Gil Thorp by Henry Barajas and Rachel Merrill for November 08, 2019

Snitches get stitches Coach.

P1, Still not calling you “Dad.”

P2, The same way I made our kids and dog disappear, Mimi.

P3, Smell my fingers, Marjie.

P1 Beard man, or Chest he jet, switched sides from yesterday and repeats himself. GilPa heard you the first time!!!, He may be old but his hearing is still good.

NOW Gil’s suspicions are raised?

Chatter matters Chet! Busted!

I like Charlie’s face. “Please don’t touch me. And your face is too damn close.”

Gil has a lot of involuntary muscle action. In yesterday’s P3, he has the twitching eyebrow as he eavesdrops on Chet’s conversation with Charlie. Today in P1, GilPa goes bobblehead, maybe the onset of turrets.

Big wins over Oakwood, Dreher, Central, now Madison, just the one close loss to Tilden, that defense with James, Jansen and Fleming, this Fall’s Mudlarks have the look of a playdown-bound team.

P4: “I’ll look into it for you if there’s some State Champion Gil Thorp mugs to be left behind.”

Loose lips sink ships, Chet

Charlie is about ready to move back to Californey and stay with his natural father. Jeth.

Am I the only one who finds the “baggage” comment ambiguously vague? Why would Gil interpret this to be about Chance? Chance is “baggage”? Huh?

I thought Marje wrote about sports. Now she’s an investigative journalist?

Tomorrow, Chet wets himself after reading the local paper. Charlie calls him “Damp”

…Gil turning into Mary Worth…

Meanwhile , the thump of basketballs is heard coming from the highly polished hardwood of the Milford gym, will the basketball storyline start before Thanksgiving ?

OK. But how does Marjie tell the story without indicating the substance behind the sabotage. MILFORD—November 10. “School Board Rep Leaks Private Info of Prep Star” Today Chet Ballard, longtime MSD school board member, violated FERPA law by leaving a message on my 1990s answering machine about a football player I cannot name and for reasons I cannot mention.

That’s a nice Charlie Brown shirt hat that Chet is wearing.

Maynard G. Krebbs standing to the right behind Mimi?

Good call. I thought Sebastian Cabot was playing the role of Chet in P1.

Have I mentioned before how stupid this Chet story is? I have? I wasn’t sure. And speaking of sure, I’m sure you’ve been waiting with bated breath for today’s installment of Mopped Up Thorp.