Gasoline Alley by Jim Scancarelli for July 19, 2023

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…seriously? Has Jim lost his remaining marbles?

Does a nametag make it Art?

That is pretty neat!

And today in our Facebook group:

Gasoline Alley “years ago today” for July 19:

100 (1923) – Up and over the continental divide at the end of another race day

80 (1943) – Nina reads a letter from Skeezix to her future in-laws; plus, war news from this date

75 (1948) – Skeezix and Sarge believe Bix this time

60 (1963) – Doc fires Joel

BONUS: 45 (1978) – Melba calls out to Rufus as he attempts to walk home

Bend over.

Art , Art let a fart and blew the thing all apart .

That wasn’t supposed to be a suppository.

Well, this is totally unexpected.

PS Thank goodness someone taught Rufus how to sit like a lady!

Run for your lives fellas!

i just know the girls are going to wind up visiting him with Ida Noe

Joel in that first panel reminds me of that quote from the movie Jaws: “Y’know, the thing about a shark: he’s got lifeless eyes, black eyes, like a doll’s eyes.”

Oh Gawd I know this is coming but it is still I don’t like it!

Decades ago, IBM tested robots that could deliver envelopes and small packages within their plant. They put cables in the hallway floor for the robots to follow. I don’t know what the results were, but, AFAIK, IBM never offered the system.

Another company tested similar robots. Except, instead of cables in floors, the paths were painted with a chemical that was invisible to us, but which the robots could sense. The system failed because the paths became contaminated as workers went about their jobs.

Gasoline Alley is yet again the feature strip over at Comics Curmudgeon. Can somebody let Jim know this is not a good thing.

“I always respect Gasoline Alley’s commitment to doing shambolic, pointless plots that seem to go on forever, and we’re in the middle of a real stemwinder at the moment. To recap: Rufus is still in the hospital due to his head injury, still has amnesia, and is still showing more skin than I’m comfortable with. Today’s strip is noteworthy because of the comical terror in which these two rustics regard the Automatic Robotic Techno-nurse. This can’t be the result of sheer ludditism, since they’ve taken technological advances like CAT scans in stride in the course of their medical adventure, so it must be that they’re shocked that anyone would go through the trouble of building a humanoid robot that carries pills and decanters in its hands for this purpose, when an automated and wheeled cart would be much more efficient and easier to implement.”

Really should take off his shoes.

Danger,Rufus Robinson…danger!