Wizard of Id by Parker and Hart for May 05, 2024

Nose shot!

Murphy’s Law: “Anything that can go wrong will go wrong, and at the worst possible time.”

You mean you weren’t wanting to hit the king?

I know he wasn’t attempting a fancy shot off the King’s head, but this still reminds me of those old McDonald’s commercials with Michael Jordan and Larry Bird where they were attempting complicated shots, bouncing the ball off various objects. “Out the window, off the King’s head, nothing but net.”

A coworker and I were shooting rubber bands at each other when the boss came out of her office just in time to get one in the face from me. She actually laughed. We thought we were dead meat.

Even all your magic can’t make you a “Magic” Johnson

Murphy’s law, I think!

I was in high school English class with the state championship basketball star. We were writing a paper and he had about a dozen crumpled up sheets of paper on his desk. He was sitting in the middle of the classroom and the teacher had a trash can in front of his desk. He grabbed one of the crumpled up paper balls and swished it in the trash can. The teacher said “You can shoot those, but for everyone you miss you get a half hour detention.” He made them all. The class exploded into cheering.

The trick is in how you crumple it.

That’s what she said!

Pressure!!!!!

Well, I guess hitting the Fink is impressive, especially considering how small he is.

Because.

He’ll be joining the spook soon!

Onto the wall and off the king’s head and into the noose, I go!

Did we already know that Wizard’s wife’s name is Blanche?

Right off the Fink’s nose!

Blame it on Heisenberg.

This is why video cameras, editing, and the Internet were invented. :)

And now you go dungeon.

Pressure produces poorer performance perhaps?

Attention; Wis report to the principal’s office. Wiz report to the principal’s office.

Does anyone remember the McDonald’s commercials featuring Bird and Jordan?

That’s explained by the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle.

My brother dropped a plate while unloading the dishwasher in the early years of plastic dinner plates. It survived so he called the whole family into the kitchen to watch; not sure if it was the same plate or not but the next plate dropped shattered while a crowd was watching.

My dad told us he was at a Coast Guard banquet, and they had bottles of champagne on the individual tables. He calculated his trajectory and popped the cork. It banked off a wall and right into…the ranking officer’s water glass. Rather than getting mad, his reaction was “Hey! It’s time to open the champagne!” (My dad was an engineer.)