At breakfast this morning I found a hair in my oatmeal.
Clearly, it is a sign. Somewhere, somehow, in some thoroughly obnoxious way, Doctor Harold Toboggans in on the move. (shiver.)
Send word to everyone you can, I’m bolting the doors and boarding the windows.
Alltop.com is shaken, humor-blogs.com is quaking in fear, and Blogerella. is in a dead panic.
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Oh my. I’m positively uh-skeerd.
BTW, Portents would be a pretty name for a girl. Maybe you should write a Baby Daddy Book of Names.
Well this is good news. What is one without his/her own nemesis? Can you ever imagine a Batman without Joker, Ohio State without Michigan or a teenager without zits…I mean really? The Doctor completes you.
Absolutely terrifying.
Oh my oh my.
Incidentally, I awoke to find porridge in my moustache this morning. Curiouser and curiouser…
I KNEW it!
(LOL at Double-”L”!!)
Eeewww!
Let the beatings, uhmm I mean healing begin…….
Is he really a doctor? I mean, like, REALLY? Because I’ve had plenty of doctors in my time and not a single one of them would have left their mustache in my cereal.
Sher -I like the book idea. And as a companion volume I could write a Dr Suess style childrens book: Portent Takes A Poo
::NEB:: -Don’t come around here if you’re going to be insulting. The only thing the doctor completes is his own circuit of…self…circling…ego….He’s bad, bad, stinky bad. I have nothing in common with him.
Father Muskrat -That’s the right attitude. Ol’ NEBbie up there could take a lesson from you.
Lord Likely -Sounds like you don’t qualify for the Church of the Immaculate Schnoz-Fur. Too bad, you would have been perfect.
LOBO -I knew you knew it. You’re probably an accomplice.
Roann -The most important meal of the day, indeed….
Chris non-C -I’ve got an high capacitance, electro-charged, reciprocating action louisville slugger at the ready. Of course, a cannon would be ideal.
Steph -He’s like no kind of doctor you’ve seen, or been seen by. You’re lucky he didn’t leave his complex in your subconscious, many have suffered that cruel fate.
How does he manage to shave but keep the whole moustache in one solid lump.
Maybe he just “sculpted” the hair after he’s cut it. Or it’s some kind of fake mustache that he bought.
Chief thinks that’s big heap scary. But Chief also wants to know if he can have mustache. Chief can’t grow one.
I can’t even see the hair. Hmmm, maybe I should go to the eyedoctor. I did notice that your oats were raw — you did eventually cook them, right?
Too much happiness in the Diggs household has made Dr. T pull his hair out. Are you sure that those are not his eyebrows?
I protest. This is absurd! …A man leaving his mustache in his cereal. Huh!
Alex L. -I don’t think he was shaving. Probably shedding.
Chief Running Tab -You really want a used mustache? Isn’t that a little desperate?
rjlight -Actually, I donated them to science. It was looking a little thin.
Debbie -Surety is impossible when it come to the doctor. There is no telling what dastardly deed that man is up to or just which follicles he’s willing vacate to accomplish his evil aims.
wolfbrooks -I protested as well, he ruined a perfectly good breakfast.
Brent, I realize this is strange to say, but reading your post made me cry and I am serious.
Once again you are the only one to make me smile. It has been a horrible week this week. My depression has run completely wild and when I opened your blog and saw that picture I just started smiling….and then crying. Sheesh, anything can make me cry.
Thank you for being you. I wish I could give ya a hug.
Please tell Dr. T that he’s been missed if he shows up. I certainly hope that he does.
From….me….the complete loon who flew over the cuckoo’s nest too many times to count.
Chunks of Reality -Doctor Toboggans often makes me cry too, but probably not for the same reason.
Wow, as holder of the secret smile superpower I ought to promise to use it only for good or something. But I’m keeping my options open, so let me just say that I am glad to help you in some small way.
Yes, the doctor will be back, and we will keep the nest open for you.
So when I go shopping tomorrow, can I expect to find Quaker Instant Oatmeal, Now with added Toboggans?
This may be one of the most disgusting images you’ve ever spawned in my mind. (Second only to the image of the good doctor himself spawning in my mind. Ew. Stop that. Now I’ll have to go wash my neurons out with soap.)
Hard to imagine Doctor T popping up after such a long hiatus. Still, stranger things have happened.
You don’t need to make any promises. I trust you.
I was able to get out of the nest today. Today has been a bit better.
Thanks a bunch!
Tori Deaux – I would definitely go with the low-toboggans formula, it cuts down on indigestion and nausea. And when you’re washing your neurons, don’t forget to scrub behind your neocortex, the filth really seems to collect there.
Don -Yes, much stranger things have happened. You should know, you wrote them.
Chunks of Reality -Glad to hear it. Don’t give up.
scarry !!!!! but the pic looks cute as well
It begs the question……. If the mustache fell off,* what else has fallen off?
*note the use of the ominous punctuation from which this site gets its name.
Ahhhh. The commenters (and comments) have returned.
I must remember to post early to collect the comments that follow.
(I find some of Brent’s greatest humor comes from commenting on the comments.)
As for the return of Dr. T?
He doesn’t scare me.
You need a shave! thats what it all boils down to. cut that crop and paste it at the end of the fork. atleast you will be able to see it while you eat and still keep it out of ya mouthee.
That is scary but yet funny. Iwwwwww!
vicky -Clearly you’re new here, nothing about, around, or even adjacent to Doctor Toboggans could ever be classified as “cute.”
Chris non-C -Are suggesting that the doctor is some sort of leper? Not that I’d disagree, I am just surprised to find someone else who shares my view of His Hot-air-edness. (Points granted for gratuitous punctuation.)
Youthful One -The commenters always return. Much like the swallows of Capistrano or the belches of pastrami, there is just no chasing them away.
Goacom -Some would say that coming with such proximity or Dr T and escaping with my ego unscathed was a close shave. Hair is the least of his unpleasantness.
June -”Scary but funny,” that about sums up our doctor.
Mustache on the cereal, hope it’s an artificial one.
No one on earth would like to see hair in their food for fun.
Padmaja
Wow, that’s hair alright ..
You do know what it means, right ? You have to stop shaving and grow a mustache. Or buy fake one and stick it over your upper lip.
padmaja -Actually, fun was the general idea. (sigh)
Setai -A fake mustache….now there’s an idea.
Hey, nobody’s perfect…even Spock had his evil parallel universe counterpart. Why do the darker counterparts always have facial hair? Does Santa’s counterpart have a clean shaven face and six pack abs?
Ha-ha! That is some hair on your cereal…. I suggest never to go shopping at that same supermarket again! :)
That is hilarious! like what Sharon said.. I suggest that you should not go shopping there again.
That is so funny! about the mustache is that a fake one?
did you call it hair?