B.C. by Mastroianni and Hart for December 26, 2023

Oy!

Quick! Sand!

Be more fun to hand the guy the sign and watch it sink

“Is it anyone we know?” Doesn’t matter. Nobody dies in this strip… not even the snake.

Slow sand doesn’t make the cut.

This opens “the doors” for the wisdom beyond

This is the sand, my only friend

The sand…

Me never knews why they calls it quick sand when it is devour its prey so slowly.

Quicksand gets the name from the old use of “quick” meaning “alive” or “as if alive”. We see the same usage in “the quick and the dead”, and the old chemical names “quicklime” and “quicksilver” (for liquid mercury). In this context, quick does not imply speed.

I stepped in to quicksand as a child. Sank about three inches and ruined my new sneakers!!

poor guy, didn’t know he was going to get quicksanded…

Sometimes, truth in advertising can have a negative effect, which is why in the med commercials the ‘possible side effects’ field is in tiny print and lasts about as long as a puff of smoke. They don’t like to encourage one not to buy.

How about helping the poor schmuck out?

“Wire the main office and tell them I said, ‘OW!’”

Don’t guess they were sure at first!

“Good to know” say the hands…

How about a no swimming sign?

it’s good to be a procrastinator, you can step in quicksand but it will take days before you get around to sinking

Kind of the way our government assesses problems in our country.

nor does it imply short comments

Quick mix

Today’s quicksand, tomorrow’s affordable housing

Rush, like my hero “The Hanging Judge” Isaac Charles Parker.

I’ve read where it is impossible for someone to sink completely in quicksand, however I will be willing to bet those who came to that conclusion never made a personal test.

welp, not gonna be seeing who ever that was again.