Rubes by Leigh Rubin for February 20, 2025

Well, at least there’s flowers for the grave.

It’s why I never try to be too kind to people. That way I don’t have to worry about killing them.

A rose in any other pot would still hurt as much!

But it wasn’t softly with a song.

Well, kindly investigate it now.

That weed is growing through a crack in my driveway too. By golly, I’ll pick it TODAY!

This wasn’t a case of ♪♫♪Run for the roses♫♪♫ it was a need to run FROM the roses.

“Send me dead flowers at my wedding,

And I won’t forget to put roses on your grave."

—Jagger & Richards

they found him VASE DOWN

Shouldn’t the roses be black then?

Reminds me of the “Who Framed Roger Rabbit” NES game, in which a falling flowerpot means instant loss of life.

Turns out, death is a bed of roses.

And then a miracle happened, he rose from the dead.

This past Valentine’s Day I was going to do something different and give my Lady a dozen eggs, but a dozen roses were cheaper…

From near the beginning of the movie Ben Hur.

I don’t know…it could have been…the roses…

It was a hit by the Emily Post mob.

It was a good year for the roses.

There was a cat on the ledge up above.

Ex-wife?

valentine delivered a week late