Gasoline Alley by Jim Scancarelli for August 11, 2009

Nah, Ramona, dump the loser, head off to Vegas and have yourself a good time.

Come on guys can’t you sense a melted hart . She will hear those words and turn to putty . Or Jim loses his standing on my Cristimas card list .

That would be too easy. Where are they going to get a license on a Sunday anyway. Upton should be headed for jail Monday morning.

Demand a pre-nup, Ramona!

So he is going to make a semi-honest women of her.

I’m with Ronshua. I sense an old-fashioned Romantic Ending here.

Glad this one is about over. Where is Uncle Walt anyway?

I dunno, I don’t think she likes the new Upton. And since she’s not converted they will have too many disagreements. “Can two walk together except they be agreed?”

I predict a stormy and brief marriage if those two do tie the knot.

There is a “Christianese” saying within some church circles, which says that a couple like that is “unequally yoked”. In other words, one is a believer and the other one isn’t. And a marriage under those conditions is not exactly facing a rosy future, because the two participants are very much not on the same page.

If people who rush into marriage would slow down, get counseling and really think about it before they rush into it, seems like there would be a lot less divorce out there. Sad situation.

i guess slim will be the best man. If you are looking for him at the ceremony, check the smorg…

Is there any storyline in this comic now that isn’t geared toward 80 year olds? In subject matter and in speed?

He’ll probably go right back to his lying ways after they get married, when one day she asks him: “does this make me look fat?”.

Some open questions:

Without a car, how will they leave the parsonage? Didn’t they move some of Pastor Present’s belongings into their car before it was stolen? Will they repay him? Don’t they need a marriage license (mentioned above)? Maybe a blood test?

Then again:

There’s always a shack available down by the dump near Rufus & Joel; They could join up with Joe Pye and the boys; They could run off with Eve Wallet’s motorcycle gang; or They could hook up with the guy that the mailman caught robbing Skeezix’s & Nina’s house.

”Want to be legal for once?”

What woman could resist such talk?

Whoah! Scandal in Gasoline Alley: unmarried couple cohabitating.

What woman ? That’s what I’m talking about .

It looks like we’ve moved ahead in time, probably isnt Sunday anymore. Looks like they’re in the parsons office.

A wedding would be nice. Maybe the minister will get him a job. Too bad the real world doesnt work this way. I guess we wouldnt need to read GA, if it did.

“She’s no Goode, she’s no Goode, she’s no Goode, baby she’s no Goode!”

Grab the collection plate and run for your life!!

And keep your hand on your Wallet (pun unintended, but…)