Gil Thorp by Henry Barajas and Rachel Merrill for August 01, 2022

Fly out?!? Is the the National Coach of the Year, which it isn’t? And did all the other local coaches fly out too? Doesn’t add up…

Isn’t Mimi still coaching? Did I fall asleep for 20 years?

Things have been pretty rocky? Then tell Stallone to move out.

Well whaddaya know. A writer unafraid to depict GilPa and his life as less than perfect. Good on ya, mate.

Ìn all reality , Emitt, I’m not the coach or husband or father I once was ! OK Coach my bad !

P2.5 “Do you think I can pawn this trophy for enough money to get a new phone? Hey, wait! Where’d that thing go?”

P3 – Oh oh, looks like foreshadowing. Trouble in Paradise (or Milford).

They’re not kids anymore? Gil’s flip phone is a wallet? They fly to the COTY banquet? Things are rocky at home? Looks like I picked the wrong day to stop drinking, taking drugs and sniffing glue.

So Mimi did run off with Pedro. Those kids look photo shopped in that picture. Or did Jami go rebel with some peroxide and turn into Ponyboy Curtis?

I knew that the Pool Boy had something to do with it.

I would suspect Gil and the bartender have a “Same Time Next Year” relationship, but not if Mimi usually flies to this event.

July 11, 2022 will go down as the day the lemonade stopped.

That’s me? I have blond hair now? Good, the less I look like my horrible father, the better!

Sorry, Bitsy, no purple/pink hair for Keri. But her hair looks nothing like the preview we got of her that I believe we’ll see on Friday. Must be an old photo.

Gil references his flip phone, awesome, lol! “You know your coach is a Plugger when he has a flip phone.” And speaking of Plugger, you don’t have to be a Plugger to want to read today’s Mopped Up Thorp.

https://moppedupthorp.wordpress.com/

I’m not so concerned about the family drama. The fact that he still has a flip phone, however, is very compelling.

Of course Gil has a flip phone. He’s an Old-Fashioned kind of guy.

Is that a flip wallet?

I wonder if Henry had to run these dramatic changes past the Syndicate that runs The Gil Thorp Comic Strip.

Mimi obviously on the pro golf tour with the kids

P-1: Gil drops a clue with a reference to “Bobby’s Girl”.

P-2: Second Clue: Ringo singing “Photograph”

P-3: Third clue: The Eagles, “Lyin’ Eyes”

Yes, kids, welcome to Sherlock Holmes, the Musical.

Things have been pretty rocky for Gil ever since Mimi caught him behind the bar with Beth the bartender on her knees….

I cannot express how absolutely uninterested I am in a Coach Thorp has marital issues thread. I have been a daily reader since the 1980’s, don’t ruin this for me.

P3- …since we hired the new pool cleaner.

The last time we saw the Thorp kids would have been when Polaroid was developing its own pictures.

Gills flip phone is one of those jitterbug models