Jim and Edna were patients committed to a mental hospital. They were walking along a swimming pool at the facility when Jim suddenly jumped into the deep end. He sank to the bottom of the pool and just stayed there. Edna promptly jumped in, swam to the bottom and pulled Jim out.
The medical director became aware of Edna’s heroic act and immediately re-evaluated her condition. After a review of her file, he determined Edna to be sane. He arranged for her to be discharged from the hospital and went to see Edna to tell her the good news.
“Edna,” said the director with a smile, “I have good news and bad news. The good news is since you were able to rationally respond to a crisis by jumping in and saving the life of another patient, I have concluded that your act displays sound mindedness. For this reason, you are hereby being discharged.” His tone then suddenly became more solemn as he continued, “The bad news is the patient you saved, Jim, hung himself with his bathrobe’s belt right after you saved him. I am so sorry, but he’s dead.”
Edna cheerfully replied, “Jim didn’t hang himself. I put him there to dry.”
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Gail’s Sunday Pic
Sunday, January 7, 2024
It's just so surreal...
Yesterday marked 10 years to the day of my mother's passing. Dad and I went out to dinner to pay homage in her memory. Like the decade before, I never would have dreamed we'd end up where we did.
I still maintain that somewhere along the way, I ended up in the "bad timeline". I'm not saying that things are all that bad, or that I regret my decisions. On the contrary, I'm where I am today in spite of my decisions. No matter what choices I could have made, this is where I was fated to be... and it's so unsatisfying.
On a lighter note
My comic is 20 years old this month! Think about it... 20 years ago I started putting pictures of stick figures up here in an attempt to dress up a rather boring hand coded html page. Seeing how it started and how it turned out is kind of neat. It has certainly gone through some dramatic changes from those original daily panels to my current sporadic offerings. I wish I could have combined the naive wit of my youth with my current "drawing" abilities. I've become far too jaded in my old age and it puts a damper on my creativity.
Of course looking back at some of my early work, I'm not so sure my "wit" was all that great either. The "art" was definitely bad... And now that I'm looking at it, the gags weren't really all that great either, but I was putting out a daily panel rather consistently for a while there.
Yeah, now that I think about it... those old comics sucked. As I'm glancing through them I feel myself cringing in disgust... Wow... Maybe I do have some regrets after all! Oh those wasted hours I spent navel gazing to come up with crap that makes Chis Chan look inspired! Thank god no one is actually reading this shit!
So to wrap it up...
Happy New Year, everybody! I'm really not sure how much stuff I'll add to Flush Twice in '24, but I'll get to it whenever I get the chance. Be sure to like and subscribe, and leave a comment down below if there's anything you'd like to see happen over the next 12 months.
Pax,
-f2x
