Speed Bump by Dave Coverly for April 14, 2020

Isn’t the Odyssey a Honda?

Beware of Greeks bearing iPhones.

I reread the Odyssey a few years ago. My favorite part was when Odysseus, having wiped out the invasive suitors, orders his son Telemachus to kill the eight or so serving maids who consorted with the suitors. Telemachus decides death by sword is too good for them, so he hangs them. “Their feet twitched a little. But not for long.”

“And half of them turned into pigs Circe 8th Century BC.”

He’ll be so engrossed in his pictures, he wouldn’t even notice if you got up and walked away… say for a couple months.

So how many ways can you take photos of your SUV? (-:

“To make a long story short …” Too late, Homer.

The sirens again? Same song, different verse.

Stuff your ears with wax until he’s done.

Oh, and here’s a great place we had lunch. The dolmathakia are to die for.

Those sirens could make you pull over.

“And here are the lotus-eaters. And here are the lotus-eaters two years later. And here are the lotus-eaters four years later. They were a really laid-back bunch.”

“And now we’ve come full Circe.”

That Cyclops couldn’t seem to see the big picture.