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Kerry Skydancer · Post by **Kerry Skydancer** » Thu May 12, 2005 7:59 am

Yep, Thelma's not anxious to get the I-told-you-so's, not a bit. And she seems to like being away from the small town? Interesting... maybe we are going in new directions, here.

SolidusRaccoon · Post by **SolidusRaccoon** » Thu May 12, 2005 9:16 am

Good work Ralph, always keep us comming back.

RHJunior · Post by **RHJunior** » Thu May 12, 2005 11:45 am

"Not interested in "I told you so's?" She's not interested in getting gossiped about and laughed at and humiliated by hateful people!

You don't quite grasp the mentality of the small-town gossip network. It wouldn't be pity or even amused sympathy about a nice girl who got took for a bundle of money; it would be barbed tongues wagging about how "that girl" got what she deserved for being "uppity." Nasty rumors about what she got up to while she was in the big city would be spread...

And that's assuming word of the illicit shoot never got out. Add the words "porn shoot" and all SORTS of poison-tongued innuendo would start flying-- within five iterations of the story she would be "that tramp"
and the porno shoot would have been her idea.

RDB · Post by **RDB** » Thu May 12, 2005 4:43 pm

RHJunior wrote:You don't quite grasp the mentality of the small-town gossip network.

From http://www.quotelady.com/subjects/ideas.html:

People with extraordinary minds, talk about ideas.
People with average minds, talk about events.
People with simple minds, talk about other people. --Anonymous

Ron

Fusion · Post by **Fusion** » Thu May 12, 2005 5:10 pm

So true.

SolidusRaccoon · Post by **SolidusRaccoon** » Thu May 12, 2005 5:46 pm

Aw heck a couple of whacks with a cluebat will shut the old bats up.

The JAM · Post by **The JAM** » Thu May 12, 2005 8:40 pm

[...unWARP!!!]

Good evening.

May 13:

Hopefully, that magazine has an article that says that the fake modeling agency was shut down....

Kerry Skydancer · Post by **Kerry Skydancer** » Thu May 12, 2005 8:47 pm

SolidusRaccoon wrote:Aw heck a couple of whacks with a cluebat will shut the old bats up.

Doesn't always work with the old biddies. One needs ammunition to fire back with to get 'em to shut up, and it's not always easy to find. Our esteemed author is right, and I should've remembered. Any small town and most larger churches -not- in small towns have that same dynamic.

Fluffball · Post by **Fluffball** » Thu May 12, 2005 9:01 pm

What i'm wondering is how this will effect the relationship of Tuck and Thelma. It's true that her pride was hurt from this, but how she will act toward Tucker seeing that this was in a way his fault is what matters. True every Relationship has it's time on the rocks but this.. this is more like an iceberg heading for the U.S.S Titanic... let's hope thelma is forgiving at least... and i'm wondering what nips seeing in that magazine, hmmm

The Lurker Below · Post by **The Lurker Below** » Thu May 12, 2005 10:35 pm

fluffball wrote:... and i'm wondering what nips seeing in that magazine, hmmm

An excuse to spend more time with Hortense (with Nip yet again showing off his being "the smart one")?

A more serious guess - that Thelma is being credited for having broken up a porn operation by taking out the ringleader? (At least this would allow her to return home as a heroine instead of as a victim.)

BTW - It's nice to see that Hortense does have some decency in her and isn't so rabidly feminist as to not care for what is good for her friends. Her comment in today's strip has redeemed her from her past excesses (or at least partially redeemed her) in my eyes.

8)

BlasTech · Post by **BlasTech** » Fri May 13, 2005 12:42 am

that "To be continued" box really adds to the foreshadowing

*Scary music* What did nip see??

SolidusRaccoon · Post by **SolidusRaccoon** » Fri May 13, 2005 2:12 am

I bet Marty and crew are in the magazine. Or something like it.

CasVeg · Post by **CasVeg** » Fri May 13, 2005 8:36 am

The Lurker Below wrote:. . .Thelma is being credited for having broken up a porn operation by taking out the ringleader?

The very idea that Marty is a ringleader is just insanely funny. This guy reeks of "greasy henchman" like a dirty pair of underwear reeks of jock itch cream.

Solarfox · Post by **Solarfox** » Fri May 13, 2005 11:43 am

If memory serves, "True Crime" is a British magazine, published quarterly, so it's probably a bit soon for Thelma's exploit to have wound up in it.

Fusion · Post by **Fusion** » Fri May 13, 2005 12:05 pm

Not really. She was gone at least a week.

NydaLynn · Post by **NydaLynn** » Fri May 13, 2005 3:39 pm

The JAM wrote:
May 13:

Hopefully, that magazine has an article that says that the fake modeling agency was shut down....

Sure hope so!

SolidusRaccoon · Post by **SolidusRaccoon** » Fri May 13, 2005 6:26 pm

NydaLynn wrote:
The JAM wrote:
May 13:

Hopefully, that magazine has an article that says that the fake modeling agency was shut down....
Sure hope so!

Awwww I want more pain and broken bones for those involved.

Sharuuk · Post by **Sharuuk** » Fri May 13, 2005 6:33 pm

SolidusRaccoon wrote:
NydaLynn wrote:
The JAM wrote:
May 13:

Hopefully, that magazine has an article that says that the fake modeling agency was shut down....
Sure hope so!
Awwww I want more pain and broken bones for those involved.

I think Marty's had enough pain....(for now anyway)....he's just a little fish in this mess, I wanna lay paws (& claws) on the honcho's runnin' this racket!

Shaaruuk

Fluffball · Post by **Fluffball** » Sat May 14, 2005 1:42 pm

You know i'm wondering... this might be far fetched but you think the reason nipster is that shocked could be a familiar face that came into town that Nip has a grudge against?..

Sharuuk · Post by **Sharuuk** » Sat May 14, 2005 2:01 pm

fluffball wrote:You know i'm wondering... this might be far fetched but you think the reason nipster is that shocked could be a familiar face that came into town that Nip has a grudge against?..

I may have to go back and check, but I can think of only 2 folks Nip's had any REAL problem with, Charlie at the stunt college and Gus.....BOTH of whom he's dealt with.....quite effectively.

.....................unless you're thinkin' of "Gary"!!!

Don't know if it's an actual "grudge" per se Nipster has with Gary, bacause he's been nuthin' but nice and complimentary to him and alledgedly has treated Bebe like a goddess. But the fact that Bebe ran off with him instead of hookin' up with Nip can't be sittin' too well.

Now wouldn't that be somethin' if Gary, being the financial whiz-kid he is turned out to be the moneybags and brains behind this whole scam?

That what you're drivin' at?

Shaaruuk