Wizard of Id by Parker and Hart for February 21, 2024

The horse’s eyes say those chains are cold!

Eh?

If I was the horse. I would run away now…..

Yea that’s really gonna help

I think someone’s about to get kicked.

Poor horse.

He’s going to end up in chains too, if we know anything about the Fink.

He obviously missed that class.

Would have been funnier with just the first panel.

Notice the crust… He may also thank his big shoes.

That horse looks horrified. What is going to happen to me?!

The Fink must be thinking “Why did I hire this Id-iot?”

The ole boy never had vocational training in school!!!!!!!!!!

He lost the reins off the horse too.

♫ Chain, chain, chain

Chain of fools ♫

The point is that snow chains are put on the drive wheels. In this case, the horse’s legs. If you have extra, maybe on the trailer wheels, but that is redundant. The drive power comes from the drive wheels of the truck not the trailer wheels. Those just turn, have no power at all.

Awwww! Poor Horsey!

Ooh! That’ll help!

I tried to chain the snow, but it kept escaping.

I think that the horse would prefer a blanket of quilted cloth to one of metal chains.

giddy up?

Hurrah, Wizard of Id classics is back, looks like they go back to feb 1.

About the attitude towards horses in that era.

I don’t think that’s how they work…

“….the proper use of which I’m still not perfectly clear on.”

Is that puff that’s roughly over the king’s head supposed to be a cloud, or his dark thoughts? He needs to find a coachman who knows what he’s doing.

Snow shoes maybe, but not chains.

Someone needs to give the guard a quick lesson in snow chains…

We used bags of sand as weight to get more traction, but I guess 80 pounds of chain draped over the horse would work just as well.

For those interested, there actually is a different solution in real life. There is a type of horseshoe called sharp shoes that are basically horseshoes with cleats. My grandfather used to have them put on his horses in the wintertime and then would hitch up an old box sleigh and wait in front of our school at the end of the day. All the kids would pile in and he would drive around town and they would hop off when they reached their home. He once got a stunting ticket for doing donuts in the sleigh in one of the intersections.

Id never heard of sleighs!