Wizard of Id by Parker and Hart for April 24, 2012

If you are not using it, you might as well lose it.

No! Rodney needs it to fight the Huns.

In Russia a few years back the Russian Army ran into trouble with city fighting. Someone figured they needed something that could punch through concrete walls. They grabbed every 122 mm antitank gun they could find left over from WW2, mostly from museums.

we’d like to be considered classically competitive, not currently conflicted

Hey Rodney, how about trying the old ‘Trojen Horse’ Routine?

But aren’t catapults pretty much state of the art for Id?

and then they spend more than it’s worth … bringing it up to date.

Fink sold the cannon to the Huns. That’s why Rodney needs the catapult!

Looks like this strip has gone political like many others.

yeah. i was in the shredded remnants of the usnavy during the reagan years, and retired at the end of King George I. talk about buying your own toilet paper and stashing it, to take on a deployment…pitiful. then the paper napkins on the messdeck would run out. then the paper towels in the head. then the waste system would get clogged with underwear. we need another republican just Like them…

Why would a museum have catapults in a time when catapults are still more widely used than cannons?