Arlo and Janis by Jimmy Johnson for January 20, 2012

wear a set of swim goggles !

Quick – grow a shorter nose.

just have a cigarette, bud. you know, like back in the day

Just buy the frozen chopped onions…soooo much easier :)

Just rinse the onion before chopping after a little peeling under cold water for half a minute. You’ll be fine.

store the onion in the fridge

Or………….just bite the bullet and DEAL!

Chop onions near a sink while running hot water in the sink. The steam from the water will help, a little. I learned this years ago while working a summer job. One of my duties was chopping 10lb bags of onions for onion rings. The memory still brings a tear to my eye.

Wow, I thought I was joking yesterday….

Would have worked better if he still had the fireplace matches…

Try the premolars, Arlo, not the incisors.

There goes the nose hairs!

Some kids at Scout camp were doing that last summer. A couple of them looked like Arlo, plus blisters afterwords. Brains Trains.. ??

You gotta love the look on Arlo’s face in the last panel though.

Seems to me you light the match, blow it out, then inhale the marginally more benign burnt match smell to cover the onion chemistry. Heck, just learn to love onions.

: D

Sharp knife = less bruising = less juices sprayed around. (Which, zedman2222, was not mentioned in the other hints yesterday.)

Try Vicks Vapor Rub under the nose. Blocks out the odor.

Lemon juice does take the chemicals out of onions. Just try it. It works for me.

the trick is to use a candle, light a candle (scented, unsented, whatever) and place it roughly 8 inches to the left or right, whichever way you are cutting. the oils that spray from the onion burn off before going into the air.

Or cut it underwater, same diff