"Hi, Tommy. It's me, Zak. Iris asked me to check on you because she's fat and tired now. I'm your new dad!"
They are the EXACT same age!
"Hi, Tommy. It's me, Zak. Iris asked me to check on you because she's fat and tired now. I'm your new dad!"
They are the EXACT same age!
Oh boy, are we in for a week of Iris moping while Zak asks what he can do? With each passing day, Iris gets larger and larger. Instead of moping like a five year old that doesn't get the toy they want, how about seeing another doctor? Is everyone in Worthverse an idiot?
ReplyDeleteI'm sorry I didn't get in on the Geritol talk yesterday. I do remember the commercials on Ted Mack's Original Amateur hour too. (My mother watched it religiously.) Anyway, I remember Ted Mack shilling Geritol for people with "tired POOR blood." I didn't know what tired poor blood was, but I was such a mark when it came to commercials and asked my mother to buy Geritol. She explained to me that it was "just for old people." Well, I guess my blood is "tired" and "poor". Do they even still make Geritol? There are days when, like Iris I can use it.
I am humbled. I thought Zak would be dumping Iris. But he's shaping up to be a real champ.
ReplyDeleteRegina, I just spent 30 seconds of my life which I'll never get back looking up Geritol on Wikipedia.The very first sentence: "Geritol is a United States trademarked name for various dietary supplements, past and present." So I guess it's still on the market.
That's how to talk to my wife, but she's only FOUR years older than me.
ReplyDeleteGeritol was basically an iron supplement, but it turned out that very few people were really short on iron, and the doses in vitamins were high enough that small children thinking they were candy were dying. So they still sell the stuff, but can't make any serious claims.
ReplyDeleteLOL Mrvy. I made a mistake. It was "IRON poor blood", not tired. I too went back and looked it up LOL. (Tired poor blood is funnier though.)
ReplyDeleteI went back and reread the comic. I missed the part about Tommy. Why, I don't know. Just "tired poor blood", I guess. Anyway, it made me think of the movie "Easy Money" with Rodney Dangerfield. His daughter marries this Hispanic guy (played by the late great Taylor Negron) and Rodney's daughter and him are at the reception. Rodney shakes hands with him and in this stereotypical Latin voice, he says "Now can I call you dad?" I wish with all that is in me that Tommy would say that to Zak.
I couldn't find the clip to the above, but here's another one with the same thing:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F53OuH8YukM
ReplyDelete"Hi, Tommy."
"What do YOU want?"
"Your mom asked me to check in on you."
"Oh, did she now? Well check on THIS, creep. Beat it."
"Now, Tommy . . . "
[PUNCH!]
-- Scottie McW.
I see from the flashback link Wanders provided that Zak's eyes used to be bright blue.
ReplyDeleteZak, women have been going through this for hundreds of thousands of years, ordering a happy meal to go or sticking your head in Tommy's room, to remind him to brush his teeth, isn't going to change a thing.
ReplyDeleteToday's Boldface Haiku is titled
ReplyDelete"Menopause: It Makes Martyrs Of Us All".
More.
Special meals...run errands...
Tommy...
No! Hands full!
Company, work!
Never you!
“I’m never too busy for YOU, mom! Oops, I meant Iris....”
ReplyDeleteWhat a pithy and dramatic BFH today (both Nance’s title and the haiku itself) - my oh my.
Thanks for the flashback, Wanders. Not only does it remind us that Zak and Tommy are the same age, it proves that Iris isn’t the only one looking older and heavier. Maybe Zak should swap the vino for a glass of Geritol.
Zak will surprise Iris by buying her a new Peloton exercise bike.
ReplyDeleteHey Iris, that extra chin you have doesn’t look so good with a turtleneck.
ReplyDeleteAt least the old Zak looked old enough to be sporting that coarse bristly stubble. New Zak looks way too young - perhaps he's gluing the whiskers that Iris plucks (hairy face of menopause) onto his own face, trying to look like a real adult.
ReplyDeleteRegina Wolfe-Parks, it is now my goal to use "tired, poor blood" in a sentence before day's end. Much funnier than "iron-poor blood."
ReplyDeleteNance, so glad your tumble and injuries didn't dull your wit, but more important, I'm glad you're recovering!
Downpuppy, I seem to remember the "children are dying from ingesting Geritol" scare, when I was a child myself, mid to late 1960s. Frankly, I was no more tempted by my grandmother's Geritol than I was by her Postum.
THURSDAY
ReplyDeleteIris is spreading out at such an alarming rate, Zak will be squeezed out of the panels by Sunday.
Tomorrow: Iris sits on the sofa burping after eating an entire jar of Nutella with a spoon.
I wonder if Professor Cameron ever worries that his age (not to mention his ponderous bulk, which the rapidly inflating Iris is still nowhere close to matching) is "hindering" Toby from a dynamic youthful life of making plasticine horses?
ReplyDeleteAh ne’er worry abit anythin’ except hoo much water o’ life (Auld Macallan) Ah hae left in th’ bottle, an’ when mah Hogmanay haggis will arrive in th’ mail, Missy Little Nell.
ReplyDeleteOne water glass and one wine glass? I call foreshadowing.
ReplyDeleteI think — I almost want to say I hope, after the whole interaction with the horrible doctor — that Iris has something truly and horribly wrong with her, given how quickly she’s ballooning up.
ReplyDeleteAs a character, she’s had a tough go of it, and wouldn’t it be great if Mary could just give her a couple Benadryl and congratulate her for not dating Wilbur?
The way Iris is ballooning up with each passing day, she and Wilbur will be the same unattractive size.
ReplyDeleteNot to put too fine a point on it, but the exact name of the problem Geritol was designed to fight was "iron-poor tired blood."
ReplyDeleteHas anyone else noticed Iris’s striking resemblance to a certain 2016 president candidate?
ReplyDelete-Noreen