Garfield by Jim Davis for May 31, 2010

Hey! Some of here would like some ice cream, Garfield.

Considering how much ice cream Garfield has there (i.e. an entire truckload), it looks like we can only see the bottom section (with multiples of the three colored ones seen), with the top possibly having more variety to it.

Or maybe there wasn’t much ice cream left in the truck.

Wonder if they have catnip flavor ice cream?

That ice-cream man must be a millionaire by now.

must be up side there in the ice cream mountain!!!!!

In “Blazing Saddles” Howard Johnson’s just had one.

did you pay him?

I’ll take the bell! Why you think I’m called “Tinkerbell”? Not really, I called that because I can fix or “tinker” with things. Hence my name.

Darned ice cream truck here plays Turkey in the Straw (unfortunately I can only remember the naughty words) all day. I can hear that blasted truck eight blocks away. And it doesn’t even stop in front of my house.

Where I grew up, there wasn’t an ice cream truck, but a kid riding a bicycle contraption with a freezer attached. He’d ring the bells on the handlebars to attract the attention of the neighbourhood.

As for Garfield, this doesn’t surprise me in the least…

Nothing but the bell and the ding-a-ling who was drivbing the truck.

Tanya,, I had the Dickie Dee man too! bloomin guy would purposely pull into the town-houses where usually the poorest kids were and I’d see those poor souls sitten on their back stoops looking sad knowing they couldn’t have an ice-cream or popsicle. the cheapest one was the three coloured watered popsicle for 50 cents

Does EVERY truck play Turkey in the Straw ? Long time ago a TV/appliance store played that on local TV–and that so stuck in my my that I can’t even recall the “naughty words’ Locally we have had two companies—both with Turkey—but one has a woman’s voice saying “Hello ! Hello!” of course it was always DRIVEN by a seedy-looking MAN………………

Does EVERY truck play Turkey in the Straw ? Long time ago a TV/appliance store played that on local TV–and that so stuck in my my that I can’t even recall the “naughty words’ Locally we have had two companies—both with Turkey—but one has a woman’s voice saying “Hello ! Hello!” of course it was always DRIVEN by a seedy-looking MAN………………

I can remember an ice cream truck coming around when I was little. I believe it was Mr. Softie’s Ice Cream. I used to get these round ice cream sandwiches from them. Too bad they don’t come around anymore.

I don’t know where everyone else is from and what your ice cream trucks were like, but the truck in my neighborhood when I was a kid did not have hand-dipped ice cream. It was all the prepackaged fudgebars, popsicles, etc. I guess Garfield lives in a neighborhood with a much higher class ice cream truck.

The Mr. Softee truck ( and others) are still around - and it’s not hand-dipped, it’s soft-serve. Think Dairy Queen on wheels. The trucks have a generator to provide power to the machines - and the milk shake blenders… There are also those trucks that are basically a van with a home freezer inside; plug ‘em in at night, load up with dry ice just before leaving the barn.

To those fellow readers or commenter’s that have served the United States Of America in one of the greatest military forces in the world I want to say Thank You. And, to those family members that have had their loved ones give the supreme sacrifice in that serves I want to say Thank You on there behalf. I ask that each and every other American to please do that same. Please lift them up in your prayers on their special day as well as each and everyday. Bless You All!

Thanks Vigilante, I’m a cold war vet myself.

Garfield, didn’t you think anyone else would want that?

Well duh, that’s why I ate it so fast!

That’s always the way with you, Garfield.

Ah, but can you actually eat your ill-gotten gains before they melt?

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