Wizard of Id Classics by Parker and Hart for April 18, 2021

We all could use adequate reign.

Yay! a slide rule.

Just a minor adjustment.

Ah, the old, traditional repair method, handed down over the generations.

Russian mechanical service procedure !

“Frammin at the Jim-jam, Frippin in the Krotz!”

It just needed a kick-start to put it in gear

HTML – hit the machine loudly.

Once again, the Wizard has saved the kingdom.

Hope he has a stop the flow spell when it gets too deep. Oh. . .right. . . it already is.

Back when I was working in IT I would get a call about a computer not working. The first thing I would do would be to lay both hands on the machine and exclaim “Heal”! Then I would tell the person to now try it. That would work in about 50% of the cases. If that didn’t work I would reboot it and that would take care of another 40% of the cases. Only in about 10% of the time I was called was there an actual problem. I have had people to actually get mad and complain to others that I would not tell them what I had done to get the machine working or what they had done to mess it up. Every now and then I would just point out that all that was wrong was they needed to turn it on or if it was a printer just needed to load some paper in it. That was when they didn’t know whether to kick me or themselves.

Percussive maintenance.

Knowing to kick it is universal. Knowing where to kick it is what you pay the guy for.

The Bryan Cranston speed theory?

I wonder how many readers under, oh say 60, have no idea what he’s holding in the 4th panel?

I am 60 and had an older brother (7 years older) who had to use one in HS. By the time I got there, the first affordable calculators were coming out. I never had to use one myself.

ancient engineering aphorism: if you can’t fix it with a hammer, you need a bigger hammer.

Would that be the Lemont Cranston theory?

Wasn’t improved on for many years until the invention of the large hammer…

Usually I try duct tape and magnets first.

Reign, I think. And good old standard way to fix stuff.

lol

WIZARDS GOT SLIDE RULES!

I had yo use on in high school in 1980

By that logic I am the worlds best repairman.