Sunday Funnies - Herbie Outofit

No Reason. I just thought it was clever. Things ain't what they used to be. (In fact, they never was.) The Profile (more than you really wanted to know) is here.

Herbie Outofit started his band from members of the Eden High School music department and sewing club. He said they would all be paid volunteers, only part of which was true. Herbie knew he was catering to calamity when he added two clarinet players from Carlsbad Caverns to his all Cornet cluster. Band members were already belly-aching because Herbie himself only beat a battered bass drum. “Why should he be the leader?” They all asked, “He can’t keep time, can’t read music and never learned to march.” Most vocal was valve-trombonist Loren “Lips” Lydecker, standing second from left. He groused at every rehearsal gathering. Finally Herbie threatened to hide Loren’s trombone mute, a torn turquoise toque Loren took on tour. No other warning was needed. Loren was silenced but never got over it. As his mother had indeed warned, his face froze that way. He never married. And his dog ran away. Farley “Fat-Fingers” Fortescue, top left, consistently misplaced his Sousaphone and had to march at the rear making raspberry noises with his tongue The unrest persisted in the band however and word spread like feral felines at a fish fry. Parade gigs came fewer and fewer. Finally Herbie and the gang were reduced to playing the Monty Python theme at the Porcine Mud Wrestling events in downtown Piedmont, Oklahoma. The end of the dream was in sight when Herbie fell in love with one of the mud wrestling contestants and was never in another parade. He was seen at a few county fairs however. Brad Pitt was credited but did not appear in the picture.

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