Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for November 07, 2024

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    Neil Wick  15 days ago

    Good morning™, everyone!

    A fake library card? This is getting serious! See, I knew he didn’t sound like a native speaker of English, but neither does Totten.

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    avenger09  15 days ago

    Such Debbie Downers today.

    Sam is sounding very un-Samlike, don’tcha think?

    Plus, when did he start wearing a clown sized bowtie?

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    SHAKEDOWNCITY  15 days ago

    He was a “sham” o’ tanter.

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    Gweedo -it's legal here- Murray  15 days ago

    Good morning™, Zip Zilch Nadas !

    With all that fake stuff was the guy even a real man and not some highly soapisticated solid type hologram ?  Did he try to offer the excuse that the stile jumping was fake too ?

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    BreathlessMahoney77  15 days ago

    Sounds like this guy was carrying what the CIA used to call “wallet litter” for an agent working undercover. Given what a bumbler Springwhatever was, he was probably working for CONTROL.

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    GoComicsGo!  15 days ago

    Thank god that the wallet is legit. I don’t know how we would react if it was proven as a fake as well?

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    iggyman  15 days ago

    Ah, a card-carrying secret operator!

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    The Reader Premium Member 15 days ago

    What a timely strip! Call the president-elect!

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    BigDaveGlass  15 days ago

    OK. I admit I had to look it up. Just to confirm what I took it to mean by context.

    “Bubkes” is actually a Yiddish word, and in this context has the same meaning as “nothing”. I believe there are different spellings, but the context is the same.

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    Gent  15 days ago

    What no sammich today? No ketchup too.

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    Gent  15 days ago

    Secret agent man secret agent man. They given you fake IDs and taken aways your name.

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    crobinson019  14 days ago

    Well his English was a bit…garbled. Perhaps he is (was) foreign.

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    General Trelane (Ret.) Premium Member 14 days ago

    Always good to see Sam Catchem on the job .

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    That Wichita Guy!!  14 days ago

    As you can see, Sam has had about enough of Tracy.‘s ’let’s get with it’ attitude. He’s now amassed enough coin to go full P.I., since he…err…‘borrowed’ that impounded yacht from Evidence. Not to mention the arcane and only vaguely silly mystic arts he acquired during a grueling weekend in a motel in fabled Munsie! All of crime TREMBLES!

    Well, most of their shoulders are shaking. I just kind of assumed it was with fear. My bad.

    And don’t ASK what Sam’s version of ‘bupkis’ translates to. Mom would NEVER approve, and you KNOW Mom, once she gets a mad on! (brrrr!)

    Tune in next week for the thrilling first episode of SAM C. —SNACKIN’ SLEUTH VS. THE SEVEN SINISTER SHADOWS OF SCHENECTADY!………………………………………………………………………………Disclaimer May not be available in all areas of reality.

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    orbenjawell Premium Member 14 days ago

    ….maybe the guy’s been in contact with “Pockets”, that creepy kid from the Happy Days episode who convincingly produced faked I.D.‘s for the gang so’s they could enter a strip-joint…………..

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    Ray Toler  14 days ago

    Bupkis = Yiddish word meaning goat sh!t (seriously). Gweedo’s and Firestrike’s scatology has finally made it into the strip. What have we come to?

    Https://tinyurl.Com/mvk7jzy

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    Another Take  14 days ago

    1- DT: Still peeved at me for making you stay here and eat lunch from a vending machine, Sam? SAM: haughty sniff What gave you that impression, Tracy? My frown? My surly attitude? My attempt to give you the “silent treatment”?

    2-: …I was going to drop all these business cards in the “WIN A FREE LUNCH” jars at several of my favorite lunch spots but you ruined that plan! DT: ? Why do you have business cards?

    3- SAM: I run a Dating Service for gay men. My title is Purveyor In Men Parts DT: So…P.I.M.P.? SAM: Hmmmm. I never thought of that. I like it! Thanks Tracy! DT: Uhhhh…glad to help?

    SAM: HEY LEE! I’M A PIMP!

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    Another Take  14 days ago

    This story will end when Blond Guy is one of the millions deported on January 6th. Reality spoils another exciting Tracy Mystery. Oh well…

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    MuddyUSA  Premium Member 14 days ago

    Attaboy Sam…..keep at it!!

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    That Wichita Guy!!  14 days ago

    Today on Strange But Weird, a few words about Korean BBQ SPAM.

    (ahem)

    No, Nonononononono. SO really, very much ‘no’. The smell should have tipped me off. I can only think my smell sensors burned out the minute I popped the can.

    Soooooo bad.

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    tomcervo  14 days ago

    Fake library card? Forget ICE; this is a case for . . . Lt. Joe Bookman!

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    WilliamVollmer  14 days ago

    Bupkis? Since when does Sam slip in those Yiddish expressions?

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    [Unnamed Reader - 14b4ce]  9 days ago

    I love that Sam is using Yiddish expressions—-they would confuse the average crook—-best code in the world.

    Whenever James Cagney wanted to annoy his studio boss(Jack Warner) he’d speak to him in Yiddish.Warner was convinced Cagney was calling him vile names he couldn’t understand.

    And since Cagney had a low opinion of him,maybe he was.

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