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Apartment 3-G, 2/28/08

Good lord, is there anything more divine than imagining a timid and baffled Lu Ann on some sort of weird A3G approximation of The View? I can just see her shrinking with embarassment further and further down into her seat as Whoopi Goldberg and Elisabeth Hasselback scream at each other about the merits of modern art or something. Then Margo would burst onto the set, slap Whoopi and Elisabeth, and, eyes flashing with fire, bellow “This interview is over!” at Barbara Walters. Next, taking off one shoe, she’d…

…OK, I’m officially a little too excited by this scenario.

Gil Thorp, 2/28/08

The sad Tale of Andrew The Abandoned Boy continues, with the A-Train forced to boil things for his little siblings while his father heroically protects U.S. State Department officials with Blackwater. Today, I’m mostly troubled by whatever the hell is going on under the narration box in panel two. It looks like Andrew is programming some sort of 1950s-era computer, complete with a slot for a punch card. Perhaps the artist thinks that once a check is “direct-deposited,” one can extract the money from ENIAC?

Site note: I’ve finally done something I should have done years ago: I created a privacy policy for the site. Take a look, won’t you? (Update: I just made a few quite minor tweaks thanks to suggestions, including adding details about PayPal.)

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254 responses to “All Bolle edition”

150
February 28th, 2008 at 1:03 pm [Reply]

I’m more unnerved by the screw-top on the milk carton. I thought those were only used on orange juice.
Ovalicious
February 28th, 2008 at 1:03 pm [Reply]

What is with the chick’s hair in Gil Thorp now? I mean, I thought the snood was bad back when what’s-her-face shaved her head, but this thing is like some sort of sea creature dried on her pate.

Love, Val
Son of Slam
February 28th, 2008 at 1:04 pm [Reply]

Man, my job title is “consultant”, and I WISH it was “mercenary”.
Sobek
February 28th, 2008 at 1:05 pm [Reply]

That’s no spit curl on Andrew Gregory’s forehead. It’s the world’s smallest, dumbest face-hugger. crossed with an English sheepdog. Instead of implanting an egg in Andrew’s thorax, it will try to implant scones, poor dental hygeine, and a fondness for cricket directly into his skull.
Sobek
February 28th, 2008 at 1:07 pm [Reply]

Did Margo just steal LuAnn’s cup?
Islamorada Girl
February 28th, 2008 at 1:07 pm [Reply]

Panel 2 of the new and improved Gil Thorp? Andrew has had a vending machine installed in the kitchen. When the kiddies are hungry, they can purchase M&Ms, potato chips, cheese crackers and other wholesome foods with their allowance money.

Death! Death! Death to Gil Thorp.

Thank you.
Kirbyoto
February 28th, 2008 at 1:11 pm [Reply]

LuAnn was so upset by the whole ordeal that she spontaneously grew lipstick in panel 2
Ogg Ogglesby
February 28th, 2008 at 1:13 pm [Reply]

Judging from her lips in panel 2, Lu Ann is enjoying a nice cup of blood. I think she got Margo’s cup by mistake.
Katie_AK
February 28th, 2008 at 1:13 pm [Reply]

“… And they promised to be gentle”? Hmm, I feel like I’ve heard this before. Am I to understand that Lu Ann will be losing her virginity while on television?
Batman Beatles
February 28th, 2008 at 1:14 pm [Reply]

9CL: Did he already cover the “Edda is a prude” storyline?
captainswift
February 28th, 2008 at 1:14 pm [Reply]

Obviously, the thing in panel 2 is a gas station restroom condom machine. A-Train obviously thinks Woman Whose Name I Have Never Seen Mentioned is dropping by for a little of the A-Train.

I’m not entirely sure why he charges himself for condoms, though.
Yitzchok
February 28th, 2008 at 1:17 pm [Reply]

Sorry, but I did another one of these.
Laura c
February 28th, 2008 at 1:18 pm [Reply]

I’m beginning to understand the comments on the Xtian Singles girls. After studying the one with the six girls all giggly and hugging like some kind of outdoor slumber party, all I can say is something is majorly OFF about this ad. Perhaps its because they’re all dressed in white. Christian women favor flower prints…and hats.
Mardou Fox
February 28th, 2008 at 1:18 pm [Reply]

Um, Josh, maybe you don’t have them in Maryland, but I think that thing in panel 2 of GT may be….an ATM machine! Are you sure you don’t live in Snuffy Smith-land?
Chris in Virginia
February 28th, 2008 at 1:19 pm [Reply]

I find myself in the uncomfortable position of defending Gil Thorp.

Make that agonizingly uncomfortable.

Panel two has Andrew at an ATM, withdrawing money his dad, Mad Mike Hoare has direct deposited. It’s voice-over nararrated. By the A-Train.

It’s actually an uncommonly decent bit of illustration for this godawful strip.
Shoshi
February 28th, 2008 at 1:19 pm [Reply]

#14–An ATM in his KITCHEN??
Mardou Fox
February 28th, 2008 at 1:21 pm [Reply]

Do you think some day we may be treated to a A3G-GT crossover???? Maybe the Lady Mudlarks can do really well in the “playdowns” and have to take a road trip to New York City! I can dream, can’t I?
Garwood B. Jones
February 28th, 2008 at 1:21 pm [Reply]

“Oh, automatic debit mostly, or I buy a money order. Sometimes, due to my uncanny resemblance to Ronald Reagan, I rob banks with guys who look like Jimmy Carter, Lyndon Johnson, and Richard Nixon. You know… as a form of rebellion against a social system that kills the human spirit. That reminds me, wanna go surfing?”
Mardou Fox
February 28th, 2008 at 1:22 pm [Reply]

#16–see #15!
Anna Nimity, Not the Christian Singles Girl
February 28th, 2008 at 1:24 pm [Reply]

Okay, what the hell was that? Revenge of the Christian Singles Girl? Dracula indeed!
Krazy Kat
February 28th, 2008 at 1:25 pm [Reply]

GT-Yes, before his father left he installed an ATM in the kitchen so A-train could have access to his direct deposited money. Either that or it’s one of those instant food machines you see in space fantasy movies. Either way the guy is a genius.
Buck Ripsnort
February 28th, 2008 at 1:25 pm [Reply]

GT: So in the middle of cooking, he RUNSto the local ATM, then RUNS home to pour Ms. Pageboy a glass of milk. Cause when Ms. Pageboy wants her milk and her money, she wants it NOW, bitch!
Anna Nimity, Not the Christian Singles Girl
February 28th, 2008 at 1:26 pm [Reply]

Josh, one little typo in the privacy policy, right at the end.

“..for instnace, and not the credit card number…”

I kind of like the word “instnance.”
AtomicDog of The Interrogation Patrol
February 28th, 2008 at 1:27 pm [Reply]

Prickly City – Is that coyote waterboarding that melon-headed girl?

Go, Coyote, go!
ConcreteQueen
February 28th, 2008 at 1:27 pm [Reply]

Josh, I think you meant “imagining” up there not “imaging”.

And just for the record, that’s not a spit curl on the A-Train’s forehead, it’s a brain slug, turning him from an arrogant jackass into a responsible older brother in accordance with a grand master plan yet to be revealed.
Krazy Kat
February 28th, 2008 at 1:27 pm [Reply]

Oh, and some f***ker just posted Dracula into the threads. Nice. And me with my personal policy of reading every thread in its entirety.
Buck Ripsnort
February 28th, 2008 at 1:29 pm [Reply]

#19— Holy Spam Attack, Batman!
Dr. Pants
February 28th, 2008 at 1:29 pm [Reply]

Dear Mr. Bolle,

After the cancellation of “The O.C.” and “Beverly Hills, 90210,” I’m glad I can turn to you for Gil Thorp — a depiction of high school life using a cast of 37-year-olds.

When you inevitably take over all comic strips, I look forward to similar age distortion in Mary Worth, who, I assume, will be shown as a pushy, know-it-all skeleton.
Gregoire
February 28th, 2008 at 1:30 pm [Reply]

GT – It’s a bulletin board…
Bootsy
February 28th, 2008 at 1:30 pm [Reply]

A Team (A Train? I can’t be bothered to differentiate) is staring intently into the top of a closed pot.

I think “Big Ray” must be working for the Jungle Patrol!

9CL Do we have to hear yet again how no one talks dirtily to poor Edda? It made no sense and it wasn’t funny the first go round.

And who says that? People might say “No one curses around me” or even the euphemistic “No one uses bad language around me” but dirty talk is something different. I hate her. Wow, that came from deep place in my soul! It just popped out but I embrace it. There. I hate that monkey faced prude and her leopard print wearing virago of a mother.

Or is she a leopard print wearing harridan?

Discuss.
Krazy Kat
February 28th, 2008 at 1:31 pm [Reply]

Josh-thanks for the privacy policy–though the mind boggles at just who would actually pay to have the data on habitués of the CC.
Anna Nimity, Not the Christian Singles Girl
February 28th, 2008 at 1:32 pm [Reply]

19. From Harker’s Dracula post: “Bless that good, good woman who hung the crucifix round my neck!For it is a comfort and a strength to me whenever I touch it.”

Yep. Harker is the Christian Singles Girl in drag, come to get revenge on us for our snarking about her. Time to repent or be spammed, I guess.
Gal Friday
February 28th, 2008 at 1:34 pm [Reply]

A3G is alarmingly picking up some Herb and Jamaal tendencies–namely the generic description: “the TV show with all the bickering women”.
Perky Bird
February 28th, 2008 at 1:34 pm [Reply]

Gil Thorp– When I first read that strip this morning on chron.com, I had no idea panel 2 took place outside the kitchen, let alone that it was supposed to represent A-Train at the ATM! I honestly thought he was taking a recipe card down from his kitchen bulletin board, or something!
Shoshi
February 28th, 2008 at 1:36 pm [Reply]

I thought he was taking something (a stick of butter?) out of the refrigerator!
Bootsy
February 28th, 2008 at 1:36 pm [Reply]

Krazy Kat, I had just posted and was scrolling UP from the bottom and thought, “Jamus did a really long Cassandra Cat story this time. Can’t wait to read”. but then yeah, there was Dracula. Geez. Luckily for me, I don’t always read every one.
Skullturf Q. Beavispants
February 28th, 2008 at 1:36 pm [Reply]

At my local supermarket in Toronto, I buy half-and-half (do you folks call it that? Halfway between milk and cream?) in a container just like the one in GT, like a regular milk container that also has a round opening. And I use the round opening.

But we’ve already established that Canadians sometimes buy milk in plastic bags, so we might not be the ones to define “normal”. Oh no, I just realized I live in Gil Thorp-land! Help!
gnome de blog
February 28th, 2008 at 1:36 pm [Reply]

Not to change the subject or anything, but is Andy flying the police plane? Or did Abbey the Wonderdog drop by to help?
Chris in Virginia
February 28th, 2008 at 1:37 pm [Reply]

I don’t know that my getting that it was an ATM with voiceover narration speaks well or ill of me.
geoff
February 28th, 2008 at 1:41 pm [Reply]

I, for one, would love to hear the A3G remix ..

(Girl Talk, anyone? No? Ah, well.)
gkl
February 28th, 2008 at 1:44 pm [Reply]

MW: Since when do relatives need to ask permission to see their families off at the airport? I mean, I can’t stand my relatives for more than 5 days but I’m still willing to hug them good-bye.

GA: What 2? 2008-1988: 8 minus 8 is 0. 0 minus 8–borrow from 20 to make it 19, then 10 minus 8 is 2. 19 minus 19 is 0, so that cancels. What the frack are you carrying? AAAAGH!

GT: I’m lovin’ the turn this plotline has taken. There’s only one thing more exciting than sports or burning things, and that’s home economics.
Tim
February 28th, 2008 at 1:44 pm [Reply]

Privacy policy, schmivacy schmolicy!

If you want real privacy in this world, yer gonna have to pull out your fillings…

P.S., you can buy pliers for this task at my website*, buy pliers for less dot com, where you’ll find a complete selection of pliers for all your home dentistry needs.**

* not really a website I’m affiliated with and possibly not even real.

** Home dentistry? Of course home dentistry… Why do you think all the rage today is sedation dentistry? That’s when they get you!
Gregoire
February 28th, 2008 at 1:45 pm [Reply]

GT – Crap, it IS an ATM!
Allie Cat
February 28th, 2008 at 1:47 pm [Reply]

#19 – I actually thought this was a post of all of the Dennis Viscount of Stokingtons ever written.

Proving that not only have I not read, those – I never read Dracula, either.
mere cog in the machine
February 28th, 2008 at 1:47 pm [Reply]

FBOFW: I can’t tell if that sickenly serene looking Patterson in the last panel is Liz or Mike. I swear this strip is freaking me out; there is an unhealthy, incestuous miasma emanating from it.

Oh, and if your going to insert the first chapter of a book in the comments section, why would you choose an moldy, over-written tome like ‘Dracula’? Why not something from the twentieth century, like ‘A Confederacy of Dunces’, or ‘Brideshead Revisited’? Whoever you are, sir or ma’am, you have the literary tastes of a disturbed adolescent.
fuzzmaster
February 28th, 2008 at 1:48 pm [Reply]

Just wondering why, if A-Train has an ATM card, he can’t just pay his bills with, um, cash? Or why he doesn’t also have access to online banking? Or a credit card? And why the girl would be so baffled by how bills could possibly get paid in the absence of a parent?
ar_d
February 28th, 2008 at 1:51 pm [Reply]

It’s not enough for that girl to barge into A-Train’s house and pry into his family secrets and personal finances, but she’s about to drink his milk straight from the carton too!!??

A-Train doesn’t seem to mind the intrusions though. He’s too busy trying to impress her with his suave, “I know how to purchase a money order” smile.
JP (not Judge Parker)
February 28th, 2008 at 1:53 pm [Reply]

I would suggest that they’re drinking soy milk in GT (which usually does have that screw top), but that would be rather progressive and un-50s like of them.

Re: panel 2, either it’s an image of A-train’s dad at an ATM and his dad looks exactly like him, spit curl and all (which wouldn’t be *that* surprising), or A-train is messing with some kind of ridiculous machine they had installed in the middle of the kichen. I definitely see the time card slot.

Boo crazy #19 spammer!
Hank
February 28th, 2008 at 1:55 pm [Reply]

RE: 9CL The only thing that can save this sequence at this point would be that the dirty talk between these two finally causes them to realize that their incessant bickering is the result of nothing but their unrequited passion for each other, making them fly into each other’s arms for several days of lovingly detailed entwined dancer’s bodies pressed against….

Um, where was I?
Josh
February 28th, 2008 at 1:58 pm [Reply]

#25 ConcreteQueen — I fixed! Stupid spellcheck, not identifying correctly spelled words that aren’t the words I intended to use.

Viz milk cartons: if you get ultrapasturized milk (pricier, but it doesn’t go bad anywhere near as quickly) they come in cartons like that for some reason. I started getting ultrapasturized milk because I don’t drink it very often and kept ending up chucking half the carton every time I bought it. I’m probably spending just as much, but I don’t have the sad psychological effect of having to dump it down the toilet. Plus there’s nothing more depressing than really wanting cereal at midnight only to discover that the milk’s gone bad…

Josh
Skylar
February 28th, 2008 at 2:00 pm [Reply]

Today’s Pluggers is yet another joke pandering to the 90-120 crowd.
Cheeky Wee Monkeys
February 28th, 2008 at 2:00 pm [Reply]

I might point out, as a side note, that Marvin EPICALLY fails. I can use my non-pregnant belly as a snack tray whenever I damn well want to. I have a stomach after all, not a void where a stomach should be.

I think the comic-page kids have scared me into never being pregnant anyway.
Adam
February 28th, 2008 at 2:01 pm [Reply]

Jesus… I can… read Gil Thorp. That’s not going to make my days better.
mere cog in the machine
February 28th, 2008 at 2:01 pm [Reply]

50: Especially if we’re talking Frosted Flakes! I LOVE Frosted Flakes! I could eat some right now!
Trotzenbonnie
February 28th, 2008 at 2:02 pm [Reply]

#1 – 150

What josh said….
And seeing is believing –

http://www.motherjones.com/news/update/2006/04/dairy_265×360.jpg
Baka Gaijin
February 28th, 2008 at 2:05 pm [Reply]

#53 Adam: I can…read FOOB. That definitely didn’t make my day better. At least I know where Coach Kaz’s earring ended up–on that guy’s chin in the last panel of FOOB.
Dr. Mabuse
February 28th, 2008 at 2:06 pm [Reply]

Re: Milk in plastic bags in Canada. I hated those damn bags from the very first – you had to buy a special holder for them, (really, just a liter-sized plastic jug), and when you tip it forward to pour, it would sag uncontrollably and slosh out on the table. We pay extra and still get milk in plastic jugs (DELIVERED, just like back in the 50s)! But I remember when those bags first came out, some marketing genius informed us that they were not “bags”, but “bladder pouches”. Yes, indeed, throwing the word “bladder” out there is a sure way to get Canadians drinking more milk!
Brick Bradford of the Space Jungle Patrol
February 28th, 2008 at 2:06 pm [Reply]

A Trains problems are really getting to him, as he’s getting visibly older and heavier with each panel.
He and Funky are both going to be dead by Tuesday.

Well, a fella can dream, can’t he?
Cheeky Wee Monkeys
February 28th, 2008 at 2:09 pm [Reply]

Ooh, I hate milk bags. They’d probably make more sense for me to get, considering I practically breathe milk, but they spill like crazy.

Actually, I’d probably be better off with a cow fused to my face, but that’s terribly disturbing.
smacky
February 28th, 2008 at 2:10 pm [Reply]

Josh, You pour your expired milk down the toilet??? I have an image of you scraping food off of plates and flushing repeatedly.

No sink at your place?
mere cog in the machine
February 28th, 2008 at 2:13 pm [Reply]

59: I love milk bags! They’re so……..oh, wait; we appear to discussing too different things.
Vakar
February 28th, 2008 at 2:18 pm [Reply]

Undead spam– staked!

A3G: LuAnn is so surprised by Margo’s news that she somehow bit both her lips, really hard.

JP: “Hellooo? Anybody? Got any brownies? Brought your chickens! Brownies? Anyone? I can pay for them this time! Hello! Somebody! YOU CAN’T DENY ME BROWNIES, DAMNIT!!!” (Falls to ground, weeping)

MT: You know what? Kinda good art here. It makes sense (mostly), has a little style (in the progressively closer views), and is well-detailed. Maybe Elrod likes planes as much as he does squirrels.

MW: Drew just made this decision, and already Dad is mentally seeing him off at the airport. He can’t leave the country fast enough for him, apparently. In this case, I understand.
Flipper
February 28th, 2008 at 2:20 pm [Reply]

If Bolle had drawn Andrew wearing different clothes at the ATM, that might have helped. I’m just impressed that he bothered switching locations, unlike Judge Parker’s month-long Afghanistan terrorist story told in a diner.
BigTed
February 28th, 2008 at 2:23 pm [Reply]

This post has been Gawker-fied.

http://gawker.com/361950/girl-talk
Calico
February 28th, 2008 at 2:28 pm [Reply]

In Quebec City, they distribute/sell milk in cartons with the little screw tops, as well as milk bags and containers with “regular” spout tops.

Funny, as Lynn Johnston had a milk bag episode several years ago, where Farley bit into the darned thing – folks in the US were thinking “WTF”?
Mardou Fox
February 28th, 2008 at 2:29 pm [Reply]

#65: I think that all the time when I read FBoFW, not just when milk bags are involved!
Certified Christian
February 28th, 2008 at 2:30 pm [Reply]

61 – There appears to be an ad for milk bags up at the top of the page.
Kurdt
February 28th, 2008 at 2:31 pm [Reply]

From kindergarten to my junior year of highschool, our school milk came in bags. I never really thought about it till now. Kind of a weird idea isn’t it? Maybe it came all the way from Canada!
Perky Bird
February 28th, 2008 at 2:34 pm [Reply]

# 57– Wouldn’t a true marketing genius know to call them “udder bags” instead of “bladder bags” After all, we’re talking about milk here, not pee.
Niall
February 28th, 2008 at 2:35 pm [Reply]

1. 150: we have screw-tops on some companies’ milk cartons up here in eastern Canada, on both the 1l and 2l sizes. (4l/gallons are in bags only.) (I really need to update that old image tonight…)

37. SKullturf: half-and-half is found, I believe, all over Canada and the US…

46. fuzzmaster: I would expect A-Train can’t pay bills in cash either because there’s no office with which to pay them (not all utilities have a counter for in-person payments), or because there’s a limit per day for cash withdrawals, and some utilities would strain beyond that.

57. Dr. Mabuse (and 59 Cheeky Wee Monkey): there’s an easy solution to prevent bags from slouching forward – physics! Cut a pouring hole at the front and a small ventilation hole at the back! No slouching! Same as when you had the big cans of V-8 or juice: big hole at front, small hole at back, and it poured without gurgling or splashing uncontrollably, since air is replaced immediately to keep the flow smooth and the bag inflated. Now, if you want real milk bag-related old school, I’d call to your memory the TV ads for the Snip-It… something I have actually failed to find on the net.

65: the screwtop or pour-open top in cartons depends on the milk company. Sealtest tends to have the screwtops now, but Neilsen keeps the pour-opens. Bags remain bags for 4l. :)

It looks like I missed the spammer… thank you Josh :)
K.T. Slager
February 28th, 2008 at 2:37 pm [Reply]

Gawd. I know that “Marvin” is a train-wreck of stupidity (and not just this week), but for some reason I am unable to shun it like I usually do and am instead morbidly fascinated by the mediocrity of the jokes (for jokes, read “jokes”). I think today’s pushed me over the edge. Hey, sometimes I set things on my bosom when I eat. Am I pregnant?

I think I’ve figured it out. Because the strip is written by a man who has, I am guessing, never been pregnant, all he can refer to are aspects of babyhavingism that are immediately visible. The only one of which is, of course, “you are fat”. Well, maybe “you are devouring strange food items” as well, but… no, I give up. No. NO.

Also, in the new “Cool Friends” comic, that snowman is about to be demolished by the wheel of an incoming plane.
LogopolisMike
February 28th, 2008 at 2:37 pm [Reply]

Okay, not only am I also WAY too excited about the idea of LuAnn being on The View, but I’ve now started imagining future plots that involve the Awesomeness that is Margo somehow getting a seat at the table (because she can have one more job if she wants — she’s Margo; she can just hire a couple more assistants to abuse if need be).

The idea of Margo sitting around the table discussing Hot Topics A3G style is too delicious to imagine — even if these topics are only timely in the A3G universe (where those hair styles are in fashion and “Girl Talk” is an acceptable name for a TV show hosted by adult women):

“Should you give your kids the polio vaccine? What do you think about the Korean war? Find out after these messages from Lucky Strike cigarettes”

That said, the A3G version of The View has discussions on modern art. Back in our universe, the ladies hosted Donny Osmond today. Draw whatever horrifying conclusion about our reality you wish.
Chris in Virginia
February 28th, 2008 at 2:39 pm [Reply]

What the hell is going on in Funky Jackassbean, anyway? Funky’s a bloated bag of bogus pride, to judge by the sidelong comments of the aging hippies.

One thing is certain, though; Funky’s comeuppance is a’ comin’ up.
Zaq
February 28th, 2008 at 2:39 pm [Reply]

I have a problem, fellas.

Last night I was discussing Guild Wars (an online game to which I used to be quite addicted), and I was talking about how I still love playing it, but I have no self-control when I do so, so I just haven’t touched it since I quit cold turkey. From somewhere in the recesses of my mind, the phrase “Total abstinence is easier than perfect moderation” came to mind, and I said it… later, I realized where I had gotten that. It was a Mary Worth platitude. I unironically quoted one of Mary Worth’s platitudes.

Someone help me.
Calico
February 28th, 2008 at 2:40 pm [Reply]

Milk screw-tops in Que – Lactancia, a division of Parmalat.
Really good and consistent products, not so great recent history at the parent Co. in Italy.

A different Co., Québon, produces the bags.
Skullturf Q. Beavispants
February 28th, 2008 at 2:41 pm [Reply]

#70 Niall — maybe the uniquely Canadian dairy terminology I was thinking of was “homo milk”. That’s what they call homogenized milk here.
Mardou Fox
February 28th, 2008 at 2:43 pm [Reply]

#76–Do you have screw-top homo milk??
El Santo
February 28th, 2008 at 2:47 pm [Reply]

Josh seems to be forgetting that it’s “Girl Talk,” not “The View.” So we can expect it to be hosted by Happy Goldman, Sarah Hasselbeck, and …er … Barbara Walters.

Somehow, I enjoy the idea of Margo Magee being on the rotating roster, only to be fired a month later for being too outspoken.
Chris in Virginia
February 28th, 2008 at 2:49 pm [Reply]

Heh heh, number 77, you said “screw-top homo”.

And number 76 said “homo milk”.

(It’s like they say about the US and the UK–two countries divided by a common language.)
Patrick
February 28th, 2008 at 2:51 pm [Reply]

I know someone else already said it, but it looks to me that Mr. Spitcurl is posting something to a bulletin board. Which is an appropriate information storage technology for someone who looks like he takes hair style tips from the Fonz.
Firegoat
February 28th, 2008 at 2:52 pm [Reply]

FC — If FC is going to continue this stupid series tomorrow I hope its of a cartoonist talking on the phone, because phoning it in has been all they’ve done all week.

Not that that’s unusual, mind you.
bats, Aviation Division of the Jungle Patrol :[
February 28th, 2008 at 2:57 pm [Reply]

37. Skullturf: milk in plastic bags = udders?
Gold-Digging Nanny
February 28th, 2008 at 2:57 pm [Reply]

Chris in Virginia is right.

It is an ATM, and it’s not installed in the kitchen. The tail-less dialogue balloon indicates that this is a voiceover accompanying a flashback to a time that Andrew used an ATM.

Let me repeat that. This is a flashback to a time that Andrew used an ATM.

Maybe later we’ll get a flashback to a time Andrew did some light dusting.
Vakar
February 28th, 2008 at 2:59 pm [Reply]

74. Zaq, here’s the help you need:

http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/38033.html

Not Mary, Saint Augustine. This one was not made up by Karen Moy. Breathe easy.
Ghost of Montoni
February 28th, 2008 at 3:02 pm [Reply]

GT: Here’s the thing about panel 2. Yeah, it’s an ATM. But if that’s dad, why would he use that? He has direct deposit from his torture gig. And if it’s the A-Train, he can’t get money orders there. Maybe that’s his special phrase for “cash.” In which case, what are they teaching him at that high school of his?
AAckTTpth
February 28th, 2008 at 3:02 pm [Reply]

Mmmm… Watching two chicks who fundamentally hate each other talking dirty – bowm chikka bow… wait… it’s only 9CL. Never mind.
AAckTTpth
February 28th, 2008 at 3:05 pm [Reply]

WOOHOO! Calgary shout-out in Diesel Sweeties today!
spontaneous human combustion
February 28th, 2008 at 3:05 pm [Reply]

I usually lurk, since I’m not that funny. But I wanted to surface momentarily to say that I’m very impressed by the new privacy policy. It’s the most responsibly written and pro-site-reader policy I have ever seen. I’ve never felt cared for after reading a privacy policy before! Seriously, I honestly appreciate it.
.

And now, lest this all go to Josh’s head: I miss the “At long last, say it” button!
highritz
February 28th, 2008 at 3:11 pm [Reply]

when I first saw FOOB today I thought the main patterson was actually Michael, not Elizabeth. Looking back I realize Michael’s hair IS darker but, honestly in panels three and five is that actually a female?
Ashley
February 28th, 2008 at 3:15 pm [Reply]

So spit-curl breaks the news that Daddy’s a mercenary, blood money from the killing of innocents having paid for that crazy screw-top milk, and she’s worried about whether Andrew uses cash or credit?
Anonymous
February 28th, 2008 at 3:16 pm [Reply]

#51, Yeah, I caught that. I mean, the former students must be pushing mid-80s (and are probably the only obese 80 year olds in existence), so the former teacher must have been a childhood friend of Walt Wallet.

Marvin: So every frat boy and middle-aged man is pregnant?
SecretAgentMan
February 28th, 2008 at 3:17 pm [Reply]

15: Alright, now that you’ve said it’s an ATM, it makes sense. When I was reading it the first time, I was under the impression he has this thing sitting in his kitchen, and he’s using it while he’s talking to wossername.
BabaWawa@TheView
February 28th, 2008 at 3:18 pm [Reply]

Wets welcome WooAnn Powers and her friend Magwo Magwee!
WooAnn, do you wike working with wawacowors? Dawi is my favorite painter! I wove his cwock!
Dingo
February 28th, 2008 at 3:19 pm [Reply]

Josh, I’m trying to imagine you chucking milk down the toilet. Don’t they have sinks in Baltimore?
kelsy
February 28th, 2008 at 3:20 pm [Reply]

I’m pretty sure that whatever Margo is doing with her hand in panel one is the most feminine thing I’ve ever seen her do. Or probably ever will.
Al of the Christian Single Jungle Patrol
February 28th, 2008 at 3:23 pm [Reply]

42 — speaking of home dentistry, today I saw a van driving around with a window sticker proclaiming “www.pattersondental.com” . I wish I were making this up…
Benjamin Baxter
February 28th, 2008 at 3:25 pm [Reply]

What kind of “consulting” does he think his father does? Is it a Rex Morgan “consulting” or more of, as he says, a mercenary gig?

http://awaitingtenure.wordpress.com/
Al of the Christian Single Jungle Patrol
February 28th, 2008 at 3:29 pm [Reply]

73 — I thought Kahn was coming to the US to open “Kahn’s Hello Deli” or some such nonsense, not to work for the fat brother of somebody he almost killed three times.
odinthor
February 28th, 2008 at 3:31 pm [Reply]

Privacy Policies. — Leaving aside that I first read it as Piracy Policy (arrrr! Ye lily-livered Family Circus lubbers, none o’ye will be spared . . . To the plank, damn yer eyes!), the Comics Curmudgeon policy has admirable completeness and usefulness; sure beats the policy on my site: “Privacy policy: This site respects your privacy and will not gather any information in which the webmaster has no interest. Due to new applications of Plutonic technology, however, we are able to determine via synaptic surges between your fingers and the keyboard the following: (a) whether you are wearing torn underwear; (b) the vowels in your middle name; (c) the size and vitality of your coccyx; and (d) what you did you-know-when. Should you not wish to yield to our morbid curiosity, you may shield your fingertips with a product called Rubber Fingers. We would like to declare at this time that we have no financial interest in the manufacture, distribution, or sales of Rubber Fingers, and lament that other webmasters have not made a similar declaration. Could it be that they have something to hide?!?!?“.

By the way, the milk man delivers screw top homo milk here in sunny Southern California (and did so at my place this very morning). He was not wearing Rubber Fingers at the time.
Joe, Upper-Evergreen Division of the Jungle Patrol
February 28th, 2008 at 3:32 pm [Reply]

FOOB: So, St. Michael is turning into Elizaloser and Elizaloser is turning into St. Micheal. Maybe they’ll both morph to the point where they look exactly like each other then stop…….since I’m taking a wild guess that Lynn always wanted FOOB-twins….

FC: Look, it’s a Nazi-snowman! Sig-Hiel!

Smirky Pantysniffer: Holy Crap that Funky is a fast-ass! Is Batuik setting him up for a big smackdown? Or will Funky end up firing his snide pizza-cook?

Luann: Tiffany’s hairdo reminds me of those Oriental girls in Bruce Lee’s old movies….

A3G: Can we PLEEEEASE bring these women into 2008 and out of 1952???

Marvin: If Jenny Miller had a smirking contest with Funky Winkerbean, who would win?
Les
February 28th, 2008 at 3:32 pm [Reply]

I read that whole damn Dracula post, waiting for the Margo joke that never came . . .
Patrick
February 28th, 2008 at 3:33 pm [Reply]

On the day they begin the Comic Strip Crimes Against Humanity trial, I submit that Family Circus should be tried first for the near endless parade of snow mutants. Evil really does wear the face of banality. Mary Worth should go before the tribunal second and so on, then save for last the entire wretched Patterson family. You get the feeling that Lynn by now must hate the Pattersons almost as much as Batiuk hates everyone in the Winkerverse but doesn’t know how to let it go.

I’m not sure when I started reading FBoFW, but I thought the strip jumped the shark about the time Farley the dog died. But after seeing the flashbacks, discover I am quite wrong, the whole strip is one giant shrill shark jump.

I feel sorry for the denizens of Sally Forth. How they do not realise they are some kind of pen and ink purgatory. The problem is that by reading, I make the mistake of choosing to suffer their misery along with them. I’m not sure I know why any more than they do.
mere cog in the machine
February 28th, 2008 at 3:33 pm [Reply]

97: I specialize in Christian Milkbag Consulting. The industry’s got a lot of bounce and most of my clients appreciate the “hands on” expertise I bring to the table.
Re: Christian Milkbag Consulting
February 28th, 2008 at 3:38 pm [Reply]

My milkshake brings all the boys to the yard,
And they’re like, “It’s better than yours!”
Damn right, it’s better than yours!
I can teach you, but I’ll have to charge!
Gold-Digging Nanny
February 28th, 2008 at 3:44 pm [Reply]

Spider-Man: You would think I would have moved past any expectations for Spider-Man by now, but today’s was BEYOND LAME.

I just had to say it.
Little Guy
February 28th, 2008 at 3:50 pm [Reply]

This week’s Phantom: Aside from his frolics on the Golden Sands of Keela-Wee, I don’t think we’ve seen Kit Walker* in the outside world sans fedora. With his RayBans, he looks like Mark Trail’s cuter cousin.

(*- For “The Ghost Who I Could Turn Teh Ghey”)
Les
February 28th, 2008 at 3:51 pm [Reply]

12 May.–Let me begin with facts, bare, meager facts, verified by books and figures, and of which there can be no doubt. I must not confuse them with experiences which will have to rest on my own observation, or my memory of them. Last evening when Margo came from her room she began by asking me questions on legal matters and on the doing of certain kinds of business. I had spent the day wearily over books, and, simply to keep my mind occupied, went over some of the matters I had been examined in at Lincoln’s Inn.

Margo explained that she would like to have a client of hers on a tele-vision programme called “Girl Talk” and wanted to know if it would violate the law to tear out her client’s heart and eat it before the cameras. I said that it most certainly would. She went away disappointed.
Bootsy
February 28th, 2008 at 3:54 pm [Reply]

Josh, I had this mental picture of you in striped jammies (footies or not, your call) going into your dark kitchen in the middle of the night for Cheerios and spoiled milk, flipping on the light, then screaming like a little girl at the roach in the cat’s bowl.

JP Hey, Abby’s got the milkbags to go with her pot brownies!
Lulu Maude
February 28th, 2008 at 3:55 pm [Reply]

Gawd! Apartment 3-G! LuAnn must be about 900 years old!

Is Margo still around?
gnome de blog
February 28th, 2008 at 3:59 pm [Reply]

100, Joe…

“Marvin: If Jenny Miller had a smirking contest with Funky Winkerbean, who would win?”

Sally Forth.
Marco Bertoli
February 28th, 2008 at 4:06 pm [Reply]

This new Thorps’s Bolle artist doesn’t work for me; the former one (name?) was more like a transparent, filter-less medium from the innermost recesses of the id.
Sans Sense
February 28th, 2008 at 4:06 pm [Reply]

Does Margo have the Mumps? It’s pure malice to take a sip out of Lu Ann’s cup just to spread the contagion. I guess Margo IS back!
mere cog in the machine
February 28th, 2008 at 4:08 pm [Reply]

102: I find the idea of a Comics Crimes Against Humanity Trial intriguing. If we were to use the Nuremberg model we would have different prosecutors for different defendants, I believe. I therefore nominate True Fable to present the case against the Pattersons. J’accuse, Elly!
Howabominable (aka Lindsey ^_^) Your Very Own Christian Single!
February 28th, 2008 at 4:09 pm [Reply]

Since apparently I’ve been posting in the last thread for the last two hours without knowing that there is a new one, I will re-post here:

Gil Thorp:Something bugs me about the current Gil Thorp storyline. How is it that Maureen is the first person to find out about this? Did Gil never once ask Andrew about his parents, call home to ask for his parents, or even wonder why they never came to games? Andrew seems pretty straight-forward about the fact that they’re gone, so if someone had just asked about them he would have told. Gil Thorp is a total bastard.

FOOB:HOLY CRAP. The person in today’s FBoFW is LIZ? I thought it was Anthony! LOL! I thought his hair looked a little funny!

Phantom:#241 mollificent (previous thread)- Omg… you’re right. I didn’t realize it until you said that, I thought he was a villain >_> I feel so dumb. But then again I’m new to the comic and have never seen him without his costume, so that’s my excuse.
Perky Bird
February 28th, 2008 at 4:25 pm [Reply]

Hey, lookie there! The Christian Singles ad now features a middle-aged-looking man! Well, it’s about time they started trying to attract the lady folk. Although why can’t they put up hot young guys instead of men who remind me of a used car salesman?

D’oh! As I previewed my comments, he disappeared and was replaced by the butt-stamped certified Christian gal.
Spike
February 28th, 2008 at 4:26 pm [Reply]

MW: And now Mary, having dispatched Drew to certain death in Vietnam, turns her attention to his unsuspecting sister, Adrian…BWUH-HA! HA! HA! HA! HA!
blueberrygrrrl
February 28th, 2008 at 4:30 pm [Reply]

FBoFW: Maybe it was the abrupt switch from talking about the old wedding dress to this scene at some strangely large kitchen, but I was initially very confused about who these three people are. In panel 3, that’s obviously Michael, and since they’re talking about how things are going with Anthony … my mind just leapt to the image of Anthony and Mike fighting over who would get to wear the heirloom dress at their nuptials. Not pretty, but it’s at least more interesting than whatever Lynn has in store for us.
Tonio
February 28th, 2008 at 4:43 pm [Reply]

#81 – Maybe Keane is paving the way for an official semi-retirement. The Snowman panels seem to require even less brainstorming than FC, if that’s possible.
Oddball
February 28th, 2008 at 4:43 pm [Reply]

#57 – I remember that! I was so happy when Canada joined the current century and started selling milk in non-bladder form.
teenchy
February 28th, 2008 at 4:44 pm [Reply]

# 13: You don’t suppose they’re all dressed in white for the same reasons women in feminine hygiene products ads sit on white sofas, do you?
Mr. Nice Guy
February 28th, 2008 at 4:47 pm [Reply]

Bah! Your foolish human privacy policy means nothing to ENIAC the Mighty!
Meanwhile
February 28th, 2008 at 4:47 pm [Reply]

I am honestly terrified at the facility with which Mary Worth has descended upon the emotionally vulnerable young Dr. Drew and ~~brainwashed~~ ~~badgered~~ maternalistically advised him into the same disease-ridden death zone that nearly claimed the life of his father.

It would be different if she had some kind of motive — something to gain, or some slight on his part to avenge — but to all appearances, the only reason she is hellbent on destroying his life is that she just can’t help herself. I guess absolute meddling-biddy power corrupts abso-biddy-lutely.
O'Dar
February 28th, 2008 at 4:55 pm [Reply]

Why did LuAnn put on a pair of wax lips in the last panel?
AppleGirl
February 28th, 2008 at 4:56 pm [Reply]

For the FOOB wedding this summer, I’ve got dibs on this dress:
http://us.st11.yimg.com/us.st.yimg.com/I/uglydress_1989_41510084
O\'Dar
February 28th, 2008 at 4:58 pm [Reply]

The figure to the right of LuAnn in the first panel seems to be missing her arms; is this some kind of bust?
Mrs Buck Tuddrussell (Not Pirates!)
February 28th, 2008 at 5:00 pm [Reply]

GT: Oh, that’s a FLASHBACK to when he visited an ATM one time. Good grief, I thought it was a bulletin board in the kitchen, the kind families have to keep themselves organized. The same kind I use in my office to tack up things that remind me of better times, like concert tickets and souvenirs, so I don’t get so depressed at work that my tears render my keyboard useless.
Niall
February 28th, 2008 at 5:06 pm [Reply]

76. Skullturf: oh yes. Homogenized milk is “whole milk” other places, but the kicker is packaging of TruFiltered extra-pasteurized milk which, as was said, lasts longer, which has bold claims to taste as good as the fatter milk. Skim says “Tastes like 1%” and 1% says “Tastes like 2%!” and, well, 2″ says “Tastes like homo!” in a really regrettably funny error in marketing copy that has foreigners agasp in grocery stores. :)

77. Mardou Fox: Yes, I do believe the 1-litre and 2-litre small cartons are screw-top and would say that. I’ll take a photo if I can. :)

99. odinthor: love that policy!

119. oddball: For gallon/4-litres, I’m not sure how much choice one has in each area. In Eastern Ontario, it’s bags only. Mind you, I still like it better than gallon jugs which always reek of dried putrified milk half-way through drinking it…
Mr. O’Malley
February 28th, 2008 at 5:10 pm [Reply]

Uncle Lumpy. Josh. Yeah, Eggbert. And this Umbert, probably titled this way: “Let’s do our own version of Eggbert, and we’ll call it … ummm”

Tom the Dancing Bug had a character called, I think, “Bad Fetus”, a fetus prone to criminal rampages, posing the dilemma that executing him would be a state-funded abortion. But I think there were only one or two appearances.

It seems to me there was another one, like Eggbert but less SFW. Maybe it was just a parody that someone did.

Josh, you think you have spell-checker problems? I have foreign language versions of some browsers on some systems, and one of them installed its spell-checker without asking me, and now everything I type is underlined in red. Except every now and then it’s not, so when I notice that I think, “Oh, that must a real word in that language” and that distracts me from the topic I was trying to write about.
benro
February 28th, 2008 at 5:11 pm [Reply]

GT – If Andrew buys money orders to pay the bills, he has to buy them with cash. And where does he get the cash? At the A-Train Machine, of course.
Shoshi
February 28th, 2008 at 5:13 pm [Reply]

#127 – Actually, in recent decades they have stopped calling it “whole milk” and started calling it “vitamin D milk”, presumably because emphasizing the vitamin content seemed better than emphasizing all the extra fat. But when I was a teenager, my friend and I collapsed in giggles every time we saw the posters advertising “One Gal Homo”. So I guess we used to call it that here, too, 30 years ago.
jahqdruh
February 28th, 2008 at 5:17 pm [Reply]

I know not everybody has a Safeway in their state, but the 1/2 gallon cartons of milk I buy from them have the little screw top. Kroger’s don’t.

Re FOOB: If Grandma’s dress has survived this long without damage, on her wedding day Liz will no doubt be reeking with the delicate aroma of mothballs. At least it will cover up other odors…
Yoqi
February 28th, 2008 at 5:21 pm [Reply]

#40. Understood, sir. Smash your head, anyone?
Seriously, Girl Talk is awesome and everyone should listen to him.
MaryAnnTheRest
February 28th, 2008 at 5:21 pm [Reply]

OK, I haven’t posted in months, but I’m coming out of lurker mode to muse aloud:

Why are we now expecting continuity between one panel of Gil Thorp and the next? It’s Gil Thorp! If the panel artwork was in logical order, it would be a different strip, wouldn’t it?
Braniff
February 28th, 2008 at 5:23 pm [Reply]

100: You may be onto something in regards to the Family Circus and the head of the Third Reich. Hitler did not die in April of 1945; he escaped to Pennsylvania and became the creator of the Family Circus. In this case, Adolf’s illegitmate son, Bil Keane (born as Wilhelm Hitler) is paying tribute to his long-lost daddy. So scary . . .
Calico
February 28th, 2008 at 5:25 pm [Reply]

#124 – For the Child Bride O’ the Century!
Yark!
Lolsworth
February 28th, 2008 at 5:26 pm [Reply]

This is one of those strips where Margo looks about sixty.
Violet
February 28th, 2008 at 5:29 pm [Reply]

I initially took today’s baffling, baffling Family Circus to be an indication that the extremely tenuous Keane hold on even the wispiest thread of sanity had at long last slipped, with the resultant batshit gibbering lunacy. Then it hit me–exultant smile, arm raised joyously as if in dance…at the airport! Today’s cool friend is clearly a Hare Krishna. I’m about 75% not even kidding about this.
Josh
February 28th, 2008 at 5:33 pm [Reply]

Yeah, down the toilet, people. Or as we call it here in Baltimore, the “terlet.”

Spoiled milk smell is one of my least favorite smells ever, and when you pour it in the sink, it pools in the sink because it can’t go down the drain fast enough and then a layer of it remains in the sink and the sink stinks of icky soiled milk.

If I pour it into the toilet in the downstairs bathroom while I’m flushing, I don’t have these problems. Partly because it goes directly down into the plumbing, partly because I almost never use the downstairs bathroom anyway.

(And no, I wouldn’t thrown solid food or anything else down the toilet. I wouldn’t throw it down the sink either, as we don’t have a garbage disposal. I clean up all the food on my plate!)

Josh
Islamorada Girl
February 28th, 2008 at 5:40 pm [Reply]

Applegirl–If you can get six of those Hello Kitty scale-gowns in iridescent mango, you’re on. I have rarely seen anything as hideous, and I’ve seen a lot of bad dresses. Let the Lizagony fest begin!
Sly Robbie
February 28th, 2008 at 5:43 pm [Reply]

GT: Panel three: mmmm… Maureen Monte, she drinks milk, and it shows!
ArbuckleLovesLyman
February 28th, 2008 at 5:48 pm [Reply]

I didn’t have time to see if someone else mentioned this already, but . . .

Margo’s droll, limp-wristed hand gesture in panel one is perhaps the greatest thing I’ve seen since the girl’s basketball game in Gil Thorp a while back.
Artist formerly known as Ben
February 28th, 2008 at 5:53 pm [Reply]

90 Ashley,
That shows that Maureen is thinking like Margo, at any rate. It’s a contagion carried by the artist.
gnome de blog
February 28th, 2008 at 6:00 pm [Reply]

#124 AppleGirl:

If I were a girl I’d fight you for it. As it is I can only stand in awe of your fashion sense.
mojo
February 28th, 2008 at 6:02 pm [Reply]

With apologies to Duke Ellington, who must be spinning in his grave about now…

Dad must hate the A-Train
Stuck with all his siblings up in Milford

Dad has ditched the A-Train
For the “fourhourworkweek” far from Milford

Hustle, watch that spit curl gleamin’
Milford’s three whole fans are screamin’

All aboard, let’s taunt the A-Train…
…eh, I don’t care enough to finish this.
Zamboni_Rodeo
February 28th, 2008 at 6:17 pm [Reply]

FOOB: Heh. I thought that was Elly in those panels instead of Liz.

Frazz: I know this one doesn’t get discussed here (generally because it’s a pretty decent strip, I guess — I don’t have any problems with it, at least), but I have a question. Can anyone please explain to me the supposed punchline of today’s strip? I’m completely lost.

OBH: The joke was telegraphed, but I’m a little disturbed at the idea of some jerk from the animal shelter coming to a kindergarten and essentially telling the students that they kill animals on a regular basis.

SF: Holy crap. Has anyone noticed the size of Sally’s foot compared to Ted’s face and hands in panel two? I know we poke fun at Ted having dainty little hands, but in that panel, it looks like Sally must wear the same size shoes as Yao Ming. I know what they say about guys with big feet, but…
Moss_Moses
February 28th, 2008 at 6:24 pm [Reply]

62. Vakar sorry to rain on your parade, but did you see the car steering wheel in the cockpit a couple of days ago? Elrod draws the airplane cabin like he draws the inside of cars, cavernous. It looks like there’s room for the entire Mormon Choir to perform inside.
Shermy Glamrocker
February 28th, 2008 at 6:34 pm [Reply]

Wow, I thought I knew a a lot of trivial things, but before today, I had never heard of milk bags.

That is, the homo milk filled plastic bladders, not the CSG ones. Those I think about a lot.
Mountain Mama
February 28th, 2008 at 6:34 pm [Reply]

It’s bad art day!

I had to stare at FOOB today. I honestly thought that was Michael talking about Anthony. Wow. And Candace and what’s-his-name look bad, too. It makes today’s GT look like Rembrandt in comparison.

But why does Andrew in GT look like he’s my age (40-ish) and Drew in MW today look like a teenager? Are the artists trying to convey the characters’ inner maturity levels? Nahhhh….
AppleGirl
February 28th, 2008 at 6:44 pm [Reply]

Calico – This dress will set the tone for a great FOOB wedding. Get the potatoes ready!

Islamorada Girl – Glad you’re on board for the Hello Kitty theme wedding! Although we won’t BE bridesmaids at the Liz-Ant fest, we can always dress the part and confuse everyone there.
Bunnë, Official Comic Execrator
February 28th, 2008 at 6:45 pm [Reply]

I have seen screwtop milk. I think it’s what we have here in Chicago. I don’t drink a lot of milk.

When my cousins were kids in NW Illinois (they are in their 50s now) my aunt and uncle bought milk in bags (or more likely, had it delivered). The bags were then put into those big metal contraptions you see in college dining halls, where you push a level and milk comes out. Apparently they drank a LOT of milk.

127, Niall… “Homogenized milk” means “whole milk” in Canada? Shouldn’t it mean “homogenized milk”? Is the 2% not homogenized too? Our neighbors to the north confuse me. Not that Chicago isn’t confusing, with its ban on putting ketchup on hot dogs… here I am in a city where you can’t get a decent coffee milk or frozen lemonade…

My favorite Canadian term (pulled from real estate ads in Vancouver) is “garburator”, as in, “Josh never puts solid food down the kitchen sink because they don’t have a garburator”.
Skullturf Q. Beavispants
February 28th, 2008 at 6:52 pm [Reply]

I seem to remember reading that “garburator” was uniquely Canadian. What about “parkade” for a parking garage? Or is that one more widespread?
Nil Zed
February 28th, 2008 at 7:04 pm [Reply]

145 Zamboni Rodeo

re: Frazz

I think I halfway got it. She (a teacher?) is mad at Frazz for going to help Mrs. Olsen, or mad at Mrs. O for requiring his help. Or annoyed that Mrs. O is a gambler or else, she just doesn’t like Mrs. O. The kid’s look in panel 3 indicates he’s got some menacing plans and she is thanking him in advance for harrassing either Mrs. O, or Frazz.

FWIW
Anna Nimity, Not the Christian Singles Girl
February 28th, 2008 at 7:09 pm [Reply]

Pluggers: Okay, today’s Pluggers says that you know you’re a Plugger when some of your students have been retired for 20 years.

Let’s see, you have to be at least 21 and a certified, college grad to teach K-12, so let’s say a Plugger started teaching HS at 21, some of his students would have been 17. If they retired at 65, that makes them at least 85 years old. Which means the Plugger himself (itself?) is about 90. Man, those critters are well preserved. Of course, if it’s in DOG years, then it’s even more ridiculous.

And the joke here is….. Pluggers are old??? Ha, ha?
Moss_Moses
February 28th, 2008 at 7:10 pm [Reply]

152….or maybe she’s mad at Mrs. Olsen for doing those horrible Folgers commercials…

“You try my Folgers. Folgers is mountain grown. It’s the richest most aromatic kind of coffee”.
TaxiGirl
February 28th, 2008 at 7:10 pm [Reply]

I would just like to back up Josh as another spoiled-milk flusher.

Particularly when it’s gone chunky.

Further, using the toilet to dispose of spoiled milk makes it very convenient when you start retching from the smell of the spoiled milk.
TaxiGirl
February 28th, 2008 at 7:11 pm [Reply]

155:

Which is actually also why I try to read FOOB in the bathroom, come to think of it.
Anna Nimity, Not the Christian Singles Girl
February 28th, 2008 at 7:13 pm [Reply]

115. Perky Bird. A Christian Singles Guy? We still only have a bunch of girls in white t-shirts; no guys in sight. And it’s a well known fact that Christian Single Guys only go for young girls in scanty t-shirts with big gazongas. And Christian Single Girls? Well, we’ll settle for just about anything. Snerk.
odinthor
February 28th, 2008 at 7:28 pm [Reply]

Mmmm . . . spoiled milk . . . spoiled eggs . . . spoiled potatoes . . . I’ll take spoiled milk over spoiled potatoes any day. Not sure where spoiled eggs might fit in here, but they’re all right up there as being sometime gastronomic friends who will turn on you. This public service message has been brought to you by Electricity Off!, your neighborhood power failure specialist. Our motto: Turning you off turns us on!
Hasty Penguin
February 28th, 2008 at 7:30 pm [Reply]

How is it that in A3G, Margo has, from panel one to two, both changed the proximity between herself and Lu Ann, or altered the size of the table and also applied lipstick to Lu Ann’s face? With all the ghostly souls of hell floating in the background and these strange happenings, the girls of A3G are surely demons and Margo is the devil.
blueberrygrrrl
February 28th, 2008 at 7:33 pm [Reply]

#115 Perky Bird, and #157 Anna, yes, I’ve seen that Christian Singles Guy too. He looks like a cross between Ferdinand Marcos (pre-1989) and Kim Jong Il. In other words, not really someone I’d choose to advertise a singles website, Christian or not.
Starrynight
February 28th, 2008 at 7:39 pm [Reply]

RE: Perky Bird COTW

Unfortunately, I just read an article that seems like a real-life version of Perky Bird’s comment

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080228/od_nm/india_toilet_dc;_ylt=AokgBLO2Ect5JvfiVfaTHSMuQE4F

No one should have to enter the world in such a manner. I hope things improve for the child from this point on…
kippetje2000
February 28th, 2008 at 7:40 pm [Reply]

It seems Andrew is dishing up some Mac and Cheese for the young ‘uns. You can see him adding the cheese flavoring in panel two before adding the milk.

And it seems you know you’re pregnant when you baby falls out and through the train toilet….Does this make one a Plakker?
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080228/od_nm/india_toilet_dc_1;_ylt=ArbzLusAqSQ.iDavWmjl4gQE1vAI
alamo
February 28th, 2008 at 7:48 pm [Reply]

fc — now we know what it will be like when hell freezes over.

(my apologies to any prior similar posting.)

(or as they say an apology on the campaign trail – if anyone is offended that is your problem.)

(i really love all of you.)
Uncle Balustrade
February 28th, 2008 at 7:57 pm [Reply]

I’m sorry if someone has already pointed this out and I missed it, but that’s not an ATM in his kitchen; it’s a foodarackisaki! “Right, Rorge!!!!”
Rainbird
February 28th, 2008 at 7:58 pm [Reply]

#30 Bootsy

You mean to say they aren’t “talking dirty”, as a form of foreplay? All they are doing is swearing and cursing?

What a disappointment. Although it is fun to know swear words in different languages, it only makes you feel better for a moment.

Is she perhaps, trying to learning to swear then?
Matt
February 28th, 2008 at 8:06 pm [Reply]

I would give anything for the current Gil Thorp storyline to rapidly become a 24-esque action tale where the A-Train and Dark Haired Mia Farrow have to survive torture at the hands of terrorists until Andrew Gregory’s mercenary father saves them by brutally killing everyone, especially since based on the new artwork so far, any hand-to-hand combat scenes would be an abstract mass of limbs and horror on par with Guernica.
Mr. O'Malley
February 28th, 2008 at 8:11 pm [Reply]

150. Bunnë, OCE. Because it’s hard to find non-homogenized milk. So
{“Homo Whole”, “Homo 2%”, “Homo Skim”}+”Milk”
could be reduced to
{“Whole” or “Homo”, “2%”, “Skim”}+”Milk”.

Clearly the only people who would find anything humourous about this would be people unfamiliar with the Greek roots of English words.

I would think that the Canadian term least obvious to outsiders would probably be “Hydro pole”.

The Christian Single Guy is now running at the top of my page. Unfortunately you can’t see that his Corvette is parked outside.

It’s rather funny. Every time we mention it, it drives these ads more and more to this page. So these people are now paying a fortune to put their ads in a place where they are highly unlikely to get any customers. I think it will take Google quite a while to come up with an algorithm that will distinguish between discussion and metadiscussion.
Pendragon
February 28th, 2008 at 8:33 pm [Reply]

I am voting with Josh on the spoiled-milk-down-the-toilet scenario and also with Taxi Girl, who explained the critical why-for far better than I would have.
Frank Parsnip
February 28th, 2008 at 9:15 pm [Reply]

A3G: Censorship at its worst is the explanation for the magic red lipstick on Lu Ann. Originally there was a panel in-between the first and second that was cut out because it shows a completely shitfaced Alan in drag singing “My Funny Valentine” while planting a big kiss on Lu Ann’s mouth. This would also explain why the last time he got really drunk there was a cup with lipstick stains in his apartment.

GT: I’m still expecting Andrew to admit that the kids are his and Maureen’s — just that he didn’t have the courage to tell her because of his shame at getting pregnant. My anatomical expectations from what we see every day in the depictions of awkward athletes in impossible positions leaves me figuring that a male pregnancy is a distinct possibility in the GT world.
prospero
February 28th, 2008 at 9:23 pm [Reply]

I know I‘m going to hell for this (during Lent no less), but it‘s a compulsion I can‘t resist: You know you‘re pregnant when the baby falls through the train toilet onto the tracks. (Thankfully, all was well.)
Shoshi
February 28th, 2008 at 9:32 pm [Reply]

#170 – I don’t know where to start telling you what’s wrong with that story! First off, EW to just dumping toilet contents onto the track! EW (again). Second, as my husband said, “They found the baby by following the umbilical cord.” Maybe the baby dangled for a few miles until she passed the placenta? (Ha–NOW who’s going to hell?) Third, for a baby that was 10 weeks premature, 3.22 pounds, and laid on an undoubtedly filthy railroad track for almost 2 hours, she looks really big and healthy!

Thanks for sharing.
Jamus The Bartender
February 28th, 2008 at 9:35 pm [Reply]

MW: Inside of two weeks, Drew’s gonna be punching the mirror in his hotel room with the ceiling fan. You just wait.
SF: Sally needs some crank.
FOOB: There’s a wedding dress in a crawlspace with your name on it, Liz. ” At ease with Anthony” time is over. Time to get pregnant.
Eric the DiscoBoy.
February 28th, 2008 at 10:17 pm [Reply]

Phantom: Forget dining in hell, the girls just did Leonidas one better.

“Spartans! Eat hearty for tonight we earn our jungle patrol badges!!!”
Frank Parsnip
February 28th, 2008 at 10:54 pm [Reply]

Shoshi: That’s amazing particularly when you figure that the designs of many train bathrooms is intended to dump the toilet contents right where they can be smushed by the carriage’s wheels. Idea on this being that the poop gets instantly pulped instead of sitting about in-between the tracks in visible-turd form.
DaveyK
February 28th, 2008 at 11:09 pm [Reply]

Margo’s dialog balloon may say “Girl’s Talk”, but that hand gesture says “It’s faaaaabulous!”
AeroSquid
February 28th, 2008 at 11:10 pm [Reply]

FW: Prediction: Khan and Crazy have taken an ancient Afghan blood oath to kill Funky and reclaim his Suck-ass Pizza Empire in the name of Allah.

Funky Butthole Bean will be found dead in his opulent upper-east side calzone-shaped mansion with Euros mysteriously stuffed in his cake hole.

Welcome to 2018.
Herro!
February 28th, 2008 at 11:10 pm [Reply]

#14 Mardou Fox: as a former (and wishing I were still) Marylander, I can attest that there are in fact ATMs in Maryland. Also, being from the DC Metro area, I can also attest that people rarely frequent walk-up ATMs for fear of being mugged. It’s probably the same in Baltimore. We prefer our drive-up ATMs so we can ram the dude trying to mug us. So we didn’t recognize the machine without the car surrounding…whoever that is.
PapaFrita
February 28th, 2008 at 11:13 pm [Reply]

Josh, you are clearly either confused or behind the times. Margo is obviously referring to the dance mixer Girl Talk, who will be mixing up the sounds of Lu Ann’s gasps for air with popular rap music. T-Pain, no doubt.
Niall
February 29th, 2008 at 12:11 am [Reply]

167. Mr. O’Malley: you mean “Hydro pole” is not self-evident??

As for spoiled milk… Josh says he flushes while draining the milk. The same can be done with making water run in the sink, and not directly in the drain, but on the surface of the bottom where it will pick up the milk. If you dilute the milk with water first, there’s no residue left…

176. AeroSquid: actually, considering the geeky nature of FW, it’s more likely that Funky will, once his pizza empire has been snatched from his fingers, look to the heavens and yell out overlong the name of his new adversary. (Do I need to spell it out??)
Gypsymoth
February 29th, 2008 at 12:16 am [Reply]

GT: That is not an ATM. It is a Food-o-matic like the one found on the Jetsons. Clearly, Gil Thorp transcends space and time.
Niall
February 29th, 2008 at 12:18 am [Reply]

I’ve updated the milk bag picture to something with much higher resolution.
kattack
February 29th, 2008 at 12:18 am [Reply]

i’m disappointed in you today, fine proprietor of this wonderful site. you completely overlooked fbofw and the fact that Elizabeth looks just like Michael in today’s strip. tsk tsk tsk.
bats, Aviation Division of the Jungle Patrol :[
February 29th, 2008 at 12:21 am [Reply]

Leap Day (not that the funnies improve, mind you):

FC: the horror of the snow people continue…but note the good doctor’s name.

MW: oh, man, now I’m tearing up, as Drew re-enacts Dingo’s Sound of Music extravaganza…

Mutts: heh.

RMMD: wow…you can actually SEE the transition between panels 1 and w, where Niki’s sudden realization that his life might get better is shattered. The Man destroys another young life.

FOOB: and the Lizel (Michabeth?) androgyne continues on its rampage…
Niall
February 29th, 2008 at 12:31 am [Reply]

Calling TRUE FABLE:

I present to you many goat costumes!

Enjoy. :)
bats, Aviation Division of the Jungle Patrol :[
February 29th, 2008 at 12:40 am [Reply]

A. This makes no sense.
B. So it is in complete accord with what’s been going on this past week:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/9545446@N07/2299809238/
Niall
February 29th, 2008 at 12:49 am [Reply]

bats, you rule.
Buck Ripsnort
February 29th, 2008 at 1:03 am [Reply]

If we officially declare that the Marvin/FC running gags have fallen and broken a leg, aren’t we obligated to shoot them? Please?
Spotted HØrse, Jungle Steed
February 29th, 2008 at 1:03 am [Reply]

#183 bats :[

and the Lizel (Michabeth?) androgyne continues on its rampage…

Yeah, I thought it was Michael and Deanna who were the androgynously interchangeable ones.

I find the uber-lipped glam queen Elizabeth off-putting, so I’ll admit a preference for manly Liz. Except for panels 3 and 5, which are just wrong.
http://www.chron.com/apps/comics/showComic.mpl?date=2008/2/28&name=For_Better_Or_Worse
Niall
February 29th, 2008 at 1:37 am [Reply]

Special Leap Comics!

A3G: With “Art Section”, “Girl Talk” with “those bickering women” and now “Art Review”, we’ve established that they’re in the same universe as H&J. I’d make a funny quip about a crossover, but I know so little about what kind of store H&J maintain in whcih Margo could walk in that it will fizzle unsaid. And I think I’m happy for that.

Archie: The AJGLU3000 must not be programmed for leap days; since this day for it does not exist, neither did the humour subroutine for this strip. We can barely discern the change.

BC: No.. I think she’s going to gruesomely murder him and scatter the remains around. Deservedly, too. Is this the start of the strip being retired as the characters are killed off-panel one by one?

BB and Blondie continue the no-joke-today theme… they’ve leaped away from humour today!

The final panel dialogue of Curtis makes my brain hurt in its wrongness. Am I alone? or am I just too tired?

DtM has a hint of menace, though of course Mom can just shoo them away. One point for effort?

FC: …uhhh what? Is this?… shout-out? veiled insult? Whatever it is, it’s not humour, but that’s been the case all week, so nothing new here.

GF: And just like that, it’s stretched beyond funny. Again. It lasted four days this time. Someone needs to know the concept of faster pacing.

GT: Enlighten me, o mudgeons: can you still have police scanners? Do they still work? Or is it a movie and TV invention? This one has no drama, instead of no humour.

H&L: GraaaahhHh!!! “only 29 days”??? You make that joke any of the NON-leap years, you idjit!! It makes NO SENSE to do it this time!!! KILL!!! KIIIIILL!!!!

JP: (I might as well say it first…) Oh yes! Let’s go “down below” indeed! :)

MC: Annnnd Leap Day means Ashley gets her comeuppance from Norm! Aww, doesn’t she look so vulnerable suddenly? …I better stop that train of thought right here…

PBS: wins. that is all. It would indeed cure one source of energy crisis.

Pluggers: *opens mouth* … *closes mouth* Too easy. Now Brookins is baiting us.

SlyFox: Oh my. Two big smiles next to each other – but also, I would bet anything that it’s a caricuature of Sergio Aragonès!! That moustache is near-inimitable!
Zaq
February 29th, 2008 at 1:38 am [Reply]

So in today’s (2/29) Mary Worth, Dr. Jeff has dyed his hair Mark Trail-brand Blue-on-Black, and the effect is rather striking on him. We all know Mary made him do it… but how?
Trotzenbonnie
February 29th, 2008 at 1:40 am [Reply]

MARVIN – Where the hell have you been, Mr Armstrong? Yeah, sure, maybe thirty years ago when I was waddling around Poughkeepsie looking for the maternity department that was tucked away in the Sears’ basement behind a stack of snow tires and washing machine hoses because the ink still wasn’t quite dry on the Roe v Wade decision so nobody – and I mean Nobody was having babies back then – all you could find were hideous kangaroo pants like those but THIS is what pregnant women are wearing these days…

(WARNING: not suitable for work or for anyone who finds the sight of pregnant women in their undies to be objectionable)

http://www.mimimaternity.com/collectionviewall.asp?category_Name=Panties&Category_Id=3263&MasterCategory_Id=17&Pageison=1

Happy Leap Day!
Now where did I put my P.F. Flyers….
Gold-Digging Nanny
February 29th, 2008 at 1:40 am [Reply]

Six Differences with the Gold-Digging Nanny

Feb. 21 SFx

1) I hate to inform the family on the right, but despite what the sign says, that is not, in fact, “all of dinosaurs.” It is, in fact, one dinosaur. The museum on the right will be slapped with a false advertising suit.
2) The dinosaur on the left was put there to deceive Christians!
3) In the panel on the right, the hip bone’s connected to the ankle bone.
4) The man on the left has better candy.
5) The dinosaur on the right does not have a small, unidentified pet named Josh hiding in its skull. (Sorry no link – I searched and searched and couldn’t find it.)
6) The girl in the panel on the left gets her hair cut by the same hairdresser Niki’s mom uses.

This episode of Six Differences with the Gold-Digging Nanny was brought to you by Ugobe.
True Fable
February 29th, 2008 at 1:58 am [Reply]

Today’s strips were just baffling.

MT Brice was her brother?!? I didn’t know that either. Damn it, does this mean I will have to go back through and read this strip again to figure it all out?
MW Jeff is really rockin’ that Clariol for Men. Boy, did the coloring gnomes get this wrong or what! They even made Mary look… well no they didn’t.
Phantom Hey, let’s watch it with the name calling, Ms. I-Wanna-Be-a-Jungle-Patrolless!
Pluggers Or you could be into kinky sex.
PC Love that last panel. could do without the first three.
RMMD Niki channels Barney Google. Meanwhile, Hal Linden is onto you, kid.
S-M All that surveillence, and THAT’S the best you can surmise? You fail at failing, Catepillar Brows.
JP Bee Grinding never looked so good.
FBoFW What, THIS moronic doofusis the best Candace can do? And why is Michael Patterson standing in for Liz? … AH! So Michael and Anthony ARE lovers, and it is THEY who will say ‘for better or for worse’! Very clever, Lynnie.
FC Bil and Jeff, PLEASE consult your psychiatrist in the panel before doing any more of these fucking STUPID “cool friends” things. Calling Dr. Pastis! Calling Dr. Pastis!
DtM Now THAT’S some passive-aggressive menacing!
True Fable
February 29th, 2008 at 1:59 am [Reply]

#184 Niall – Wow! GOAT COSTUMES! GOATS!!!
dale
February 29th, 2008 at 2:01 am [Reply]

GilThorp
I think we are making too much of an issue of the missing parents. The only real problem, if you care about the welfare of children, is the lack of supervision for the young ones: the count is now three – 12, 9 and 7.
There is a father who provides financial support. He just happens to have a job which requires a lot ot travel.
The bill paying thing is a distraction. Andrew could easily have his own checking account or be able to write checks on his father’s account. This would solve the inconvenience of getting money orders or trying to pay utility bills with cash. No laws are being broken.

One matter little noted is that all the time Maureen was running around declaring Andrew an arsonist she never bothered to tell anyone how much she actually knew about Andrew’s family situation.
Mibbitmaker
February 29th, 2008 at 2:15 am [Reply]

LEAP DAY!:

FOOB: Hahahaha ’cause guys can’t say anything ever hahahahaha.

FW:
Funky’s Cliche Emporium
Egomaniacality our specialty

FC: Idiot Keanes!: The patient isn’t the cool one, the doctor is!

S-M: Forgive him, MJ, he still thinks Bob Einstein and Super Dave Osborne are two different people.

A3G: Forget what I said a thread or two ago; LuAnn’s paintings themselves are the New York “Stone Season”.

S4th: Ted’s motto: Those that can’t do, teach.

GT: Hey! They’re ruining BadA-Train on us! Bolle’s drawing changed him! To quote Monty Python, A-Train: You’re no fun anymore! (Or is it “No time to lose!”, I’m not sure)

Cranky: Granny, that ship sailed a long time ago!

Curtis: What “?”; clearly, the coat will get permanently stuck on Derrick like it was on Gunk. Do they need to get it to you by telegraph, Curtis??
Jack Parsons
February 29th, 2008 at 2:39 am [Reply]

From that Gawker girl-talk thing:

I got a D & C from Rex Morgan, M.D., but they ended up cutting it.

Wow. I’m not worthy.
Mr. Nice Guy
February 29th, 2008 at 2:51 am [Reply]

Wow — Lu Ann’s “Ugh” is a remarkably insightful observation.
Frank Parsnip
February 29th, 2008 at 2:57 am [Reply]

bats (185): Brilliant — a snowperson who can serve as a sexual surrogate to help other snowmen work through their problems. Typical scenario: Patient is uncomfortable with performing or receiving pleasure from ‘fire and ice’ oral pleasuring acts, primarily fearing that the ‘ice’ portion simply will not make up for tissue lost during the ‘fire’ portion. Treatment will include several therapies intended to reduce the anxiety level of the patient.

On a broad level, I don’t understand many things about these “cool friends”. The one that is supposed to be Larry King would have been far more identifiable if they could have a snowman handing out alimony checks to 7 or 8 other snowpeople or sitting behind a desk with his shoulders hunched up to ear height.
True Fable
February 29th, 2008 at 3:00 am [Reply]

#198 Mr. Nice Guy – We have come to expect similar erudite plums from Luann.
kippetje2000
February 29th, 2008 at 3:04 am [Reply]

How is it, with a cast-iron heart such as she has, Mary Worth is able to skirt security and accompany Drew to his gate?
Peace Village hah, why do I have visions of large amounts of kool-aid being served to all the inhabitants shortly after Drew is gunned down on the airstrip?

He-Who-Swims-In-Poisoned-Wells can’t let the Lady Patrol do their work without him butting in. That Clark Kent get-up doesn’t get by me.

Personally, I’d like to see the current Freaky Circus storyline end with the blue bodies of our ‘cool’ kids being found lifeless under a snow drift, just outside that big picture window the parents are always looking out.

And it seems that whatever Mr. Krandis has on his left index finger produces an unpleasant smell for Mary Jane!
NEXT: Pull My Digit!
argosfalcon
February 29th, 2008 at 3:48 am [Reply]

a little story from Milford makes you wonder http://www.milforddailynews.com/news/x1842798645
Joe
February 29th, 2008 at 4:35 am [Reply]

And we’re up to part 735 of the Curtis/Weird Kid/Derrick and Onion coat story
Mr. O'Malley
February 29th, 2008 at 4:38 am [Reply]

So it’s Leap Year Day! You are working an extra day this year! Are you getting paid for working an extra day this year? Something to consider for people who get paid by the month.

FW: Does anyone remember the Malcolm Baldrige Award for Total Quality Management? This was something that was a big business fad in the 1980s. It kind of faded from view after people started to notice that companies who were so focused on quality that they won the Malcolm Baldrige Award had a high probability of going out of business or at least suffering severe financial problems shortly thereafter. I have a feeling that this Pizza World cover is going to be the equivalent for Funky. And since Montoni’s and the other pizza place appear to be the only employers in town other than the comic shop, there will be hard times in Winkerbeanville. Expect a rush of applications for post office jobs. Can the citizens support themselves by delivering each other’s mail?

BC: I thought this was sort of funny, playing off the caveman riff. Plus a salute to Al Capp, who was another of those people who started doing a good strip (to the extent of spinning off a Broadway show) and then slowly went downhill (why would BC make me think of that?). Amazing to consider it now, Li’l Abner and Mary Worth once did a secret crossover that everyone thought was a serious feud, with Mary Worthless, meddling biddy, in Li’l Abner and drunken cartoonist Hal Rapp in Mary Worth. Hard to imagine now that anything intentionally funny would ever appear in Mary Worth.

Zits: Raised sort of a chuckle.

Foob: What this reminds me of the most is those old Doonesbury strips where Uncle Duke was using hallucinogens.

I know I was complaining just the other day about the need for additional characters, but who are these idiots? Some babbling friends of Lizael, but are they going to advance the plot, or are they mere cardboard foils (how often do you hear that phrase?) for Lizael to bounce her inanities off?

Oh by the way, in memory of William F. Buckley, “egregious”!

MW: Have the MW creators not flown on a plane at any time during the last 6 years? And why the number from Cabaret? Are they still jealous that Al Capp got a musical and they never did?

A-3G: It is amazing, considering what we’ve seen of Lu Ann’s work. But I suppose “Art Review” is one of those magazines that review according to how many ads you buy, and Margo has gone for the two page spread.

Oh yes, I’m sure drug-addled Alan will be glad to see how successful Lu Ann is becoming. If only Margo would be his publicist! If only he could match up the lipstick shade on that New Year’s Day glass—should be an easy task for an artist.

I’m hoping to see a lot more of Jones the pusher. Last time he turned up he wasn’t around for very long. The most interesting character for a long time.

Lockhorns: I realize this is supposed to be Moderne, but what in the world is that object Loretta is holding? A plateload of canapes? A stun gun? A flounder?
And The
February 29th, 2008 at 6:04 am [Reply]

A-3G: That’s it, Luann. Playing up the ghost story angle is just a way to get people to pay attention to your Very Important Art. Ha, ha!

DT: Yeah, and Mr. Lector also has England’s Crown Jewels, the Ark of the Covenant, the Beatles catalog and every Beanie Baby ever made!

Blondie: Now that’s adorable. I wonder why Mr. Dithers had a sheet of gold stars….

FW: So true, Mr. Peevish McBackstabber. He has forgotten the True Meaning of Pizza. Perhaps that stupid alcoholism cat can show up and restore his faith. Oh and get back to work!

MT: M-m-m, neither did the readers, since these two jabronies were just thrown at us with no real backgrounds or motivations.

My Cage: Are Edgar Allen Poe posers really a burgeoning problematic group worthy of social satire?

Phantom: Can’t come up with your own plan, Ghost-Who-Butts-In-Then-Takes-Credit?

S-M: Isn’t Spider-Man’s spider sense supposed to prevent that kind of thing? In any case, I’m not sure who’s stupider, Peter for not being more careful or Krandis for not figuring out that Peter is Spider-Man. Didn’t his super-spies notice Peter eventually *leaving* the apartment after Spider-Man entered?
gleeb
February 29th, 2008 at 6:46 am [Reply]

BC: There are two of those guys? I thought there was just the one, Peter.

Dick: The original Bill of Rights, with Hamilton’s “filthy rabble” clause still intact.

‘bean: “In fact, I’ve been serving lamb qorma when people ask for pepperoni pizza for two years now, and not one of you idiot yankees has noticed.”

Mark: “Her brother? All I knew was that he has the beard of a killer.”

Phantom: Why is the ghost-who-walks disguised as a blind waiter?
Loppie Scaduto
February 29th, 2008 at 7:14 am [Reply]

6. Islamorada Girl says:

Death! Death! Death to Gil Thorp.

You can never say that too often for me. :)
Calico
February 29th, 2008 at 7:31 am [Reply]

#93 – Wa-wa-wonderful!
#149 – I’m preparing the spuds now, so I won’t be late to the wedding of the millenium.
#167 – “Hydro Pole”-makes sense to me-also, “Hydro Tower.”
Tracer Bullet
February 29th, 2008 at 7:34 am [Reply]

Archie: Um, what?

FOOB: I can’t decide if Rudi and Candace are an ugly lesbian couple or an ugly gay couple.

FW: You know, I’m beginning to suspect that Funky has become a greedy jerk who no longer focuses on his food. But Batuick is just so subtle it’s hard to tell.

JP: Really, if they’re going to have Abbey wander around this stupid farm for a week they could at least put her in a tight sweater and some Daisy Dukes because the plot damn sure isn’t enough to hold my interest.

MW: Is it too much to ask that Drew meet up with bloodthirsty cannibals? They have plenty of oil to fry his body if If they boil his head first.

PBS: I want a car that runs on idiodicy. Three hours of WIP and I could drive for a good six weeks.

PLUGGERS: Or if you some kind of kinky S&M freak, but I guess that’s kind of a given in this strip.

RMMD: Wah-wah-wa-waahh.

S-M: Considering that Spider-Man is a glamorous superhero with an ass like a steel apple and you’re a corpulent old man with half a bag of cotton balls growing off your foreheadt, I don’t think you’re making much of a point here, Simon.
Calico
February 29th, 2008 at 7:38 am [Reply]

FC – Is this a deliberate shout-out to PBS, or a coincidence?
Let’s see…We’ve had prisoners, patients, Larry King-I think Bil needs a little vacation.

Continuity seems sparse today:
RM – wasn’t the lost cash $8,000 a few days ago? Now it’s suddenly $10,000?
MW – Buh bye Drew – why is your Dad’s hair stove polish black/blue today?

FW – Would have been a teensy bit funnier if Khan had said “he took his eye off the pie.” I tell you, sometimes I just slay myself. : P

MW – “Those stupid Police” – don’t be shy, Kathy-don’t hold anything back, now!
(She then launches into a ten-minute tirade against the law system, dogs, bears, and facial hair)

JP – 3 panels of Abbey solo-there must be a God after all.
man behind the curtain
February 29th, 2008 at 7:41 am [Reply]

MW — Quoting a line from The Sound of Music. No wonder all the young women find him so
irressistable. Hey, Dr. Drew, since Mary’s taken, maybe she can hook you up with a friend.
Godzooky
February 29th, 2008 at 7:41 am [Reply]

BC: Um, Sadie Hawkins Day is actually in November. That February 29th “Women Can Propose” thing is a separate urban legend, though I guess they’re beginning to merge in the popular culture. Interesting how that happens.

On another topic: A few months back, someone threw out the question: If you were stranded on a desert island, which three comic strips would you want to have with you? At the time, Get Fuzzy edged out PBS as the top vote-getter for its mix of characters and humor. Considering that GF has been so-so lately and PBS has been on a roll, I wonder what the vote would be this time around?

Finally, since “2001: A Space Odyssey” is one of my favorite movies, I’ve been getting a real kick out of Brewster Rockit this week.
Shoshi
February 29th, 2008 at 7:47 am [Reply]

FC – Why does THIS snowman have feet, when none of the others did? They don’t add anything. In fact, they kind of make it creepier.

As do the arms, which have gone from the barely-perceptible Larry King behind-the-back arms to these large ones that are either clasped behind the head in a state of repose, or wrapped around the head in anguish. I’m guessing the latter, based on the tragic frown.

(The perspective on that couch is a little weird–looks sort of like it is propped up like a child’s car seat.)

And if “Dr. Pastis” IS a reference to PBS, is Keane saying he thinks he needs Pastis’ help? That Pastis is reading his subconscious symbolism?

I’m getting the idea that FC is much deeper than any of us realize…
Little Guy
February 29th, 2008 at 7:49 am [Reply]

Curtis: Okay, which one of you sickos are Gunk/Derrick ’shippers?
Agnostic Married Woman
February 29th, 2008 at 7:59 am [Reply]

FOOB: “Goofy monster thing”? Is Lynn too dumb and out of it to know that the Transformers turn from “a car or something” into a ROBOT?

Anyone her children’s age, especially the boys, would know that. Because, well, the ROBOT was the cool part. Does she really think that her kids thought, “Gee, this toy is so neat! It changes from a ‘goofy monster thing’ to a toy CAR, of which I already have 8 million which are cars all the time!”

Liz, just goes to show you…you could have had a cool walking, talking robot, but you’re settling for the trusty ol’ Ford Taurus.
Calico
February 29th, 2008 at 8:30 am [Reply]

BB – Sarge and Beetle are into water sports.
Which doesn’t really surprise me all that much.
Allie Cat
February 29th, 2008 at 8:34 am [Reply]

#204 – Mr. O’M – these babbling idiots are Candace and Rudy. Candace and Liz were enemies in high school, but ended up roommates in college, where St. Liz learned that Candace was so rowdy in school because her mother was a whore with a different boyfriend each week.

Liz and Candace bonded. Candace had an Aunt Ruby who lived in their college town, so they’d go chill with her on occasion.

Candace met Rudy, not to be confused with Ruby, when Liz moved in with Eric. Rudy was one of the other housemates, and ended up giving up his room to Liz because even though she and Eric were shacked up, she couldn’t possibly share a bedroom with him. Oy.

Anyhoo. Rudy and Candace have been dating for what, five years or more? And they’re perfectly happy – well, until today. Now they’re angry goofy monsters.
Dr. Mabuse
February 29th, 2008 at 8:36 am [Reply]

FBOFW – I was almost afraid to come here this morning, to see what levels of snarking had arisen from today’s strip. This Rudi, he’s a new character, right? Is he Candace’s husband? Are they living together? Is THIS Johnson’s idea of a happy couple, forever swapping inane banter? And I guess I was wrong about his chin – he doesn’t have a wart, just a ginormous chin-butt crack.
John C Fremont
February 29th, 2008 at 8:53 am [Reply]

MW – Wow, that was fast. (Okay, “wow” was kind of a strong word for anything in Mary Worth.) At least now we’ll have one less dope to have to read about. I hope. In the words of Crow T. Robot, “There goes a stupid, stupid man.”

FW – So the lesson, then, is that Montoni’s now makes crappy pizza. The end. Geez, somebody get cancer or something. I’d rather be depressed than annoyed.
anonymous
February 29th, 2008 at 8:59 am [Reply]

GT: Well. All I can say is, I’m thrilled it’s still badly drawn, though less badly drawn than the previous ‘artist’s’ efforts.
Mardou Fox
February 29th, 2008 at 9:04 am [Reply]

Yesterday, I thought that thing on Rudy’s chin was supposed to be a soul patch. You know, because they’re HIP!! Today, I realize that Rudy does indeed have a tiny set of buttocks on his face, and he’s also retarded! Lynn’s just so cool and accepting about that kind of stuff that we never even noticed before. Smooth, LJ!
The Spectacular Spider-Brick
February 29th, 2008 at 9:22 am [Reply]

Archie: You would think that if a cartoonist could pull off an iPhone joke successfully, it would be a fellow computer like the AJGLU3K. But that doesn’t look like an iPhone; it looks like a vintage-1998 Nokia, and in panel 1, Jughead’s holding it like Dick Tracy.
Humor Error 27: Your technology joke is not funny. Abort / Retry / Fail? AJGLU3K:> F

A.D.: Others are hoping for off-panel murder. I, on the other hand, am rooting for nonconsentual procreation. Gotta propagate that species (and introduce new characters) somehow.

Baldo: Q. How will the growing population of Hispanic-themed strips on the comics pages reduce hurtful Hispanic stereotypes? A: It won’t. Now let’s all eat tacos and dance the macarena! Ayiyiyiyiyi! Yip yip yip yip yipee! Andele! Andele! Arrrrrrriba!

BH: Bob has bitch tits.

Cathy: THEN: Eat cookie. Feel bad about self. NOW: Read Cathy. Feel suicidal. Wish I had a cookie.

(WT)DT: That Cole Lector is a criminal genius! Rather than draw attention to himself by actually taking Van Gogh’s “Chrysanthemums” or the 920-foot-wingspan “Spruce Goose,” he cleverly stores them at the very museums he stole them from! That way, the authorities will never know! Now, just like his other “acquisitions,” he will take photographs of his kidnap victims and release them — but not until he makes them sit through the slide show of the rest of his collection! Muwahahahaaa!!! Damn, this guy is evil.

FC: I know Stefan Pastis lets himself be referenced and parodied in a lot of different media, but damn it, man, this has to stop. I mean, a man has to have some sense of pride, or at least standards.

MG&G: I have a headache about comic strips that make nonspecific references. The solution for nonspecificity? Herb-On! Apply directly to Jamaal’s… uh, better not go there.

Phantom: If Ghost-Who-Angles-For-Tips ends up doing the Wanabee Girls’ work for them, how will that qualify them to join the Jungle Patrol?

Pluggers: Alamo’s Comment of the Week really hits home with this panel. “Drools on the seats,” indeed. I just bet she does.

PC: Wow. From Plugger sex slavery to bondage and torture, and we aren’t even out of the P’s yet. (Nice Marmaduke slam, though. You’re forgiven, Stantis.)

Shoe: Is Roger Ebert going to sue for the unauthorized use of his likeness? I would.

S-M: We sort of knew this when Peter Parker went on vacation with his Spidey suit packed in his carry-on bag, and when he went to get a physical from the doctor while wearing it, but today’s strip confirms that Spider-Man really sucks at maintaining a secret identity.
Calico
February 29th, 2008 at 9:28 am [Reply]

Yeah, I think once Candace went over to the house where Eric, Liz, and Rudy lived, and Rudy and Candace hit it off.
I personally miss the older “wise women” of the strip – Aunt Ruby, and Super-Mike’s most recent landlady, Lovey Saltzman.
milnor
February 29th, 2008 at 9:31 am [Reply]

#189 Niall: Yes you can have police scanners, and yes they still work. Most big-city departments have gone digital, so you need a special ~$500 scanner (like This one from Uniden) to pick them up. But many smaller departments and especially fire & rescue services are still on analog (where I live fire & rescue are digital but they still broadcast dispatch on analog for the volunteers), and you can pick up a scanner that will receive that stuff for around $100 or so.

If they don’t want you to hear something they’ll just push the encrypt button on their transmitters, but they do that less often than you might think. For some sensitive stuff they also just use their cell phones.
Artist formerly known as Ben
February 29th, 2008 at 9:34 am [Reply]

LYD (Leap Year Day)

MT: In the second panel, Steve McQueen is about to tell Mark and Andy to get a room. As for what Mark’s third panel “M-m-m-m” is about, I have no idea.

MW: Why does that guy in the orange windbreaker look so ill.? Presumably it’s the smell of the black shoe polish Dr Jeff put in his hair.

Shoe: Kudos on drawing the avian Roger Ebert in groovy seventies open-neck shirt. As usual, too bad about the jokes.

Agnes: Looks like her beak dropped long ago. That would explain the no mouth.

DtM: What the hell is the baby doing there? Did it just wander into the street and let Dennis imprint on it? Negligent parenting is the only menace here.

BB: Trying to think of why Sarge is bending over the fountain he just said doesn’t work is hurting my brain. Go back to the homoerotic tango.

GA: “Heh, courting disaster. See what I just did there? Cuz he courted her, and they have a 50% chance of winding up in divorce court? Hello, this thing on?”

MC: Edgorilla Allen Poe? He wrote “The Fall of the House of Udder”, didn’t he?

H&J: Speaking of Poe, it’s Herb’s homage to “The Cask of Amotillado.”

Marvin: Shouldn’t “Victorian Unmentionables” carry corsets and crinolines?

C-Shaft: Jeff’s deranged crotchet monster of a mother calls this one.

Popeye: Seahag doesn’t try bribing Wimpy with a Happy Meal (TM)? She must be slipping.

DT: I can’t wait until Dick finds the original of the Bill of Rights. “Unreasonable searches and seizures? What the hell is this crap?”

BC: A tribute to Al Capp. Interestingly enough, he took a late-life right turn comparable to Johnny Hart. Johnny probably kept more of his sense of humor, though.

Ziggy: It’s a plugger palindrome.

S4th: Heehee. Look at those tiny hands giving Sally a foot massage.

SFx: How to draw a cowboy, as one would appear on a pizza box.

S-M: I like the Persuader’s hurt reaction in the second panel. “Awww, why don’t I ever get the fun assignments?”

FC: “I know it sounds crazy, Doc, but I’ve been getting this feeling that I’m just filler for a cartoonist who’s run out of ideas.”
Calico
February 29th, 2008 at 9:35 am [Reply]

#221 – As one of the Farkers did have Mary say in an excellent MW parody, “Burrito? Taco? Salsa?”
LMAO.
Patrick
February 29th, 2008 at 9:42 am [Reply]

In today’s Mary Worth, is that Dr. Jeff’s stunt double waiting to go into action at the airport? He seems to be wearing the same clothes and the same haircut or maybe he’s just Drew’s previously unseen uncle who wonders as Slim Pickens once said,

“What in the wide, wide world of sports is going on here?”
Gabe
February 29th, 2008 at 9:54 am [Reply]

Spider-Brick: Remember that Pastis has parodied Family Circus several times, this is definitely some kind of “payback.”

Ben: The Seahag bribed Wimpy with burgers yesterday.
Brick Bradford of the Space Jungle Patrol
February 29th, 2008 at 9:57 am [Reply]

Dick Tracy That smug look on Tracy’s face tells me one thing–somebody is about to die a horrible, painful death.

Gil Thorp–The blurb for GT at Go Comics describes GT as dealing with “topical, teen oriented issues.”

Sometimes all you have to do is quote.
Artist formerly known as Ben
February 29th, 2008 at 10:00 am [Reply]

Oops. Thanks Gabe. I haven’t been following Popeye religiously, and only saw yesterday’s after you mentioned it.

In that case J. Wellington should be commended for holding out in the face of fried meat.
Gabe
February 29th, 2008 at 10:08 am [Reply]

What? You don’t read Popeye religiously? SHAME :P
Rainbird
February 29th, 2008 at 10:08 am [Reply]

At first I thought in Friday’s Pluggers, that the dog was his grandson, and I thought it sad that he was still in the drooling stage.
And The
February 29th, 2008 at 10:17 am [Reply]

The main thing about Wimpy is that you can bribe him with burgers all day long. It doesn’t at all translate into any kind of positive action on your behalf, regardless of any promises made. He’ll just try to swindle more burgers. Not that he necessarily *wouldn’t* betray Popeye, as characters in Popeye tend to be highly ethically challenged. It would probably offend him to actually *do* anything in response to another’s wishes.
dbp
February 29th, 2008 at 10:18 am [Reply]

Next up: Margo lands Lu Ann a guest appearance on the Baltimore-based TV show “The Tap.” She’ll be playing an undercover cop within the Stanfield organization who meets an unfortunate end after Margo reveals her identity to new A3G character Snoop.
gkl
February 29th, 2008 at 10:22 am [Reply]

MW: First Will Ferrell, now Dr. Jeff. Can we all agree now that quoting The Sound of Music for humorous effect is now officially not humorous?

GA: Please please please let Amanda Lynn’s fiance be a woman.

GT: Why the quiver lines when the girl is picking up a fry? Is it that scary?

Pluggers: … because Pluggers are incapable of making human friends.

MT: Panel 2 looks like the prelude to some hot, hot tongue kissing.
Doug Puthoff
February 29th, 2008 at 10:38 am [Reply]

2-29 GT: Gil Thorp has stopped being Gil Thorp. It has become a mashup with Apartment 3-G–sort of like the You Tube video of “A Charlie Brown Christmas” to the tune “Hey Ya” without any motion. It seems as if the student body of Milford High has been over by thirtysomethings. To quote Dubya’s dad: “This must not stand.”
Gold-Digging Nanny
February 29th, 2008 at 10:55 am [Reply]

MT: What? All that sturm und drang, and Mark still hasn’t punched that plane?
TaxiGirl
February 29th, 2008 at 11:04 am [Reply]

So reading the comments here about FOOB, I’ve just realized some people we haven’t seen or heard referenced in a while — like the only person other than Michael that Michael has ever loved, and his beard. Or what’s-her-name, that spunky and ethnic older woman who provided wisdom, child-care, and for a reasonable fee lodging for the Pattersons Redux.

I’m trying to decide whether this is supposed to be realism — when you buy a house in the suburbs, you suddenly have to cut yourself off completely from all of your urban connections — or whether it’s just more Lynncompetence.
Mariko
February 29th, 2008 at 11:06 am [Reply]

Rex Morgan:
Tell me, officer, how exactly is that ironic? I’d say it was either done on purpose, or it was a coincidence, but I see no irony there.
man behind the curtain
February 29th, 2008 at 11:13 am [Reply]

RMMD — Well officer it’s like this. The kid burned the 10 grand. Now where’s my reward?
Niall
February 29th, 2008 at 11:20 am [Reply]

194. True Fable: some people are easy to please. :) I have one more goat costume video of this guy just jogging around on stage going “baaaaaa” barely audibly. Not much to it and… okay, stop drooling, I’ll put it up if you want it that much… *grin*

209. Trace Bullet: I live in a federal government town. The idiocy here could keep cars running forever.

210. Calico: I noticed the discrepancy in lost money in RM, but was too tired to care. That is indeed sloppy.

222. Spider-Brick: I didn’t read Archie as trying to be an iPhone joke. I didn’t see a joke. It wasn’t anywhere near the vicinity of “joke”. / Agreed on DT.

224. Millnor: Thank you for the info! I guess then Milford is small enough it would work.

231. I followed Popeye religiously during the Thung War. Then it got another stupid storyline start (stupider than spincoal – and that’s hard, considering it consisted of spinach trees).
Eric the Baker, Jungle Patrol Nutrition Division
February 29th, 2008 at 11:33 am [Reply]

FC The endless parade of snowperson’s continues.

I have a suggestion that I’d love to submit.

A snowman on his knees, his face level with a hole in the wall of a building. On the building, a sign saying “Adult Books & Videos”. Something disturbingly phallus shaped protruding through the hole.

If Jeff Keane is creative, he might even be able to work the phrase, “glory hole” into (what passes for) the punchline.

Now all I have to figure out is where to send my suggestion, and convince him to publish it. I’ll be rich I tell ya…RICH!
Honeypot
February 29th, 2008 at 11:37 am [Reply]

SM- I’d like to remind everyone at this point that Krandis would have known all if the Persuader had bothered to remove the mask when Spidey was out cold at his feet last week.
Sans Sense
February 29th, 2008 at 11:42 am [Reply]

#172. Jamus the Bartender -

I agree. There’ll be a cut from Mary not so gently chiding Tobey over her use of make up to a seedy room, low lights, ceiling fan, a drunken-disheveled Drew lying mostly naked on the bed self-narrating, “Peace Village…shit.”
AMSTERDANG
February 29th, 2008 at 11:43 am [Reply]

MT: The fact that Bull Malone’s widow turns out to be the sister of Brice sheds new light on her decision to ditch Brice during the Mark-Brice fight. “I’ve got to save myself” — Indeed! Let’s see…dark-haired raven conspires with boyfriend to kill husband and later abandons brother at first sign of trouble. All of which leaves me thinking: watch your back, Margo!
Professor Fate
February 29th, 2008 at 11:52 am [Reply]

FW: two weeks to tell us that Funky is now a greedy creep? and the point is? is he going to be visited by the Ghost of cancer past, the ghost of cancer present and the ghost of cancer future and have a change of heart? Or just get a brain tumor and die?

FOOB: Please get brain tumors and die – all three of you.
Sans Sense
February 29th, 2008 at 11:52 am [Reply]

Like Aldo, Drew asked for a raise due to the “popularity” of his character. Management had him teeter on the edge of an Aldo-like ending ultimately determining to banish him to soap opera purgatory, I mean Peace VIllage. Chalk up another one for The Man, maybe we can attract more foreign investment again…
Moss_Moses
February 29th, 2008 at 11:54 am [Reply]

Even when Mary Worth kicks it from glacial into mercurial gear, it is still incredibly droll and pedantic. That is one of the dullest, emotion-free farewells ever.

“Those stupid cops”!

Truer words were never spoken. Widow Bull seems to undertsand that they are both apathetic and stupid. “WHAT did she have to do with this crime, Mark”? They would have been back at the cop shop snarfing donuts if not for Andy’s note. Andy is so smart that he knew right away when Mark said run to The Community, he meant go straight to the police station.
Flipper
February 29th, 2008 at 12:01 pm [Reply]

Soap operas occasionally replace actors; but unlike Mary Worth, they don’t have the replaced actor play a background extra.
gh
February 29th, 2008 at 12:10 pm [Reply]

Well, I for one think that (DT)GT has relieved us all of the stress of wondering where any given strip is going with its Oh, That Postulate©.

MT: Why was Bull Malone shot?? Oh, that. Actually, he tripped and his rifle went off by mistake. Self-inflicted.

MW: How will Drew fare in far-flung Vietnam? And will Jeff and Mary have to rescue him? Oh, that. Actually, unlike Mary, he needs a visa to get in and he’ll be turned back at the Hanoi Airport.

JP: Where has everyone disappeared to? Oh, that. You really don’t expect us to believe you care, do you, so long as Abbey stays center frame?

(WT)DT: When will the nefarious Mr. Cole Lector release Capt. Liz and the others? Oh, that. Actually, never. Or at least not in your life time if you’re old enough to vote.
Sans Sense
February 29th, 2008 at 12:11 pm [Reply]

Since AG3 and GT share an artist, I’d love to see them share characters. Could you imagine Margo taking an interest in Milford basketball? Imagine her ripping Gil a new one when he pulls the A-Train to “teach him a lesson”. Maybe she can be the missing step-mom and Eric is A-Train’s absentee Dad…
mollificent
February 29th, 2008 at 12:15 pm [Reply]

#225 A.F.K.A.B: Your DT comment made me LOL!
Bunnë, Official Comic Execrator
February 29th, 2008 at 12:41 pm [Reply]

153, Anna Nimity, NtCSG
Not to defend the logic of Pluggers, but I think the idea here is that some of your students return early, and you don’t even get to retire on time. So for example, you have a student who’s a dot-com billionaire or a trader or what have you, who retires at 45, so the teacher is then at least, say 69 years old. Which is reasonable, I think I had teachers that old.

On the other hand, I think no matter how you parse it, it does kind of end up at “Pluggers are old”.
Master Mahan
February 29th, 2008 at 3:38 pm [Reply]

Lu Ann’s going on the view? Finally, one of the characters will meet an actual black person.

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