Rubes by Leigh Rubin for June 26, 2020

Don’t look now, but there are three bears outside, and they look angry.

She’ll just have to tuffet out.

That’s not a tuffet. But the spider eyes are great!

Is she sweating?

later she’ll put on her activity tracker and be the itsy bitsy ditzy fitsy bitsy spider…

Goldilocks, you thief!

Excellent strip well thought out.

Hey buster. My eyes are up here,

Miss Muffet is sweating the spiders?

Much safer than getting washed away by the rain.

I am reminded of Mother Goose Rock n’ Rhyme

Turns out a tuffet is just a little stool. I always thought different.

That’s what you get for looking up directions on the web.

That spider doesn’t look itsy bitsy to me.

Little miss muffet sat on her tuffet, eating her cottage cheese… along came a spider who sat down beside her and asked “Can I have some please?” — Me, age 6 (50 years ago)

Simple miscommunication with HR. Waterspout’s down the hall last door on the left