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   Llewellenbruce said, 18 days ago

   That joke is as old as the hills.

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   Ronshua said, 18 days ago

   Where’s Walt ?

3. 

   Gweedo Murray said, 18 days ago

   But the art is way good !

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   axe-grinder said, 18 days ago

   A dreamlike quality has pervaded the strip for awhile now. Losing Walt could be Gertie’s anxiety dream. I still dream about taking high school exams in classes I forgot to attend all semester…

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   oldbooger said, 18 days ago

   I totally agree with Chubsy.

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   tcambeul said, 18 days ago

   Will the REAL Gasoline Alley please show-up!!!

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   kreniigh said, 18 days ago

   Why is this in color but the premium subscriptions are in black and white?

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   Macushlalondra said, 18 days ago

   Yes that’s an old joke and I do wish they’d move things along a bit. What’s happened to poor Walt? If it turns out he’s home in bed because someone brought him home I’m not gonna be happy that they dawdled so much over it.

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   Devonshade said, 18 days ago

   Colour aint saving this strip,..it seriously needs a transfusion of old school.

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    Susan001 said, 18 days ago

    Once, while driving past a cemetary, my brother asked how many people were dead there.
    I replied, “All of them–I hope!”

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    whmIII said, 18 days ago

    Pray she doesn’t start whistling.

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    Dypak said, 18 days ago

    Axe noted on Sunday that we missed the last chance for a fall walk. It looks like Walt is taking his walk, he just didn’t bring us along. Gertie ought to go find Skeezix, maybe him (he?) and Uncle Walt are taking their fall stroll at night.

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    vasgar1 said, yesterday
    Wow, I’m impressed. Either you know that many languages, or you have a wonderful application called Microsoft Word. :)

    I think that’s all Deborah. I don’t speak near as many languages as she posted in but if you look carefully at each language she posted in they are all slightly different, at least the first line where she describes the language. French was the language of diplomancy, German was the language of technicians (or specialists, depending on your interpretation). The Hebrew, Greek and Gaelic ones threw me, but I can see they’re not the same thing, just in a different language. The body is the same, it’s the first, introductory line that is different.

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    To tcambeul - I saw your comment yesterday on languages. Why don’t you save that kind of trash talk for the SOTU page? Other than some differances of opinion here on who likes the current story arc we try to get along and respect each other on GA. You’re welcome to stick around and join the club, but please keep any bigoted comments to yourself.

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    nelson-muntz said, 18 days ago

    HO HUMM

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    g6793 said, 18 days ago

    I think Gertie should’ve checked at Walt’s home or Corky’s before wandering around the graveyard…

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    gocomicsmember said, 18 days ago

    Yes, it’s an old joke–not the first or even the twentieth time that GA has turned to old material. Yet there is always someone who has not heard the joke before and gets a kick out of it.

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    Joe Allen Doty said, 18 days ago

    All I know about that joke is that my late father apparently heard it from his father when he was a boy. And, I heard him say that joke when I was a boy which he also told his grandchildren and great-grandchildren.

    He would ask when driving past a cemetery, “Do you know what they say about that place?’ The response to “No, what?” was “People are dying to get in.”

    My father always like to read the comic strips. While he rarely read the sports pages, he did read all of the rest of the daily newspaper.

    Both of my parents talked about the early comic strips. Dad was born in 1911 and Mom in 1919.

    I have asked the same question as others: “Why hasn’t Gertie checked with Walt’s relatives?

    If she were to call home, someone there might be with Walt.

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    crunkbot said, 18 days ago

    ^^ Anyone genuinely amused by today’s “joke” would probably be absolutely fascinated by a jangling set of keys.

18. 

    ocean17 said, 18 days ago

    Ah. Time out from plot advancement for a stale old joke.

19. 

    barticle35 said, 18 days ago

    A jangling set of keys? Where, where?
    BTW, when that fellow said I should swim back across the river, I assume he referred to the Mississippi, since I was born in Minnesota.

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    Deborah Reyes said, 18 days ago

    The interpretation of the lead in sentence which introduces each of the languages I mentioned yesterday are as follows:

    The first, of course, was Spanish

    In French, the language of diplomacy

    In German, the language of the journals

    Japanese technology, print and publish material on a regular basis

    (one of my sons studied both German and Japanese in college because he was “into” computers and most technical journals which had been published at that time dealing with the inner workings of computers were published in either German or in Japanese.)

    In Portuguese, because one of our fellow readers speaks Portuguese

    (I don’t know if she follows Gasoline Alley, but she posts some very beautiful, almost poetic concepts on the LOVE IS page! In Portuguese, of course!)

    In Greek, the language used for more traditional literature

    (Once upon a time, not so long ago - even as late as the 1940s and 1950s - high school students who wanted to go on to college were expected to have at least one or two years of Greek AND Hebrew - as well as Latin - BEFORE they turned up on the doorstep of ANY college. At least, that is the way it was in the Western states, where most colleges were originally founded by churches for the purposes of training young people for the ministry.)

    In Hebrew, the other classical language which students of higher education were expected to be able to read and write.

    In Irish, just for fun
    (I have a bunch of Irish relatives)

    In Hindi, for those who follow the star reporter
    (Brenda Star, that is)

    In Swedish another language used by many of my relatives

    Once upon a time, nearly everyone in America spoke at least one additional language at home. Some spoke two or three additional languages at home.

    My mother didn’t figure that she would ever be able to afford to go on to college - but she still took the Greek and Hebrew classes offered by her high school because she was eager to know about classical literature from the original languages. She was appalled when the education system scaled back their demands on high school students and began expecting only one or two years of Latin during high school for students who wanted too go on to college.

    And so it is.

    Good day to all

    buen día a todos los
    bonne journée à tous
    Guten Tag an alle
    に、良い一日のすべての
    bom dia a todos
    καλή μέρα σε όλους
    יום טוב לכל
    dea-lá do gach
    अच्छा दिन सब
    god dag till alla

21. 

    axe-grinder said, 18 days ago

    My father used to say that the undertaker was the most reliable man in town– he’d be the last guy to let you down.

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    countoftowergrove said, 17 days ago

    I’m tired of the turns this story has taken. Either get Gert back to Walt or to Byrd.