’t let go until my knees buckled and I jerked the chain out of the switch. When the light went out, I thought I had died!

That’s ALL he got ?!? His guardian angels must be developing PTSD.