Super-Fun-Pak Comix by Ruben Bolling for July 15, 2022

Which is how you end up with 10 cardboard boxes practically overflowing with gazpacho. What were the odds?

Back before I was born, some company ran ads promising you “Absolutely Nothing” if you sent in the coupon with your payment. The laws said that you actually had to send something back if people ordered from an ad like that, so those who ponied up the dough were sent a bumper sticker reading “Absolutely Nothing”.

Ha. Big mystery. Obviously there a learn how to draw Doug kit inside.

Many years ago got a mystery box at Spencer’s. It was a small fake Christmas tree about 30" high with cone angel on top. You turned on a pump and styrofoam snow would hit the angel cone and snow down on the tree. A big dish at the bottom collected the snow. It was 10 bucks and not a bad deal.

It’s kind of like a Pandora’s Box: Until it’s opened, it’s both worthless and priceless at the same time.

This would probably get a lot of takers, if it was in a magazine that cats would read.

It’s Schrödinger’s cat, a flask of poison, and a radioactive source. The cat is both alive and dead so there’s also some cat food, a litter box and an obituary.

I seem to remember that something like 50 or 60 years ago, a guy bought one of those little ads in Popular Mechanics or some such publication, which just said “Send $5 to [address]”. Made out like a bandit, but the Authorities (in the form of a court) decreed that even though there was nothing remotely overt in the ad about any quid-pro-quo, receiving something for the $5 was a “constructive” inference and therefore a swindle. I dunno, it seems unfair. A tax of sorts on greed and stupidity sounds reasonable to me.

I don’t like mysteries unless they’re free.

Does Dinkle’s checking account have $199.50 in it?