The Argyle Sweater by Scott Hilburn for August 14, 2021

If he doesn’t get that taken care of, he may wind up dead as one.

He’s also become unhinged.

It’s an open and shut case.

Who won the door prize?

Now it’s ajar….

Maybe a dose of latchitive will help.

Is that a male door or a female door? And how can I tell?

Must be from the Morrison Hotel.

Wonder if that’s Robby, Ray, or John.

Yes this makes a pun, but where is the ingrown doornail or nail on the door?

Well, shut the door!

Be quick and fix it. Sir Toby and I want to hobnob later.

Hopefully it won’t get jammed.

Isn’t an ingrown doornail just a staple?

Is the head dead yet?

that might be manicurable…

He’s in the door to door sales business.

I’m waiting for the Doc to ask what his pain threshold is.

I don’t undoorstand how that’s possible!

Does he belong to a group? :-)

Could be worse, he could be as dead as a doornail.

I get slammed when I go to the doctor, too.

Oh, pun the door.

Why an ingrown doornail?

The next patient needs to be screened.

He’s really in a jamb.

What? Shut the front door!

But what is is deader than?

Be glad that’s not a proctologist or we’d find out what’s behind the green door.

For those who asked, and according to many sources on Google, in days of yore (Shakespeare era and also later) many doors were built from vertical pieces for the width of the doorway and a small number of horizontal pieces for strength. The carpenter would drive long nails through each of the verticals and all the way through the horizontals. The part that exited the horizontals was clinched, or pounded over 90 degrees so that it held the horizontal piece firmly to the verticals. And that, my friends, is a doornail. The door in this cartoon has no doornails, at least none that are visible. There could be framing inside the door that is covered over by plywood, but in today’s world it would be stapled and glued together. I think if this door is feeling poorly, it needs to see a carpenter, and not a doctor. Unless it is a house doctor.

(X_X) Dead!

Watched a lumber-mill dull a blade on a 1" bolt in a tree. You never forget your first.

It takes a well experienced hangman to hang a door.

I think he’s on the threshold of collapsing.

Is that guy an MDD?

grooooaaaan!

Good one ;-)