Wizard of Id by Parker and Hart for April 08, 2020

Acid rain.

Wizard, you didn’t kill an Alien, did you?

“I was trying to create a universal solvent, but I’m still undissolved.”

I thought that the wizard’s lab was in the castle basement, not the throne room.

Not very safe, Wiz. Doing stuff like that requires the proper materials of construction.

Looks like the acid works perfectly!

Must be hard on the fink to seat on the throne all day. I can’t do it for more than 30 minutes at a time.

After landing right in it, he best wash himself of rather quickly.

creating an unsafe work environment for yourself and for others, Wiz?

He’s working on a home-made disinfectant. Guess it’s back to the drawing board…or should I say potions lab?

He’s laying in acid?!

Didn’t know limestone was used in building castles.

Okay, new rule. No experiments in the attic. Unless they involve bats.

The fink is not amused…..

Or another “acid” from the looks of it!

Hmmm, the castle must be made of clam shells. That or maybe a high molarity version (the argument against high molarity is the Wiz doesn’t seem bothered).

I thought his lab was in the basement

I can’t stomach that!

…or aqua regia

The Wizard fell into a puddle of hydrochloric acid strong enough to eat through the castle’s ceiling. Shouldn’t HE be dissolving? Or did he cast some invulnerability spell first?

Anyone else here reminded of an episode from Breaking Bad?

It looked like that the Wiz was cleaning the toilet bowl upstairs above the throne room with muriatic acid when the spill of water occurred.

Or aliens.

Or, he was trying to cut into that alien specimen stuck on Sir Rodney’s face…

how did the wizard get a room higher than the king in HIS castle ?

Here lies poor John Doe. He is with us no more. For what he thought was H2O was H2SO4.

Wizard is working on his Breaking Bad

But Wiz is immune to the stuff, apparently.

The way it went through the stone there, make me think more of hydrofluoric acid. It eats right through glass and most or all mineral based containers. Oh, and in addition to being wildly corrosive, it’s poisonous as well. The old treatment for exposure was immediate amputation of the limb. If you’re interested in a couple accounts of HF exposure (summarized, but still horrendous), look for Colin Povey’s comments at https://www.quora.com/How-dangerous-is-hydrofluoric-acid-as-I-m-making-a-silicon-wafer-from-scratch.

IN short: “Be afraid, be very afraid” is NOT an overstatementI had to deal with it once, in an old chem lab, and that was more than enough.The Wiz couldn’t have been using it, though. He would have been dissolved before falling through the ceiling.

Missed him, by THAT much.