Wizard of Id by Parker and Hart for March 01, 2023

And you’re beard helps how? I used to live in freezing temps, I never remember by chin cold

Hair raising?

Does it grow up and over his head when it rains?

Wow, climate controlled chin warmer (CCCW). Great!! Yip yip yip yip yip

you married him.

I see sunny and cold days, but what about rainy days? Did you train it to keep your head dry?

Now that it is March, that seems like a useful skill.

Here in North West Indiana, that’ll grow and retract multiple times a day!

If only !

I suspect that Blanche’s reply is one that Susie will often make to Calvin if they get married as many fans believe. Calvin and Susie could be the Wizard and Blanche when they were children.

They shrink in the cold and expand in the heat, and we’re not wizards; but I’m not talking about beards.

If another famous wizard could perform this feat, it would be the Merlin Hair Lift.

To the tune of Smooth by Santana

Man it’s a hot one

So his beard is short in the mid day sun

But when it’s cold he grows it long

But it looks so cool

The Wiz is a killer

And his beard is a thriller

Changing from season to season

With a life of its own, yeah

And in the summer he looks like George Michael

And in the winter he looks like Rip Van Winkle

He would change his beard to better suit the weather’s mood

His beard is so smooth

And when he sails the warm ocean it’s so slick and bad

And when winter’s in motion it’s a full heating pad

He’s got the kind of beard that can be so smooth, yeah

Waving that wand, keep it real, and don’t forget about it

But it works! My ex used to have a beard in the winter and shave in the summer. Kept him warm on the highway (worked for ODOT). It gets pretty cold out there!

Blanche is right, Wiz.

A retractable beard! Cool!

Today is Saint David’s Day. Saint David is a Celtic Saint who is Patron Saint of Wales. Tomorrow will be Saint Chad’s Day. Saint Chad is an Anglo-Saxon Saint. There is a saying among farmers about these two days at the beginning of March:-

“Saint David and Saint Chad,

Sow seed, good or bad."

This means, of course, whether the weather is good or bad not whether the seed is good or bad.

that would be really handy

“…. and considering the starting point, THAT’S saying something.”

Too bad you can’t train your tunic to do the same.

I always let my beard grow in the winter.

So the wiz basically turned into an artic fox?

A comment my dear wife might reasonably make about me, since I’ve let my hair grow since the start of the current Plague Years…..

Wish mine would do that!