Rubes by Leigh Rubin for February 27, 2024

Sisyphus and sissy wuss.

“just” is an underestimation

Hey Sis, roll it little to your right before you get halfway up.

Sisyphus’s younger brother Lickyphus.

That there rock’s gotta roll!

Pushing a rock. Pushing a rock. Pushing a rock.

Different kind of punishment. You keep buying ice cream cones on a hot day, and the ice cream keeps falling off.

Sisyphus had many of those days.

I felt bad when I dropped my ice cream, then I saw a man condemned to forever push a boulder up a hill.

Life is a rock, but the Sisyphus rolled me.

You want rocky road? I’ll give you rocky road alright!

Stop, drop, and roll!!

Somebody get Joe another cone, and this time make it chocolate chocolate chip!

“Why, no, not just one…”

Ugh stop being such a Sissy-phus

The artist Giotto di Bondone, who lived from A.D. 1267-1337, is reputed (implausibly) to have sent Pope Benedict XI a specimen of work consisting of one perfect circle drawn while the Pope’s messenger watched.