Close to Home by John McPherson for May 01, 2022

If that isn’t a slap in the face

I do believe that his teacher is jealous of his machine.

i know a few weirdos that would dig that device’

“Slap-N-Learn?” – in my youth teachers could manage both, but today they seem to have become lazier and lazier…

We had a teacher who would turn his college ring upside down and hit you on the head if you acted up in class. You never told your Folks or they’d punish you even more….Oh the good ol’ days…

K-Tel presents!

Prototype of The Culture’s slap robot.

For less than half the price, he probably could have gotten the guy behind him to do it.

I could use one of those at work. Particularly around 2 of the clock.

It’s the new Rebulican teaching method.

He doesn’t look particularly slap happy.

I prefer coffee injection when fatigue sets in

I think that idea might have come from The Self Operated Butt-Kicking Machine… only with a few tweaks. However, I can’t be certain, ‘cause whenever they covered that kinda machinery in school, I was mostly napping in the back row. I guess I coulda used one!

There was a time, in Catholic schools, this would have been the nuns job.

Should have hired Will instead and saved the money buying the machine

That happens to me whenever I visit the political cartoons here and post my opinion.

Hey, Eno at the Duplex could use one of those.

Had a science teacher who would wake you up with a CO2 fire extinguisher. I always woke up when the room got quiet as he tried to sneak up on you. Ah yes, flippin burgers at night and and first class= science. Good times..

And Bleeb observes yet another bizarre human behavior.

I suspect that John McPherson wanted to be an inventor and reveals his love of creative ideas via his comic strip.

Look like something from a Japanese game show.

I had a Spanish teacher who would throw a bit of chalk at someone who wasn’t paying attention. Ah, Mr. Starfield. Took me years to realize that his unusual surname was likely a result of his immigrant parents having Americanized their name from Sternfeld.