Is every thing for sale?

If it moves or stands still...slap a logo on it. 
Is it me or does it seem like if anything has no corporate sponsor or some sort of logo plastered all over it?
I remember reading books like 1984, Brave New World and other books about our projected future.  Why did they not know about this part of American life?
Down in Miami they are going to start selling advertising space on public palm trees and traffic lights.  People are even renting out parts of their bodies to the highest bidder for tattoos of sponsor logos.  Amazing is the fact that just when you think you have seen it all along comes a new thing to make you think of one thing or another. 
Smart phone are now more smarter than we are and if there is some sort of thing your phone does not yet have there is an Ap for that function. 
Life...just when we get into our comfort zone and feel all good with the way things are someone comes along and pops your comfort bubble and then puts a corporate logo over it.

The Gods Must Be Crazy!

Several years ago there was a movie called, "The Gods Must Be Crazy".  Not much of a plot but just plain fun to watch.  About a little bushman who finds a Coke bottle that had be dropped out of an Air plane.  He thinks it is a gift from the Gods and takes it home to his people.  They marvel at such a thing as they have never seen before and start fighting over this new found treasure..An Empty  Coke Bottle.
It is decided that the little bushman has to take the Empty Coke Bottle to the "End of the Earth"  and throw it off the edge. 
My cartoon today is my take on one of the funniest scenes in this very funny movie.  The land rover gets stuck in the mud so the best thing to do is use the wench to pull it out.  The driver hooks the cable to a tree branch and starts the process.  He gets distracted and when he comes back to the Land Rover it has been hoisted up the tree.

Baby Showers

Have you ever gone to a party where the only person you knew was the hostess or host?
One of your co-workers is expecting a baby in a few months and her family is holding a Baby Shower for her and since you are her "Best Friend" at work they invited you.  The whole thing begins very nice and friendly and ends up like one of those, "it sounded like a good idea at the time" things.
At  work Linda is the sweetest creature God ever created but then you meet her family and you begin to wonder if she may have been adopted.

Her brother Ralph keeps eying you like some demented creature.  You find out later that Ralph lives with his parents in their basement even though he is thirty-five.  His Mother says he is quite normal and she has proof because he was tested.  He tells you that he is studying to be a computer programer by playing video games all day long and taking on-line GED classes at night.  He is unemployed because he is waiting for that career opportunity where he can express his true creativity. 
Linda's Grand Mother Gertrude, spends her days watching old videos of her younger self on Wild Kingdom.  You ask Linda if her Grand Mother is feeling okay and Linda informs you that her Grand Mother just has a bad cough.  To you the old girl sounds like a steam locomotive on it's last run up Red Mountain Pass to Silverton from Durango and you find out her Cough is from her being a chain smoker for the past 50 years. 
Linda's father seems like a nice old guy in the beginning but after a few adult beverages he starts looking at you like you may become his next meal. After awhile when he is talking to you, he tends to put his big old paws all over you  as if he is checking out for the tender parts.
In the end you tell Linda that you have a family thing to go to and leave the Baby Shower early.  And in the end you probably feel like you may have gotten out of there with you life still intact.


 

What Me Worry??

 When you work with a bunch of other people and have to do a difficult job..it is a comforting feeling, knowing your co-workers will be there when you need their extra help.

Sometimes your co-workers will get more pleasure out of watching you struggle with your difficult project than  helping you get over your difficulty.

Let's face the facts here people!  After six months on any job or career, it becomes one big bore.  If you work in a corporate office each day you come to work to find your "In Basket" that you finally finished emptying out last night, full to the brim again.  What you did yesterday..... you are going to do once again today...FOR THE REST OF YOUR LIFE!!!
Is there any doubt in your mind that any diversion at your job will be a welcome break from the monotony of the daily grind?? 
There is an old saying, "  When you are up to your Ass in Alligators, it is hard to remember you originally came to drain the swamp".  In my cartoon, the fellow who is all rapped up in his work, is Sam and he is a wild life movie guy.  Sometimes he really gets involved with his work and ends up entertaining his film crew to no end.
Way back in the days of Black & White TV there was a Nature show called Wild Kingdom...One guy would always be wrestling with gators or lions and such; while the film crew and the announcer were off at a safe distance ( probably drinking coffee and making side bets on how long the poor smuck would last before help was sent in to drag off his dead remains.  The same thing happened a few years ago with the Crocodile Hunter.  The television viewer was so caught up on the action that  no one seemed to realize that there was probably another three other people behind the camera.
Co-workers usually are not your friends.  At times you may become nothing more that a side show at work to give them something to tell their real friends over a beer at the local watering hole.  Put it another way, why do we enjoy going to a NASCAR race or a Hockey game?  Why do so many people slow down when they are passing a car accident?  Because most people like to see other people in pain?  The old television show America's Favorite Home Video became popular because GUYS like to watch OTHER GUYS, getting kicked in the groin. If you are a guy and have ever been kicked or hit in the groin you know it ain't very funny.  But as Charlie Harper (Two & A Half Men) said to his brother Allan, who was stuck in a room full of screaming sea gulls..."Funny depends on what side of the door you are on."

You are such a tease!

Monkeys can be a real pain in the back side in real life but for me, anytime I can't think of a comic strip gag...just draw monkeys tormenting other animals.

If you work in an office or Cubical ville, you probably have at least one office Monkey...the person who likes to play practical jokes and torment their co-workers.  Let's face it, if everything worked out perfect in a work environment, it would truly be a boring place to work.  Who needs boring, right?

But it looked good on paper!!

My favorite business excuse:  but it looked good on paper!!  Usually the best layed plans etc etc. 
Some old Army General once said something like:" All battle plans will look successful until the bullets start flying." 
You see a bunch of little elephants playing in the high plains of the  Kalamari grass lands and you say to your self, "Self, that would make a great little video!"  And after setting up your camera and the sound guy has the sound booms up and running they just keep dancing around in pure joy.  Did you forget any thing?  Nope..Got film in the camera and the sun is in the perfect spot...What could go wrong?

NO REST FOR THE WHICKED!!

You pick out a nice quiet place for a nap in a cool place and just as you are all settle in, along comes old saggy britches Fred to take a bath.  Guess as long as Fred doesn't step on you it will be okay.