“Hey kids, thanks for telling me about this, but everything on this ‘internet’ is private, you hear? I’ve put a lock on Google so nobody can ever find that horrifying and tragic page again!”
“Um, I’m pretty sure that’s not how the internet works, Coach.”
“Shut up, you. Painted-on glasses don’t make you smarter than me. Sheesh, you reek. Have you been wearing those clothes for a whole week?”
Later:
“Wait, YOU have a girlfriend? How did you find someone more feminine than you? And someone willing to go out with the worst quarterback this school has seen in ten years?”
“Well first, she’s NOT more feminine than me. But we do have matching burnt foreheads. Second, she hasn’t gone to any of our games yet, so she doesn’t know I suck. Also, she kinda freaks most people out, ’cause she carries around this weird mannequin arm-claw thing with her everywhere she goes. At least I hope it’s a mannequin’s arm…maybe she found it in Cully’s locker.”
“Uh, OK. But she’s not gonna say anything, right?”
“Yep, she promised to keep quiet, and as far as I know girls don’t ever gossip about anything ever. Also, when she speaks, it causes people’s faces to melt.”
“Dude, your girlfriend has a lot of problems.”
“At least she doesn’t sit at home all weekend Googling everyone in school. What kind of loser would do that?”
For a guy who’s been around teenagers for 50 years now, Coach Gil certainly hasn’t a clue. Unless this is part of his master plan: he wants the word to get out about Cully for reasons that will be explained in completely anticlimactic fashion in a single strip sometime in late November. (And of course, the girlfriend has chosen Helen Marzano, ace co-editor of the student newspaper, as her very first gossipee. So far, so good!)
By the way, Coach Gil is modeling one of the new entries in the new Milford Catalog O’ Varsity Stuff: a stunning striped-collar black T with the bold block “M” over the left breast. Er, that is, the left manly pec.
Comment by johnw — October 10, 2007 @ 10:26 am
ONe question: If they spent the whole weekend googling everybody’s name and sitting in front of Gil’s office, when did Tony have time to tell his girlfriend???
I think that mannequin’s arm is Thing wearing Lee Press-on nails.
Comment by Regina — October 10, 2007 @ 10:42 am
#2 — In this bold new world of texting, you can have a girlfriend and never have to meet her face to face!
Also, I don’t think we’re presuming much to think that sunburnt girl in Panel 3 is Tony’s girl. Notice the setting: they’re in the EXACT SAME HALLWAY! So, for all we know, Howie and Tony are discussing the incident a bit too loudly, and two girls who just happen to be standing nearby have heard the gossip and are totally shocked with what they’re hearing.
Comment by El Santo — October 10, 2007 @ 10:46 am
My impression of Frank McLaughlin in his perspective drawing class: “Wait…you mean there’s a THIRD dimension?”
There’s more to drawing backgrounds than rulers and grid paper, Frank.
Comment by Matt Ramone — October 10, 2007 @ 11:03 am
I’m glad to see that L.G. took off his fake nose and glasses and re-applied his glasses tattoo, but the expression on Helen Marzano’s face just broke my brain.
Comment by Cash — October 10, 2007 @ 11:17 am
It’s a pity that Tony’s girl can’t grasp a tissue with that mannequin arm and wipe that enormous booger off her upper lip.
Comment by Ivan — October 10, 2007 @ 11:34 am
LG looks positively pissed at Tony. I’m thinking we might have another murder soon… assuming the angry mob that lynches Tony after his next botched football game doesn’t do it first.
Comment by Tony — October 10, 2007 @ 12:26 pm
what? does Gil think those two dweebs are the only ones at Milford with internet access? I’m sure 1/2 the school knows Cully’s dark secret by now, even if Mannequin Arm hadn’t started spreading the dirt…
Comment by Mooch — October 10, 2007 @ 2:33 pm
panel 3:
I think it is obvious that a sunburned cat with extremley long paws and claws is now attacking Milford students based one the facial expessioned of the two girls.
Comment by john b — October 10, 2007 @ 3:46 pm
At least the artist didn’t put the whisper shielding hand between the speaker and
the listener — cartooning has improved in the last 40 years.
The other big improvement has been drawing store window signs backwards as seen
from the inside.
Comment by dale — October 10, 2007 @ 4:38 pm
I’m disappointed that the Gil Thorpoverse still can’t handle an interracial relationship.
Comment by Monkey Time — October 10, 2007 @ 10:20 pm
You guys are missing the point– that’s not Tony’s girl in the 3rd panel, that’s Tony! He carries around a hairpiece in his pocket and when he starts getting that feeling, he just clips on his ponytail.
Fact: No one has ever seen Tony and Tony’s girl in the same room.
Fact: Tony IS in an interracial relationship…with LG Howard.
Fact: Tonyette has several other body parts and accessories to help him play the part, mannequin hand is just one of them.
Comment by Laura Jane — October 11, 2007 @ 6:54 am
Panel 3: Where’s the thumb? Christ, even the mannequins are deformed in Milford.
Comment by sourbelly — October 11, 2007 @ 8:45 am
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