World-historical dumbness

Family Circus, 6/21/24

Lord, I am a simple man, and one of my favorite Family Circus bits is when Jeffy just says some of the dumbest shit imaginable. Today's dumb shit is particularly fun for me because it's actually two different kinds of dumb shit that are a little bit in tension with one another. Because on the one hand, do you think other animals have to buy clothes? Maybe you think they should, but they clearly don't. And second, you know that the turtle isn't in his shell, but, biologically speaking, he is his shell, right? It's part of his body; there's not some naked little shell-less turtle inside of it. Like, imagine a scenario where a turtle ate from the tree of knowledge of good and evil, and his eyes were opened, and he realized that he's naked. He's going to have make or buy clothes for himself! His shell doesn't count! He's going to have to pull his clothes over his shell, and how stupid is that going to look?

Hagar the Horrible, 6/21/24