1/11/13
We remain skeptical that we can keep reading this without wanting to stick an icepick into our eyeballs. Oh goody, more basketball. Peacock Boy and Stretch Armstrong save the day.
1/12/13
Meanwhile, more basketball. Who is more bored: TWIM readers, the three attendees or CENTRO, the nineteenth century scoreboard?
1/14/13
When you clank it, it goes Bonk!
Yeah, Cyndy Canty, next time work your way open then you can clank a bonk, hronk a foozle, hraak a peacock and generally muf a nerd.
1/15/13
Instead of a post-Bonk Bucket sesh, how about a little shoulder squaring at the Mfnrd Rec? How many of you thought Fowler’s advice would be peacock related?
SNOORX!
More free coaching for Gildo and Mimi! They must be the biggest lazy-asses this side of … Congress? I can’t think of anyone lazier than the Thorps.
Look closely, Ned: the “love birds” (gotta keep with the theme) are at the Milford “Reoreation” center. That must be where the free coaching in town takes place. The staff includes Clambake, Steve the janitor, Gloryhole Alpaca, etc.!
Comment by Milfordian — January 15, 2013 @ 6:06 am
Scott chooses the least interesting option of all. He could have offered Mia a little, ahem, personal comforting… he could have taken her on a peacock hunt (“If you see the peacock, you’ll suddenly be able to shoot just like me!”). But no; he just takes her to the Reoreation Oenter for shooting practice. BORING.
1/11 panel 1: “If I plaster my boobies against you, will you please stop talking about that stupid peacock?”
Comment by John Walters (@johnswalters) — January 15, 2013 @ 6:35 am
1/15 panel 2 – Love the Boogie Nights font choice for the sign – makes you wonder what other kinds of “recreation” take place there
Comment by steve — January 15, 2013 @ 7:07 am
Pretty sure that CENTRO is a first-generation totalisator board.
Comment by billytheskink — January 15, 2013 @ 7:49 am
Last panel of 1/15: Whose hands are those poking at his chest??
Comment by thorpnotized — January 15, 2013 @ 8:40 am
1/15 P3 “…I’ve been concentrating on squaring my shoulders to the target”. target = Venus Mountain.
Comment by semperfi4evr — January 15, 2013 @ 8:46 am
Looks like her right hand is on his right shoulder, as you can see her thumb. So she has her arms crossed on him – who does that? And who wears a sweater and jeans to practice basketball? Where’s the athletic clothes?
Also – those are Cs in the sign – they look identical, with a gap in the side, whereas the O is filled in. Move along, folks.
Comment by Rob — January 15, 2013 @ 7:05 pm
What’s up with that sign font? Whigham find an old sheet of Chartpak lettering from the ’70s?
Comment by teenchy — January 16, 2013 @ 6:33 am
We should all be impressed with how progressive Milford has become. The even have Midnight Basketball rec centers to keep kids out of gangs! And it wasn’t that long ago that the stands would have been packed with fans/boosters/Rob Parker types protesting Scott and Mia’s interracial romance — a rudeness now only bestowed on hobos and teenage moms.
Comment by Moon Mullins — January 16, 2013 @ 11:52 am
no talking peacock i dont comment mucho peachy
Comment by mr12ozcan — January 16, 2013 @ 3:59 pm
If they want to do something related to basketball, why not practice FREE THROWS?
Comment by Dale — January 16, 2013 @ 4:25 pm