B.C. by Mastroianni and Hart for January 30, 2024

yeah my nose was too thick and bony to try this out, so I used my lips and ears instead.

Good ones for first discovery.

How polarizing.

Thanks much for the explanation :-) My expression was the same as B. C.’s in panel two.

Snot a good look though.

How do they work?

(Must be a miracle)

For a minute there I thought he’d had his nose pierced.

That will not give him a “magnetic” personality.

Who nose what he should do with them? [He sure doesn’t.]

the hard way…

Now, turn ’em opposite one another, and invent “mag-lev!”

Must be a couple of those rare earth magnets.

I tried those on my girlfriend, (not on the nose) they were so strong that they hurt her, needless to say we don’t use them but it was a fun experiment. Even tried it on me but let’s not go there.

Wait until you pass by some metal instruments…

Just don’t get them wet. We’ve been told (by the bestest authority) that they don’t work when they get wet…

Just don’t sneeze—you’ll blow your brains out!

That is why a swallowed rare earth magnet is a medical emergency if there is another one or a piece of iron in the same digestive tract. The two will clamp together and shut off part of the end-to-end blood flow in the intestines. That is very bad news indeed.

Just put them in water, according to a stable genius, that will stop them from working.

Nicely done, genius timing.

That must hurt!

Looks like they’re rare earth magnets, too.

I have to get an MRI next week. You know all those piercings, nose clips, belly and other places. . . piercings you paid for? Out they come, if you sneak one by the MRI tech, the machine will remove it for you.

Someone had to. But there may have been a less painful way to do it.

And things went south from there.

Looks like he has discovered rare earth magnets. Neodymium magnets to be more precise….

Did he thing the nose ornaments might make him more attractive?

He can easily accessorize his nose with attractive metal objects.

Outstanding in his field … North to South.

That’s what happens when you stick your nose where it doesn’t belong!

The “Lodestone Age”.

Must have been a foul smell around!

Just don’t dip your nose in water.

The ones that have a warning label about letting body parts get between them.

“F*cking magnets, how do they work?”

So it’s not some kind of weird nose piercing.

Doesn’t he mean, “I’b discobered bagnets”