Cornered by Mike Baldwin for February 17, 2025

"Block"heads.

Cheap.

Oh for the good ol’ days when divorces only cost $1.

On the corner of Cheapskate and Essential Goods!

Equal work………equal pay!!!!!

Getting a divorce is like getting a tooth pulled.

Getting a tooth pulled is like getting a divorce.

Don’t fall for it! The comma and the three extra zeros just fell off of the lawyer’s sign!

On the corner of pain and maim.

Anybody know where I can find a good $10 hooker?

time to go shopping!

Not worth the paper they’re printed on.

Dentist and lawyer in the same room? This make sense. Because them boths is cause such pains.

To the left of the Dentist Office, not shown, is the Cartoonist Office. The sign on the window….Drawings $.10

3 men in a tub looking to do business

In “O Brother, Where Art Thou?” it was revealed that Everett had been sentenced to the chain gang for practicing law without a license (rather than his cover story of robbing an armored car). At the end when he tells Penny that he’s going to get a bona fide job, he’s going to be a dentist, Penny says he’s not licensed for that either, and he says “I have a friend who owns a printing press who can run me up fake credentials.” That’s what this reminded me of.

It’s probably too late now, but I always wanted a sequel to that movie called “In McGill We Trust.” It takes place years after the War (maybe the mid-1950s), from which Everett returns a hero, but he’d actually conned his way into a officership as an Army Dentist. He got his medal because they’d only let him work on the teeth of German POWs, who would reveal military secrets after five minutes in the chair with Everett, just to get away. Back in Mississippi he’s parlayed his War Hero status into an influential political career. Anyway, the main plot of the film involves Everett being talked into running for Governor (Pappy O’Daniel is dead but fondly remembered). His campaign flyers are $1 bills with Everett’s face on them and the motto “In McGill We Trust,” but his friend with the printing press made them a little too convincing and some of them end up being passed as actual currency. His opponents have him arrested and tried for counterfeiting. The climax is a courtroom scene where Everett, abandoned by the party machinery, has to act as his own lawyer. His summing-up speech not only gets him acquitted but wins him the election. All of this is set against a backdrop of the fledgling Civil Rights movement and the birth of Rock and Roll, so both the social and musical contexts of “O Brother” are retained and updated.

Cornered.

They’ve cornered the market. :)

That is indeed easy street

I need the address!

Something tells me the dentist and the lawyer used the fake diploma joint. Location, location, location…

I don’t know, getting a tooth pulled isn’t easy for any price.

I’ve always wondered what’s a peasy? I usually like my peas in a porridge.

xD

Bummer! And me with only $9 …

Need fake diploma for BS in Political Science… c’mon this one’s easier THAN peasy!!