*based on a true story
.. Obviously there wasn’t a genie involved in the true version of the story ... but the rest is true… based on a conversation I had with Neil at work.
He’d read that Robbie Fowler (yay Robbie) has become something of a property magnate, with houses all across the country. We decided that’s probably why he doesn’t get many games lately, it must be hard to play football when houses keep sticking to you.
Boo! Stop it! It was funny, yes, but it’s lost all it’s charm. You could have done that strip with the original monkeys like us!
Go back to the original format already!!!
<JVegas>
Monkeh!
Monkeh!
Monkeh!
</JVegas>
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... You see magnate sounds like magnet ... and a property magnet would stick to houses… and ..
meh, if you’ve had to read this comment to understand the strip then the joke was clearly far worse than it was meant to be.