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Metapost: Red carpet treatment!

I keep forgetting to put this picture up, and now that I look at it again, I don’t know why, ’cause it’s so awesome. Yes, that’s faithful reader Moon Mullins in his super-awesome, faithful-reader-willethompson-designed MARGO! BOXCAR! SATURN! t-shirt at this year’s Cannes film festival, under the benevolent gaze of close personal friend Morgan Freeman.

Have you worn your Comics Curmudgeon gear somewhere exciting? Send me a picture! Coming later this week: the epic tale of an epic Scrabble tournament, which involved several Comics Curmudgeon-themed costume changes.

This entry was posted on Tuesday, June 19, 2007 at 10:12 am and is filed under metaposts.

112 responses to “Metapost: Red carpet treatment!”

Jamus The Bartender
June 19th, 2007 at 10:14 am [Reply]

Is that Morgan Freeman in the background?
Anon
June 19th, 2007 at 10:20 am [Reply]

Bonus points if you can get a pic of Morgan Freeman in cheap and tawdry Comics Curmudgeon gear.
AnonyMossMoses
June 19th, 2007 at 10:37 am [Reply]

3. Willie, great pose. You should be in movies.

Doc Jeff is recuperating very nicely. In fact he’s lost a good 20 years off his age. At this rate there won’t be enough guests to eat all the tofu briquettes.

As for forensic ubiquiduck science, that is Mark Trail’s specialty and he will skin, gut and analyze that duck in no time flat. WHAT’S this? There’s a piece of facial hair in the dead ubiquiduck’s stomach that matches the mustache on the evil comish.
Dean Booth
June 19th, 2007 at 10:39 am [Reply]

Nice pic! Hey, Moon, are you the one they always talk about in TIDET?

In other news, MT: Sleuthing for the Truth.
Dean Booth
June 19th, 2007 at 10:45 am [Reply]

#2: Here’s the Moon pic slightly improved.
Hogen Mogen
June 19th, 2007 at 10:47 am [Reply]

If Mark Trail finds an eye hook on the duck, will he suddenly conclude that Sam is really uninjured, but faking it for the insurance money? Just wondering.
Allie Cat
June 19th, 2007 at 10:49 am [Reply]

#5 – I always wondered if Morgan was a hat man. Now I know.

Also, I like how casual Moon is, given that he’s at the Cannes Film Fest. If I were there, I’d be going margoing batshit.
Hogen Mogen
June 19th, 2007 at 10:50 am [Reply]

Foob: Becky has pledged to perform pro bono but that skeevy drummer Gerald demands A HUNDRED AND FIFTY BUCKS for his talents as a drummer for an unsigned, no talent band. Yeah, that’s giving to the charity, Ger. Is Hoo-Boy your manager?
D.A.Pennington
June 19th, 2007 at 10:51 am [Reply]

Today’s FOOB: Geez, how selfish is Apewill?

“No, I’m not interested in helping the tards out because I have to share a stage with Becca and Gerrald the skieve.”

Jeepers, what’s next?

You need to sign a rider that I get my own dressing room and no brown M&M’s in the candy bowl?

Get over yourself.
Jives
June 19th, 2007 at 10:59 am [Reply]

A Scrabble tournament?
How absurd.
This is certainly not something that I would be a part of in my office environment, nor promote using all of the meager resources at my disposal. And I absolutely would not have enjoyed every minute of it when when we did it a couple months ago.
And no, I don’t recommend it to others, so stop asking.
Proteus
June 19th, 2007 at 11:01 am [Reply]

“If you’re not a physician, WHAT are you?”

(80’s euro-beat kicks in, June throws off the shirt, grabs the mic and…)

I’m a goddess
Well I’m a virgin
I’m a blue movie
I’m a bitch
I’m a geisha
I’m a little girl
And we make love together

I’m a boy
Well I’m your mother
I’m a one night stand
Am I bi
I’m a slave
I’m a little girl
And we make love together

I’m a teaser
Well I’m a virgin
I’m a one night stand
I’m a drug
Well I’m your slave
I’m a dream divine
And we make love together

I’m a goddess
I’m a hooker
I’m a blue movie
I’m a slut
I’m a geisha
I’m babe
I’m a dream divine

Now WHAT are you, bitch-boy?
gh
June 19th, 2007 at 11:11 am [Reply]

A . D. [nÃ©e B. C.] â€“

In fairness, I tried to think if I would find this funny if it appeared in another strip. The first panel is simply incomprehensible: a fantastic digestive system? And itâ€™s downhill from there. The only character who could pass small change and not be grossly offensive would be Marvin, because frankly, it would be a step up.
andreavis
June 19th, 2007 at 11:21 am [Reply]

GT: Uh-oh, looks like Clambake is shrinking, a la Julia from FOOB! What horrible thing could this mean?

Oh, and Happy Birthday Garfield! I love ya, you lasagna-swilling tub o’cat!
AnonyMossMoses
June 19th, 2007 at 11:23 am [Reply]

3. Wow, those synapses are misfiring! Not only did I put 3. in the post as though I were responding to my own post (like I’m doing now) but for some unknown reason, I thought that was faithful reader Willie Thompson in the pic. My apologies.

Moon Mullins, great shot. How are you at forensic ubiquiduck science? There is a certain je ne say kwah in that image that resembles David Caruso.
Emily Post
June 19th, 2007 at 11:23 am [Reply]

Mister Booth! I must inform you of the serious breach of etiquette that appeared in your most recent Mark Trail mash-up. In polite society, when extracting the contents of a duck’s colon, one’s lips should never make contact with the animal’s ass. It is always proper to use a straw!
Harrrumph!
Justafoob
June 19th, 2007 at 11:28 am [Reply]

Here’s hoping everyone can attend ‘tardapallooza this Satruday.

The Hell’s Angels will be on hand to make sure that things don’t get out of hand.
willethompson
June 19th, 2007 at 11:37 am [Reply]

BWAx9HA! on Dean Booth’s retouch (above) and Josh’s letter from Jeff Corey on the yesterthread! Those stupid letters clog my mailbox daily… does ANYONE respond to them??
gh
June 19th, 2007 at 11:55 am [Reply]

#17 willethompson

does ANYONE respond to them??

Who has time? I spend most of the day forwarding my “Ejaculate like a porn star” spam to Dingo.
AhClem
June 19th, 2007 at 12:06 pm [Reply]

#4 Dean Booth -
That Trail strip is disturbing on many levels, not the least of which is that it’s a male mallard.

Is that all you do all day, play around with Photoshop and make silly alterations to comics and photos?

If so, thank you!
Oâ€™Fogeyette
June 19th, 2007 at 12:06 pm [Reply]

Oh, crap, the last thread ended already and I didn’t even do it.

Reposting:

33 yesterthread Perky Bird: …which, of course, is why Mark needs to find an eider hook to solve the mystery….
Gabe
June 19th, 2007 at 12:07 pm [Reply]

I really need to send my M!B!S! pic into Josh. Once I update my beer blog. And scan those results of paper telephone. And study for my advancement exam. And spanish class. And catch up on tivo. And get to wrestling class. And the gym. And…
Marion Delgado
June 19th, 2007 at 12:19 pm [Reply]

I see my job here as reassuring distraught Apartment 3-G fans. Please don’t worry about Luann. The entire plot thread so far has been a set-up for a great exchange coming up between Margo and Tommie.

Tommie: *Sob* But Luann has no measurable brain activity, Margo!

Margo: Yes, but is anything actually wrong with her? This IS Luann we’re talking about!

Listen, Tommie, as long as her family foots the bill and you and I have no pressing need for new kidneys or corneas, don’t you DARE pull the plug. If Luann pulls through this she’ll owe months of back rent, you know!
Uncle Lumpy
June 19th, 2007 at 12:25 pm [Reply]

#17 wille –

People respond to 419 scams, forward their lives’ savings, and even travel to Nigeria to be bilked further and even held for ransom. Here is an FAQ, from the redoubtable 419 Eater scam-the-scammers site.

Warning: productivity killer, browse at own risk.
TB Tabby
June 19th, 2007 at 12:29 pm [Reply]

GEEZ! This is TWICE that I finally post something only to discover that everyone else has moved on!

Not to take away from Moon’s photo, but I’ve got more news: Mallard Fillmore makes headlines at Snopes.com!
Mountain Mama
June 19th, 2007 at 12:31 pm [Reply]

Moon Mullins! Nice pic! And may I say, quite handsome, too!

Before I forget, Josh, have fun in New York and good luck!

Finally, we continue to see the white “pictures” in today’s MW. Mary has hung these brainwashing portals everywhere she has access. Dr. Jeff will be going to that pool party, have no doubt. Mary wills it.
SecretMargo
June 19th, 2007 at 1:01 pm [Reply]

Remind me again why Hugh is a jerk? What has he done?

a) He calls his new stepmom a “nanny,” and implies that having sex with the CEO is not relevant experience for someone wanting to become the CEO.

b) He mistakes someone who meets him at the airport and acts as his consierge and chauffeur for being an employee, expecting him to take his bags for him.

c) He has a complicated relationship with his father, who seems to have sent him off to a distant boarding school for much of his life, and with his stepmother, who just wrenched away control of his father’s company by conspiring to delay his arrival at a stockholder’s meeting.

d) He is shown resisting the urgings of his more unscrupulous friends, who want him to take over the company through violent or at least illegal means. He, seemingly appalled at the suggestion, refuses.

e) He looooooooves fish and chips.

f) He fires off another “nanny” remark when he meets June, which is clearly more of a jab at his stepmother, and then sincerely asks what she actually does. Getting huffy for being mistaken for a health care professional with more training/status than she actually has, June plays coy and refuses to answer his question, making him repeat it again.

I would love to hate Hugh, but I gotta say: huh? His greatest sin seems to be failing to psychically ascertain the relative statuses of the Morgans, whom when he meets are either withholding information as part of plan expressly designed to decieve him, or as part of some sort of aversion to saying the word “nurse” (that’s what she actually is, right?). He’s not even really brusque anymore, as far as I can see, just kind of confused and grasping at straws, which makes him more like an audience surrogate at this point (filling in for the dog). Am I missing something?

At any rate, I just want them to skip ahead to Rex and Hugh’s inevitable angry, angry sex scene, which June’s going videotape in order blackmail him into releasing Heather from the underground white-slavery babysitting bondage his impatient henchman will inevitably put her in. Is that too much to ask?
Brigid Keely
June 19th, 2007 at 1:04 pm [Reply]

Hey, guys. Sup?

Rex Morgan, MD, would like to talk with you about your pregnancy, using exclamation! marks! after! each! sentence!

http://www.ep.tc/problems/one/index.html
SecretMargo
June 19th, 2007 at 1:06 pm [Reply]

14: I concur that Moon is doing quite a mean Caruso lean in that picture. TrÃ¨s debonnaire!
John C Fremont
June 19th, 2007 at 1:13 pm [Reply]

# 14 – I thought Moon was doing his Vincent D’Onofrio/Law and Order pose. Very effective.

Okay, so Hugh Avery is not trying out for Camelot in the last panel. He’s trying out for Man of La Mancha;

To right the unrightable wrong
To love pure and chaste from afar
To try when your arms are too weary
If you’re not a physician, then what are -

you?
Trotzenbonnie
June 19th, 2007 at 1:15 pm [Reply]

Wow! It’s not easy to upstage Morgan Freeman but I believe Moon Mullins has done it.
Hubba hubba!
Anonymous
June 19th, 2007 at 1:35 pm [Reply]

Rex Morgan Freeman – MD – NAACP
Calico
June 19th, 2007 at 1:38 pm [Reply]

My pic w/MBS shirt forthcoming, in about the time it takes to complete a MW story arc. ; )
BluelineGoddess
June 19th, 2007 at 2:01 pm [Reply]

I saw a license plate today that I wish I could have taken a picture of to share with all of the Curmudgeons here…

The plate itself said “PLUGERS”. Of course I immediately thought of the old dog and his chicken-wife. I get next to the car and the plate is obviously a reference to the comic, as the people are human versions on the dog and chicken couple.

The only thing that didn’t fit in with the Pluggers theme was the car itself – Lexus SUV. Wonder how many old TVs they had to pawn for the down payment on that?
True Fable
June 19th, 2007 at 2:17 pm [Reply]

#26 SecretMargo: You are absolutely spot-on about poor Hugh. The guy can’t catch a break. Now just watch, he’s been trying to get with the program all this time, and the ONE time he’s going to do something out of line or uncalled for, say, he’ll find out Rex is a doctor instead of a chauffeur and punch him – his father will turn up just in time to see it happen and Hugh will be cut out of the will.

I just hope he outs the whole distasteful affair in TDIET. “Howcome every time Daddy drops off the face of the earth, someone wants me to kill my stepmother? Huh-uh-uh?” Only he’d keep Scaduto busy for MONTHS.

MTCheck out the way Mark’s holding that duck in panel two: “All right, schweetheart, it’s like this. You’re gonna talk and tell me everything you know, yeah. Where’d you come from, who’s your family? Who set you up, see?” And as often as we have witnessed the ubiquiducks talking, we’ll have front row seats for the exposition!

A3G Okay everyone, listen up: Katy is Nora Mill’s Daughter. Nora Mills was married to Eric Mill’s Brother. Today Katy mistook Nora’s worry over Eric’s late return, for missing Katy’s father, Whosis Mills.

Come on, folks. It’s all right there, in mauve and lavender and pale pasty white and blue-black.

JP Is it possible to make Marie any more repulsive than she is in panel three? It’s not just the freckles; heck, I like girls with freckles, it’s very appealing. She’s just got such an over-all squashed-toad fugliness to her, it’s unbearable. Where’s Abbey and Neddy, I need sweaterpuppies to soothe my damaged eyes! Apply directly to eyesockets! Apply directly to eyesockets! Apply —
Marked Trail
June 19th, 2007 at 2:26 pm [Reply]

What I am waiting for is the Mark Trail autopsy on Mallard Fillmore.

“aaaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrgggggggggghhhhhh I have never seen so much bile in my life. It is blinding me. It burns like it is filled with alcohol.”

I see a MT Mallard Fillmore crossover strip, don’t you?

Well, screw you, you couldn’t see the forest for the trees.

Go back to your business.
cowsharky
June 19th, 2007 at 2:26 pm [Reply]

I looked up info on Mallards on the interwebs, and found this gem at Wikipedia:

“Mallards also have rates of male-male sexual activity that are unusually high for birds. In some cases, as many as 19% of pairs in a Mallard population are male-male homosexual (Bagemihl 1999).

When they pair off with mating partners, often one or several drakes will end up “left out”. This group will sometimes target an isolated female duck â€” chasing, pestering and pecking at her until she weakens (a phenomenon referred to by researchers as rape flight), at which point each male will take turns copulating with the female. Male Mallards will also occasionally chase other males in the same way. (In one documented case, a male Mallard copulated with another male he was chasing after it had been killed when it flew into a glass window).”

So, if this puts the image of MT raping the dead shemale Mallard in your minds, my work here is done…
Kip W
June 19th, 2007 at 2:28 pm [Reply]

12 (gh): Ironically, my wife had to take my daughter in for x-rays on Monday to make sure she didn’t still have the penny she swallowed last week. Nobody knows when it went, though we pretty much know where. My main concern was that I hoped it was a real penny, because it’s against the law to pass counterfeit money.
Dennis Jimenez
June 19th, 2007 at 2:34 pm [Reply]

Better watch out – Hugh is a good example of how somebody comes out when they grow up with money coming out of their butt.
Trilobite
June 19th, 2007 at 2:55 pm [Reply]

#34 True Fable — Oh jeez, you’re right. I’ve been assuming that Nora was Eric’s sister, because that way his “relationship” with Margo would be even creepier. But I guess she has to be his sister-in-law if they both have the same surname. Bummer. I was really hoping that when Margo’s coked-up rage destroyed this relationship, she’d start throwing around veiled accusations of incest at Eric and Nora, which would’ve made Nora’s head bobble right off her neck.

Now all I’ve got to look forward to is just the ordinary, everyday “Margo destroys everyone around her when they refuse to immediately subjugate themselves to her self-absorbed whims” plotline. Which is still cool, of course…any time she fangs out and slaps the boring A3G characters around is as close to fun as you can get out of this strip.
Trotzenbonnie
June 19th, 2007 at 3:13 pm [Reply]

#27 – That was hilarious! I loved the floaties around Prego’s head that indicated she was drunk and the panel with Rex hovering over a nude male patient.
Hogen Mogen
June 19th, 2007 at 3:15 pm [Reply]

#26 – Secret Margo – Yeah, you’ve pretty much summed it up, but you missed the fact that Hugh said “nanny” and said that he didn’t mean it in a derogatory way. Heather said she didn’t take it that way, since she was proud of her profession.

Heather: Yeah, he’s a jerk, all right.
June: Let’s tie him down while he’s sleeping then perform wild sexual antics on his naked body while wearing leather boots and corsets. That’ll teach him.
Heather: Spank me first, June!
June: Only if you “clean my garage” first.
AnonyMossMoses
June 19th, 2007 at 3:35 pm [Reply]

Marie used to fill out that frilly French apron really nicely the way she was drawn by the former artist. Now, Barreto draws her to look like Shannon…in a maid’s uniform and Sam Driver to look exactly like Clark Kent who is also an exact clone of Cedric the Butler. The uglification of Marie is to make Abbey and Neddy look that much better by comparison. After all, she’s just the hired help. I do appreciate Barreto’s photorealistic reproduction of sweater pups and assets, though. Now that the Marie-stery has been cleared up, who knows how Sophie’s crippled leg was healed? I’ve been reading it all along since Grandpa was squatting on Spencer Farms property with the girls and somehow, inexplicably, Sophie went from crippled to normal.
SecretMargo
June 19th, 2007 at 3:43 pm [Reply]

35, 36: Oh, we see it. And a glorious forest it is.

The scientific accounts of homosexual necrophilia amongst the ducks rounds out our musings quite nicely, I think. The collision with the windowglass detail for some reason makes it really snap into focus. Bravo on a job well *bleeeargh

The only improvement on the current MT storyline I could suggest would be to have had ol’ Buzzard mix gunpowder into his mallardy missles’ feed so that they’d explode on impact. But I guess that would have prevented the upcoming touching autopsy scene, which would have been too great a sacrifice (can we hope s/he’ll explode on the table, rendering the Sam and Mark’s current “blind-leading-the-blind” dynamic suddenly, satisfyingly literal?)
Jym
June 19th, 2007 at 4:18 pm [Reply]

=27= RMMD (Brigid Keely): June (”Miss Gale”) was apparently still in her training bra in 1980, yet she doesn’t have a 1980s haircut like she does now. In fact, she looks a bit like Captain Kangaroo ,,,
Kronkina
June 19th, 2007 at 4:24 pm [Reply]

Uh…gang? I think Mark Trail has gone a little overboard…
http://www.azcentral.com/community/scottsdale/articles/0619sr-ducks0620-ON.html
Kronkina
June 19th, 2007 at 4:26 pm [Reply]

Hmmm…did something wrong there…let’s try that again…
http://www.azcentral.com/community/scottsdale/articles/0619sr-ducks0620-ON.html
AnonyMossMoses
June 19th, 2007 at 4:48 pm [Reply]

45. Kronkina, this is a disturbing trend. The same thing happened to animals at the National Zoo and even at a local petting zoo. Sadistic punks torture and kill helpless, trapped animals for “entertainment”. Perhaps Mark’s editor, Bill Ellis, will send him to Scottsdale for his next dead duck assignment.
True Fable
June 19th, 2007 at 5:00 pm [Reply]

#46 Kronkina: Man, that article left me want to set out for AZ in a Mark Trailian Revenge Mode kicked into overdrive. No, I’m serious.

Right behind my apartment complex there’s a little pond/lake/mosquito habitat, and I’ve had the privilege to watch three sets of Canada goslings grow up this spring literally right outside my back door. They’re losing their chick down and the oldest bunch, seven of them, now have nearly all their adult feathers now. The middle three still look like they’ve been in a pillow fight, and the youngest six are still in the “chipchipchip” stage with most of their down still in place.

They are just so cute even if they do add more poo all over the walking trail around the lake, and the parent geese hiss at people who walk too close for comfort (ten feet – SSS!) and their late-night honking last winter woke me up all the time. All the other adult geese are torn between jealousy and I don’t know, I think they like having babies around because they are sure-fire food magnets from walking trail visitors. We have a big fat surly one we call the Evil Goose Overlord, and two of his surly lieutenants, who try to play Godfather about who gets bread crumbs and who doesn’t. Judicious bread tossing keeps the Evil Goose Overlord and his pals happy and the other geese fairly fed. Yeah, like the fat little year-round residents of the lake really NEED hand-feeding, right.

So not only me, but several dozen people, easily, would be incensed if a couple of asshats came in and bashed on our Canada geese. There would be groups of people hiding in the bushes all night ready to run out and toss offenders in that nasty algea-covered pondlake and keep them their using their own bats until the cops arrived to haul their sorry asses off to jail or the hospital right next door to the trail.

You just don’t do that do waterfowl; hell, you don’t do that to any creature, especially ones who can’t hold their own ball bat in defense.

I’ll pull out my own version of Fists o’ Justice, I tell you whut!
/Trail rant
WithoutaK
June 19th, 2007 at 5:20 pm [Reply]

Re-de-lurking here to say to #26 SecretMargo : Thank you! I long ago declared my membership on Team Hugh. (At least, I think I did. I may have just thought it really hard, but never actually posted it.) Being a jerk and being evil aren’t quite the same thing and what’s saddest is that I think he and Heather might come to an understanding (not that kind!) if the Morgans weren’t pulling the strings in the background.

Oh, and he looked so darn cute and perky when he saw New Mommy was making fish and chips. Loved it.
Proteus
June 19th, 2007 at 5:22 pm [Reply]

Go True Fable (#48)! I love a righteous rant, and that’s a good’un. Pass the plastic bat – I want a turn at those jerks.

Now about MT panel 2. My first thought was the scene in Airplane when Peter Graves picks up the dog and says “Well, well! Rags is a boy dog!” Yes, this makes me a bad person.

Oh, and Cowsharky (#36)? Could you talk with Dean Booth to work that info up into a Sunday Mark Trail? Don’t forget to point out that more information about… ducks… can be found on the internets.
Robert Whitaker Sirignano
June 19th, 2007 at 5:44 pm [Reply]

If we convince Mark Trail to disembowel MALLARD FILLMORE, we’d find something interesting?

Like, the duck’s got no balls…

Shannon…says…if…we…can… not… get… e… nough.. mon… ee…we…will… shave…our …head…sss…and..help…all…the..bald…women…in..the…comic…ssstrips…
True Fable
June 19th, 2007 at 5:45 pm [Reply]

DT The next mystery Dick has to solve is where his CIA spook in panel three has lost his left eyebrow. Sure, you can tell me it’s in the shadows…but that’s what they WANT you to think.

DtM Don’t think by vandalizing your neighbor’s car, that you are going to get back into MenaceWatch2007’s graces that easily, Dennis. You have a lot of mea culpa-ing to do yet, boy.

Blondie I’m going to rant on Dagwood elsewhere. For the record today, however, I miss the little single dash that usually emanates from Blondie’s head when Dag does or says something typicially Daggish. It amuses me, which is more than I can say for her piggish husband.
Kronkina
June 19th, 2007 at 5:56 pm [Reply]

#48 True Fable – True dat brother; I’m with ya. We used to live in an Arizona fake lake subdivision, and naturally there were ducks in all the little lakes. The residents hated them, and I never understood that. Why would you live around water in a desert, and not expect waterfowl to be attracted? Our neighbors even taught their 3-year-old daughter to throw rocks at the poor duckies.

Oh, yeah, and in the Spring, those babies were adorable!!
AhClem
June 19th, 2007 at 6:10 pm [Reply]

Yesterday, on my way home from work, traffic on a busy 4-lane highway near here was stopped while a mommy mallard (brown, not green-necked) and ten babies waddled across the road. It was a lot of fun to watch, and fortunately nobody was in a big enough hurry that they couldn’t wait until the ducks were safely across.

I don’t know where daddy duck was, but there is an airport close by, and … you don’t suppose?

Oh, the anasity!
Skullturf Q. Beavispants
June 19th, 2007 at 6:13 pm [Reply]

Hi everyone. I’ve recently been reading through the FBorFW archives. I know we rip on that strip a lot, and I agree with many of the complaints (e.g. I can’t stand the whole “Anthony is so wonderful” thing, and I don’t like the introduction of characters whose sole purpose is to be Evil a la Therese or Kortney).

But you know what I love, in all seriousness? The strips with the dogs! I like the way their body language and facial expressions are portrayed — cartoonified, but strongly reminiscent of real-life dogs.

Another strip, which we never seem to talk about on this site, that I find portrays dogs in an endearing way, is The Other Coast. I like the body language in this one.
Skullturf Q. Beavispants
June 19th, 2007 at 6:35 pm [Reply]

Here’s what I assume is one of the earlier occurrences of the term “Foob” with an explanation (but not necessarily the very first).

From just over three years ago, May 25th, 2004 (the day after my thirtieth birthday).
True Fable
June 19th, 2007 at 6:47 pm [Reply]

#56 Skullturf Q.: I’d have given my right leg if she had said, “Pritch”.
Fried Froid w/ Squid
June 19th, 2007 at 6:47 pm [Reply]

#56 OK, that’s a Foob defination, but what is a prag?
True Fable
June 19th, 2007 at 6:53 pm [Reply]

#53 Kronkina: Those same parents will no doubt be swearing at cops and whining about unfair judges when their precious little tyke ends up beating birds with plastic bats and gets caught. Hopefully it will be a capture by the legal system, and not by some wild-eyed cracker named True Fable.

Why do people do stuff like that, where in anyone’s book does it say, ‘encourage your child to torment innocent creatures’? Did they miss the penciled-in footnote that says, “Oh, and remember, your kids will probably get to choose which nursing home you’re going into, so you’d better spoon-feed them all the compassion and understanding for the feeble, that you can”?

It’d serve them right if they did.
True Fable
June 19th, 2007 at 6:54 pm [Reply]

#58 probably “Preach and Nag” but I like my version, “Prick and Hag”.
That's The Spirit
June 19th, 2007 at 6:55 pm [Reply]

#58. I’m guessing ‘pry’ + ‘nag’?
Trotzenbonnie
June 19th, 2007 at 7:02 pm [Reply]

#46 – Re: the Scottsdale article

What the fuck is wrong with people?

Even my dog was taught to respect life. Birds can land right on her head because, since she was a puppy, I’ve told her over and over that we don’t bother birds or cats or toads or any of the other wonderful creatures we encounter on our walkies.
And my crazy son won’t even swat a bug. He always catches ants or spiders and puts them outside. I still remember the chipmunk I accidentally ran over with my car and it happened almost 30 years ago. Aren’t parents supposed to teach their kids that hurting things is just wrong?
I don’t understand how people develop the ability to hurt something else. If you’ve been hurt yourself, then you should know better so I can’t accept that as an excuse.

Excuse me. I need to look at yesterday’s Mutts again and go love my dog so I can calm down.
Skullturf Q. Beavispants
June 19th, 2007 at 7:03 pm [Reply]

I was also thinking “drag” as an alternative to “nag”.
Jym
June 19th, 2007 at 7:31 pm [Reply]

=56= Foob (Skullturf): I believe the first appearance of “Foob” was from the day before, May 24, 2004. The May 25th strip is the official definition, though.

(To those working on the Wiki and FAQ: those are probably good links to use. Josh called out [Saturn] this year on February 7th, to which Gwampa Chinnuts added “Boxcar” on February 8th. I’m still seeking the origin of using “Margo” as an epithet, though.)
Oâ€™Fogeyette
June 19th, 2007 at 7:53 pm [Reply]

I gather there was a link to a horrible story about someone injuring or torturing or killing ducks or geese. I simply cannot even read articles about animal abuse. It is just way too upsetting to me.

May all beings be free from suffering.

See y’all sometime tomorrow.
Ukulele Ike
June 19th, 2007 at 7:56 pm [Reply]

First use of “Margo” as an epithet followed a strip in which Margo spewed cartoon obscenities like a cartoon Merchant Marine (%$#@*&%$#%!!!!!!!). Maybe five or six months back?

Meanwhile….”The Baron’s whereabouts is a top priority….except for the so-called ‘patriots’ who kidnapped his granddaughter.” What language is THIS supposed to be?

And is the Baron really wearing a string tie, a la Colonel Sanders? Does he come from the South of Germany? If Chet Gould was still in carge of “Dick Tracy,” by God, the Baron would be wearing leiderhosen, like a proper cartoon German person.
Squid Countess
June 19th, 2007 at 8:08 pm [Reply]

#33 - Re : “Plugers” vanity plate on a Lexus: Unless the car belongs to one of the talentless hacks who produce the “comic,” I’d say it’s a fishing lure reference or a butt plug reference. (Or both? Ow.)

Plugger Fossils- This very minute on Nova they are uncovering the acient bones of a “marsupial lion” and a “giant kangaroo” from the same cave. No reveal yet on which one is wearing the remnants of a trucker hat.

SecretMargo – Homosexual Necrophiliac Ducks – coolest band name ever.

Moon Mullins – Go anywhere, look however you want – you will never mean more to me than you did the day you penned: Mark Trail’s got your number / And his potato knows your name. Love Always, S.C.

Luann - I can’t stands it no more! I suppose that an adult could have a skull shaped like a partially deflated football and still be physically and cognitively functional enough to live outside an institution. And yes, we’ve all pulled up at the traffic light next to a guy who gells the 42 hairs on his head individually such that you can count them from your vantage point of 12 feet away in bad light through two dirty car windows. And there might be someone somewhere in the U.S. of A. who was afraid of the Shriner’s hospital as a child and/or whose parents used him to find truffles and hear change get left in the Coke machine so that his literal pig nose and figurative jug ears have never been repaired. Likewise, slits for eyes and catepillars for eyebrows might be considered adaptive in some climates. But no one, not the fugliest guy you can think of, has all these characteristics together. Nobody except Brad DeGroot. Oh my God, he’s too ugly for Gil Thorp, even. Look for yourself. I can’t stand it another minute.
Cedar
June 19th, 2007 at 8:35 pm [Reply]

#55 Oh I love the way Lynn Johnston draws dogs, too! I especially enjoy how dogs will be dopily hanging out during strips that have nothing to do with them.

I also like the way she draws babies and toddlers, with Meredith being the only acception.
Cedar
June 19th, 2007 at 8:39 pm [Reply]

#61 “Margo” comes from a strip where Margo was angrily denouncing Eric or Alan or whoever it is she’s dating. She’s all, “Why I oughta. . . !” and is interrupted by the man himself (Eric right?) who calls out, “Margo!” appearing to complete her swear-word ladden dialouge bubble.
Harry Paratestes
June 19th, 2007 at 8:39 pm [Reply]

GF: I loved the exchange today, not only the name ‘Round Hound of Fleabound’, but especially with Bucky being told: “If he hands you a baggie, take it. It’s your dignity.” I need to remember that.
Chet McCord, Wildlife Defender
June 19th, 2007 at 8:39 pm [Reply]

Ok, now. This foobery has me puzzled. We were left in mid-wedding, and now we’re in the middle of a school day. Are weddings held on week days in Canada? If we’re returned to the wedding in progress, it will confirm that we have a wedding going on during school hours and I’m going to be more than a little upset.
SecretMargo
June 19th, 2007 at 8:47 pm [Reply]

67: Corporate pressure may have made them change it for merchandising reasons, but true connoisseurs made it a point to refer to DuckTales by its original working title.
SecretMargo
June 19th, 2007 at 9:08 pm [Reply]

73: Oh, and can one of you Wiki-wranglers insert a link to Josh’s column for the L.A. Times?

http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-oe-fruhlinger27nov27,0,6248008.story

I would, but I literally don’t know how.

mmmmm. SMELL the relevancy!
Mibbitmaker
June 19th, 2007 at 10:04 pm [Reply]

(DT)GT: Uh-oh… not only has Clambake shrunk, he’s turned Caucasian again! Forget shape-shifter ComaApril, this guy changing his appearence all over the place. Next time, he’ll become a coffee table painted polka-dot with a flower sticking out of the top.

Marvin: Poor thing’s looking alittle sheepish.
Kronkina
June 19th, 2007 at 10:13 pm [Reply]

#59 True Fable & #62 Trotz (hey, can I call you Trotz?)

Yeah, I’m always the one leaving even little spiders, including in my house, alone (except those darn black widows – they scare me). I just figure we’re all here for a reason, they’re all here for a reason, and that’s that. I’m actually quite pleased to know there are others like me, and who share my rage.
Kronkina
June 19th, 2007 at 10:15 pm [Reply]

AHEM – excuse me everyone? Everyone? May I have your attention please?

Mark Trail is an idiot with a duck
To solve a crime he looked up its butt
He wanted a clue
From poor ducky’s poo
Did it swallow an eyehook, or what?

*takes a bow to thunderous applause*
Proteus
June 19th, 2007 at 10:26 pm [Reply]

OK, here is the official, Wikipedia-ready godâ€™s own truth about [Margo]. The term actually pre-dates the â€œWhy I ought to…â€ of 2-27-07. It was first used by poster Indiebass on October 31, 2006 at 11:19 a.m. in post #114:

â€œHappy Halloween everyone! I am at work dressed as an airline pilot covered in snakes. Some have gotten it, some havenâ€™t. Regardless, Iâ€™ve had it with these mother[MARGO]ing snakes.â€

This was followed at 2:47 by Poteet:
â€œ…which might lead toâ€¦oh (Margo), the consequences of that could be much too hideous to contemplate.â€

Poster jules caught on with post 161 at 3:11 with:
â€œHoly Margo, thatâ€™s good!â€

At 3:35 Jennifer asked:
â€œIâ€™m curiousâ€¦ is the blog tool automatically replacing a certain word with (Margo) or did we all just suddenly decide to do this ourselves today. Never even noticed it beforeâ€¦ I tried it in preview and nothing happened, soâ€¦ please someone tell me if I can swear and be auto-Margoâ€™d. Cause that would be AWESOME.â€

Indiebass replied:
â€œI started doing it this morning (see #114) and it seems to have found a niche. Which I think is [MARGO]ing Awesome! ;)â€

And the conversation continued:
Well Iâ€™m [Margo]ing going to use it! [Margo], yeah! (Jennifer)

[M]â€™n a! (Uncle Lumpy)

Well, this if [Margo]ing great. (Duane Schneider)

How do I give a lobstergram to the person who started this wonderfully [MARGO]ing habit of replacing swear words with her name? (Dingo)

Maaaargo! That was Margoing excellent, dude! (Proteus)

I did the (Margo) thing in #155 because Indiebass did it first, so let me also thank you, Indiebass. We NEEDED this word. (Poteet)

There. Now you know. And you also know that I just used up one hour of my life hunting the archives, one at a [Margo]ing time.
CrabbyGenes
June 19th, 2007 at 11:00 pm [Reply]

#54 to AhClem, and other duck commenters,
True story. Years ago, when my now 22-year-old daughter was two or three, my husband read her the story MAKE WAY FOR DUCKLINGS. The very next day, he happened to take her on an outing. They saw a mother duck and her ducklings cross the road in front of their car, just like in the story!

It was truly a coincidence because my husband hadn’t even been aware that there were ducks in that area. And I have kicked myself ever since then, because I declined to go with them on that day on account of catching up with STUPID HOUSEWORK!!

There’s got to be a moral here.
Darkefang
June 19th, 2007 at 11:01 pm [Reply]

#9 D.A. Pennington –
“You need to sign a rider that I get my own dressing room and no brown M&Mâ€™s in the candy bowl?”

People probably already know this, but the reason for riders like the no brown M&Ms rider for the Rolling Stones is generally not related to ego. Bands – especially bands playing huge venues – require a lot of expensive and complicated equipment to be set up in specific ways for their performance. If a venue can’t manage to get odd but minor food requests correct, then odds are they aren’t going to get the equipment set up to specification either.

So basically, demanding the removal of brown M&Ms is essentially saying, “Did you read the contract, and are you competent enough to follow the terms?”
CrabbyGenes
June 19th, 2007 at 11:06 pm [Reply]

to #55 Skullturf Q. Beavispants:

Ah, memories. (Sigh.) Yes. When Lynn was good, she was very VERY good!
mumbles
June 19th, 2007 at 11:07 pm [Reply]

Okay, I don’t want to raise anyone’s hopes up….but is that our friend the Gap-Tooth Starey “Hooo!” Guy being obnoxious to Apwil in today’s FOOB?
Allie Cat
June 19th, 2007 at 11:12 pm [Reply]

Just watched Jay Leno for the first time in ages – he was doing a Jaywalking segment in Las Vegas asking people what different slang words meant.

He asked one person what an “asshat” was – I immediately wondered if anyone else here was watching and was as amused as I was.
CrabbyGenes
June 19th, 2007 at 11:27 pm [Reply]

# 75 Kronkina says:
“Yeah, Iâ€™m always the one leaving even little spiders, including in my house, alone (except those darn black widows – they scare me). I just figure weâ€™re all here for a reason, theyâ€™re all here for a reason, and thatâ€™s that. Iâ€™m actually quite pleased to know there are others like me, and who share my rage.”

Of course there are, and of course we do. Which is why I tried to share a happy memory of the opposite type (#78) to counter the bad energy and depression I felt when reading that horrible bird-abuse article.

Some years ago, my sister, “Poteet,” (really, she IS my sister!) sent my family a videotaped program about parrot smuggling. We had two parakeets at the time, and we love parrots. I couldn’t watch the program, couldn’t even start it.
Trotzenbonnie
June 19th, 2007 at 11:32 pm [Reply]

#79
I thought it was Van Halen that didn’t want brown M&Ms. The Rolling Stones want flowers & snooker tables.

I wonder what rider is in the Foobapalooza contract for Becky’s band….
CrabbyGenes
June 19th, 2007 at 11:37 pm [Reply]

to #73 SecretMargo (and others)

Still haven’t had time to read the entire article (I’m between classes and shouldn’t even be checking CC right now), but I finally learned something I was wondering about a few threads ago:

(Quote from the article) “This site, which I thought would merely entertain my close and indulgent friends, receives about 13,000 visitors and 200 reader comments, every day.”

WOW!!
Moon Mullins
June 19th, 2007 at 11:41 pm [Reply]

Here’s a TDIET episode for you:

One day your photo is up on your favorite website —
and, don’cha know –

That’s the day you have an 18 hour electricity blackout at your house and you don’t even get to see it! Oh-h-h- yeah!!

True story. Just logging on now and seeing the thread for the first time. Thanks all for the cool comments.
SecretMargo
June 19th, 2007 at 11:45 pm [Reply]

85: That was in November, and the daily comment count has leapt considerably, which probably means that the visitor count has also leapt apace. FEAR US. WE ARE LEGION
Josh
June 19th, 2007 at 11:45 pm [Reply]

#85 CrabbyGenes — And those are old numbers, from more than six months ago now. In June ‘07, I’m averaging about 15,500 unique visitors a day. I leave the estimation of daily comments to all y’all.

Josh
Trotzenbonnie
June 19th, 2007 at 11:47 pm [Reply]

#76 – Kronkina
That wonderful little ditty gives you license to call me anything you want (although Trotz always makes me think of something a person would suffer from after eating Tuna a la Mary Worth).

#78 – Crabby Genes
How serendipitous! Thanks for sharing. And I hope your daughter also remembers the magic of that moment.

And – Wednesday’s Mark Trail is snarkilicious!
Moon Mullins
June 19th, 2007 at 11:50 pm [Reply]

81 Mumbles: Unfortunately, that’s not the gap-toothed-starey-”hoo”-guy, his hair’s too long and his teeth are in perfect post-orthodontia status. However, his lunch tray selection seems to be an array of various flower pots.

Perhaps he can be Snide-Comment-Smiley-Potting Soil-Guy?
CrabbyGenes
June 19th, 2007 at 11:53 pm [Reply]

#90 Trotzenbonnie. She still loves birds, and she does remember it!
t.a.m.s.y.
June 20th, 2007 at 12:02 am [Reply]

81 Mumbles: I was pretty sure you were on to something, but I’m the wrong guy to ask. To me, pretty much everyone looks like Gap-Toothed Starey “Hoooo!” guy
SecretMargo
June 20th, 2007 at 12:05 am [Reply]

9/20 Mary Worth: Jeff’s still a little woozy from the strain of splitting directly down the middle and producing a slightly smaller copy of himself with identical DNA. Unfortunately, this means that there was no chance for the genetic weakness for the charms of platitude-mad, self-dramatizing white girls not to be passed on, so it seems we may not be rid of Vera yet. But at least we know why Jeff and Mary never get beyond 1/2 base.
SecretMargo
June 20th, 2007 at 12:08 am [Reply]

92: HOLY [MARGO], t.a.m.s.y. I thought I was going to sleep soon, but that image may keep me up ’til dawn. *brrrrrrrr

Yet, still a considerable improvement over the original.
Moon Mullins
June 20th, 2007 at 12:09 am [Reply]

Wednesday RMMD

So much enjoyable here, such as the way The Nanny is closely eyeing the wine bottle in panel one, ensuring it is the right vintage, shape and clarity to tell Hugh to shove up his ass.

But I like best learning that June is actually a nurse practitioner rather than an RN. In hospital administrative terms, nurse practitioners are often referred to as Physician Extenders. Imagine the next witty rejoinder from Hugh when he learns Chauffeur Rex is actually a physician, and his buxom wife a “physician extender.” Ohh yeahh!
Kronkina
June 20th, 2007 at 12:10 am [Reply]

TDIET 6/20 Um…what exactly is Nudnik doing? Doesn’t his neighborhood have a recycle program? Are there actually machines like that? Do people actually still have to take their bottles & cans to the store?

Bottles & cans…bottles & cans…

Why do I suddenly feel like listening to Beck?
Wellsey
June 20th, 2007 at 12:13 am [Reply]

Why does Morgan Freeman in Moon’s picture look like those Japanese The Dog and The Cat pictures? His head is way too big for his body! And #5 Dean Booth, shouldn’t that be Chappeau Homme?
Moon Mullins
June 20th, 2007 at 12:19 am [Reply]

Wed. Curtis

When did Michelle grow sweater puppies? Did I miss her puberty? No wonder Curtis likes her better than Chutney.
SecretMargo
June 20th, 2007 at 12:42 am [Reply]

RMMD: I’m repeating myself, I know, but what. is. your. damage. June? So it turns out you’re even closer to being a physician than Hugh thought! His follow-up might be a bit clueless, but look how you treated him when he overshot before! Why all the hate?

Oh right. You’re married to a preening, petty pout-o-sexual who can’t wait to get you out of the house, the dog’s been getting more referrals than either of you for a while now, and your only outlets of late have been coaxing the young son of a meth-head into awkward manhood and playing MÃ¼nchausen-by-proxy with your probably permanently ice cream-addled daughter. Well, try to leave something behind for Rex to play with besides a few entrails and a severed, exquisitely aquiline nose.
SecretMargo
June 20th, 2007 at 12:47 am [Reply]

98: M.M. – And what I noticed was perhaps the first illustration of the well-worn internet phrase “threw up a little in my mouth” to appear in the syndicated funnies. This may be the fundamental difference between us.
TB Tabby
June 20th, 2007 at 12:51 am [Reply]

I just beat Bionic Commando, and I’m in high spirits. Time for some high-spirited Wednesday snark.

9CL: I hope that right now, somewhere, that businesswoman and that minotaur are having a much more interesting conversation than this one.

SFx: Okay, Weber, here’s some horse trivia for you: what does it mean when a horse raises its tail, as that one is doing?

FC: After seeing how fast these kids go through pets, I wouldn’t trust them with a rubber duck, let alone a goldfish.

Baldo: That’s exactly what I was thinking…but why is he just starting to think like that right now? He’s been talking with her since Saturday!
Trilobite
June 20th, 2007 at 12:56 am [Reply]

A light sprinkling of Wednesday comics for you:

Gil Thorp: I dare you to read the final panel’s caption in the breathless, suspenseful tones of the narrator in an old cliffhanger movie, or maybe a Bullwinkle cartoon. “He’s a nice enough old guy…but what makes him the Baseball God?” I’m hoping the story involves a magical diamond he found in the heart of the Amazon rainforest. Or perhaps a tragic-but-heartwarming story about how he couldn’t bake cookies like the other elves and instead spent all his time studying baseball.

Dick Tracy: Curiously, I don’t enjoy actually finding Gretchen nearly as much as watching the old Baron whimper pitifully about finding her. I think it’s that disturbing apple-core mouth of hers. I do really like the last panel here, where you can see Dick and the CIA guy playing a game of brinksmanship over which one of them will attempt to answer the phone. Whoever blinks first will end up having to hold the receiver next to their head using just their absurdly tiny thumb and forefinger, in direct opposition to every law of physics.

A3G: Whatever colorist sweatshop they’re running this through needs to lay off on the lavenders: it looks like these women took a shower in grape juice.

Mark Trail: How the hell did news of a single birdstrike on a small plane at a local airport in a town far, far away reach the Lost Forest? Was that potato talking again? I guess in the world of Mark Trail, it’s always a slow news day EVERYWHERE. Considering that Mark is himself a working journalist, I suppose that makes sense: that guy could make a story about necrophiliac homosexual ducks boring.

Mary Worth: Okay, so Jeff actually still has both his legs. The clever placement of the cane in the first panel suggests that they don’t work very well, though, which means that he’s basically useless to Mary. Not that she particularly cares about anything going on south of Jeff’s belt buckle, but she’ll be damned if she’ll let herself be seen in public with him by the other busybodies of Charterstone until he can at least walk faster than that blimp Ian Cameron.

And oh god, is Jeff’s son the first candidate for Mary’s “Get Vera Hitched” campaign? I think he might be.

Rex Morgan: Naughty Hugh! Do not question Mistress June!
The Spectacular Spider-Brick
June 20th, 2007 at 1:01 am [Reply]

It’s so refreshing to read the comics on my new Chron page that doesn’t include all the comics that used to annoy me with their unfunny stupidity. Now I can just read and enjoy the ones that annoy me with their stupid unfunnyness!

Wednesday ho! No, not you, get back to what you were doing. I meant, time to snark!

Archie: Some scientists once did an experiment with a pigeon in a cage. The pigeon, being curious, pecked a lever in the cage. When it did so, the scientists released a piece of corn, which the pigeon gobbled up. The pigeon then started pecking the lever again, but no more corn was forthcoming. The scientists kept count as the pigeon pecked the lever another 20,000 times without getting a piece of corn before giving up. And what does this have to do with anything? Let’s express it in terms of an SAT-style analogy…
Pigeon : corn :: AJGLU3000 : good joke
Keep on peckin’, AJGLU. That corn will come again someday.

A.D.: Got nothing in particular to say about this sucky strip. I just want to register my support for the suggestion that we refer to B.C. by this new sobriquiet.

Baby Blues: Hugh Avery, please come to the courtesy desk. Your child has been found.

Baldo: She’d be a lot cuter if she didn’t have that huge wad of tobacco in her cheek all the time.

Blondie: Are… Are Dagwood and Dithers slamming the new authors of B.C.? That’s the only way I can read this. If so, I tip my hat to Dean Young. Call it like you see it, fella.

Crankshaft: Did I miss the announcement that this is Supercalifragilisticexpialadocious Week? This is the third strip to use it since Sunday.

DT: The kidnappers have the direct phone number of the desk of the CIA agent investigating them? Damn, they’re good. Dick may be in for a real challenge this time! Oh, wait, it’s just a poorly thought through plot contrivance? Never mind then. I take it back.

Drabble: Drabble slams ITSELF for being not funny! That’s the funniest thing I’ve seen in Drabble since… OK, it’s the only funny thing I’ve ever seen in Drabble.

(DT)GT: “My Clambake sense is tingling! Someone must be talking smack about me, the Baseball God! I’d better drive right over there and tell one of my long, boring stories!”

JP: Yeah, a good study in the human dynamics of a dysfunctional family is just what a 10-year-old needs. I see now how Sam earned his “World’s Greatest Dad” mug!

MT: When Mark gets home, he’ll have to solve the mystery of who kidnapped Cherry and replaced her with Robot Joan Crawford.

MW: Is that the future Mr. Vera Shields I see? I smell a certain Fooblike inevitability approaching.

Phantom: Either this plotline is taking place in the Dead Sea, or both Devil and the swimming kid have the specific gravity of balsa wood.

RMMD: Three Hours Later… “No, it’s nothing like a circus clown, either. Don’t you have that damn bottle open yet?”

Shoe: Boobs. Bird boobs.
dreadedcandiru2
June 20th, 2007 at 1:05 am [Reply]

9CL : Oh, JOY! A meeting of the mindless as TWO useless people bitch about how important they are to more grounded types who just ain’t buying it.

Curtis : Well, I called it. Billingsley’s doing much better being relevant than Lynn ‘PC-Hammer-of-Doom’ Johnston.

FW : It’s a good thing Les has a sense of humor; he’ll need it!!

DtM : The more I reasd this strip, the more I think the only thing Dennis is mancing is Alice’s street cred with Margaret Dumont like dowagers. There’s no other reason for her obvious belief that children should just sit in a corner like a little dummy.
True Fable
June 20th, 2007 at 1:13 am [Reply]

Thereâ€™s so much to consider in todayâ€™s FBoFW Panel one: Shanâ€¦nonâ€™s head grows directly out of her breastbone, no neck or anything required. Sheâ€™s as wide as she is tall, literally. One thigh = her head. And of course, Shanâ€¦non has to ask April to have lunch with her and her friends, since April would NEVER consider asking Shanâ€¦non to have lunch at the â€˜normalâ€™ tables.
Panel two: just another table of studentsâ€¦
Panel Three: â€¦until you get a look at the two students facing us. Okay, Iâ€™m irritated at Lynn already but this pretty much seals todayâ€™s deal. Special Needs students do have eyes that are capable of opening, dammit. But the SN Girl with the ponytail (like April used to have before she started the French twist bun bullshit) â€“ what the HELL?! Sheâ€™s got little slash eyes and a nose that takes up the middle of her face, leaving room for a tiny slash mouth immediately below the Breathing Potato Nose. Next to her, SN Black Kid also has slash eyes and another Breathing Potato Nose and is so excited about cooking eggs! Okay, okayâ€¦maybe these are fair examples of SN kids behaviors. But Panel Four confuses me. Is the guy speaking supposed to be a SN kid too, or does he just have little eyes and bad teeth and therefore a cousin to Gap-Toothed Starey Eyed â€œHoo!â€ boy? And Dark-Ponytailed Girl next to April has little slash eyes too, and I have no freakinâ€™ idea what the SN black kid is doing â€“ praying over the meal? Concentrating on mental teleportation somewhere else? Passing a kidney stone? I donâ€™t know. But Shanâ€¦non, who in real life is LJâ€™s relative, must have big round innocent eyes unlike her SN cohorts. She still has no neck.
So in short â€“ all Special Needs people look weird, and so-called â€˜normalâ€™ kids who act like smartasses also look weird. Only Johnston-approved people have the right to look ordinary, and only Pattersons can look beautiful.

I hate shit like this.
True Fable
June 20th, 2007 at 1:34 am [Reply]

MT Cherry’s spider-sense is tingling, otherwise she’d never have stirred from her drug-induced coma to get hold of Mark just to give him the head count of how many people miss him and love him “And I love you, Mark!” She knows “that girl” is after her man of steel. However, in Panel one Mark looks like he sat on the radiator too long and is now a human Persistance of Memory. He’s got that massive cranium, a medium sized torso and little hips that meander into small tube legs. Oh yahh, Cherry’ll fight for that.

MW I gave an audible groan when I saw this strip, because the foreshadowing was so pronounced.
Why, I will bet you anything that Young Doctor, Jeff’s son, will be introduced to Vera, the poor little rich girl, at the pool party!
What they don’t tell you is that they will set up their very own meth lab together. heh.

JP Look Sam, I don’t care when you leave or where you go or whether Sophie’s going to be your CFO or what – just go so I don’t have to look at Marie any more. Of course, I do have to agree wiith Squid Couontess that Brad DeGroot is by far the Fucking Ugliest Character in Comics.
And My Lovely Squid Countess, did playing Wait Wait Don’t Tell Me on the way BACK from the ~~barbeque~~ nuptials help mend fences between us? I’m sorry, I honestly thought you were awake and/or sober on the way There.
Mibbitmaker
June 20th, 2007 at 2:00 am [Reply]

(DT)GT: There’s a blonde guy doing the “…and E.F. Hutton says….” move to listen in the first panel. Meanwhile, Clammy is pissed at the narration from the previous panel’s conversation.

Meanwhile, Doppelganger Week continues. Joining the Margo Triplets in 3G is MW with the Dr. Jeff Duo, who pioneered the strange, Japanesey VW car ads where a car splits into two complete cars for no known reason.

FW: Wastes our time with a tennis match. WILLYOUGETONWITHIT??!!?!

9CL: By this time, the only thing a reader can do is make a Lewis Black exasperation comedy move and move on…

MT: Now it’s HOW! The inappropriately placed emphasis bit’s getting old, Jack. Meaning: I’m running out of ways to snark it. See?

PC: Winslow: “Nobody like a wiseguy Pete Townshend!”

Preteena: Damn, Geri, even Margo Magee is getting scared here!
Buck Ripsnort
June 20th, 2007 at 9:49 pm [Reply]

Luanne: “I thought hot babes were the one thing you can’t trust.” If this week’s storyline doesn’t end w/ Brad and TJ making out, my gaydar is terminal. Then again, I thought Aaron was going to come out of the closet before he left the strip.
LTBF
June 20th, 2007 at 11:29 pm [Reply]

As April appraoches the table she has a drink in one hand and her other hand is down at her side. She than walks over and sits on the other side of the table. So how did her tray of food get to her seat? I know, Shan-non was so honored to have a normal person sit at her table, she carried her tray for her.
Skulking on the Outskirts
June 21st, 2007 at 1:59 am [Reply]

The curse of Kali-ma on whoever is beating up on the poor ducks. Screw the plastic bat, I’m bringing a Louisville slugger to this party. And no head-hits– that would end the asshat’s suffering much, much too quickly. People who torture animals for fun should be exempt from the protection from cruel and unusual punishment.
Sorry, that sort of thing brings out my inner crazy bitch. You know, I’ve got a better idea….oh, Your Imperial Majesty Galactic Emperor CHENNUX, do you have your magmacannons working yet?…I know of some lowlife scum who really need a good lava bath!
hah!
June 21st, 2007 at 3:37 am [Reply]

is that Chris Taylor in the foreground?
kevin
June 22nd, 2007 at 1:02 pm [Reply]

Thanks, guys. You’re Margoing awesome.

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