Like the goggles. My daughters had a poster in their high school lab that showed a blind girl with a seeing-eye dog. The caption was, “Jenny didn’t think she should use safety goggles. Now she doesn’t need them.”
I would cup my hands more, but that could be a local thing.My first thought was “so-so”. Maybe it has to do with lifting.Panel 1 looks like “no”. Did Pascoe(?) just listen to the game while studying to be a mime?
Um yes. I was referring more to the fact that Whigham/Rubin CHOSE to make Pascoe’s giant hands the focal point of today’s strip by having him make an ambiguous gesture with them in P2 and clap with them in P3. Because he’s not really real, right? And they’re his secret hand-loving puppeteers.
In the P3 dialog the emphasis could shed light on Big John’s hand gestures in P2." I meant the cheerleaders", suggests a much tamer meaning to the uplift gesture than “I MEANT the cheerleaders”.
Let’s get to Game 2. Here we’re already looking at game 4 this weekend, so Milford is at least 3 weeks behind, unless Goshen and Valley had to forfeit due to being associated with Oklahoma State recruiting.
I wonder if Big John has grown up with a deaf family member, and is accustomed to a non-vocal environment. This could also explain why he is communicating with his hands.
I remember Dickerson and Craig James, the “Pony Express”. I also remember SMU coming to South Bend the year after the Death Penalty expired and Lou Holtz claiming that he did not, I repeat, not, tell that back up running back not to score. Many of us surmised he must have tripped on a long blade of grass, or the chalk line yard marker, which caused him to fall gracefully over the sideline. I don’t think the gentleman in question ever had another scoring opportunity, but it kept the score under 70.
There was an SMU football player about 15 years ago who was driving around in a new Corvette. The NCAA investigators found that his father was a big name professional wrestler and the player had earned the money on the wrestling circuit with his dad that summer. Can’t remember the athlete’s or stage name of the dad, though.
bitsy twill over 10 years ago
Great. Another excuse for Whigham to indulge his giant hand obsession.
george over 10 years ago
giant disembodied hand . . . with magic bracers.
chiphilton over 10 years ago
Like the goggles. My daughters had a poster in their high school lab that showed a blind girl with a seeing-eye dog. The caption was, “Jenny didn’t think she should use safety goggles. Now she doesn’t need them.”
DaleJQP over 10 years ago
Can anyone translate those gestures into a coherent set of responses?
What are they doing in a biology lab that requires eye protection. If they’re splashing chemicals around, they should have full-face shields.
DaleJQP over 10 years ago
I would cup my hands more, but that could be a local thing.My first thought was “so-so”. Maybe it has to do with lifting.Panel 1 looks like “no”. Did Pascoe(?) just listen to the game while studying to be a mime?
bearwku82 over 10 years ago
P4- Big John, do you want to play tonsil hockey with Angie? CLAP! CLAP!
chujusmith over 10 years ago
Cheerleaders and clap in the same panel? Sometimes the snarky comments aren’t even worth scratching the itch.
bitsy twill over 10 years ago
Um yes. I was referring more to the fact that Whigham/Rubin CHOSE to make Pascoe’s giant hands the focal point of today’s strip by having him make an ambiguous gesture with them in P2 and clap with them in P3. Because he’s not really real, right? And they’re his secret hand-loving puppeteers.
softball coach over 10 years ago
In the P3 dialog the emphasis could shed light on Big John’s hand gestures in P2." I meant the cheerleaders", suggests a much tamer meaning to the uplift gesture than “I MEANT the cheerleaders”.
Let’s get to Game 2. Here we’re already looking at game 4 this weekend, so Milford is at least 3 weeks behind, unless Goshen and Valley had to forfeit due to being associated with Oklahoma State recruiting.
dosborn56 over 10 years ago
Hank from Breaking Bad, in Witness Protection at Oakwood.
rglover1954 over 10 years ago
I wonder if Big John has grown up with a deaf family member, and is accustomed to a non-vocal environment. This could also explain why he is communicating with his hands.
Mr Reality over 10 years ago
In all reality, lets not forget the U of Illinois numerous slush fund scandals and recruiting violations in both football and basketball.
softball coach over 10 years ago
I remember Dickerson and Craig James, the “Pony Express”. I also remember SMU coming to South Bend the year after the Death Penalty expired and Lou Holtz claiming that he did not, I repeat, not, tell that back up running back not to score. Many of us surmised he must have tripped on a long blade of grass, or the chalk line yard marker, which caused him to fall gracefully over the sideline. I don’t think the gentleman in question ever had another scoring opportunity, but it kept the score under 70.
rglover1954 over 10 years ago
There was an SMU football player about 15 years ago who was driving around in a new Corvette. The NCAA investigators found that his father was a big name professional wrestler and the player had earned the money on the wrestling circuit with his dad that summer. Can’t remember the athlete’s or stage name of the dad, though.
softball coach over 10 years ago
Then there was Bill Laimbeer who was the only NBA player whose dad made more than he did.