Geech by Jerry Bittle for November 15, 2024

Yum lighter fluid dosed hot dogs

I’ll pass, thank you.

Don’t even ask about hamburgers.

I have often wondered why they call them hot dogs, unless they were originally made with dog meat.

Crankshaft was here.

I recall back in the days when I actually got the dead wood version of the newspaper, it always seemed to be the comics with the “lighter fluid go boom” gags which stoked the ire of the safety-minded readers resulting in scathing letters-to-the-editor condemning them for exposing such a dangerous strip to impressionable young readers (who – even then – were not reading the newspaper but instead were in the basement playing “Grand Theft Auto”).

All done in a flash.

Is this where Crankshaft stole the joke?