The Argyle Sweater by Scott Hilburn for March 31, 2023

I thought it was supposed to get the man … in the mood.

He plays well, but what does he charge?

Want to be pun pals?

Shouldn’t that be an Afrodisiac? (I don’t think that’s an Asian rhinoceros.)

Watch out, you never know what’s hidden in the velvet fog.

I don’t like to rain on comics as if they’re real life. But this particular issue is huge and not a joke. Rhinos might not survive extinction because of the ridiculous belief that keratin, which makes up their horns, is something besides ordinary keratin. Now forgive me, and I’ll go away.

The sophisticated lady’s date isn’t going to have to strongarm her into making whoopee once they get home. She’s at his Bix Biederbeck and call.

Like the Mel Torme Monster song with Daffy Duck!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nGYJtI37Y7M

Mel Torme was a great singer!

If you take a Rhino’s horn, he cannot play all that jazz he’s so good at.

KAREN has Been Here!!

It puts the horn in horny.

Don’t hunt rhinos. Period. End of rant.

As he leaves the theater later that night he is jumped by 3 poachers who take his horn to grind up and sell on the black market.

And he’s pretty good on that trumpet too.

Herb Alpert?

Not as funny as when there were still lots of rhinos.

A rhino is playin’ a ’trump’et, and Trump used to complain about RINOs. Does that mean anything… probably not!

Even if, somehow, a rhino horn was an aphrodisiac, what’s the point of poaching them to extinction? Wouldn’t it make more sense to have rhino ranches and just cut off the horns from live ones and let them grow back?

You can’t even have a monopoly on the supply if you poach them to death. I never understood this.

Hmmm, one of the best, Satchmo, used a white handkerchief. Maybe that shade of red is a stimulant to some.

Better to listen to Rhino horn than to slaughter to get the horn…

And now for a Barry White favorite.

What’s he standing on?