Did anyone else notice that, in the third-from-left panel in yesterday’s strip, that Paulie appears to be looking sideways at Eddie’s alter ego? Paulie usually has his eyes closed, doesn’t he? Or am I imagining yesterday’s open eyes?
I know Maryland, and unlike up in Maine down on the Chesapeake the tides don’t run quite as high/low – it may FEEL like you are stuck way up in the air if you get stranded by low tide, but it ain’t so.
Then again, aground is aground, and you don’t want to get out and walk in that Maryland mud! Unless you like going twig-and-berries deep in the sucking mud!
One thing about the seafaring life: most of it is so boring that you have nothing better to do than make up fantastic stories for the barflies back home.
Eddie is constant, the maelstrom that surrounds him is the variable. Even Paulie is turned around, maybe his looking glass opposite? Eddie is always the observer with the explanation, no matter how improbable, for the turbulents that surround him. Had a friend like that once… still owes me a couple of hundred dollars; I am sure there is a plausible explanation.
willispate about 5 years ago
no matter the parallel, Eddie always takes a wrong turn in Albuquerque.
einarbt about 5 years ago
So parallel life just as crazy as ‘normal’ life.
Watcher about 5 years ago
In Eddie’s life nothing is constant.
Concretionist about 5 years ago
Ah. There’s the boat I was predicting. But not quite how I said it.
Enter.Name.Here about 5 years ago
I like the question mark coming out of his pipe. Does that mean who knows what he was smoking? ;-)
keenanthelibrarian about 5 years ago
Paulie’s back.
daveoverpar about 5 years ago
Eddie has Paulie and the other guy has the wife. Good choice Eddie.
Màiri about 5 years ago
Did anyone else notice that, in the third-from-left panel in yesterday’s strip, that Paulie appears to be looking sideways at Eddie’s alter ego? Paulie usually has his eyes closed, doesn’t he? Or am I imagining yesterday’s open eyes?
Radish... about 5 years ago
Eddie can always find a dry dock.
ayespin about 5 years ago
I think Eddie needs to stop smoking that “sea-weed!”
johnec about 5 years ago
I know Maryland, and unlike up in Maine down on the Chesapeake the tides don’t run quite as high/low – it may FEEL like you are stuck way up in the air if you get stranded by low tide, but it ain’t so.
Then again, aground is aground, and you don’t want to get out and walk in that Maryland mud! Unless you like going twig-and-berries deep in the sucking mud!
DCBakerEsq about 5 years ago
Tartan boxers.
phoenixnyc about 5 years ago
I’ll say it….I love Eddie’s stories.
Snoots about 5 years ago
“Naught but change is everlasting,
Chaos the eternal constant."
— from a pome I writed some time back
mistercatworks about 5 years ago
One thing about the seafaring life: most of it is so boring that you have nothing better to do than make up fantastic stories for the barflies back home.
Ka`ōnōhi`ula`okahōkūmiomio`ehiku Premium Member about 5 years ago
A wife, but no cat? That’s no life at all.
bakana about 5 years ago
Crabs. Lobsters. So, very Similar.
Either way, you have to Fight with your dinner before you can Eat.
D1063n35 Premium Member about 5 years ago
Eddie is constant, the maelstrom that surrounds him is the variable. Even Paulie is turned around, maybe his looking glass opposite? Eddie is always the observer with the explanation, no matter how improbable, for the turbulents that surround him. Had a friend like that once… still owes me a couple of hundred dollars; I am sure there is a plausible explanation.
Rocketman about 5 years ago
That’s not this Maryland that he’s grounded in – must be an alternative bottom.