B.C. by Mastroianni and Hart for October 29, 2021

I try not to drag politics into the comics, but this just sounds too much like what we are hearing from Washington these days.

It’s also code for “we fired everybody”!

… and now he may just keep coming back …

… and then you may have an annoying customer issue.

Completely – Biden is having supply chain issues of his own!

And if they do manage to unload all of those container ships where are they going to put the stuff? The warehouses are full.

I stock groceries, and I’ve been using the supply chain excuse for well over a year

It’s true, ever since covid struck we haven’t been able to be sure anything will come in consistently

No, but we do have the one for the stalagmite spanner bar. Unfortunately, it won’t work in your case.

Reads like something out of a space movie

I recently went to a Lowes Building Supply and was told that due to supply chain problems they had no steel wool in stock. I wonder if steel wool is made in China?

I just happen to have a Norbler Ripplator Spec 2 Stalactite Spanner Bar ! (But it’s 5/8 inch) Sorry !

He needs that spanner to fix the supply chain, you idiot!

Needs to visit Norm Drabble’s store. . .

Let’s go Brandon!

A 19mm Jeeb crimper will do the same job but you have to use it left handed.

The semiconductor shortage isn’t new…

it’s what they say to raise the price

It’s more fun to say “Maybe. What does it look like?”

It’s on a Chinese container ship that has been anchored off the shore at Long Beach for eight months. Let’s Go, Brandon.

After I do some reading, I’ll let you know what a supply chain is.

Before you can siphon gas, you first have to suck on the hose.

We are in for a see-saw ride. There are all kinds of mathematical models to do forecasting for demand and when to order parts for “just in time” arrival given lead time. Most of these models work well when demand and lead times are within “normal parameters.” We are now outside the edges of this known universe and the models don’t work out here.

In some cases, they demand overcompensation and panic buying. For example, interrupt the gasoline supply for just a couple of days and everyone has to fill up his tank today: the longer the line for gasoline, the more likely people will join it to make sure that they get “theirs.”

What goes around comes around….

Washington hasn’t known or cared for years, but we voted them in,our fault.

Gotta buy everything online these days, especially spanner bar ripplators. Though I prefer Spec-1 myself.

Nope. All we have are the 5/8 versions.

OK, I’ll just have an interocitor then.

Two ending “Rs” in a row … how plebeian.

Must’ve made him feel like an absolute tool!

Next she’ll be saying there are no parts for stalgmites as well

Naw. That’s Star Trekkie lingo.

Truth, though.

Nobody supplied him with one.

Sigh. He must work for BestBuy (WorstBuy). Needed a new printer after 14 years of use, and every quality one was “we will have to order it, We do not stock it.” Then I was told it wouldn’t be here until at least November 19th.

So off to Staples, had to order it there too, but it will be here on the 2nd of November.