Wizard of Id Classics by Parker and Hart for October 07, 2023

You promise them no more S. O. S.

That explains a lot

New mess hall, same old S.O.S.

Isn’t the mess hall supposed to be a mess?

Tell them their rations will be halved?

This morning, I have been watching today’s Saturday morning repeat of “The Adventures of Robin Hood” on Talking Pictures TV here in the UK. Once again, Paul Eddington appeared before his later appearances as Will Scarlet.

In the episode “The Final Tax”, Eddington played a Norman nobleman who was looking forward to claiming a serf’s ox as inheritance tax when the serf was seriously injured in a fall. The serf crawled away from his home and village in the hope that when he died the Normans wouldn’t find his body as proof of his death and wouldn’t be able to claim the ox from his widow and son. The outlaws found the serf and helped him recover from his injuries. Meanwhile, the Norman nobleman had the missing serf declared legally dead. Friar Tuck returned the recovered serf to the village and learned that the serf had already been declared legally dead and the ox taken. He told the nobleman that he would either have to return the ox or declare the serf exempt from further inheritance tax. Realising that the serf was unlikely to ever have anything more valuable than the ox. the nobleman signed the agreement that the man was exempt from the inheritance tax. Friar Tuck then persuaded all the other serfs to sell their livestock cheaply to the serf with the provision that he would lend the livestock back when it was needed. Therefore all of the livestock in the village was exempt from inheritance tax.

they must have used my wife’s recipe. Hers is actually quite good.

And at the breakfast table the mother looked at her young son and said, “I don’t care what your father called it in the Army. You are going to eat it and like it!”

Offer only bread and water…“And what kind of bread would you like today? We have moldy wheat, moldy white, moldy rye, and moldy multigrain. For water we have plain, bottled, tap, and brown…”

Threaten to take away their linen napkins?

S.O.S along with its great coffee is the best Army has to offer…

They only eat there AFTER they win the battle…..

Set up lunch carts on the battlefield.

Asterix the Legionary: “The stronger the army, the worse the food is (…) I didn’t think the Roman army was that strong!”