JumpStart by Robb Armstrong for August 11, 2023

So much for freaking out…

Welcome to the strip larry.

Will Larry be jealous?

Real snakes are easier to find at camp, it seems!

OK…next plan then…

something tells me that ain’t gonna work… so far this guys got quite the nerves of steal… from enjoy things for others. :D

See Dexter? That would be me.

If he has a sleeping bag how were they going to short sheet his cot? I guess they might do both at the camp.

In high school I was dating a guy and we’d been walking along a creek by my home. He bent down and came up with a snake trying to scare me. It was just a small garter snake and so CUTE! I have always loved snakes. A friend worked at a pet store that had a 10-foot red-tailed boa. I was holding it when a HUGE!!! soldier walked in and froze. The dude was like 6’ 5" and his arms were the size of my head. He was the total warrior package and was terrified of snakes. We finally got him to pet one of the small ones, but he wasn’t coming near the big guy.

Dexter, that’s not a real snake, is it?

The real thing beats a fake snake any day.

watch Larry be a cottonmouth

Wrong, Dex — I can tell from here that it’s not a Larry, it’s a Curly.

That “little guy” looks pretty big to me!

On Fridays my high school Earth Science teacher would tell stories of trips he and his college buddies took; let’s say that whenever they went to Colorado the name Coors was significant (back then it was only available there). On a camping trip “Boom-Boom” adopted a snake he named Herman – one of the rattle variety. When he awoke from a coma after being bitten, his first words were, “Where’s Herman?”

Ok, Plan C?

Dexter is tricky to play tricks on.

At least it wasn’t a rabbit.

(Snake, smiling) “I like ‘LARRY’.”