Close to Home by John McPherson for October 16, 2020

Awww….. :(

That better be a loooooong rope.

Skunks don’t stink unless they’ve sprayed recently. I used to work the graveyard shift at a call center and on breaks would walk around the building. I would see skunks out hunting bugs all the time. Sometimes I wouldn’t notice one till I was just a few feet away, couldn’t smell them at all. Fortunately, the skunks knew the humans there would leave them alone so never sprayed anyone.

A repulsion powered boat!

This is confusing. It looks like the raft is tethered to the bow.

But they’re cute little stinkers.

I don’t think that is very kind.

Why DIDN’T Noah swat those 2 mosquitoes?

What did the Zebra say to Noah? “Whaddaya mean alphabetical order?”

Don’t dunk the skunks.

Why are there 3 yellow birds? and what looks like 3 pink pigs? Is this where gender fluidity started?

How many animals did Moses’s put on the Ark?

See what continued fun we still have with mythology!

Well, apparently, Pepe Le Phew finally cornered a date. Now that I think of it, I suppose that whole cartoon character would be banned today. He probably crossed that fine line between persistence and stalking.

Oh yeah no AC nor febreeze back then

The original social distancing.

Completely disappointed! This would have been a perfect opportunity for Bleeb to have brought his new girl friend. The relationship was moving to fast maybe.

What do the lions eat?

… and the Lord said: “you shall build a platform 7 cubits by 7 cubits, and you shall tie it to a rope, and you shall tie the rope to the Ark, and you shall pull it freely behind the Ark.” And Noah obeyed, and built the platform, tied it to a rope, and pulled it behind the Ark… with skunks on it. Thus, began “tubing” the lake… and it was good! The platform broke-up in the heavy wake caused by the Ark, and when Noah observed this, he saw one skunk clinging to a single board and one skunk on another board… and thus began water skiing. And it was good. And Noah said: Lord, the reason you see only three pigs is simple; originally, there were four… but you can’t have a day on the lake, water skiing and tubing, without a BBQ. And it was good!

They seem to be waiting for Noah’s Shark…

That’s the ark’s exhaust.

I’ve smelled cows and I’ve smelled pigs, but what I haven’t smelled is a skunk that hasn’t sprayed (though I have been around them). The skunk raft probably smells much better than the ark.

Well, they got scared…..

Looks like the ark shrunk, in the rain.