Shoe by Gary Brookins and Susie MacNelly for October 26, 2023

Your car started off, with a jerk…..

My kinda gal!

Is she one of his ex-wives?

It’s a shoe-in, Shoe!

There was this cute girl that I found attractive, but I was married, so I never approached her. Later, I was divorced, so I went to look her up, and she was married.

My butcher dropped my steak while he was handing it to me.

Now it’s ground beef.

I once fell into a vat of butcher’s waste…

It was offal!

How did the butcher introduce his wife?

Meet Patty!

My friend showed me how he keeps his expensive butcher knife sharp.

I thought it was pretty cleaver.

What cut of meat do you get from an extremely tired butcher?

A filet mid-yawn.

Time for a soda?

So … Is there another jerk sitting on the other side of her?

His specialty was jerky

Stop jerking around…

That doesn’t mean that she is taking up with you, Shoe. Your reputation has preceded you ! ! !

She gave you a opening big guy go for it

How can she be between jerks, I only see one jerk beside her.

I’ll probably get some grief for this but… having watched boy-girl relationships for years while teaching, I saw a whole lotta boyfriend decisions by girls that looked totally insane to me.

Does she knee jerks?

She bought all her poultry from him. She was fond of jerk chicken.

And he is not a Shoe-in to fill that gap.

She’s sorta j e r k off…

“So, you’re saying there’s a chance?”

Is she flirting with that jerk, Shoe, or glaring at him? I can’t tell.

Nicely snarked.

She knew going to the butcher’s shop was a great place to meat men.

In physics, jerk (also known as jolt) is the rate of change of an object’s acceleration over time. It is a vector quantity (having both magnitude and direction). Jerk is most commonly denoted by the symbol j and expressed in m/s^3 (SI units) or standard gravities per second (gǒ/s).

First derivative dj/dt = Snap (jounce)

Second derivative d^2j/dt^2 = Crackle

Third derivative d^3j/dt^3 = Pop

Time derivatives of higher order than three appear rarely, and have not been named!