Wizard of Id Classics by Parker and Hart for April 23, 2021

Well Blanch, take the garbage with you as you go.

It’s not a bad choice either, Wiz. Think about it! :D

Yeah. Respected, all right. That’s why his workshop is at the dungeon level instead of the main hall or tower.

Have they no serfs for these chores? No varlets?

Promises promises. I’ll believe it when i see it.

When you leave take some of the garbage out the door with you.

No choice whatsoever. Congratulations…..

Just dump it down the stairs.

Great choices. You either lose the trash or the baggage.

Ladies and gentlemen here we have a paragon of boomer humor. Written in 1971 it presents the trope “I hate my wife.”

It serves as the basis and contrast to the subsequent millennial humor trope, “I hate my life.”

This in turn serves as a basis and contrast to the panoply of absurdities later generations have suffered under the Dadaist world the boomers and millennials have created for them.

Methinks the garbage should stay.

Let the garbage leave

Oh, come on, Wiz, the choice is obvious!

An ultimatum should be worse of the choices.

no, no…the proper response to that would be, ‘fine, and take the garbage out when you go’

Promises, promises, that’s all I ever get!

He ought to be happy. Great excuse to let the garbage stay put.

The art looks different