Nancy Classics by Ernie Bushmiller for July 21, 2020

What goes up must come down

Some folks today still go around with their pants down half-way as a fashion statement..

“Dis is how guys wear dere pants at yer Aunt Fritzi’s!”

And you wouldn’t want to be caught with yer pants down, eh!

And buckled in the back, apparently.

He could have torn off a hunk of curtain as a substitute belt. But then he’d have to go to school. Well played, Sluggo.

One gathers he has been standing like that at the window all day

You know who I used to be? Max Bialystock! The King of Broadway! Six shows running at once. Lunch at Delmonico’s. Two hundred dollar suits. Look at me. Look at me now! I’m wearing a cardboard belt! (“The Producers,” 1968, dir. Mel Brooks)

So…he walked around the house like that all day?

Sluggo’s fat.

Suspenders or suspended!

And gravity sucks. Gravity kills. There ought to be a law!

Gasp! Dats funny!

Bushmiller’s Nancy is set in the rust belt.

I think that is the law of poverty.