Speed Bump by Dave Coverly for December 11, 2021

Time to empty the ashtrays.

Yeah. We got a mouse in our new(ish) vehicle. Left us feeling about how I ’spect God feels about the odoriferous earth.

Probably smells like oil. :(

Unfortunately, we missed that old smell too.

If I have my facts straight the new planet was active with sulfurous volcano’s. So, no offense intended, just what is it you eat up here?

The space age is just beginning but some is still stuck with creationism.

You could always hang an air freshener on the moon.

In systematic theology (which has a great deal to do with philosophy and little to do with the Bible) God is usually conceptualized as existing in an eternal ‘now’ and the perception of time doesn’t apply… One of the many reasons I am not a systematic theologian.

So, in systematic theology the world would always have a new ‘smell’ to God, and an old ‘smell’ and every smell in between, all at once and forever.

Yeah. Now it just smells like the dumpster fire that it is.

I hear that there’s a New Heaven and a New Earth coming.

Then bring back Pluto.

I don’t even want to know how Earth smells now…

Hey, God – there’s an aerosol you can buy to “re-create” the new planet smell.

But he made it.. and said it was good. Genesis 1:31. If He didn’t want us to foul it up by burning fossil fuel.. He should not have included it in the package. Poor long range planning in my opinion.

There’s definitely a strong stench in the air.

It still smell’s.

Yeah it sucks here too.

So just create another one.

I noticed Little Trees brand sells Black Ice car freshener, apparently it’s a masculine scent of woods and citrus.

From Jasper Fforde’s wonderful The Eyre Affair:

“It was 1814; the dawn of the Industrial Revolution. The planet had just passed its ‘best used by’ date.”