Adam@Home by Rob Harrell for August 11, 2009

Please TELL me that people talk to their bbq’s only in comics…

I’ve never done that sort of thing…

Adam is one briquette short of a full load.

Adam, just use a little oil to massage her. Then she’ll treat you well.

Me and Peter had a BBQ ourselves in Never Never Land once. My mistake is me having to lit the grill. And let’s just say it took me nine weeks for my pony-tail to grow back!

And people think I’m strange for talking to my cat.

Tink 1360,

Never turn your back on the charge!

Hell, if people can talk to their plants, then why not their BBQ’s?

Talking to the BBQ and scraping it in its favorite spot? I’ve never tried that. If it makes my steaks come out better, maybe I’ll try it! As long as my neighbour doesn’t have me committed.

Hee hee. Adam you rascal. Soak it in olive oil and that grill will be happy.

I think that this comic would have worked with just the first three panels. The last one is a bit creepy.

perspective is everything! i talk to inanimate objects all the time. (and i’ve named every vehicle i’ve ever owned.)

Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz!

I talk to myself a lot…….sometimes it’s the only intelligent conversation I get! I talk to my cats too.

I only give names to things, like cars, that inform me what their names are. I don’t go out of my way to do it. So out of the 5 - 10 cars I’ve owned in my life, only two have had names.

And I do talk to lots of inanimate things, especially when I’m looking for something that I’ve lost. And you know why I continue to do it? Because that way I find what I’m looking for!

But I do agree that that last panel is weird. I don’t try to seduce, I usually make threats, the way Adam did once when he said he would go and buy a new washing machine if the present machine didn’t immediately give back all the single socks it had eaten. There was a coughing ROAR (as in “cough up the sox”) - and the next panel showed Adam covered from head to toe in an immense pile of (single) socks.

During an eclipse, my father and his friend used to go into the back yard and bang pots and pans together, to frighten away the dragon that was eating the sun. Did it work? Well, we still have a sun, don’t we? Apparently that was an old Chinese method of dealing with eclipses.

It depends on the context. If everything else you do and say comes out weird too, then people may look at you funny. But if they can tell you’re saying it as a joke you want to share with them, well, it depends on their sense of humour. Mine is very dry - like the English - and I say things with a perfectly straight face - so I’ve gotten a lot of stares in my time…

that’s what i like about propane grills, i never singed any hair on my face lighting it and the food still tasted good

Sounds like Adam has graduated from the Crankshaft School of BBQ and Flame Management

at doctortoon

same here. my kids look at me like i am crazy. if they only knew…:P

Propane grills aren’t all that safe. I almost blew myself up when I though it was out of propane. Whoomph!