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   frogapplause said, about 1 month ago

   LIGHTNING DELAY! LIGHTNING DELAY!
   I love saying that. Great strip today, Bill.

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   Bill Hinds said, about 1 month ago

   Except for the last panel, this strip is almost verbatim from one of my son’s matches.

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   rricchhterr said, about 1 month ago

   hope everyone brought a good book, this could take awhile…

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   big G 3469 said, about 1 month ago

   Kind or reminded me of last Saturday’s UTEP-NMSU football game in Las Cruces where a Lightning bolt struck three miles from the NMSU stadium & the game was delayed for three hours & didn’t get restarted until way after 9:00 p.m.!

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   jakebb2 said, about 1 month ago

   But what’s a checkbook have to to with a lightning delay? To pay parking fees?

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   Dypak said, about 1 month ago

   Who is the guy in the cart? The booster president? Does he have a fund raiser coming up?

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   jmd4lsu said, about 1 month ago

   the game was delayed for three hours & didn’t get restarted until way after 9:00 p.m.

   That must have been a nasty lightning storm. You have to have 30 minutes without lightning strikes for a game to resume.

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   Bill Hinds said, about 1 month ago

   If you’ve ever had a kid on a select soccer team you know it can get expensive. The event I was at was a tournament run by our soccer club. The guy in the cart was a tournament official.

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   Rmom said, about 1 month ago

   Bill - The expense of having a kid play soccer is why we decided against letting our son participate on an organized team. That, and we didn’t want our family’s schedule to revolve around his soccer schedule.

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    Dypak said, about 1 month ago

    Thanks. I’d have never guessed league official. The school I teach at just started playing soccer in a league this year. We’re still pretty informal. I went to take pictures of a game yesterday. The game was scheduled to start at 8 but the other team didnt get the word. They showed up at 10:00 and the game started after a quick warm up. The kids had fun, and there was no talk of check books. Probably someday someone will improve things and we’ll know better. But until then we’ll just watch the kids have a good time.

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    OldHipster said, about 1 month ago

    Hey, where’d that thunder come from.

    Sounded like it was over by the restrooms?

    I thought I heard a bucksnort.

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    Chikuku said, about 1 month ago

    Mr. Hinds, thanks for the clarification. This is a great episode, and obviously a true story (except for the bit about the checkbooks, which the official did not say aloud, not wanting to sound too blatant, eh.)