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1. 

   dhubb said, 4 months ago

   Sadly, I’ve had to say that to someone before.

2. 

   vasgar1 said, 4 months ago

   Someone should tell that to President Obama… and someone SHOULD have said that to President Bush.

3. 

   cleokaya said, 4 months ago

   Hey, is he wearing Eno’s boxers? I need Obvious man. I am extremely inept in the fixit department.

4. 

   Carmy said, 4 months ago

   A man admitting he was wrong? I’m fainting here.

5. 

   ejcapulet said, 4 months ago

   Here, here, carmy - very scary.

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   CobraDBlade said, 4 months ago

   the guy must be a politician.

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   johnparadox said, 4 months ago

   either politician or ‘pundit’

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   Josh 1360 said, 4 months ago

   Some should’ve tell that to Obama, President George W. Bush, and his dad, George H. W. Bush!

9. 

   Superfrog said, 4 months ago

   Just hold the bulb still and rotate the lamp.
   That way you won’t need to violate any core principles or risk rationality.

10. 

    brewwitch said, 4 months ago

    Josh1360 said

    Some should’ve tell that to Obama, President George W. Bush, and his dad, George H. W. Bush!

    Wait a minute…? Wouldn’t that make them ‘flip-floppers’?

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    shades_is_here said, 4 months ago

    josh1360 we heard you the first time u don’t have to scream at us ok.

12. 

    plus4 said, 4 months ago

    Ironically, admitting you’re wrong is the first step to being right.

13. 

    forbes2008 said, 4 months ago

    Sounds like a reflection of big government - which is only getting bigger folks.

14. 

    Wildmustang1262 said, 4 months ago

    Use his stupid brain to screw that bulb in that lamp another direction!

15. 

    grazer said, 4 months ago

    Lightbulbs are not as simple as they used to be. Neither are watches, cars, phones, butter, beer and milk for that matter.

    ~Our world has been made ready for “Obviousman”!

16. 

    nighthawks said, 4 months ago

    with due thanks to “Bob and Tom”

17. 

    jimeguess said, 4 months ago

    … and the other direction …?

    To the RIGHT, of course!

18. 

    JFri said, 4 months ago

    Oh, please, Carmy! I thought I was wrong once! Turns out I was mistaken about it!

19. 

    SaintRCat said, 4 months ago

    So happy to see Obviousman again. I missed him.

20. 

    Wiley said, 4 months ago

    “with due thanks to “Bob and Tom” ”

    Ok… due thanks about what, and who’s Bob and Tom?

21. 

    smoothpate said, 4 months ago

    Wiley

    Bob and Tom are host of the sydicated “Bob and Tom Show” which airs on over 100 radio stations and on WGN TV. They have been broadcasting from WFBQ Indianapolis, Q-95 since 1983 and have been syndicated since the late ‘90’s. In 1997 they premiered “The Mr. Obvious Show” featuring sports guy Chick McGee as Mr. O and producer Dean Metcalf as the bewildered caller. Mr. O’s most famous bit was entitled “The Critter” and can be heard on “The Mr. Obvious Show” CD, a collection of 29 bits from 1997 thru 2005, available at www.bobandtom.com

22. 

    smoothpate said, 4 months ago

    nighthawks…. maybe now Wiley will make the connection!!!!

23. 

    johnnydoc5 said, 4 months ago

    I like this, and I liked Mr. Obvious too.

24. 

    wyrm282 said, 4 months ago

    Those boxers make me think of cheese…

25. 

    Wiley said, 4 months ago

    Thanks, smoothpate. That’s an interesting coincidence. Obviously, I’m not a radio guy, so I’m not up on such things.

26. 

    bwayjohni said, 4 months ago

    i thought i was wrong once. but i was mistaken.

27. 

    D-i-c-e-R said, 4 months ago

    Wiley, you forgot to draw a lit light bulb in a thought balloon over that dimwits head when he final saw the light.

28. 

    GuntotingLiberal said, 4 months ago

    Obviousman was always one of my favorites in this strip. He’s been absent for far too long, Wiley. Any chance of his making a comeback for a while? :)

29. 

    Kaytebb said, 4 months ago

    Yay Obvious Man! You’re my hero!

    dhubb said, Sadly, I’ve had to say that to someone before.

    I’m curious, though I think I’m going to regret asking, you hae to tell someone to look at a problem a different way or you literally had to tell them to turn the light bulb the other way to screw it in?

30. 

    benbrilling said, 4 months ago

    Get green Obviousman. Tell the guy to get an energy efficient bulb. Come to think of it, if you tell the fruitcake that the energy efficient bulb is the only one that will screw in, you he might always buy them in the future.

    The things one has to go through to get folks to do the right thing.

31. 

    daze62 said, 4 months ago

    In Australia (where I’m from), the obvious answer would be, “It’s a bayonet fitting.”

32. 

    Logicman said, 4 months ago

    But CFL bulbs 1) contain mercury and need special disposal when they burn out 2) DON’T last as long as the label says unless they are run under ideal conditions (which don’t exist ‘in the wild’) and 3) are a poor second choice to LED lights which aren’t available commercially yet, but which use even LESS energy and have longer lives (for real) ….

    “Green” can be relative! :)

33. 

    David said, 4 months ago

    Ahhh, a politicians thinking right to the core!

34. 

    Ji2m said, 4 months ago

    Let’s not forget to tell every member of the House of Representatives and the Senate.

    We’re doomed… Most of them are too stupid to get it… Oh well, liberty and prosperity had a nice run.

    BTW, CFLs contain mercury… I’ll keep my incandescent bulbs thank you very much…

35. 

    keenanthelibrarian said, 4 months ago

    “Rationality isn’t known to be habit forming” ?? Should pin that up at work.

36. 

    pbarnrob said, 4 months ago

    CFLs only contain 5mg of mercury, barely enough to worry about, and then only if you drop one and break it. Just sweep it up into a paper bag, and take it to the next e-waste disposal event with your old alkaline batteries etc..

    LED lamps are available, they’re just still pretty expensive, but they last some 50,000 to 100,000 hours. I get the 1156 amber ‘parking-light’ version at (www.superbrightleds.com), and put them in an old Tensor lamp. Great ‘bug-light’ for camping.

37. 

    Freezing said, 4 months ago

    pbarnrob,

    I don’t doubt your sincerity about CFL’s. I still cringe when I read a sentence that contains the words “…mercury, barely enough to worry about…”

38. 

    theIrishman said, 4 months ago

    You thought collage was expensive? Try ignorance!!!