Beetle Bailey, 1/16/25

I actually am curious about the chain of thought that determined which secondary Beetle Bailey character got the punchline said at him in this strip. Personally, I would've gone with Plato -- the camp intellectual would've been wryly amused at Beetle's use of linguistic ambiguity to shirk a few hours of duty. But Killer is staring at him blankly and clearly doesn't get it at all. "How is this going to help get anybody laid?" he thinks. "We're not keeping our eyes on the prize here."

The Phantom, 1/16/25