Lay Lines by Carol Lay for January 17, 2023

I thought death waits for nobody.

Oh, that’s only men.

“I took survival lessons from a cockroach.”

Mike the headless chicken lived and walked for 18 months after his beheading in 1945. Today it could get elected to congress. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_the_Headless_Chicken https://www.life.com/animals/life-with-mike-the-headless-chicken-photos-of-a-famously-tough-fowl/

’nuff with the politics….

Disturbingly realistic strip

All caps like in the Discworld books.

Sad, but you can’t run away.

That’s certainly a very un-kosher way to dispense with a chicken.

I guess no more insurance premiums.

Random Musings:

Farmer: “Dang! I gotta remember to pen ’em up before chopping the heads off those free range chickens!”

At first I thought the chicken should reply, “Well, I was busy running around like a . . . oh, you know . . . .” Then I realized that (hopefully) Death is asking a purely rhetorical question. Because if he’s expecting the headless chicken to get up and speak (assuming that, as a cartoon chicken, it had the power of speech), he’s got a long wait.

Is Death there to take the chicken’s soul to the afterlife, or has he just been impatiently waiting around for his dinner?

“Had to wait for the smartphone battery to die.”

Pluck, gut, dismember— it’s Sunday dinner.

It takes a while to swim through De Nile…

From this we learn to NEVER EVER cut the head off of a T. Rex.