The Born Loser by Art and Chip Sansom for September 13, 2021

Rancid doesn’t seem amused.

If Vebblefester ever cracked a real smile, his face would most likely fall off!!

:-)

Considering that he cries when he signs the employees’ paychecks, he needs a good laugh.

Imagine how good you would feel if he actually laughed.

I’d have thought that the only way Chiefey would do a full throttle belly laugh is to see Brutus screw up royally.;-D

Brutus, he’s not laughing at you, he’s laughing… Ok, wait, He is laughing at you. Kind of a sarcastic derisive laugh, but, as they say, “Mission accomplished.”

His boss looks like Gale Gordon, Mr. Mooney on “The Lucy Show.”

Veebs: A man walked up to me and told me hadn’t had a bite in three days. So I bit him. Ha ha ha!

A merry ❤️ does good like medicine

It does my heart good to hear him laugh, but it makes the hairs on my neck stand up when he laughs like that.

HA, HA, HA!

I believe the laugh is on you. His heart just wasn’t in it.

And then the farmer said, “that was no laugh…”

Sad Vebblefester. Bible speaks of the love of money. It can also take you to hell-o land.

“Say, Chief, do you think I’ll get ‘Employee of the Month’?”

“HAW! HAW! HAW!”

That MAY be Rancid’s best laugh or even show of emotion. Good job Brutus. Maybe you will get that well deserved raise sometime…..

The only other person with that name was Rancid Crabtree, beloved character from Patrick McManus’ short stories. Rancid was Pat’s mentor when he was young.

Well now we know why Veeblefester keeps Brutus around, he enjoys his sense of humor.

i have no idea how an elephant got in my pajamas…

While he may recognize the rhythm of a joke, and that the listener is supposed to laugh at the end, Veeblefester has no sense of humor. A forced “Ha, ha, ha” is the best the old sourpuss can do.

Let’s give Rancid a little bit of a break — it’s hard to grow up with a sense of humor when all the kids are riding you about your first name (cf. Johnny Cash’s classic, A Boy Named Sue).