Wizard of Id by Parker and Hart for July 23, 2023

Big guy?

The rob from the rich… will get you rich! So… who watches the watchers?

A little unusual to have a WOI without any of the main characters…

No wagon tongue again.

The final cut is the cruelest one.

Some hood robbin’.

Hey, give me all ya gold…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fd0YiVeqC1o

And whoever makes it through that 10-hour-loop: Congratulations, you were mugged, they stole a day from you.

The old joke. Robin Hood robs from the rich and gives to the poor!

(hands over chest of coins)

Yippie! We’re rich!

I think we get the point…..

I mentioned the 1950s TV show “The Adventures of Robin Hood” last year. Someone claimed that the Sheriff was played by Paul Eddington but I replied that he was played by Alan Wheatley in all the episodes I had seen and that my reference book and the Internet both credited Eddington with being the second actor to play Will Scarlet in the series. I recently watched an episode in which Paul Eddington played an unnamed peasant. He would later play Will Scarlet.

Eh, Goscinny did this first.

Ah yes the return of robbing hood.

Their business model was too successful!

Isn’t a ‘one percenter’ an outlaw motorcyclist?

See this from 2005:http://howlandbolton.com/essays/read_more.php?sid=266“And then, even further back in time, there was Great-27-times-over-uncle Robin Hoodland-Bolton who practiced the trade of Freelance Liberal Tax Collector. It had been his practice for many a year to take from the rich and give to the poor, and it had been a good life and with all that practice he was good at it, but then he had suffered a bit of a setback when his dear old granny had croaked and left him quite a bit of money in her will. This then meant that he himself had become quite well off, and of course being the man he was, his first act with this new found wealth was to politely but firmly relieve himself of it at point of bow, or rather more pointedly, arrow , whilst delivering the age old command “Stand and deliver! …Um… Um … me”. This then would leave him poor again so he would promptly and most generously give himself the money, thus restoring his previous state and wealth and problem. He ended up spending days like this, which was getting him nowhere and getting him there not particularly quickly.”

Should have stopped the conservation while you were ahead!

This could be a applied to the “tax the rich / eat the rich” crowd. As they get what they want and accumulate the wealth of others for themselves, they become the thing they’re fighting against.

Is that the Biden crime family? 10% for the big guy!

Internal conflict within the Internal Revenue Service again?

Alas, there is no honor among thieves. ’-)

One good robbery deserves another I suppose.

Traitor!

Dennis Moore, Dennis Moore

Galloping through the sward

Dennis Moore, Dennis Moore

And his horse concorde

He steals from the rich

And gives to the poor

Mr Moore, Mr Moore, Mr Moore

Dennis Moore, Dennis Moore

Riding through the night

Soon every lupin in the land

Will be in his mighty hand

He steals them from the rich

And gives them to the poor

Mr Moore, Mr Moore, Mr Moore

Dennis Moore, Dennis Moore

Dum dum dum the night

Dennis Moore, Dennis Moore

Dum de dum dum plight

He steals dum dum dum

And dum dum dum dee

Dennis dum, Dennis dee,

Dum dum dum

Dennis Moore, Dennis Moore

Riding through the woods

Dennis Moore, Dennis Moore

With his bag of things

He gives to the poor

And takes from the rich

Dennis Moore, Dennis Moore, Dennis Moore

Dennis Moore, Dennis Moore

Riding through the land

Dennis Moore, Dennis Moore

Without a merry band

He steals from the poor

And gives to the rich

Stupid B!tch.

Lyrics: Graham Chapman and John Cleese

Kevlar reins.

Dennis Moore, Dennis Moore Galloping through the sward Dennis Moore, Dennis Moore And his horse Concorde He steals from the rich And gives to the poor Mr Moore, Mr Moore, Mr Moore

There’s no point in stealing from the rich, since apparently none of them can afford to pay for their fair share of taxes.

Who cares about the wagon tongue?

I wonder where he learned that???

Never trust anyone…..ever

hagar did it better years ago- Robin explains what all his keys are for the castle, the summer house, the place at the lake…" what? I didn’t say i gave it all away."

Blackadder’s been there and done that:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wL-NNWoblxI

Reminds me of the theme from an old Robin Hood parody, “When Things Were Rotten” (by Mel Brooks before he produced “Men in Tights”:

“They laughed, they loved, they fought, they drank, / They jumped a lot of fences. / They robbed the rich, gave to the poor, / Except what they kept for expenses!”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uG9YaXgF1pw

From Monty Python’s “Dennis Moore” Sketch:

Moore: Halt! Halt! (the stage comes to a halt and the occupants get out rapidly, their hands held high) Gentlemen, ladies, bring out your valuables please. Come along sir, come along. Come along, madam, come along. Oh, is that all you’ve got … well, he’s got much more than you … so you’d better have some of his … (transfers money from one passenger to another, dropping some)… sorry… pick them up in a moment… there’s about oh, what, nine down there… so you must have about… oh, he’s still got lots… oh you’ve got what? … you’ve got more than he started with… so if I give you some of those (transferring more coins) … well now, look … have you got a bit of jewellery? If I give you that one and you have some of his coins (the credits start, superimposed) … is that another box? Were you trying to hide it? Well, that’s nice! Right! Now. I’ve got a tiara … you’ve got one… you’ve got one of the boxes… you’ve got one… anyone else got a tiara? Take your hat off! (passenger does so to reveal a tiara)… Oh, honestly, it’s absolutely pointless trying to do this if you’re going to cheat. It really is awful of you… (fade out)

A one-track mind.

No honor among thieves.

“This redistribution of wealth is trickier than I thought”. Dennis Moore from Monty Python’s Flying Circus.

Dennis Moore, Dennis Moore, riding through the night

“Animal Farm” before “Animal Farm” was cool. (And then it wasn’t, and then it was again, and…)

Honor among leaves…(think, the forest)…

It matters not who the rich are…robb’em!

No honor amoungts theives

Future president.

When you get hoisted on your own petard.

Robbing Hood and the boys encounter a fundamental problem of doing well.