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   Kyler said, 3 months ago

   A smile AND an umbrella works best!

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   Sisyphos said, 3 months ago

   Practical troll! Go, Irwin!

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   Margueritem said, 3 months ago

   I always wondered about that song…

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   DreamScourge said, 3 months ago

   A good set of waterproofs is much better umbrella’s are a pain ;)

   Tho’ me thinks the song wouldn’t sound right some how

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   ejcapulet said, 3 months ago

   I can’t wait to hear his rendition of “Pennies From Heaven”.

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   BC13 said, 3 months ago

   I don’t know that song

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   Destiny23 said, 3 months ago

   I’m familiar with ‘wet dog smell’ – I hate to think what ‘wet Irwin’ smells like!

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   Lewreader said, 3 months ago

   Where’s Gene Kelly?

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   pschearer said, 3 months ago

   BC13: I suspect you are rather young and missed the wonderful popular songs of the first 2/3’s of the 20th century. “Let a Smile be Your Umbrella” is not one of the great masterpieces, but it has its perky charms.

   You can find many performances of it on YouTube. The Julie Andrews tribute is a nice duet with Gene Kelly, but the choppy video is joltingly unrelated to the audio. And I recommend avoiding the barbershop chorus version which sent chills down my spine and not in a good way. But YouTube is a great way to get caught up whenever an unknown song comes up.

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    N7326 Foxtrot said, 3 months ago

    Destiny23, I think you have ruined my whole weekend.

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    rricchhterr said, 3 months ago

    no one can see the tears, when you are crying in the rain…

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    Bdaysuit said, 3 months ago

    as long as you’re “Singing in the Rain” it doesn’t matter.

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    Musmo said, 3 months ago

    I love how the raindrops are drawn in the second panel … makes me wish I could be there with Irwin.

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    Joe Allen Doty said, 3 months ago

    You have to remember that all of the regulars in this strip live out of doors in an enchanted forest.

    The trolls, Irwin and Nerwin, remind me of Spook in the “Wizard of Id.”

    The two trolls in this strip are not like the trolls of the fairy tales and fables at all.

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    N7326 Foxtrot said, 3 months ago

    Joe Allen Doty:
    Does anyone even remember what “Spook” is in the dungeon for in the first place?

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    JanCinVV said, 3 months ago

    Irwin & Nerwin remind me of Cousin It from The Addams Family.

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    bald 716 said, 3 months ago

    ahhh but a stroll in the rain with your favorite person can be romantic, with or without a smile or an umbrella,
    well as long as it isn’t a downpour

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    RinaFarina said, 3 months ago

    And Irwin said, “Let there be an umbrella!” and there was an umbrella!

    or does anyone know of a better explanation of how that umbrella came to be there?

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    BC13 said, 3 months ago

    pschearer

    Thanks for your input. I’m not much on You Tube, but I am an avid watcher of TCM, but tend to lean toward gangster, espionage, war, comedy etc rather than musicals - unless they are the seasonal variety (Easter Parade, White Christmas, Holiday Inn, Going My Way etc - which I own). You may be surprised to know that I’ve got a Glenn Miller CD and a couple of mixed swing CD’s. I also own the Glenn Miller story and am soon to purchase the Fabulous Dorseys. And I do have the Sound of Music, South Pacific and select Doris Day films such as Calamity Ja.ne, On Moonlight Bay & By the Light of the Silvery Moon

    You might say I own select pieces of the past from some of my favorite actors, such as Bogart, Bacall, Bergman, Cagney, Crosby, Gable, Grant, Stanwyck & Stewart. I am also collecting films from the master of suspense, himself, and currently have most of his more popular fims and some of his not-so-popular films.

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    BC13 said, 3 months ago

    pschearer

    I neglected to mention Hepburn & Tracy

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    SherlockWatson said, 3 months ago

    Another optimist gets smacked in the face by reality.

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    NyukNyuk2000 said, 3 months ago

    Don’t care much for old musicals, but I do love classic comedy. Laurel and hardy, Charlie Chaplin, the Three Stooges, Buster Keaton, The Marx Brothers, W.C.Fields,etc. I’m probably the only 20-something who loves this stuff. Most other members of my generation probably don’t even know who these guys are, unfortunately. Their loss, I guess.

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    Saucy1121 said, 3 months ago

    N7326 Foxtrot said,

    Does anyone even remember what “Spook” is in the dungeon for in the first place?

    Sadly, I do. He uttered the infamous “The King is a Fink.”
    He was mugged and, as he was crawling for help, run over by the King in his carriage. The last straw was the carriage was the getaway vehicle for the mugger.

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    Sandor_at_the_Zoo said, 3 months ago

    You’ll get stay drier with a smile and an umbrella than with a smile alone. (With apologies to Al Capone.)