B.C. by Mastroianni and Hart for September 12, 2024

Actually, sometimes it is.

Made me think of Clouseau and Dreyfuswww>

That made my foot hurt!

Sideshow Bob.

You’re never supposed to leave a rake lying on the ground with the tines facing up. It will make it rain if you do. At least, that’s what my uncle told me when I was a kid.

Hmm. The last picture implies Mason doesn’t know how stepping on a rake works… the rake head on the ground is odd.

No use raking up old matters now.

I was walking through the yard and I must have been about 14. I stepped on a rake that my sister left laying on the ground. It didn’t smack me on the head, it hit my crazy bone. I think that I would have preferred to have been hit in the head.

If a rake is left out in the middle of the yard/field/what have you, tines up, this is exactly what its for.

That’ll leave a mark.

Leave it up to Clumsy!!!!!

OOOOOOO , Very rare upright FACEPLANT , 8.3 on the Wiley Coyote scale, high marks for the never saw it coming factor !

Friend was careful. He put rake tine down then tripped and fell on it and got a bloody nose. But then he was always lucky that way.

That reminds me of a golf joke about the best two balls I hit.

but only in cartoons and comics does it get to be used in such a way. :j

That accidental discovery of slapstick comedy. This should’ve been included in “History of the World: Part One”.

That rake would later become the Griswold rake.

Clumsy Carp is the Divining Rod of hazards.

No grass to rake!

Definitely not that.

Of course it is. If you look closely it came from A.C.M.E. and is a standard tool of Warner Brothers Cartoons.

Congratulations. You just invented Sideshow Bob’s greatest nemesis.

As it should … he’s obviously an offshoot from the Deinonychus raptors.

It’s a booby trap … the early years

Sideshow Bob grumble.

OK, I admit that has happened to me when I heard the landline phone ring and in my rush to answer it I simply dropped the rake in a very leaf strewn area that I was cleaning up.

I came back to finish my work and the rake was almost covered by leaves…… The sudden painful whack made me realised exactly where it was.

Fortunately I suffered NO bruising or injury at all, just a bad case of sheer embarrassment as a neighbour had seen it all and had a good laugh at my misfortune caused by my carelessness.

Side-show Clumsy…

See “Garfield”- 5/18/1985

I wonder what may be wrong: I only get yesterday’s strips everywhere- no new ones. Usually the new ones are here shortly after 7 a.m. Does anyone else have the same problem?

Sideshow Bob.