Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for June 12, 2017

Bob Oscar Plenty fooled them all

For all his life his trademark call

Was to act the wild and crazy guy

Who’s gibberish made you laugh and sigh

But 2017 is the year

He decided the act should disappear

He’d no longer play the hillbilly nerd

Which he always felt was severely absurd

He was after all a Harvard grad

And his love for linguistics was more than a fad

So they better get used to this clear talking dude

To call him BO would be tremendously rude!

Good morning guys!

LOL

It’s only over till the court starts asking for money. Is Bob Oscar going to happily fork over $250? Not likely.

That court cost’ll getcha ev’ry time !  Do I see a lawsuit to recoup that !?

I thought that the loser paid court costs?

*DON BAGERT 34 MINUTES AGO

Did you see my cousin Darren Bagert get his 4th Tony as a producer of “Dear Evan Hansen”?*

I did! Congratulations to Darren and the entire Bagert family.

It would be funny if this really were the end of the story.

Could we be looking at a serious and severe case of identity theft?

Will BO be calling Rick Dacy for help, again? Since the bank brought the suit, was clearly in the wrong and lost, the court would certainly assess court costs to them.

I never saw a court that sends bills. Usually, the judge nails it a half a second before the gavel drops. But somehow or other, this judge doesn’t seem like the kind of judge the ABA endorses.

An interesting question, indeed: Should Bob Oscar have court costs? I think it was Neil Wick who noted, unless B.O. filed a countersuit, there shouldn’t be any. But then, this judge is letting him off with just the receipt and no proof of payment (even though that’s what a receipt is supposed to be).

My brush with the government came about three years after my divorce – and the accompanying forever financial obligations that brings. I got a bill in the mail from the IRS, stating that I owed thousands of dollars in taxes. A review of records revealed that, apparently, my ex- had not been declaring as income the alimony I was sending her. The resolution? I had to fax a copy of my divorce papers to the IRS as proof I was required to pay – BUT! – I also had to fax a copy of all cancelled checks I had sent her as proof of payment! As I was told, and as I had prognosticated yesterday, payment in cash would not have been accepted for these purposes.

An interesting thought came to me. Let’s suppose this was instead a Dick Tracy comic book in 1950’s. Today’s strip could be the punchline of a four-page humor story in the back of an issue (with a “The End” in the right rear corner of the last panel). The only loose end is the noise, which could have been innocently explained in one panel by finding a mother cat and her newborn kittens.

So that would mean that tomorrow starts a new story! LOL j/k

Nah, B.O. should not have to pay $250 in Court Costs for that brief hearing before a somewhat easy-on-the-rules judge. If anyone, Paragon, the failed plaintiff, should have been assessed the costs. B.O. needs to put up a complaint and assert his rights yet again.

Meanwhile, the case of Paragon’s falsified books points to the missing Jarman (obviously, not Canman or Boxman), and beyond him, who knows?

Some people are working under the misapprehension that banks are part of the government. They are not unless they are a Federal bank and even then they are not run by the Treasury, but individuals not govt agents.

Not sure where this storyline is going …. originally I wondered if maybe B.O. got caught up in a larger banking scheme involving the creation of phony accounts, a storyline ripped from recent real-world headlines. And what was the story of those mysterious noises Gravel heard?

Got a new wrap this morning and some new shots at the site:

https://flic.kr/s/aHskX1FY66

OUCH !!! Those are some nasty looking stitched up fingies there, Gweedo.

That was some bit of mutilation. Eh gags!!!