Monty by Jim Meddick for April 29, 2012

busted

Nuts. Or should that be the WW11 reply nutz.

A pink squirrel is a cocktail made with almond-tasting liqueur..Fleshy is a pink cat with a squirrel-tail tasting nuts. Coincidence?Yeah… 100%

Rather elaborate plan goes for naught because Fleshy neglected to pre-test nut-nibbling? For shame, Fleshy; I expect better of you!

Try them honey roasted, Fleshy

I love the look on Fleshy’s face in panel 4 and the looks on the squirrels’ faces in 5. It’s like, “Who is this interloper?”

Just now as I was reading this a squirrel jumped off the roof and landed on my bird feeding pole. It’s squirrel proof from the ground, but he attacks it from the air. I don’t know how he does it because it’s back behind the eve. Somehow he swings towards it and lands perfectly……Never under estimate squirrels….

and another one bites the nuts.

AussieDownUnder, you are kidding about the Roman numerals, right?

Was he trying to fit in or catch them?

Foiled again, Fleshy.

soooooo close! darn! Now if those nuts were catnip flavoured?…..

Fleshy should have worn a female squirrel suit.

Sometimes you feel like a nut; sometimes you don’t.

Suzanne — just in case you see this…..Actually, a pink squirrel is made with Creme de Noyaux, which is syrupy, candy-sweet, and pink, rather than with Amaretto, which I much prefer.It’s equal parts that, Creme de Cacao and dairy cream, blended with ice or frozen softly in an ice cream maker.I helped make them by the quart at a bachelorette party, but I drank only one, myself…. and said “well, that’s enough for me…. forever.” If you like really sweet cocktails, though, you might like it. The bride’s friends drank lots of them at the party, but most of us Mom-age types said “yuck.”

There’s something a bit absurdist about this one… which is true of a certain number of Jim’s strips.. just to name a recent one, the one in which Fleshy puts Darth Vader figure holding a head on his light sabre in front of the mousehole.Here, we’re not sure.. why did Fleshy do this? Did he want to catch a squirrel? Or just fit in with them? Is he some kind of furry? Maybe even a freaky one? And what do we make of the end… they all run away, he tosses the acorn away and.. what was the point of it all?Waiting for Godot…The squirrels are gone, there is nothing left.