I blame the cardboard pants inserts. It’s well known that aerodynamically speaking, you can’t get the forward roll high enough with them. Hence the face plant.
That and the fact that his butt alone weighs 245 pounds. Well….
This actually occurred last Tuesday. He thought the gravitational pull of the supermoon would give him the extra lift he needed to complete it this time.
Second childhood. At 65 I thought I could still skateboard. I saved face by not falling but every one of those muscles I hadn’t used in years screamed in agony for two days. I feel Chambers’ pain in refusing to be old.
I saw the whole thing! I believe that once the unfortunate Mr. Chambers is righted, you will find a Scuffy mark underneath (and Scuffy may still be there)…
Liverlips McCracken Premium Member almost 6 years ago
Yes, it most definitely is.
hangedman almost 6 years ago
He flipped out, man! (The Tower, XVI)
Superfrog almost 6 years ago
He completed 4 coffee rolls for breakfast and that’s made him over confident.
Farside99 almost 6 years ago
He felt that he just had to kick up his heels a little bit. The drinks at the retirement party might have had a little bit to do with it.
Kind&Kinder almost 6 years ago
His bargain with Mother Nature fell through, and the Earth Lucyed him!
LastRoseofSummer Premium Member almost 6 years ago
I blame the cardboard pants inserts. It’s well known that aerodynamically speaking, you can’t get the forward roll high enough with them. Hence the face plant.
That and the fact that his butt alone weighs 245 pounds. Well….
DennisinSeattle almost 6 years ago
Spring Fever! Made him think he was young again, before he needed those inserts to present a properly flat Ballard Butte.
His wallet seems pretty thin, though. I hope he can afford to pay for the repairs to Mrs. Higgenpooter’s lawn.
SusanSunshine Premium Member almost 6 years ago
Poor Mr. Chambers.
People are laughing at him.
Well, I don’t think it’s so gosh darn amusing.
I’m going across the street, to try to help him pick up his wallet, and that credit card he’s about to lose….
before some passerby gets a real charge out of it.
Bilan almost 6 years ago
This actually occurred last Tuesday. He thought the gravitational pull of the supermoon would give him the extra lift he needed to complete it this time.
.
He was wrong.
x_Tech almost 6 years ago
Not sure if this is where Jerry gets his ideas or these people have been reading too much Ballard Street.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=piQT_v7TChU
Cornelius Robinson Premium Member almost 6 years ago
The hemp leaves he’s been using. Looks like he’s dropped some
Nighthawks Premium Member almost 6 years ago
LOL!…there is nothing quite like a twenty-something’s faith in their own fitness/invulnerability that can come crashing down, quite
literally
Nighthawks Premium Member almost 6 years ago
gravity…..don’t mess with it!
Huckleberry Hiroshima almost 6 years ago
Leave him be. Everyone has their own definition of complete these days.
J Short almost 6 years ago
It’s that cinder block body build that gives him all the tumbling capabilities of Frankenstein.
Happy, happy, happy!!! Premium Member almost 6 years ago
Well, at least he had the foresight to try that in the lawn, and not on the concrete walk.
Plods with ...™ almost 6 years ago
Either that lawn had a hole in it, or Chambers head just said hello to his kidneys.
GROG Premium Member almost 6 years ago
Some people shouldn’t be allowed to think.
NRHAWK Premium Member almost 6 years ago
Second childhood. At 65 I thought I could still skateboard. I saved face by not falling but every one of those muscles I hadn’t used in years screamed in agony for two days. I feel Chambers’ pain in refusing to be old.
the lost wizard almost 6 years ago
The forward thinking was at least a good thing.
whiteheron almost 6 years ago
He must have completed it. Afterall, he isn’t still doing it, is he?
magicwalnut almost 6 years ago
I put on a snowsuit and went out on the lawn to make a snow angel a couple of years ago…and then found, to my dismay, that I couldn’t get up
AndreaR almost 6 years ago
This is what happens when you square your shoulders……
comixbomix almost 6 years ago
“’Cause he had hi-ig-gh hopes”, is the answer…
ChessPirate almost 6 years ago
I saw the whole thing! I believe that once the unfortunate Mr. Chambers is righted, you will find a Scuffy mark underneath (and Scuffy may still be there)…
Alberta Oil almost 6 years ago
What indeed… but now the problem at hand is how to right the ship before some dog thinks you are a fire hydrant.
WCraft Premium Member almost 6 years ago
Where there’s a will, there’s a way.
Linguist almost 6 years ago
Forget get the idea that he could " complete " a forward somersault, what in the world gave him the idea that he could even start one ??
Linguist almost 6 years ago
He stayed at a Holiday Inn last night ?
TurbosDad almost 6 years ago
He could not possibly do a successful somersault with the flat cardboard piece in his pants. Cardboard has never been "roller-friendly)…
JoeMartinFan Premium Member almost 6 years ago
No…the question is “Why does Mr. Chambers have a rectangular butt?!”
rhpii almost 6 years ago
Mr. Chambers doesn’t quite get the concept of sticking the landing.
jimmjonzz Premium Member almost 6 years ago
Random Weird Juxtaposition Number 94,315
This is in my “Comics I Follow” queue immediately after “The Last Mechanical Monster.” The similar images in today’s offerings is kinda goosebumpy.
ekke almost 6 years ago
Is that the mother of all, ah, gas-passings being depicted there? I know that happens whenever I try a forward roll, myself.
Vet Premium Member almost 6 years ago
I think a gopher got him by his tie.
Shikamoo Premium Member almost 6 years ago
Mr. Chambers feels he just lost face there.