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Johnny Hart’s classic strip, B.C., puts a caveman twist on everything. From philosophical ants to punny bits of unconventional wisdom, you’ll see why this strip has been a favorite for so many years.
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Yukoner said, 16 days ago
Note that the deer was not hit.
sjoujke said, 16 days ago
Maybe not but I almost hit one with my car tonight on the way home from work. I could have saved Thor some trouble.
Johanan Rakkav
said,
16 days ago
Who puts up these road signs, anyway? :))
MisngNOLA
said,
16 days ago
Not hitting the deer on the sign may be a good thing as every deer I’ve ever hunted moved much faster than than sign moves.
grazer said, 16 days ago
The deer put up those signs….then cross the road elsewhere to throw the roadside hunters off.
Lewreader
said,
16 days ago
Why do idiots have to shoot those signs?
Richard said, 16 days ago
Why do idiots have to shoot animals? we got enough food.
Fer Lefer said, 16 days ago
Thor, just be sure that nobody stands close to the deer while hunting
BC13
said,
16 days ago
A marksman he’s not.
Doctor Toon
said,
16 days ago
grazer - That explains it, I always wondered how the deer would know they were supposed to cross at the signs.
DigitalFrog
said,
16 days ago
I costs a few hundred bucks to put up one of those signs, thats a lot of doe wasted by damaging it with arrows…
suziq589 said, 16 days ago
I wish those deer could read, there’s nothing more frightening than have a deer bash into the side of your car. They come out of the dark so fast and run right into your truck or car. Whew!
Joe Allen Doty said, 16 days ago
We, meaning the USA, might have enough food to properly feed every person in the country 3 nutritious meals every day; but, there are people in this country who have very little to eat.
In 1961, my November 4 birthday was on Saturday. I was invited by Mom’s oldest brother, Uncle Albert, to spend the weekend with him and his family in Claremore, Oklahoma. I was a freshman at Northeastern State College in Tahlequah.
My friend, David, whom I had known since I was a sophomore in high school, lived at Bushyhead, north of Claremore and he was going home for the weekend. His mother taught at the Bushyhead Elementary School and his father, Rex, was a school bus driver. After Rex dropped all of the grade school children off, he would take the high school students up US Route 66 to Chelsea.
On Friday after class, David was driving his old Studebaker car and in the hilly area East of Tahlequah, a deer ran across the road and his car hit it. Apparently, some dogs were chasing it.
It was not yet deer season in Oklahoma. There was a farm house close to where we hit the deer and the man there said that he would call the game warden. He told us that the deer would be given to the orphanage in town.
David didn’t realize how much damage had been done to the car until we were on the way back to school on Monday morning. He didn’t seem to have any problems going home. His father came and let David drive his own car back to school. David was lucky that he didn’t get a speeding ticket because we were going to be late for our 9:00 am classes and he took advantage of the fact that there wasn’t much traffic on some of the highways.
Joe Allen Doty said, 16 days ago
The color of the sign is yellow on other online sites which have B.C.
If a person with a bow and arrow and/or a spear can hit a Deer Crossing road sign and not yet hit the deer symbol, said person could still kill a deer since the sign is NOT very large.
While the best direct hit would be a deer’s heart so that the deer would die faster, any deer hit with a spear or arrow with it making contact the very same distance from the heart as from the center of the sign, wouldn’t survive very long.
grazer said, 16 days ago
Hey, HAPPY BIRTHDAY, JOE!
And thanks for sharing your many volumes of assorted information with us. I’ve learned to enjoy it. :)
Saucy1121 said, 16 days ago
Happy Birthday J.A.D.
yyyguy
said,
16 days ago
happy birthday, Joe. you’re even more verbose than me, so you deserve some recognition!
Just plain Steve said, 16 days ago
Happy Birthday, Joe!
Maizing said, 16 days ago
Richard said,
“Why do idiots have to shoot animals? we got enough food.”
If that is true, then why are people starving to death every day?
crunkbot said, 16 days ago
Richard,
Most game animals no longer have natural predators to keep their populations in check. If hunters didn’t cull deer, for example, they would quickly deplete their habitat of food and die gruesome deaths from starvation.
fredb49 said, 16 days ago
Happy birthday Joseph or can I call you Joe for short
fritzoid said, 16 days ago
Yes, crunkbot, we wouldn’t want them to die before we get a chance to kill them.
It would be better for the populations of game animals simply to let their natural predators back into the environment. Natural predators cull the weak and sick from the herds; trophy hunters go for the biggest, strongest head for their wall.
STOP SHOOTING THE WOLVES!!!
♠Lonewolf♠
said,
16 days ago
I think he is zeroed for the hunt!
Wyo1 said, 16 days ago
fritzoid- I live in a state (pretty obvious with my screen name) that has wolves. I no longer hunt, but I did enjoy wild game. I also agree to putting them back, but you need to consider, the range for wolves in N.A. also includes Central Park in New York, as well as deep in the south. If we re-introduce wolves to their native habitats, you bleeep will better start by putting them back all over, not just in places you don’t live. Just because there aren’t many people out here in these lands doesn’t mean that the wolves get free run. It’s too easy for them to attack the ranchers’ livestock…those deer and elk are quick, and cattle and sheep pretty much just plod around….
fritzoid said, 16 days ago
Unlike coyotes, which can thrive in populated areas, wolves don’t gravitate much to cities (it’s not unknown, but it’s far rarer). A certain amount of livestock depradation is unavoidable, I’m afraid. It’s the cost of being in that business.
100 years ago, the vision of the Dept. of the Interior was to completely eradicate “varmints” from coast to coast, and they did a pretty good job of it (with the exception of the coyotes, but that’s a different subject). The result has been a complete upheaval of the balance of predator/prey, resulting in over-foraging by the “good” wildlife such as deer and rabbits (and mice, and certain birds, and…).
We’ve got two choices: either get rid of EVERYTHING that isn’t controllable and profitable, turning all of our wilderness resources into fauna-less, forested “parks”, or reconcile ourselves to the idea that we aren’t the only species that has a right to live in all this land.
(Besides, pretty much the only way of controlling coyote populations that’s proven effective is to have a viable wolf population. A small population of wolves will keep a vast amount of acreage coyote-free.)
cholldekkgher stenst... said, 16 days ago
I dunno dude. I have NEVER learned to enjoy Joe and his incoherent ramblings about people, places, things, ideas, past happenings, ideas not related to what was posted in a comic, etc. I think I should like to take a “WHIZ” on him, if we ever met.
Ronshua
said,
16 days ago
Happy B-Day Joe , and many more happy ones also .
Hope someone gives you a good raincoat with a hood .
Johanan Rakkav
said,
15 days ago
(in his best Foghorn Leghorn imitation)
Ah suppose, chol, ah say ah suppose, if folks like Joe and me can jes’ remember th’ differ’nce between bein’ in-for-mah-tive and bein’ pedantic, then the res’ of y’all can go to sleep ev’ry night happy. :)
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/pedantic
MisngNOLA
said,
15 days ago
Happy belated birthday JAD with the same birth date as my dad.
Ronshua
said,
14 days ago
Dry happy is my hope !