Monty by Jim Meddick for November 19, 2024

Hold your breath for a full minute, or as long as you can, then breathe out slowly and evenly.

There is only one sure cure for the hiccups, dunk your head in a big bucket of water three times and pull it out twice.

Beer works just as well as water. Just chug the rest of your beer, Monty.

Gosh forbid the barkeep help him. Just like all the idiots watching and old lady get beat up and film it, but don’t help.

Actually, he would call the bouncer to beat him senseless.

I haven’t heard ‘hic-cough’ in a while. Do people still say that?

Do drunk people really hiccup? Isn’t that just a movie/tv gimmick?

This is a first! An MMA fighter mentioned in comic strip!

I want a rotary dial cell phone.

Of all the people in that bar the tender should be the one to know that he was only served one glass—at—the—bar. So, like cartoon physics, a cartoon lapse of memory it is.

They have to serve you water no matter how drunk you are. That’s so you don’t get dehydrated while they are throwing you out.

Jarvis has a lot of relatives in this strip. :)

hey tarbender, he’s trying to order a bitters & lime

Jon Jones?

I think this is the last time Monty goes to this bar.

This happened to a neighbor of mine when I lived in Maine. I was surrounded by 50s to 70s year-olds who pickled their livers and had to quit drinking, except this woman who was still hanging in there. But she had some neurological thing that caused her to slur her speech and seem intoxicated. And she complained to me about a bartender cutting her off just like this when she hadn’t had a drink yet. Of course, her troubles were probably long-term effects of alcohol abuse, so I’m not sure if that makes it an ironic story or not.