Tom the Dancing Bug by Ruben Bolling for May 02, 2014
May 01, 2014
May 08, 2014
Transcript:
Tom the Dancing Bug by Ruben Bolling BOB Figures It Out #217: How To Be Invincile It would be so cool if I were invincible. I could walk the Earth, impervious to danger. I'd be fearless because I couldn't be harmed. PING BAM Yet, enemies could overpower me... ...and imprison me! Invincibility couldn't save me from that. Super-strength or unlimited teleportation powers would solve that, but those powers would change the whole scenario. So, my additional power would be that I could teleport no more than a mile away, no more than once a day. POOF And that's how Bob figures it out. Next on "Bob Figures It Out": when the Phillies should bunt against the defensive infield shift.
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If Bob were truly invincible, those Wall Street bankers couldn’t have overpowered him. Bob has confused invincibility with invulnerability, thus demonstrating he has mastered the power of illiteracy.