Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for February 12, 2021

Duct tape and Benadryl.

I bet Duke will never be proclaimed patron saint of childhood.

Very smooth, Duke. He suspects nothing.

Well I have heard that duct tape is the handyman’s best friend but that is neither red nor green.

And those cases of vodka over there… best sedative money can buy. He kids sleep straight through the night after a bottle of that.

Word of advice, “Run, Duke!” Unless of course you live in an area where the District Attorney never prosecutes the police or priests. (Milwaukee had one for over twenty years who allowed police to get away with murder and priests with child abuse. But God help you if you a young black man caught smoking a reefer.)

Duke shops for his duck tape the same place Wylie Coyote gets his products.

Looks like Duke, or at least Honey, shops by mail at the same place as Wily Coyote.

Everything else aside, juxtaposing “children” and “duct tape” nowadays raises the specter of a word that starts with “traff” so IMHO it’s not quite as funny as it presumably was in 1995. And THAT threw cold water on everything. :-|

I guess it’s about time for Duke to strike his teepee and move on to the next scheme.

Anyone want to predict the inspector will approve the place?

The handyman’s secret weapon -zzzhhhttt- duct tape.

This is violently upsetting.

Duke was a man before his time. There were no Blackwater owner/operators to build cages for the children in his time.

Considering the abuse that occurred in American Indian ‘schools’ & the Irish Catholic children’s homes, and who knows how many others, this thread is becoming pretty dark.

Before zip ties were generally available.

“Silence is golden, but duct tape is silver.”

Maybe GBT expected readers to take it for granted that Duke “only” put duct tape on the kids’ mouths to literally keep them quiet. That’s horrific, of course, but it’s not nearly as horrific as what some of us are envisioning. :-|