Sherman's Lagoon by Jim Toomey for February 23, 2025

We all know that Sherman can’t swim and chew gum.

NOT supposed to swim AND text! It’s against the law!!

When we were little kids we’d often get challenged by a nefarious adult to try to rub our belly while patting our head with the other hand. I found it easy, and was surprised at how many kids had trouble with that.

Hawthorne, do you always have to be so insistent on what Sherman is doing?

Sherman, evolution made you to be a perfect eating machine. All you should be doing is swimming, and eating, and making little sharks (tri-tasking, but you don’t need to do them all at once). So put your phone down, spit out that gum, and swim away to kill something.

Starting to think that Megan has something to do with Sherman’s gum chewing. It probably helps keeping the brood down to just Herman…

Oh, just eat the annoying crab, Sherman.

Multi tasking leads to more work, as soon as the boss figures out you can do more than expected, there goes your cubicle partner. Musk is trying to do that with the government.

Humans do not multitask. We switch focus on several things as we try to get too much done.