Garfield by Jim Davis for December 15, 2024

I have no idea, Garfield

Check again, Jon.

Nice hair in the last 2 panels

He’s transforming into lyman

VVVVVVVVV

Someone been chewing on the wire again, Jon?

By testing it, duh!

Do it again, he still has some skin and muscle tissue left.

Jon looks like Achmed The Dead Terrorist.

what a shocking development!

You can definitely tell if a socket is working my sticking your tongue in it…

This is not recommended.

Jon is so meticulous.

Must have happened after Garfield chewed on the wires, like my cat!

At this point Jon should probably pay someone else to put the lights up, it never seems to end well for him

I don’t think that’s it go check one more time

Unscrew a bulb, stick your finger in the socket and see if its getting any juice.

The game VVVVVV?

Try again third time’s the charm.

What sort of antique lights is he using?

VVVVVVVVVV! He found out on the hairdo.

Jon just looks awful after getting electrocuted, that’s how he knows it, Garfield.

I see Jon has had a couple of shocking experiences!

Miiiiight be time to buy a new string of lights, Jon.

When you’re stupid enough to do it twice, do the world a favor and put your hand in the water bowl when you go for 3.

I probably laughed harder at this than I should have.. :D

The hard way it would seem…..

A “short” should pop a circuit breaker. Unless Jon is the short, then Jon takes the hit and “pops” when he lets go.

You should always let an electrician check out your shorts.

I don’t think the short is in the Christmas lights.

Just a hunch!

One more time, Jon. You’ve almost made it to Piltdown man.

A short in the wiring from where the cat chewed on it.

No circuit breakers in Jon’s house.

LED lights designed to run on 3 AA batteries may be modified to have a USB connector for the power of them, rather then constantly replacing the batteries. Also the +5 volts of the USB is very safe to touch and handle.

ZZZZZZZZZ…

Slow learner ! ;-)

Send them to Big Clive to take them apart and see what’s wrong with them…

I once worked in a steel foundry where there was an electrician in Maintenance who was a real whack job. He would actually talk to the equipment he was going to work on and say “When I get done wiring you, you are going to work, aren’t you?” One day he had to shut off the juice to a piece of equipment. He tracked the conduit back to where he thought the fuse box was, pulled the switch down and locked out the box. He then went to the junction box where the piece of equipment was wired in and, instead of taking a reading with his meter to see if the connection was dead, he reached in and was promptly knocked on his butt by about 440 volts. He shook his head and said “There just can’t be any juice there!”. He stood up, reached in and was promptly knocked on his butt again. Again he said “There just can’t be any juice there!” and got up for a third go round. It was at that point that a foreman ran up, threw his arms around him and said “Stop it, _________. You’re going to kill yourself. There is obviously juice there because it has knocked you on your butt twice. Find another fuse box to lock out because that is not the one.” He was finally sent to prison (or the funny farm, I don’t remember which) for driving up to a McDonalds drive in window and tossing a dummy (Army training) hand grenade through the window. When they raided his house to check for more stuff they found a fully automatic, unregistered Thompson sub-machine gun. I never heard what happened to him after his incarceration.

“why do they call it oven when you of in the cold food of out hot eat the food?” THUMP!

Looks like the “SHORT” started in his shorts, and worked it’s way up….Nothing lost however….But such a smell!…..

110 volts can leave quite an impression on one.

Seems like there might also be a problem with the breaker and/or GFCI

Garfield has been chewing on the wires again…