Free Range by Bill Whitehead for December 10, 2023

From the “Friar” pan into the “pyre”.

He’s just monkeying around.

Another order may be a better fit for Leopold – one which appreciates and celebrates cartoons and comonk strips.

… and the cartoonist is born.

this really happened; the cartoon drawing with speech balloon was invented in the Middle Ages.

Don’t marginalize Brother Leopold. After all he’s the great great great great great great granduncle of Sergio Aragones.

And then the monk says to the bartender, “Not at fifteen bucks for a martini.”

So that’s why there were so many copying mistakes in the Bible! They must have been bored. I had always thought it was the wine.

Autobiographical?

Poor guy became withdrawn after this.

No levity allowed in this order.

The inspiration for Abbot and Costello.

Did he go on to found Leopold Brothers distillery in Denver CO?

But the other brothers will miss you.

Stop me if you’ve heard this one: so a guy enters a monastery, and he’s told he’s only allowed 2 words once every 5 years. 5 years goes by, he says “bed’s hard”. 5 years later, he says “food’s bad”. 5 years later, he says “I quit!” One of the abbots says to another: “it’s just as well…all he ever did was complain!”

“The Name of the Rose,” anyone?