Gil Thorp by Henry Barajas and Rod Whigham for July 02, 2021

“Interesting problem with the Library Board.” Sorry, R&W, but just saying that this story arc is interesting doesn’t make it so.

It would be interesting if the writers would tackle the current issues in school concerning Title 9. It would need to be done respectfully. Neither side in the issue should look stupid, foolish or unreasonable. Kids, parents, faculty and administration could be depicted having a civil discussion without the strip taking sides or portraying one viewpoint or another as the right one or the wrong one. What do we do about bathrooms, locker rooms, gender identity in general? When I was a kid, we always took showers (sometimes at the request of our next-hour teachers). Today, kids refuse to take showers. Some kids even arrive at school in the morning in serious need of a shower before they arrive and refuse to take one at school because they don’t want to be seen by members of their own birth gender when they are undressed. If so, I understand why they would be uncomfortable with somebody in the locker room whose birth gender was opposite what he or she said their current gender was.

Don’t muff this one Gil.

It took me years to figure out GilPa and Milford were not real!! This is fantasy land not a place to address real world problems…that is why I escape to my happy place everyday!!!

Meanwhile, GilPa is going to push for BurritoMan as this will solve a multitude of issues!

In all reality , I’m going to stick my fork right in your eye. Nobody bothers me when I’m eating pie.NOW GIT

Humble? Hardly. Teacher? Questionable. Legend? Certainly.

P1 Kaz demonstrates his modified loofah technique

P2 GilPa – a pie eating legend in his own mind

P3 GilPa and Ed knock off a couple slices – of pie

Open wide and say aaahhhh

Big enough piece of pie?? Those are huge pie slices… ;-)

I’m still going with my “someone else retires from the library board, allowing them to appoint both of them” prediction.

I’m not lobbying. But I have told Vito from Goshen my preferred candidate, and he may do some “lobbying”, capeesh?

Once in awhile, R&W provide us with 3 panels that make us snicker before we snark. Resourceful they are, monitoring our comments to “enhance” the story line. Inserting a plant like Vic, gathering more material.

P3- Is Herk feeding Gil? And no, Gil doesn’t know The Mauler’s weakness. Not a Subwich in sight.

Does the board REALLY need coaxing to not choose the anti-library guy for the library board?

P3: Anyway you slice it, there’s no slices or hooks coming on Monday from the golf course.

P 4: “… if you think you can bribe me with a piece of pie, well, you’re darn right you can…”

P 2.5: “…and a taste for sticking my nose where it don’t belong…”

P1, The library board is the least interesting thing about this silly story. And Gil will solve it the same way he has with everything else this year. Let CK deal with it.

P2, If you really had a taste for pie, Gil Mimi wouldn’t need Pedro.

P3, Yes, your weakness is being stuck in this strip.

Kaz sez ‘how are you gonna’ solve it?’ like someone came to Gil and told him it was truly his problem that he needed to solve….sigh….

“I’m just a humble PE teacher with a palatial office and a knack for sticking my nose in other people’s business.”

The cherry pie filling is going to fall into Gil’s coffee the way that guy is holding his fork.

For a guy that loves pie he sure is avoiding it

P3 raises a couple of questions: First, why doesn’t whatever place that is where they’re eating pie hire Mopman? The floors there lack his patented shine. Second, Gil’s piece of pie looks deeper/taller than the library board member’s even though they presumably came from the same pie. I guess they could have been the last piece from one pie and the first piece from another, but the odds are against that.

Earlier this week Zane was speculating whether he and Abe would have to resolve their differences via sword fighting. Today, we see that the preferred weaponry for dueling in Milford is in fact restaurant cutlery. Gil seems to be losing. Stick a fork in him, Rollie. He’s done.

If you say you are humble. Are you??

P1 – No. No it’s not an interesting problem. It’s the exact opposite!

P2 – Oh yes, Gil the PE teacher. How many times have we seen him teaching PE? I cannot even remember ever seeing him teaching a class.

P3 – Kindly old Ed Asner offers Gil the crust from his pie. Gil is squinting to see if there’s actually any filling in that piece. There is not.

And speaking of filling, what is more fulfilling than reading Mopped Up Thorp?

https://moppedupthorp.wordpress.com/

Hot Dog Pie.

Peter Frampton likes Humble Pie