Mother Goose and Grimm by Mike Peters for September 19, 2023

I’ve always feared that with my luck I’d live to be 120.

Like Jack Benny used to tell everybody!!!

Girlfriend tells everyone she’s 39. Pretty soon her son will be older than she is.

T minus 38 and holding…

i saw Jack Benny live when i was 12

Interesting timing. The strip is coming up on its 39th birthday.

while you won’t live the next 10 seconds, Grimmy.

You see, kids, there was this great performer back in the 20th Century by the name of Jack Benny, who was perpetually 39 years old.

My grandmother stopped counting at 39. She told me she no longer had birthdays after that. It was an anniversary to her 39th birthday. She finally told me she had to think she was old. When I asked her why, she told me because it was the 39th anniversary to her 39th birthday!

NOW CUT THAT OUT!!! ;D

And “THEN” what ……. :)

My favorite Jack Benny joke (and one of my favorite jokes, full stop):

[Jack’s “prepared” image was that of an extreme “Penny-Pincher”]

Mugger: Your money or your life.

[Pause]

Mugger: Look bud. I said, your money or your life.

Jack: I’m thinking it over!

Another good one is:

Muggers: You hand over the money, or we break both of your legs!

[Long Pause]

Jack: Does it have to be both?

39 magic number: 3 is square root of 9…

Haha! (＾▽＾)