Dark Side of the Horse by Samson for January 06, 2021

And now, to prepare a clickbait article on that titled 4 out of 5 dentists agree about this thing!

We extrapolated from Horace only being 80% sure.

Surveys are like a visit to dentist…oh right.

I want to know why the 1 out of 5 don’t agree.

Neigh-ver call me for a survey ….PITA

The fifth dentist just immediately hung up.

Horace has a job…?

I worked (briefly) at a phone survey place conducting such surveys, and I remember being assigned a project conducting surveys with various dentists…but I couldn’t ever get through to them, because whenever I called, they were always legitimately preoccupied with something else and couldn’t come to the phone, and their assistant (if I got that, sometimes it was automated) couldn’t do the survey for them. Some dentists weren’t even in the office at the moment because I happened to call in time for their routine break or meeting or whatever. It appeared the times my place of work had me calling always appeared to be a bad one.

So I’m sort of envious that Horace is actually getting any results at all for his surveys.

Did you enjoy today’s strip? Would you recommend it to a friend? Was this survey conducted in a professional manner?

I’m not even a dentist and I find the current rage for feedback insanely disruptive.

That 5th dentist is always a problem

‘Nice’ was a forbidden word in classes taught by a Milwaukee nun in the 1970’s and if you used it in a composition your grade got lowered. Thus, the phrase ‘cruelty free’ was developed to replace ‘nice’.

Now, the dentists are fighting back by making us take surveys. I had a visit on Monday and an approval survey was in my inbox before I got home.

If you love the way Samson plays with the comic panel space, check out today’s “9 Chickweed Lane”.