Shoe by Gary Brookins and Susie MacNelly for September 26, 2014

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    ORMouseworks  about 10 years ago

    Gotta love it! ;)

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    michaelyukyuk  about 10 years ago

    Pastis! Is that you????

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    Richard Howland-Bolton Premium Member about 10 years ago

    Boy! That’s an old one. I used it in a radio essay back in 1985 and I bet it wasn’t original even then! http://howlandbolton.com/essays/read_misc.php?sid=8 “…That election was marred by, among other things, the opposition’s campaign song “The Old Grey Mayor she ain’t what she used to be”. Oldbold thought that the personal pronoun ‘she’ was just too personal, and, as a slur on his manhood, was quite unwarranted because, in his 92nd year, he had just got married, and was doubly unwarranted because he had just got married because he had had to….”

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    Reppr Premium Member about 10 years ago

    He always wanted to be a stud but wound up as a mayor.

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    Observer fo Irony  about 10 years ago

    It is time to retire him; put him out to pasture, rolling in the grass with the young fillies. On second thought keep him in office and away from the fillies.

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    tripwire45  about 10 years ago

    Neither is that joke.

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    Steve Dutch  about 10 years ago

    Pearls Before Swine is two strips over (on my bar, anyway).

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    gmu328  about 10 years ago

    Thought it was Pastis, too!

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    KEA  about 10 years ago

    dang – fell for it. ouch.

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    Brett Bydairk  about 10 years ago

    Did Stephan Pastis write this?

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    neverenoughgold  about 10 years ago

    If you only knew the truth about “they ain’t what they’re gonna be” when you go to the poles the first time..Way too often they start as “gray mares” and turn into a complete horse’s behind…

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    mcnrpn  about 10 years ago

    Wince! Painfully bad… in a funny kind of way!

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    tuslog64  about 10 years ago

    C’mon ed. – you can do better than that!!

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    dzw3030  about 10 years ago

    San Jose, CA had a Mayor, “Janet Gray Hayes” and nobody nicknamed her Smokey. That validated my decision to leave the state…

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