Wizard of Id by Parker and Hart for August 17, 2024

That’ll do it!

All you need is love, and a big gun!

Happiness is a warm gun.

Having some experience muzzle loading cannons, I would suggest that the Wiz not fire that one while standing that close behind it.

Sounds like something Curtis LeMay would have said.

Magic is cool. Cannons is hot.

You can get more with a smile and a gun than you can with just a smile.

Not sure the turret will be able to handle the recoil

When you are too weary to force yourself do magic so you turn to the technology.

“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from a big gun."

Maxim 24 of The Seventy Maxims of Maximally Effective Mercenaries

Say hello to my little friend!!

Walk softly and carry a big gun.

Cannons and gunpowder. Works like magic eh.

Gunpowder leads to Gun Power.

“Magic is cool and all but sometimes gunpowder is all that you need.”

The Wizard is saving energy – magical energy.

Blast Magic

you need to negotiate from a position of strength…intimidate or have a bigger gun.

I hope that tower is a lot sturdier than it looks, otherwise Wizard will be doing some flying.

Again, I say, wretched excess, Wiz.

Really? A bit surprised by this one. I’ll take magic any day – the more, the better.

Shake with one hand while holding a rock in the other

And some grape shot!

“Happiness is a warm gun”

Saruman agrees.

“When in doubt…C4.”

or a big stick

Effective and judicious use of overwhelming firepower has a way of ending a battle in an expedient manner.

Fire the cannons!

Saruman the White would agree.

A little help from my friend……Gun Powder!!!

To quote Star Trek the Next Generation: “Peace. Through superior firepower.”

If that gun is on a tower, Wiz better hope he never has to light it off!

Sir Isaac Newton might have something to say about this. ML cannon that size need a lot of space for recoil and weigh a lot more than that flimsy tower could support. The 15 in (380 mm) one at Fort Knox, Maine, weighs just short of 50,000 lb (22,700 kg) and has at least 10 ft (3 m) of recoil space on its carriage. Our international friends may appreciate the SI units in use almost everywhere else in the world outside the USA.

You are obviousley a man of high caliber!

The Wiz just wants to canonize the enemy.

the recoil will destroy the tower

“The peasants are revolting!” “You can say that again.”

For those about to rock. Fire!!

BOOM!!

We salute you!

and more precise aim. right, crooks?