Gasoline Alley by Jim Scancarelli for July 01, 2010

Nothing like a surprize for the Fourth of July weekend!

My sister doesn’t need the ipecac.

Some poor soul other that the intended recipient is going to get a hold of those pies…you just wait.

Is there anyone named “Ralph” in the GA cast?

I’m not sure I follow Gertie’s plan completely. Does she expect to catch the food thieves when she hears the sounds of them hurling, or to simply follow the trail of destruction afterwards. And doesn’t coca cola syrup settle the stomach? What if the interlopers anticipate Gertie’s gambit, and take the precaution of lining their stomaches with the syrup before dessert?

Of course, like even the “ne’er be happy” among us I will stay tuned! I agree with the disagreeable that GA is worth the reading!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4eYSpIz2FjU This will give you an idea of what will happen.

This ought to finish Walt off in fine style, undoubtedly leading to gerdo nearly getting fired again.

Wow, vomit inducing pies? I wouldn’t want Gertie to be my arch-enemy. She puts the ‘emesis’ in ‘nemesis’.

Canada doesn’t have either Independence Day or the Fourth of July.

Canada has Canada Day, and it’s today, July 1.

Really? In Canada there is no 4th of July? Do you mean that they go from the 3rd to the 5th just like that (snaps finger)? Wow. You must have 364 day years then…

Given Jim Scancarelli’s beautifully detailed artwork, I’m not sure I want to see this strip on the day that Gertie catches the food thieves!

However, I’m sure it will be the most accurately drawn vomit to ever grace the comic pages…

And to our neighbors to the north, Happy Canada Day!

Gertie? Hi, I’m from Sue em & Screw em. Have you ever heard the term “Attractive Nuisance? Take my card. You’ll be hearing from us. Nice house. Do you currently own it?

Does being in the oven alter the chemistry of the ipecac?

joefish25, the latitude of Canada causes them to lose one day per year versus the US calendar. They’ve designated July 4th as the day to skip because that day is not important in their history, as it is in ours. I have relatives in Canada, and we are unable to contact them on July 4th.

I guess the attractive nuisance thing is why soda makers and others can continue to use aspertame.

With what Gertie put in the pie will not make a person die just feel like it. I unfortunately had to use ipeca on my son when he was little, liked to climb and his prescribed children’s vitamins cap was on tight, the little tyke figure how to open it and ate the vitamins like candy. Short story called Dr. office instructed what to do, son stayed with neighbor I headed to pharm, later son stomach emptied. Joe-Allen we also refer to 4th of July as fireworks day and most important Independence Day and display our flag like other neighbors. I think it’s clever of Gertie and Mr. Scancarelli to do this just hope Mr. Walt doesn’t get in the pie, at his age I don’t know if he can handle it.

Happy Canada Day

Indeed, Happy Canada Day, lest we forget. Canada celebrates its foundation as a nation on the first of July, as it has since its inception in 1867. And for my money, it stands right alongside of the USA as one of the two greatest nations in the world!

No choice??

A real American© would rig a shotgun to fire when someone tries to open that fridge in the middle of the night.

It’s only fair to be able to defend your home - “the use of unnecessary violence in the apprehension of the food thief HAS been approved”

Canada does indeed have the fourth of July. What it doesn’t have is the Fourth of July.

When there’s an interloper in the house, I grab the cell phone on my night table and make a quiet call to 911.

Well ok. I’ve never actually done that. But once I did call 911 because I was woken up by a noise next door and saw someone prying the neighbor’s basement window in the dark.

So the cops came, they nabbed the guy, and there was this whole big thing with yelling and bright lights and they cuffed him, shoved him in a cruiser, and took him away. I watched through a window. It all happened very fast.

It turned out to be the neighbor’s adult son. His parents were away for the weekend, he was house sitting, and he’d locked himself out.

It’s a good job I didn’t shoot him. He was pissed enough at me as it was.

Earlier, HectorPriam opined in this wise: But that would be real life and Gasoline Alley is not real life, it’s a comic strip. And the characters in comic strips seldom do things that make sense in the real world. That’s part of what makes them entertaining. ———————-

And therein lies the problem. At one time, Gasoline Alley wasn’t like other comic strips. The characters in it were as well rounded and human as you’d find in a good novel. They only did things that make sense in the real world. They didn’t behave like the toons Scancarelli has turned them into and the ones he’s added. They behaved like ordinary people living everyday lives, each with his/her own personality, situation, issues, and over the years they told an American story that ranks as a first-rate work of the imagination.

I’m not sure when that story ended and the strip was given over to these buffoon characters and the endless groaners and cheap gags, but it was some time ago.

It’s seriously time to stop calling this thing “Gasoline Alley”.

Hmm, did these things of the real world include deposed European nobles kidnapping children? People taking walks that turned into flying carpet rides or walking into paintings? What world do you live in again? My point is that GA has never been totally grounded in what we would call reality, although it is considered a realistic strip. I would, however, agree with you regarding the characters of Rufus and Joel. Their charms, if any, have always been lost on me.