Close to Home by John McPherson for October 02, 2019

If you think it’s unBEARable now, just wait till you see what’s up ahead.

Of COURSE the salmon are faster — you DO know why they swim upstream, don’t you?

I don’t know who spawned this idea but it sounds fishy to me.

Does the coach know salmon die right after spawning?

Go ahead Bleeb, give him a good kick and a shove and watch him splash. Then you can laugh for the rest of the day.

I just hope the salmon don’t confuse the swimmers for potential mates once they reach the mating grounds.

I wonder if Skidmont College is a riff on Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs, since John McPherson lives there?

What time do you commenters get up? No wonder the spawning puns are in short supply today.

Ah. Bleeb sobered up, his color is back to “normal” today…

He’s not blushing!

I’m pretty sure the slowest salmon can outswim the fastest human.

The finalists get to race piranhas .

Coach, it’s hard to do the Butterfly Stroke in two feet of water.

No shame in getting beaten by a fish. Getting eaten by one, that is a different matter. Swim them with sharks. Send the survivors to Nationals.

Is that 3rd guy Flounder Dorfman?

Swimming with the fish is better than sleeping with them.

They better hope they are not swimming against the UC Bears today.

If they’re pescatarians, they won’t have to worry about food after this workout

Worked for their crew team….Roe! Roe! Roe!

Well they’ve had more practice.