Gasoline Alley by Jim Scancarelli for July 14, 2019

If Rufus and Joel become aware of the actual year, do they turn to dust in a temporal paradox?

Time flies like an arrow.Fruit flies like a banana.

Still lookin’ for my ol’ D-28..

That guitar really was stolen https://stolen911.com/stolen/stolen-1947-martin-d-18-serial-number-100385/

Time flies are like horseflies, and they have a nasty bite.

must be hoping it shows up

Is that Spade Cooley on the violin?

There are three ways to diagram the sentence “Time flies like an arrow.” The first is the one you would expect; the second is the “time flies” as flies that Rufus just did, and the third is an imperative sentence “[You] time flies like [you would] an arrow”. A 1960’s computer program did that.

Wow! Chuck put up a “wanted” poster with nation-wide coverage – for free!!!

Note that Joel’s coat and Rufus’s hat are the “normal” colors. The daily colorist should get the hint.

So is that suppose to be Jeffrey Lewis? I don’t really know who he is, but apparently he does have a song with the lyrics “time flies like an arrow”.

This makes no sense, even for a normal R&J appearance. If he’s been playing this particular guitar since 1972, and assuming Rufus has been in the band for some years, how is the idiot just now noticing the guy’s “new” guitar? I mean, I know Rufus is dense, but c’mon!

Ever see an elephant fly?

Wow! Rufus a pickin a banjo. Don’t play one myself but heard the’re pretty hard to figure out

I’m more intrigued by whom the inspiration was for Ruthless’ musical colleague. Hamilton Camp? Doug Dillard? Merle Watson? Can’t go wrong with any of them!

Buffoons six days a week; disappointing when I check Sunday, hoping for Walt or Skeezix or…

i dont get this one. If he has been playing that guitar since 1972 is Rufus so stupid he just now notices it? Also why would hyou call a guitar you have had for 18+ years new. This strip is poorly written to force yet another Rufus is mentally handicapped joke.

Who is Chuck?

Time flies like an arrow… Fruit flies like a banana.

My son had a Marshall steel string acoustic that was stolen from him. He’s still upset about it! But when my dad died he left him his 1934 Gibson ssa with the f holes. Beautifully restored & the loss of the Marshall hurts quite a bit less these days. Dad’s guitar sounds like heaven and looks it too!