Gasoline Alley by Jim Scancarelli for July 09, 2023

Well that’s jarringly out of sequence. Couldn’t do Slim eats at the diner?

Your Mama so poor, I pressed her doorbell and she said “Ding dong!”

Yes, Joel—How far you’ve come.

Joel is a self made man while Ruufy is top d’ heap.

We were so poor we had to drink dehydrated water…….

We were so poor we had shoes with carboard soles, when it rained we had to go barefoot!

Luxury! Anyone of the Four Yorkshiremen could tell what it really meant to be poor. https://youtu.be/ue7wM0QC5LE

I like the artwork showing us the inside of Joel’s shack .

And in our Facebook group today:

Gasoline Alley “years ago today” for July 9:

100 (1923) – Walt crosses the Missouri/Kansas state line while Avery is still Avery

80 (1943) – The nurse tells what Wolf said when he awakened after surgery; also, war news from that date

75 (1948) – Is that another trailer park up ahead?

60 (1963) – Walt and doc wonder how Pert got involved in harness racing

Third panel: Rufus’s subtle humor apparently went over Joel’s head.

sugar – and somewhat chewy. course we were too poor a lot of times to have nuff sugar so we had sweet and salty

Like that song said: They told us Wall Street fell, we were so poor we couldn’t tell.

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“Why, look at me. I’ve worked my way up from nothing to a state of extreme poverty.” – Groucho in Monkey Business

Sally Forth has comments today on the Seattle Times. I don’t know about most of the other strips but the others I checked still didn’t have them.

Wall nuts Rufus