Gasoline Alley by Jim Scancarelli for January 20, 2011

Normally I give Mr. Scancarelli the benefit of the doubt, but I find this offensive because a. it ridcules my heritage and b. it’s just plain dumb.

This storyline is a bit boreing. Hope it livens up soon.

It “ridicules your heritage” only if you’re terminally touchy.

It ridicules Slim.

Give Slim’s character a break!!!!!!!!!!

One guy said that Angus was wearing a skirt, and Angus kilt him.

We now live in the United States Of The Offended.

There will be no dodging of drafts in that outfit. Maybe wearing of the kilt would make TSA screenings more, shall we say, ‘interesting.’

Well, if you called my Uncle Angus “Agnes” he’d probably correct you…. then he’d lift up his kilt and ruin your appetite then ask if “Agnes” had these…..

Yes Clovia, I’m sure everyone with Scottish and/or English blood in them was barred from serving in the Continental Army. Just like no one of American parentage was allowed to serve in the Army of Northern Virginia.

She’s so clever.

So far, post399 gets my vote, for the “draft” comment.

He must have run through a dozen or so of these and then gone on vacation. I don’t usually mind the pace of this strip, but I’m really getting bored.

At first, it just seems ignorant, as Scots were in rebellion long before Americans. Cromwell had to fight Presbyterians as well as Catholics. But then by William of Orange’s time, they were loyal enough to be occupation troops for Ireland. Still, of course, many rebellious colonists were Scottish in ancestry. I suspect there were kilts on both sides.

Might it be the uniform that was inappropriate for the Continental Army?

Axe-grinder said yesterday, “A pickpocket hanging from the Wallet family tree! ”

Seems more likely, some wallets hanging from the pickpocket’s family tree.

I’m just sayin’.

Give it a couple a day’s.. we will get back to a better arc..

News flash, Clovia: the Continental Army was populated mostly by British subjects. They remained British subjects until Yorktown.

Sorry countoftowergrove, but that is not exactly the case. While the British may have surrendered at Yorktown in 1781 (having already lost the war earlier at Guilford Courthouse, now Greensboro, NC) the colonists were long before known as Americans, and ceased any question of being British subjects on a most notable day in July, 1776.