By now we here at TWIM (and the strip itself) have made the point on more than one occasion that Gil and the Mudlarks would never have won the state football championship back in ’14 had True Standish not transferred to Milford. Naturally we’ve used that point as a bludgeon to beat home the point that Gil isn’t capable of coaching his competitive teams up to the next level. A wise man once said “You can’t make chicken salad out of chicken something else,” and even WDIG’s station manager was able to discern the difference. The fact that Gil has managed to put competitive teams on the field/court/diamond may very well be a testimony to his ability to make chicken salad out of chicken something else.
Case in point: this bunch of yobbos. Their “loophole” is not to “not harm, threaten, insult or breathe on” B/Robby but to deface the billboard he’s had put up. First of course they have to figure out how to get up onto the billboard. If they’d thought a ladder was necessary, wouldn’t they have noticed they didn’t have one before they set off on their journey? It’s not like any ladder taller than a stepladder would fit in their cars’ trunks. What about shimmying up the center pole or giving one another a boost up on their shoulders? The way they’ve been playing, getting vertical is obviously a challenge to them. Clearly they should’ve gotten Joe Bolek and his crew on the job. They know a little something about painting things in public.
Observant TWIMers may be wondering why I pulled the “Where is Milford?” tag. I did it because of the tag – the license tag, that is. Milford is in, well, Milford – unless it’s in one of those one-plate states and the front plate is either a city plate topper like they used to have in North Carolina or a Milford Mudlarks plate from that one time the booster club held a fundraiser to get the teams some practice uniforms. They don’t have practice uniforms, you say?