Birdbrains by Thom Bluemel for May 18, 2010

Good Morning Thom & everyone!

Phooey!

A sign in big letters and you two dummies still walked into it.

I doubt they’ll be quick to find your bodies, they might find your bones though.

The term Sinking Feeling comes to mind.

Quick sand does not bubble, the location is unusual for quick sand. The people failed to read the sign. Quick sand also tends to be less than a few feet. Are they sitting or kneeling. (There is more but I want to give others a chance to be offended too.)

Hello Supreme Leader of the Birdbrains It’s nice to have the strip back and on time! I really like the skull.

I think I know what happened. Their feet were tired, they daydreamed of finding a tropical beach, they saw a sign which they misread as ”Quick! Sand!” - they sped up, and the rest is history (or, shall we say, hysteria).

I see bones, hats, and a foot. Do they need reading teachers in this part of the country? I don’t see faces in all the wonderful places they should hide. Are my meds finally working?

♠Lonewolf♠, I don’t think Elmer shares his positive outlook. Nor would I.

Llewellenbruce said, “A sign in big letters and you two dummies still walked into it.”

Of course they did. It’s turned so you can only see it after you’re in the quicksand. There’s still the question of why they stepped down into a pit.

One Corneredesque face (at the pit rim) and one other, both in the plants.

Quicksand isn;’t actually quick, nor is it sand. I once saw some quicksand when I was teaching natives in the deepest darkest depths of Africa. But because I’m left-handed, I came about it from the other side so I saw the sign before I actually stepped in it. There is no quicksand in Tulsa Oklahoma, but if I ride three buses and hitchhike with a drifter from Taos, New Mexico, I can get to some quicksand on an old movie lot which was used for the filming of a comic Western in which the town of Rock Ridge was to be destroyed so the choo-choo could go through. But being only a pawn in the great game of life, I realized that 15 schnitzelgrubens was my limit. My old roomate had a sandbox as a kid. He always smelled like cat poop for some reason.

Sorry.

ROTFLMAO, MisngNOLA!

And you will feel no pain As we drive you insane So stay on the Sunny Side of Life.

Are those like the stinky bubbles you get in the bathtub?

I liked the Gorilla Biscuits better. (Rock and a soft place joke.)

I see no faces–except maybe the middle bush in the bottom three on the right, and one between the tree trunk and the signature upper left. Or maybe I’m just seeing things. Lewreader, you got any spare tranquilizers?

I’m offended that they aren’t floating higher in the ‘sand. Since quicksand is a mixture of sand and water, it’s denser than plain water, and people tend to float pretty high in the stuff. It’s actually not that easy to drown in it, unless you flail around and fight it and exhaust yourself.

And I’m offended, Thom, that you think we might be offended by your humor.

I vote fior MisngNOLA to get the prise for best comment.

Seconded AuldWan

MisngNOLA how many years had it been since your room mate played in the sandbox? Are you saying once you absorb the odor it never goes away. OMG. I am so glad I never had a sandbox.

If it was as easy as pushing someone into a sandpit and they disappear never to be seen again, sandpits would be much more popular. There would probably be lines of people waiting to ‘show’ others the sandpit.

Please Do Not Stomp On The Happy

Wow. I got nothin.

If I were looking for faces I would say there is a face in the bushes to the left of the tree, but I’m not looking for faces anyway.

MisngNOLA, that was a funny post you had! Sandbox indeed!