Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for March 29, 2022

Well, everyone is happy you corrected that mistake.

Good luck, you two!

The question in my mind is: How much of this is going to end up in the drink? The sculpture? The crane? The barge? Two out of three ain’t bad?

A disaster in the making.

Does she honestly think her lover will actually do the work of hauling that piece of junk to her “client”??

If so, she’s dumber than I thought!!

The panel we don’t see today, where she then says: “What could possibly go wrong?”

‘Looks like we need Plan B’…. ‘We have a Plan B?’…. ‘No, but we need one’. Stargate SG1, and probably other places.

Can do? Can do?! Zeke isn’t even “just about will do”!! :D

Just a couple of kids, dreamin’ big.

The disaster begins…and ‘someone else’’ is wondering the same thing.

Good idea, shame the client lives in Arizona.

I remember an old episode of “Emergency” and artist like this had accidentally made himself a part of a sculpture by not realizing he’d welded himself inside then had a conniption when the paramedic suggested cutting a door.

It is a pretty good piece of work. To bad it won’t get to the customer for a paycheck.

I got the guy right here, His name is Zeke my dear, And though he looks like a slob (I know that much is clear), Can do, can do, My gut says the schmoe can do…

This’ll be good…

That’s ‘can-do’ only in his imagination, ’can’t-do’ in reality.

How do those two manage to keep themselves alive?

Yeah, it’s not like people need training and certification to operate stuff like that.

Get the tools.

What tools?

The tools we’ve been using for the past ten years

Oh,THOSE tools!!

Oddly,I think JJ really loves this guy.

But even Freud&Jung together couldn’t figure out why.

Yep, heavy equipment operation is a piece of cake. What possibly could go wrong?

I remember watching a Mr. Rogers episode with my kids, where he showed us how to operate a backhoe. I wonder if there are other episodes that would teach barge and heavy crane?

“How hard can it be?” That’s the attitude that’s made so successful.

There are professionals who do – and charge for their services – but what do you care? Just pass the charges on to your client – he said not to worry about the cost, right?!

Better yet – get a big cargo helicopter to lower a line and lift it right up out of there and onto his property. No barges needed. And it would be the classiest way possible to move it. Considering who the client is, though – you better get that thing covered in gold paint – and paint the chopper gold too, while you are at it!

And yet a month or so ago an actual current Sunday strip showed them happily together after all these years…

https://www.gocomics.com/doonesbury/2022/01/23?ct=v&cti=1925502

More Famous Last Words – How hard can it be?

Bleah!

When a new air pollution control monitoring trailer was delivered by a pair of independent contractors, they had not bothered to hire a fork lift operator for placing it on a small grassy hill. They just rented a fork lift. Neither one of them knew how to operate a fork lift in such conditions. Within five minutes they had broken a water pipe which produced a fifty-foot-high geyser, that spewed for half an hour. Not only did they have to pay for a professional fork lift driver to come out and finish the job; they had to pay for the damages.

Everyone loves a “can do” attitude!