I had a conversation with my boss yesterday that went a little something like this:
Wanders: I need to take an extended leave for personal reasons.
Boss: You aren't going out on another bender with a floozy are you?
Wanders: Ha ha ha ha. That's a very good question. I need to take my daughter to Hawaii.
Boss: Your DAUGHTER? Is everything okay?
Wanders: It will be if I can just take my daughter to Hawaii for the summer.
Boss: I hope everything works out.
Wanders: I'd like my pay in advance.
Boss: Let me get the checkbook.
Wilbur and I both have good bosses.
The farther the better? In that case, wouldn't someplace like Inner Mongolia be better than Italy?
ReplyDeleteBTW, R.I.P. Mr. Trololo: http://theadvocate.com/utility/homepagestories/3014923-129/russian-crooner-mr-trololo-dies
"Everything will be ok, as soon as my left eye stops trying to slide off my face."
ReplyDeleteLooks like we have a Peter Chushing cameo!
ReplyDeleteDo all of these people buy their green chairs from the same chair outlet? The Charterstone Office Supply Store must be having a big sale.
ReplyDeleteAahh...Mr. Trololo. Whenever we've a rough day at work, after the customers are gone and we are packing up to go home, I or someone else will put Mr. Trololo on the computer to try to cheer us up. And it works.
ReplyDeletePoor Wilbur's boss. If I had to talk to Wilbur, I would also have a question mark coming out of my head.
ReplyDeleteMaybe Dawn should go to Wisconsin. Life is brutal there.
ReplyDeleteI'm concerned about Wilbur. He looks like he's had a stroke, or something. Maybe it's me, but isn't it a bit forward & presumptuous for Wilbur's editor to be asking so many questions? I guess I can't blame him, since Wilbur is actually making it sound like Dawn has some bodies hidden under Mary's flowerbeds.
ReplyDeleteI had no idea Wilbur had a job at all! I thought he was a retired something-or-other who enjoys his golden years by frolicking, flying kites and eating sandwiches. Learn something new every day
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(My first VW was some nonsense word and--I swear--a fuzzy picture of an electrical outlet!)
I think the editor looks remarkably like Dr. Kevorkian. Maybe Dawn could use his services to remedy the brutality of her life and also put to an end a story that will likely result in a brutal summer for us all.
ReplyDeleteMan, those bots have it tough out there.
My students, who are about Dawn's apparent age, spent a lot of their spare time during spring semester lining up internships, summer jobs, extra hours on the part time jobs they already had, or are signed up for classes in the accelerated summer terms.
ReplyDeleteAnd Dawn lies on the couch moping about a dopey boy and the brutality of life. She will probably complain bitterly about a free trip to Italy. (fauxprof is not feeling particularly faux today.)
@fauxprof at 2:57 PM, it's obvious that you do NOT live in the Worthiverse.
ReplyDeleteJust retread my last post, and I apologize to thw Worthiverse for being cranky today. I have duly reminded myself of the wise admonition in the old MST3K theme song..."repeat to yourself, it's just a show, you should really just relax.".
ReplyDelete(Meant to put this comment here. . . )It appears that Wilbur and his editor are having a game of handball across the editor's desk. Yesterday the editor had the cupped hand stance, and today it's Wilbur. Either that, or they are sharing a prosthetic arm that they pass between them so Giella can draw it.
ReplyDeleteWonder if Giella has studied the "language of hands". The attached link looks remarkably like both Wilbur AND his boss. . . http://tierneylab.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/08/27/the-language-of-the-hands/
Excellent solution Wilbur - Dawn's going to end up getting snookered by a slick Italian player, end up pregnant, come back home alone, and then have a baby who will love her. Problem solved.
ReplyDeleteI like the way that Giella draws downtown Santa Royale with New York City-style sky-scrapers. There's a bit of an identity issue here, isn't there?
ReplyDeleteisn't that MST3K line "you should breathe and just relax?"... just being persnickety.
ReplyDeleteHeydave, I do believe you are right! It's been a long time since I've seen that wonderful show, and oh, how I miss it. I know, YouTube, but it's not the same. Sigh.
ReplyDeleteWe're assuming Dawn is going to Italy to get away from everything to relax and eat pasta.
ReplyDeleteHowever...what if Giorgio works at say... the Vatican, and he and Wilbur's plan is to give Dawn a summer job in some dimly-lit, musty old library without access to her online accounts? You know, to make her "appreciate" her not-so-brutal life in Santa Royale!
No, fauxprof had it right the first time. Take it from one who's watched way more MST3K than Dawn has watched "Game of Thrones."
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