Cartoon Saturday

Did you ever notice that "August" and "AAARRRGGGHHH" start with the same letter ... ?

In Florida, a 7-month-old boy died after eating a laundry detergent pod; eighteen sailors burned to death when a fire broke out on the Indian navy submarine Sindhurakshak; General Motors is recalling nearly 300,000 Chevrolet Cruze cars because of brake problems*; in the Philippines, 26 people are known dead and hundreds are missing after a passenger ferry collided with a cargo ship; and in Egypt, hundreds of people are dead in the spreading conflict among security forces, supporters and opponents of ousted President Mohammed Morsi.

Yep, time for the cartoons.

This week's selection of theme cartoons deals with communication via smoke signals ...

Sometimes you aren't able to answer an incoming smoke signal ...

Inappropriate language crops up everywhere nowadays ...

The technology of smoke signals continues to advance ...

You can get spammed with smoke signals, too ...

And - of course - smoke signals are "cloud compliant" by their very nature ...

Moving on to other topics, attention to detail is very important at work ... in some jobs more than others ... 

It pays to know just what sort of book club you're joining ...

You can't hire just any lawyer ... they're very specialized ...

This sounds like my sort of long-term retirement planning ...

And finally for this week, this one is so obvious that I wonder why I haven't seen it before ...

And that's it for this week's edition of Cartoon Saturday. It's going to be a busy weekend as we celebrate our granddaughter Leya's sixth (!) birthday and get ready for our vacation that starts on Wednesday ... but more about that later.

Have a good day and a great weekend. More thoughts tomorrow.

Bilbo

* Not to mention the inability to spell "cruise."