But it didn’t stop him from reporting ‘live’ from where he wasn’t. (When he worked in radio, pre-Hollywood, Reagan used to give ‘live’ broadcasts from baseball games he wasn’t at. He’d just take the sparse details off the AP wire and invent fiction to pad it out.)
Probably the smartest thing Roland ever did. When it came time to leave, he’d have been hanging on the helicopter’s landing gear, with someone beating on his fingers.
Does he have a nose hair clipper in the first panel. …no matter. Good dramatic effects are priceless. I suppose a dime a dozen would be fair market value.
Minor pet peeve: Everyone uses the word “tempering” wrong. Tempering makes the metal softer. I used to work as a heat treater, making metals harder or softer. In hardening steel there are two phases: hardening, and tempering. Hardening is the first step: heating at a prescribed high temperature and cooling rapidly which produces maximum hardness. Tempering is the second step, heating at a prescribed lower temperature to reduce hardness to the desired level and make the steel less brittle.
I was interviewed in the early 80s for a position with AID. The interviewer told me that he had been in Saigon at the end when the governement collapsed. As best I can recall, this is how he decribed it, “the VC tanks were knocking down the embassy gate. We were buring all of the doucments that we could before running up the stairs to the roof to catch a helicopter for a ride out. It was kind of exciting.” Kind of? I got an offer but decided to turn it down.
BE THIS GUY over 1 year ago
Instead, he got on the plane for Bangkok.
Pointspread over 1 year ago
That’s funny!
charliefarmrhere over 1 year ago
Is that a maggot or leech on his arm?
lalapalooza Premium Member over 1 year ago
what is he holding in the first panel?
SHIVA over 1 year ago
He’s as real as a three dollar bill!!
DennisinSeattle over 1 year ago
His morphing hat!
braindead Premium Member over 1 year ago
He probably missed the plane because of bone spurs.
snsurone76 over 1 year ago
He’s also missed the boat!!
snsurone76 over 1 year ago
No, in actuality, the weather is the ultimate truth. Tornados never lie, and are only romanticized in “The Wizard of OZ”!!
cripplious over 1 year ago
Roland the first vape user.
LawrenceS over 1 year ago
But it didn’t stop him from reporting ‘live’ from where he wasn’t. (When he worked in radio, pre-Hollywood, Reagan used to give ‘live’ broadcasts from baseball games he wasn’t at. He’d just take the sparse details off the AP wire and invent fiction to pad it out.)
fuzzbucket Premium Member over 1 year ago
Probably the smartest thing Roland ever did. When it came time to leave, he’d have been hanging on the helicopter’s landing gear, with someone beating on his fingers.
mikenisson69 over 1 year ago
What’s that black thing? Wasn’t this strip written before vaping?
Masterskrain over 1 year ago
That’s why Roland was TOTALLY qualified to work for FAUX Noise. THEY specialize in just making s*** up as well!!
Snolep over 1 year ago
Richard Engel he’s not.
vaughnrl2003 Premium Member over 1 year ago
Does he have a nose hair clipper in the first panel. …no matter. Good dramatic effects are priceless. I suppose a dime a dozen would be fair market value.
jprmrtr over 1 year ago
When I took the plane for Bangkok it stopped in Saigon first!
mistercatworks over 1 year ago
The horror!
monya_43 over 1 year ago
Roland missed more than the plane.
198.23.5.11 over 1 year ago
HE LOOKS LIKE A FAILED DUCK HUNTER
willie_mctell over 1 year ago
Minor pet peeve: Everyone uses the word “tempering” wrong. Tempering makes the metal softer. I used to work as a heat treater, making metals harder or softer. In hardening steel there are two phases: hardening, and tempering. Hardening is the first step: heating at a prescribed high temperature and cooling rapidly which produces maximum hardness. Tempering is the second step, heating at a prescribed lower temperature to reduce hardness to the desired level and make the steel less brittle.
eddi-TBH over 1 year ago
Vivid commentary.
Uncle $crooge over 1 year ago
I was interviewed in the early 80s for a position with AID. The interviewer told me that he had been in Saigon at the end when the governement collapsed. As best I can recall, this is how he decribed it, “the VC tanks were knocking down the embassy gate. We were buring all of the doucments that we could before running up the stairs to the roof to catch a helicopter for a ride out. It was kind of exciting.” Kind of? I got an offer but decided to turn it down.