Rubes by Leigh Rubin for April 22, 2024

But look how many Mark Kay cosmetics he sold.

In my experience, my intuition is better than the GPS when it gets confuzzled. Which it does much less often than it useta, but it firmly led us wrong only a couple of years ago on the way to a country wedding site. Fortunately, we did arrive only a little late… which was fine because weddings NEVER start on schedule.

Not really the brains of the operation, is he?

In the book the tin man chopped down a tree to get them across an enormous gorge. There were creatures that were going to kill them if they didn’t get across in time.

Looks like they’re getting close to the Flint Hills.

Beware of shortcuts. They can be longer in the long run.

If you have a yellow brick road, why do you need a GPS?

Goodbye yellow brick road.

The sign and the roadblock is a trick of the witch. They should go around it and continue to drive on down this road.

There’s no yellow brick road through the Poppy field…

I don’t see Toto. Did he run on ahead? Perhaps they should’a’ followed him.

you mean he can’t pull around it??

How many sang it? I did!

In his defense he’ll make a straw man argument.

That was a really bad shortcut. Look, now we’re UNDER the rainbow. What have you done? We’ll never get there from here.

A short cut is the longest distance between two points.

If he only had a brain…

He has the courage to follow his heart.

Maybe a pot of gold by that rainbow

I had a man drive by today and ask where to find a certain address. Although the name of the street he was looking for matched the name of the street he was on, there was no such number on any of the mail boxes or houses. So I looked at what Mr. Google Maps had to say. According to that, the address existed and consisted of a 50 foot long and 5 foot wide median street in the middle of the road.