Dark Side of the Horse by Samson for June 23, 2024

Middle right: “In fact, let’s not jump at all.”

Horsing around again.

Example 1 of a throw back Houyhnhnm.

Emotional, erratic, undisciplined, prone to laziness and bouts of anger.

It WAS too late, Horace. You’ll be ordinary until you pay the penalty.

It’s what happens when you horse around.

A melting of the mind….

he pushed his luck and pulled a muscle…

The last is a very good science fiction premise about a world network that makes people reliant on its services. People not connected, or whose connection is disabled, would be at a huge disadvantage in most things, once adapted to it.

I didn’t even know there was a brain bill… maybe that’s why everyone’s brains ain’t working too well anymore. :J

Running your brain on subscription? That’s just where we’re headed these days.

Not to worry, Horace! Maybe we can start you a GoFundMe page, and get you back to at a least a Mr. Ed level!

Even the Brain Wave has been privatized! (Brain Wave, Poul Anderson, 1954).

Either this is an unmarked rerun, or Samuli is repeating himself.

Either this is an unmarked rerun, or Samuli is repeating himself.

By the time it gets factored to a bill collector, he will only be able to say “Hee-Haw”.

The last gag answers a lot of questions.

C1 – Congress

C2 – yes that can be tiring… Try pushing 80

C3 – well, politicians run, yet do no real hard work….!

C4 – that’s nothing, you should see what happens when you fail to pay your sewer bill.!