Wizard of Id Classics by Parker and Hart for May 05, 2024

By the looks on their face. Not a barrel of laughs……

Three broke guys and a little wizardry over a poker game? He could be guilty.

It looks like they were playing strip poker.

“Sirica” is certainly dated. How about changing it to at least “Ito”?

Judge Shorty is presiding today

This was the ‘short’ version.

So why are barrels used to depict poverty? After all, they are quite impractical. The origin is generally attributed to Will B. Johnstone who was a popular political cartoonist for the New York World-Telegram in the 1920s and ‘30s who depicted the American taxpayer as a naked man wearing a barrel to illustrate his penniless state and it went on to represent the millions who had lost everything in the Great Depression.

Judge Sirica was involved in judging Nixon’s crimes, and here we are again with another criminal republican former president in court.

3 former friends who’d like their money back.

Only a fool would play a game of cards against a magician. I guess the Duke and Rodney are now officially fools.

I’ve always wondered: how do these guys afford barrels?

Lost their shirts, and pants.

Thought the witness was going to be the judge.

Who would be dumb enough to play poker with a wizard.

Wow a Sirica reference. Wonder how many will recall this nutty judge from Watergate who arrogantly rejected a guilty plea and started a huge scandal.

No wonder. The Wiz must be using the same dirty tricks of The Great Bumbleoni. (tribute to Al Jaffe)