Gasoline Alley by Jim Scancarelli for April 20, 2013

hah-hah.“itisme” said it better than anybody else here: “You know that is what’s going to happen. Scancarelli is a master at telling a punch line long before it’s due.”

now that I read this strip, I feel like checking also alley oop, because, why read only one bad strip?

Is the expression monkey suit used now days? My dad (who would be almost 93 now, gosh I miss him) called a tux a monkey suit when I got married 30 years ago. I had never heard that term until then, and I bet a real life Slim wouldn’t have, either.

Top head and tail(s).

If’n yaw-al notice, he is wearin a a Tux!

Jim sure made a monkey out of Slim. I haven’t heard monkey suit for many years. I doubt that most people under 40 would understand it. Slim’s in his 60s, but he may not have made the association. Instead of griping, let’s laugh and enjoy the humour.

I can’t blame Slim for this one. He was actually very agreeable to wear something like that when he thought it was what Walt asked him to do.

And to think, Slim works on cars!

oh, give me a break! Tribune cancels BRENDA STARR and ANNIE and this strip continues with this cornball stuff?

I knew this would happen! Well I’ll be a monkey’s uncle!