Primitive spelling bees

“Relax, Jerry! … I’m sure he didn’t know you were an elephant when he told that last joke!”

Street physicians

Construction birds at lunch

“Is it still there?”

“Say ... now I’m starting to feel kinda warm!”

In a barbarian faux pas that quickly cost him his life, Garth is caught drinking his gruel with pinky fingers extended.

“Blast! … You raise a dog from a pup, and suddenly one day he turns out to be a chicken killer!”

“Hey, who’s that? … Oh—Mitch, the janitor. Well, our first test run has just gotten a little more interesting.”

Inconvenience stores

“Hey, Bob! So how’s death been treating you?”

“Whoa! Listen to that, Marge! ... I said that kid was playing a mean sax!”

Expatriates, they migrated in the 1920s to Paris’s Left Bank, gathering in their favorite haunts and discussing the meaning of cream pies and big shoes. They were, in fact, the original Boclownians.

“Oh, wow! How could you even think that, Wendy? Of course it’s your mind I’m attracted to!”

“We've done it! They've linked up! … Man, Feldman must be freaking out—he even hates spiders.”

A tragedy occurs off the coast of a land called Honah-Lee.

“Give me a hand here, Etta … I got into a nest of wiener dogs over on Fifth and Maple.”

To the horror of the lifeboat's other members, Madonna loses her balance and falls on her face.

Until his medical license was suspended, cosmetic surgeon Dr. Irwin Blumenfeld left many of his patients with the tragic side effect known as “buffalo nose.”

Tales of the Known