I hope you’re having a great holiday season, and, since this is the last strip of 2016, I want to wish you a Happy New Year! I’m looking forward to a 2017 filled with lots of wonderful strips and your so great comments. Thank you for another year of making Groovy, Kinda so very special.
Time to learn a new word, or rather, re-learn a couple of old ones. Back in the day, “gimp” meant (among other things) spirit or vigor. A gimper was someone filled with spirit or vigor, and who did things better than other people. During World War I, your gimper was the man you shared your foxhole or trench with. He was your best friend and the person who you trusted your life to.
It looks like Simon and Larry may be more than just co-workers, doesn’t it? Maybe we’ll find out more in the future.
If you don’t recognize that handsome couple in the foreground of panel one, then you’re missing out! The cool kids know that Xy Phobus and Viola di Largolinio hail from Vatican Assassins, one of my all-time favorite comics.
Coming up next-Larry, Amy, and Simon attempt to cross dimensions with some unsettling results. Stick around!
Oh! I’m glad the Assassins don’t look lost anymore, they traveled comicdom for so long…
Poor Simon might have no idea what he is getting into…
Well, cultural differences abound.
Always knew “Gimp” as someone with a dodgy leg (a limp), totally different to my wife who used it to refer to some one with limited common sense.
…….And of course neither had anything to do with masks.
It means the same thing on this side of the water too, Mike. But, I have some old dictionaries, and it’s not in the 1948 Webster’s, or in any other dictionary from that time or before.
However, one of the definitions is that it’s a different pronunciation of “jimp,” which means “to shorten.” My theory is that someone with a limp may have been described as having a “jimpy” leg, and the pronunciation changed.
Hold the phone…..Edison without bubbles.
Is she just cruising in ‘Mellow mode’ or is the Beret hiding them.
Dang. I was afraid of this. That’s actually Amy. I thought about it when I was drawing her, and did my best to change her face.
Though, come to think about it, Edison would look cute in that hat…
I certainly don’t want to say anything as crass as “all gorgeous women look alike,” but yeah, it helps for Amy to have a beret.
Yep. Maybe I should’ve put her in this outfit.
My bad; I automatically thought that this was a continuation of the last couple of pages of Edison/Larry interaction.
Hi, could it be, maybe, a visit to, well, M 9? Why not! What is the worst that could happen? Plato slaps Larry and Simon? Another heavy wrench falls on Simon’s car. Nuthin to worry about. Right.
Same ol’ same ol’.
OMG, either/both/all Simon and/or Larry are in a lot of Trouble. Murphy heard them.
Heh, I thought you were just making a wordplay on “Gipper”. 🙂
If it helps any, Amy is quite a bit shorter…..
It was panel 3. When I originally drew it, it really looked like Edison with Amy’s hair. I need to work on my women’s faces.
Happy New Year, Charlie!
Back atcha, Richie! Happy New Year to us all!
I hope 2017 will be a happy year – but I have my doubts. I need a big book with a “Don’t Panic!” button on it.
I’ve told my neighbor/best friend of 30 years that for the next few years we absolutely CANNOT talk politics, not in any way. Not and stay friends. Since that’s about 40% of everything we ever used to talk about, we’re going to have to work a lot of crossword puzzles to make up for it.
I think Amy looks downright awesome in Panel 3. And Larry’s sandwich bears considerable resemblance to the Subway sammich I had for lunch today. Weird. And I had no trouble whatever interpreting “Moo mamma smee Pabbo” as “You wanna see Pato!” with your mouth full. What does that say about me…?
I think we could all use a “Tome of Kittens” to get us through the hard times.
Two years later….
My neighbor and best friend passed away last year and it friggin’ KILLS me that I can’t talk to him about his election choices. 🙁 So many, many MANY things to say about it.
But for the last week or two I’ve just gotten to where I can’t stand to think about it anymore. I don’t know where the ÜberPutz gets the energy at his age to be SUCH an a$$. It exhausts me just to watch any of it on Youtube.
Oh, I’m here because you linked to an older strip and when I looked at it I couldn’t remember enough of the story so I backed up a month and couldn’t remember enough of THAT story so I backed up a year and just started re-reading. I love archive dives but not quite up to six or seven years worth just now.
Pace yourself, Tru. I think Groovy, Kinda is best in small doses.
Though I admit getting sucked in when I go back to check on a strip. That Charlie fella-we have the same sense of humor, and I really get all his jokes!