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Dick Tracy, 9/15/07

For Dick Tracy, killing the bad guys as quickly and gruesomely as possible is more important than preventing a rain of flaming helicopter wreckage from tumbling down onto unsuspecting Washingtonians.

B.C., 9/15/07

Someone on the B.C. writing staff had an unspeakably disturbing experience in a very strange hotel bathroom.

Hi and Lois, 9/15/07

Someone at the orgy Hi and Lois attended last night had a laughably tiny penis.

Marmaduke, 9/15/07

Marmaduke has tired of his family’s attempts to restrict his behavior, and has decided to blow them up.

Mary Worth, 9/15/07

Next week’s Mary Worth is going to be so, so awesome.

This entry was posted on Saturday, September 15, 2007 at 10:11 pm and is filed under B.C., Dick Tracy, Hi and Lois, Marmaduke, Mary Worth.

247 responses to “Saturday one-liners”

rip rizzuto
September 15th, 2007 at 10:13 pm [Reply]

“seat hits the fan,” eh?
BigTed
September 15th, 2007 at 10:17 pm [Reply]

“When that seat hits the fan” … “Dick Tracy” is destroying a helicopter and everyone in it just for a half-decent pun. That’s kind of great, actually.
kingkong
September 15th, 2007 at 10:17 pm [Reply]

BC

Actually sounds like a hotel I would like to visit…..
AlmostAGhost
September 15th, 2007 at 10:17 pm [Reply]

hehe ya i had to read that “seat hits the fan” a couple of times.

and I could not be more excited for Mary Worth!
Kurdt
September 15th, 2007 at 10:22 pm [Reply]

I know there’s toilets in Japan that shoot water up your bum but this is ridiculous…
Isaac
September 15th, 2007 at 10:25 pm [Reply]

HI and Lois’s teenage son (Skip? Chip? Something like that) is either standing in a deep hole in the middle of the kitchen or decapitated. (Ah, perspective…)
The Spectacular Spider-Brick
September 15th, 2007 at 10:25 pm [Reply]

(WT)DT: Other than run him and the CIA agent off the road, which was totally unnecessary, and steal a helicopter, which is hardly a capital crime, what have the three Russkies done to deserve the fate of becoming a smoking, greasy spot on the roof of the Holocaust Museum? And, uh — whatever happened to The Baron? Anyone remember him? Anyone care? No, didn’t think so.
Citric
September 15th, 2007 at 10:28 pm [Reply]

I would get excited about next week’s Mary Worth, but it’s Mary Worth. It’ll probably take Dawn all week to drive to the ranch. Then another week for her to get out of her car while Vera and the good doctor slowly get to the parking lot. Three weeks from now will be awesome though.
Jym
September 15th, 2007 at 10:28 pm [Reply]

=v= DT: The papers that axed yesterday’s Get Fuzzy over a nut joke are probably s__tting themselves over Dick Tracy’s s__t hitting the fan, huh?
Monster Jamz
September 15th, 2007 at 10:33 pm [Reply]

Hi and Lois still stoned from the night before … and BC sucks as usual although it is oddly perverse.
Mack
September 15th, 2007 at 10:34 pm [Reply]

And in FC, today’s loving tribute to family has Papa Keane advertising via handkerchief code that he’s into fisting.
Niall
September 15th, 2007 at 10:35 pm [Reply]

I get it – the russians and the MMM helicopter are going to crash on the Baron and his package! And we’ll never know what was in it! Nor will we ever care!!
manzanita
September 15th, 2007 at 10:37 pm [Reply]

You neglected to mention that Marmaduke’s mistriss had her hand removed (or else bitten off by Marmaduke) and replaced with a metal claw/ can opener/ torture device.
Helena Handbasket
September 15th, 2007 at 10:38 pm [Reply]

Spotted H0rse, Jym and Moon Mullins: I too am a Sacramentan, so it looks like a No. Cal. ‘mudgeon meetup could get enough of us together to be worthwhile.
True Fable
September 15th, 2007 at 10:46 pm [Reply]

Hey, don’t forget that yesterthread’s #282 Ribinin said he was from Napa Valley and would like to be included in the Northen Cal Mudgeon Meet.
Electro
September 15th, 2007 at 10:47 pm [Reply]

Against all odds, Dr. Cory (the younger), who exhibits all the fashion sense of a colourblind homeless person, has snagged himself yet another girlfriend who enjoys “horseback riding”. Holy Unbearable Lightness of Being, Batman, I gotta get me one of them medical licenses.
Remus Leigh
September 15th, 2007 at 10:51 pm [Reply]

God, even for Mary Worth this has been excruciatingly transparent.
Baka Gaijin
September 15th, 2007 at 10:52 pm [Reply]

MW: Monday’s strip better show Mary getting an equestrian urge. She can’t have her meddlegasm if she’s not at the ranch to see the inevitable confrontation. Unless she’s enjoying the horse a little too much and has a different kind of ‘gasm, the kind the senior Doctor Cory can’t provide. Ewwww, I just grossed myself out again.

#5 Kurdt: The most I’ve seen a Japanese toilet seat do is rinse and dry your hiney, but it’ll wash your face if you don’t sit on it when you turn it on.
Pansy Yokum
September 15th, 2007 at 10:52 pm [Reply]

DT: My opinion:

Unrealistic as it may be, the MMM chopper will only be forced to land. The Baron said he would give his (probably deadly) package to someone else, and who else could it be but his Gretchen?
LTBF
September 15th, 2007 at 10:58 pm [Reply]

The BC hotel sounds like one Larry Craig would stay in.
Spotted HØrse
September 15th, 2007 at 11:04 pm [Reply]

#14 Helena Handbasket: I’m up for a NorCal Mudge Meet!
So our possibles, thus far, include Jym, Moon Mullins, and Ribinin (thanks, True!).
fishmorgjp
September 15th, 2007 at 11:07 pm [Reply]

Magic Fingers on the toilet?! Boy… all sorts of unsavory possibilities there…
LTBF
September 15th, 2007 at 11:13 pm [Reply]

Sunday’s Foob is another boring, silent strip about body functions.
Lynny M
September 15th, 2007 at 11:14 pm [Reply]

Ahh, Wilbur. A shorter, balder, less funny and more clueless George Costanza – and, for some, reason, my favorite Mary Worth character. Everytime I see him, I laugh a little inside. I think, my God! I may be a loser in some rights, but there’s no way I could ever top the bland, portly, retirement-age glory of Wilbur.

My God, seriously.

And don’t get me started on Hi and Lois. I don’t want to think about it.
Cheeky Wee Monkeys
September 15th, 2007 at 11:20 pm [Reply]

That’s actually a surreal Marmaduke. I mean, the HOLE is ticking. Not the contents of the hole, but the HOLE itself. Obviously, they intend to replace their missing alarm clock (I blame aliens) with a ticking hole.

I want a magic fingers machine. All toilets I have seen just have flushers.
BRDPICS
September 15th, 2007 at 11:20 pm [Reply]

Dick Tracy- now that’s some funny seat! Guess it’s true that seat happens…
alamo
September 15th, 2007 at 11:22 pm [Reply]

bc — i am at a loss to come with any reason why taking this advice would be a good thing.

alternative snark:
this sounds like bc meets the pluggers.
BRDPICS
September 15th, 2007 at 11:22 pm [Reply]

MMM helicopter pilot: “OH, SEAT!”
Weasel Boy
September 15th, 2007 at 11:22 pm [Reply]

MW: “Kiss me, you fool”??? Don’t you have to footnote Bartlett’s Book of Cliches From the 1930’s when you write dialogue like that?
King Folderol
September 15th, 2007 at 11:32 pm [Reply]

#29 – COTW nominee!

BC – Is the implication that there’s no bed in this hypothetical motel, or that some perv is sticking his ass down on the toilet seat and loving the vibrations?

H&L – Hi and Lois are pretending that their lives are fun so their kids won’t realize how mind-numbingly depressing adult life truly is, commit suicide, and lead the neighbors to believe that H&L are the worst parents ever.

Marm – Given Marm’s previous behavior, they should be happy that he’s not dry humping the neighbor to within an inch of his life.
Girl Reporter
September 15th, 2007 at 11:33 pm [Reply]

Last thread

Niall says: …I haven’t paid attention to Beetle Bailey in a very, very long time. I think the last time I read a series of strips was in French translations in European comics magazines int he 70s

[Headbobble]

?!

1) Beetle Baily
2) French translation
3) European comics magazines
4) in the 70s

[FOOM]

[head explodes]
Girl Reporter
September 15th, 2007 at 11:41 pm [Reply]

And, Niall, I mean that in the most loving, positive way.
Girl Reporter
September 15th, 2007 at 11:41 pm [Reply]

Bailey
Godzooky
September 15th, 2007 at 11:43 pm [Reply]

Sunday’s MW: Either Charterstone is across the street from Clifton or Dawn teleported, but she made it there in time to catch Drew and Vera Harlequin-noveling each other…and Dawn’s making a fist! Awesome, indeed.
True Fable
September 15th, 2007 at 11:45 pm [Reply]

#25 cheeky wee monkey – Now, a lot of times we ‘mudgeons will say ‘oh, your last post made me spray my drink all over the screen’ and usually it’s just an expression, but your post about Marmaduke and that fact that the hole itself was ticking, literally made me spit a mouthful of Coca-cola onto my screen and keyboard.

cheeky wee monkey for the win!
ltrftp(not so first time)
September 15th, 2007 at 11:51 pm [Reply]

KIng Folderol:

Why does Marmaduke’s “dad” have his tongue hanging out? And why is it longer than Marmaduke’s tongue?

With a tongue like that on the human, I think the neighbor would find Duke’s humping a poor second best.
LTBF
September 15th, 2007 at 11:53 pm [Reply]

If I were Lynn, I would have handled my “retirement” differantly. I’d have groomed a replacement and maybe even another to create a spin-off strip starring Michael.and his family. Papers would have lined up to get that one.

I would have stepped down from active invovlement but would have still hung around overseeing the new writer’s strips.
True Fable
September 15th, 2007 at 11:54 pm [Reply]

omg.omg.omg.

Sunday’s RMMD is just RIFE for snarking. We are almost not worthy, this stuff is GOLD.

“Niki’s a handful!” …. handful of what?

“This is as much for me as it is for him!” ….yeah; that’s why I wanted to talk to you, Rex…

And just dig Rex’s expression in that last panel. …..(”Niki won’t be disappointing me at ALL, bitch.”)
LTBF
September 15th, 2007 at 11:55 pm [Reply]

36-I think he just a very large lower jaw, not a toungue.
ltrftp(not so first time)
September 15th, 2007 at 11:55 pm [Reply]

Godzooky:

Dawn is making a fist with Clambake’s hand!!!!!
ltrftp(not so first time)
September 15th, 2007 at 11:59 pm [Reply]

LTBF
Then his thyroid gland is larger than his scrotum.
True Fable
September 16th, 2007 at 12:02 am [Reply]

A3G Correct me if my theory is wrong, but I suspect Professor Aristotle Rightontime has either had an Extreme Makeover lately, or has been sucking the souls of virgins to regain his youthful appearance.

JP Sam loves to talk about his family. To Abbey’s everlasting frustration, all he DOES is talk. The fool.

FW Make it stop, Tom. Damn your eyes, just STOP.
ltrftp(not so first time)
September 16th, 2007 at 12:04 am [Reply]

Or maybe I am just very tired.

Goodnight

Uncle Lumpy

I forgot to tell you that I have made you the one exception when it comes to ignoring “ALL CAPS” typers.

My life is richer for it.
bats :[
September 16th, 2007 at 12:05 am [Reply]

22. fishmorgjp: Magic Fingers in the toilet might raise unsavory thoughts for you, but I’ll bet Big Daddy Keane and his red hanky are up to the challenge!

Sunday, bloody Sunday:

FOOB: let’s see…two flea collars, three scratchers. Guess which one gets euthanized.

Brewster Rockit: My spleen!

RMMD: so the starfish-haired kid has a sea-urchin-haired mother? Got it.

FW: Refreshing! Sweet and smirkfree.

FC: “Now that I’ve gotten all the yada yada niceties out of the way, where are the Jello shots?”

MT: cool! mourning doves! It was as if Mark Trail were right outside my bedroom window, telling me about them! Wait….what the hell are you doing out there, Mark? How did you get into the back yard? Police!

MW: on the color of Vera’s horse:
“This horse is decidedly, or rather has been in his youth, a bouton d`or” (buttercup), resumed the unknown, continuing the remarks he had begun, and addressing himself to his auditors at the window, without paying the least attention to the exasperation of D`Artagnan, who, however, placed himself between him and them. “It is a color very well known in botany, but till the present time very rare among horses.”
– The Three Musketeers, Alexandre Dumas

That bit o’ literary trivia dispensed with… duh duh DUN!
(My spleen!)
Aerin
September 16th, 2007 at 12:08 am [Reply]

29 – That was my reaction. Apparently the writers of Mary Worth have no frame of reference for young love other than terrible, terrible romance novels from the 1800s. Explains a lot about Mary and Jeff. And Wilbur and whatshername. And every romantic storyline in this comic, come to think of it. I think we may be onto something here…
Godzooky
September 16th, 2007 at 12:09 am [Reply]

Sunday A3G: For the record, Dennis Jimenez called this turn of events yesterday. Dennis: Great job, but are you ready to try predicting (WT)DT?
Girl Reporter
September 16th, 2007 at 12:13 am [Reply]

I remember a dialogue-less FW back when Lisa was first diagnosed: Les at a bookstore buying a stack of books about breast cancer. The cashier and every woman in the store noticing but not letting on that they noticed.

I cried for real that morning.
Godzooky
September 16th, 2007 at 12:17 am [Reply]

#46 me: Oops, I goofed up the first link. It’s supposed to be Sunday’s A3G.
Gagott68
September 16th, 2007 at 12:27 am [Reply]

Sunday Luann: If you look at Luann’s pseudo-psychedelic dream panel one you’ll see her sitting naked in a cup of coffee. If you look just above her ankles, it looks like you’re looking right into her cooter. Disturbing.
Rob in Japan
September 16th, 2007 at 12:32 am [Reply]

#18 Baka Gaijin: What, did you break the infrared sensor on the side?
Gagott68
September 16th, 2007 at 12:34 am [Reply]

Sunday Luann again: I forgot to even mention the literal depiction of Luann’s “headlights” in the first panel.
True Fable
September 16th, 2007 at 12:34 am [Reply]

Squid Countess: I just saw the Geigo Goat ad.

I am in BLISS. That is such a cute lil goat!

Thank you for alerting me to it; I owe you an RC and a Moon Pie, sweetness!
True Fable
September 16th, 2007 at 12:49 am [Reply]

INCREDIBLE GOOD NEWS that will mean something only to those who know what I’m talking about:

I was getting ready for bed and moved my CD player to one side, and there behind it was A HALF BOTTLE of my pain meds, misplaced and sorely sorely needed for the past two weeks. I KNEW I hadn’t taken nearly as many as that in just three weeks! In your FACE, Walgreens!

So yes, tonight Truman Fable will be in pain no longer! Thank you to all of my ‘Mudgeon friends who have put up with my aching and kvetching. You have made this terrible experience bearable. Thank YOU, Josh, for sponsoring such a wonderful community of caring people. You da Pope, man. You da Pope.

Truman A. Fable
humbly grateful
Niall
September 16th, 2007 at 12:57 am [Reply]

Sunday’s Slylock Fox:

Another impossible-to-tell-from-the-picture mystery (shades of Cassandra Cat’s earrings) but that is obliviated by the cameraman… or more precisely, his news channel. Mr. Weber, that was beautiful. :)

31. Girl Reporter: the Tintin magazine inteh 70s, and Spirou magazine in the 80s, ended up reprinting a number of US strips which I discovered there and only much, much later realised were not from Europe at all. Among them:
- Beetle Bailey
- some kind of really, really cheesey US native american thing in the desert with a pudgy chief and something.
- Shoe, believe it or not
- a number of others barely registering at the edge of consciousness
- and The Spirit, which blew my mind. To this day, I wish I had some of those magazines to know which stories they were reprinting, and find the originals in English…
Spotted HØrse
September 16th, 2007 at 12:58 am [Reply]

#53 True: Chronic pain is a marmaduker. I’m glad that you finally are gonna catch a break, bud.
Niall
September 16th, 2007 at 1:13 am [Reply]

True Fable: oh wonderful to hear!! I don’t know that kind of pain (and hope never to) but my mother is pretty much in that range. (She’s taken two Tylenol 3s with codeine in the morning to take the edge off the pain sometimes.) May your sleep be blessed and sweet, and your dreams be of gentle goats.

Or something. :)

Others: is The Phantom’s Sunday strip on a different continuity than the regular strip? Because if it isn’t, then I’m hopelessly lost.
Jimmy
September 16th, 2007 at 1:25 am [Reply]

The Puppet Mistress of Bladderstone must be licking her chops at the fireworks which will transpire thanks to Drew’s total disregard for her meddling; maybe somebody will end up drawn and quartered by all those horses.
Weasel Boy
September 16th, 2007 at 1:28 am [Reply]

Tru, hope you’re feeling better.
Uncle Lumpy
September 16th, 2007 at 1:28 am [Reply]

#56 Niall –

is The Phantom’s Sunday strip on a different continuity than the regular strip?

Alas, yes — but backstory for the Sunday Strip as of two weeks ago may be found here. And to bring you completely up to date:

9/9 — Mumble mumble Phantom hits some guy mumble mumble.

9/16 — Mumble mumble mumble. Next: Epilogue! Though frankly, I prefer her sister, Kylie.
Girl Reporter
September 16th, 2007 at 1:29 am [Reply]

I bet Shoe is formidable in French.
Trilobite
September 16th, 2007 at 1:29 am [Reply]

It was fun meeting some of the other Arizona ‘minions today! Good conversation, a sneak preview of Mountain Mama’s upcoming November TDIET, air conditioning…I look forward to doing it again!

…oh, and here’s some Sunday comics, too:

A3G: I thought the professor was dating…er…that one young chick who used to hover just behind his shoulder whenever he’d run into one of the 3G girls out in the hall. Is the professor bored with cradle-robbing, or did his last trophy girlfriend just decide she’d had enough of his feta breath?

Funky Winkerbean: Just when I thought this strip couldn’t get any more ghoulish or depressing, it takes a moment out to make it absolutely clear that her daughter is going to have a ringside seat to Lisa’s death. Why, she’ll be able to bound downstairs bright and early every morning, eager to find out how much Mommy’s condition has deteriorated or if this is the morning that she gets to discover the corpse! It’s like Christmas morning every day, except the only gift Batiuk’s wrapping is SERIOUS EMOTIONAL DAMAGE!

Mary Worth: Oh, please let Dawn start throwing punches and screaming obscenities on Monday. Have her give Drew an open-hand slap right across the chops, or knee him in the crotch, or call Vera a hussy and try to pull her head off by the ponytail. Give us some action, some violence, some anger…anything except showing Dawn running home to sob pitifully into her pillow, or Dawn lurching out from around the corner to point her finger dramatically in the air.

Also, is the fact that Drew and Vera’s horses got a lot bigger since yesterday supposed to imply something here?

Phantom: Who exactly are these three Oongaan bone-carriers recapping their story for, anyway? They were ALL RIGHT THERE when it happened to them, you’d think they wouldn’t need to tell each other about it. Maybe they’re workshopping a musical number about their adventures in grave-relocation, and the letterer just left out the little musical notes to show that they’re singing?

Rex Morgan: There’s no room in that final dramatic blue-and-red closeup panel for a thought balloon, but the annoyed and dismissive look on Rex’s face says it all: “Here it comes…the meth-head in the clown wig’s going to ask me for money.“
mumbles
September 16th, 2007 at 1:30 am [Reply]

#18: Here’s hoping the meddlegasm (hee!) happens as Wilbur Weston, in a fit of fatherly love and a rare surge of testosterone, is pounding the living crap out of Dr. Drew at the end-of-summer Charterstone pool party.
Skulking on the Outskirts
September 16th, 2007 at 1:32 am [Reply]

Wishing you happy dreams of cute baby goats, True.
Mariko
September 16th, 2007 at 1:34 am [Reply]

Sunday’s Get Fuzzy is way too realistic to be all that funny.

Oh, and Vera dear, it looks as if you’ve put on your plate-mail tunic upside-down again.
Buck Ripsnort
September 16th, 2007 at 1:46 am [Reply]

From experience, I think the “toilet w/ magic fingers” in ZomBC is called a “Bidet”. What a letdown– imagine the reacharound possibilities!
Herro!
September 16th, 2007 at 1:47 am [Reply]

#14 Helena Handbasket: I’m up for a NorCal Mudge Meet!
So our possibles, thus far, include Jym, Moon Mullins, and Ribinin (thanks, True!).

Count me in (maybe)! I’m in Santa Clara…unfortunately, law school and no transportation may preclude a meeting. But I’ll be there in spirit! :-)
Godzooky
September 16th, 2007 at 1:53 am [Reply]

#61 Trilobite re: MW: In other words, Dawn should give Drew one of these. It might actually happen. She looks pissed.
Helena Handbasket
September 16th, 2007 at 2:01 am [Reply]

#54, Niall: I belive your cheesy Native American strip was probably “Tumbleweeds” and if it was, I’m very sorry for you.
Girl Reporter
September 16th, 2007 at 2:12 am [Reply]

#54 & #68

ptui
Brown-eyed Girl
September 16th, 2007 at 2:19 am [Reply]

44. bats :[ If we’re getting all literary about yellow horses:

The Tennessee stud was long and lean
The color of the sun and his eyes were green
He had the nerve and he had the blood
And there never was a hoss like the Tennessee stud.

Ladies and gentleman, I give you Johnny Cash
Brown-eyed Girl
September 16th, 2007 at 2:20 am [Reply]

Sweet dreams True Fable.
Angry Beaver
September 16th, 2007 at 2:20 am [Reply]

I’m so excited for Mary Worth (finally!!) It’ll be a whole Jerry Springer episode, I can see it now…

Dawn:(talking like a African America) You whore! Git yo paws off my man and father of my baby!

Vera: (replying in same tone) He’s ain’t yours bitch! He’s all mine!

(the the two fight and throw food at each other, while Dr. Drew shows some odd looking tattoos he has on certain parts of his body.)
Mike
September 16th, 2007 at 2:31 am [Reply]

#72 — One can, of course, only hope that the catfighting will be as hot as in those women’s prisons movies they show on late-night cable. I fear, however, that the Skinemax fantasy will yield way to something a bit more like George McFly:

“Hey, you — get your damn hands off her.”
Brown-eyed Girl
September 16th, 2007 at 2:34 am [Reply]

Sunday’s comics present a cornucopia of snark-worthy material. Rex Morgan alone could stustain several three hundred post threads. I’ve decided not to snatch at the low-hanging fruit, but to sit back and enjoy the efforts of sharper wits than mine.

I’m talking about you bats :[ (44). Your spleen is damn funny.
Brown-eyed Girl
September 16th, 2007 at 2:36 am [Reply]

Sunday’s comics present a cornucopia of snark-worthy material. Rex Morgan alone could sustain several three hundred post threads. I’ve decided not to snatch at the low-hanging fruit, but to sit back and enjoy the efforts of sharper wits than mine.

I’m talking about you bats :[ (44). Your spleen is damn funny.
Brown-eyed Girl
September 16th, 2007 at 2:38 am [Reply]

Sorry for the double post. Damn WordPress.
Niall
September 16th, 2007 at 2:43 am [Reply]

Shoe was not much greater in French.

The western strip was not Tumbleweeds.

I need sleep…
ElSanto
September 16th, 2007 at 2:44 am [Reply]

So, in Sunday’s Slylock Fox, is that news crew seriously from a channel called “LOL News”? A commentary on how every newscaster nowadays seems like a second rate comedian? Bob Weber, you sly boots, you.
AppleGirl
September 16th, 2007 at 2:45 am [Reply]

MW – Dawn will try to Aldo herself off the cliff, but the horse will stop.

(Coming up on the one-year anniversary, folks. Where were YOU on 9/22? Ah, if only Aldo had been driving a horse instead of a car on that fateful day…)

True Fable, I’m glad you found your pain meds in time for this week’s Mary Worth. There will be a lot of pain coming up. But it will be funny, too.
AppleGirl
September 16th, 2007 at 2:49 am [Reply]

I just received my Cassandra Cat shirt from Cafe Press, and it is simply ADORABLE! The quality is very nice, too, better than I expected. I got the Actually Official Cassandra Cat Women’s Cap Sleeve T, and it looks so cute on I’ll actually wear it!

I encourage everyone here to go ahead and order from Josh’s store at Cafe Press. The stuff is NOT cheesy!
AppleGirl
September 16th, 2007 at 2:55 am [Reply]

True story from my real life: what’s happening to Dawn is the exact same thing that happened to me with a guy I was serious about back in the day. Except it was at a fraternity party, not a horse ranch. And I don’t recall that the couple was wearing clothes. Other than that, exactly the same.

Poor Dawn, I feel your pain, girlfriend. Now go out and do something psycho! Whoo-hoo!
Trilobite
September 16th, 2007 at 3:07 am [Reply]

#77 Niall — That half-remembered cheesy native American strip wasn’t Redeye, was it?

…because I swear, until I visited the Chronicle’s site, I didn’t even know that comic existed. And yet it does, and it HAS, for lo these many years…lurking in the outer darkness, accumulating mediocrity as the ages roll by…

…er, where was I? Oh right, Redeye. From a cursory pass through its archives, it looks kinda like the separated-at-birth twin of Tumbleweeds, only with a slightly-higher dose of lead poisoning.
Sylphi
September 16th, 2007 at 3:15 am [Reply]

DT: Have you ever *seen* DC? It’s a shithole. Compared to Anacostia, the flaming wreckage of a helicopter will be downright pleasant.
nsr
September 16th, 2007 at 3:25 am [Reply]

Sunday’s a3g: Risk? Who cares about risk when you’re 12 feet tall!
Tamex
September 16th, 2007 at 3:33 am [Reply]

BC: I think there’s more call for that sort of thing at the airport…
Johnny Cat
September 16th, 2007 at 3:36 am [Reply]

I want a “When The Seat Hits The Fan” lookalike contest! So does everyone who loves life!

Let the ties fly!
oltrzmängen
September 16th, 2007 at 4:46 am [Reply]

Redeye in France
Shoe in France

Gretchen muss sterben!
Gretchen must die!
Frank Parsnip
September 16th, 2007 at 5:12 am [Reply]

DT: Having two helicopters flying one above the other wasn’t a good idea when deceased Sen. Heinz did it and hasn’t become a better idea just because Dick Tracy does it. The problem is that lower chopper sucks the air out from under the upper chopper’s rotor; it isn’t Just seats that should be hitting fast.
Baka Gaijin
September 16th, 2007 at 5:56 am [Reply]

A3G: Maybe Dawn needs a Joba, that Japanese horse-riding “exercise” machine. I’ll bet it has better action than Junior Corey. By the way, does that girl need a cigarette?

#62 Mumbles: meddlegasm, meddleGASM, MEDDLEGASM!!! Would the pounding you’re suggesting usually be seen on a not-safe-for-work link? meddlegasm, meddleGASM, MEDDLEGASM!!! MMMEEEDDDLLEEEGGGAAASSSMMM!!!!!!!!!

#50 Rob in Japan No modifications whatsoever. It was at a new hotel. The sensor is at the back of the seat, on the hinge about asscrack level. I’m guessing that as a sumo-sized man, I’m big enough that I give off enough IR in that tiny cubicle to fool the sensor. The washolet at the electric store has a dryer that’ll put a typhoon to shame…I’m not asking why.
posiduck
September 16th, 2007 at 6:11 am [Reply]

MW: Holy shit. It all makes sense. How did this whole chain of events start? When Dr. Cory the elder refused to go to the Charterstone party. At the time, it seemed innocent. An innocuous attempt on his part to avoid a stupid boring patio party with a bunch of dull folk. But, in actuality, Dr. Cory realized that his life is better when Mary has other people’s lives to meddle with, because she can’t talk to him when she is being a busy biddy. Dr. Cory must know his son is an two-timing womanizer, so he clearly played a machiavellian role organizing this whole plotline to give Mary something to do, so that he wouldn’t have to spend time with her. Brilliant!
Allie Cat
September 16th, 2007 at 6:41 am [Reply]

MW – Why, is that a patented “Mark Trail Fist-o-Fury” Dawn’s clenching? By golly, I think it is!

The Mark Trail Fist-o-Fury: It’ll Endanger Your Species!
rotts
September 16th, 2007 at 6:45 am [Reply]

#5 – Kurdt, they’re called bidets. They’re everywhere, not just Japan.
rozzen
September 16th, 2007 at 7:29 am [Reply]

@Niall (54) : I saw those, specifically Beetle Bailey and Dennis the Menace in old editions of Spirou magazine.
Judging from the way the letters from the readers suddenly started being titled “US Go Home !” I’m guessing they had the same opinion of those comics as you people do…
nerowolfgal
September 16th, 2007 at 7:39 am [Reply]

Comment to #70

When I first heard the song “Tennessee Stud”, I did a little research and found that Tennessee Walking Horses sometimes really do have green eyes, especially when they have a light coloured coat. Amazing.
rozzen
September 16th, 2007 at 7:41 am [Reply]

87 oltrzmängen :
I just love how the site you got those from is called “forgotten comics” !
AeroSquid
September 16th, 2007 at 7:47 am [Reply]

DT: “MMM….Traffic Eyyyyyyyye.”
dreadedcandiru2
September 16th, 2007 at 7:48 am [Reply]

Funky Deathwatchbean: #61 Not only does Summer get to see her mother die right before her eyes, Trilobite, she’ll eventually find out that her birth probably accelerated her mom’s gruesome death. Batiuk as much as said so, as we can all plainly see in the ‘Teen Pregnancy’ strips on funkywinkerbean.com, wherein Les and Lisa discuss the fact that pregnancy could potentially kickstart the growth of a brand-spanking new tumor. That makes the decade-long time jump make me shudder with dread.

For Better or For Skritch: We see Elly’s laziness and stupidity catching up with her again. Not only is she too stupid to get her mutant freak dogs a scrip for Advantage (doubtless beacuse of her imbecile misunderstanding of the risks), she’s too much of a slacker to clean her house properly so the fleas don’t spread to her family.
True Fable
September 16th, 2007 at 8:05 am [Reply]

FBoFW I suppose I should be thankful Lynn spared us from watching Elly give John a flea-dip and putting a flea collar on him.
Gabacho
September 16th, 2007 at 8:19 am [Reply]

MW – I still hate Vera, Dawn and Dr Drewbag, but I am fascinated by how Dawn’s hair turned blond when she saw her man two timing. This is going to lead to some slightly upset characters who learn something in the long run.

Also I think Vera is going to dump Drewbag because she can’t “handle the dishonesty” It will remind her of her ex-lover/brother Von.

Rex Morgan MD – I never read this before coming here. In some strange way, I think Niki has disappointed Rex.
Little Guy
September 16th, 2007 at 8:32 am [Reply]

Brewster Rocket: “Mister Space Alien, I’m Chris Hassen. Woul you have a seat, er tentacle over there?”
True Fable
September 16th, 2007 at 8:37 am [Reply]

#99 Gabacho – Taken as canonically written, I think Rex is just showing deep concern that Niki would be so worried about disappointing him. It may be that Rex suspects that Niki feels abandoned by whoever was his father and by his mother’s other no-good boyfriends, and Rex wants to be a good father figure to the boy.

Taken as often Curmudgeonly riffed, Rex is concerned that May won’t let him take Niki off to the NAMBLA meeting that he is taking him to, instead of the Big Brother meeting as promised.

It’s up to you to decide which it is. :-)
The Divine O’F
September 16th, 2007 at 8:37 am [Reply]

Tucson Curminion Convocation Report:
Well, pretty much what Trilobite said. Present were Mr. and Mrs. Bats:[, Mountain Mama, moi, and Trilobite. (And Trilobite, again, we were SO happy to see you show up!) The food was excellent, though I was the only one who didn’t eat Mexican food, and the conversation was really fun. No awkward moments. After discussing how great CC is as an Internet destination, we mostly talked about comics. Everyone was funny and knowledgeable. Mountain Mama showed us her original TDIET art, and the Batses brought their Bill the Cat stuffed doll and picture of little Jeffie. It was fun to see what everyone looked like in person (and, in Trilobite’s case, what gender they were). I was relieved to discover that we are all geeks. I’m not sure why that’s a relief, but it is. Mr. Bats took pictures with three different cameras. I’ve already sent Josh the picture from my camera, and presumably when the others have done so as well he will post the best one. I urge all other geographically-enabled Curminions to proceed with your own convocations.

And True Fable–great news about your pain meds. I am very happy for you and hope you got a great night’s sleep.
Dennis Jimenez
September 16th, 2007 at 8:38 am [Reply]

9/16/2007

A3G – Tim’s Journal – Page one – That Nora, what a bitch!

Blondie – Is it Amazing Mammaries?

DtM – Also practices his future prison life posture.

MW – Lurking figure in Dante cap imagines Drew in deepest circle of hell – that’s the one where you’re stuck for eternity with Wilbur/Wendy Weston – a grim fate indeed.

MT – Next Sunday – make my order veal – for the ecology!

RMMD – In the last panel, it dawns on Rex that May and Niki have just had the good touch, bad touch talk.

S4th – Tomorrow this will probably be recycle in TDIET.
Old Man Muffaroo [Hoo! Kip W]
September 16th, 2007 at 8:42 am [Reply]

AD – The ‘Magic Fingers’ in the can mean that you’ve unwittingly chosen a lodging that caters to the Old Fart crowd — oddly, the sort who never noticed when the strip went off — who are known for the array of chemical and physical aids needed for the act of elimination.

Sit on one of those long enough, and your hole would tick too.

DT – Called it! Of course, it was obvious.

FW – There’s still room for humor in the strip! One day, they’ll find Lisa cold and stiff, and get through two or three numbered phases of grieving. Just about the time they get the hole dug, she’ll be unable to keep from giggling, and reveal that she’s just funnin’ with ‘em. They’ll probably have a good laugh as they put her down with the shovel, and perhaps make a pertinent pun on the subject.

Niall @77 – DC is reprinting archives of The Spirit. They’re pricey, and printed with loving care. If I had more money, I’d be getting them, but I already have a large portion of what they’ll have in them, thanks to the Harvey reprints, the Warren reprints, the Kitchen Sink reprints, the facsimile editions, and the pile of actual Spirit sections my Mom saved in the early 40s.
The Spectacular Spider-Brick
September 16th, 2007 at 8:58 am [Reply]

I cannot tell you how proud I am that the moniker (WT)DT has caught on like it did. *sniff* It’s like watching your first baby bird fly off to college. Or something. Anyway, today we play Missing Panel Comics!

A3G: “At what risk?” “At the risk of never being able to tell you ‘I love you, Nora!’” Enter MARGO, stage left. Cue ominous musical sting. (BTW, kudos to Dennis Jimenez for the prescient prediction yesterthread.)

BB: Either Camp Swampy’s gained a new recruit, Killer’s spent way too much time under the sun lamp, or — most likely — the coloring monkeys f’d up again.

Bizarro: I will be glad if I never in my life see another Piraro clown.

Blondie: “You know what movie would be fun to rent? ‘Schindler’s List’!”

C’Shaft: Has the comics page ever been graced with a visage filled with such pure contempt and loathing for humanity as the portrait of Crankshaft that precedes the Sunday strips? It can only be a Batiuk self-portrait.

Crock: In today’s strip, “Crock” is revealed to be an elaborate, “Truman Show”-like lab experiment in privation and antisocial behavior.

FC: I fail to see how this is supposed to be funny or cute. Really, I don’t get it. Is this strip just becoming a series of slice-of-life vignettes now? Will tomorrow’s strip be Billy at the dinner table saying “Please pass the corn”? Is FC becoming Zippy? Sorry, we already have one FC x Zippy strip, and it’s called Ziggy.

FW: I read this strip only on Sundays, but despite that, I have to agree with everyone else and say: ENOUGH.

JP: I’m glad to see that Baretto has changed Rusty out of her previous solid-colored blouse into a striped one that will more clearly map out her chestal topography.

Lockhorns: Lockhorns sweat gravy.

Marvin: “Well, do I?”
A) “Only my diaper changer knows for sure.”
B) “That’s what you gotta ask yourself. ‘Do I feel lucky?’ Well, do ya, punk?”
C) “…make you horny, baby? Yeah!”
D) “Harelip!”

MW: “How dare that… that… HORSE wear my hair color! Why, I’ll… Oh, hey, there’s Drew and Vera.”

MC: Maureen’s daugter is ADORABLE! Totemo kawaii ne! Moe yo!

Phantom: A thoroughly unexciting resolution to a thoroughly boring plotline. Way to go, O Ghost-Who-Plods.

RMMD: “Oh, Niki won’t disappoint me tonight… one way or the other!” Cue ominous musical sting.

SF: I don’t know about you, but I want to hear more about that “Forget everything you thought you knew about the Portugese!” show.

SFx: What, now Slylock has to come down on Weirdly’s parlor tricks? Get a life, dude. Why you gotta be a hata?

SS: Hillbillies even spell “the” as “th’ ” in writing?! Time to fire Miz Prunelly. She’s sabotaged enough young lives.

Pluggers: Ha ha! Pluggers are… awww, fuck it.
Gabacho
September 16th, 2007 at 9:02 am [Reply]

#101 – True Fable: Can I go with both?

FC – Thel is waiting in the car and Dolly is just following her instructions – “Just go in, give her the gift, tell her you had a good time and get out. And if anyone asks about the bruises, you fell. Do you understand me, young lady?”
Michael
September 16th, 2007 at 9:36 am [Reply]

Someone at the orgy Hi and Lois attended last night had a laughably tiny penis.

I’m guessing Lois.
willethompson
September 16th, 2007 at 9:45 am [Reply]

Come Monday, the only way MW could be more fun is if the horse’s name is Mr. Ed. He goes to Dawn’s father and says, “Oh, Willlllllbeeeerrrrr, Drew’s a two-timing scumbag!”
queek
September 16th, 2007 at 9:51 am [Reply]

I’ll be in the minority non-snark section, but I “awwwwww”ed at F(c)B today.

I got the same response to Maureen’s kid in MC, but not as much at the punchline.

9CL was laugh-out loud funny. Clever visual humor and a nice punch line.
ltrftp(not so first time)
September 16th, 2007 at 9:57 am [Reply]

Michael

I apologise for the link:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micropenis

sort of NSFW
John C Fremont
September 16th, 2007 at 9:59 am [Reply]

# 61 Trilobite – Phantom: The Musical!

True Fable – Hope you got a decent night’s sleep.

Saturday’s Marmaduke – That’s not his tongue or his jaw. That’s a chin implant from The Robert Z’Dar Collection.

MT – Huh. Lactatin’ birds.

RMMD – Talk about mood swings. In panel 4, Rex is cutting up with his Incredible Melting Man impersonation, but by the final panel he’s looking downright sinister. Maybe he should prescribe himself some meds. Or maybe he should stop prescribing himself meds.

JP – Seems to be quite a wind blowin’ out there. Maybe it’ll blow Rusty’s shirt open. Hey, a guy can dream.
ltrftp(not so first time)
September 16th, 2007 at 10:00 am [Reply]

WillieThompson
Mr. Ed was a zebra:
http://www.snopes.com/lost/mistered.asp
Comixchick
September 16th, 2007 at 10:02 am [Reply]

“Kiss me, you fool!” Never in MW have truer words been spoken. Of course, they could have been said to anyone in the strip.
Dingo
September 16th, 2007 at 10:19 am [Reply]

So, last night we (John and I) went to Drury Lane in Oakbrook Terrace to see The Odd Couple, with my parents’ season tickets that that couldn’t use. The play was still set in 1965 but it was interesting how some lines change over time: Oscar “proposes” to Felix that they live together; when Felix moves out, Oscar tells the poker buddies that they “broke up.”

Brad and TJ are the Oscar and Felix of the new millennium. Why Mom & Dad prefer TJ over Toni is perplexing. Brad’s going to have homecooked Italian meals, highly-decorated rooms with black walls, and a tingly anus from repeated early morning wakeup calls from TJ’s penis. All good until someone pokes his eye on the Erte statuette.
Marie de Pooh
September 16th, 2007 at 10:25 am [Reply]

Ah… weeks don’t start off as well without good ol’ pet antics…
Foobar
September 16th, 2007 at 10:39 am [Reply]

112- http://www.snopes.com/lost/false.htm
It ain’t so.
Sunny Mel Blatherscythe
September 16th, 2007 at 10:49 am [Reply]

Death Tracy – Right when I thought that “Dick” couldn’t possibly top tossing Queeny to her death down a chimney like a meaty Ski-ball, He’s spouting puns as he sends scumbags packing across the river Styx. From the look on his face and his erect tie in panel two I’m beginning to think that he derives sensual pleasure from killing perps.
Sunny Mel Blatherscythe
September 16th, 2007 at 10:58 am [Reply]

BC –
* PHREEEET*!! Unsettling metal Picture, on the Writers of BC, A 15 yd Penalty will be assessed from the beginning of the panel!!!
Sunny Mel Blatherscythe
September 16th, 2007 at 10:58 am [Reply]

mental picture as well
John C Fremont
September 16th, 2007 at 11:03 am [Reply]

You know, I read that Mr. Ed/Zebra thing, and then I looked up Mark Trail’s pigeon milk on the tubes, and they both seemed equally believable. My conclusion is that either Mr. Ed really was a zebra, or pigeon milk is an urban legend. I’d prefer the latter to be true because I really don’t want to think about those cute mourning doves in my yard regurgitating into the mouths of their young. But maybe I shouldn’t knock it until I’ve tried it.

Hey honey, wake the kids! It’s feeding time!
Razmytaz
September 16th, 2007 at 11:09 am [Reply]

OK… why is that the WashPost Sunday webpage has no link for Judge Parker… BUT they carry it in their paper edition. Does this make any sense? The webpage does have Mary Worth and Apt. 3G and Rex Morgan, which haven’t darkened the print edition pages in eons.
Red Greenback
September 16th, 2007 at 11:11 am [Reply]

(Thanx) DT: [Margo! Boxcar! Saturn! Seat!]
#108 willethompson: BWAHAHA!!! Fuckin’ brilliant!
Truman A. Fable: Happy to hear you found yer meds, it is a relief for me as well ’cause I worry when folks suffer. (Except for certain comix characters, that is.)
BTW, NYer caption: “Time to take out the trash” It has an Eastwoodian or Bronsonesque feel to it, no?
ltrftp(not so first time)
September 16th, 2007 at 11:17 am [Reply]

116) Foobar
Thanks!
I have always felt like I should have known it already if it were true.
My wife will be severely disappointed.
Ribinin
September 16th, 2007 at 11:17 am [Reply]

#120 John C Fremont: Hey honey, wake the kids! It’s feeding time!

That might catch on. One can be bulimic and also a nurturing parent all at the same time.
YDD
September 16th, 2007 at 11:19 am [Reply]

Dick Tracy – “merde” – erer!
Gold-Digging Nanny
September 16th, 2007 at 11:19 am [Reply]

MW: Curses on you, Drew!
Buck Ripsnort
September 16th, 2007 at 11:24 am [Reply]

Slylock:Knowing Weber visits this site, I refuse to believe including Shirley the Transgender Duck in the plumbing scene was coincidence. And if our local news investigated every two-bit magic trick, we’d call them LOL too!
Ukulele Ike
September 16th, 2007 at 11:25 am [Reply]

Old Man Muffaroo @ 104: Nicely called on the Tracy storyline. I had imagined that Dick was planning to leap from his helicopter into the bad guys’. Possible passing through the rotors and being chopped into beefsteak tartare.
Anonymous
September 16th, 2007 at 11:28 am [Reply]

Crikey, ZomBC is braindead. I mean, Hart had set the bar pretty low by the time of his exeunt, but this?

Pretty soon, Bill Frist is going to be reviewing the strip by videotape and explaining why it’s still funny.

(ok, has that cultural reference officially expired? anyone? anyone?)
SatanicMechanic
September 16th, 2007 at 11:40 am [Reply]

Luann: Shouldn’t the question be “what are you smoking at bedtime”?
Chloe The Cat
September 16th, 2007 at 11:55 am [Reply]

True, I am so happy that you found your medication. I have worried alot about you being in pain. Nothing worse than a #$@#ing insurance company practicing medicine with out a liscense.
Skullturf Q. Beavispants
September 16th, 2007 at 12:02 pm [Reply]

I don’t understand Mark Trail today. Specifically, the part when it says the mortality of mourning doves is “about 58% for adults and 69% for young”. Don’t all living things have a mortality rate of 100%?

(I suppose what they must mean is either (A) in a typical year, 58% of the adults and 69% of the young die, or (B) 58% of adults and 69% of the young die of something other than natural causes.)
evie oh oh
September 16th, 2007 at 12:09 pm [Reply]

I don’t know what Drew is thinking…just think of the beautiful children he and Dawn could have together. I just see the lovely brood now, all with two-toned hair attending Dawn’s alma mater “local university.”
The Spectacular Spider-Brick
September 16th, 2007 at 12:12 pm [Reply]

Skullturf Q. Beavispants @ 132: Well, that’s true, if you’re talking about the species Zenaida macroura. However, the reason there are so many of them is primarily due to the prolific breeding and lengthy lifespan of the subspecies Zenaida macroura terraalta, known as the “high land dove.” Were it not for the efforts of hunters, we’d be overrun with these immortal, dramatic winged pests.
scan
September 16th, 2007 at 12:18 pm [Reply]

Sunday’s Luann is having a nightmare where she’s sits naked, screaming, because the magic fingers makes her seat in a giant cup of coffee.
Uncle Lumpy
September 16th, 2007 at 12:18 pm [Reply]

#132 SQB –

You’re right, mortality statistics are computed as annual rates.

But hey! If pigeons are reproducing like rabbits and dropping like flies, how come you never see a dead one?
reader-who-posts
September 16th, 2007 at 12:22 pm [Reply]

Spider-man: Hey Spidey, have you thought of punching him?

FC: That ass is at least two feet too high – are the adults going to play Pin the Tail on the donkey?

RMMD: Oh, May, telling Rex that Nikki would be devastated if he disapointed him is like telling a burglar that you left the key under the doormat.
The Spectacular Spider-Brick
September 16th, 2007 at 12:23 pm [Reply]

Uncle Lumpy @ 136: Pigeons are the U.S. Marines of the animal world.
Uncle Lumpy
September 16th, 2007 at 12:30 pm [Reply]

#138 SSB –

Boy, I am so, totally not touching that one!
Islamorada Girl
September 16th, 2007 at 12:40 pm [Reply]

It occurred to me this morning that no one, and I mean NO ONE in the comics gets laid. Not even the three chippies in 3G, who are single, supposed to be hot, and presumably have active libidos.
Now you watch; Tommie, LuAnn, Margo and even Cousin Ruby are all out on dates tonight. Do you think any of them even have a chance of a furtive grope by the door? Hell, no. Why is this?
Old Man Muffaroo [Hoo! Kip W]
September 16th, 2007 at 12:41 pm [Reply]

Ukelele Ike @128 – Perhaps, if Dick was starting to believe he was actually Fearless Fosdick. (Which would be an even better storyline than Tracy’s prolonged guest shot in GA.)
dimestore lipstick
September 16th, 2007 at 12:44 pm [Reply]

Dawn Weston isn’t getting ready to dispense the Right Fist O’ Justice in Sunday’s Mary Worth–that’s the RFOJ’s lesser-known counterpart, the Left Jab O’ Vengeance!
The Divine O’F
September 16th, 2007 at 12:45 pm [Reply]

MT: I virtually never read this strip on Sunday, but mention of mourning doves sent me to the Seattle Post. As those who know me know, I am a bird freak. (Check out my blog, linked above, if you are also one.) Anyway, I was struck by the comment that good game management has kept dove numbers up despite the millions that are killed by hunters each year. I think it is more than good game management, and must also be due to divine intervention, because as anyone who has observed doves knows, they are so margoing stupid that they could not survive as characters in Mark Trail or any other soap strip. I have , for example, seen doves repeatedly build nests on narrow fences that couldn’t hold the two or three twigs of the “nest” in a gentle breeze. I’ve seen them clumsily knock their own eggs out of the nest. It is true that they are devoted parents, but it is a miracle to me that any dove eggs ever manage to get laid, let alone hatched. (End dove rant)
ForGarman
September 16th, 2007 at 12:47 pm [Reply]

112 ltrftp(not so first time): I don’t know if you were joking, but because people tend to trust a direct link to Snopes, that one can be misleading–it is, confusingly, a hoax page(just click “More information about this page” at the bottom of the page); Mr. Ed was probably a horse.
True Fable
September 16th, 2007 at 12:48 pm [Reply]

# !40 Islamorada Girl said:

Now you watch; Tommie, LuAnn, Margo and even Cousin Ruby are all out on dates tonight. Do you think any of them even have a chance of a furtive grope by the door? Hell, no. Why is this?

Um….Because they aren’t out on a date with Jamus?
True Fable
September 16th, 2007 at 12:57 pm [Reply]

#122 Red Greenback – Glad you are back with us, we missed you, buddy!

I feel much, much better now, thanks. Now I need to look around the rest of my bedroom, there’s no telling what else might be in there. Well okay, my ex won’t be there but then that was usually the case even when we were married.
*rimshot!*
Oh veal veal veal, getcher red hot veal with a red hot waitress!
Uncle Lumpy
September 16th, 2007 at 12:58 pm [Reply]

#140 I-Girl,

NO ONE in the comics gets laid. Not even the three chippies in 3G

#143 D O’F –

it is a miracle to me that any dove eggs ever manage to get laid

Tommie, LuAnn, and Margo — dove eggs of the comics!
Renee J
September 16th, 2007 at 1:04 pm [Reply]

RMMD: Did May lose her hair in the meth explosion? And she could only afford a costume wig? Because that’s the only thing that can explain the thing on her head.
Spotted HØrse
September 16th, 2007 at 1:04 pm [Reply]

Red Greenback’s here today, Red Greenback’s here today, let’s all clap our hands and say, Red Greenback’s here today! Hooray!
The Divine O’F
September 16th, 2007 at 1:09 pm [Reply]

Brewster Rockit: I HEART this strip!

MW: Yes! Good, rollicking times ahead! I wonder if Mary can meddle in the jury’s decision when Dawn is tried for first-degree murder?

And, 147 Uncle Lumpy: LOL! (I guess I-Girl and I have the same thing on our minds today.)

And Red: Good to see you posting again, buddy!
The Divine O’F
September 16th, 2007 at 1:12 pm [Reply]

Serious RMMD question: I don’t pay enough attention to these things. Did they recently change artists? (And by “recently,” I mean within the last two story lines, which is probably a year and a half.) The gal now playing “May” doesn’t look ANYTHING like the old May.
John C Fremont
September 16th, 2007 at 1:15 pm [Reply]

Tommie, LuAnn, and Margo are the dove eggs of the comics? So who’s going to regurgitate dove’s milk down their throats when they hatch?
bats :[
September 16th, 2007 at 1:18 pm [Reply]

The Tucson Curmurgeon Convo rocked…it was so cool to meet some of the names here, who are even more interesting in person (no kidding!). Like the Divine O’F says, if you can get together a group in your neck of the woods (or the desert), it is a lot of fun. And since the TCC was the first of its kind, dare I say, “Knock us off the page!”

81. AppleGirl: probably all for the best that Drew and Vera are wearing clothes, as opposed to what your experience was. This is going to be great! (I hope the creators of the strip lurk here and deliver what we ‘minions are hoping and praying for…we’ve been disillusioned by Foob and etc. for so long, the pendulum has to swing in our favor for once! pleaseohpleaseohplease make it a Jerry Springer moment!)

82. Trilobite: yikes, Redeye is rank! A strip I never have to click on again. Tumbleweeds might be just goofy, but at least the artist has always had a nifty, eccentric drawing style.

109. queek: sure, 9CL is funny, right up until Thorax appears and eats the piano.
(Yes, I thought it was a good chuckle today.)

FW: I still maintain that the Sunday strip was kind of nice. Heck, maybe because the little girl is still to young to smirk, and just does something little girlish to make her mother feel better.
What really sucks big rocks is how the Arizona Daily Star cut out the first several panels to make it fit. The whole cartoon consists of the last for panels, with Summer saying “Mommy’s going to sleep here all by herself?” while looking at *something.* If you only get the Sunday edition (and don’t look at the strip online to figure out what’s been going on the past week), this is a little confusing. What is Summer looking at?
–her mother’s hospice bed set up at home?
–her mother in a private hospital room?
–an open grave?
Yep, it’s time to end this.

146. True: yay! for meds! yay! for feeling better!
Shouldn’t it be hot pink veal?
Spotted HØrse
September 16th, 2007 at 1:20 pm [Reply]

SCRATCH SKRATCH SKRITT SKRATCH SCRATCH SCRATCH SCRATCH SCRATCH!
SCRATCH SCRATCH SCRATCH SCRATCH SKRITCH
SCRATCH SKRATCH SCRATCH SCRATCH SKRITCH SCRATCH SCRATCH SCRATCH SKRIT SKRAT SCRATCH SKRITCH SCRATCH SKRIT
whew.
SCRATCH SKRITCH SCRATCH SKRAT
Spotted HØrse
September 16th, 2007 at 1:21 pm [Reply]

Them’s some dirty dawgs.
Zamboni_Rodeo
September 16th, 2007 at 1:28 pm [Reply]

#132, SQB:

“On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero.”
Lynngineering
September 16th, 2007 at 1:29 pm [Reply]

Well, as long as you put “B.C.” and “Hi and Lois” in sequence today… it would be a LOT more clear to me, or maybe even “funnier” (if that still matters) if the text from “B.C.” were coming out of Chip’s mouth in the last panel of “Hi and Lois”… And in turn, “B.C.” was just left wordless…
Cheeky Wee Monkeys
September 16th, 2007 at 1:30 pm [Reply]

Happy I could help destroy your computer, True Fable!
Red Greenback
September 16th, 2007 at 1:30 pm [Reply]

Holey tickin’ seat, you guys! A fella lurks for a coupla weeks ’cause he ain’t got no snark, then decides to dip his tootsies in the water, and…where am I going with this? Aw shucks! I just want to say thanks for the warm welcome back, Truman A., Spotted HØrse, and The Divine O’F

Red “Hankie*” Greenblatz
*just kidding
Bob Weber Jr.
September 16th, 2007 at 1:32 pm [Reply]

#153
I’m really sorry I missed The Tucson Curmurgeon Convo! The restaurant is only about ten minutes from my house, but I had some family commitments. Do you plan on getting together again?
Rainbird
September 16th, 2007 at 1:36 pm [Reply]

#66 Herro! and every one else. I would be up for a Nor Cal get together, but where? Northern California, even the Greater Bay Area, is a large place.
Ukulele Ike
September 16th, 2007 at 1:37 pm [Reply]

Divine O’F @ 151: The gal now playing “May” doesn’t look ANYTHING like the old May.

Well, she’s still skinny and dowdy and has a cadaverously gaunt face, but the circles under her eyes have gotten better. A healthier diet, perhaps. More fresh vegetables, less Genoa salami, and fewer hits of meth.

The hair, I can’t account for. Maybe it’s really, really humid there.
Lynngineering
September 16th, 2007 at 1:39 pm [Reply]

Josh, I just was wondering who, or how do those left sidebanner ads…er..develop over time. Is there a scripted thematic? Seeing as they have progressed from the reign of the breasticularly-stuffed T-Shirts ads of earlier days, to the more upfront “Xena – Warrior Pornstar” comics hanging out there, with a nice added touch of having above it one of those “Learn to draw the human figure” ads.
Just wonderin..
SecretMargo
September 16th, 2007 at 1:39 pm [Reply]

155:

And since the TCC was the first of its kind, dare I say, “Knock us off the page!”

Hey, what was the FIRST TCC (Tokyo Curmudgeon Convo) Crabby and I held? Chopped natto?

But yes, if you get a chance to meet up y’all, do it. I can vouch for it’s funositudinousness as well!

155: I’m glad you clarified. I thought your post was a transcript of Drew realizing that Dawn had left something else besides a set of equinodorous underthings to fester in his bedsheets.
Rainbird
September 16th, 2007 at 1:41 pm [Reply]

MW What happened to Dawn’s hair? Has the fury of a two-timing lover changed it from brown to blonde? What would sure save on having to go to the hairdresser.
Rainbird
September 16th, 2007 at 1:48 pm [Reply]

BC My partner laughed at the BC strip today. Normally, I would think the world was coming to an end, but then, she laughs at some stips that I smile at, and has a laughing fit, at things I give a short snort tol.

So, perhaps the world isn’t coming to an end. And it was sort of funny after she explained it to me.
Rainbird
September 16th, 2007 at 1:50 pm [Reply]

Horray! The San Jose Mercury Print edition said they were getting rid of Cathy, and did so.

Boo, she is still in the Sunday print edition. WTF?

What a CT they are.
Rainbird
September 16th, 2007 at 1:53 pm [Reply]

MT I think the strip is running out of animals that urban people would be familiar with. Last week, racoons. This week Morning Doves? What next, red ants, cockroaches, snails?
Rainbird
September 16th, 2007 at 1:54 pm [Reply]

SM I think Spidey is waiting for the Shocker’s batteries to run down. He has been using them a lot lately.
Kate
September 16th, 2007 at 1:54 pm [Reply]

#160, Bob Weber Jr., I vote we all come to your house for the next Mudge get-together. That would be Freaking Awesome Dude. And we’d all wear our Cassandra Cat t-shirts and carry coconuts and large knives, and the property values in your neighborhood would drop like bricks.

If there’s a Mudgegathering in Northern California, that would also be Freaking Awesome Dude, because I’m in the Bay area. I couldn’t get to Sacramento or anything like that, but San Jose? Sure.
SecretMargo
September 16th, 2007 at 1:55 pm [Reply]

164: Whoops! That first number should be 153, bats :[.

(Huh, your name looks like it has something on its chin when it’s the last item in a declarative sentence)

And just to clarify, it sounds like y’all had a fabulous time. Good on ya. Yay!
Rainbird
September 16th, 2007 at 1:56 pm [Reply]

140 Islamorada I think you mean no single people in the comics get laid. After all, they all the married charcters have progeny.

And if you read the non-mainstream comics, they get it all the time. Check out Dykes to Watch Out For.
Rainbird
September 16th, 2007 at 2:04 pm [Reply]

#148 Renee J

RMMD: Did May lose her hair in the meth explosion? And she could only afford a costume wig? Because that’s the only thing that can explain the thing on her head.

I wondered the same thing, so looked it up, and she had fairly fright wig hair back then too. I guess being home with her son has made it worse.

Old RMMD
Anonymous
September 16th, 2007 at 2:06 pm [Reply]

#140 Islamorada Girl — Hey, Margo at least has gotten a little bit of action. Months back, she had a nooner with bland ol’ Eric Mills just before he went on a business trip, and it was apparently enthusiastic enough to knock her hair out of its customary bun.

I remember it because it was the one and only time that I’d seen Apartment 3G actually suggest: 1.) that someone actually had sex, and 2.) that Margo’s hairdo is a deliberate choice (as opposed to it being a side-effect of her tightly-coiled inner rage).

(And as far as that second one goes, I considered but rejected the idea that Margo’s hair is usually in a bun from sheer frustration, and that gettin’ it on with Eric relaxed it; it just seemed too improbable that a man in A3G would be any good at all in bed, y’know?)
Allie Cat
September 16th, 2007 at 2:07 pm [Reply]

Last year we had Aldomania – which was a nice, catchy slogan.

My vote for this storyline:

“The Break of Dawn”

Anyone got a better one? Of course you do – you’re mudges.

Also, tonight I’ll be making/eating a tuna casserole, and eating it while I watch the Emmys. Does this make me a Plugger or merely boring and unhealthy – oh, wait – that is the hallmark of Pluggerdom. Crap!
The Divine O’F
September 16th, 2007 at 2:11 pm [Reply]

160 Bob Weber: Holy cow! We’d love to have you at the next Convocation! In fact, we won’t set a date until we know that it’s one you can make! (And we must be neighbors. Do you perchance live in Catalina Foothills Estates or Shadow Hills?)

162 Ukelele Ike: Thanks. I liked the old May much better. More meth, mule!
Trilobite
September 16th, 2007 at 2:13 pm [Reply]

#174 was me, carelessly failing to check that the little boxes above were filled in properly.

Anyway:

#173 Rainbird — Wow, I’d completely forgotten that Meth-head May used to have hair like a Snuffy Smith character. It almost makes her current clown wig look reasonable. Almost, but not quite.
Skullturf Q. Beavispants
September 16th, 2007 at 2:19 pm [Reply]

If any of you are in Toronto, I think a good place for a CC meetup would be the Elephant and Castle Pub on King St, not far from Roy Thomson Hall. The reason I suggest this locale is that it is but a hop, skip, and a jump from Lynn Johnston’s star on the Canada Walk of Fame, which could make for some interesting photo ops (it’s up to you exactly what facial expression or gesture you wish to make at her star).
AppleGirl
September 16th, 2007 at 2:23 pm [Reply]

Don’t we have a few curmudgeons here in Orange County? Red Greenback and me… who else is here?
Anonymous
September 16th, 2007 at 2:26 pm [Reply]

175 – Oh come now – wouldn’t the CC entendre tradition be better served by The Crack of Dawn?
Spotted HØrse
September 16th, 2007 at 2:32 pm [Reply]

FOOB: What if Lynn were to take a year off and put her strip in reruns… screw FOOBCorp, tell her minions that the gravy train don’t stop here anymore. She might then walk the western provinces ala Caine or Samuel Jackson, helping settlers and whatnot. Then she returns with a stripped-down, lean and hungry strip that’s honestly mean (when need be) and honestly nice (occasionally).

Wouldn’t that be better than buttloads of SKRITCH SKRAT crotch?
SecretMargo
September 16th, 2007 at 2:43 pm [Reply]

175: Allie Cat — “The Spayage of the Dawn Shedder”?
Red Greenback
September 16th, 2007 at 2:49 pm [Reply]

Allie Cat @ #175: You’re a Plugger if your TC fixins come out of a box and you have a 12″ b&w Philco with aluminum foil taped to the rabbit ears.
SecretMargo
September 16th, 2007 at 2:52 pm [Reply]

176: TDO’F — Apropos of little, I just wanted to chare a “Cat and Girl” that made me think of you.

From comics, who would you pick? Everyone from Gil Thorp are obviously bad choices. The PBS duck for QB? And Nikki for tight end (dissed again, Bill!), obv.
Spotted HØrse
September 16th, 2007 at 2:56 pm [Reply]

Kate, Rainbird, Herro!, Helena Handbasket, NorCal Mudges:
As I recall, it took awhile to hammer out the Tuscon CC, so let’s keep an eye on the posts as other NorCal Mudges sound off, and that’ll help with picking the location.
Niall
September 16th, 2007 at 3:01 pm [Reply]

Allright, found my cheesy western comic as I remembered the French name: it was called Redeye by Gordon Bess and appeared in Tintin from 1969 to 1980.
ltrftp(not so first time)
September 16th, 2007 at 3:01 pm [Reply]

144 ForGarmen
Thanks.

I was snookered.
I wanted to be snookered.
Gloria
September 16th, 2007 at 3:05 pm [Reply]

One of my regrets in life is that I have never yet had the occasion to use the phrase “Kiss me, you fool!”.

Now I am going to have to find an excuse! Bwahaha.
Niall
September 16th, 2007 at 3:05 pm [Reply]

82. Trilobite: I put my link just above without reading from my post #77. Gah!! Redeye is still going??? I had never clicked it on the Chron site… and I never will again.
Robert Fludd
September 16th, 2007 at 3:23 pm [Reply]

It strikes me the Hi and Lois orgy scenario is not only plausible, but ongoing. Notice that that the two are heading in opposite directions in the last panel, no doubt returning to the guest and master bedrooms to finish the mommy daddy business they started the night before.
“I hear Lois is a real swinger!”
Sleep tight, kids.
Moon Mullins
September 16th, 2007 at 3:27 pm [Reply]

185: Wow, there’s more of us than I thought! The list keeps growing. So far I’ve counted Jym, Ribinin, Spotted Horse (sorry, don’t know how to make the null set thing), Herro, Helena Handbasket, Rainbird, Kate and me. That would need a table for 8 right there. Maybe we can get a private room!

Since we seem to have a lot of folks in Sacto and the San Jose area, it seems like somewhere between the two would make the most sense. In SF would probably be the most fun but the traffic thing, parking and bridges might cause problems. Perhaps Walnut Creek? It’s a good middle between Sac and SJ, easy access from freeways and has a BART station for the nondrivers.
The Divine O’F
September 16th, 2007 at 3:30 pm [Reply]

184 Secret Margo: OMG, that is so perfect! Thanks for finding it for me. I’m not sure about comic strip characters, but since the girl is already on Russian literature, I’d have to pick Smerdyakov right away. Also Raskolnikov, because of his proven willingness to be brutal. (I want brutality in my football! Reacting badly to a drubbing last night to the U of A wimp football team.)
SecretMargo
September 16th, 2007 at 3:33 pm [Reply]

182:

Alternatively:

The Spayage of the Dawn Spreader?
LTBF
September 16th, 2007 at 3:35 pm [Reply]

192…Roll Tide!!!!!!!!!!
Joe Blevins
September 16th, 2007 at 3:40 pm [Reply]

PANTOMIME TIME! Your opportunity to act out the funnies at home!

For this exercise, you will need two people and a kitchen. One of you will play Hi, the other Lois. Your assignment is to act out how H&L got from their positions in panel 1 to their positions in panel 2 without running smack dab into each other. Keep in mind that by panel 2, both persons’ arms should be straight down at their sides as if they were wind-up soldiers.

Ready? GO!

(P.S. – The sponsors of “Pantomime Time” wish to state in advance that they are not responsible for any injuries incurred by home participants.)
Lisa
September 16th, 2007 at 3:43 pm [Reply]

Gagott68 #49 and #51:
I am glad I’m not the only one who noticed today’s Luann coochie/headlight fest. I guess Greg Evans feels that since the TJ/Brad homoerotica intimations of the past weeks did not sufficiently grab our attention, he felt he had to do something drastic to drag our attention away from the Foobs.
Moon Mullins
September 16th, 2007 at 3:44 pm [Reply]

194: I think she meant the U of A Wildcats of Arizona, not the Crimson Tide, who are equally wimpy.
Skullturf Q. Beavispants
September 16th, 2007 at 3:46 pm [Reply]

And not the University of Alberta either, who probably have a football team, but I wouldn’t know anything about it.
Moon Mullins
September 16th, 2007 at 3:47 pm [Reply]

196: Wow, just saw the Luann and I see what you mean. Apparently the carpet does not match the drapes.
cheech wizard
September 16th, 2007 at 3:50 pm [Reply]

DT – Instead of going to all the trouble of unbolting the seat, prying it from the floor, wrestling the door open and pushing it out onto the whirring blades below, wouldn’t have been easier to just shoot them?
bats :[
September 16th, 2007 at 3:51 pm [Reply]

160. Bob: I’m slack-jawed here (well, not that that’s an unusual thing). I didn’t know you were a local. I’ll admit that for years, I saw an address for the drawing contest entries to be sent to Cortaro AZ (I think), and I just figured cities that run Slylock opted to have local contests. WhaddIknow?
Yes! Since the TCC didn’t devolve into awkward silences or skillets and fists flyin’, there’s talk of another one soon.

164. SecretMargo: mea culpa, mea culpa, mea maxima culpa! I only vaguely recalled the Tokyo Curmudgeon Convo (I think it was about the time I started loitering here. And natto just sounds scary). Ummm, how about “Knock us off the page!”, for the united T’s of the TCC?

185. Spotted: Hey! At no time did the Divine O’F use a hammer on us! Gentle persuasion is the key…
However, I think the date was made a good 6 weeks in advance.

175. Allie Cat: no clever quips for the Late Summer of Dawn, but will this do? Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned, nor is anyone safe:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/9545446@N07/1393530480/
Niall
September 16th, 2007 at 4:03 pm [Reply]

104 Old Man Muffaroo: I have the first 9 Spirit archives books. Those are the original strips, but not the ones I saw as a kid… I don’t know which ones those were!

I concur that MyCage’s Sunday title panel has the most adorable-too-sweet-for-words art.

178: I may not make a Toronto gathering as I’m rarely in town (3-4 times a year). I’d have a better chance with Secretmargo. I think I’m the only Ottawa commenter…

201 bats:[: Bwahahaha!!
Moon Mullins
September 16th, 2007 at 4:07 pm [Reply]

Another thought on where to meet as this has piqued my interest:

Thirsty Bear Pub in San Francisco

Just off Third Street, it has several advantages:

1) Walk to BART
2) Walk to CalTrain (for San Joseans)
3) Ample parking day or night
4) One block from the Cartoon Art Museum , where we could all go after our meeting to snark as a feared group.
Skullturf Q. Beavispants
September 16th, 2007 at 4:11 pm [Reply]

First Tokyo, then Tucson — wasn’t there a Seattle-area CC meetup? Did that happen? It would be awesome if it had happened in Tacoma. Then other meetups could take place in Toronto, Toledo, Topeka, Tampa, etc.

In consecutive Olympiads, the summer games were held in Mexico City, Munich, Montreal, and Moscow.

Does anyplace in the Bay Area start with T, to continue the pattern?
SecretMargo
September 16th, 2007 at 4:18 pm [Reply]

193:

“The Spoilage of the Dawn Cheddar”?

I’ll stop now, I think
Skullturf Q. Beavispants
September 16th, 2007 at 4:20 pm [Reply]

I guess “Thirsty Bear” and “Third Street” start with T…
Fox
September 16th, 2007 at 4:38 pm [Reply]

Re: the Dick Tracy “writing staff” — how many comics have writing staffs/understudy cartoonists and how many are solo operations? And how difficult is it to learn to mimic someone else’s cartooning style?
Spotted HØrse
September 16th, 2007 at 4:43 pm [Reply]

#203 Moon Mullins:
I can see one more advantage to The Thirsty Bear:

5) I can order halibuttcheeks.
Red Greenback
September 16th, 2007 at 4:47 pm [Reply]

Turlock?
commodorejohn
September 16th, 2007 at 4:47 pm [Reply]

And now, your late-afternoon Sunday comics commentary!

A3G – The heck with Solitaire, I think they’re going to play “Go Fish.” If you get my drift…

BB – This would’ve been a lot better as a Family Circus dotted-line strip. I do like the randomness of Beetle playing “airplane” in panel six, though.

Crankshaft – He’s lost it. Before Batiuk makes a “ha ha technology changes” joke, he should make sure that the technology has actually changed. Aside from nifty add-ons like keyless-entry remotes, cars unlock about the same way they always have, particularily from the inside.

Crock – wha buh er um uh *HEAD ASPLODE*

Curtis – It’s Complete-And-Total-Non-Sequitur Sunday! Also, do the first two panels seem unspeakably creepy to anybody else?

DTM – This could not possibly be less menacing.

DT – The Baron’s just got to give his package to someone!

FOOB – Well, yep, she’s comparing her husband to a dog. I don’t think I need to add anything here.

FW – AHH FUCK YOU BATIUK

H&L – Talk about botched punchlines. “Twins,” you dolt! “Never the twins shall meet!” Was that so hard?

JP – “I wanna negotiate! No, never mind, I wanna talk about my family! No, now I wanna negotiate again!”

MT – Dove’s milk!? *checks Wikipedia* Well, whaddya know? Maybe that explains all those bird Pluggers and Shoe ladies with breasts.

MW – Sadly, Steven Spielberg made them airbrus out the gun Dawn is clearly holding in imitation of Bruce Willis. Dean? We need your original-intent restoration skills here!

MC – Hey, first appearance of what looks to be Maureen’s daughter! Cute kid!

Pibgorn(WTF) – What is this? Words!? In Pibgorn!? And more shockingly, plot development!? Surely this must be a sign of the End Times!

RMMD – must…resist…gay…joke…

SF – Actually, any one of these would make me start watching TV again.

SFx – Well, I didn’t actually get it this time, but I was in the right neighborhood.

Edison Lee – isn’t making a goddamn bit of sense.
Red Greenback
September 16th, 2007 at 4:54 pm [Reply]

AppleGirl- As soon as we get a big enough crew, we can have our meeting in Tustin- Keep the TCC thing going, dont’cha know. There’s got to be more Mudges than you and me in the area!
Ribinin
September 16th, 2007 at 5:08 pm [Reply]

Thirsty Bear would be good. Best parking for that would be 5th and Mission.

Mmmm – haoibuttcheeks.
Trilobite
September 16th, 2007 at 5:13 pm [Reply]

In a half-asleep haze this morning, I imagined the best possible end for the current Dick Tracy story:

The Baron climbs out of another taxi, package clutched firmly in his hand. As he raises his little white cane to hail another taxi, the flaming wreckage of the helicopter his Gretchen stole come crashing down on top of him. The bomb inside the package goes off, obliterating Gretchen, Baron, Dmitri, and that other Russian guy who isn’t Dmitri.

Dick tells the CIA guy to drop him off at the airport, and flies home. No explanations are given for any of the events we have witnessed, nor are any offered.
bats :[
September 16th, 2007 at 5:22 pm [Reply]

Halibutt cheeks = fish faces?
Skullturf Q. Beavispants
September 16th, 2007 at 5:24 pm [Reply]

Pear pimples for hairy fishnuts?
Carmichael the Polar Bear
September 16th, 2007 at 5:24 pm [Reply]

Tracy is a T place more or less midway between Sac and San Jose, but has the distinct disadvantages of being (a) difficult to get to without a car (true, the ACE train comes through, but BART ends miles and miles away in Pleasanton) and (b) being extremely dull, with virtually nothing to recommend it.

I know, I live there part-time. If you can call it living.
Jamus The Bartender
September 16th, 2007 at 5:47 pm [Reply]

Hello, fellow disciples.
Firstly, if you haven’t already, check out today’s Doonesbury. I know it was inappropriate, but I got the same feeling from today’s cartoon that I used to get from watching Dirty Harry or Sudden Impact movies. I even put it up on my background screen, which replaced the t-shirt picture of Cassandra. It was THAT cool.
And…
49. You’re absolutely right. Even I was disturbed.
Skullturf Q. Beavispants
September 16th, 2007 at 6:02 pm [Reply]

#217 Jamus — Hey, Cassandra Cat is my desktop picture, too!
Jamus The Bartender
September 16th, 2007 at 6:05 pm [Reply]

145. Thanks, Fable. And….140. I’m working on it, i’m working on it.
Oh, Truman, congratulations on finding your pills. Pills are great , aren’t they? Dick Tracy misses his. He needed them after reading Saturday’s bit about the helicopter.
Good ole Mr. Pills..
John C Fremont
September 16th, 2007 at 6:07 pm [Reply]

Gee, all this talk about Curmudgeon gatherings has me thinking that the Iowa crew should get together – except that here in the midwest, we’re a bit too staid for such social get-togethers. Unless, of course, we’re all required to bring a hot dish… Is there such a thing as too much tuna casserole? Anyway, I’m pretty sure that as an Iowan by birth, I’m required by law to send my wife to such social gatherings in my stead. It ain’t easy being a son of The Hawkeye State. And life over here across the river’s not so great, either. Maybe I should’ve taken that transfer to Scottsdale after all…

Hey, is the new post up yet?
Jamus The Bartender
September 16th, 2007 at 6:14 pm [Reply]

218. You’ve got good taste.
Seriously, I was beginning to wonder if I was losing my mind for writing soo many chapters of The Cat And The Curmudgeon. Some are kinda short, some are long, all involve sex with animal ladies. I mean…..really. I know it’s all in fun, but i’m beginning to feel like Kramer from Seinfeld here. I should really wrap up the story at some point.
True Fable
September 16th, 2007 at 6:31 pm [Reply]

Check out what I was tipped off to see: Bunny Knife Fight is simply awesome. Click on each Next to go in sequential order and it’s…it’s disturbingly charming, in a twisted, malevolently attractive sort of way.

WARNING! Do NOT look if action-hero bunnies with knives fighting assassins of the animal world disturbs you.

I like the way the bunny squints in panel 4. “Make my day.” :-)
True Fable
September 16th, 2007 at 6:35 pm [Reply]

#221 Jamus the Bartender – Dude, I’m writing Mark Trail Theater in the Forums on the assumption that Mark actually has a sex drive somehow. Don’t feel bad, go with the flow. Or follow your bliss, whatever. :-)
Spotted HØrse
September 16th, 2007 at 6:49 pm [Reply]

#212 Ribinin, #214 bats :[
The Thirsty Bear offers “kokotxas – halibut cheeks”, which intrigued me rather. Here’s what I was able to find out about kokotxas,from a site where chefs try to figure out how to describe the stuff they’re selling.

This is my suggestion, and it’s what I’ve seen in English-language sources. María is right that it’s often translated as “cheeks,” but it sounds so unappetizing, and this definition sounds even worse:

“Kokotxas are the delicate pendulums of flesh growing in the throat of hake or cod.”

Mmm… throat pendulums! …which I’m sure are delicious, properly prepared and served up pretty.
bats :[
September 16th, 2007 at 7:02 pm [Reply]

225. Spotted: oh, my, that doesn’t sound appetizing at all (and for the record, not only will I give just about everything a sporting chance, but I like Basque food, AND anything with an “x” and a “k” (or two) in the same word is pretty cool by me).
“Fish morsels” sound better. Even “fish nuggets” or however bits of catfish are served when they’re breaded and fried but not presented as a fillet. Even “fish cheeks” beat “throat pendulums” (pendula?). Ruh!
True Fable
September 16th, 2007 at 7:08 pm [Reply]

Spotted HOrse, you have inspired me.

Kokotxas swings like throat pendalum do
‘Mudgeons on bicycles two by two
Muir Woods and steep hills and Fisherman’s Wharf
A cozy little bar and a sea creature dwarf

Listen, mashing up Roger Miller and wharf are hard as hell.
True Fable
September 16th, 2007 at 7:09 pm [Reply]

IS hard as hell. So is proper grammar. ;-)
Spotted HØrse
September 16th, 2007 at 7:22 pm [Reply]

True: Yowzah! Roger Miller and Kokotxas… who knew…. why, together, they’re delicious! I’d throw in a verse or two, but my songcraft sucks hairy fishnuts.

bats :[
I like the way chefs find some weird little gobbet found in some out of the way critter place, and instead of chopping it up into soup, they celebrate it! Pendula! And other rich imperialistic tidbits for my friends!

At least The Thirsty Bear’s chef is using halibut, and not the ziggy fish.
Spotted HØrse
September 16th, 2007 at 7:35 pm [Reply]

Trilobite, uh, is this anything you can explain?
http://www.pastfoundation.org/DeepWrecks/images/LastSnack.jpg
Little Guy
September 16th, 2007 at 7:36 pm [Reply]

I’d like to let the CCers know about a little strip that is in the Sunday Washington Post called Flashbacks, by Patrick Reynolds, which highlights little history vignettes from the DC/VA./MD area.

It’s a nice little strip and educational!
Helena Handbasket
September 16th, 2007 at 7:49 pm [Reply]

Hmm, midway between San Jose and Sacramento, and not Tracy (Population: tire). How about Vallejo or Richmond? Walnut Creek is also not a bad idea. Although I like the idea of Cartoon Museum group snark in SF, the driving and parking aspects make that less appealing to me.
Anna Nimity
September 16th, 2007 at 8:01 pm [Reply]

Just checkin’ in guys… um… where is Josh and the Sunday thread? Joooooooosh? Are you okaaaay? [Little tiny whimper of withdrawl...]
Frank Parsnip
September 16th, 2007 at 8:02 pm [Reply]

MW: For those who were hoping that the Al Funcoot-written comic-strip story arc “The Wonderful Adventures of Dr. Drew Corey” would play out to a happy conclusion, I can only urge in the most sincere terms possible that you avert your eyes from what is about to happen. You can often tell much about where a comic strip is going by the final panel. If you see a brash woman in a pink dress talking about getting her man or else, you know that lots of hijinks involving Margo and her roomates will follow. If you see a man standing in a winery full of people who look as if they have suddenly inflated rather tight-fitting life vests, then you are likely to find legalistic merriment with Sam Driver and his many attractively drawn women. If you see an odious young girl pulling a football out from under a hydroencephalitic boy, you know that there is going to be about a year until you have to see the same football gag in your local paper. “Gag” has many many meanings but here it means something that makes certain undernourished adults chuckle and take comfort from the constancy of its appearance over many years. A very different sort of gag was once used to prevent me from calling out to warn my brother that the love of his life had cut the brake cables on his automobile, and thus I lost my dear Aldo. But in this very case, a final panel showing Dawn clenching a fist while surreptitiously watching Dr. Drew and her neighbor Vera walk about and exchanging lovey-dovey talk is not the sorrt of final panel to give anyone comfort. And so it should not, for the intertwined future of these three shall involve two broken hearts, a very hot set of horseshoes applied inexpertly, and numerous injuries that even Dr. Drew would find hard to heal mostly because of their position on his body.
Ukulele Ike
September 16th, 2007 at 8:31 pm [Reply]

My Cage: Yes, Maureen’s daughter is cute. BUT….what species is she?

This is one problem with this strip I had not yet considered. If Norm T. Platypus mates with fiancee Bridget T. Dog, what will the offspring be?

Jeff T. Shark has a crush on Maureen….if he gets her drunk enough to knock her up, will the baby be canine or aquatic?
majolo
September 16th, 2007 at 8:49 pm [Reply]

Has anyone pointed out that there’s a Luann musical? And you can buy the soundtrack? I’m only up to sampling track 5 (”You’re a Moron”). Umm, well, it’s better than the Foob tracks, I guess. I’m also trying to determine if it is a shameless attempt to cash in on High School Musical. It might help if I had seen HSM rather than just reading the Wikipedia page.
willethompson
September 16th, 2007 at 8:58 pm [Reply]

#112 ltrftp(not so first time): Umm… A horse is a horse, of course, of course, unless he’s a urban legend…
commodorejohn
September 16th, 2007 at 9:11 pm [Reply]

#234 Ukulele Ike – I imagine Maureen’s daughter is a Fennec fox, although she’s lacking the oversized ears. Although she kinda looks like Winslow the coyote from Prickly City.
commodorejohn
September 16th, 2007 at 9:15 pm [Reply]

Oh, and as far as “what will the offspring be,” if cartoon tradition is anything to go by the boys will be platypuses and the girls will be dogs. Unless they go the furry fandom route of having the kids be some godawful hybrid rendered in a totally and completely unnatural color.
Minnie
September 16th, 2007 at 9:36 pm [Reply]

179: AppleGirl,
211: RedGreenback — I’m in the next county, where we’ll always have Tarzana.
81: Yowtch, AppleGirl! (… and now I remember a long-ago jilt I’d forgotten…)
MW: Something psycho, eh? Does it involve going bowling with Dr. Drew’s head after his unfortunate accident?
Ahh September 22 2006. I had to find archived goodies. I’m new (again) to Mary Worth, thanks to you all.
RIP Aldo.
Elle
September 16th, 2007 at 10:04 pm [Reply]

DT: That’s… one of the more painful puns I’ve seen in the past few months.
Niall
September 16th, 2007 at 10:33 pm [Reply]

238 Commodore John: you are so, so correct on everything you said. And then some…
The Spectacular Spider-Brick
September 16th, 2007 at 10:57 pm [Reply]

Ukelele Ike @ 234 wrote:

My Cage:
Jeff T. Shark has a crush on Maureen….if he gets her drunk enough to knock her up, will the baby be canine or aquatic?

Duh. They’d be dogfish!
Jym
September 17th, 2007 at 1:49 am [Reply]

=140= (Islamorada Girl): Arlo and Janis Day have had sex, as have Connie and Walt Duncan. Ma and Pa DeGroot seemed to be headed for sex at one point. These are not strips that we snark about much, though. Perhaps there’s a connection …

=203= (Moon Mullins): I guess I stared all this by mentioning Golden Gate Park? I like the Thirsty Bear, and have been known to combine visits there with visits to the Cartoon Art Museum. I’ll be in N.Y.C. for the next few weeks, though. (I do mention N.Y.C. as much as S.F.)

=234= My Cage (Ukelele Ike): Questions like these are dealt with frequently in Kevin and Kell.
Frau Doktor
September 17th, 2007 at 1:54 am [Reply]

Hey NorCal folks, I’m in the Bay Area too.

I agree, Thirsty Bear over Tracy any day (sorry)

If driving and parking issues make the East Bay more appealing, Oakland, Berkeley and Walnut Creek are all strong contenders. Temescal? Triple Rock? can’t think of any T’s in Walnut Creek, offhand…
That's The Spirit
September 17th, 2007 at 6:14 am [Reply]

Bad puns in DT? “When that seat hits the fan”?!

I don’t mean to brag, but I do think mine’s better.
Old Man Muffaroo [Hoo! Kip W]
September 17th, 2007 at 2:07 pm [Reply]

Niall @202 – When were you a kid? The Spirit changed its look subtly from the early pulp-looking strips to the later ones, which were almost a burlesque as Eisner got more and more way-out and experimental (not that he wasn’t always an experimenter). The ones Mom saved in ‘42 and ‘43 were drawn in Eisner’s absence by assistants like Jack Cole and Lou Fine, among others, and were never reprinted until I started thinking about scanning them, at which point DC put them in the hardbacks, volumes 5 to 11. You may be thinking of the later Eisners.

Man, I am so far behind on those volumes. I, uh, don’t have any.
Sanjay
March 31st, 2008 at 5:26 am [Reply]

Kiss me you fool Don’t you have to footnote Bartlett’s Book of Cliches From the when you write dialogue like that.

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