Recent Comments

1. over 1 year ago on Gil Thorp

   I find it more annoying that he says “first scheduled game of the season.” Was there an earlier, unscheduled game?

2. over 1 year ago on Gil Thorp

   I was always used to daily strips being black and white and Sunday strips being colored—and was shocked when I was in college in the late 1980s to find that the Orlando Sentinel printed daily strips in color. A friend told me that growing up in St Louis in the 1970s, the Post-Dispatch printed daily comics in color. No idea if the syndicates provided them in color, or the newspapers did their own coloring.

3. over 1 year ago on Gil Thorp

   It’s a comic strip, guys.

4. almost 2 years ago on Gil Thorp

   The used car salesman shouldn’t be seen as a dropped character—that was a snapshot showing how the Milford High athletic department was scrambling to make up lost funding. That budget cut is the plot device that leads to the vape sales.

5. almost 2 years ago on Gil Thorp

   I knew high school kids who thought drinking a lot of water would dilute alcohol they had drunk.

6. almost 2 years ago on Gil Thorp

   A person may choose to use “they” as a personal pronoun because they don’t feel defined as male or female—refusing to accept the gender binary. This has nothing to with their own anatomy or biology; someone might say they are non-binary and still happily bear and nurse children, for example. So Keri isn’t transgender, but non-binary.

7. almost 2 years ago on Gil Thorp

   “Faceless bureaucrats” is a pretty cheap take on a local school district’s administration. Anyone working for very long as a department head/head coach/principal would know the district personnel responsible for their budgets.

8. almost 2 years ago on Gil Thorp

   In Alabama, the state championship football games are played in Auburn University’s Jordan-Hare Stadium.

9. almost 2 years ago on Gil Thorp

   It’s just possible that this isn’t Milford’s own game tape, but a recording of a local TV station’s highlights/recap show. Unlike college programs with big libraries of game film, a high school program back in the day might just record Friday Night Football after the 11 o’clock news for some scouting of other teams.

10. about 2 years ago on Gil Thorp

    How old is Gil supposed to be? It’s one thing for a former student to show up with a 15-year-old son, but for him to have been coaching for 35 years? He’s a little old to have such young children.