Reality Check by Dave Whamond for December 18, 2024

You light up my life.

Today’s comic should be printed on the lid of one of those boxes designed to store lights.

Just plug them in and be done with it.

I store mine on leftover wire spools. They’ll hold 150 to 200 feet of lights if you find the right ones. Put a stick through the center hole and unwind your lights as you need them to put them up. That, plus a “light stick” (a long stick with a finish nail stuck in it) and you don’t even have to climb ladders to reach the nails or hooks that you left up from the season before.

Oh this is bad! Santa’s losing it… he’s talking to a string of lights!

I just know he’s gonna forget my Easy Bak…. I mean my G.I. Joe action figure!

Knot now Santa.

Throw them at the tree tree and plug them in.

just went through this with the lights…

It reminds me of the angry guy, from the paradody song, “The 12 pains of Christmas”, that is trying to rig up the lights. “One goes out, they all go out”! and, “Somebody get a flashlight, I blew a fuse”!

Santa, get an aluminum tree and a colored wheel so no lights to un~knot and more time to relax and eat cookies….☺️❤️

If it were up to me the lights would stay tangled up in the basement. Bah Humbug.

Tangled up in blue (lights).

His blood runs cold…

Don’t blame the string of lights. Blame (get mad at, if you want) the person who left and put them away like that.

The unfit deceiver in red&white gear should have been in the knotty pine flooring business or at the ‘Black Velvet’ bottling company..

Don’t read the question below if you love Ann Bancroft or hate Charlton Heston in ‘The Ten Commandments.’

How many billions of people held down by the spirit of the unfit deceiver know that the ark of the covenant had to have a blue covering on it?

Santa just loves Christmas lights…knot!

Mine are permanently on the knotty list ! ;-)

I’m easy. That was funy!

It’s actually much more rare to find one that ISN’T on the knotty list. That’s why I gave up strings of lights and switched to projector devices. An artificial tree with a color wheel for indoors and a snow globe projector for outdoors. Voilà. Done!

Im in the midst of untangling lights as I write this

I still like Boomhauer’s approach on King of The Hill. He dumps a box of tangled holiday lights on a table in front of a picture window, plugs it in, and walks away.

Last year a fall from a ladder while purring up lights almost killed me. Some of my friends are Mormon and have teased me unmercifully since then. It got old until I realize they couldn’t help it. After all, they consider themselves to be “Ladder” Day Saints …!

( knotty knotty )

Ralph called it a lost Claus.

But they’ll only get a light sentence

You get them exactly like you put them away. Ours are neatly coiled and never knotted.