Gasoline Alley by Jim Scancarelli for July 09, 2009

It’s a new joke if you never heard it before!

I never heard it before.

I’ve heard it before, Iv’e heard it before.

Slim would make a great chairman for the Department of Redundancy department!

Take away the words, and panel two presents an oddly cozy scene…

Well, nice to see Slim “back to normal”–as shown by his utter lack of understanding of a common saying.

Well we already knew he wasn’t the brightest bulb in the pack.

Say goodnite Gracie.

Goodnight Gracie. (sorry I had to…)

Hey, does anybody know if there’s a web archive of Dick Moore’s Gasoline Alley work anywhere? I was a big fan of the strip then (and I still like it), and there are only two published collections I know of. Also, what became of Slim’s daughter Gretchen?

Aren’t they even going to hang around for one sermon?

It’s like deja vu all over again…

It’s like deja vu all over again…

I think some of the termites from Frank & Ernest got into Slim’s noggin:

http://www.gocomics.com/frankandernest/2009/07/09/

Like no one else has ever repeated a comment like that??!!

Has Slim stopped to wonder how crooks packed things in boxes when these two were right there? Who did take the car? Where is Rev. Peacegood? I want some answers soon.

To Ramona

Ramona, come closer, Shut softly your watery eyes. The pangs of your sadness Shall pass as your senses will rise. The flowers of the city Though breathlike, get deathlike at times. And there’s no use in tryin’ T’ deal with the dyin’, Though I cannot explain that in lines.

–Bob Dylan

Hope that helps, Marvee.

Surely Be Thankful - is that the Pastor’s sister?

Shirley B. Thankful? Why not?