The Argyle Sweater by Scott Hilburn for November 19, 2023

What was the James Bond movie where he had only seconds left to decide which wire to cut before everything went ker-blooie, and then a hand came in from the side and resolved the issue for him?

Lately I’ve been hearing news interviews with people who have learned English as a foreign language who pronounce BOM-BING because they didn’t learn about silent B’s.

looks like this squad is about to become Bob

A good Psychiatrist might be able to help with this problem.

10 seconds later, M lost her head – as did MI-6.

M-ily thought Plumb Bob wasn’t being straight when he claimed his favorite song was “The Sound of Silence.”

I’m thinking that bomb about to go off represents AI, and we have no idea how to make sure it doesn’t blow up in our faces.

The last “B” is silent until it goes BOOM

A deadly silence!

If he’s not careful, all that silence will turn his colleagues into a MOB.

Where is J when you need him?

If you see a bomb tech running, try to keep up

“You have the right to remain SILENT”

It’s another word that came to English from the French language (by way of Greek, Latin, and Italian). Is it any surprise that a letter went silent?

Is this joke a bomb or a dud?

Take cover…….

What, you DON’T pronounce the final B? Hmm, that would explain a lot of funny looks…

Two B continued…

This comic is a real bomb.

He blew it.

B2 knew he had been pranked when he turned to page two of the manual and it said: 2B or not 2B…

Seems like a Silent Bob reference from Clerks.

And dead Fred cut the red wire … another victim of red-green colorblindness.

I like the movie where they trip over the cord and accidentally unplug it to save the day. :)

I don’t doubt it.

Gold Finger

One of the funnest classes I got to take via work was to attend a one day bomb school. It was part fed and part St Paul Bomb Squad doing it for our highway maintenance employees. I decided I needed to attend too.What I wanted to share was they were saying, no way do they do any cutting of wires ever. See they dont care about a building going boom, they dont want to go boom. They do have robots and a bomb container for bombs but they never risk their own lives. The class ended with a C-4 demo outside that they blew up a large pumkin. Man was that kool. Make an M-80 sound like a silent fart.