Wizard of Id by Parker and Hart for July 06, 2020

Well what do you know. A knight proof sword.

New king?

Rodney – you’re demoted.

That reminds me of those fiendish bottles my pills come in. I’m glad to have a screwdriver just the right size to jimmy the lids off.

I request the non-child proof lids from my pharmacy.

If all else fails… Read. The. Instructions.

For some bottles I have used a pipe wrench to get the top off. Why does salad dressing have to be child proof?

As a kid I used to open the child proof lids for my parent’s…

The little plastic clamshells for slices of pie are the worst !

It weeds out the ones who can’t (or won’t) read.

It pays to read the instructions!

Looks like Fink’s days are numbered…

The devil is in the small details!

So, that’s how Arthur did it, eh.

Third panel includes one of the most hated lines in the history of the world.

Well, it was in Latin….

“If all else fails, read the directions.”

Rod certainly couldn’t see that coming!

No one saw it because they were too busy grimacing and pulling…

so the special ability of mr. Arthur was that he could read..

old school bulbs. “bayonet” base……..

Does that mean that the ability to read isn’t a requirement to be the current King if ID? P.S. There is a 50% tax on the value of found weapons.

My son had advice for his grandfather, “Read the destructions.”

this comic reminds me of old columbo episode where murder weapon was a sword in stone and no one could figure out how murderer got sword out. finally columbo realized sword was held in stone by strong magnet and there was hidden palmprint reader set to handprint of owner, who was murder victim. seems he got thrills by challenging people to try to draw it but only he could

I remember a reading about a test where the first instruction was put your name at the top of the page. the second instruction was to read all the instructions first. After two pages of instructions, the final one was to ignore all the other instructions except the first two and this one. Most people flunked the test! I’m not sure, but I think it was 99.something flunked!

Whomever put that sword there went on to design pill bottle caps.

So is he the new ruler of England?

This is an amazingly good one.

(No complaint with the others, just particularly enjoyed this one.)

Those little tricks get you every time.

What? No one reads directions.

I’m thinking the “finders keepers” scene with Timothy Omundson from Galavant (sorry, couldn’t find a YouTube for it).