I work in the Washington D.C. area, and I can't tell you how many times the roads are clogged, the hotels are booked, and the populace is in a general frenzy anytime the New York Soccer Team comes to town. Of course, in D.C., the roads are always clogged, the hotels are always booked and the populace is generally in a frenzy anyway. But this clip of the D.C. United beating the New York Soccer Team (in white) pretty much speaks for itself on what a huge impact major league soccer has on the region. Thank heaven they have the prerecorded fan noise to augment the audio track.Did you see Bobby Black take off his shirt at the end? That guy looks like he's really into ponytails.
Today's Full Strip
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Since when is a regular season pro soccer game a Big Game? And what is the point of finding out that the hotel's automated message system is down, but Gina can still dictate a note to the desk clerk? This is not consistent with Moy's usually crisp story continuity.
You have to take into account the fact that this is the first soccer game after Bobby was featured in Kickingit. Naturally, there will be a huge crowd anxious to see such an eligible guy in person.
I just don't know how Gina will distinguish herself from the rest.
Anyone watching their clocks, or calendars? We last heard the Big Game was two days away. I believe that was last month.
Ah, the Big Game will forever be emblazoned into the hearts and minds of the residents of the Worthiverse. Could a bigger event ever actually happen there??
JUST LEAVE THE MESSAGE!!!!
It doesn't matter if she leaves the message with Desk Clerk, because SOMETHING will happen and it won't get delivered.
With any hope at all, Gina will get caught up in the hordes of people at Big Game and be trampled to death. While I realise that's rather grisly, it'd be much more interesting than the inevitable end to the story. Wouldn't it?
All right, let me call it: Hotel guy is going to be the mob connection to who Miss Ponytail innocently reveals her true identity!
Or else this pointless plot is going to meander on for a few more weeks. Either way.
Heydave, you bring up a good point. I have on several previous occasions attempted to calculate t(sub)M (time in the Worthiverse), but real life usually intervened before I could analyze and publish my findings.
Since Gina uttered the memorable words "Bobby's soccer team is coming to Santa Royale in two days" (September 19th), 16 real life days (t) have gone by. From this we could possibly assume that t=8t(sub)M. However, it is not as simple as it may appear. Did "in two days" mean the day of the big game or the day the team would arrive in SR (presumably a day or two before the game to get acclimated)? The first hasn't happened yet, the second has - but who knows how long the current t(sub)M of leaving messages is going to last? Probably at least through Sunday.
It is extremely difficult to apply scientific principles to the Worthiverse, but I'll crack the code yet!
Note to Mr. Giella: Gina's ponytail today - seriously?
@phoebes: "...trampled to death!" I choked on my iced tea! I love it! It could happen, because the entire world loves the New York Blazes!
Phoebes, Desk Clerk will slip it under the door and for some reason Hamfist McGorilla will stumble across the note. He'll either say out loud or think "That broad is persistant!" and then throw the letter away. Then, he'll go on a diatribe about how he has to protect his boys.
@Schmoopie: impressive! Carrying this further, and even assuming some uncertainty in your assumptions, an eight fold (approx) time dilation would mean that a 3 month summer holiday would actually expand to 2 years, while the 12 days of Xmas would drag on 8 months.
I envy the two years of summer bliss, but the nearly full gestation period of holiday jingles being piped in to stores could only lead to madness. And that's not counting the early marketing we know will happen!
Desk Clerk calls to mind the character actors who played small parts in 1930s films, such as Astaire-Rogers musicals. There was always a fussy, supercilious (i.e., that era's code for gay) fellow at a service desk that the audience would roll their eyes at.
Has anyone else noticed that bell on the desk? At least I think it's a bell. It reminds me of something else, but, as this is a family-friendly blog, I will leave it at that.
Oops, we'd only have to listen to Jingle Bells about 4 months or so.
Check your math, kids!
Very much enjoying today's round of comments, as we gear up for what will surely be an exciting visit by New York's most eligible bachelor. These strips are often like puzzles from Highlights magazine: what parts don't add up? Today, I was struck by the jarring contrast between the oldfangled (the reception bell and the lack of computer) and the newfangled (yet Reception Clerk is using a cordless phone). My head hurts.
How long do you think it will take Gina to meet Bobby?
Hmmm. Yesterday I could have sworn that Desk Clerk was NY Yankees broadcaster John Sterling. Today, he seems to have morphed into KitKat's "fussy, supercilious" fellow from an old movie.
Still hoping for mob-related denouement, preferably at Arena, although a riot of Santa Royale soccer hooligans would do nicely as well.
Things Gina can do to get noticed:1)Stuff bra-she needs it. 2)Bake herself like a pretzel in a tanning bed. 3)Get a "tramp stamp" and other assorted tattoos. 4)Color her hair and get Colored contacts. 5)CRY because no man loves the "real me"
I hope Desk Clerk can get the message down before the plant grabs him! Or it will be like the cave message scene in Monty Python and the Holy Grail.
And why is Hina cupping that shrub? Is she secretly signalling the plant behind Hotel Desk?
I noticed the bell too, KitKat.
--Beagle Vet
@Kit Kat: the desk clerk strikes me as very Paul Lynde.
If everyone is "in town" for the BIG GAME, how slow is life outside Santa Royale?!
Dave in Parma, I'm in NE Ohio too!
I can't wait to see the packed stands at Santa Royale Stadium or Arena! (Is this outdoor or indoor soccer?) I'm hoping to see Mary, Wilbur, Dawn, Toby, Ian, Jeff, Drew, Adrian, and Scott all decked out in their Santa Royale Soccer Team regalia. Won't they be stunned when Gina rushes onto the pitch!
I believe that Santa Royale has one, and only one, soccer match each year - hence the Big Game.
Gina offers sympathies because the hotel, during these difficult economic times, is full and very busy with paying customers? Odd.
This just in: Hank Williams Jr is going to sing "Are You Ready for Some Soccer" at Big Game in two or one days.
Meg, given Hank Jr.'s recent remarks, I can't wait to hear his comments about Bobby Black!
@meg--if Hank is in town to sing at the soccer game, maybe he could make a stop at the Charterstone pool party. A little Bocephus would liven things up there.
@kitkat--I believe there's a few of us here. I'm in the hilly south end of town.
As long as we're being (somewhat) topical, will that stinking soccer game finally be played in two Friedman units? (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedman_(unit))
Dave in Parma-
Charterstone Pool Boy would resign in protest if Hank Jr. swam. He would be in violation of the one-bearded man at a time regulation. (Unless Ian stayed home that day).
WV: extraman
What are the odds!
Punky, I almost spit up my juice! The comment board should come with a warning: Do not eat or drink while reading this as it may lead to choking.
Gina is certainly a Goofus when it comes to her work habits! (So says the guy reading Mary Worth and Me at work.)
WV: "routo," as in "What the heck kinda routo is this storyline going?"
Does Stadium's pro shop sell support stockings with the Santa Royale Support Sox logo on them? Just imagine how many they could sell!!!
I will be VERY disappointed if we don't see at least one crowd shot showing Professor Chinbeard, Jeff, and Mary all wearing their special logo'ed hosiery.
Before Mob Hit begins using Blimp, of course.
--Beagle Vet
Beagle Vet, would Mob Hit look like that action-packed siege which killed Adrian's fiancee police officer?
@Punky--that phone had a cord a few days ago.
Will Gina get a new Apple 4S? There would be no "but will it"--she could much more efficiently stalk using one of those Forusquare style GPS "where are my frineds now" stalking aps.
James, I'm thinking more of a CGI special, with Mobster hijacking Blimp and using it as a gun platform as it dives at high speed (40 mph) toward Bleachers, while Other Mobsters surround Hina and her father, who suddenly reappears out of nowhere.
Now if I could just figure out a way to bring in space aliens and Aldo Kelrast, we'd have Perfect Summer Blockbuster! And at the rate this "storyline" is unfolding, next summer is about when Game will start.
Also, I don't think any good guys actually died during Shootout. Hospital Hi-Fi compensated for all of the poor medical care provided by the humans, and saved Fiancee. I believe he and Adrian are still on Honeymoon.
Maybe they're at the fashion shows in Paris, where Adrian is getting hair care tips from Anna Wintour.
--Beagle Vet
Beagle Vet, I thought that Adrian had after that creepy con man, she fell in love with a police officer who was fatally wounded in the shoot out. Then, she fell for his doctor or a doctor in the hospital?
If, as some have speculated, Desk Clerk is going to inform Mob of Gina's whereabouts, it got me wondering...How would a Mob minion even know who is on Mob's hit list, especially after 10 years?
Is there a special Mobhitlist.com site they can access to check up on everyone's name? Would they kill Gina and her invisible father after all this time?
If anyone knows, please tell me so that I can check you out on RICOhitlist.com. Thanks.
The statute of limitations has run out on a mob rub out. Per the Official Mob Hit Handbook, the worst injury that may be inflicted after ten years is a choice between broken thumbs and broken knee caps.
James in North Dakota at 11:42 a.m. on October 6, Adrian's fiance, Scott the detective, was wounded in the warehouse shootout but survived. He pulled through, thanks to Adrian's medical care. Which surprised me to no end because Adrian is a total ditz who probably got her medical degree from an offshore diploma mill. When we last saw Adrian and Scott, they were embarking on their honeymoon. Who knows, maybe Gina will crash into them in the lobby of the Santa Royale Hilton as she rides her skateboard searching for Bobby.
KitKat, your post made me think of an alternate scenario.
Gina will be riding her skateboard in Hotel Parking Lot, trying to get Bobby's attention.
Mobster, alerted by Hotel Clerk, will start shooting at her. She will panic and veer right at Team Bus, which will run her over.
Gina will die in Bobby's arms in the ER, because Dr. Adrian's helmet hair will get stuck covering her eyes, and Hospital Hi-Fi, disabled by hair spray fumes, will be unable to save Gina.
Meanwhile, Detective Mr. Adrian will fail to apprehend Mobster because a carnivorous mob-informant plant will attack.
--Beagle Vet
My neighborhood was without internet service for much of the day. I am deeply embarrassed that my greatest concern was that I would miss the reunion of Bobby and Hina. What was I thinking? That's a good six weeks off.
Dave in Parma - yesterday I likened the strip to Highlights magazine (isn't Wilbur the perfect Goofus, all grown up?), and today's strip puts me in mind of Nancy Drew, and her bestselling Case of the Disappearing Phone Cord. There's a cord! No cord! And today: a cord! Bess and George, let's get right on this; perhaps Ned Nickerson can drive us to Hotel to investigate, in his sporty coupe.
Something else I'm put in mind of today, reading the comments: we're all sitting here impatiently waiting for something to happen, and everyone is coming up with such fun and interesting theories. We're like a toddler who's given a really boring present but amuses himself for the rest of the day playing with the box it came in.
WV: Alnet, the defunct phone company that is sponsoring this defunct storyline.
Well, I'm really pathetic, because I just looked up tomorrow's strip and now have to post about it.
Bellhop apparently can't distinguish between "5" and "9", and Desk Clerk didn't catch it. Too bad 1045 will be Manager's room, and he will just laugh at the message and then eat it.
Meanwhile, Bobby is about 45 years old and apparently uses the same hair care products as Dr. Drew.
But at least he isn't wearing a houndstooth sportcoat.
Will Desk Clerk connect the middle-aged man in front of him to the message left for Bobby Black, and do his part to help the lovers meet up again?
Or will Hina's message, now being used as a baton by drum-major-gait Bellhop, simply vanish into Manager's maw?
And why is there a gigantic marijuana plant on Hotel Desk? Is it part of Hospital's medical marijuana outpatient program?
--Beagle Vet
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