When the going gets tough, the tough call Barbara Bush

Hey! The hotel has free wireless. Neat!

Finally, some threats of violence!

Sure, the bulk of this strip is just a rehash of a word mis-usage that happened just a week ago, which is unfortunate, but the details are nice.

First, I guess that we can claim that there’s some actual violence, as Granpaw Pye viciously bludgeons Sturdy with his cane. Okay, sure, the vicious bludgeoning only leads to a “poik,” but I’m sure it will be enough for him to use in a self-aggrandizing story as he pursues his life goal of hitting on (and being rejected by) women at each of the Seven Sisters colleges of the Northeast simultaneously.

Second, Sturdy gets carried off. Literally. Carry-offs are always a good thing.

Third, note that Sturdy calls his Barbara Bushian mother for help, rather than his sniveling George Bushian father. Some insight can be drawn from that fact, I think. Of course, none of it helped anyway, since she fainted