Gil Thorp by Henry Barajas and Rachel Merrill for October 09, 2023

I guess she didn’t go in fweet first.

Does anyone else think P1 makes her look about 6’6"? Michael Phelps’s baby sister?

P2: They must be serving beans in the cafeteria today.

Heh, the Luna Vachon pool.

Whigham is into drawing big @sses now?

P1 – Those are some looonng arms…

Her date shows up with a cue. “Oh, that kind of pool.”

An arc about the swim team? Don’t think we’ve had one of those before. Or a random strip that doesn’t relate to anything else… We’ve had too many of those.

I have no idea why I read this strip. There is no longer a story line

…breaking news from Rena Mero field as the field hockey team is feeling the effects of their pre game meal of sloppy joes that were not amazing.

Tomorrow’s strip: P1: She stops halfway across the pool. P2: She grabs a pass from Tobe. P3: She dunks it thru the net!!

It’s amazing the facilities this school has at its disposal. Less than 10% of US high schools have a swimming pool. It’s a major drain on financial resources and upkeep is a maintenance-heavy endeavor for staff, not to mention the inherent danger and potential liability of an accident. And Milford, depending on the story arc du jour, is either a severely cash-strapped public school or a very well equipped facility with the best of everything.

Of all the moronic things that have happened in this strip over the past couple of years, I think naming the high school pool after a Canadian professional wrestler who died of a drug overdose has to take the cake.

(And I had to Google the name to find that out.)

P3: My god! From the overhead camera it appears she could be drowning!

The pool at Milford is named after a dead professional wrestler??

Do I know why were at Milfords pool? No. As usual for this arc there’s no real transition. Yet I don’t care because for whatever reason its named after a wrestler and that’s awesome. Sometimes I’m easy to please

Tweet, splash, shuh shuh shuh What is this?

Sorry I misread tweet, it’s Fweet, which makes it worse.

I’m guessing that is Keri and Pedro jumps in the pool after the race to plant a wet one on her.

jami cant go in the pool unless he wears a absorbent diaper

if your gonna do a swimming story it would have been more interesting having gil do the burt Lancaster part

so martys rough week still wont be explained ?

meemaw says since its fall the blue jays are fighting her for the peanut shells under the bleachers where shes been since july

P1- She should be an orangutan for Halloween.

Good thing Milford HS has black and red as school colors. My HS swim team spent an embarrassing season wearing red suits that became see through when wet. Our other color was white…don’t ask.

To donna1226 and all of you of the Mighty Snarker Nation. The reason you come back. You are faithful readers. Some over 40 plus years. You have faith that one day you’ll read that the comic has gotten new writers. It’s called faith all of you of have it. P.S. The writers should count their blessing they have you reading this comic.

The last strip had two players having a water fight on the side lines during a game with the cheerleaders commenting how immature Tobi or Toby was Yes, all teams that are well coached have water fights on the side lines during the game.

Shuh, shuh suedio! Play more Phil.

Whoever is the swimming coach, they need to teach Keri (or whoever the giant student is) how to start off the blocks. With that angle she’s going to lose 10 yards on everyone else before her first stroke. And speaking of strokes, having one is one of the few reasons it’s okay not to read today’s Mopped Up Thorp.

https://moppedupthorp.wordpress.Com/2023/10/09/poor-dive/

thanks henry swimming strips make people forget everything you forgot to ansewer

pop says free me from the afterworld I got dirt on gil and dr pearl

No word balloons, 125 comments. Yah Baby

So I guess it’s a thing now for high schools to name their pools after dead wrestlers?

The Luna vachon pool?! Well at least he’s a wrestling fan