Adam@Home by Rob Harrell for June 30, 2016

Cute that the smile she drew is an exact match for her own in the last panel.

Thumby would like a vacation away from the Dumby he is attached to.

Howzabout (gluten free)chocolate chunk brownies topped with vanilla custard ice cream with cherry and raspberry liqueurs sauce with advil sprinkles?

Thumby likes single-malt scotch.

I love how she was able to draw a pink tongue with black ink.

Is the “b” still silent? Does it rhyme with Gumby or Gummy?

I put that in parenthese as an option, because a lot of people are on that bandwagon. I have never been able to tolerate barley, even as a child. After the leukemia treatment it got to where I could not have any grains from large producers, which is about the time celiac disease, and non celiac gluten sensitivity became prominent in American society. Some people believe the increased usage of glyphosphate, a related compound to agent orange, interferes with people’s digestive systems, increasing celiac disease, colitis, ibs, ms and a number of problems that have mushroomed in the past twenty years.

HuH? Another shameless plug!

There is a genuine increase in celiac disease, but many people are going gluten free because it is a fad. First of all there are nutrients in wheat that normal people need, and going GF can make you sick. Second GF foods are generally much higher in calories, and therefore tend to be fattening. Don’t do it just because “my neighbor stopped eating gluten and he feels great”. Maybe your neighbor just started taking insulin and he feels great, too, but that no reason for you to do it.

Let’s give Adam a rousing round of the Advil Chorus!

Vitamin I – ibuprofen.