Wizard of Id by Parker and Hart for January 26, 2024

“Think you used enough gunpowder there, Butch?”

When learning how to fire muzzle loading weapons, just remember to keep repeating, ‘first the powder then the ball’.

I just watched a Columbo episode where that happened.

Powder monkeys were expendable……..

Look like they no training their troops.

Reminds me of the saying “You live and you learn”. If you live.

The cannon was ordered from Acme® and came without directions.

Never been around them but seems to me like that situation would just produce a big flash and bang out the muzzle at lower pressure and the ball would still be sitting where it was. I must be missing something. But it’s early.

Now you tell me.

Finally!! YAY!! A new sound effect KA-FUNG!! Getting tired of FOOM!

Backfire!!!!!

With teammates like this, who needs rivals?

Ka-Fung? Really? What happened to "Boom or Bang, or Pow?

Well, what did you expect, Rod…he’s an Id-iot…

As the saying goes, “Read the manual.”

The only way I understand this is it was an explosive round, steel cannon ball with powder on top would have just “fountained.”

From ball bearer to pall bearer.

THIS IS ONLY A TEST!!

“If this had been an actual emergency, the Attention Signal you just heard would have been followed by — An Earth-Shattering KABOOM!" Not a KA-FUNG!!

THIS IS ONLY A TEST!!

See today’s Lio.

“Details details details…”

Sorry guys, wudnt go off if ball 1st…

Yesterday Thor on BC blew the roof off. Today, it’s Rodney’s turn. The old Parker-Hart gang are having a blast.

After cleaning the cannon from any debris form the last firing, using multiple implements including both wet and dry sponges, the order is:

load the powder bag(s), ramming it or them in place for a tight fit

load the actual shot (cannonball) , ramming it in place for a tight fit (surprisingly, the tight fit causes the explosion to do less potential damage to the barrel)

piercing the powder bag with a wire down the vent hole

placing the quick match\fuse in the vent hole, making contact with the powder

touching a lit coal which is at one end of a rod called a linstock to the match, thus igniting the powder, firing the cannon, and sending the shot toward the enemy