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about 21 hours ago on Crankshaft

I have to say, Batiuk is certainly going through his “Dinkle Conducts a High School Band and Is Displeased with Their Performance” joke file like he’s never used them before.
about 23 hours ago on Crankshaft

“Kids, you’ve got trouble! Right there in Centerville City! Trouble with a capital T that rhymes with D, and that stands for Dinkle!”
1 day ago on Crankshaft

Now that’s funny. Thanks for the look back, OutofthePast.
2 days ago on Crankshaft

Hahaha, it’s funny because Dinkle’s always been an insensitive, ego-driven, tyrannical buffoon with no thought of encouraging or educating the children entrusted to his tutelage.
3 days ago on Crankshaft

Actually, Harry, it was lyricist Joseph Mohr who called the poem he wrote “Silent Night.” Mohr then asked composer Franz Xaver Gruber to write a melody to accompany his words so they could play the new song at an 1818 Christmas Eve Mass in the Austrian town of Oberndorf. Maybe if you studied composers other than Claude Barlow you’d know this.
3 days ago on Crankshaft

I guess Gent just couldn’t bear any more Dinkle.
Look what reading Batiuk has done to me.
3 days ago on Crankshaft

God bless us, everyone…especially Cranky.
4 days ago on Crankshaft

And the joke here is…an elderly man wants to keep teens locked up in school overnight?
Whatever today’s non-joke is, the question I’d like to ask Batiuk is “Why is the December Dinkle Arc Taking Place in Centerville High Instead of Westview?” Wouldn’t it have been another quarter-inch closer to reality to have a story where Becky and her hubby DSH John are spending Christmas in Disney World, Hawaii, or some other exotic vacation locale, and she asks her old mentor to fill in for the two weeks or so leading up to the Holiday Concert? Harry would be back at his old stomping grounds. We could see the Grady twins and maybe some of long-forgotten FW folk (like, say, Cayla at the front desk instead of Nameless Centerville Secretary). And the school’s willingness to let him take over would have made a bit of sense, instead of Dinkle just walking into a situation and, entitled smugface that he is, getting exactly what he wants. Oh, well, at least one more week of this nonsense to go.
5 days ago on Crankshaft

Good luck. Maybe Ed will show up in a Sunday throwaway.
5 days ago on Crankshaft

Even Harry’s own mouth cannot believe the inane things it’s forced to say, and it spends most of Panel Three trying to escape his face and finally be free. Would that we would likewise be rid of Dinkle tomorrow, but obviously Batiuk will be stretching this out for at least another week.