Rubes by Leigh Rubin for January 28, 2020

So much for the “all-inclusive, no judging” group!

“Help me, help me!”

That looks like a fly, not a spider.

little did sid know that they were also pteronarcophobes…

The bigger the newspaper, the louder the thwack !

Fly’s have a lot more justification for being arachnophobes than people do. I’m sort of arachno-neutral: I don’t love ‘em, but I don’t kill them on purpose either.

Flies have a good reason to fear spiders… in this case, it doesn’t qualify as a phobia.

Hey! a newspaper instead of a tablet!

Help me Phillipe.

how’d it get out of my soup?

Arachnophobia? I don’t think so!Perhaps he means pteronarcophobia which is the fear of flies or entomophobia which is the fear of insects in general.