Kliban by B. Kliban for December 28, 2022

Gonna take a long time to clean off his windshield with that!

This could be a test – what will cause an older car to break down where the temporary fix includes a toothbrush.

Is Romance in the air? Is it Kismet? Earlier, they ate ice cream out of the same dish — and now he has an excuse to return. “Toothbrush time” now, and again at 10 a.m. tomorrow?

“Toothbrush Time” William Bolcom / Arnold Weinstein, from Cabaret Songs

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=b7YMlplkDlU

I hate it when someone asks me if they can “borrow” a kleenex. I look at them blankly for a long moment, and say “No, you can keep it.”

I thought he was going to ask for a bar of soap.

Sometimes I think Kliban was the Andy Kaufman of cartoon humor.

Why? Your battery have a contact problem?

I didn’t ask you to stay and No!

Maybe he just needs to clean an engine part. Rotor? Coil?

The mailman knocks twice.