Gil Thorp by Henry Barajas and Rachel Merrill for December 29, 2020

Tessi is practicing her shooting form in the locker room? Is that it?

P3 Is Cressa a 7th year senior, she looks about 25 and she needs to loose a few pounds and the earrings if she is going to play basketball.

In all reality , what kind of drugs is the usual TessI Milton using, inquiring minds want to know !

“Now entering the game at power forward … Charles Barkley’s daughter Cressa.”

not a clue about where this arc is going, but it reminds me of a night when my crew was on duty in Korea and we got free movies. One was the movie Nashville. the crews reaction, after watching the first reel, was what in hell is this movie about, but the rest must be better. After reel #2, we wondered why we even bothered, but kept watching. Because it must have a plot. When the movie ended we all agreed, we wasted 3 hours on that crap when we could have been playing poker

Is Tessi Milton wearing her basketball uniform to high school? Any chance of switch the storyline to the girl’s team and away from the kid who’d rather be racing?

I am interested in where this is going. I have an idea but will keep it to myself for the time being.

P1, How was practice, Charlie while I was hanging out on the beaches in Florida?

P2, Tessi, the anti-Corina.

P3, And speaking of Florida, there she is!

Hmm, anybody got any idea why there is a floating lighting bolt and a floating flower in P-3. Quick, get out your Captain Midnight secret decoder rings….Ovaltine!!? Oh, is that all?

“… no, Charlie, I learned the state motto: “Come to Florida for Vacation, Go Home On Probation.” Don’t tell Coach, I don’t think he likes me because of Uncle Wildcat."

P 4: “…uh, no..”, P 5: “…but that’s what you told me when I asked you to hang out with me…”

For a minute there, I was worried that it was CK in P2

No. No no no. That is not CK in P2, is it? Come on, they established that she hates organized sports, now she’s going to be a 3-time Varsity letter winner this year? Because you know there is no way she isn’t playing softball. Unless she joins the boys baseball team, which is possible. But that’s 4 months away.

So what’s Tessi’s deal, besides being way too peppy? Puts her foot in her mouth, doesn’t realize she’s making racist assumptions? And why is she carrying around a basketball into the locker room?

And speaking of assumptions, the assumption is that you want to read today’s Mopped Up Thorp: https://moppedupthorp.wordpress.com/

CK is mellowing. She is keeping her snarky comments to herself. Good thing we haven’t learned anything in all our years of snarky comments.

P2 Tessi: “Hey, everybody smell my armpits!” CK (thinking): “If this was Valley Modifier, she’d be getting a swirly about now for that!”

So Tessi Milton is the little Miss Sunshine on Mimi’s team. Zippity doo dah, zippity eh. My oh my, it’s a golden day. Plenty of sunshine coming our way. Zippity doo dah, zippity eh.

HooDad. Phoebe Keener has been held hostage how many days? Since Alexa Watson shuffled off to college at IU and Pheebs made friends with CK, she’s been MIA. After all, she is the returning point guard. The time warp hole is narrowing with The Chappelle Show reference. Next is a cameo by Prince and the Revolution having Gil and the Mudlarks over for some basketball and pancakes.

P2: "How was everybody’s weekend?

Great. Minded my own business like a boss. I offer lessons if anyone’s interested.

p 4: “…uh huh…and you were gonna’ binge-watch Leave it to Beaver or the Andy Griffith Show, right Tessi?…”

New Girl’s making progress. She didn’t say that out loud!

P-4: Tessi replies: "Pretend I’m Oprah. Stick your head under the bench and see what you get as a prize.