Gil Thorp by Henry Barajas and Rod Whigham for November 12, 2019

Yes, heaven forfend someone confront Mr. Ballard right away so we can all get on with our lives. Please do let’s drag this out as long as possible.

Give this thread an incomplete and start winter term.

P1, Or not.

P2, Gotta love the talking hand. Thank you, Thing!

P3, From what we’ve seen, the “board” consists of two members so who else would she go to?

Taking a page from Shakespeare and Hamlet when Polonius says the way to the find the truth is to “by indirection, find direction out.” Gossip and hearsay sells more papers, everybody knows that ! Or to quote Thomas Hardy, “Truth, like a bastard, comes into this world.”

P2- At one time, athletic supporter Wildcat Maris was on the board. The former Mudlark all state tackle lives for conflict. Marjie looks pleased with herself after a telephone heavy breathing session.

Do they call Marjie Ducey “Acey”?

Guess Douchey is actually gonna’ have to do some real work, instead of eating sloppy joes and writing down roster names, if she wants to find out who the mole is.

This strip often does its most accurate work when depicting school (or small town) politics.

Not sure why she cares about alerting Chet. What’s the difference? It’s not like there’s anything he can do. He can’t “hide the evidence”, not that there is any. Have someone from IT check his computer’s browsing history, fire his ass, have Mrs. Roh file divorce papers, show us Milford winning their last game to secure second place while Chance and Charlie are co-MVPs, and then fire up basketball practice the next day.

And speaking of firing up, I hope you’re fired up that today’s Mopped Up Thorp is online.

https://moppedupthorp.wordpress.com/

Good giant hand in P2 though

…i’m worried the bedrock of our board, snark and showers, is being corrupted by constant quips from a 1950’s joke book and prose straight from a night class in creative writing at the local junior college…what the hell happened?

Is that a giant hole in her shirt in panel 1?

So…let’s try Marty Moon! He is the only other sports newshound in this burg and Chet failed to get traction here at the Trumpet or Star, or whatever it is—amazing it hasn’t folded yet. And so Chet has to turn to him next. Probably Moon will play ball if we offer him a fifth of Cutty, but maybe we should start low with a six pack of Pabst.

In all reality , anyone think we’ ll see some gridiron action by Saturday , inquiring minds want to know .

I hear you cuttersjock, and hope to abide this phase. It is a short ride to Central City, so I think I’ll hang out at stand-up night at OhSo Funny!

I am glad that Chet DIDN’T go to Marty Moon. We will have responsible journalism in Milford for a change!