Off the Mark by Mark Parisi for April 10, 2022

Do the rooks take the cross town?

I guess it’s the knight train?

Mid-knight train to Georgia.

I don’t get it. I don’t play chess though. :)

To me it brings to mind, “Have Gun Will Travel – Wire Paladin”.

Looks like a lot of horsing around to me.

And it jumps over the bishop’s crosstown train.

Knights move in a L pattern

Those silly kniggits

https://www.gocomics.com/inthebleachers/2022/04/10

I have a data download in which I have to select a date from a calendar. I want 15 days ago to the previous day. 15 days ago is up two from the current date and left one.

“The LLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL…TRAIN!”

If there is an L train, are there also trains labelled A-K? Or M-Z?

dont get it

They are just horsing around.

We’ve gotta get the L out of here!

oh the irony

Should be some Tetris pieces on the train, too.

Take the L Train

It started as the horse race, with lively feinting moves, but that had too much dignity. So, rats, in a maze. And betting on ‘the horses’.

Is this a New York thing?

Why couldn’t the pony whinny? It was a little hoarse!

Ha

I will not be pedantic and explain that knights do not actually move in an L

Checkmate!

You have got to have a sick sense of humor like me

Love it! Thanks for the laugh. Great way to start a day.

I think the joke is the knight captures another chess piece in an L formation.

https://youtu.be/uYqh6-0DB2g