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
I don’t know what else is in th’code o’ th’hills, but I sure as hell wouldn’t have guessed that these folks would balk at the concept of incest.
Comment by (required) — May 3, 2008 @ 9:45 am
Hey ‘Manda! Aren’t you going to sock Ada for not telling you what Sturdy did? Or, you know, resisting?
“Ah was caught so off-guard, Ah didn’t resist until well after he paid me!”
Still no idea why Sturdy pounced on Ada to begin with; is he turned on by women who hate his living guts? Who knows? The goof doing this strip skips over trivial, uninteresting details like that.
Comment by Happenstance — May 3, 2008 @ 1:42 pm
But exactly what kind of threat is it? Ventilate is common mobster terminology for “riddle with bullets”, but in the first panel it appears to be a hillbilly rendering of “violate”. Time for dueling banjos, methinks.
Comment by Andrew — May 5, 2008 @ 5:29 am