Off the Mark by Mark Parisi for January 10, 2021

Then don’t eat it.

By the way, this humor is dry.

The only thing missing is demanding a discount and speaking to a manager.

I had some dry chicken for supper last night. It was better than no chicken.

Everyone’s a critic!

“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.” – Theodore Roosevelt.

One is an opinion. The other is fact.

Wow, you really screwed the pooch on this one, Mark.

Without critics, we can easily be surrounded by yes-men and toadies. And we’ve seen how well that works.

..but what does it taste like?

“And such small portions too!” (From a woody Allen movie, don’t want to be accused of stealing someone else’s line.)

BTW, your hair looks awful.

It’s easier to be critical when you are anonymous, I suppose.

Why is your cartoon so negative. You should be positive. You never see me writing anything negative at all or criticizing people like you do.