Birdbrains by Thom Bluemel for November 30, 2009

This flu bug is a pain in the neck for sure!

Are we sure this is a flu bug? It sure looks tick-ed off!

Good Morning Thom

Some Nuclear Coffee or (in a pinch) Extra Strength CocoMocha should fix that up just fine.

Good morning…er, good night, Tribe! (zzzzzzzzzz…)

As I stated in Big Top, my coffee pot only has on/off buttons but no NUC. Can I get an upgrade or must I go to Windows=7?

Alternatively, you may go to your favorite Mediterranean restaurant, order as much Turkish coffee as they’ll let you get away with, and boil that down until your spoon starts dissolving.

Third option: any Klingon restaurant worthy of the name will serve you authentic Nuclear Coffee, as Doc is the chief supplier of such places. They will simply rename it as raktajino.

Clipboard says: “Take your vitamins & exercise, Lori” I seem to remember the name Lori showing up before, anyone recall?

And a torch’d be nice also.

god, that is so creepy! reminds me of Heinlein’s ‘the puppetmasters’

I read that too, DFrog. Not sure about it.

If that is the flu bug…

I DO NOT WANT IT

All and all though. It’s better than having a pig wrapped around your back.

Perhaps Lori is “Mrs. Thom”? Or “daughter Thom?” Goodmorning all!

Great stuff Thom, ! Lets get out the really bigg Bugg Swatter !

It’s not swine flu–maybe avian flu?

Such an old joke. What’s next? A man bringing his computer into the doctor’s office and the doctor saying, “your computer has a virus.”

It is an old joke and yes, it’s a cool one at that!

That bug is a tough one. It’s not going anywhere.

I would hate to have that bug on me. WOW scary

Carmy hi “tribe mom” i have not seen you all day its lovely to see you today how are you?

Dear comicsexpert -

I hope you were not offended by my complete failure to come up with something no one has ever done. All cartoonists seek to be as unoriginal and unfunny as possible, so in that sense, I hope I have succeeded. It always distresses me when a reader learns I don’t create my own cartoons… muhahahaha.

Perhaps you could write in to tell us which cartoons are original, so we only do those.

Blue as can be…

To the Tribe -

Why didn’t you all tell me this was going to be so unoriginal? As I was painting the bug on this guy’s neck, it occurred to me he should have brought in his laptop… but then I thought, tomorrow would be a better day for that one.

LOVE YOU GUYS!! :)

Thom

Thom, Thom, you should know by now that there are no really original jokes left. Only puns or old jokes rewritten. It’s all in the presentation, and you did great here.

Well it did remind me a bit of Belushi’s bee, and that’s not a bad thing.

Thom, your hard work and great detail will always keep us reading, and I think that’s what it’s all about, the critics can read somewhere else.. Please keep upi the good work..

Chief Thom Thom,

Wiser Chief than we say “there nothing new under sun”. Many moons pass over big river since Wise Chief live, but saying still true.

Ignore so-called braves who hunt buffalo with slingshots. They only waste rocks and annoy buffalo.

With heap big respect, Chief Sitting Duck

Chief Thom Thom I’ve been sick for 6 days and the Doc said (not the one in the comics, really) that a lot of people have had the same bug as me, so there.

Search deep, there may be some relevance somewhere. What do I know? This old bug has me.

This isn’t the first time I’ve laffed at you either, so there again.

Chief Sitting Duck, good job going Ecclesiastical on us, my brother!

@cleo Are you refering to back bacon? What’s wrong with that?

Chief Thom Thom That’s a nasty bug. I hope the insecticide works and doesn’t kill the patient in the process.

Why would you want to be original and funny? I think just being good and funny like you is great.

yea what shika said we like u as u are. so deal with it.

Thanks to all of you for your wonderful support. I didn’t take the “unoriginal” comment too personally (I just can’t wait for a dark alley situation… muhahaha). Seriously, the support of my readers is far greater than the overexpectant critics out there - and there have been many!

THANK YOU! THANK YOU! THANK YOU! THANK YOU! THANK YOU! THANK YOU! THANK YOU! THANK YOU!

Thom

Christ. Write better.