Art holds a mirror up to Nature. The Buckets come along, turn the mirror on Art and say, “Look how goofy you’re acting. Now get to work, Art. Your kids need an Xbox 360.”
The Buckets comic strip isn’t a parody of family life. Parodies are filled with hearts and rainbows or enraged tirades and dramatic confrontation. The Buckets, though? Nope. Real life, baby. It’s funny because it’s on a page and not in your house at the moment. Next week, when it’s happening to you, you’ll thank us for reminding you that it’s supposed to be funny.
Greg Cravens looks in the mirror and see not himself, but all of us. And then he draws up the silly, grand, goofy, thrilling, utterly human things we do and calls it The Buckets.
© Greg Cravens - All Rights Reserved.
Broom Hilda by Russell Myers
Buni by Ryan Pagelow
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Agent54 said, 3 months ago
Ah – I miss the days of using a slide rule, when you had to know how math worked and were just verifying the answers.
win said, 3 months ago
No, then you’ll need a sharpened pencil and a good writing place to keep from becoming another cyber-zombie.
Gator007 said, 3 months ago
I’m 60 years old and I have yet to use algebra in the real world.
fierorose said, 3 months ago
Years ago my daughter was working in the mall and the power went out – she was the only one who could figure how to do a bill by hand!
Shirl Summ
said, 3 months ago
@Gator007
Me toooooo.
Mneedle said, 3 months ago
I was in a grocery store once and purchased about $19.47 worth of stuff. I gave the cashier a $100 bill. She accidentally keyed it as $1000. The problem was that she had no idea how to count out the change (by counting up). She called the manager, and he had to go back to the office to use his ten-key-calculator to figure out my change.
Old Man River said, 3 months ago
Gator007, Sheri Summ. Oviously you are not Engineers. Used it daily for many years.
Number Three said, 3 months ago
I feel for you, Toby.
Maths was and still is my worst enemy.
xxx
Comic Minister said, 3 months ago
Whatever you say Toby.
rgcviper said, 3 months ago
In math, all I know is that 2 and 2 is 22. Am I wrong??
Hunter7 said, 3 months ago
I use simple math everyday, without a caluclator. How else am I to know if the total at the cashier is correct? (sometimes, I get within a few cents when some of the items are taxed at 12% – which tickles me no end!) And I find it really Really REALLY annoying that cashiers do not count out the change.
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Poor Toby. Destinied to be short changed. How IS he going to make his millions?
Night-Gaunt49 said, 3 months ago
@Gator007
I bet you have seen math in action even if you don’t know it.
Pacopuddy said, 3 months ago
@Mneedle
Mneedle said, about 7 hours ago
I was in a grocery store once and purchased about $19.47 worth of stuff. I gave the cashier a $100 bill. She accidentally keyed it as $1000. The problem was that she had no idea how to count out the change (by counting up). She called the manager, and he had to go back to the office to use his ten-key-calculator to figure out my change.
Similar thing happened to me. Bought a yoghourt, £1.14p and gave the lad on the till £1.20p. He must have rung it in incorrectly because it came up with 12p change. He was getting the money out of the till and I said “Are you sure that’s right?”
He looked at me. I said. The yoghourt is £1.14. I gave you £1.20. I want 6p change." He reached into a drawer for a calculator! I tried to tell him ,but until he’d checked it twice, he wouldn’t accept my figure.
God help us all!
On the other hand, this is a message for my old maths teacher, Mrs Vera Bryce: I TOLD you I would never need algebra – and I was RIGHT!
Pacopuddy said, 3 months ago
In case you all think I am too good to be true – if I ever make a thief of myself it will be for a damn site more than 6p!
ossiningaling said, 3 months ago
OK, say you can kill a zombie with one sharpened stick and it takes 10 minutes to make a stick sharp enough to kill a zombie and zombies are attacking your compound at the rate of 11 per hour and you started out with 31 sticks, then how many minutes until you are overrun by zombies as zombies approach infinity?