Overboard by Chip Dunham for March 13, 2024

Red Red Robin told you to start bobbin (your head)

If he DOES duck, it looks like the snowball will pelt Mr. Bobbin’ Robin

And now I had to look up “why are bad doctors called quacks”

The term quack originates from quacksalver, or kwakzalver, a Dutch word for a seller of nostrums, medical cures of dubious and secretive origins. (Nostrums were the over-the-counter medications of the early modern world, available without a doctor’s prescription and taken at one’s own risk.) Quacks during this time were unregulated practitioners, many of whom were too uneducated to enter physicians’ guilds or too “low-born” to be welcomed by medical colleges. Instead they plied their trade on street corners and at country fairs, hawking homemade remedies in loud, attention-grabbing voices—hence the term quack, likening their cries to noisy ducks or geese.

Good morning, crew!

So, you’re going to get in an argument with the first robin of spring.

Incoming!!!!!

Good morning Crew!

I get the joke, but here’s what my analytical brain first thought:“Henry interacts with lots of intelligent, talking animals daily, so I doubt he’d speak to this robin like it’s an idiot that doesn’t know what species it is.”

In this strip, the robin identifies as a duck!

Typical human, just doesn’t listen…

The robin’s learning a foreign language.

Wonder if Chip will have anything to say about all these comments??!!!

And what is the lesson from today’s comic, boys and girls? When someone says “duck” DO IT!

No, YOU duck!

Good evening, Crew!

Incoming…

AFLAC!!

Oops. Make that …

INCOMING!! (as cknoblo posted right before I did; great minds think alike.)

Good Evening, Crew.

Incoming at your six.