He’s gonna need a bigger raft.
JMcAndrew sends this in: “Firstly writing a memo asking for a tooth check is still pretty insane. Wouldn’t this be called an oral or dental exam and be performed by an actual dentist?
Also this isn’t what I expected a toot check to be. This could have been a much more interesting comic if they had the platoon taking turns farting in his face. [probably wouldn’t have made it past the comics editors then -ed.]
Maybe this is why the US army has a mandatory retirement age of 64 for senior officers?”
Ah, but those of us who worked in any bureaucrazy are well aware of something apparently nonsensical coming down from above. Is that really what they meant? Should we just do it as requested, or kick it back up for clarification? How many times can you question the bureaucrazy without getting labelled as a troublemaker?
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“And get that toot check done toot sweet!”
Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales has multiple instances of people crudely farting in other people’s faces and that is considered one of the most important pieces of historic literature ever written.
It’s basically The Adventures of Captain Underpants for pretentious scholars.
@Anonymous, when the school librarian was busy with something, my buddies and I snuck over to find and read that passage from “The Miller’s Tale”.
Read somewhere — perhaps a Bennett Cerf miscellany — about an army clerk who created a fake form reporting the number of flies on the flypaper and submitting it with his other weekly paperwork. Soon his peers reported getting heat for not submitting flypaper reports, so he gave them his fake form to use. Supposedly this took root and became park of the official records.
Semi-related:
There was another strip in which Beetle called Halftrack from a pay phone to suggest he stick his head in a bucket of sand, afterwards telling a buddy there’s no way the call could be traced. Next we see all the soldiers lined up at attention while the general, carrying a bucket, listens intently to each one repeating the offending suggestion (Beetle, near the end of the line, looks nervous).
I fid myself wondering if @Anonymous is one person, or just WordPress’s word for any unidentified user.
Can you post anonymously? For me, if I don’t put something in both the name and email boxes, I can’t post.
Brian (and Ed starting this question), the recent Anonymous poster is just putting that in the Name field, and is supplying an email address.