7/19/12
Grab a bottle of water. That’s hilarious! What will they do next, show us how a one armed guy gets a bottle of water from a cooler and opens it?
7/20/12
Oops.
So, Kenny Rogers Steve Boone is a Wounded Warrior. Okay. Let’s just watch and see if this can be handled with more sensitivity than the Funky Winkerbean take on this subject. Wait, Gil Thorp taught an amputee how to box, so, yeah…
I’m sure this Budd Lynch story will be inspiring.
7/21/12
I don’t know what to say. 94 year-old Budd Lynch will “show you how to get by” then give you a cufflink. What if you had a leg amputated, or both arms. Does he have gag gifts for those eventualities? I’m sure Budd’s heart is in the right place, and I’m sure there’s more to his efforts there is room to detail in this strip, but I’m not inspired by what I’m looking at here.
Budd Lynch inspires the bedridden by showing them you can still give prostate exams… even if you’re not a doctor. Also… not too comfortable with the modifier in ‘rugged break.’
Comment by semperfi4evr — July 22, 2012 @ 3:20 pm
hows rubin get away with this stuff?plus how did he get the water open ? i bet that prick gil hid his arm under his shirt to get a free cufflink
Comment by mr12ozcan — July 22, 2012 @ 5:03 pm
All kidding aside…..my mothers’ father was a butcher. She went to work with him one day when she was 7 and stuck her hand in a meat grinder. Lost her arm 4 inches below the elbow. I grew up tying my shoes with one hand because that was the way I was taught. She played tennis into her seventies serving one handed. Steve. You lost your left arm, not your legs. When was the last time you used it?
Comment by Knoxy — July 22, 2012 @ 5:45 pm
Cufflink? Cufflink? I bet Budd Lynch’s parting gift hasn’t been so inspiring to the last three or so generations of wounded vets. “Thanks, old man, but what the hell is a cufflink?” Maybe he should switch to buggy whips, to show the vets that they can still drive a horse-and-buggy in spite of their infirmities.
Also, “I’d heard you had a rugged break, but I couldn’t be bothered to visit you or find out anything more about it even though you moved back to Milford.” Now, that’s mentorship, Gil Thorp-style.
Comment by John Walters (@johnswalters) — July 23, 2012 @ 6:06 am
If he was missing a leg he would give them 1 spat.
Comment by Knoxy — July 23, 2012 @ 6:17 am
And if he was missing an eye Lynch would probably give him a monocle…
Frankly, I’m just happy Gil didn’t say “Every hear or Becky Howard?”
Comment by billytheskink — July 23, 2012 @ 6:43 am
“You know, coach, one of the physical therapists told me that, for the rest of my life, I would meet people who would try to tell me an inspiring story about someone else who lost a limb. He also told me not to punch them out.”
“What does that have to do with … um … so, how’s the water? Cold enough?”
Comment by Philip — July 23, 2012 @ 4:14 pm
Sorry to be disrespectful, but if Budd Abbott…I mean Lynch gave me one cufflink, I’d slap him with the one hand I had left. Just sayin’.
Now if Clambake gave me one and threw in a great old timey Negro League story, that would be a whole different ballgame (pardon the pun!).
I’m just surprised that Gil is actually putting a full day in with the golf midget mutants. What Gil isn’t telling Brady Boone is that the he’s switched the water with vodka…let’s see if he notices…
Comment by reginathenydiva — July 24, 2012 @ 8:14 am
Steve’s football career came to a sudden halt. Hand off on the 30 yard line.
Comment by Knoxy — July 25, 2012 @ 8:30 am
I think “rugged” needs to be the adjective du jour for the summer story line. Let’s see how many ways we can use it?
Comment by J.D. Springer — July 27, 2012 @ 5:02 pm