Overboard by Chip Dunham for March 07, 2025

Books must be their code for bonk Louie til he leaves.

Good morning, Crew!

It would be ‘Book Club’ if Louie hit the mice over the head with a baseball bat, and sped off.

YESCH looks familiar

Looks like the squirrels have a 6" flat screen TV! Not quite sure where one would get one of those. . . .

And here Louie was minding his own business.

Good morning Crew!

Where’s my Captain?

WHERE ARE YOU CAPTAIN?

Ouch. And this is the thanks Louie gets, after all he does for the squirrels …

Happy Friday, Crew.

“ Book it for “running away quickly” originates in the 1930s Black slang expression bookity-book, meaning to imitate all the noise of scampering away.

By the 1950s, bookity-book was apparently shortened to book and took on the meaning of “to move quickly” in youth slang. This sense, it has been suggested, was influenced by boogie, slang for “move.” In the 1960s, the specific phrase book it emerged for “fleeing a scene,” usually on foot and to evade getting in trouble, with the it sometimes dropped, e.g., We gotta book.”

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