Mother Goose and Grimm by Mike Peters for October 22, 2023

Beat it, beat it. No one wants to be stepped on by an elephant.

… but it wasn’t the trunk.

Grimm doesn’t care what’s there when he “marks” his territory.

At least, Grimmy didn’t mark it.

Elephant legs are exactly what the trunks of my mature beech trees look like. And that’s one of the reasons I love them.

LMAO!

This year I finally identified the little purple paintbrush flowers taking over my yard – it’s “Hairy Elephant’s Foot” also known as “The Devil’s Grandmother”

There is alway one a s s h o l e commenter bringing up political on a non-political comic, and we got one today under Izzy Moreno’s replies…

Oops …….“WRONG” trunk ….. :)

Someone didn’t learn the story of the blind mice on an elephant.

The elephant caught Grimmy JUST in time!!

Oop-sie …

Haha! (＾▽＾)

This is based on this parable.

“A group of blind men heard that a strange animal, called an elephant, had been brought to the town, but none of them were aware of its shape and form. Out of curiosity, they said: “We must inspect and know it by touch, of which we are capable”. So, they sought it out, and when they found it they groped about it. The first person, whose hand landed on the trunk, said, “This being is like a thick snake”. For another one whose hand reached its ear, it seemed like a kind of fan. As for another person, whose hand was upon its leg, said, the elephant is a pillar like a tree-trunk. The blind man who placed his hand upon its side said the elephant, “is a wall”. Another who felt its tail, described it as a rope. The last felt its tusk, stating the elephant is that which is hard, smooth and like a spear."