Reality Check by Dave Whamond for June 04, 2023

Hard times for Ian then

Please, sir, I want some more.

And he drove a car he call chitty-chitty, bang-bang.

Love Ralph’s quote.

In case you’re wondering – Oliver Twist was published before the martini is believed to have been invented.

Her name will be Olive and every story will end with a twist!

The names Dodger…. Artful Dodger.

There certainly was a twist in that strip.

KC and the Sunshine Band: Shake, shake, shake,

And his name was BOND, James Bond! Forgetting his olive-or-twist…!

“Live and Let Die Great Expectations.”

Mixed metaphor

I don’t think Ian was alive back then.

He should have ordered some of his trademark Dickens’ Cider.

I’m going to incite some verbal violence with this post. Don’t care.

A Martini is Gin and Dry Vermouth and is stirred and served in a “Martini Glass.”

A Vodka Martini is just that. It is shaken as vodka is a much sturdier liquor that gin.

You then have the Vesper which is equal parts gin and vodka.

Anything after that, i.e. the Espresso, Lemon Drop, IS NOT a Martini. it’s a cocktail as they have other ingredients added/ left out.

Some here will disagree. Some will agree.

A tale of two martinis.

Wait! Wait! no criminal Fagin?

Has our “National Department of Book Censors” edited out all the feelings-hurting words from these folks who brought slaves everywhere to their plantation owning lords?

Even greater inspiration from Sale of Two Titties.

It’s a bird story, OK?

You know, a titmouse. Geesh, you folks are sumthin.

A literate squirrel, I’ll be treed…

Brilliant 3-way mashup, Dave!

You and Ralph make a great team …!

“How do you like your metaphors?”

“Mixed, of course.”

From what I’ve read, if you prepare a Martini according to the instructions in the book, You get a watered down drink. Ordinarily, this woukd be undesirable, but if someone was watching you, he would think that you were drinking more alcohol than you actually were.

Oh, for f—-s sake….

No-one’s commented on the genius of today’s strip yet!

Guys, the last panel is a TWIST.

that’s good

Wait…Dickens wrote that??