Herman by Jim Unger for July 20, 2024

“I have been split from that side of the family for year now.”

I thought they were your relatives.

If they are smart they will ignore you

Now that comment is worth a remark but she’s bigger.

“Does this count as visiting your in-laws?”

If they don’t, she should be able to reintroduce them.

There are a few degrees of separation, so probably the answer is, “No”.

“Is my temper that bad?”

Just wait ’till she gets to the whale tank.

“The resemblance is startling.”

They look like 2 hippos at a whale convention

Cue the Kinks ♪ “Apeman” ♪ .

Strike the flinging posture and see if that strikes a note with them.

He still speaks the language.

……..ZING……….

“Only when I’m wearing my loin cloth”.

SSL!Side Splitting Laughing!

They’ll remember him as the missing link.

I believe it was in Mad Monstrosities that Al Jaffee told the story of a gap-toothed boy who fed hot peppers to an elephant in the zoo and laughed uproariously, which the elephant remembered, and remembered, and remembered, until one day he saw the exact same build, exact same hair, exact same shirt and sprayed the guy with water. Wrong guy. Then an old white-haired man in a raincoat fed him hot peppers and laughed uproariously, showing his gap-toothed grin.

They probably have been there before and it was an innocent remark. What do you think?

We’ll go see the howling monkeys next, so you can connect with your kin.