I’m not an avid LOST watcher, so I have no idea what’s going on. My buddy mitchell sent me this to help out. Thanks mitchell, maybe I’ll get you a login to help with stuff I don’t know about.

http://basicinstructions.net/

And if you guys want to suggest a comic, e-mail it to me at jb@theffunniestpart.com, also, include where you got it from so someone doesn’t try and sue me. (although my only valuable asset is my rice cooker, I like my rice cooker…)

P.S. LOST sounds scary.

I would like to use this comic to ask about employment practices in this great land.

I can quit my job today if I wanted, for any reason whatsoever. I wouldn’t WANT to, but I could. Now, because of my inflaming toenail bursitis, I have decided against laboring at this particular place. When my employer goes to find a replacement, they may have to take into account the race, gender, and or compulsion for gambling into account.

They also may want to review toenail bursitis histories.

Seeing as toenail bursitis does not exist, I quit for an invalid reason. Does that matter? nope. It may look bad on my resume, and it could be tough to use the former employer as a reference for my future job, but I don’t have to worry about guys in black sedans and black suits and black sunglasses. Because I have an implied freedom of employment. If I don’t like the work environment, I’m done.

The converse is not true. If I employed you, and you just annoyed me, I can’t just fire you for being annoying. Well, I could, but then you could sue for wrongful termination. And as annoying as you are, you’re probably less annoying than a deposition.

If there’s no ability for me to sue an employee for wrongful self-termination, they should not be able to sue me for wrongful termination. (I understand when patent infringment and trade secrets are involved it’s different, and so it is. Shut up)

If you can leave the employ of a company for any or no reason, you should be able to be terminated for any or no reason. I don’t see how that doesn’t make sense.

http://www.toothpastefordinner.com/

And now for some smurfs making bubbles…

http://www.fhoomp.com/

I’m no marketing expert, and certainly not proficient at promoting anything. But I do understand the notion that people should understand.

When I go into an establishment in Tulsa called Quicktrip (and yes, they are the best) their cups are clearly labelled by their capacity. 22 oz. 32 oz. 42 oz. But go into another store and it may be “big, bigger, gargantuan’. In one convenience store chain I recently visited, they are going to give someone $10,000 for naming their drink sizes. I sent an e-mail to the contest saying simply, name them their size. ow hopefully they’ll do as such and I can collect.

http://partiallyclips.com/

Does anyone remember the days when people actually talked to each other? I do. Has anyone ever played that game where someone says a phrase into the next persons ear, going down the line until the last person in the line tries to re-create the original phrase? “I like Ice cream” usually turns into “The hulk is a terrible representation of the reptile brain”.

Now everything is out in the open, but instead of the phrase “tommy said that tina said that robin said that michael is no longer dating fran” you hear, “Michael and fran aren’t together, I saw it on facebook”. Tommy doesn’t talk to Tina anymore, Tina doesn’t talk to Robin, Robin doesn’t talk to Michael, and no one talks to Fran. That’s the world we live in today.

I’m pulling for ambiguity to make a comeback, it’ll happen.

http://mycardboardlife.com/

English. Indo-European. Germanic. Bastard.  Our language is a hodge-podge of assorted languages, adaptations, mispronunciations, and outright stolen words. I would give a more in-depth writing about the roots of our language but unfortunately the people who run the Oxford-English Dictionary requires you pay them money to use it. If you’d like to purchase such a subscription for me I’d appreciate it.

Comic from Sheldon.  A few days old, but the first in a series of strips that use exciting metaphors to describe English.