One of the things I really like about this strip is the timelessness of it. I first read it as a kid in the 1970’s when your dad wrote it, and it was one of my favorites back then. Brutus and family could be living now or 50 years ago.
Well, having the baseball stuck in a tree is better than saying “I threw the ball at it and I broke your bedroom window!” (Not speaking from experience)
I remember walking to the corner grocery store with my mom one summer day back in the late 60’s. We started talking about our favorite daily comic strip. She said hers was a Born Loser gag where Brutus let the guy behind him go ahead of him in line at the grocery store because he only had one item and that guy wins a big prize for being the store’s 10 thousandth customer (or thereabouts). I found out years later it was the very first gag that Chip gave his father that was published! Keep up the good work Chipster!!
C over 1 year ago
No chicken dinner for you
AllishaDawn over 1 year ago
What about a boomerang?
Renatus Profuturus Frigeridus Premium Member over 1 year ago
Try with a pole.
Ahuehuete over 1 year ago
One of the things I really like about this strip is the timelessness of it. I first read it as a kid in the 1970’s when your dad wrote it, and it was one of my favorites back then. Brutus and family could be living now or 50 years ago.
angelolady Premium Member over 1 year ago
Once you get all your toys up in the tree, do not throw Kewpie Dog at it.
Ricky Bennett over 1 year ago
I’ll bet there’s a certain kite up there, too…
Wilde Bill over 1 year ago
I was going to suggest throwing the bat next.
KLSeering over 1 year ago
Well, having the baseball stuck in a tree is better than saying “I threw the ball at it and I broke your bedroom window!” (Not speaking from experience)
fuzzbucket Premium Member over 1 year ago
Throw the kid up there to get everything.
wjones over 1 year ago
One more thing. Shake the tree.
GROG Premium Member over 1 year ago
Try a basketball.
adadmp over 1 year ago
I remember walking to the corner grocery store with my mom one summer day back in the late 60’s. We started talking about our favorite daily comic strip. She said hers was a Born Loser gag where Brutus let the guy behind him go ahead of him in line at the grocery store because he only had one item and that guy wins a big prize for being the store’s 10 thousandth customer (or thereabouts). I found out years later it was the very first gag that Chip gave his father that was published! Keep up the good work Chipster!!
cubswin2016 over 1 year ago
I guess trees don’t just eat kites anymore.
Meg: All Seriousness Aside over 1 year ago
♫ “I don’t know why she swallowed the fly… perhaps she’ll die.” ♫
The Reader Premium Member over 1 year ago
Back the car into the tree and see it that shakes anything loose.
CorkLock over 1 year ago
Send Hurricane Hattie up after it. The tree will give up it’s loot and more. Guaranteed!
Doug Taylor Premium Member over 1 year ago
A Frisbee eating tree. I love comic crossovers intentional or not.
Chris over 1 year ago
how about you use a chainsaw to cut down the tree… or just use a ladder and climb up and get it yourself.
Little Caesar over 1 year ago
Blastthatflabberapthedirtyfilipackalomer!
rhpii over 1 year ago
Have mother Gargle fly up on her broom and get them.
oakie817 over 1 year ago
your turn Brutus
e.groves over 1 year ago
Call the fire department.
e.groves over 1 year ago
The tree is only six feet tall.
MuddyUSA Premium Member over 1 year ago
There goes his day…up a tree!
mckeonfuneralhomebx over 1 year ago
Frisbees just go on their own basically straigh path.. Get that kid a boomarang!
flemmingo over 1 year ago
Throw a cat up there and when fire department comes to get cat down you can get them to get your frisbee and ball.
julie.mason1 Premium Member over 1 year ago
Like father, like son.
raybarb44 over 1 year ago
Been there and done something similar myself in my youth. Learned my lesson. It’s the price of education. You will never make that mistake again…..
preacherman over 1 year ago
Note to Brutus: keep this kid away from trees.
hooglah over 1 year ago
Get the chainsaw and cut it down.
Olddog04 over 1 year ago
Along with the cat, the kite, etc…..
Bill D. Kat Premium Member over 1 year ago
That’s definitely a football task.
andersjg Premium Member over 1 year ago
We had a badminton racket stuck in the big tree in the front yard for years.
paranormal over 1 year ago
Then throw your tennis shoes at it…
buckman-j over 1 year ago
True fiction; this just happened with one of my grandkids. We’ll find them when the tree is pruned around november
cuzinron47 over 1 year ago
Got any more sports equipment you want to lose?
KEA over 1 year ago
reminds me of a scene in I.Q.
Moonkey Premium Member over 1 year ago
When my older brother did things like that, I went up the tree and got them down. I tried to drop them on his head.
Buckeye67 over 1 year ago
Well Wilberforce you are just going to have to wait for a good wind storm to retrieve your sporting equipment.
gopher gofer over 1 year ago
maybe he can borrow the trebuchet from dill’s brothers…
Lightpainter Premium Member over 1 year ago
Brutus, you should be glad the baseball didn’t go through your window.
Brent Rosenthal Premium Member over 1 year ago
He still has two shoes on…
wiatr over 1 year ago
Yep, they’re related.