
Seashells by the Seashore




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?

Could the formulas on the blackboard be from a genuine quantum mechanical derivation? Maybe even Dr. H’s Uncertainty Principle? And the caption almost fits one of its usual ordinary-language formulations — that’s probably the actual point of the gag.




(Well, at least they stuck the landing)



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