The Argyle Sweater by Scott Hilburn for June 04, 2023

Leave it to Beaver

What an ark hole.

dam Beaver, you were voted off the ark…that bites!

Besides, it was gofer wood, not beaver wood.

Leave it to that beaver.

Looks like they are in an ARKward possition…

Well someone lodged a complaint. It was shoddy workmanship. The entrance should have been under water.

You “wood” have to do that, didn’t you!

I pine for your company.

It was a knotty problem, but he chewed on it and got the results.

She seemed sad before, so he asked her, “Ark you not happy here?”

She said she wasn’t pleased about with their lodgings.

He should have know that he was just supposed to listen – and not just try to fix her dam problem.

How could you not Noah the consequences, god dam it!

Beavers don’t eat wood.

And this is why the Catholic church once classified beaver as fish… (Look it up).

Well beavers need to keep their teeth worn down, maybe he needed a wooden tooth “Brush”

Of course, those who believe the Bible never thought to ask how Noah was feeding all those animals for 40 days and nights. What was he feeding teh carnivores? how could noah’s family possibly have been numerous enough to clean out teh stables of all those animals. The pragmaticlogistics of such a venture were never discussed at all… one more reason to disbeleive what one reads in this book (bedises the support of slavery and other bizarre attitudes…)

Now that’s funny!

Wonder what he ate? Noah is furiously waving his fist…..

Beavers are so well adapted to the life aquatic, I wonder if they were on the ark, or managed to fend for themselves like a lot of other critters.

benches, at least, were given for a snack later

He’s got a hull of an appetite.

And the beavers survived. What did the unicorns do?

I have a silk-screened shirt with a Noah’s Ark on it. And it’s a pair of skunks that have their own dinghy separate from the ark.

It always cracks me up when one of a pair of animals has EYE LASHES, so we know it’s a female ;-)

Funny, those are the exact words the Tiger used in the antelope enclosure.

The starboard side of the ark appears to be seriously overly laden. :)

Definitely up s*** creek without a paddle.

And they are in an uninvented rubber boat in Sharp Seas.

My galley, chargèd with forgetfulness,Thorough sharp seas in winter nights doth pass‘Tween rock and rock; and eke mine en’my, alas,That is my lord, steereth with cruelness;And every owre a thought in readiness,As though that death were light in such a case.An endless wind doth tear the sail apaceOf forced sighs and trusty fearfulness.A rain of tears, a cloud of dark disdain,Hath done the weared cords great hinderance;Wreathèd with error and eke with ignorance.The stars be hid that led me to this pain;Drownèd is Reason that should me comfort,And I remain despairing of the port.

Sir Thomas Wyatt

Not only enuf chow for thousands upon thousands of different creatures for the 40 days and 40 nights that the rain lasted but also for the many, many days thereafter it took for the waters to recede (wonder where they went?), leaving behind a sodden, drowned wasteland with nothing growing except perhaps some mold. What did they have to eat during all that time? How big was that ark?

In the meantime someone should check on what the woodchucks are up to.

Shouldn’t have been eating it anyway. It’s gopher wood.

It took a while and having to carefully see all the details of the drawing to get it. Got it, now funny…

Beavers are so darn gnawty!

It isn’t funny if you know a thing or two about beaver. Unless, of course, there is completely raw, unmilled wood? Looks pretty plane to me.

Beavers do not eat wood. They eat insects they find in trees. There would have been no insects in the hull of the ark so they wouldn’t have chewed it.