Shoe by Gary Brookins and Susie MacNelly for September 14, 2023

Take him to work with you and show him hard you work, HaHaHa!

Did you hear about the politician who came home late at night after a hard day at work?

He was Satired’

Why did the farmer mistakenly work extra hard to keep barley and wheat away from his prized ox?

The vet had recently diagnosed him with silly yak disease.

Trimming hedges is hard work.

You must take it sheariously.

Would a job at a Viagra factory be considered hard work?

Hard work kills people every day. Come enjoy the agrarian life.

I’m not afraid of hard work, I can sit and watch it all day

The three most dangerous jobs in the US in 2021…

Logging – 43 fatalities (82 per 100,000 workers)

Fishing & Hunting workers – 23 fatalities (75 per 100,000 workers)

Roofers – 115 fatalities (59 per 100,000 workers)

Rest of the top ten – Aircraft Pilots and Flight Engineers, Structural Iron and Steel Workers, Delivery and Truck Drivers, Refuse and Recyclable Material Collectors, Underground Mining Machine Operators, Construction Trade Workers, and Electrical Power-line Installers and Repairers.(Source – Forbes)

Hard work kills people all the time.

First out-loud laugh of the day. . .I’ll have to remember that response for the next time some idjit says, “But ________________ never killed anyone. . .”

That’s one little fledgling about to get pecked on.

My mother used to say that to me, too. She also suggested that I might find the nearby reform school a more appropriate residence. Comparing the two, chores about the house was the easier of the choices.

The Perfesser has been getting fatter and fatter over the years.

I should have been a dentist, getting our kids to do chores was like pulling teeth

Cosmo is a Nietzschean.

Why would you subject me to such cruel and unusual punishment?

At age 9 I was wrangling a self-propelled open reel lawn mower around our yard in the middle of a Texas summer. I survived. Today some nosy neighbor would be calling CSP for inflicting child abuse on me. Sorry but kids are too soft today and overprotected.

The bad stuff we see happening to kids on TV? It has always been happening. It is just that we now have cable news to blast the same story from some small part of the country to the rest of the country 24 hours a day. Things aren’t really worse. We just know about more of them.

Yup…there’s always a first time…why risk it??

That’s not what my doctor said about my Blood Pressure.