Gil Thorp by Henry Barajas and Rachel Merrill for December 06, 2021

P1: I guess Rub/Ham do read our comments.

P3: Maxwell Smart: I asked you not to tell me that! And that’s the only thing smart about this strip.

Wonder if that’s actually true. Certainly possible to check.

Can we just get on with the snot-pounding, or are we just going to keep talking about it?

Eight in a row, a choke is just waiting to happen

P3 Are your kids still missing and in all reality do you still miss them at Christmas and maybe set out milk and cookies for them like for Santa , inquiring readers want to know.

“Mucus, mucus, booger, go team go!” Vito from Goshen opening up the Choke/No Choke pool again by popular demand. Is this the week?

Oh great, tell someone they have a winning streak going and they lose the next time. The first rule of a winning streak is you don’t talk about a winning streak.

P3- Scribe H.E. Burns put the proverbial hex on Thorp. That monkey has grown into a gorilla on GilPa’s back. Heather’s Milford Star headline, Milford dominating Valley Tech. Great bulletin board material for Coach Drool.

Looks to me like VT is due. They’ll score 3 TDs while Milford is still trying to figure out what snot-pounding is.

Coach Drool puts the VT team on Zycam for the week before the game. With no snot to be beaten out, Milford falls to third in the Valley for the first time this Century.

I just saw Chance’s parents at the Sporting Goods Store. I think it’s true about McGill. He’s getting a new pair of Bauer Supreme’s (as endorsed by Bobby Orr) for Christmas.

Chance should know better, it’s called “Mucus- 453.592 grams” in Canada.

Still angry about that bad pass interference call on Terry Gallagher!

I wonder what color Heather’s sweater will be tomorrow??

p 4: “…I said ‘nope’, you silly bimbo…”

Or P 4 (Gil): “…wanna know how much Iowa lost by on Saturday?..” P 5 (Heather): “..nope..” P 6 (Gil): “…39…”

Want to know how many times you’ve asked yourself why you keep reading Gil Thorp?

P3- Okay, how much for a Gil mug? Five bucks?

Well at least that makes me a little bit happy that Rubin didn’t really think that “snot-pound” was a thing. Oh Gil, being coy, pretending he doesn’t know how many times they’ve beaten VT. He knows, he flaunts it in Coach Drool’s face every time he see him.

And despite Heather’s apparent jinxing of this year’s game, there is no way Milford loses. The whole team comes together now, thanks to those tabletop speeches. “We don’t need hypnotism! We don’t need reminding of past choking! We’ve got each other!” Milford in a blowout, then the team gathers for a rendition of “Kumbaya My Lord”.

And speaking of renditions, the latest rendition of Mopped Up Thorp is now online: https://moppedupthorp.wordpress.com/

This looks more like a Mopped Up Thorp than a real strip.