Wizard of Id by Parker and Hart for March 18, 2022

just you wait, Bill’s friend, when you get a lovers’ mark on you

Non-consensual on the part of the tree.

This ain’t the half of it. Wait till they break up and comes back scrape off the tat.

No one cares what the tree thinks, unless there is a Lorax around, the tree probably wouldn’t notice for a week or so.

Now if Treebeard saw that, he would (wood?) have something to say about that……..

Just wait until trees start carving their initials on humans…

At least the trees aren’t Apple Trees like the ones in the Wizard of Oz. They would have tossed apples at them before they could get close to the tree.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jp3HVHkklRA

Bill’s bark is worse than his bite.

That’s more like a brand than a tattoo! Poor Bill.

Ah these must be the rare talking trees of Id.

I’m reminded of the “Bummer of a birthmark, Hal” from The Far Side…

Always amazing how many people take a knife on a date.

Better than that deer with the bullseye birthmark

That forest didn’t take long to grow. No other trees in panels 1 or 2!

for many years in my old town there were two names written in the cement leading to my old grade school. “Cindy + Timberwolf 72” whenever i visited I loved seeing that, a reminder of something holding on in a sea of change. the last time i was back there, they had changed the paving stone.

If a tree falls in the woods and there is only an Aardvark there to see it, is it still snowing in Patagonia?

That mark may just keep Bill around longer than you, Bill’s friend.Ponder that.

I hope his name wasn’t Stanley Harris & her’s. Irma Trimble!

So it wasn’t true love or the soldier would’ve had a tattoo added to his own body.

Bill decided to leave that branch of the woods…it was too painful to stick around….

Trunk stamp?

“Fools’ names, like fools’ faces, are often seen in public places.” Leave nature as you found it – no silly rock piles, initials, or padlocks. It doesn’t belong to you.

The tree’s name is Bill? Why not Woody, like from Toy Story?

what you didn’t see was she pressed her breasts against the other tree. it was just tit for tat:)

Makes you wonder why anyone would mark up a beautiful canvas, a female body, with a drawing that will eventually fade and become misshaped as that canvas ages. Such a shame.

I always took a knife everywhere until I retired.

I hate seeing people’s names carved into historic homes and cabins.

I will stop carrying a knife when they stop making consumer-proof packaging.

Ents got tattoos!

I remember a ’60’s trip to central Ohio to a management school and on a weekend, a friend ‘o mine took me further downstate, straddled a few fences to see his great-grandfather/great-grandmother’s initials carved on a tree from the Civil War days. Impressive, it was…

People carved their initials in that tree since the beginning of time. One of the trees could still read “W & B”.

What is it? Can’t you trees throw apples at them? Or whatever you’re growing?