Gasoline Alley by Jim Scancarelli for June 16, 2024

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    Gweedo -it's legal here- Murray  5 months ago

    Is PT proud of Joel today ?

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    snsurone76  5 months ago

    Joel’s ol’ pappy must have bee the world’s first rapper!

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    iggyman  5 months ago

    Oh Joel, what you said!

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    BlitzMcD  5 months ago

    Funny, many of the genre’s leading lights (Y.Z. Hamilton, Bill Monroe, David “Stringbean” Akeman) had a far more cerebral approach to their art than ol’ Hen House here does.

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    duggersd Premium Member 5 months ago

    Maybe he should have said home for egg laying members of the fowl group of edible birds?

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    Darryl Heine  5 months ago

    No Father’s Day Sunday strip this year?

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    egadi'mnotclad  5 months ago

    So Joel is a local musician, that explains his poverty.

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    eced52  5 months ago

    Don’t think hen house was the problem, Joel.

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    Gweedo -it's legal here- Murray  5 months ago

    I as yet see no Reply from Pipe Tobacco, so I’ll put him down as deathly ashamed and embarrassed at Joel’s uncharacteristic outburst.

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    LoisG Premium Member 5 months ago

    It is kind of sad to see no appearance by Walt Wallet on Father’s Day. The whole charm, and possibly even the reason for the strip’s longevity, was that the original storyline centered around Bachelor Walt Wallet finding an abandoned baby on his doorstep . And taking care of that baby led to his endearing – and enduring – romance with his neighbor – Phyllis Blossom, whom he married in 1926. And the subsequent story of the ways in which their growing family coped with everyday issues and the world events swirling around them kept readers engrossed. I have an aunt who was named Phyllis – because , during the end of the Depression and beginning of World War II, my aunt’s mother had worked in a Cafe whose owners had been very kind to her. The cafe owners had named their daughter Phyllis, after Phyllis Blossom in Gasoline Alley. So my aunt’s mother named my aunt Phyllis in honor of the kind Cafe owners and their daughter – who had been kind to my aunt’s mother during a hard part of her life.

    During the early years of Gasoline Alley, when Walt Wallet became a father and family man, this comic strip had a very real impact on the average lives of many ordinary people all over the country – and possibly in some foreign countries as well. It would be wonderful to see Gasoline Alley recover that original concept and take time, every now and then, to honor the man who was once one of the most popular father figures in the entire world.

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    fourteenpeeves  5 months ago

    Are you ready, Hezzie?

    Spike Jones had a song banned in the USA called“Beautiful Eggs”

    It came out—"The Farmer’s daughter sold her "beautiful(l)eggs….she sold her beautiful (l)eggs…..

    You could only get the song in England,where they appreciated things like that

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