CORPSETHIEF: THE THIEF WHO STEALS CORPSES
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Dick Tracy, 2/17/25
Not sure if America was in the mood for the Dick Tracy storyline just concluded, about how the families prominent in our civic and financial elites are getting Nazi-curious about their Nazi ancestors. But has there ever been an era that wasn’t up for a good corpse-napping story? Dr. Hart here is pissed about an attempted corpse theft and she wants Neo-Chicago’s top cop on the case! Only he can track down the perpetrators! And, of course, if the notoriously trigger-happy Tracy were to produce more corpses in the course of his investigation, bringing more business to the morgue … well, that would just be an added bonus.
Judge Parker, 2/17/25
Look, I’m fine with Sophie acknowledging that there are few things less interesting to a college-age girl than her dad’s middle-aged dude friends, but I draw the line on her deciding to just stop engaging with Spener-Driver-Parker antics altogether. Sophie, we already have a comic strip about a blonde college student doing blonde college student stuff, it’s called Luann and (as I am reminded now that I have violated my blood oath and started reading it again) it’s pretty dire. You need to get in there and start hacking that drone footage! You’ve got an audience to entertain here and “doing your homework” or whatever is not going to cut it.
120 replies to “CORPSETHIEF: THE THIEF WHO STEALS CORPSES”
JP:
“Did Mr. Parker leave?”
“Yep! In a Spider-Man outfit, yet!”
MW:
“It was emotional…and not very pretty! — in other words, just like me!”
Dr Hart wants action, she wants Dick!
MW-“No thanks, Mary. I was thinking of eating out.” “I was thinking of doing the same thing, Dawn.”
MW-“I like to have dinner every night.”
FC-Never buy clothes from a British run clothing store. The pockets are bigger on the inside.
FC-“It’s like disarming Germany.”
Luann-Do community colleges have art shows?
DT: Chief Patton knows Tracy won’t trouble himself with the legal issues of shooting a reanimated corpse.
DT:
A corpse is a corpse, of course, of course
And no one can squawk to a corpse, of course
That is, of course, unless the corpse
Is a framed-up “Mr. Dead” !
DT: Reckon you could cram another couple of gold stars on that uniform, chief? I can still see a couple of inches of fabric.
@Liam:
The one I work at does. It has an art gallery.
DT: Leslie Nielson is Chief Patton in Naked Gun 4: One Dick in the Morgue.
JP: Yeah, stop engaging Sophie: we’ve slowed this plot to a snails pace, now let’s bring it to a full stop.
There is an amazing old movie, The Body Snatcher, starring Boris Karloff AND Bela Lugosi. Set in nineteenth century Scotland, it shows doctors involved in grave robbing, a gruesome and immoral business, which is, however, absolutely necessary to help the living. However, the film was censored in Chicago, so Tracy probably didn’t see it. In any case, he will not be moved by the argument that he could help eggheads, just tell him that stealing a body is infringing on property rights
FC: Looking at the items on the table, I’m kinda surprised that Billy is into antiquing.
Dick Tracy: “An outrage! Breaking into the morgue to steal a body!” Um, why else would someone break into a morgue, if not to steal a body? Unless there’s a big black market for formaldehyde that we haven’t heard about. (Or if you’re doing a vampire story, and you want to make sure you kill the vampire as soon as he wakes up. Does Dick Tracy do vampire stories? It might actually perk things up a bit.)
Pluggers: You’re a plugger if… your eye doctor examines you by sitting in a chair next to you while reading questions from a clipboard? I’m pretty sure that isn’t a real eye doctor, and he’s really just there to steal the patient’s pupils.
Blondie: Turning down your employee’s raise is one thing. But turning down your employee’s raise while they’re working on a national holiday, and even pointing out that it’s a national holiday in order to rub salt in the wound? That’s some Scrooge-level bossing, boss!
FC: Thel pulls out an opened condom. “What the F….?”
DT: Is it really an outrage to steal a body from a morgue? I’d think it would be worse if it were, say, the library or a supermarket.
JP: Point of correction about Luann, which is a comic about a blonde junior college student doing blonde junior high student stuff. I have nothing to say about the content of this particular strip.
MW: “I’d love to hear about your suffering, I mean your experience, child.”
FC: “Oh, dammit! Not another skinned possum!”
Dustin: Big surprise that the author of this strip believes someone listening to an audiobook isn’t really reading.
What, Dr Hart and not Dr Necropsia? It was right there!
Buncha cracks about Dick Tracy:
1. Are we ready for a storyline about Nazis and the Nazi-adjacent? Maybe not. Are we ready for a retelling of the strange afterlife of Gram Parsons, featuring even more half-assed friends? Oh hell, yes.
2. [Cue theme from The Prisoner]
3. Chief Patton is utterly unfussed about Dr. Hart’s histrionics. He’s used to this, it’s sort of a ritual to get Tracy’s attention. You come in, you bang on the Chief’s desk, he has you fill out a form 1009-QXC, REQUEST TO FILL SOME CHUMP WITH LEAD. Pretty normal Monday morning, all things considered.
4. “I want action, Chief Patton! I want Dick Tracy on this!!” “Sure you wouldn’t rather have some bourbon and Haldol? How do you think I stay so calm?”
JUDGE PARKER: Now Josh, as this comic has shown plenty of time, a blonde college student engaging in murder-mystery or criminal espionage isn’t really interesting either.
MARY WORTH: “Would you like to come over and downplay your horrific abuse, dear? I have muffins!”
DT: Well, if you’re gonna steal a body, the morgue is the place to go. I don’t see the problem here.
MW: “Dirk and I broke up. It was emotional and not very pretty.”
[Mary thought balloon] “MMMMMMM! Oh YES! Oh God YES! YES YES YES!!!”
DT: It’s the morgue. They’re already dead. So what?
Luann: So many questions! Why is there a juco art installation at the retirement home? Does Nil not realize that a bunch of eyes staring out lifelessly will freak out the residents of said retirement home? Will Bernice show up to make this even more awkward?
CS: It’s not Pam’s fault she asks dumb questions all the time. It’s the guy who writes her. Speaking of whom, his “don’t say gay” policy is en vogue again.
9CL: The best art makes the viewer ask, “How the hell is this sequence of events supposed to make any sense?”
DT: Eeeek, scary lady. “An OUTRAGE. I was saving that corpse for my DINNER.”
FG: Guest artist, what fun! I like the vaguely Asterix-y Bigfoot style. Can we hope that each of the tale-telling travelers gets an artist appropriate to their character? Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come needs a Graham Ingels acolyte — Sexy Barmaid needs Wally Wood.
MW: text from Dirk incoming.
CS: “Yes, my bad back is back again. Bad. So back off.”
Sophie: What, did Glen just give Sophie a kiss at the door and leave? How chaste.
MW: “By the way, if Dirk can make you eat meat, so can I. I’m done with the vegan thing.”
JP – “I’m not in the mood to deal with Mr. Parker right now. Or his brother. I’m Sorry, but they don’t have a Monopoly on my time. I’m not going to Scrabble around and take Risks for them just for the sake of some Trivial Pursuit. They should get a Clue!”
Patton got his fourth star on 14 April 1945, and died on 21 December 1945, so we have abut nine months to enjoy Patton before he dies in a car accident and we get a few weeks of Dick Tracy beating some poor PFC to death for reckless driving. Maybe it’s time for a Beetle Bailey cross-over?
Don Abundio, translated:
“Hey, baby!”
“How do you like my hat?”
“I guess this is how she likes it!”
@BigTed: Back in the early 90s, there was a big problem with people smoking something called “wet,” which was marijuana or mint leaves soaked in formaldehyde/emb
@BigTed: goddamn auto-loading, auto-scrolling iPhone. AS I WAS SAYING:
Back in the early 90s, there was a big problem with people smoking something called “wet,” which was marijuana or mint leaves soaked in formaldehyde/embalming fluid. It would, quite literally, drive people into a frenzy. And yes, funeral parlors were getting robbed.
@Liam: Re: Luann: Retirement homes certainly don’t.
RMMD: It was nice of Beatty to give us that recap in case we forgot overnight.
Dustin: “Read??? You DO know that reading requires actual physical movement, right? Those pages don’t turn themselves. Read! Pffft!
HAPPY PRESIDENTS DAY, to those who celebrate it.
Q:. Now that we know the cherry tree incident was one of the lies they taught us, can we still make an effort to eat cherry pie today?
JP:. Reena does a Nancy Reagan:. “Just say no.”
LUANN:. An exhibit sure to creep out the elderly desperately clinging to realty.
RMMD: ‘he caused a scene… As we danced, on the floor, in the round!’
General Chief Patton has reached the highest rank possible as indicated by the four stars on his collar. You can see the wheels turning behind his eyes though: “If I let Tracy declare a Global War on Grave Robbing, maybe congress will reinstate the five-star rank for the first time since Omar Bradley.”
FBoFW:. Mrs. Dingle has a toilet right in her bedroom. Boy, what a well-placed luxury!
DT: A story in which the specter of far-right radicalization is raised, then blithely dismissed? I’d say America is all too in the mood for that. Any story which starts off with corpse stealing is already better by comparison.
JP: “Beats me. Guess the writers thought I needed something to do.”
RMMD: “Anyway, I hope you didn’t wear your hair like that.”
PHANTOM:. This is not the OMM vision arc as Mountain City won’t be bombed due to KJ’s absence when Savarna shot the sheriff. But is this the continuation of the arc where KJ goes to meet Heloise’s roomie, having left dad behind to fight antiquity thieves?
Dustin: And doesn’t being critical and mean-spirited just describe yours, Dustsis?
GT: “And you haven’t said anything interesting or important.”
MW: “No, Mary, I’m kind of…”
“I’m sorry, allow me to rephrase that. You DO want to come over for dinner tonight, you WILL tell me everything, and you WILL thank me for my good advice and praise my vegan muffins.”
DtM: Wilson would rather listen to British hard core rockers Power Failure than the insipid lyrics of You Light Up My Life by Debbie Boone …and I can’t say I blame him.
MW “Emotional and not pretty”?
Not “relieved”? She’s gotten rid of Dirk (a.k.a. Lance Boil) fer chrissakes.
Mary needs to pull a page from the Rodgers and Hammerstein songbook. Dawn doesn’t seem capable of washing that man right out of her hair without everybody’s help.
SFx: Actually, it turns out that Max Mouse was selling answers to the quiz.
He resigned in disgrace and now works as test subject for ACME Mousetrap Co.
I like how Mary Worth isn’t even really a character in her own comic anymore.
Like how in one Archie cartoon, the gang always goes to Dilton for science related advice, and ONLY for that reason.
Dilton then eventually lampshades that very fact in one episode when he, Ethel and Midge became intangible and no-one noticed they were missing because they aren’t key characters, causing Archie to realize that he’s been seriously neglecting his C-list friends.
Phantom: Yes, dahlings! It’s ME, back to reprise my occasional role as Kit’s Horse! You may remember “some months ago” he had returned from the Mountain City and had thus missed all the catastrophic action of Old Man Mozz’s half-assed prophecy. But that’s not important right now.
They tell me that we’re now in “real time” and they’re continuing the idea that Heloise wants to ship her brother with her ethnic friend
ReenaNadia? It’s hard to keep all this straight, even with my superior Horse sense, since I’m also playing Phantom II’s Horse in the Sunday flashback series. But there’s a lot of down time there, as well as for my recurring Prince Valiant gig.But I enjoy keeping busy, and it puts oats in the feeder. And I’m feeling good about my presentation today! I can still do the butt shots!
H&L: “D’uh, Mom. Ditto and I share a birthday because we were born on the same day and not because Southern states refused to recognize Lincoln’s birthday.
JP: Where’s Parker? He’d better have some pictures of Spiderman!
In honor of Washington’s Birthday, here’s a link to the funniest painting in 20th century American art, Grant Wood’s Parson Weems’ Fable. Note little Georgie’s face, and the cherries trimming the theatrical curtain. The accompanying essay is pretty damn hilarious, too.
@Ukulele Ike:
RMMD: “Anyway, I hope you didn’t wear your hair like that.”
Ha haaaaa, my sentiments exactly!
@Cleveland Mocks: I’ve been doing that as a running joke for weeks, because I can’t believe she wears her hair like that. If it’s getting old, mail me a dime and I’ll cut it out.
@Ukulele Ike:
No, seriously, I love it. Don’t stop.
@Ukulele Ike:
#24. DT: it’s my understanding you’re referring to that specialty, corpus delecti.
BoT:. Life in a monarchy, for those who don’t celebrate PD. Hey, I’ve got a Burger King crown too!
Zits Spanish to English,
DT – Shove your crime stopper musings! I want DICK!!!
JP – Some people times you feel like a dick – some times you don’t….
Adios Amigos, DJ.
DT: Sorry, Dr. Hart. Pat Patton heard you saying “I want action!” and “I want Dick!” He’s going to be distracted for a minute or two.
Dustin: I’m pretty sure someone whose entire character is “constantly on her phone 24/7” has no room to speak about audio books. Also, pretty sure wired earbuds aren’t a thing anymore.
You can tell whoever writes this strip doesn’t regularly speak to anyone under the age of 50.
FC – “I’m in here emptying pockets that haven’t been emptied since 1962!”
FC – Dolly comes in. “Billy had a pocket knife in his pocket! Did he get spelled from school?”
Mary Worth – Oh, it isn’t over yet. I should have realized, because yesterday’s praise for Mary was pretty weak. There has to be a dinner with some well chosen platitudes. Dawn will profusely thank Mary. Then a four week victory lap while everyone (including an appearance by Jared and Jess) heaps praise on Mary.
Rex Morgan – “Thank goodness I’m married, so I don’t have to put up with dating. Have I mentioned that I’m married?”
Pluggers – Mr. Jive said the same thing today about the dentist.
9CL – Now it’s back to preteen Edda and Amos. We don’t know from one week to the next which interchangeable couple(s) or which version of the pretentious, sociopathic twins will appear. Thank goodness it isn’t another week of Thorax and his incomprehensible, humorless definitions.
JP: I appreciate today’s indirect reminder from Josh that while Sophie is often irritating in various ways, it is at least possible to imagine that she is a college student. Whereas Luann is the walking talking definition of “dimwit.” And “dim” also describes the alleged institution of higher learning that Luann rode in on. It is all too clear that the new LUANN story is going to inflict that dimness on us yet again.
JP: “Mr. Parker”…? That’s “JUDGE
JP: “Mr. Parker”? That’s “JUDGE Parker” to you young lady!
(Website reloaded mid-sentence there. Issue with the ads?)
Pluggers: If your ophthalmologist asks you to step on the scales or to undress, you should *probably* file a complaint, depending on the availability of good eye care in your community..
@Liam: #4: re-Luann: If the juco has an art department you’d better believe they have a gallery. I’ve been to shows in several.
Pluggers: At least eye doctors won’t make you strip nude or shove a needle in your ass.
DT: I just checked, and sure enough, a couple of years ago there were national news stories about the U.S. human body parts industry, which apparently is a kind of Wild West in terms of regulation. Corpses get taken apart and sold. (“Heads go for $3,000, spines for $1,200!”) This seems like a possible good subject for Dick & Co. (“A set of hands can fetch about $1,000, depending on condition.”) Dick’s people could perhaps focus on the illegal side businesses, like selling human skin to be tanned and turned into leather (very sorry but no, that wasn’t made up).
What is up with the comment of the week being posted to the side. It just throws off the site design.
@Guillermo el chiclero:
Thanks to you and Anonymous.
Calm down, lady. It’s not like the original owner needs that body anymore.
@Liam:
Thank you! I was starting to think it was just something weird happening on my computer, but I guess most of us just decided to not say anything, like if a beloved friend shows up with an unflattering new hair style.
@Melody Mare, working gal:
#46. PHANTOM:. Oh, Melody, so glad you wrote today so I can apologize for confusing your name with that of your stunt double a few weeks ago. Your performances are unique, and you deserve credit for each and every one.
Just checked today’s, and that’s a fine shot. Can you suggest any exercises you use to keep taut and trim? Perhaps we can buy your workout video.
MW – That wasn’t exactly a “break up,” Dawn. More of a psychotic breakdown followed by a walk-out. Nobody discussed any breaking up. Dirkhead yelled at you in public like a total lunatic, timidly gave Jared a slight nudge, you threw a bowling ball on his foot, and he power-flounced out of there. Your concept of a break up is as twisted as your concept of a relationship. It appears that someone dropped a bowling ball on your head when you were a child.
Nevertheless, please commence showering undeserved praise on The Meddler for her completely unhelpful 5 seconds of half-assed, disinterested babbling about two-way streets so we can be done with this shitshow and move on to…well, the next shitshow. This is Mary Worth, after all.
Ph – That’s easy, Junior, some creep who looks your father showed up at her and Kadia’s dorm room and asked her to hack into a drone!
@Ettorre: BWAHAHAHAHAHA OK that absolutely killed me
MW: What, exactly are Mary and Dawn looking at? And why is it me? And why is it every time I move their eyes follow me around my office???
MW – What’s the over/under on Dawn demanding beef when Mary serves her a vegan dinner?
@Guillermo el chiclero: However, there’s that glaucoma test with that sensor that touches the eye, and those drops that make everything blurry for a couple of hours. And the cataract surgery they do while the patient is awake.
I just had my eye doctor appointment last week.
Dick Tracy – I will lean into this story if the corpses are being stolen by a Dr. Frankenstein wannabe trying to reanimate the dead. Dick Tracy will solve the question about whether Frankenstein is the doctor or monster by shooting both dead.
Curtis: Oh. This is actually a worse idea for his friendship project than Michelle.
JP: I guess I can understand why literally all Judge Parker characters spend so much time whining about being constantly dragged into nonsense plots — I spend a lot of time whining about having to read them. But I’m powerless to do anything about it (except not reading, which I’m considering as an option), whereas if they stopped whining and just got on with things, said nonsense plots would be over in less than half the time! And really, isn’t getting a Judge Parker nonsense plot over in less than half the time a scenario where everyone wins? (Well, maybe except Ces, who’d then have to come up with a new nonsense plot… oh, now I get it!)
MW: “Oh, Dawn, I’m so sorry to hear that I was right about everything. Would you like to come to dinner and keep telling me how right I was?”
OTF: I said before that I hope Holbrook isn’t going to rehash a story he already did in 2017-18 from the perspective of ground control, but I’m kind of curious as to whether he’s going to try to explain why Fi’s involvement was never mentioned in the Safe Havens version. (The real reason is that 2017 Fi hadn’t had her character development and only worked with Dethany occasionally.)
Phantom: It’s funny what sticks in the mind. I still don’t remember why Kit isn’t returning to the Mountain City, which I assume was explained relatively recently, but I certainly remember the unspeakable horrors Heloise encountered in New York, even though it was ten years ago. It’s okay, Weezie, she’s also returned from whence she came!
@Schroduck: DT: Yeah, and where are his gold star ear rings?
Blondie-I’m thinking of “strike”.
DT: A latter-day Willie Sutton, when asked why he robs the morgue, replied, “because that’s where the corpses are.”
Chief Patton obviously went to General Halftrack’s garage sale,he passed the booze table and stopped at the one with all the general’s extra stars.
S4th: What th—?? Just hold it a minute! This is NOT what we signed up for! Where’s that winsome Puppy face? This is supposed to be a new direction in cuteness… they gotta offset the unlikability of all those two-legger characters! They weren’t supposed to show the downside of getting a Puppy, just the warm fuzzies and rainbows. They’re turning him into a liability, instead of a loveable (and click-inducing) asset.
Where’s the cuddles, the ear scratching, the belly rubs, the GIVING HIM A NAME, for pete’s sake? They’re making him a #^%&^$ NUISANCE! They better turn this thing around, PDQ! Dumb asses….
Fitting for a grave robbing storyline..Chief Pat Patton is being played by the former body of the Late Jim Backus.
DT: Unfortunately, the doctor wanting Dick and Action after a missing corpse will the highlight of this storyline.
Luann: Once again, if it was Tiffany or Steffi doing this, the character would be lambasted as shallow and self-absorbed, with misogynous tones.
Phantom: Once again, we’re on the slow path where Heloise’s school roommate will be the future bearer of the Next Next Phantom.
Luann: “Students” is inaccurate because Nil was expelled for stealing bodies.
I was wondering whether Luann counts as a soap and for purposes of comparison I scrolled back through 11 pages of Josh’s archives for Funky Winkerbean and THIS IS MY SUPERVILLAIN ORIGIN STORY. “Absorbing ten times the lethal dose of Funky Winkerbean he became… Depressedman.”
The other thing I learned is that the last two Luann strips Lumpy covered before Josh’s recidivism featured Les and his cat Punk and I think they should stick with that. “Punk and Les,” a strip featuring a cat and his owner who… I don’t even know, but it’d be better!
The Familliar Mucus:”I’m in here, dismembering melonheads !”
If Dr. Something-or-other really wanted action, she wouldn’t have asked for Dick Tracy.
@Schroduck: #7: It’s lately been bothering me how police chiefs these days are plastering their uniforms with military bling-bling. There’s a joke that the more bling on a police chief’s uniform the more podunk his department is. In an actual army a four star general commands nearly 100,000 troops in the field. There’s no city police department on earth that has more than a fraction of that number.
@Guillermo el chiclero: NYPD is over 50K, so a substantial fraction (they also allegedly have more cops overseas than certain US intelligence agencies have agents, but that’s a different story). But, yeah.
@Philip: @Everybody Posts, Nobody Reads: Oh, now you’ve done it. Now I need to go watch the opening sequence and credits from Re-Animator (1985).
“I….gave….him….LIFE.”
CS: Old man smell.
@Voshkod: They also allegedly have some detectives who would rank among the world’s greatest art experts, for when museums and wealthy collectors get robbed.
@Activist: Oh, there’s no apology needed, dahling – my stunt double, Melanie, only steps in for roles in (ahem) comics I don’t like to be associated with. Otherwise, we’re *almost* identical. And believe me, we’re both paid well.
Actually she’s not quite as disciplined as I am about diet, exercise, and grooming. She doesn’t have the patience to do all those Thighmaster reps that are the secret of my shapely, firm hindquarters. Thanks Suzanne, and RIP.
@Mysterion: TBF at least Sophie seems to be aware that a judge asking his lawyer’s daughter to do crimes for him is pretty sus stuff judge-wise, so she’s maintaining the slimmest veneer of plausible deniability for him.
The Family Circus Spanish to English.
@Ukulele Ike:
@Cleveland Mocks: I’ve been doing that as a running joke for weeks, because I can’t believe she wears her hair like that.
I’m surprised none of her dates called her “Nerdgirl.”
@Cleveland Mocks: “So, Summer, I see that you support Oliver Cromwell and a strong constitutional monarchy as opposed to the divine right of King Charles I to rule unconditionally, as is called for by the Cavaliers.”
”Why do you say that, Augie?”
”Because you’re such a ROUNDHEAD! Haw haw haw!”
@Horace Broon:
#79. CURTIS:. Thanks for pointing out this was Ms. Olson’s friendship project. Curtis may still have a chance if Onion and Derrick also have this assignment. So it becomes in fact not a friendship but a temporary alliance.
@Hibbleton: FC: Thel pulls out an opened condom. “What the F….?”
_______________________
NotMe, IdaKnow, and WhatTheF come scurrying out from under a pile of Jeffy’s used Underoos™ “That? Thats a condom, Thel, its what Bil should have used 5,4,3 and 2 years ago.”
@Lord Flatulence: Where’s Parker?
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He’s in “Vixen Park”, watching his beloved turn into a fox and jump over sudden cows in her path. Won’t you join him? There’s plenty of Chester’s Chicken Chariot™ brand chicken for all, but remember, Isla Grace has her eyes on the thighs, and her claws in the slaw!
” Vixen Park” is a 4-D Fox Production, all rights reserved, all lefts still up for grabs. On your local YouTube station!
“Accidental profundity” from today’s Phoebe and Her Unicorn is a good name for a band.
Ripley’s Believe or Don’t: “An average of 5.5 million Peeps are made every day.” Bleargh! One is too many.
@Ukulele Ike: In a related vein, Thor in today’s MythTickle explains the real reason father didn’t punish little Georgie.
@Dr. Pill: Ripley’s Believe or Don’t: “An average of 5.5 million Peeps are made every day.” Bleargh! One is too many.
And a trillion’s not enough.
She’s familiar with Mr Tracy? I thought she didn’t know Dick.
@Dr. Pill: Saw that. Mythtickle is in my daily feed because all the little goddesses are such cuties, not because Thompson is any good at coming up with original or funny punchlines.
CS: Ok, Dad. That explains the Ben-Gay smell, but what’s the story on the cabbage and hard-boiled egg farts?
@Guillermo el chiclero: Cabbage and hard-boiled egg sandwiches on pumpernickel are some good eatin.’ Don’t forget the limburger.
@Ukulele Ike: #49: When I was a little kid we were told that story about young Washington and the cherry tree and how his father was so impressed with his honesty he didn’t punish him. Even then my buddies and I knew it was horseshit because if one of us had pulled that stunt, honesty or not, our dads would’ve whaled the tar out of us.
@Guillermo el chiclero: To give credit to the public school system, I was never taught that story. I picked it up, at a very young age, from either a picture book in the library or an animated cartoon on the teevee.
@Guillermo el chiclero: I knew it was horseshit because if one of us had pulled that stunt, honesty or not, our dads would’ve whaled the tar out of us.
And now you understand why you never became President. Bad parenting.
@Ukulele Ike: Or was it LOOK – I often get them confused….
@A Man of Refined Tastes: And they’re worried that the oceans are going to fill with plastic.
I was going to make a joke about the Chief’s HUGE hand being the same size as his face, then I compare my own hand and face.
Oh…
@117 The Rambling Otter:
Ya know, there’s always one more thing to be concerned about.
At least if one believes in “coincidental theories”.
@Garrison Skunk: Whatever you’re smoking, please share.
Looking at Chief Patton, it’s nice to know that Idi Amin’s tailor is still finding work. Keep lickin’ at that brass ring, buddy!