2/21/11
Shocking Panel 1 Revelation:
“The administration” figured out how to block a website. My take: Kelly with her strong technical skills led Kaz to the server room, where she directed him to punch the crap out of the school’s dial-up modem.
Shocking Panel 2 Revelation:
The Goshen High Goshes have rebranded their school to the much slicker and sleeker “G High.” My take: The sign being cut off means the name is obviously longer…I’m guessing their new name is “Gil High School”, inspired of course by the popular local mug.
Shocking Panel 3 Revelation:
Everyone’s wrist is broken! My take: I don’t care.
2/22/11
Basketball season continues…
with the same result.
As every season.
That is to say: numerous plots, none of them anywhere close to resolved, or even interesting, carry on into late February. Then the Mudlarks play a boring game for a while. Even Marty Moon can’t be bothered to be any different than he was on January 17th. (At least the kid behind him changed shirts, so we’re no longer concerned the Green Lantern is in the building.) Wake me when Lini Verde becomes famous so I can sell him his damned domain name.*
*For all the aspiring entrepreneurs out there, I would like to announce that I’m willing to sell LiniVerde.com to the highest bidder. But make me an offer quickly, as you’ll want to beat a fictional character to the punch on owning this valuable item!
Good coaching, Gil! Just let your short, disruptive, egotistical non-team player decide to go up against a guy 1.5 feet taller than he is, get rejected several times, and then keep doing it!
Panel #3: aahhhh, the return of generic corn-row dude (GCRD)!
Comment by Milfordian — February 22, 2011 @ 10:00 am
Jason, hold out for no less than two cartons of Nut Boys and a Gail Martin Live at Budokan CD. They’re both shitty! Count it! Bonk!
Comment by Dood — February 22, 2011 @ 10:04 am
Ugh, the return of Wee Man. Can we tape him to a locker again?
Jason, if I had 13 dollars, I’d buy the domain name, but unfortunately, I don’t have the money or the faith that Liniburger is going to be famous.
Comment by Regina — February 22, 2011 @ 11:01 am
In case anyone cares, “Tim Kiska” is a former colleague of Neal Rubin’s in the Detroit newspaper biz. Okay, it’s boring… but it’s at least as interesting as the current GT plotlines. Whatever they are.
Nice to know “The Administration” is more powerful than former Egyptian tyrant Hosni Mubarak. He couldn’t stop the Twitter/YouTube revolution, but the all-powerful Dr. Pearl can banish a website with a single nod of her tightly-bunned head.
Comment by jvwalt — February 22, 2011 @ 11:19 am
4 jvwalt, and jason– actually, schools DO have the ability to block websites, since kids in school use the schools servers. In fact, in order to receive federal aid, schools have to have filters to block porn, gambling, etc, and all they have to do is add the name of the specific website they want to block. Naturally this has no effect on people accessing the site when away from the school.
Comment by vaganova — February 22, 2011 @ 11:23 am
I’m calling my next novel “Lanky Tim Kiska.” Bombs away!
Comment by jules — February 22, 2011 @ 11:30 am
By the way, where is Killer Cortez? Shouldn’t he be knocking the snot out of Lanky in the paint?
Comment by Milfordian — February 22, 2011 @ 11:48 am
i’ll bid $1 for every point attributed to lini over the season. should be about 10 bucks.
Comment by lester — February 22, 2011 @ 12:16 pm
+1 to Milfordian. Big man on big man action should get Lini fired up.
The ex-high school jock in me scratches his head as to why Goshen is wearing dark uniforms, as it’s customary in basketball for the home team to wear the whites or light colors. Does Milford only have set of unis and Goshen put on its darks out of pity? Or does Valley League hoops take its cues from the NHL, where home teams have gone back to wearing dark colors?
Comment by delvaldawg — February 22, 2011 @ 12:21 pm
Love the way Linilou’s head is scraping the ceiling light in that last panel. I don’t think that’s what they mean by shooting the lights out, Linipoo. BONK!
Comment by Gil'sBarber — February 22, 2011 @ 12:24 pm
Will we see Lanky Tim Kiska, the controller of the paint, dueling it out with Derek Slim Chance when the ‘Larks and Gauches face each other on the diamond? Cuz, seriously, baseball is all I’m looking forward to right now.
Comment by Dood — February 22, 2011 @ 12:50 pm
I can’t quite figure out why they aren’t using their cell phones to check the website. Do they have to surrender them while on school property or something?
Comment by The Ridger — February 22, 2011 @ 1:30 pm
Jam_Jar is either going 69 with some dude ,
or he and Tim are comparing “other” statistics ,
relevant only to naked men in the showers after the game.
Comment by Graham McDonald — February 22, 2011 @ 3:21 pm
The Mudlarks’ runt guard can’t shoot over Lanky Tim Kiska, and Cortez Beecher is off at Bible study class? No problem! Have Linguine shoot from beyond the three point line– bombs away! But Gil has miscalculated– that Pilates ball Linguini is shooting with will never pass through the rim, which is only 18″ in diameter.
Comment by vaganova — February 22, 2011 @ 4:31 pm
Jason, my offer for LiniVerde.com is three cartons of Nut Boys, a case of BEER, a Gail Martin DVD, and an autographed picture of Clambake from his days in the Negro Leagues! Count it! Bonk!
Comment by Don, the Rebel without a Blog — February 22, 2011 @ 8:00 pm
Cripe, Don– you have THREE cases of Nutboys? I’ll double Jason’s offer for just ONE of them. They’re shitty!
Comment by vaganova — February 22, 2011 @ 8:07 pm
Don, throw in a catered meal of Kay Morgan’s sloppy joes and cheesy poofs and you might get this deal done with Jason. Count it! Bonk!
Comment by Dood — February 22, 2011 @ 8:26 pm
Speaking of crappy nicknames for basketball players, what happened to Bulky Brock Reed? Did he graduate?
Comment by Dieclambakedie — February 22, 2011 @ 9:19 pm
Yikes Don, you had Jason at the case of BEER. Count it! Bonk!
It’s shitty too!
Comment by Gil'sBarber — February 22, 2011 @ 9:21 pm
Milford players don’t graduate DCD, they just fade away into oblivion, a/k/a, reincarnated in Rubin’s dreams. Neal, I feel your pain.
Comment by Gil'sBarber — February 22, 2011 @ 9:27 pm
After today’s strip (23 Feb) again I have to give +1 to Milfordian. Lini gets double-teamed so Gil’s strategy is…keep feeding the ball to Lini. Is Gil’s middle name Sisyphus?
Comment by delvaldawg — February 23, 2011 @ 8:03 am
Tim Kiska’s got nothing on dominant opposing big men of the past, like “That Guy” or Claude Smith.
Comment by billytheskink — February 23, 2011 @ 8:20 am
lanky tim kiska i thought they had gone back in the past and it was reed richards mr fantastic himself
Comment by mr12ozcan — February 23, 2011 @ 3:49 pm
Freak hand alert – P3, 2/23!!!
Comment by Rob — February 23, 2011 @ 4:11 pm
The guy behind Marty didn’t change his shirt….They just blacked out that gawd awful tie. Some of the laziest cartooning I have ever seen.
Comment by Clinton — February 24, 2011 @ 9:24 am