Excuuuuuse Us. 06/12/26

We seemed to have touched a nerve with a comic we also posted on Facebook last week. It’s the comic in which the kid asks Al’s son Sid what will he get for working a few extra hours one night. Sid tells him he gets the reward of helping the company. But the kid, not falling for it says, “No really boss, what do I get?” This infuriated a few Gen Z’ers on Facebook. Well actually 14,000 of them. If we were petty we’d point out that they were getting this comic for free, now weren’t they? So that is where we came from. Our joke was the next generation explaining to the generation below them… oh forget it. Instead we will quote the humorist, E.B. White, who said: “Humor can be dissected, as a frog can, but the thing dies in the process.” In other words, Get the f@%k over it!”

Moving on to this week, our first comic was one of those “what were they thinking?” kind of comics. Yes it’s true, they used to sell chemistry sets with radioactive uranium in them. But we thought that hiding under a desk would save us from a nuclear bomb so it wasn’t really an issue.

As you know, the World Cup officially opened yesterday. The ticket prices are outrageous. In addition, every hotel, rental car, train ticket and restaurant have jacked up their prices to astonishing levels. Although they don’t seem so astonishing compared to trying to see a Knick NBA Finals game in Madison Square Garden, where a seat close enough to actually see the game will run you about $15,000 per ticket. If you want to sit way up high where you can’t see the players so you end up watching them on the Jumbotron screen in the Garden, it’s only $4700. Such a deal. So Al’s son Sid, being an internet multimillionaire, invites Al to the luxury box he’s bought through his company. I once went to a Knick game in one of those suites and, just like in the comic, most everyone had their backs to the court, oblivious to the game. Not only would they not know the score, they’d be hard pressed to tell you who was playing. I imagined if you asked them they’d say, “It’s ummm, the Knicks against uh, against…bartender, another Jack and Coke please.”

So please have a great weekend and if you’re watching the NBA Finals or the World Cup, turn on the tv. It’s much cheaper like that.

Andy and John