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He’s got a nose … for trouble!

Rex Morgan, M.D., 4/15/08

My, the local yokels in Rex Morgan’s town sure care about stuff, don’t they? I mean, most people respond to news about bacteria and public health policy by saying “Guh, science is hard” and changing the channel, but these folks have taken note of the crisis in their community and chose to get politically involved. Naturally, Rex and June, as representatives of the out-of-touch medical elite, dismiss them as ignorant peasants. In their perfect world, people would meekly follow the dictates of their physician-kings, especially when it came to purchasing expensive prescription medication manufactured by companies who contribute nice pens and notepads to the Morgan clinic.

Rex’s dickish statement in panel two definitely qualifies as one of his most hilarious dickish statements yet. Of course, his obsession with nostril health may be the root cause of some of the more unusual viewing angles this strip has featured in the past:

And let’s not forget this panel from last Saturday!

See, we thought it was about her choppers, but it turns out that we can actually see the MRSA breeding, up there amongst her boogers.

Apartment 3-G, 4/15/08

That’s actually what Margo asks herself pretty much every waking minute of the day. Still, in panel three she looks almost sheepish about the awful plan for exploiting Lu Ann’s brain damage she’s about to unveil.

Blondie, 4/15/08

When I first read this, I thought, “Wouldn’t it be easier if Dagwood just kept a stick of pepperoni in the car?” But if he did, he’d inevitably eat it. In fact, he’s probably going to eat that air freshener.

For Better Or For Worse, 4/15/08

Wait … when the baby boomers were getting married the bygone days of the ’60s and ’70s, did they really decide on a wedding date the moment they got engaged? I don’t think they did, actually. FOR PETE’S SAKE FOOBS, JUST BECAUSE YOU CAN MAKE A PUN OUT OF IT DOESN’T MAKE IT TRUE.

Get Fuzzy, 4/15/08

Ha, he said “wash his own balls!” But what really made me laugh for some reason was “oh my head.” Most people would say “oh my God” or the like, but Bucky can imagine no deity more important than his own misshapen skull.

Judge Parker, 4/15/08

HEY, EVERYONE, MARIJUANA! The Dickens farm has been growing marijuana. That … that revelation turned out to be fairly anticlimactic, actually. At least we’ll be treated to a be-hatted Abbey being held captive by sinister geriatric drug dealers, which should be wonderful and bizarre.

This entry was posted on Tuesday, April 15, 2008 at 05:34 pm and is filed under Apartment 3-G, Blondie, For Better or for Worse, Get Fuzzy, Judge Parker, Rex Morgan, M.D..

100 responses to “He’s got a nose … for trouble!”

Lisa
April 15th, 2008 at 5:38 pm [Reply]

I was laughing at the PBS ball washing comment when I read it before coming here, wondering if someone would comment on it. I’d say that one slipped by the censors.

And, you know, I actually liked Cathy today. I saved it to send to my math type supervisor. So sue me….
Lisa
April 15th, 2008 at 5:40 pm [Reply]

Hey, I got the first post… what a shock!

To redeem this post, I will further say that I thought the Rex Morgan strip was pretty weird… nostril health? Geez…. I guess that puts a new light on the idea of someone inhaling their food, a la June in that famous shot of her scarfing the burger. Who knew? Anyway, I really hate this MRSA thing… no one has said anything about the real cause of it. Don’t they Know about superbugs and the perils of overwashing??
commodorejohn
April 15th, 2008 at 5:41 pm [Reply]

Hey, Josh, my mom worked with drug reps for a few years. I suggest you amend your statement to “worthless pens and notepads.” She used to bring the extras home; the pens gave up after a couple sentences, and the sticky notes stuck for all of about an hour.
Lisa
April 15th, 2008 at 5:43 pm [Reply]

Oh, one more thing! Who is the Winkerbean in today’s strip? Is it Funky’s son or is this a flashback strip?? Inquiring minds etc…
frumpiefox
April 15th, 2008 at 5:43 pm [Reply]

All Rex Morgan strips should be assembled of random panels featuring the same bizarre facial angles from now on. That nose angle strip was the BEST Rex Morgan EVER!
will
April 15th, 2008 at 5:49 pm [Reply]

JP reminds me of the classic “Bloom County” cartoon where Senator Bedfellow complimented the farmer on his fine corn crop: “T’ain’t Corn, it’s dope! Take a few pounds home to the wife!”
frumpiefox
April 15th, 2008 at 5:50 pm [Reply]

JP–See, if they had started growing the marijuana before the chickens died, they could have fed it to the chickens, and sold the world’s first dirty-hippie-approved chicken!

(Maybe I shoulda gone with the “chicken pot pie” joke?)
Steve S
April 15th, 2008 at 5:54 pm [Reply]

The sad thing is that the carwash actually had pepperoni air fresheners. Dagwood’s food obsession is just that profitable for everyone else. I think the last ever Blondie strip will reveal that every client of Blondie’s catering business was just a front for Dagwood.
Dick Tracy Broke into My Oddball Sanctuary
April 15th, 2008 at 5:56 pm [Reply]

The Dagwood pepperoni air-freshener joke hits close enough to home to make it not funny for me, unlike the rest of you, for whom it’s merely not funny. I would pay good money for a pepperoni-scented vehicle. Right now, it smells like Pekingese. Not the food, the dog.
Trix
April 15th, 2008 at 5:58 pm [Reply]

So true on the engagement set in stone. I was engaged five times (back in the day, to acquire the bc pill). Of course, Rex was my doc…the unwitting shills got all the candy. And please JP, no busting of the geriatric pot dealers who make brownies. UMMMM
Gal Friday
April 15th, 2008 at 5:59 pm [Reply]

RMMD: Notice he said a third of “them”! I’ll bet Rex has eyebrow mites . . .
True Fable
April 15th, 2008 at 6:01 pm [Reply]

Don’t you love how the people in Rex Morgan’s town get all bent out of shape enough to take time off work to go marching and demonstrating about MRSA? They need Hugh Avery out there among them, now THERE’S a man who knows how to throw a fit over something.
Poteet
April 15th, 2008 at 6:01 pm [Reply]

No, all Boomers did not set the date the moment they got engaged. At least that’s true for many Boomers I know. But I can’t speak for Boomers in StepMilford, or whatever that Foob town is called. For all I know, each Boomer women in that town wore an actual chastity belt until her wedding night, and the key was handed by her father or legal guardian to her fiance on the magic night when she was awarded her engagement ring as a symbol that she had finally achieved her life’s purpose.
Nekrotzar
April 15th, 2008 at 6:02 pm [Reply]

I’m glad to see that A3G alerts us to the fact that ‘Margo speaks,’ for comics readers not yet familiar with the speech bubble paradigm.

When Margo speaks, curmudgeons listen.
Poteet
April 15th, 2008 at 6:02 pm [Reply]

# 13 — Sorry, that was supposed to be “woman.” The kind who stands by her man.
yellojkt
April 15th, 2008 at 6:02 pm [Reply]

I’m still waiting for Tommy the Tweaker to show up to buy some “stuff.”
Anonymous
April 15th, 2008 at 6:03 pm [Reply]

SM: I have bad news MJ. The Tivo died and we lost all our season passes. Now we won’t know what the hell is going on with House plus I have to watch the TV live with no commercial skip!!
True Fable
April 15th, 2008 at 6:04 pm [Reply]

BTW, just for grins, click on my name link. I have an 8-part Foob Wishlist of comic panels there.

Oh the evil that men do live after them; the good is oft interred in their Photobuckets.
Naked Bunny with a Whip
April 15th, 2008 at 6:12 pm [Reply]

Oh, Rex. You don’t even wanna know where I have staph growing!
Ranger
April 15th, 2008 at 6:13 pm [Reply]

Oops, sorry, #17 was me.
Sobek
April 15th, 2008 at 6:15 pm [Reply]

Abbey just wanted an excuse to wear her Indiana Jones outfit. She bought it ten years ago for sexual fantasy night, before she realized her husband has no fantasies.
commodorejohn
April 15th, 2008 at 6:17 pm [Reply]

#18 True Fable – Oh man, that’s just beautiful. Talk about cathartic. Do you wanna print them out and mail them to Lynn, or shall I?
Thomas
April 15th, 2008 at 6:29 pm [Reply]

About a year ago Josh posted a short film I made, called Rex Morgan, M.D.: The Motion Picture. I had written the script by splicing together dialogue from Rex Morgan strips taken randomly through three decades. Just wanted to point out that in the above “nose” montage Josh has coincidentally put “You’re going to take Abbey home and try to find more bones!” and “Somebody’s on their way down” together just like I did at 0:52 in my short.
danzig
April 15th, 2008 at 6:34 pm [Reply]

RMMD. If there are people worried about catching a virus that is communicable by CASUAL contact, why in the world woud they assemble with other people to protest? I mean, if they know enough about it to be justifiably outraged, wouldn’t they know enough about it to NOT put themselves in a position where they may be more likely to contract it? Also, Rex is a prick.
Zaq
April 15th, 2008 at 6:42 pm [Reply]

I’m just wondering how preachy Judge Parker is going to get before the end of this storyline (read: Christmas). I know we can’t exactly have a syndicated comic going around extolling the virtues of pot (not sure WHY we can’t, but that’s for another time), but I’m getting elevated levels of sanctimony from Elvira there, and knowing JP, it’s going to get worse before it gets better…
lurkbunny
April 15th, 2008 at 6:45 pm [Reply]

Is it just me or does no one pick on “Wizard of Id” here? Is that some sort of sign that we all (myself included) just like that one comic. Is it the common thread that we can all agree on? Comments?
Spike
April 15th, 2008 at 6:45 pm [Reply]

#4 Lisa: Featured “Winkerbean” is Cory, stepson of Funky and his second wife Holly. Cory is actually the offspring of Holly’s first husband, who divorced her during “Act II” (pre-jump) of FW. Apparently husband #1 had no objection to Funky adopting Cory, and the situation unravels from there.
Read but don't post much
April 15th, 2008 at 6:50 pm [Reply]

I’m thinking it looks like there’s a current comic-artists conspiracy for each of the conspirators to get something suggestive in a strip’s text past the censors. The handcuff key (Arlo and Janis) is part of it, Tiger Woods’ balls (Get Fuzzy) is part of it, Jeremy’s G-string (Zits) is part of it… I’m thinking I’ve actually seen a few others, but I’m not remembering ‘em all right now. Any help out there?

Hey, Foobs – don’t people normally get engaged and THEN set a wedding date, not the other way around – even in “your day”?
commodorejohn
April 15th, 2008 at 6:51 pm [Reply]

#26 lurkbunny – For me, at least, it’s not that I like it so much as it’s not very good snark fodder. (With certain WTF-y exceptions.)
Carl Betz
April 15th, 2008 at 6:55 pm [Reply]

That’s not me in panel one of RMMD. Someone photo shopped that from an episode of “Judd for the Defense!”
plektix
April 15th, 2008 at 6:59 pm [Reply]

So how many people does it take to wash Tiger Woods’ balls? One on each? Or are there separate scrubbers, massagers, rinsers, and towel-dryers?
bats :[
April 15th, 2008 at 6:59 pm [Reply]

Oh, for a snowdrift to fall into and suffocate!
http://www.flickr.com/photos/9545446@N07/2417653432/sizes/l/
Darren McGavin
April 15th, 2008 at 6:59 pm [Reply]

Oh, I thought it was me from a clip of “Night Stalker.”
cheech wizard
April 15th, 2008 at 7:01 pm [Reply]

JP – Ok, a couple of geriatric farmers can’t save their bacon by simply growing reefer. Even assuming they’d know how to set up all the indoor apparatus they apparently used to grow it, they’d still have to know someone who could provide them with seeds and/or cloned seedlings, and another who would buy a large volume of the finished product.

Oh, never mind. They’d probably just call up some of their college buddies from the 60s. In fact, why haven’t they been growing bud all along? Smells a lot better than chickens.
The Spectacular Spider-Brick
April 15th, 2008 at 7:02 pm [Reply]

Two all-beef patties, special sauce, lettuce, cheese, pickles, MRSA on a sesame-seed bun.

MRSA… is it in you?

MRSA. Get more.

With MRSA, you’re good for more. Doot! Doot!

MRSAland: The happiest staph on Earth!

Wal-MRSA. Always.

It’s MRSA, and I helped!

MRSA… We bring good things to death

You’ve got questions, we’ve got MRSA

Where MRSA at?
man behind the curtain
April 15th, 2008 at 7:07 pm [Reply]

RMMD — Where’s the MRSA? It’s in the beef along with the e coli, Campylobacter, and mad cow disease.
Foobar
April 15th, 2008 at 7:14 pm [Reply]

“Oh my head” is a pretty common expression in this strip. Rob busts it all the time.
Donald The Anarchist
April 15th, 2008 at 7:14 pm [Reply]

A3G Ah, Margo, that’s how I love you. Rapacious, egotistical, and safe on the comics page where you won’t have any access to my emotions or my checking account. Not sure what your roommates see in you though, unless they’re masochistic lesbians, which would make the strip even MORE fun…

FBFW What?!!! You let them out of the maternity ward without a pre-selected mate?!! No wonder Liz is such a whore. (The BBC version of “Room with a View” has infected me WAY too much with the Victorian mindset. DAMN you Masterpiece Classic! Although the thought of Anthony dead in a battlefield IS a cheery thought. Just sayin’…)
JP All it takes is a beeping sound to convince Biff it’s all going to Hell; I guess pot DOES make you paranoid! The again, all it takes is a squeaking chair to convince LT Fuzz his world is collapsing, so I’m not even sure there is a bar to go over or under, just a speed bump…
Slylock Foxy
April 15th, 2008 at 7:19 pm [Reply]

Yeah, “oh my head” shows up often enough in Get Fuzzy that I’m pretty sick of it, personally. It would be funny once. Not every week.

On the other hand, the pop-art stylings and comic book lettering of Judge Parker’s second panel are a thing of beauty and a joy forever. Look how the exclamation point pops out of the speech balloon!
trey le parc
April 15th, 2008 at 7:23 pm [Reply]

JP: Lamont Cranston or Indiana Jones is going to show up soon, corner Abbey as she’s about to bust the old farmers, and demand she return the goddamned fedora. I can imagine Indy chastising her for harshing his buzz, too.
NotAGoatHead
April 15th, 2008 at 7:30 pm [Reply]

GF: Oh, crap. Does that mean we’ll now have a series of web sites that says so-and-so washed their balls?
Spike
April 15th, 2008 at 7:31 pm [Reply]

#32 bats :[ : Pure. Evil. Genius.
Cheeky Wee Monkeys
April 15th, 2008 at 7:32 pm [Reply]

This nose bacteria will kill us all!

*runs out a window ala Simpsons*
John Hewitt
April 15th, 2008 at 7:38 pm [Reply]

Whenever FOOB makes a pop culture error, just tell yourself “They’re Canadians!”
Adam
April 15th, 2008 at 7:43 pm [Reply]

I had to go back and make sure that the final FOOB panel wasn’t in fact a perfect copy of yesterday’s final FOOB panel. I don’t know if I’m relieved or disappointed to find that it is not.
Loopina, Summer Intern of the Jungle Patrol
April 15th, 2008 at 7:43 pm [Reply]

#18: Freakin’ awesome! You have some serious skillz there.
commodorejohn
April 15th, 2008 at 8:04 pm [Reply]

OH MY GOD. I was just reading through the site archives and, in an Apartment 3-G post for August of 2004, Josh made reference to “Luann’s studio’s ventilation problems.” Luann’s final confrontation with Ghost Albert Pinkham Ryder was in May of 2007. That storyline took nearly THREE YEARS to play out. I’ll never call Mary Worth “glacially-paced” again, ever.
Tad Richards
April 15th, 2008 at 8:10 pm [Reply]

It’s been so long since I read Apartment 3G. Who’s drawing it now? The art work is awful. Can that really be Margo? Has she gotten middle aged while LuAnn is still young? What does Tommie look like now?
Nemo
April 15th, 2008 at 8:18 pm [Reply]

#26:

Yes. Assuming there’s an invisible “to pretend” after “like” and an invisible “doesn’t exist” after “that one comic”.
Certified Christian
April 15th, 2008 at 8:19 pm [Reply]

My infection has a first name; it’s M-R-S-A staph.
My infection has a second name; it’s M-R-S-A staph.
bats :[
April 15th, 2008 at 8:21 pm [Reply]

42. Spike: thanks for the vote of confidence…only I left out several panels, so the continuity went wonky (yeah, like that ever stops Gil Thorp!):
http://www.flickr.com/photos/9545446@N07/2416976925/sizes/o/
towanda
April 15th, 2008 at 8:21 pm [Reply]

So, does Abbey have a self-censoring ass or is a goat about to plow her? Her reaction indicates the latter…
Jessie
April 15th, 2008 at 8:26 pm [Reply]

I work in a carwash.

That said, Blondie is bugging the crap out of me. Why does that young man have a clipboard? WHY? The car appears to have been cleaned already and has been pulled out of the the carwash, judging by the puddles, and the direction the car is facing. The smiling, cheery attendant has followed him outside to ask his freshener preference. With a clipboard. Can he not even remember it long enough to go fetch it? What other possible things could he be ticking off, if the car has already been cleaned?

And then I think, holy hell, stop thinking about work.
4EvahFan
April 15th, 2008 at 8:34 pm [Reply]

FOOB: Why does Connie always look like Chinnuts? Especially the “please kill me now” stare into space.
Buck Ripsnort
April 15th, 2008 at 8:39 pm [Reply]

Rex’s only hope for this town is to be appointed Chief of Staph. His rod and staph, they comfort me– but not June.

I’m trying for a Staph of life pun, but it evades me.
Certified Christian
April 15th, 2008 at 8:50 pm [Reply]

54 – Lynn is bulding up to a grand finale where Connie is revealed to be the illigitimate love child of Chinnuts from an affair back during the war. In a Dickensian twist she therefore is revealed to be Elly’s long lost sister and … oh, who am I kidding? Lynn just can’t draw more than about 4 different faces. Connie is Chinnuts without the nuts, John’s brother is John with a mustache, April is Elizabeth as a brunette, etc.
Mac
April 15th, 2008 at 8:54 pm [Reply]

I don’t think Margo was sheepish. Margo is never sheepish! However, Lu Ann is cowlike, and Margo took the opportunity to appear sheepish in order to seem on Lu Ann’s (ruminant) level.
Lisa
April 15th, 2008 at 9:16 pm [Reply]

27: Spike, thanks for that info. Funny how the kid kinda resembles Funky… maybe it’s the smirk…
True Fable
April 15th, 2008 at 9:22 pm [Reply]

#46 Loopina – Thank you! It’s all just parody of LJ’s characters; the only claimable artwork I have of my own in it is in POV 6, when I used my son Sweet as the model for April’s biker guy. Otherwise it’s all poor imitation.

But boy the snarkin’ had an extra chewy goodness!
Liz
April 15th, 2008 at 9:37 pm [Reply]

A FOOB observation: Anyone else notice that Elly’s friend Connie is looking a lot like Grandpa Jim these days??
Dji
April 15th, 2008 at 9:41 pm [Reply]

Abbey should’ve known better than to back that ass up when she’s spying. Assuming she knew she had an ass that beeps when she backs it up.
NotAGoatHead
April 15th, 2008 at 10:01 pm [Reply]

Hey! Whatever happened to Newton Figg?
Lisa
April 15th, 2008 at 10:07 pm [Reply]

At least now we know why Abbey is wearing that fedora to go ride a horse… everyone knows that when you go spy on someone you have to dress like Indiana Jones.
Egg
April 15th, 2008 at 10:11 pm [Reply]

I feel cheated – the Minneapolis Star Tribune didn’t run the ball-washing Get Fuzzy strip today. They ran an old strip that wasn’t about ball washing. Prudes.
doug rogers
April 15th, 2008 at 10:17 pm [Reply]

Judge Parker. Damn that is well drawn. Buildings, perspective, landscape, crouch, folds, and faces with character.
LTBF
April 15th, 2008 at 10:21 pm [Reply]

Foob cut out Elly’s next line

“In my day, when you said ‘Till death do us part’, we meant it, you husband dumping bitch.”
anon
April 15th, 2008 at 10:22 pm [Reply]

MRSA actually does colonize people’s noses, oddly enough.

From the greatest of all references, Wikipedia M.D.: In the United States, 95 million carry S. aureus in their noses; of these, 2.5 million (2.6% of carriers) carry MRSA.
PeterW
April 15th, 2008 at 10:39 pm [Reply]

GF: Apparently, some people get headaches from other people’s bad ideas. This is Connelly’s standard button 47b.
Grumpy Young Curmudgeon
April 15th, 2008 at 10:59 pm [Reply]

Am I the only one that is surprised that Abby found her neighbors actually growing. . . {gasp} pot? {end gasp} I figured that it would all be one big misunderstanding and the neighbors were actually selling illegal chicken feed, not knowing that chicken feed is not illegal to sell. The “marijuana” brownie would actually have been from the illegal chocolate beans that they are growing, and the police would be called, there’d be some kind of investigation, everything would be cleared up, and a good time would be had by all. I don’t know whether to be astounded or disappointed by this. Hey, why can’t I be both?
bats :[
April 15th, 2008 at 11:09 pm [Reply]

63. Lisa: however, if you’re actually Indiana Jones and have to go spying, you’re required to dress as a Nazi.

67. anon: I’m beginning to look at my nose with some suspicion.
It’s giving me a blinding headache…
Louie Louie
April 15th, 2008 at 11:21 pm [Reply]

When Abby ate the brownie didn’t she get all energetic and start painting rooms of the house ugly colors? She didn’t sit down to watch some TV and eat some chips, did she?
forthillrox
April 15th, 2008 at 11:51 pm [Reply]

“Oh my head” is a common expression in New England, Get Fuzzy takes place here in Boston. Roughly translated it means: “oh my god, I can’t believe that I have to explain this to you”.
Lisa
April 16th, 2008 at 12:01 am [Reply]

70 Bats :[ — Well, that goes without saying, of course.
mumbles
April 16th, 2008 at 12:19 am [Reply]

RMMD: Now that this strip is doing a dumb-downed version of “An Enemy of the People”, I can’t wait to see the Gold-Digging Nanny take on “A Doll’s House.”

(DT)GT: I don’t think this strip has ever made any less sense than it does now.

JP: I wish I could share Josh’s hopefulness about Abby getting held hostage by geriatric sinister drug lords, but having survived Abby being held held hostage by threatening Parisian thugs, I’m managing expectations accordingly.

FOOB: Did any of Connie’s stepdaughters direct her to sit in the whore chair?
Mars
April 16th, 2008 at 12:40 am [Reply]

What this JP really needs is for Nelson to appear at the end, point at Abbey panicking while fumbling to silence her cell and say “HA ha!”

I know there’s no chance of this, but wouldn’t it be semi-clever if they wrapped this story up on 4-20?
A New Day
April 16th, 2008 at 12:44 am [Reply]

RMMD –
Good grief, was Woody Wilson attacked by a town meeting as a child?
A New Day
April 16th, 2008 at 12:49 am [Reply]

#60/Liz – yes! One day, o.k. it could have been a coincidence. But for two days in a row Connie looks a LOT like Jim, especially in the last panel. I’m sure this is some kind of disturbing psychological link/subconscious statement about getting old, but I don’t know what it is, and I’ve thought about this too much already.
Minnie
April 16th, 2008 at 12:51 am [Reply]

Rex Morgan made me laugh so hard, staph flew out of my nose.
electro
April 16th, 2008 at 1:50 am [Reply]

One Foob geezer to the other: In our day, a rock on your finger meant a date set in stone … and no free bus rides! Yeah, because they were young and eligible during the sexually repressed nineteen sixties and seventies.

Poor boomers.
mattt
April 16th, 2008 at 7:22 am [Reply]

#5, #23 I’m surprised there haven’t been more comments on how awesome Josh’s RMMD strip is. I agree: A RMMD panel randomizer is definitely needed.
Randall
April 16th, 2008 at 7:47 am [Reply]

Whenever someone says ‘in my day’ I always quickly snap out ‘the sun has set on your day, wrinklepuss!’

It saves a lot of time not listening to inane comments or conjecture.
Grover Cleveland
April 16th, 2008 at 7:49 am [Reply]

GT: Thank God the new artist has returned to the strip’s standard mis-shapen hands. If we don’t focus on the subpar artwork we have only the baffling plotlines to occupy our minds.
Gene
April 16th, 2008 at 8:11 am [Reply]

9cl – 3 words, naked tickle fight!!!!!!
Sock Puppet
April 16th, 2008 at 8:29 am [Reply]

Where’s the MRSA?

I want my …

I want my …

I want my MRSA …
Gene
April 16th, 2008 at 8:31 am [Reply]

Funky Winkerbean – I don’t know what’s more alarming, the teacher trying to pass off VFW Lodge jokes as humor or the fact that the redhead is allowed to wear that hat in school. The Funkiverse is one skateboard in the hallway away from total apocalypse.
jayjaybear
April 16th, 2008 at 8:32 am [Reply]

#21-Sobek:

Well, he doesn’t have fantasies about HER, anyway. Or women in general, actually.

Wait, the only place I follow Judge Parker is here…Abbey is Junior Parker’s wife, right?
Dr. Pants
April 16th, 2008 at 8:37 am [Reply]

OK, anybody surprised by the secretive farmers growing pot raise your hands. Mmm-hmmm. Mm-hmm. Wow, that that is lot more Amish people reading this blog than I expected.
aquagirl3
April 16th, 2008 at 8:57 am [Reply]

Did anyone see Snuffy Smith today? My new favorite word is “Flirtatin’.”
Madeline
April 16th, 2008 at 9:33 am [Reply]

God, Rex is such a douche. “Modern day pitchforks and torches?” Not exactly. They’re protestors, not a lynch mob. I don’t know why that bothers me so much; it just does. Also the fact that these people should really be staying at home and preventing the chance of contracting MRSA instead of hanging out with big groups of people who likely have it. Also the fact that no one really gives a crap about MRSA anyway. There was an outbreak near where I live last year, and it was like, “Oh, no, MRSA” for two seconds and then everyone went back to what they were doing.
Frippin In The Krotz
April 16th, 2008 at 9:49 am [Reply]

“Oh, My Head” (or “Ooh, My Head”) was also a Richie Valens song. My college roommates and I heard that on TV one day, and we thought that was the funniest thing for some reason, and started saying it for the rest of the time we were together.
Carly
April 16th, 2008 at 9:51 am [Reply]

I just confused Judge Parker for Mark trail. Oops.

And the thing about Tiger Woods’ balls? Yeah, I definitely read that the wrong way. Mental image I did not need.
NotAGoatHead
April 16th, 2008 at 9:53 am [Reply]

88. Yeah, “flirtatin” is a great word. And thanks for calling it “Snuffy Smith” instead of “Barney Google.” The Google character hasn’t been seen hide nor hair of since what,.. YEARS?! But the biggest scare of today’s SS is that Elviney is being chased by small, alien dust clouds.
Muffaroo
April 16th, 2008 at 10:11 am [Reply]

FOOB – There’s a law Miz Elly lives by, which is endorsed by her creator. “If it contains a pun, the strip must run!” At least you can be glad she’s not fixated on, say, rhymes.

RMMD –
Young man, you’re about to go down.
I said, young man, gonna be on the ground.
I said, young man, ’cause you’re in Rex’s town
You might want to write your will now.

Young man, there’s a way you can go.
I said, young man, in your nostrils will grow
Staph infections, and then any day
This disease will take you away.

You’re gonna die of the m-r-s-a
You’re gonna die of the m-r-s-a

You can catch it now in the boys’ locker room
Snapping towels as you meet your doom …

You’re gonna die of the m-r-s-a
You’re gonna die of the m-r-s-a

Best make peace with your god, best go do what you feel
Best go have yourself a last meal …

M-R-S-A, you’re gonna die of the r-m-s-a …
Muffaroo
April 16th, 2008 at 10:11 am [Reply]

Just a touch of dyslexia there at the end. I, uh, meant to do that. Cause it’s funnier! Or something.
Paul1963
April 16th, 2008 at 10:37 am [Reply]

You know, I’ll bet Bucky Katt from Get Fuzzy would get along great with Joe Nolastname from One Big Happy. Both are convinced that they’re brilliant geniuses, when they are in fact dumber than dirt. They spell about equally well, but Joe’s handwriting is slightly better–possibly because he has thumbs and Bucky doesn’t.
Holls
April 16th, 2008 at 11:38 am [Reply]

I work in an art gallery,
and there is actually nothing more hellish than people coming into an art gallery who have never come into an art gallery before.
I am SURE, cashing in or no, that Margo would agree. As the NY Times pointed out, being pretty isn’t enough to make it in this field, you also have top be MEAN.
Seven
April 16th, 2008 at 12:42 pm [Reply]

JP- The old guy in panel three looks like he’s trying to pull a Tyler Jay.
PTrig
April 16th, 2008 at 3:04 pm [Reply]

It took me a while to figure out why Lu Ann was wearing her bra around her neck. Once I saw the indication of a water pipe and smoke coming from it in panel 1 things began to make sense.
Iggy
April 16th, 2008 at 10:25 pm [Reply]

So is the J-Parker marijuana theme gonna culminate on 4-20????????
Mr. Lemon
April 17th, 2008 at 9:10 am [Reply]

Wait, is Elly suddenly PRETENDING that she didn’t force Anthony from his comically evil wife and practically throw her daughter naked at him? Goddamn, has the woman finally slipped into dementia, somehow forgeting the fact that she basically ENGINEERED the whole goddamn thing? Or maybe this is a new level to Elly’s unbelievable Mary Worth level of Meddling evil. Hell, she was probably responsible for Warren being a dick, Paul cheating on Liz, and every other misfortune in the FBOW universe. She was even secretly laughing during the death of Farly. That’s right kids, Elly Patterson, Evil overlord of FOOB! The grand conquerer and evil genius of the comics page.

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