Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for December 20, 2011

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    margueritem  almost 13 years ago

    Get out there with those axes, boys!

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    billcor  almost 13 years ago

    awwww, that’s so sweet

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    Tarry Plaguer  almost 13 years ago

    Do I even want to know what they decorate it with?

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    Can't Sleep  almost 13 years ago

    And you thought Harvey was crazy!Well, at least the boys have a “major award” on display.Now everybody, sing…!“Deck the halls with Boston Charlie, Walla Walla, Wash, and Kalamazoo…!”

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    Major Matt Mason Premium Member almost 13 years ago

    Must be from Italy! It’s marked ‘Frageelie’!

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    Buzza Wuzza  almost 13 years ago

    I used to work with a guy who had a suit jacket like that. We used to kid him that he should be selling salt water taffy whenever he had it on.

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    BellsAndMotley  almost 13 years ago

    Don’t we know archaic barrel,Lullaby, lily boy, Louisville Lou!

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    Sisyphos  almost 13 years ago

    Sheesh! Ain’t nobody got no smarts ’round here? Gemme a tree, stat!

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    crobinson019  almost 13 years ago

    @NightShade9Trolley Molly don’t love Harold,Boola Boola Pensacoola View Halloo!!

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    davidf42  almost 13 years ago

    @BellsAndMotley and ChrisRobinson – I never heard those lines before. Are they Walt Kelly’s like the first two lines?

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    Vista Bill Raley and Comet™  almost 13 years ago

    Good morning all…

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    Bill Thompson  almost 13 years ago

    Don’t give him a BB gun, he’ll shoot his eye out!

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    Mdstudio  almost 13 years ago

    Nice leg lamp. I wonder if he got it from Abner.

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    ctsignguy  almost 13 years ago

    “All I want for Christmas is my upper plate….”

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    awcoffman  almost 13 years ago

    As I recall, it was alley-ga-roo.

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    APersonOfInterest  almost 13 years ago

    Good morning Tracynatics … I think Mike and Joe have created an unusual holiday celebration for us.

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    I Go Pogo   almost 13 years ago

    Well, far be it from me to divert the Tracy board to begin this happy holiday chorus but even farther from that is my ability to resist taking Captain Kiddeo’s lead and running with one of Beauregard’s versions:

    Bark us all bow-wows of folly, Polly wolly cracker n too-da-loo!

    Donkey Bonny brays a carol, Antelope cantaloup, ’lope with you!

    Hunky Dory’s pop is lolly gaggin’ on the wagon, Willy, folly go through!

    Chollie’s collie barks at Barrow, Harum scarum five alarum bung-a-loo!

    And to the best of my re-collections, the most famous verse indeed ends with “Hullabaloo.”

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    Kip W  almost 13 years ago

    “Alley-garoo” after “Swaller dollar…” &c, and “Hullaballoo” after “Boola Boola…” &c. It’s that way in Ten Ever-Lovin’ Blue-Eyed Years and Songs of the Pogo.

    Which leaves me wondering where “View Halloo” came in, but I’m guessing it must have been one of Beauregard’s.

    Carry on! Let nothing you dismay.

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    Maxine_Viller  almost 13 years ago

    I believe it was a hungry Swamp Turtle that once sang:Dunk us all in bowls of barley, Hinky dinky dink an’ polly voo! Chilly Filly’s name is Chollie, Chollie Filly’s jolly chilly view halloo! But I may be wrong…

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    HannoX  almost 13 years ago

    Nice to see Putty Puss has some Christmas spirit! But when the MCS busts in, do you suppose Sam might be a bit put out that there’s no menorah?

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    ChucklinChuck  almost 13 years ago

    Indeed the Tracy team has awakened our holiday spirit ,and we’ve Pogo’d right along. Happy merry to all!

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    acdtd  almost 13 years ago

    See yesterday’s Fred Basset for Pogo’s complete version of Deck The Halls.. in the comments section.

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    margueritem  almost 13 years ago

    Deck us all with Boston Charlie,Walla Walla, Wash., an’ Kalamazoo!Nora’s freezin’ on the trolley,Swaller dollar cauliflower alley-garoo!

    Don’t we know archaic barrelLullaby Lilla Boy, Louisville Lou?Trolley Molly don’t love Harold,Boola boola Pensacoola hullabaloo!

    Bark us all bow-wows of folly,Polly wolly cracker ‘n’ too-da-loo!Donkey Bonny brays a carol,Antelope Cantaloupe, ’lope with you!

    Hunky Dory’s pop is lolly gaggin’ on the wagon,Willy, folly go through!Chollie’s collie barks at Barrow,Harum scarum five alarm bung-a-loo!

    Dunk us all in bowls of barley,Hinky dinky dink an’ polly voo!Chilly Filly’s name is Chollie,Chollie Filly’s jolly chilly view halloo!

    Bark us all bow-wows of folly,Double-bubble, toyland trouble! Woof, woof, woof!Tizzy seas on melon collie!Dibble-dabble, scribble-scrabble! Goof, goof, goof!

    Fractured Christmas carols were a regular feature of Kelly’s holiday strips. Churchy LaFemme once came up with a version of “Good King Wenceslas” that went: “Good King Sauerkraut, look out! On your feets uneven…” No question about it, Kelly was a genius. The lyrics to "Boston

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    trimguy  almost 13 years ago

    Someone get Putty Puss a tree before he decks the halls (or anyone else)

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    dvoyack  almost 13 years ago

    No crime lord’s lair is complete without a Chrismas tree this time of year… However the leg lamp is a good start. (Put it in the front window, It’s a major award!!!)_

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    Kip W  almost 13 years ago

    Truly, what the strip needs now is a voice-over from Jean Shepherd: “Now, it was well known on our street that the Old Man yielded to no one in his mastery of the humble pine on Christmas! Within minutes, he had assembled a truly awesome collection of implements for cutting down the wily fir, plus thirty yards of stout jute twine, and summoned us all to our hardy Packard for a late-night expedition to the Forest Preserve in Cook County…”

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    Kip W  almost 13 years ago

    But, alas…

    “The gentle journey jars to stop.The drifting dream is done.The long gone goblins loom ahead;The deadly, that we thought were dead,Stand waiting, every one.”

    (Walt Kelly, 1954)

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    Dberrymanal1  almost 13 years ago

    So a crook and killer wants to keep Christmas, that’s a new one!

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    Sky_Shachaq  almost 13 years ago

    He’s ready to deck the halls. But don’t ask him to don his gay apparel.

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    Det.DanDone  almost 13 years ago

    Someone needs to ask Putty;.WHAT?!? Cry baby are you gonna cry now?Go on Cry Baby, Cry!!!

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