Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for December 20, 2024

If you eat at a deli Sam recommends, that’s what tends to happen!

Strokemoff’s LANGUAGE was all pretty garbled…

“It somehow feels familiar!”

Yeah, just like every day with this story.

“Mumbles.”

Good morning™, Lost Translations !

What do beach and saxophone translate to in his language ?  Should Dick be reaching for the roll of Tums™ ?

Some of the guys have cut a record, says the proud papa. :-D

Https://www.Youtube.Com/watch?v=gE4idvqB7hQ

Still no clue what on earth going on in story. What a way to wasting time of audience.

That’s Sam’s diet, Tracy! Sometimes it doesn’t pay to get too close!

Now I think of it, “mumbles?”

1- LIZZO: I’m gonna go out on a limb and guess that Springsprong ain’t from around here…

2- : … He’s kind of got a French Riviera exotic vibe about him. I can picture him packing to the max one of those European banana hammock swimsuits, bronze bod cut and ripped and… say – is he still at the morgue? I should probably make sure the M.E. didn’t miss anything…

3- DT: What? I wasn’t listening. This is my stare out the window time of day. LIZZO: I said I’m going to the morgue. DT: Oh. OK. Have fun…

Weird description of Sam’s gut feelings – “NASTY”. Are they also perverted, sick, and vile?

Always assume the worst . It’s never let Sam down .

Sooo, other linguistics are an element"

“Morf morf morf!”

“garbled”….“parsing”……..“gut feeling”……..meh.

Well, if Sam would just lay of the habeneros on his corn flakes, maybe that condition would clear up. What is it now? 10 or 11 daily trips to the loo? I l lost count.

At this point, I’m assuming when Totten senior denied knowing our gate jumper, his son did recognize the name, and hightailed it down to the holding cell to shut up a source of embarrassment and danger to himself; he probably hired the guy and told him he worked for “Totten” but he was really working for sonny boy.

So much wrong with Sam feeling his nasty guts.

Its really going to be exciting when they discover that one of Toten’s ancestors was the step-great-great grandson of Ghengis Khan. Ghengis used to bounce him on his knee when he was a little Dutchman. It was difficult to trace this ancestry because Ghengis Khan likely had a few hundred children. Nearly all of Asia claims to be descended from Ghengis Khan. If you think Khan was bad? Toten is the bad seed of the family and Junior is a chip off of the old blockhead.

Of course, none of this is relevant to the story, but it does add material for more stretching.

It’s been a month since the last one . What’s a guy gotta do to get a new VengeyTale around here ?

If you left Sam’s brisket sandwiches alone, you wouldn’t get those gut feelings.

Years of experience are coming to bear for Dick Tracy………

No, Dick, say, “I’ve got a bad feeling about this.”

Importing nazis from Europe, because our homegrown variety tend to turn out to be pretty stupid.

Not a great Christmas so farr. First, my card was double-charged o n a software purchase, and I ma not getting response to my pointed contact per that.

Next, I got two videos from Amazon which only showed the upper left hand of the picture. So, lots of trees and maybe an ear now and then. All to fascinating dialog in Japanese. I suspected the trees were talking about me and laughing. Amazon DID credit those.

Then a game I play irregularly was doing a month of free in-game item giveaways — none of which have worked. I also have both knees and my back nerfed from to days of nonstop leaning for a Christmas layover by relatives. I’m to that point in life where if I get down, I can’t just get to my feet without absurd gymnastics.

During the DT 2021 time drone storyline, it was revealed that one such drone appeared in 1943 and recorded Flattop at a train station. So I figure that a Nazi spy was also there and reported the otherwise-unseen drone to his superiors in Berlin. This led to a top-secret German project whose personnel all disappeared in April 1945. This organization has not been heard from again, until now…

Any more lost Xylon Bombs in the neighborhood?