As with any question, the answer is typically “It depends who you ask”. So now, when we ask “What do we do now?” it really depends on who you ask. If you ask the Inspectors, you get one answer, and if you ask the guys in the bar, you get another. Aaaaand everything in between.
Sorry for the continued delays!
Duke is an instigator. I mean, remember his team at The Great Stanky Creek OutdoorFest? It wasn’t called “Them Duke Boys” for nothing. He instigated that, and then stirred up trouble until it was just easier to keep that name than any of the others that people wanted. He laaauuuughed about that! And now, he’s trying to get Mal beat up and Ron possibly locked up. He probably hasn’t thought it that far through… probably just got as far as “I bet I can start a fight between the biggest guy here and the smallest guy here” and let it rip at that.
But here at the Buck’s Pass Bar, it’s all about who can pay what. Now. So, fight or no fight, there’s drinks to sell. Who’s buying?
“Well, I’m back.”
Three guesses as to the name of the book that used that as its final words.
Apologies for the long, long, loooong delay. Life had to be lived, bills had to be paid, work had to get deadlined.
So- anyone remember where we were? It was a dark and stormy night. Something like that. Ryan and his brother Mal, and Mal’s close friend Shelley, are driving to the fishing cabin where they were expected by Ryan’s fishing buddies. Their names, according to the cartoon above, include “Big Ron”. And according to your memories of The Great Stanky Creek Outdoorfest Part 2, the other fisherman would be Duke. He must have been the guy filling out the Stanky Creek paperwork, too, ’cause the name of their team was “Them Duke Boys.” and you can’t trust Duke to fill out paperwork without some antic being perpetrated.
I don’t think I ever wrote that into the cartoons. That’s just background for you. (“Background” means stuff I meant to include in the story, then didn’t have room or inclination for)
Also, if anyone knows how to dig into the Dashboard on these dang websites and get things working correctly, by all means, get in touch and tell me how to fix this one.
Mal is NOT the kind of person to take to a new hobby all of a sudden, do you think?
His familiarity with the concept seems lacking, somehow.
We can only hope that Shelly won’t judge him harshly.
It’s tough, knowing yourself the way others know you. Mal is discovering what people outside his head think of him, and that’s a jarring experience for people who think they’ve got a good bead on the World.
I’m crankier in the real world than I am inside my head.
How about you? Have you made this voyage of discovery yet? What did you learn?
Somebody once told Mal the old saying “What do you hate? By such are you known” but Mal thought the guy was being closed minded and snotty, so Mal didn’t listen to him and figured he was just stupid.
Little brother Ryan, though, must have realized at some point that the things about other people that irk you the most are typically that things that irk you the most about yourself.
I should do a whole thing with Dr. Whobris. That’d be funny, and not at all so specific that it’d severely restrict the number of readers who would enjoy it.
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