Gil Thorp by Henry Barajas and Rachel Merrill for August 05, 2021

Ooooh ! Ball State. The Balls are often good for 3rd Place in the MacDaddy Conference.

Things about to get interesting.

Carter Hendrix, proud Alumni of Bull S**t University, could there have been a better match made in heaven? It’s only appropriate a clown like this went to school there

Oh man, the rain washed all the color out of P2 and P3. A clever R&W ploy to disguise the “color variations” we’ve been treated to lately.

P2 That bag is a caddie’s nightmare, what else does he have in there?

In all reality , Are you all too dumb to come in out of the rain ?

Okay, it took someone with God-like power to call up rain, on a clear day, at exactly the right time so that Carter would bring out his college rain gear and Gil can make the call and discover he’s a scratch golfer. God-like power, or writer of the comic strip.

I should replace my umbrella with cool rain gear.

Maybe Cart should have went into his cart and got out of the rain.

What happened to Gil? Is his attention span for golf the same as for the sports he coaches?

Ohh Rat Farts!!!

Her rain gear tells us the Big Ten school was IOWA! so Milford not in Iowa!

So Cartman has been wearing a visor all week only to switch to a full cap while rooting in the bottom of his golf bag. Then back to a visor as he tries lamely to explain his Ball State rain gear. Heather, being a real Hawkeye, notices the change and calls him for a rules/clothing violation thereby voiding her pizza coupon bet.

Another lie…he knows exactly where it came from and it wasn’t ‘an outing or something’. The only thing he’s outing is himself as a former NCAA golfer

P2: Gil probably has a first aid kit in there as well. I’d still rather have Czervik’s golf bag.

P1, Zombie Gil and Heather have no color in their eyes.

Alternate P1, Look, up in the sky! It’s a bird! It’s a plane! Nope, it’s just Marty Moon, so high he actually left the ground.

P2, Why, Heather, we like you better when they get wet.

P3, Oh, this old thing? Somebody must have left it in the cart. Would I BSU?

BSU—Ball State University (Indiana); Boise State University (Idaho); Bemidji State University (Minnesota); Bowie State University (Bowie, Maryland); Benguet State University (Philippines); Belarusian State University (Minsk, Belarus); Benue State University (Nigeria); Bukhara State University (Uzbekistan)

Heather’s first clue about golf hustling at MCC.

It’s gonna be crazy when Heather finds out that “Cart” was an NCAA champion golfer!

Ball State, that makes me think back. Frank and Fred Ball were (are?) good people. They spent summers in Northern Michigan and Fred had a recording studio. Frank had an interest in skiing and golfing and was an owner of Sugar Loaf Village. Later on a childhood friend of ours, Keith Otterbein, coached football at Ball State. Ball State.

P3- I’m melting! I’m melting!

Lightning next? Hold one of those clubs real high, now ….

Checking the big board at Vito from Goshen’s, more big money coming in on The Legend. Vito hopes the Cart doesn’t pull a gun from that bag when Gil calls him on being a hustler.

So to clarify the potential confusion in some of the comments, that is not Hendricks in P2 with a different hat. I believe it is Gil with a surprisingly consistent outfit during this round. He’s kind of continuing his sentence from P1. Despite their being a significant time lapse between panels.

What I’m leery of is, Heather having Iowa golfing rain gear. She was not on the golf team, and since she spent so much time with the football team (come on guys, working, I’m not implying anything extracurricular) I doubt she was out golfing all the time during college. Or even if she golfed rarely, her broke ass wouldn’t be paying for licensed rain gear.

And speaking of paying, you’ll be paying the price of missing out if you don’t read today’s edition of Mopped Up Thorp.

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