Crankshaft by Tom Batiuk and Dan Davis for April 27, 2023

Poor Mary!!

Well, I guess they didn’t have their cellphones! (see comment 2 days ago)

https://www.gocomics.com/crankshaft/2023/04/25

Nice to know folks can just stroll into a hospital/rehab clinic/sanitorium without Security stopping them and get to a patient’s room, and that they feel the need to identify themselves by their profession.

Also, as was pointed out elsewhere, high schoolers in 2023 would be too busy looking at their phones, taking selfies or posting TikTok content to be bothered with singing about bottles on the wall, but Batiuk is unaware that this isn’t 1974.

So first thing Ed says, when you get out Mary, we’ll celebrate by having a beer at the bowling alley.

Oh, this year’s class was merciful. Last year’s senior class sung the song that never ends.

Can you sing: “The wheels of the Bus go round and round……. All through the Town.”?

Patient records out in the hall within easy access?—That’s not a HIPAA violation at all.

How many years has it been since Batiuk has been in a hospital? I’m betting Mary’s bed will have a hand-crank with a graph chart hanging on it.

We sang “100 Bottles of Beer on the Wall” on the bus to the altar boys picnic 1967.

Take one and pass it around.

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That song would drive me bonkers too!

@J.J. O’Malley – The thing is Crankshaft should be yelling about all this!

That’s the only song I know

When we were in grade school and on a field trip we drove a parent nuts singing a song like that. Not sure which one but it was a “round” and easy to sing over and over!!!

“Ninety-nine bottlesOf beer on the wall, ninetyNine bottles of beer

HAIKU!!!"-shamelessly stolen from The Kids in the Hall

He has this backwards. When I’M feeling mean, I just sing “Do you want to build a SNOWMAN?” The kids take it from there and the older kids try to jump out the windows.

Our wonderful bus driver, Ed, would never allow us to sing that song. We could sing anything else but that. At the end of a day-long senior trip to Stratford in Canada, he drove through the local drive-in and let us all order hamburgers or whatever else we wanted. Great guy!!

Haha! XD