Brewster Rockit by Tim Rickard for May 31, 2010

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    margueritem  over 14 years ago

    Nyuk, nyuk nyuk!

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    Varnes  over 14 years ago

    Ouch!

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    Steve Bartholomew  over 14 years ago

    Larry, Curly and Moe have been appointed to oversee cleanup operations.

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    luezer  over 14 years ago

    Starfleet needs Shemp’s help now.

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    Rakkav  over 14 years ago

    And just who is it that ordered you not to interfere? In case you haven’t figured it out yet, that means you’re already interfering.

    (I love it when a philosophical conundrum comes together…)

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    Pacejv  over 14 years ago

    Soytainly!

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    zero  over 14 years ago

    Moe! Larry!! sponges!!!

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    Little Miss Tink  over 14 years ago

    At least Joe Besser fights back!

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    lewisbower  over 14 years ago

    My mother said, “Those men wouldn’t be in Washington if they didn’t know what they were doing.” “Don’t blame those 3 Jewish boys”

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    Dkram  over 14 years ago

    (>.<)

    \\//_

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    WaitingMan  over 14 years ago

    BP’s adventures in the Gulf of Mexico are reminiscent of the plumbing episode.

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    POPPA1956  over 14 years ago

    BP is now being sued by the estate of Rube Goldberg for copyright and patent infringement.

    Just when you think you couldn’t hate an oil company more, BP steps up to show just how wrong you were. The problem remaining is that they’re giving money-hungry corporate scum a bad name.

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    Trebor39  over 14 years ago

    Larry, Curly and Moe = BP

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    stuart  over 14 years ago

    @poppa, while you can be mad at BP for overconfidence, the mile deep well is a technical first. It is much easier to deal with problems in shallow water, or easiest of all on land (Alaska would be the best place to drill.) Under a mile of water, the pressure is too great for manned equipment, and the oil itself is under tremendous pressure.

    So why did they try (and fail horribly) to drill a well under a mile of water? Because they can’t get a permit anywhere else for fear of spills. Very ironic. The Chinese are drilling our shallow water oil (with the clever technique of drilling down just outside the international perimeter, then drilling horizontally under the floor to tap our oil).

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    starguy  over 14 years ago

    These guys are based on The Watcher, from the Fantastic Four.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uatu

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    Ray_C  over 14 years ago

    This is shaping up to be a really horrible catastrophe that may change large stretches of shoreline forever. We don’t know yet whether it’s BP’s fault, but I hope it will make it easier to get permits in safer parts of the world. But knowing Washington, they can’t do this. They will have to tighten up everywhere. They are driven by politics, not logic. In the meantime, maybe it’s good that Tim can “mine” a little humor out of this. That’s all the good that will ever come of it, I’m afraid.

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    Sherlock Watson  over 14 years ago

    In an early “Bloom County” strip, Laurel and Hardy were working for the EPA and cleaning up toxic waste; maybe they can clean up this mess too.

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    JP Steve Premium Member over 14 years ago

    Hey RayC,

    Here’s a map, can you circle the “safer parts?”

    http://tinyurl.com/7wyfho

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    Coyoty Premium Member over 14 years ago

    Stuart Gathman said, @poppa, while you can be mad at BP for overconfidence, the mile deep well is a technical first.

    And we were worried about a 5-mile wide technical first in Europe punching a hole in the universe.

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    Kaero  over 14 years ago

    I love you, Tim! (Sorry for the outburst…but this was wonderfully, geekfully funny.)

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    alan.gurka  over 14 years ago

    And the Observers’ names are Stan and Ollie?

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    David Huie Green LoveJoyAndPeace  over 5 years ago

    The planet has always had holes in it bleeding out the contents. We have animals in the Gulf of Mexico which can only survive on the oil from oil seeps. Most early oil exploration was based on oil seeps and the fact that there was natural gas in the water or places where a fire kept burning from rocks.

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