Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for February 19, 2011

Well, you can bet your sweet bippy The story is still really dippy A plot line that’s shot full of holes Do you want to see my walnetto Or maybe it’s just a palmetto Ernistine was really very droll It really was such fun to see Judy Carne say “Sock it to me” What ever happened to Morgul the friendly Drelb? And what’s that I hear you say In your most dignified Wolfgang way It‘s “verrry eeen-ter-esting, but shtupid” And don’t you just hate That “Flying Fickle Finger of Fate” Especially when it’s pointed at you? This strip no longer has a sparkle Like that family named Farkel And wasn’t Ferd Berfel really the dad? And who here is not a fan Of that darling little Edith Ann When she sticks out her tongue and goes “pbbbt”? It’s quite plain to see We are all experiencing ennui Hah, “look that up in your Funk and Wagnalls” Be careful that you don’t choke On that old chicken joke Or get hit by Jo Anne Worley Mordred is going to say “oh fudge” When the bailiff calls “Here come de judge!” Pigmeat Markham was a hoot I always thought it was corny The play between Tyrone F. Horneigh And that dour Gladys Ormphby Even with her tongue tripping talk Goldie Hawn never balked At introducing Dan with “News of the Future” And who can forget that thingy With a “one ringy-dingy…two ringy-dingies That Lily Tomlin used to do? Well, by now you know it I am certainly no poet Like the great Henrik Ibsen.

Thank you all, for your kind words yesterday.