Scary Gary by Mark Buford for November 29, 2020

Wait just a minute! I know Leo’s parents. HIs dad is still alive.

He’s so jovial!! What’s going on??

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JSYgRYlhMW4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zoFGxPoz-Mw

Songs of my youth…. hard not to start singing …

Dad ran off, I don’t blame him cause he run and hid but the meanest thing that he ever did was before he left, he went and named me “Sue”. And I turned twenty-one in prison doing life without parole no one could steer me right but Mama tried, Mama tried. Mama tried to raise me better, but her pleading I denied That leaves only me to blame ’cause Mama tried.

There’s no escape from the music in the whole d—— street

Cause she’s playing all night

And the music’s alright

Mama’s got a squeezebox

Daddy neer sleeps at night

♫♪

I’ve long since retired, my son’s moved away

I called him up just the other day

I said, “I’d like to see you if you don’t mind”

He said, "I’d love to, Dad, if I can find the time

♪♫

Oy! Can’t win with Leopold! One track mind….

“And when he died, all he left us was a loan”…

My Daddy was a bank robber. But he never hurt nobody. He just liked to live that way and he loved to take your money. :)

Leopold’s parents visit Gary’s house regularly.

♫♪

“Patches, I’m depending on you son,

To pull the family through,

My son, it’s all left up to you"

♪♫

Um… isn’t “squeeze box” in that song a…shall we say, a reference to, er, something else? NSFW?

My father was a gambler down in Georgia

He wound up on the wrong end of a gun

And I was born in the back seat of a Greyhound bus

Rollin’ down Highway 41.

My momma didn’t dance and my daddy didn’t rock and roll. Really!.

The younger folks are likely googling “squeeze box.” No, it’s not about anatomy.

This strip would have been better, on the third of September.

Gary has met Leo’s parents. They’re straight outta the 50’s suburbs.

What crazy upside down world is this?! Leopold singing a cute little pop song!? Granted he did manage to piss off Gary, but I thought he would be more likely to go in for a little death metal or at least some punk… No Future For You!!! https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=RvMxqcgBhWQ

Just to those who do not know, a squeeze box is a concertina or accordion. You are welcome.

Leopold knows how to use classic rock lyrics to befuddle the easily-befuddled Gary….

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Leopold could have whipped out this one:

I was raised by a toothless bearded hag

I was schooled with a strap right across my back