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I was puncture bitten by a stray dog in a dark alley in Bangkok Thailand and I was fine. Nothing bad ever happened. This was many years ago.

didnt get rabies yet

Darn, the wrong kind of strays.

apparently there was somewhere in Vermont up until a few years ago

They have to higher people, nobody comes tall enough.

Freaking pun

You have to have love enough to understand innocent beings with violence potential in order to win their trust. Then you have to have hunger enough to willingly betray and destroy them for pay because... limited resources. Being a dogcatcher is the ultimate moral vs material test of a human mind.

I always liked the somewhat old fashioned term "honeydipper" www.youtube.com/watch?v=jhm4...

🤦

But Corey Comperatore was fire chief, not dogcatcher. Upon typing this I realise how dark it is but I'm going to hit "post" anyway.

Oh shut up (positive)

Old enough to understand the set-up idiom, too old to understand the punchline's idiom...

They tried to politicise Police Commissioners here in the UK, but people either spoiled their voting papers or left them blank. So now they've gone back to appointing them on merit.

I never understood it because I don’t recall ever seeing it on a ballot as an elected position.

Huh apparently there was actually a town that elected dogcatchers, at least til 2018: www.npr.org/2018/04/07/6... Also that the idea is banned in Vermont for some reason: > Turns out, it is against Vermont law for a town to elect its own dogcatcher.

dog day afternoon

Let us shed a tier for it.

The proliferation of elected officers in the US and the need to raise funds to fight elections is the basis of most corruption in that country.

siiiiiiiiiigh

This kind of straightforward setup-punchline dialogue feels so uncharacteristic of XKCD but I always like it when it shows up.

As a human being, I figured from context that the phrase meant the lowest consequence public official. Not that one would be elected necessarily for that position, but that people wouldn’t vote you in for any position, no matter how inconsequential. No power over others.

@joeovies.bsky.social is this talking about dave doeren

Title text: "People out here catching strays out here catching strays" Alt text: https://explainxkcd.com/3309#Transcript

I've never seen a dogcatcher on a ballot. But I guess the Register of Wills lobby is unexpectedly large and powerful, otherwise they seem like the most useless down ballot position. Shouldn't that be a civil service job?

This is now officially my third-fave XKCD. (I doubt anything can ever top "Sets of Seven" and "Correct Horse Battery Staple" but I look forward to being proven wrong.)