Crankshaft by Tom Batiuk and Dan Davis for February 09, 2023

No one trust the news media. Media outlets have succeded to convince everyone the media are spreaders of hatred and fake-news.

That kid has some talent. If he’s able to fly a kite in a snowstorm.

Someone making a big to-do about an imminent event that turns out to be an underwhelming dud. Much like when this syndicate announced they were picking up “Crankshaft.”

J.J. O’Malley, most of us enjoy Mr. Malaprop.

Well, they have to get ratings somehow.…

The weather channel needs a major overhaul.

I could make a comment on how that “crawler” is sounding like someone who is living in Florida, right now. But to keep this comment section from blowing up with political debate, I won’t.

I enjoy the snow unless I have to get somewhere in a motor vehicle.

Accurate reporting again and the hits just keep on coming….

Crankshaft – finally somebody I can relate to.

The Weather Channel always puts a reporter in the thick of the storm right on the ocean’s edge. With debris flying by their heads, they tell everyone to stay inside.

I wonder if the naming of the storm could have been a shout-out to “Far Side” creator Gary Larson?

I like the kid flying a kite in a snow storm and the guy riding a unicycle while juggling.

It can be -20 below zero, blowing winds with a wind chill of -35, and zero visibility on the highways. There is No Travel Advised, and the highways are blocked off and closed. Yet…there will always be a handful of people who will feel stir-crazy, then feel the need to run to Walmart or Target to ‘stock up’ on snacks. And some of them, even in the middle of a winter storm, will be wearing shorts.

sounds like winter in Charlotte,NC. an inch falls and it’s chaos

A few years back, one of the local weather guys ended up having to kiss a pig on the air after a forecasted “huge” snow storm turned out to be a few flurries.

Amazing, everyone always on Battys case but when it dropped it was people going crazy finding out where they could find it.

For those of you who think this is always a false alarm I direct you to the storm which hit Northern New York before Christmas. And the deaths of people who failed to stay indoors. And the heroism of people who tried to save those who were buried in their cars because they went out when the weather “wasn’t that bad yet.”

It is no joke that corporations make money by “crying wolf” to get people to watch their shows.

I was instantly reminded of this recent viral classic: “This is what you get when you ask the sports guy to come in to cover a blizzard in the morning show.”

https://twitter.com/MarkWoodleyTV/status/1605961457337712640

Beyond that, I’ve now seen a Crankshaft offering that not only has a good gag, but also a gag that’s executed well. So someplace else has apparently frozen over at this point, too.

Haha! XD