30.9.12

#428 - I LIVE A DRAMA

I LIVE A DRAMA

1) -What a time! I am looking for a woman for so long

2)-Who will not be a victim of this silly tattoo trend

3)-Who doesn't do piercings everywhere, who doesn't change her hair color every week
 -Am I asking for too much?

4)-Hmm...
-Did you check in a retirement home?


26.9.12

#427 - PUBLIC SERVICE ABSURDNESS 02



PUBLIC SERVICE ABSURDNESS 02

Toumba Police Department (flashback)
I am sorry.
Your application was rejected by mistake.
Here's the refund.
You can take in it the tax office. 
Of course we have to charge 8 euros.
It's our Failure Fee.
SIGN HERE

1) - Practice your signature. 2000?
    - Um... yes.
    - Year of birth?
    - 2000.

2) - Eye color? Brown?
    - Um... Blue!
    - Blue? Are you sure?
    - Yes, take a look!

3) - Hmmm! OK!
    - Fee, photographs, ID card, all right!
    - Where does the kid sign?
    - The kid signs nowhere. You sign and we're done!

4) TAX OFFICE
    - But of course the kid had to sign. All the papers were cancelled and I had to do an application
      from the start. But I don't have time because I'm going abroad in a few days. So I have to take
      a 80 euro refund to take back the passport issue fee. What am I supposed to do? Make a 80-euro
      gift to the state because the police made a mistake?
    - I am afraid that's the way it is...
    - The public service tells me I have to go to the Tax Office to get the refund. But at the cashier they
      told me it can't be done.
    - You are absolutely right. But there's nothing we can do.

- So I have to go to Halkidiki to take my money back?
- What can I say? The state is destroyed. Alas!
     

#426 - PUBLIC SERVICE ABSURDNESS 01



PUBLIC SERVICE ABSURDNESS
Troo Storees 1

1) [Toumba* Tax Office, August 18th, 10:30 AM]
    Cashier
    - Hello! I'm here for a refund...
    - I had paid the fee for the issue of a new passport, but the police made a mistake
    - And?
    - They said I had to submit this, in order to take back the money...
                                        *A district in Thessaloniki, Greece

2) - You see it is signed and stamped by the chief offic...
    - You can't take your money back, not here.
    - What? How?
    - Here it's the Toumba Tax Office...
    - But I did pay to the Tax Office, right?
    - Yes, but not here, you paid at the Tax Office in Halkidiki.
    - Wait a minute, I paid to a Tax Office 80 euros, and your Tax Office won't give it back?
    - There's nothing I can do.
    - It is a different Office.

3) - What are you talking about? Isn't this a Tax Office?
    - Yes, but not in Halkidiki.
    - What? Is Halkidiki a different country?
    - Don't shout sir! There's nothing I can do.
    - I just paid a 80 euros fee, and I have to go to Halkidiki to get the refund?
    - Calm down sir, I told you. You'll get your refund in the Halkidiki Tax Office, and only the 
      Halkidiki Tax Office. And please keep in mind that you will not take the refund the same day. 
      You have to get a protocoll number, etc...
    - I am sorry.

4) - Are you serious?
    - I am not joking sir.
    - So I have to drive 100 kms to take a refund?
    - I just told you sir. And it'll take more than a day to get the refund.
    - And is there not an interservice communication with the Halkidiki Office to help the situation?
    - No, sir. The network won't allow it.
    - Send them a fax!
    - You should send them a registered letter.
    - And what? Wait an one-hour line in the postal office to send a registered letter which I'll pay? 
      And then drive to Halkidiki anyway to take the money back? Are you out of your mind?
    - I told you sir. You are becoming a nuisance. 

- Where's the director of the office?
- First floor sir. But you won't manage a thing. You'll see.

(2 b continued)
      



21.9.12

#425 - SATURDAY AT THE LAB



SATURDAY AT THE LAB

1) This Saturday I am at the lab doing some measurements.
   *Spectrophotometer

2) Each measurement last for four minutes during which I have completely nothing to do.
    Then Save as and start all over.

3) Outside it's raining, but in here we're having fun,
    - Right buddy?

4) - Buddy?
    - Zzt.

The Spectrophotometer is a friend.
    
    

19.9.12

#424 - THE WATCH. 424


THE WATCH. 424*

(* Codename of a military hospital in Thessaloniki, Greece, also the number of this post. All puns in this strip are lost in translation, as all phrases sound similar in Greek and French, but here goes anyway.)

1) *Crack
    - Halt! Who goes there?

2) *Jump
    - Are you a jumper?

3) - Halt, you!

4) - Halte ici! ("Stop here" in French)





8.9.12

#423 - RACING VESPAS "OR LIVING NEXT TO POLITE HAIRY PEOPLE"

RACING VESPAS...


1) - F**k off Pinasco...

2) - If I only put you a Simonini in your back and give you a pair of tubeless, Polinis won't even reach your mudflap...

3) - And a front Bitubo, babe...


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