Wizard of Id by Parker and Hart for October 07, 2018

To the tune of THE FARMER IN THE DELL. There is an ear here, an ear there, an ear everywhere.

The prototype for a ballistic missile launcher.

I’m sure someone will come up with a corny joke about this!

Beats manual labor.

The Patent Office is going to have to go into overtime for this one.

And here I thought someone had just come up with a novel way to shut a rooster up!

Harvesting and distribution in one step. A great saving of labor.

SOME?

Foonk!

“Hmmm! If I loaded the corn with bombs…”

Let’s see, it picks the corn, peels the husk and delivers it. Now figure out how to cook the corn before it delivers them and improve the guidance system and I think he’s got it.

Good thing it isn’t pop corn with the steam powered picker.

A ‘FEW’ bugs?? That’s like saying the sun is a light.

The first popcorn machine?

Aw shucks, that darned thing looks cobbled together. Pretty husky though. There’s a kernel of truth in this. And the puns keep coming smooth as silk.

A Steampunk corn picker!

Nice catch, whoever you are in the next to last panel!

Rodney always catches it, whatever it is.

“Getcher corn shucker, right ’ear!”

Check the timing.

This wizard isn’t the brightest . . . To create a machine to harvest corn, when he could just as easily create the corn. Or better, skip right to the end product and create that

And here I thought it was just another corny cartoon, but after the number of responses it accumulated, it must be something else.

Just re-purpose it as a weapon. ;-)

For someone who can create corn with the ears on top, the bugs should be easy to adjust.

It might help if he waited until the corn is ripe.

Actually, it looks like it’s working pretty well!