Weekend wisecracks
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Gil Thorp, 9/7/24
Best. Gil Thorp. Ever.
Flash Gordon, 9/7/24
Ergon, leader of the Power Men who maintain the capital’s tunnels, negotiates concessions from Empress Aura and King Barin. Mongo’s monarchy may be in decline, but its public-service unions are top-notch. You think Ming the Merciless would’ve put up with this crap?
Judge Parker, 9/6/24
A Spencer daughter, ignoring the advice of her sassy Black girlfriend, intrudes into the dysfunctional and possibly criminal drama surrounding a potential romantic partner’s family. And they’re gonna keep telling this story until they either get it right or fall comes to Cavelton, whichever comes first.
Sherman’s Lagoon, 9/7/24
Gotta say, “Crabitol” sounds more like an ointment than a record label.
Rex Morgan, M.D., 9/7/24
Alas, poor Truck. His pickin’ finger “locked up” and hurt him last Tuesday, and now he’s consumed by fear: focal dystonia? Multiple sclerosis? Knuckle cancer? His mind reels. But Truck lives in a medical desert, long miles from any competent professional who might take the slightest interest in his anxiety and pain. Nothing to do but sit, really. Sit, Truck. Just sit.
—Uncle Lumpy
130 replies to “Weekend wisecracks”
FC-Mr. Goodman has a nice pair of cement shoes now.
MW-“Frank? But I thought your name was Shelia.”
Curtis-Savings Account was the name of a horse in the fifth race.
GT:
Wow – JP‘s Sophie Spencer has joined the Milford High women’s track team? I thought she was in college in New York City!
JP — “Forget about your fiance’s family drama for a minute and tell me how we’ve wandered into a forest in lower Manhattan.” .
RMMD:
“Maybe this ol’ Truck jes’ needs some warranty work! Or maybe I’d extend my range of motion and help my dexterity if I were to attach Yosemite Sam mudflaps to my hands!”
JP:
“It’s amazing how many things have gone wrong with those very words.”
“Well, to be fair, only since August, 2016, when the new authorship took over!”
GT — Don’t know how they do it in Milford, but in these parts track (and field) is a spring sport in high school. Cross country is a fall sport but one doesn’t begin those races from a frowning sprint position. And yes, I’m nitpicking Gil Thorp again. . .
Flash Gordon:
“Aura, do you think that it enhances our credibility as monarchs for you to be sporting that undersized little birthday hat?”
RMMD:
“I asked a highly peeved Wanda what I needed as I was walkin’ out the door, and she said, ‘See Alice!’ — only I don’t even know who ‘Alice’ is!”
Flash Gordon:
“Barin, Dad used to control the major river in North West England that formed the historical boundary between the ancient kingdoms of Mercia and Northumbria, but then he lost it. That’s why his sobriquet is ‘Ming the Merseyless,’ and to this day, he hates it when that Gerry and the Pacemakers song comes on the radio!”
Flash Gordon vs Rex Morgan M.D. : there’s a common thread here : you shouldn’t wait too long to apologise to someone, because the longer you wait, the more awkward it becomes. Look how perturbed the normally haughty Aura and Barin are over how it’s been months since they false imprisoned Flash, and they never even said “Lol my bad”, Truck! Do YOU want that kind of emotional pain gnawing at you, while dealing with the physical pain of your finger locking up for no reason all the time?
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Gil Thorp : *MY* ideal Gil Thorp comic is one where there would inexplicably be 3+ different uniform colors. Just the confirmation that the colorists are screwing it up and making it impossible to follow who’s on what team ON PURPOSE.
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Sherman’s Lagoon : would CRAB-TEL Records work better?
but then it sounds like they’re a company that specializes in “AS SEEN ON TV” compilations for stale nostalgia acts, such as the aforementioned Truck TylerP.S. : Forgot to use the “z” spelling the first time around.
GT: It’s a bit weird that there’s no text at all, but if this were a regular Gil Thorp, the dialogue box would probably just say something like “The girl’s race is about to begin, as three football players look on…” . So yeah, no real difference, at least in terms of transmission of information.
JP: Sorry, that kind of advice only works on people that feel the consequences of their actions. If it doesn’t work with his fiance, Neddy can just move on to the next one, or maybe clone this one again. No big deal.
RMMD: Ah, Rex Morgan M.D., the comic strip that takes it easy and hangs out in the park.
So apparently it isn’t just the dialogue in Gil Thorp that makes me wonder if I had a stroke.
Rex: “Maybe if I sit here long enough, buzzards will land on my arms and knaw off my fingers. Then I’ll go apologize to Wanda.”
Luann: Dammit. They’re actually going to breed.
Curtis: Ooooo, a passbook savings account, fancy. In ten years that five thousand will have bloomed into….$5,002.17. Shoulda stopped in at the OTB, Greg.
FG: [jroggs ponders the best way to describe his disdain for Flash Gordon.]
[How does one make a clever comment about a comic where dialogue and subtlety is replaced with rambling text boxes –]
[That lazily replace any creative way of establishing character, plot, world-building, and themes –]
[And for some reason even outright describe the artwork the reader is looking at?]
[jroggs decides that if the comic’s writer isn’t going to put in any actual effort…]
[…Then neither is he.]
JP: Classic Judge Parker, inadequately explaining the core conflict a couple dozen times instead of properly explaining it once. Wouldn’t it be nice to have any idea how and why Declan fell out with his family, like why they believed his brother instead of him? Too bad, that would get in the way of Hilary and Faye awkwardly talking around the subject for days on end.
RMMD: In case you needed your daily reminder that Truck is a spectacular asshole in everything he says and does, here he is finding a park bench that should easily seat four and physically claiming the entire thing for himself, which he feels entitled to do because his hand hurts a little today.
DT: According to the Dick Tracy wiki, the Moon Maid died because a random hitman put a bomb in Dick’s car but his wife Tess gave MM the keys so she could make a beer run. Diet had nothing to do with any of it. But he feels bad about it, so he is compelled to mention that he intends to pay for Honeymoon’s college tuition, an act of altruism that is uncalled for and barely even worth mentioning considering Diet’s ludicrous wealth. This would be like me telling a Ukrainian widow that I’m sorry her husband died in a Russian artillery attack but I plan to buy her kid a 10-piece McNuggets in a few years.
MW: If this is Sheila being frank, I dread to imagine her when she’s being meandering and oblique.
RMMD: At that very moment, Truck’s mystery malady strikes again and his arms lock in the spread eagle position. Truck is too emabarassed to get up and seek help (‘Twould be too ‘barrassin’!) so he sits there until he dies. The End.
Luann: Meanwhile, on board the Satellite of Love…
Mike J. Nelson: Look, there’s no God. There’s the proof, not a single God!
Tom Servo: Yup…
Crow T. Robot: All happiness in the universe just died, how ’bout that?
Curtis: Tell us you’ve not been at a bank that offers Long Term CD accounts without….
RMMD: “When my arms are spread out like this, it means the whole damn bench is mine, so ba
GT: I’m not sure what’s going on here, exactly, but at least there’s no dialogue to further confuse things.
JP: Neddy is going to fix this like Dr. Ed fixes animals. In other words, there will be a lot of deaths.
RMMD: That’s right, Truck. Wanda doesn’t deserve your apology!
Frazz: Caulfield wouldn’t recognize a consequence if it sent him to detention. He’d just whine about how unfair life is.
Luann: Sometimes the sex negativity of this comic strip works in my favor.
CS: I think Maus would have received more awards if it just had two characters talking about stuff that happened, rather than actually depicting events.
9CL: “Why don’t we do sexy stuff like our children? Here’s something I learned they do.” Perfectly normal conversation topic, there.
MW: Gasp! Does Ed clip his toenails at the breakfast table?
Zits: Jeremy has guaranteed he has made a unique choice.
FC: “Hold on. I’m going to drive you to the pier.”
MW: Ha haaaa, Sheila’s about to enjoy a hearty, heaping helping of revenge.
CS: Fricking asshole parents are too dumb to realize that Les Moore knows what’s best for their children, so they’re demanding a say in what kind of things their kids are being taught in public school. Who the hell do they think they are? . . . Oh, right. Parents.
Pluggers: Well yeah, if you’re a dog. Sheesh.
Gil Thorp – If we could turn on the close caption function ….
Box 1 – Racers kneel into their starting blocks
Box 2 – Football players admire their form
Box 3 – Football players compare their erections.
GT: “There’s something happening here…what it is ain’t exactly clear.”
MW – Dr. See’s revenge, and I’m happy to see it. Estelle just *had* to poke the bear by barging into her fiancee’s ex-girlfriend’s place of business and literally shoving her engagement ring in her face. Which was an incredibly assholish move.
Go get ‘er, Dr. See!
RMMD – Ooh, I hope we get at least a full week of “Truck sits on a bench.” Compelling stuff!
As the old proverb says, “‘Tis better that a truck should sit on a bench, than a bench sit on a truck.”
Gil Thorp: Yep. That sure is some people standing around. Thank God we established that, this story would’ve been incoherent otherwise.
Flash Gordon: GORDON’S ALIVE?!?!?!?!?!?!?!
Sherman’s Lagoon: Great, now I’m here wondering if sweat is appreciably different from water and if you could even tell if someone was sweating underwater. You’d better answer this discussion you’ve started cuz I’m not googling this, Sherman’s Lagoon! I’m not!
Rex Morgan: If the writer had even an ounce of mercy in their soul, Truck would die of a massive heart attack here and now.
Don Abundio, translated:
“Do you ever buy from people who are selling door-to-door?”
“Oh, yes!”
“What would you say is the biggest advantage of shopping that way?”
“That’s easy!”
“I’m on a first-name basis with every Mary Kay saleslady in town!”
Lolo Y Lola Spanish to English.
@But What Do I Know?: Central Park?
Fred Basset Spanish to English.
@Ukulele Ike: #14: Yeah, and because of inflation, in ten years that $5,002.17 will have the purchasing power of $3,000-3,500 in today’s dollars. In the meantime, the interest on Greg’s debts would have amounted to several times that amount.
BTW: We were once guessing that the Wilkins live somewhere in the Baltimore-DC area. I know New York has OTB but does Maryland?
@Guillermo el chiclero: OK. I just checked. Maryland does have OTB. So the Baltimore-DC guess is still good.
@Bob Tice: Maybe attach some Bull Balls ™ to Truck’s hitch.
FG: Does Barin even know that his beloved cousin Ronal died battling a giant ice monster or that Frigia has wantonly invaded Sky City?
FG: If you sentenced someone to prison for a crime they didn’t commit and haven’t seen or heard from them since, I’d say you’re stretching the definition of “friend and ally”…
GT: Gil Thorp turned into an absurdist drama so gradually I never noticed.
JP: “I think I can fix this. Granted, I don’t know exactly what Declan’s family framed him for, how that has affected his life, or anything about the circumstances that might suggest a reconciliation between them is either possible or desirable. But still, I’m Neddy Spencer! How can I fail?”
MW: I love how Estelle and Sheila are discussing their personal lives and possibly deal-breaking info about the well-known Dr. Ed right there in the waiting room! The receptionist is all ears, and the client AND her cat are tuned in to the drama as well. At least cats are discreet and can keep secrets.
Don’t let the question “Why would sharks evolve sweat glands?” bother you and your word play. You decided to make a comic about anthropomorphic sea creatures, and by Walt Kelly’s blessed name, you’re not going to let that hold you back from making this joke!
Curtis: Ahem, Greg, why wait until Curtis is twenty-one to present him with the bankbook? At eighteen the law considers him to be a grown-ass man and fully able to handle his financial responsibilities.
Curtis: Greg, how are you going to pull your “I’m so broke and in debt” act on Curtis in the future? The first thing he’ll ask is what happened to the five grand I gave you to pay down your debts.
Curtis: Diane, have you ever thought of getting a job to ease the family financial burden? Curtis is old enough to be latchkey and he can watch Barry. Shit, you and Greg let those two wander the streets alone all the time anyways.
Mary Worth Mashups.
Tiger Spanish to English.
“Look at all those big fat slobs on TV.”
“I wanna be a big fat slob.”
“Beer’s in the cooler.”
Wait — a Gil Thorp about nothing? I expect you’ll be hearing from Judge Parker’s lawyers about this.
@41 Baja Gaijin:
Ah, Baja, you still got the touch!
RMMD/Flash Gordon: If you go to the Comics Kingdom site, you can roll back to August 29 for both strips. In that time, Truck had an internal monologue about his finger pain, broke a coffee mug, and wandered around feeling sorry for himself. Meanwhile, Flash met and reconciled with a man he had nearly killed, traveled through some wacky dimensional portal, and got rescued by Ergon. And we learned a fair amount about Mongo’s power dynamics, met the rulers that took over from Ming the Merciless, and got a setup for the next conflict.
Just sayin’.
Zits: Reposted from CK a week ago:
“Jeremy shows his age here, as it were. The good Cap’n stopped being marketed to children in 2011, when Jeremy would have been 3 or 4. (Saturday morning cartoons on the major networks were in their death throes by then, but that can be obscured by the fact that the kids’ cable networks were airing shows at that time of the day.)”
Beetle Bailey Spanish to English.
@Peanut Gallery:
Estoy tan confundido sobre la relación de Don Abundio con las mujeres. ¿Se supone que es un depredador pervertido o un soltero codiciado?
1 . . . 11 . . . 31 . . . once again Gil Thorpe sends us mathematical subliminal messages . . . is it this concatenated sequence of prime indices of squarefree semiprimes? The odd part of part of phi(n)? The number of superperiodic integer partitions of n? Yes, that’s it. I hear and obey. The heretics will never see me coming.
C’shaft: “Things in the book they didn’t want their kids to see.” Seriously, Batiuk? At least if you’d gone with 1984 you could have made that line work; it has actual sex in it.
Dustin: “Do you think our horrifying debt is the result of stagnant wages and systemic breakdowns which make our suburban middle-class lifestyle increasingly unsustainable?”
“No, I’m sure our kids have been eating too much avocado toast.”
Luann: Forget it, Brad. Toni finally has an excuse to limit physical contact with you to a few days a month, and dammit she’s going to use it.
MW: Ooooh, call her Dr. Shiela Tea because she’s about to spill it!
SH: Look, it’s simple. Go to some one percenters and tell them “I have a means of extending the human life span to several centuries, but it requires a healthy marine environment to sustain.” I guarantee they’ll have a negative carbon footprint in a week.
@48 Violet:
Three words. Dirty. Old. Man.
RMMD: “Mommy, why is that old man sitting there on the bench with his arms and legs all spread out?”
“I’m calling the police!”
REX MORGAN M.D.: Boy this strip really epitomizes the ethos of Rex Morgan M.D. There’s something Truck needs to do to rectify (more like Rex-tify amite?) the problem. So naturally the preferred solution is to sit back, do nothing, and prolong everything. Brilliant! No notes!
Luann: June baby? Dr. Luann gets her medical degree for being sort of Midwife.
@Guillermo el chiclero: COULD be Philly, too.
@TheDiva: Sending innocent people to prison and ghosting them for months IS how Aura and Barin treat their friends and allies. You should see what horrors they inflict on people they’re indifferent to. “Forget it, Jake, it’s Mongo.”
@Will: We also got to meet the elite team of space plumbers who keep Capital City’s civic bowels moving. In your FACE, RMMD!
CONSEQUENCES:
– CURTIS:. How lovely, Dad decided to “invest” his son’s money just as Dad gives in to his gambling addictions. What could go wrong?
– BETWEEN FRIENDS:. Receptionist’s mentor decides it’s better to live for the moment than invest in the long term. What could go wrong?
– JUMP START:. Grandparents get revenge for having back-to-school shopping thrust on them. Consequences.
– FRAZZ:. For the first time the little genius admits he gets stressed out by school. Now we see why he’s a smart aleck– coping strategy.
RMMD:. Medical website says extensive use of our digits can result in various types of arthritis, Duputyn:s(?) Contracture, or other ailments. Yet Truck looks like he’s ready to have a heart attack. Consequence of eating at diners?
SF:. Sometimes change IS for the better Sal, get cat to vet or out of the house.
@Will:
#45. BETTY, RMMD, FG-. Different pacing, yet all three are “captivating”.
@Baja Gaijin: Those are all wonderful.
CS: If Skip would bother to look at his phone’s screen, he might notice that it’s waiting for him to press the RECORD icon.
RMMD:. Just a second, isn’t Truck still in Glendale, the town he made famous by his smash hit, “Glendale Hotel”? He should be swarmed by fans and groupies when he goes to town!
MW: “What is it. . . ”
You see, when Ed and I broke up he took it hard. Really hard. Made him question his sexuality. He had a three year sexual relationship with some guy named Wilbur Weston. If it weren’t for the law at the time, they would have married. So you see Stell, you and Ed have something VERY in common.
I can’t believe Josh failed to comment on the hat boner in Beetle Bailey
@Baja Gaijin:
Good to see your mashups again!
“I’ve always had rockstar perspirations”
“You mean aspirations”
“No, I sweat like a pig when I sing”
This sounds like a Shoe joke honestly, but actually almost funny, until the crab killed the joke by adding that last unnecessary line.
FG: Uncle Lumpy is right. Ming would’ve never put up with that crap from a high-falootin bunch of trade unionists. In the Alex Raymond era FG when the unions got uppity Ming sicced his secret police and brutal riot control troops on them. He even ordered the infamous Horror Horn deployed against them. C’mon, Schkrade. Bring back the Horror Horn!
The beer’s in the cooler.
@64 Unca Bob: Thanks!
@66 Guillermo el chiclero: Toni’s going to be fending off Brad’s “Horror Horn” very soon.
SHERMAN’S LAGOON: I dunno…um…whatever-the-crab-person’s-name-is-that-I’m-too-lazy-to-look-up. I think a shark that can sweat profusely despite:
1) being a shark, and therefore lacking sweat glands
2) you know, being a sea creature that lives underwater
would, in fact, be a big draw for fans of oddball curiosities.
@Activist: Re: RMMD: Oh don’t worry. Truck always looks like that. (See, don’t let his little dalliances with Beehive Hairdo fool you. Truck is actually having a hot and heavy fling with Winston Slims and Jack Daniels. If he can survive those steamy encounters, then a plate undercooked meatloaf isn’t going to stop his
flabbysturdy constitution.)@Violet, @Sequitur: Soltero pervertido.
It seems to be part of the permanent-1950s mindset of the strip that young, attractive women will play along with being harassed by a wizened gnome because he’s rich. Which doesn’t reflect well on any of the characters, but I try to play up the angle that the women know what they’re doing and Don Abundio is just pathetic.
Today’s strip seems especially bizarre, though. He sent a dozen roses each to 20 women? Did he have an existing harasser/harassee relationship with all of them?
Curtis: Well, at least the money’s in the bank. I was wondering if Greg would fall into some kind of get rich quick investment scam and give the five thou to a con man who skips town, making this the worst remake of “Raisins in the Sun” ever.
@Flipper: CS: Considering that Skip is attempting to interview Lillian, who doesn’t actually know anything about the events Skip is asking about except what Skip tells her, he isn’t missing much by not pressing “RECORD.”
CS: C,mon, everybody getting bent out of shape over “Fahrenheit 451? Back in 1972 one of my high school’s English teachers got fired over assigning “A Clockwork Orange” to her senior lit class. She even recommended that the students old enough go see the movie version with Malcolm McDowell then playing at the local art house theater by Baldwin-Wallace University. BTW: The movie was then rated X by the MPAA’s old system.
Crankshaft: The Internet, of course, allow you to order copies of Fahrenheit 451 and other moderately controversial books without having to fight through pesky torch-bearing mobs. This is now just hitting Lillian, who has realized that there was no point in burning down a rival bookstore (spoilers!).
Curtis – “Baby, I love you! I love the way you pull these asinine pranks on me and almost give me a heart attack! It’s the only excitement I ever get around here.”
Rex Morgan – “Maybe I’ll just SIT here awhile first.”
Ahem. That should be “Maybe I’ll just SET here awhile first.” Truck’s going to lose his roots country cred talkin’ proper English.
Crankshaft – Let’s see. Bookstores have received threats because of drag story hours, LGBTQ themed books, and books that address racism. But sure, this bookstore was burned down over a book from the 1950s. Batiuk is trying to win that Pulitzer, but once again he fumbles. Why am I not surprised?
6Chix – Reminds me of an exchange on Hollywood Squares decades ago:
Peter Marshall: Who said, “I’m late! I’m late!”?
Paul Lynde: Alice, and her mother’s worried sick about it.
@But What Do I Know?: @Lord Flatulence: The narration box yesterday said that they’re in Los Angeles.
I’m not familiar with LA – is there a park like that there?
@Arabella: I’m not sure about that. Cats can be assholes.
@Baja Gaijin: Mashups – I love all three, but that last one is especially appropriate.
This 6Chx chick will die alone, but she’ll have loads of cute shoes.
@I speak Jive: Isn’t L.A. (and every other major California city) literally a half-hour drive away from great nature? For hiking and other recreational services?
If we’re quoting teevee:
Sybil Fawlty: “Mr. Americanguy was just telling me that in California, you can swim at the beach in the morning and ski in the mountains in the afternoon!”
Basil Fawlty: “Sounds exhausting.”
@Tabby Lavalamp: #39
…and of course being the little know-it-all that I am, the expression “sweat like a pig” has nothing to do with pigs, as they don’t “sweat” per se (but rather regulate their body temperature by covering themselves with mud like their close relatives the hippopotamuses); rather, it refers to the first stage of iron smelting when the crude iron sheds droplets of molten metal that, upon cooling, tend to resemble little piglets (hence the term “pig iron”). Thus it is the *iron* that sweats “like a pig.” And that is how I ruin the comics for everyone, haha! BWAAAAHAHAHA!
@Daisy: Oh, you gotta tell the pig-iron part! That’s the best part of the whole song.
@I speak Jive: “Mebbe ah’l jes set a spell.”
GT: “Fuck comic strips, let’s do a triptych mural.”: Rod Whigham, apparently.
JP: Pretty sweet comic strip acting gig. The same person gets double pay for playing Reena in the Sophie scenes and Ronnie in the Neddy scenes, and she really just needs to memorize one set of lines.
RMMD: Strap in, folks. There’s every reason to believe that “Truck thinks about apologizing to Wand but hasn’t gotten around to it yet” will last all of next week.
@Peanut Gallery:
Yes, I’m used to seeing the ladies flee from or grudgingly tolerate him, so this is quite disorienting. I also wondered what prior relations he had with the bouquet recipients.
@Lord Flatulence:
#84. Oh my gosh, LF, you must write or sing country songs! Any we’d ha’ ‘eard ah?
@Peanut Gallery: #83
That was hilarious! :-)
@Baja Gaijin: Thanks! I’ve missed these.
Blondie: Cookie wouldn’t mention GPS. That’s understood. Also, the mall, what’s that?
@Ukulele Ike:
This strip seems to be stuck in c. 1983
9CL: Amos gets Edda’s juices flowing with the amendment that put Prohibition in place. Ironically, guess what I need now?
C-Shaft: “Tell me about it, sister. I’m watching p0rn on my phone as we speak!”
HtH: You’ll have to be patient with your husband, Helga. He’s a little distracted by the redheaded chick having full-on standing up sex with her dance partner. As is the concertina player, but he shows every sign of liking what he sees.
MT: Oh no! Violet is allergic to cats! A fact that she apparently never noticed while playing harp with a cat at her feet! Back off, Jules. Forgetting your characters’ reality between panels is Judge Parker turf.
MW: Which Frank is Dr. Sheila being now? It could be Sinatra. Could be Zappa. No one would be too surprised if it were Lt. Drebin. But we all know it’s Maj. Burns.
M&M: Watch this bus stop long enough and eventually you’ll see the whole Kama Sutra.
Zits: Jeremy’s about to fall down a real (Trix) rabbit hole when he learns of the massive Breakfast of the Gods crossover.
@Baja Gaijin: All the mashup “predictions” are great. Now whatever scandal Sheila reveals will surely be a disappointment.
@I speak Jive: Missed the LA thing, thanks. Not too much deciduous in SoCal–perhaps the Huntington Library. But I can’t really see Neddy shlepping there just for a conversation. . .
@But What Do I Know?: The Arboretum, Ferndell Park, the Botanical Gardens …
Curtis: I feel like the first panel fakeout would work better if Greg wasn’t so pure he doesn’t even know the word “bookmaker”.
Heath: “The next one is ‘It’s Not Easy Being Wildly Off-Model’!”
Phantom: “You’ve got to be kidding me!” Stripey says what we’ve all been thinking for months.
Pluggers: Boy, wait til he realises he’s completely covered in fur!
SH: “It’s not that I think I deserve to use the longevity system I’m keeping from the world because I’m ‘better’ than everyone else or something. It’s that it’s important to the future of the world that I use it because I’m better than everyone else! And my husband also needs to use it because I want him to!”
@Baja Gaijin:
The second one does it for me, Baja. Yeah, it’s sick alright.
I don’t know anything about Sherman’s Lagoon, but I assume they’re all about the kind of marinelife allusions and puns. So, not to state the obvious, but since there IS such a thing as a pigfish, you might as well use it while visiting Crabitol Records.
@Violet: re: Don Abundio: I like to think that the gentlemen are strolling through the red light district, and all those women are prostitutes.
@95 Die Rosenkavalieren:
And then there’s the Angeles National Forest in Los Angeles County.
@99 Ukulele Ike:
And they all know Don Abundio personally.
Mr. Abernathy has the king of Id as an ancestor.
Gil Thorp sucks ass. At least today’s non-strip is quick to get past, due to having no dialogue.
Shermin’s Lagooon: C’mon, name it Crap-itol Records. It was right there.
@I speak Jive: There’s a state park just north of LA. The LA zoo is there.
@Activist: “Ah got drunk the night that momma got outta prison.”
Zits: Character from fiction that affected my life? Wile E. Coyote.
Today’s Nancy strikes pretty close to original Nancy absurdity.
@Baja Gaijin: Everything’s nice and amusing until we hit Wilbur. He just sucks the oxygen out of everything.
Gil Thorp: This is a throwback to the days of silent comics, before the talkies appeared.
@Ukulele Ike: Mr. Hamilton (Canadian actor Bruce Boa).
@Ukulele Ike: Though it was Mrs. Hamilton who told Sybil this.
@Lord Flatulence: I always hated having to wait for the traveling piano player so I could get the full impact of reading the comics.
RMMD: Truck is going to pull a Jesus and start ascending isn’t he?
Zits: The fictional character that has impacted me the most?
Jeremy Duncan.
MW: Either Sheila’s taking an incredibly long pause or Estelle is very impatient.
@zt: If Jeremy wrote that paper, he would be entering The Twilight Zone.
JP: I don’t know which would be more irritating, Neddy failing or Neddy succeeding. But irritation is definitely in store.
GT: Uncle Lumpy is right, this is an excellent GT. I don’t understand the art at all, but at least I don’t have to also be baffled by the narration and/or dialogue
A&J: I’m on Team Stay Put And Don’t Add To Rural Sprawl, but suspect my team is not gonna win.
MW: Already I’m starting to wish that Sheila would replace Mary.
GA: Gertie is cooking with rejects from the crop of golden apples that are grown by Idun in Asgard. The reject apples keep you alive, but definitely not young and blooming.
“Life is like a box of roots country music.”
@Poteet: re A&J: If their purpose in a move to “the coast” is to be near their family and to enjoy the coastal lifestyle, why make the move and still be away from all that? Are they up for planning and building their own house, managing the rest of that ten acres, and being somewhat isolated from everything? From my old-person vantage point, that doesn’t look like the best way to “age in place.”
But you may be right – they could decide to go for it, and it does make economic sense. Who knows? It may be beachfront property in ten years.
@Poteet: Well, applesauce is about all that Walt can chew these days.
Gassed Up Alleycats: “Well, I noticed Meow Mix wasn’t eating her food,Mr Walt, so I figured I’d feed it to you.That was Mice-a-Roni Ala Frank King, that way we save some money AND get a shout out.” “Gertie, you’re the greatest.”
@Poteet: MW: Already I’m starting to wish that Sheila would replace Mary.
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Sheila Roo? I don’t think Andy Bear wants to move that close to Willburp Weston.
RMMD: I assume Truck has ATTR-CM? And Rex will be the one to figure this out? I would normally not expect Rex to actually have that much medical skill or be bothered to think enough to make that diagnosis, but since there are so many ads to make people aware of ATTR-CM, even Rex would think to consider that diagnosis.
@Lord Flatulence: Gil Thorp: This is a throwback to the days of silent comics, before the talkies appeared.
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I understand the title card “Hey, Charlie @@#%&$-ing Chaplin!”, directly inspired the Hays Commission’s crusade against bad language in comics.
@Poteet: GT: Uncle Lumpy is right
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Never realized Uncle Lumpy’s last name was Johnson!
@Peanut Gallery: They all think he’s Rich Uncle Pennybags™ and know what it takes to pass Go and collect $200.
@Peanut Gallery: @zt: If Jeremy wrote that paper, he would be entering The Twilight Zone.
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Or The Toilet Zone, I get the feeling he does his homework in the bathroom.
Dear Editor,
Is it true that women are addicted to buying shoes? I thought that was just a stupid old 50s stereotype. My daddy says, ” if you read it in Six Chix, you can depend on it being true.” You may remember me, I was the one who asked last week if I was weird for not wanting to have sex with sandwiches.
Yours truly,
Virginia O’Hanlon
CS: Given that when Batiuk commented on immigration issues his story was about someone was going to be deported due to misidentification via facial recognition software and that the problem was resolved via former president Bill Clinton intervening rather than ICE discovering they had the wrong person after fingerprinting them, him botching this issue comes as no surprise.
@129 Tom:
I want the toilet seat.