Bound and Gagged by Dana Summers for March 20, 2023

Niagara Falls! Slowly I turned…

Nah, he’s just back from Vegas.

Maybe he works at a rodeo.

He’s a barrel of laughs today

Probably the IRS.

Why not both?

Or he just left the ancient meme emporium. Barrels aren’t cheap.

Either way, it’s sure to be a barrel of laughs.

Could be both

He’s looking for monkeys. He wants to be more fun.

The IRS took everything and now he’s barrely getting by.

Last I saw him, he was barreling down the road…

Maybe he’s just making a fashion statement, symbolic of today’s economy.

Either way, he’s unable to ‘stave’ off disaster.

Odds are IRS…..

He heard that aging in oak barrels makes things better.

They’ve got him over a barrel, now.

More accurately, he just left the IRS office in a very old cartoon. Long time since I’ve seen this cartoon trope. My favorite take on it is a cartoon in a paperback collection I have, from 1969. In the first panel the worried guy goes into the IRS office wearing only the barrel (it doesn’t even have straps); in the second panel, he comes out sans barrel.

Person 1: I love the U.S.A.!

Person 2: But you cheat on your taxes every year.

Person 1: Just because I say I love this country doesn’t mean I really do. I say a lot of things.