Rubes by Leigh Rubin for May 02, 2024

Sherman and Megan, you’re in the wrong strip

Forget it. That would require survivors.

A shark hospitalised a British tourist visiting Trinidad and Tobago. on 26th April 2024, so this is… a joke at his and his wife’s expense, I suppose. But I also suppose that tourists around the world are getting attacked by sharks on most days, so maybe it isn’t personal. To be exact, a news report says that “Last year, there were 69 unprovoked attacks and 22 provoked bites worldwide, along with 14 fatalities, according to the Florida-based International Shark Attack File.” Well, those are the ones that have someone still around afterwards to get in touch with Florida and let them know.

“My gut agrees.”

You disarm them and I’ll go for the legs.

Have fun.

As they break into a synchronized swimming version of “Hello My Baby.”

I was thinking Baby Shark

noun Yahoo..

> One of a race of filthy brutes in Swift’s “Gulliver’s Travels.” See in the Dictionary of Noted Names in Fiction.

Still less risky than swimming with lawyers.

Can they remember if they are dead?

I suppose those are meant to be shades. Either that, or these are black-eyed people that the sharks really DON’T want to mess with.

They’re gonna do a little offshore drilling.

Think about it for a minute. They can’t remember if you kill them.