Over the Hedge by T Lewis and Michael Fry for November 20, 2021

Love Verne’s bathing suit in the header.

Verne! – Showing some attitude.

Definitely stop for the banana and Pepcid smoothie.

Now you know what to get each other for Christmas ;-)

There should be a game show – “Can You Beat Watson?”

I used to think that a Phillips screwdriver was milk of magnesia with vodka.

Supercomputers become sentient and try to dominate their creators.

You tell ’em Verne!

Why is sriracha-flavored in there twice?

wait… is this a callback to Mr. Wizard?

I always think of the comedy-bot from Futurama.

“Supercollider? I hardly knew her. Then we built the supercollider.”

Yeah. Now here’s a truly great joke written by humans, which I know for a fact remained totally boffo for over a hundred years. If you want to make it even funnier, you can do it with an Irish accent, because, y’know, everyone knows what those people (nudge, nudge) are like….

199. Two Brothers coming to be executed once for ſome enormous Crime;  the Eldeft was firſt turn’d off, without ſaying one Word: The other mounting the Ladder, began to harangue the Crowd, whoſe Ears were attentively open to hear him, expecting ſome Confeſſion from him, “Good People,” ſays he, “my Brother hangs before my Face, and you ſee what a lamentable SPECTACLE he makes;  in a few Moments I ſhall be turned off too, and then you’ll ſee a Pair of SPECTACLES.”

—Joe Miller’s Jests; or, the WITS Vade-mecum MDCCXXXIX