Gil Thorp by Henry Barajas and Rachel Merrill for May 08, 2020

The judge she smiled when she picked up her pen

Ninety-nine years with Daddy Bader in pri-son

Ninety-nine years underneath that ground

But I can’t forget that day I shot that sangwich down

Come on you hotheads you listen to me

Stay off that creamy and let that chunky be!

P1, Actually “The Mayor” is a pain in the azz but he is Gil’s leadoff hitter so. . .

P2, I don’t care when he has the runs!

P3, 30 days in the showers, starting now!

Are we talking expulsion or suspension? The suspense of either is killing me and they are going to make us wait until Monday to find out, since his father hasn’t show up and that is when sh.t is going to hit the fan,

Cue Hadley V. Baxendale, now drafting complaint to file — Michael Knappe, a minor v. Milford School Board, Mini Pearl and Gil Thorp.

In all reality , P 1 what’s wrong with Gil ? It’s either bad gas or he can’t stand to see how a parent defends their child from bad things happening to them.

So did Mr. Rooney just decide to GET this kid because he was annoyed that he acted up in class? Is that the plot?

Mom glances down, sees the jar of peanutbutter.

WHAT!?!? Nutsos? Go ahead Coach, Dr. Pearl… throw the book at him. I swear, I raised him better than that!

I hope Mom and Gil don’t start crying. There’s no crying in baseball.

P1- Gilfather is watching the clock wondering how long this farce will go on as Dr. Pearl yammers on about 23 skidoo or flappers, gin joints or something that roared in the 20’s. 1920’s.

I repeat my statement from several days ago…Zero tolerance is INTOLERANCE!!!

P3: Boy, do they ever know Mike eats on the way to school.

Doc Pearl is just using the knife as an excuse. She’s really going to throw the book at Mike because she used to teach Home Ec, and he didn’t know what Home Ec is.

Gil is bored by all this, so in panel 1 he practices poses for the statue of him that he feels Milford will no doubt eventually commission. Today it’s “Wooden Indian”.

Death by firing squad

Looks like Central has a new Mayor!

Meanwhile, out in the hall, Rooney sits back and snickers to himself “…this’ll teach that punk to quit ’effing around in MY class…”, which is pretty gutless. My HS basketball coach in the 70’s, if he got wind of a player doing something like this in a class, would discipline the kid by chewing him out in front of the team and then making him run for most of the practice, something that they would remember way more than a meeting with some dried-up, old administrator. Of course, I suppose that in today’s sniffling sensitive world, that would be considered child abuse.

So, this is R&W showing us how the snowflakes view the “Blackboard Jungle”.

And once again, common sense is nowhere to be seen.

Poor Mike is going to get “cut” from the baseball team…oh well nobody is playing baseball this year anyways…

In the Gil-verse this story is really moving along. He ate his breakfast 8 days ago and we have not heard the suspension verdict yet. Gil with his Mount Rushmore pose.

I hope Mr. Knappe walks in tomorrow while he’s eating something disgusting while carrying a knife.

And speaking of disgusting, it disgusts me to hear that not everybody reads Mopped Up Thorp. That doesn’t include you of course.

https://moppedupthorp.wordpress.com/

I don’t care if this is fair or not, if it gets Mayor McCheese kicked out of school I’m all for it!

Sorry, I don’t have much sympathy for whatever happens to this dunderhead. He grew up under these rules regarding bringing knives and such to school. He knew better. He just didn’t think because he didn’t have time, and that’s a choice.

I graduated in ‘73. Growing up back then in our school district you could carry a pocket knife to school. You couldn’t carry a ‘switch blade’ knife or any kind of pocket knife with a ‘lock open’ blade. We never had any police officers in schools and I really don’t recall ever seeing anyone have either of the two types of banned knives either. I guess we were like Beaver and afraid of a violation going on our ‘permanent record’. Which by the way to this day I have never seen that!

Stand back everybody. You make one false move and I swear, I’ll butter this guy

STILL WAITING to find out what advice Mayor McCheese got from Kaz way back at the start. Hopefully it was Kaz telling him “bring your breakfast to school in the morning if you don’t have time to eat, what harm could it be?”

This does not help the re-election campaign…

throw some water on her, she will just melt!

I guess this is one of those “topical, teen-oriented issues” the strip purports to be about and it certainly has inspired a lot of comments, but what’s with all of the seriousness? Who are you people and what have you done with the snarkers?