Frazz by Jef Mallett for July 05, 2018

I just stepped outside to see if I could guess where the fireworks were coming from. The sound of sirens covered up the booms for so long that I came back inside.

If you handle fireworks with care and common sense, nobody gets hurt. Too bad those are flowers that don’t grow in everybody’s garden.

Or “limb surgery day” and the following “learn writing with left days”

So no concerns about the Eagle Creek wildfire, then.

Many years ago, our next door neighbors’ thirteen year old son, a budding piano prodigy, was playing with fireworks ( illegal then) in his backyard when he blew off the fingers of his right hand.

this is a good example of forcing thoughts into a characters mouth would never actually have them. “Let’s not have any fireworks this year,” said no kid ever.

It isn’t just fireworks. You have any number of drunks with a couple of days off doing any number of stupid things. In my case, I was shucking oysters and couldn’t find the knife so I pulled out my Swiss army knife (thin blade,should work). It worked fine for the first couple then I closed the knife across my knuckle. My wife stated categorically that we were not going to the ER on 4th of July – we’d be there all night – and called a veterinarian friend who opened up his clinic and put five stitches across my knuckle. I was lucky. Twenty years later the scar is still there, a crystal clear reminder not to get drunk enough to be stupid.

Haven’t you noticed? Being illegal doesn’t seem to stop very many people. And, how about the innocent people, who get hurt by fireworks, just because they happen to be in the same vicinity as the melon-heads who set them off???

Sounds like the kid’s parents won’t get him any fireworks. A little envy/jealousy goes a long way.

Calling a day a month?

“Oy lad, hold me beer and watch this!” You hear that a lot on Guy Fawkes day. Just substitute “Hey Dude!” for “Oy lad!”

My cats think of it as Oh Dear Cat Make The Sky Stop Exploding! Month.

Just don’t work in the Burn Unit the week of the 4th….I only did it once.

Didn’t anyone else get the joke? Look up the origin of the word “Yahoo” (hint: Gulliver’s Travels. The explicit answer is at https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/yahoo)