Back to the illegal selling of vapes by the boys behind the scenes, or so they think. Good ol Marty Moon is out and about taking a pic of the action, which again begs the question– how the hell does he know
A whats going on at all,
B where these kids are selling the stuff, and why
C how can he see who’s in the car, as the windows are tinted.
The last day we saw them even talking about vape sticks was January 31. Almost 4 months later, they havent sold the last case yet. Quit looking at Alfred E Neumann and step it up before you become a Tic Tok hero.
Finally Al Jaffee gets a shoutout posthumously. I had forgotten who he was, but he was the editor of Mad Magazine, and he passed away on April 10. Here’s more:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Jaffee
I dont know about you but mid-April is a bit late to be having baseball tryouts. At least the kids arent already wearing uniforms like they do every day in all the other sports.
These kids look a little young got be in high school in P1 – could Gil be coaching the girls team too this season? Im calling bullshit. He dont have time for both. Practices, games, travel, schedule conflicts, hey – its a load coaching ONE team. I did it for 2 seasons, and was an assistant for 4 others.
There must be a lot of kids trying out for these teams if half of em wont make the team. Of course most of em wont start, but I disagree with that as well. Ive followed this shit for 40 years now, and Ive never seen more then 3 guys on the bench at once. How many subs has Gil ever had anyway? He starts maybe 3 pitchers, and I never even saw a pinch hitter in a game.
And the kids are dressed oddly for a high school tryout. They look like rec ball players. The Bad News Bears could switch places with them and no one would know the difference.
At any rate, P3 includes the command – lets play ball. I would be doing baseball drills in a tryout. But good for Gil for having an open tryout instead of just having the same old mopes play again because he’s too lazy to hold tryouts.
Gotta give credit where credit is due- but its a tiny one indeed.
Hrraaaking up Only four minutes to go Had enough I can’t take any more No shit This seems so fake This is unreal Ain’t no sense it can make Don’t know the players Don’t know the score Who’s playing? I don’t know! Everybody all around me Changin’ unis on the daily
I don’t think it’s funny no more
Hrraaaking up Like a worn out shoe On the Foot of Leo A’ta’zhóón He’d run But he’d lose a piece Tays laughed But it’ messed with him, messed with him
Then out of nowhere An old reference It comes upon us without warning It’s a bone tossed to all us olds I’m only hopin’ TWIM don’t fold I’d take a knife to all these new strips Paste them back together, see if I can make them make sense
I don’t think it’s funny no more I don’t think it’s funny no more Hrraaaking up I don’t think it’s funny no more Hrraaaking up I don’t think it’s funny no more Hrraaaking up I don’t think it’s funny no more Hrraaaking up I don’t think it’s funny no more Hrraaaking up
Lots to get to as usual so lets get it on….this strip is resembling water in a toilet bowl swirling down after a flush…lets count all the mistakes shall we?
P1- I know of no basketball announcer who uses full names during the action. Especially a name like that! And whats the big ass deal about 6 rebounds?? Get to 20 and then we’re talking.. and the ceiling looks to be a foot above the rim… the ball could almost be stuck on the beam just above Atazhoons hands. The defender should have his hands up and his eyes open. Error total : 5
P2 – Nice to applaud your team after a win but isnt that the fans job?? Are the coaches watching the game or coaching it? Fellas are older people, not high school kids… and the winning score should be listed on top in a strip; this isnt a TV broadcast where the home team is shown on the bottom. Gil also looks like he’s attending a wedding, not coaching a basketball game. That suit looks like it came from Just For Men. Error total: 3
P3 – Yes Gil I know its a play on words, but geez, you just had a blind person on your fucking baseball team last year and you decided he could safely pitch. Hope he wasnt in earshot of that remark. And YOU DONT GIVE OUT GAME BALLS IN BASKETBALL. I HOPE YOU’RE IN EARSHOT OF THAT, DOPE! At least Leo was humble enough to admit he wasnt the whole reason they won. Good boy. Error total: 2
That makes a grand total of 9 errors in one 3-panel strip. If that wasnt a shitfest one doesnt exist.
Our song today is by someone who fits what Gil was referring to.
We switch from a non-Milford hoops contest to.. teens hanging out like they do in real life. I dunno, maybe Im selling todays kids short, but I must confess I didnt hang out like this when I was in high school. Most days after school I would get home, either by foot or by car, and after putting my books down in my room, I would head outside to shoot hoops in my driveway for a while, when my friend who lived 2 doors down came over we’d play one on one or shoot free throws, or otherwise I would head downstairs to the basement and play video games. Then maybe some TV shows either back upstairs in my room (I got a black and white TV for my confirmation in 7th grade, still remember watching Bucky Dents home run on it) or on the big TV in the basement after video games. Of course my friend would join me for the video games too, or we’d head over to his house to do similar stuff, or play chess or backgammon on the picnic table. Or Id go bike riding if it was nice out, and depending on the time of year, after dinner if it was still daylight I might do a little chipping in the front yard, using the lamppost in the middle of the lawn as my target, and going around the yard for various shot lengths etc. Or sometimes we’d do a little yardwork before dark or cut the grass if it needed it, although most grass cutting was done on Saturdays, like normal people did. I would generally do my homework after dinner, and quit in time for Monday Night Football or some other program I liked, (another show I really liked was Thats Incredible, which was on before MNF and I would stop my work to watch it, then go back to it if not finished, then catch what I could of the football game)
1 year me and dad joined a nearby gym and we got some weights at home and he would lift with me after he got home from work. I put on about 25 pounds in a year and decided to quit the weightlifting as it also entailed drinking this milkshake with bananas in it. No thanks. I just ate more instead. No more gyms after that year, save for a brief stint practicing for an indoor triathlon using the pool at another local gym.
So that was my after- high- school life. Plenty else to do besides what these characters are doing. I never smoked or did what these kids are doing, sitting on the ground against a building and getting offers to vape. Of course vaping is something new entirely and what I know about it, Im not interested. Sounds just as bad as smoking, although the flavors sound better.
Dont know why in P3 the 2 vape guys are walking away as theyre talking.. if its really free just let Sue have it if her hand is out.
Guess ol Henry has to show off his knowledge of vaping for us. Maybe tomorrow we’ll be back in Scottsdale for another golf lesson.
Finally, RIP David Crosby. I wasnt aware he started with the Byrds, and I believe if he stayed with them they’d be one of the alltime great bands instead of just another 60’s group with a funny name. He was an immense talent who made everyone around him better, and his incredible voice will be missed. Here’s a song performed 29 days after I was born:
…….And another on for good measure- he was so youthful you dont recognize him.
Times are tough in Milford. Unspecified budget cuts have had some kind of unspecified effect on Mudlark sports. Kids are being forced to sell cheap substandard chocolate in front of grocery stores. Now Gil himself has stooped to debasing himself in, of all things, a spot for a used car dealer. Not just any used car dealer, mind you, but one whose appearance is explicitly based on Joe Exotic a/k/a The Tiger King. If Joe wasn’t behind bars I’d expect him to come after the Chief for appropriating his likeness.
Of course, GilPa* might not be doing this for the Mudlarks. Mimi’s little jaunt to Scottsdale hasn’t paid for itself yet! The fact that she’s been able to take it may imply that it was her job – and Milford girls’ hoops – that were the victims of the unspecified budget cuts. Then again, GilPa might need to pay a retainer to a divorce lawyer. He could be doing ads for the Foley Law Group before it’s all done. Maybe he could call in a favor from Hadley V. Baxendale.
*Gentle readers, never let it be said that your input falls on deaf ears. Today Gil refers to himself by a nickname used here and in just about every other Gil Thorp comments section known to man. (Me, I’m holding out for “Kaiser Gilhelm.”)
The girls are having a post practice lunch. Nonsense. Nobody in teaching golf does that. They just met. The writer knows nothing about golf its obvious. Or football or basketball. Why fly to Arizona for 1 lesson and complain to someone about that. Talk about your golf game. This is a teaching pro not A MARRIAGE COUNSELOR.
This girl isnt David Leadbetter. Even so, Mimi cant afford his prices – $3,500 for 3 hours. Heh.
And Ericka, its Mimi. You were just calling her Mrs. Thorp 2 days ago. You dont just call her Emily.
I wrote much more but it got erased and I dont have the heart to do it all again.
I really thought today was gonna reveal something about Keri’s odd personality but no– we flip back to last Tuesday. The only problem with that is we dont even know what today is. I thought we had Marjie D AND football back too, but it was too good to be true. Back to the uneven nonsense that this new plot has become. I forgot all about the Linda Lindas until today. Their need to be in this strip is next to zero. Didnt we just look at 2 newspaper issues back to back, 1 telling a blatant lie and the next exagerating a high school football matchup before it happens? When did games have previews that warranted front page headlines, even in a rag like this one?
One thing that hasnt changed is this late season football. Its Veterans Day and we’re still in mid-season form. Get on the stick or we’ll have Frosty saying “Happy Birthday!” before the final gun is fired.
Hard to believe the Linda Lindas were at the school library so late that Keri cant get up the next morning. Cant they schedule this hoo-ha on a Friday or Saturday night?? Check another ‘makes no sense’ box.
In honor of Hurricane Nicole thats currently ravaging Florida our song today will be this rarely heard gem from Point Blank in 1983. I swear I’ve had Sirius radio for 12 years and havent heard this played once. Its way too good to be so off the map. Of course in high school I heard it all the time.
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This Week in Milford 
You Can Call Him “GilPa” But You Doesn’t Have to Call Him “Gil Exotic.”
Times are tough in Milford. Unspecified budget cuts have had some kind of unspecified effect on Mudlark sports. Kids are being forced to sell cheap substandard chocolate in front of grocery stores. Now Gil himself has stooped to debasing himself in, of all things, a spot for a used car dealer. Not just any used car dealer, mind you, but one whose appearance is explicitly based on Joe Exotic a/k/a The Tiger King. If Joe wasn’t behind bars I’d expect him to come after the Chief for appropriating his likeness.
Of course, GilPa* might not be doing this for the Mudlarks. Mimi’s little jaunt to Scottsdale hasn’t paid for itself yet! The fact that she’s been able to take it may imply that it was her job – and Milford girls’ hoops – that were the victims of the unspecified budget cuts. Then again, GilPa might need to pay a retainer to a divorce lawyer. He could be doing ads for the Foley Law Group before it’s all done. Maybe he could call in a favor from Hadley V. Baxendale.
*Gentle readers, never let it be said that your input falls on deaf ears. Today Gil refers to himself by a nickname used here and in just about every other Gil Thorp comments section known to man. (Me, I’m holding out for “Kaiser Gilhelm.”)