The Comics Curmudgeon

82 responses to “Metapost: Insert comment of the week joke here!”

1. Muffaroo
   February 23rd, 2009 at 9:24 pm [Reply]

   Another classic week. Yay!

2. Muffaroo
   February 23rd, 2009 at 9:25 pm [Reply]

   A special kudos to BigTed. It’s still great the second time.

3. LITTLE A. WITH THE CRYSTAL BALL WHO HAS NEVER WON THE LOTTERY
   February 23rd, 2009 at 9:28 pm [Reply]

   My Comment of the Week is, Thank you Mr, Jackman for .helping me fall to sleep last night. You were more boring than the Houston Chronicle Comics Page.

4. buckyswife
   February 23rd, 2009 at 9:30 pm [Reply]

   Thanks, Josh! I’m honored to be in such clever company, really. Lettuce’s Margo Deconstruction still has me giggling.

5. BigTed
   February 23rd, 2009 at 9:41 pm [Reply]

   Thanks, Muffaroo (and Josh!). Of course, it was just a joke… mostly.

6. Amanda M
   February 23rd, 2009 at 9:45 pm [Reply]

   Excellent comments this week, congrats! I’ll have to really work on mine this week to beat the hilarious gold that showers onto these threads. Holy cow, that sentence was kind of cool.

7. Farley's Revenge
   February 23rd, 2009 at 10:05 pm [Reply]

   Once again, funny stuff! Congratulations, Gnoll and the float-riders!

   H&L: Not long ago, I was involved in an accident that totalled our car. My spouse did not carry on like Hi is carrying on to Lois about the damned car. If he had, the paramedics would have been taking him away, along with my passengers.

   (It was a far more serious accident than Lois’ fender-bender, but still…if the spouse had treated me the way Hi treats Lois, he would be fortunate there were cops on the scene.)

8. Rusty
   February 23rd, 2009 at 10:21 pm [Reply]

   If I lived in Ohio, I would be there sans pants. As a tribute to Ziggy, of course.

9. Frank Parsnip
   February 23rd, 2009 at 10:39 pm [Reply]

   Congratulations to the COTWeekers! In a sidenote, I bet someone with a bit of intrepid mojo can probably get Wilson to draw up a Ziggy with pants.

10. Poteet
    February 23rd, 2009 at 10:42 pm [Reply]

    Thank you, Gnoll and runners-up, for your excellent hilarity. I wave as your float moves majestically down Main Street.

11. Canaduck
    February 23rd, 2009 at 10:42 pm [Reply]

    Hahah, congrats guys–particularly funny ones this week!

12. Dingo
    February 23rd, 2009 at 10:57 pm [Reply]

    Hurray! I’m on the float! Congratulations to Gnoll and the other runnersup. Great stuff this week. Look out, Poteet! I’m aiming a Tootsie Roll in your direction.

13. scruffylove
    February 23rd, 2009 at 11:02 pm [Reply]

    Wow. First I got to see Minnie Driver and Hilary Swank in person today, now the creator of Ziggy is coming to Ann Arbor! I think I died and went to purgatory.

14. PeterW
    February 23rd, 2009 at 11:09 pm [Reply]

    Did you feature the movement to get Sally Forth back in the LA Times yet? More info at Francesco Explains It All.

15. Harold
    February 23rd, 2009 at 11:21 pm [Reply]

    I am so proud to be riding on the float this week, courtesy of what is probably my most offensive comment ever…with the exception of all my other comments that were more offensive.

    Poteet, have some candy beads!

16. Poteet
    February 23rd, 2009 at 11:22 pm [Reply]

    # 12 Dingo — Thankee! Your comment was one of my favorites this week, and I’d say that even without the Tootsie Roll. When I read it, I had an immediate strong desire to be sitting in the same room with your Aunt Judy and Bonnie, just listening in and preferably stroking another cat. Not in the MT office, which looks uncomfortable, but a better room. I was envisioning the room as being nice and warm and I would be in a comfy chair in the corner. Maybe with hot chocolate. Maybe the comfy chair would be a small rocker near a fireplace with a nice subdued crackling fire. I’d be listening to the conversation and the fire. Talk… crackle…talk…crackle…

    …zzzzzz….

17. kippetje2000
    February 23rd, 2009 at 11:23 pm [Reply]

    Do you think Tom Wilson will be wearing pants?

18. seismic-2
    February 23rd, 2009 at 11:38 pm [Reply]

    Wow, I get to ride on the float 4 times in the last 3 weeks, and during Mardi Gras at that. Reading the rest of the comments, I am amazed that I have been allowed to share the company of so many commentators the soles of whose shoes I am unworthy to touch, and I include a host of non-float riders in that group. In fact, I feel honored even to be allowed to read, much less post on, page after page of such brilliance, Well, unworthy though I am, allow me to celebrate by tossing beads, tootsie rolls, and death cats all around. Let the good times roll!

19. Muffaroo
    February 23rd, 2009 at 11:44 pm [Reply]

    Be sure and ask Wilson what Robert Crumb was really like. He used to be his boss at American Greetings.

20. Muffaroo
    February 23rd, 2009 at 11:44 pm [Reply]

    …er, Wilson was Crumb’s boss. Obviously. I mean, I shouldn’t even have to say it, right? Yeah…

21. Doug Puthoff
    February 23rd, 2009 at 11:45 pm [Reply]

    The question I want to ask Tom Wilson is “Where did you come up with the phrase “Are we having fun yet?”

22. commodorejohn
    February 23rd, 2009 at 11:58 pm [Reply]

    Boo-yah, runner-up!

23. Jamus The Bartender
    February 23rd, 2009 at 11:59 pm [Reply]

    19. Or you could ask him how it feels knowing that Crumb is five times, ten times, a hundred times the artist that Wilson is, unless he breaks free from the treadmill that is Ziggy, and does he weep when he goes to bed each night?

24. cappadocius
    February 24th, 2009 at 12:04 am [Reply]

    Unrelated to anything, I’d really like a Walker-Browne Amalgamated Humor Enterprises LLC company t-shirt.

25. Poteet
    February 24th, 2009 at 12:38 am [Reply]

    # 15 Harold — Congrats on your float ride, and thank you — nothing like tossed candy beads to wake a person up. And I was far more offended by the original FW version than yours. Keep it up, say I. So to speak.

26. NoVan
    February 24th, 2009 at 12:39 am [Reply]

    Seconded.

27. NoVan
    February 24th, 2009 at 12:40 am [Reply]

    *sigh* That refers to #24. Preview. Comments. Dammit.

28. Amateur
    February 24th, 2009 at 12:41 am [Reply]

    Congrats, guys! :-)

29. Artist formerly known as Ben
    February 24th, 2009 at 12:46 am [Reply]

    Congratulations to the COTW honorees. Much enjoyed. And if I’m reading Lettuce correctly, Margo was sent back in time as a failsafe to make sure John Connor doesn’t reach adulthood. Makes as much sense as any theory.

30. True Fable
    February 24th, 2009 at 1:17 am [Reply]

    Yay and congrats to the COTW picks! Good stuff.

31. Poteet
    February 24th, 2009 at 1:26 am [Reply]

    2/24 JP — Good lord. I haven’t seen a party like this since I watched SCANDAL, that movie about the Profumo affair.

32. True Fable
    February 24th, 2009 at 1:32 am [Reply]

    #31 O Poteet, my queen! – you are punishing your loyal knight with tantalizing hints about his favorite strip which he still has to wait another half-hour to see. Pray do not continue to torment me with this kind of mind game, my queen! I might grow to like it. ;-D

33. sugarpie
    February 24th, 2009 at 2:00 am [Reply]

    Cangratulations to all! I’ve decided to redouble my efforts at having some snarking time this coming week.

    And for the 4th time in a week I ended up as last commentor in a necro-thread. Yay for me!

34. rachel
    February 24th, 2009 at 2:05 am [Reply]

    i know not many people read the metapost threads, but i was wondering– how old are all of you? i only ask because i feel like there aren’t many people here my age (i’m 20), whereas most forums i’ve frequented in the past have all been mostly college students. i guess this is why the maturity level is so elevated here.

35. Judas Peckerwood
    February 24th, 2009 at 2:09 am [Reply]

    Rachel: Since you asked, Judas Peckerwood turns 45 next week.

36. Anonymous
    February 24th, 2009 at 2:17 am [Reply]

    Yay, floatriders! (tosses confetti, or in the spirit of Mardi Gras, beads)

    Now, can anyone tell me what Mister Mackey from South Park is doing in Crankshaft, mmkay?

    Or can someone assure me that Gabriela isn’t meeting up with Mr. Magee for some golden-years booty call action in Apartment 3-G?

    JP: And as for April “quitting” the CIA, as a real-life CIA agent once told me solemnly, “You never quit the CIA. Never.”

37. Baka Gaijin
    February 24th, 2009 at 2:18 am [Reply]

    Tlachtga: How many sofas must participate before it becomes a “couch orgy?”

38. sugarpie
    February 24th, 2009 at 2:19 am [Reply]

    Rachel Welcome! I hope you enjoy your visit here. I go back at least as far as the Punic Wars, AND! Academia Waltz during the Carter Adiministration.

    I’ve given up trying to guess site denizens ages: I’m almost always wrong. But tha’ts what I get for worrying about the picayunne.

    Stick around.

39. rachel
    February 24th, 2009 at 2:25 am [Reply]

    now that the new strips are up on the chron-

    FW- Summer’s face in the last panel looks eerily like Crankshaft’s.

    GT- i haven’t been reading this strip very long, since my newspaper never carried it, but this is definitely the first time i’ve been interested in what’s going on. does anyone else feel this way? Ashley Aiello brings the snark to a stuck-up brat, and meanwhile we have a classic star-crossed lovers plot going on. spicy!

    JP- is turning on even me, a hetero female.

    Luann- aside from this little diversion (”let’s tell people about that ‘guitar game’ that has been part of the popular lexicon for years already!”), it’s important to note that Guitar Hero skills do not generally correlate to actual guitar skills. except with me, because i am terrible at both.

    MT- “I guess he has a good reason for being upset”?!!?!? this whole “it’s the economy, stupid…and not a pattern of spousal abuse” thing has been making me so angry i found myself ranting to my boyfriend about it tonight, who is only an occasional CC reader. i have no idea how he’s getting away with this. Elrod, i mean.

    Marvin- i know we talk about the foulness of this strip…but…oh.my.god. i don’t even know what to say. except that i didn’t know diaper rash was anything worse than itchy. oh god. where’s my pepto-bismol?

    S-M: “Oh, okay! That makes sense!” yes, it’s a superhero-themed costume party, because Spider-man is an ironic college student in 1993.

40. True Fable
    February 24th, 2009 at 2:32 am [Reply]

    # 34 rachel – hello doll. For the record I’m 51 and rarely been accused of acting mature. :)

    Oh let’s do the Snark Warp again!

    Fanky Wonderbread Watching two young women wrestling around on the floor made Summer suddenly look like Ed Crankshaft. *shudder*
    JP rules Katherine, you are a lovely lady and your shoulders are divine objects in and of themselves, but honey you are the rudest chick in the world; stop turning your back on people when they’re speaking to you. And bring those glasses of Malt-O-Meal back over here while you’re at it.
    Fist O Justice Theater NO NO NO, you do NOT wave away a domestic abuser’s actions by saying his business troubles are a good reason for being upset! Unless, of course, the regards you plan to give him include a fist to the jaw and a boot up the ass. It’ll make him feel right at home.
    Marvin Oh holy shit, why didn’t I purge this strip from my reading list while I still had an appetite?
    Meddling Heights Red flag alert! Late wife = Merry Widower! And he’s starting off on the right track because Adrian is stretching her arm all out of proportion just to pat his sallow jaw. And apparently there is a little known Santa Royale law that states no woman can have hair with any kind of body to it, other than the Great Mary Worth and her Helmet Hair.
    Kit Walker, Bangalla Ranger Well, that was a nice waste of a day’s strip, as well as a view of someone riding the world’s largest tame hyena.
    IFHZ “Jeremy never eats rancid platypus at home!”

41. dale
    February 24th, 2009 at 2:33 am [Reply]

    rachel – I can remember when they added “under God” to the Pledge if Allegiance.

    Maybe that’s why the Hi & Lois damaged car / unhurt wife bit seems like a very old sitcom gag. Also, what’s the point of the little cloud over a bent fender: I ain’t buying a rubbing tire story.

42. seismic-2
    February 24th, 2009 at 2:36 am [Reply]

    # 34 Rachel – welcome to the comics geezer page, where folks hang out to reminiscence about their favorite dailies of “The Yellow Kid”. But “maturity level”? If you look up that expression in the dictionary, under antonyms it lists this URL.

43. commodorejohn
    February 24th, 2009 at 2:36 am [Reply]

    #34 rachel – I’m 23, but I believe the population here is weighted more towards the thirty-and-up end of the scale.

44. rachel
    February 24th, 2009 at 2:37 am [Reply]

    hi sugarpie and true fable!

    quoting the latter of you:
    “And bring those glasses of Malt-O-Meal back over here while you’re at it.”

    yeah, what is up with that? it’s called red wine for a reason, gnomes. not PURPLE WINE.

45. rachel
    February 24th, 2009 at 2:40 am [Reply]

    maybe “maturity” was the wrong word, but i’ve never seen such respect and camaraderie on the internet before. the other day someone made a pejorative remark about the Mormon faith and was immediately put in place by Uncle Lumpy. and that’s one of the few times i’ve seen anything vaguely contentious here.

46. Winky's Spleen
    February 24th, 2009 at 2:43 am [Reply]

    #34 rachel – I’m 43. And I take the comics deeply seriously. You can draw your own inferences about my maturity level based on that.

47. True Fable
    February 24th, 2009 at 2:44 am [Reply]

    # 43 commodorejohn – Yeah, we have to watch our lawns all the time to keep those punks off it!

    # 44 rachel – then again if the gnomes actually did right and gave it a red tint, we’d just dish on the fact that they are imbibing the traditional Blood of Innocents before hailing a new Judge of the Tribunal Horror, or whatever we can pin on Randy. Still, I know I would prefer that to the Crankshaft Winery’s 1983 Bad Prune Juice vintage they are serving now.

48. True Fable
    February 24th, 2009 at 2:52 am [Reply]

    # 45 rachel – Uncle Lumpy is cool like that! Yes, this is a very polite and welcoming place and we tend to police ourselves, so as to save Pope Josh the hassle.

    One of the neat things about this place is when the occasional thread embroidery happens where one thing leads to another and we go off on some off-topic tear for a while. Or the song parodies; you need to check some of those out in the archives! There are some very bright and talented people here and it just keeps getting better.

49. Frank Parsnip
    February 24th, 2009 at 2:55 am [Reply]

    A3G: Important people respect Martin Magee in China because of all the business he does there. Unfortunately for Eric and Tim, Magee’s activities are all in the area of organ harvesting.

    MT: DAMN THOSE LEHMAN BROTHERS… If not for them, Ken would’ve cornered the market on lumber futures.

    MW: Look at the second panel! Is Dr. Drew Corey trying to date his own sister through the artifice of a now-clearly-fake moustache? “Ted”, my fanny!

    Sex Organ, M.D.: Rex is going to keep searching the cabins until he finds that ever-elusive “cabin boy” thought to exist in many ships.

    Marvin: Oops. Somebody forgot to clean Marvin for a couple of weeks…

    DtM: Yes, that low-calcium diet has been doing great things for Mr. Wilson.

    Blondie: This “small party” where people will apparently be smearing tuna salad into their mouths… is this going to involve any nudity?

50. commodorejohn
    February 24th, 2009 at 2:55 am [Reply]

    #47 True Fable – I’d make some snarky comment about blasting my music across your lawn, but the fact is that most of “my” music dates back to around or before you were my age.

51. True Fable
    February 24th, 2009 at 3:03 am [Reply]

    # 50 commodorejohn – Yeah, those minuets were hot shit back in my day! :P

    My kids grew up listening to ‘my’ music and like you, they appear to have a seamless music library in their heads from the late 50’s on.

    Then they stumble across “Giddyup Go” or “My Ding-A-Ling” and they understand how tenuous a grip I have on sanity for having had to listen to that in my youth.

52. Mibbitmaker
    February 24th, 2009 at 3:05 am [Reply]

    2/24:

    9CL: No, you haven’t ruined everything yet… but McEldowney sure will!

    A3G: Martin Magee is so self-centered that he won’t take advantage of the most blatantly contrived coincidence in the known universe (just what’re the chances that Margo’s boyfriend is in trouble in China, where Margo’s dad just so happens to be, and important, to boot???) to help those he supposedly cares about. She’s her father’s daughter, alright.

    BBailey: Sarge, on a cell phone: “Ixnay, Osama, they’re on to us!”

    Curtis: FOOD FIIIIIIIIIGHT!!!

    DT: She’s going to kill someone with that car, alright — Adult Swim Col. Flagg, that is. Then ASCF won’t go to Heaven, Hell, or even Purgatory… He’ll go to some empty, blank void swirling through nowhere.

    FW: They had a basketball game and a wrestling match broke out! (parody of old hockey/boxing joke) …And Batiuk again tries to out-fantasy Brooke McYouknowwho.

    Garfield: “How quaint”
    Jon: “How quart”

    MT: But NOT A GOOD REASON TO SMACK AROUND HIS FRIGGIN’ WIFE!! Yeesh!

    Ghost-Who-Just-Got-A-Day-Off-From-Babysitting-His-Furshlugginer-Kids: Ha,ha. Barf.

    Popeye: Hey, fake Swee’Pea… given the other two people in the room, I wouldn’t complain about looking like the baby if I were you!

    S-M: “And why that corny Spider-Man suit?”, in the manner lettered, looks like “And why that corny Spider-Man shit?” I like that version much better!

    ZtP: That’s not fair, Griffy! If you don’t like the way people talk, well EX-CUUUUUUUSE MEEEEEEEE! Put that in your Funk & Wagnals! And now for something completely different: I’ve made a huge mistake reading Zippy. I could’ve skipped it, BUT NOOOOOO! I say let’s take a poll (that’s what she said!), and I guess we all know how painful that can be! You bet your sweet bippy. You’re just jealous ’cause most people are legen — wait for it……. –dary. Hokey smokes! Jeez, whadda grouch! Blergh! Sit on it, Griffy! AAAAYYYYY!

    …..Are we having fun yet?

53. Red Greenback
    February 24th, 2009 at 3:12 am [Reply]

    I’d ask Mr. Wilson: “Why is it that every time you draw Ziggy with Little Ziggy covered up, he’s holding a seashell?”

54. True Fable
    February 24th, 2009 at 3:12 am [Reply]

    Wouldn’t it be horrible, Griffy, if we pretend to be really hip and edgy as we are railing against media manipulation in a comic strip handled by a big newspaper syndicate?

    Ooooh the irony! It burns!

55. commodorejohn
    February 24th, 2009 at 3:24 am [Reply]

    #51 True Fable – Oh God. Oh God, “Giddyup Go.” ARGH DAMN YOU FABLE

56. mordock999
    February 24th, 2009 at 4:28 am [Reply]

    Today’s Luann 02/24/09

    Oh, good, GOD.

    Sigh.

    Hey, Frank: How ’bout doing a “El KaBong”

    and smash THAT guitar across TJ’s Head??

    ____________________________________

    KABONNNNNNG!!! (And the sound of a plastic guitar being shattered into hundreds of tiny pieces against TJ’s thick skull followed by a depiction of his agonizing but SATISFYING Death…..,)

57. Wangdoodle
    February 24th, 2009 at 4:41 am [Reply]

    MT: Mark Trail officially approves of wife-beating and shooting tame animals under the “Bee-yatch Done Made Me Mad” clause. Let’s hear it for the heroic Mark Trail! Is he gonna hafta smack a ho?

    Luann: Did…did TJ (Heath Ledger) just go “meta?”

    Snuffy: Oooooo, bad phrase/hand position combo there, Lo. Tater’s liable to “shake a few out” that you DON’T want.

    Mallard: There is no joy whatsoever for Tinsley, is there? Other than what he finds in bottles or whining about the garbage on the same boob tube that he refuses to abandon? Consider this: according to the “logic” of today’s strip, a crappy remake of a crappy slasher movie is superior to Slumdog Millionaire, The Dark Knight, Wall-E, Doubt, Milk, The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button, and/or The Reader. Oh, wait…this is about Frost/Nixon, isn’t it? God, Bruce. You’re just sad.

    Curtis: God. I have NEVER seen a food fight rely on exposition before. Nor have I seen a gag die so soon before its completion. Is there an award for that?

58. gleeb
    February 24th, 2009 at 7:02 am [Reply]

    Candorville: Get on with it!

    Pigborn: “Suck,” huh? I see what you’re trying to make me say, McDowner. Well, get yourself another boy!

    A3-G: Martin Magee loves no one but himself, and the crab apple doesn’t fall far from the tree.

    ’shaft: One thing. One thing he had to do, and he messed it up.

    Dick: Even in a high-speed chase, Tracy has time to admire the pick-up of this fine sedan. Shouldn’t YOU come by and test drive one?

    Parker: Three glasses minus one glass equals three glasses.

    Rex: Can’t you see what Guido’s trying to tell you? He loves you.

59. LITTLE A. WITH THE CRYSTAL BALL WHO HAS NEVER WON THE LOTTERY
    February 24th, 2009 at 7:36 am [Reply]

    Rachel, I am 60. I remember Brick Bradford, Abbey ‘n Slats, Bathless Groggins, and other strips never mentioned here. I remember Major Hoople. I remember when dick Tracy used to be entertaining. I remember when Dennis the menace used to hit his father with roller skates. Now he’s a sardonic unfunny philosopher, not that hitting his father with roller skates was ever funny. But I do remember when Dennis’ baby sitters wore bobby socks.

60. mojo
    February 24th, 2009 at 7:46 am [Reply]

    Congrats to the winners this week! Keep up the good snark! And for the record, rachel, I am chronologically 45, but mentally …. well, who knows?

    Boy, Mary Worth just gets better ‘n’ better, don’t it? I am just now finished shouting at Dr. Jeff to watch out! Oh, watch out, Dr. Jeff! I fear his marvelous phrase “a suspect gathering of prospects” might soon be surpassed by his progeny, if “happy memories that will be expanded” is any indicator.

    I don’t care to find out exactly HOW Ted’s happy memories will be “expanded”. I’m guessing Adrian is hoping it will somehow involve a tube with an air pump, or maybe a DustBuster. Something with a small “hummy” sort of motor. Whereas I’m quite certain by now that recently widowered Ted’s happy memories run more along the lines of a homemade garrote using, oh, let’s say, two feet of piano wire with a short stick affixed to each end. Yes, that, and the slightly louder “hum” of a chain saw or a wood chipper.

    “Memories, like the corners of my mind….” BBBBBBBBRRRRRRRAAAAAAAAAA CHING CHING CHING CHING CHING!

61. Little Guy
    February 24th, 2009 at 8:11 am [Reply]

    Candorville: Look, Darrin Lemont, if you don’t stop interrupting him, we’ll never get this storyline finished.

    Do I have to hire Buffy to put a stake in this?

    MT: Good news! Domestic violence is caused by a bad economy!

    JP: Shut yo’ whore mouth, so we can see that booty!

    Tank: Okay, who is for stuffing the ballot box for Tank himself?

    WyH: Tomorrow, the Mayor is arrested for obstructing justice. By Saturday, the cop will have sold the camera on eBay.

    Spiderman: Whatever.

62. Chyron HR
    February 24th, 2009 at 9:11 am [Reply]

    9 Chickweed Lane – “Edda, you march right out there and tell him, ‘Amos, we had some beautiful handjobs together. Let’s not ruin it by getting all serious.’”

    Dick Tracy – “I’ll catch the cyber-bomber and win April back! Hey, why’s that car in the wrong lane?”

    Funky Winkerbean – Looks like Paul McCartney’s got “the fever”.

    Mary Worth – “When my first wife died, it left a huge windfall in my life! No, wait. The other thing. Um. Void.”

    Spider-Man – “Well, I should probably try to verify your story in some way, but that would really cut into my looting time.”

63. Vince M
    February 24th, 2009 at 9:12 am [Reply]

    I’m 54 next month – whenever I make an age-related remark I do it waving around an imaginary cigar a la George Burns.
    Oh hey, Mary Worth punchline in today’s ‘Ink Pen’!

64. AhClem
    February 24th, 2009 at 9:14 am [Reply]

    FC – If there is any justice in the world, Jeffy is making himself a peanut butter and salmonella sandwich.

    #34 rachel — I’m 55 chronologically, but only 14 when it comes to maturity. And the music I like best is even older than commodorejohn’s stuff.

65. Islamorada Girl
    February 24th, 2009 at 9:18 am [Reply]

    MT: Poor, misunderstood Beat’emup Ken! By not understanding how much stress he’s under, Patty deserves to be cracked across the face, pushed and terrorized by having her pet shot. Even for woman- hating Jack Elrod, this is too much. Punch Ken already! Then kill him. Let’s have done with this.

66. kalki
    February 24th, 2009 at 9:18 am [Reply]

    9CL: I still say it was a cock ring and Edda just overreacted. I figure this strip has about another year of life as Amos tries to get Edda to accept the ring and then after the year that it takes to do the wedding strips…then the strip might finally end.

    Archie: “Do you want me to put the lipstick and wig on the suction end for you there, Principal? Here is a remote kill switch for the power since there is no ’safe word’ for a Scarpelli Suction 9000.”

    Blondie: “Couldn’t we just have you lie on a table with the tuna salad over your naughty bits and eat it off you with chop stix….or maybe no chop stix and we don’t use hands…you know what? Forget the chop stix and tuna salad. Just get naked on the table…did I mention I am the only one who will be at the party?”

    Crank: Cmon…cmon…Bring on the death strip already. How many days have passed since a character has died in Crankshaft or Funky? Well, neighbor….you know…that’s too long. (How can I be expected to play the Batiuk drinking game–to take a belt whenever a character dies–if it takes this long between deaths? Batiuk–you’re off your game. Time for a terrorist attack.)

    DTM: Hmm…I just realized Dennis is the perfect height for…naw…maybe Mr. WIlson doesn’t swing that way. Maybe Mrs. Wilson needs to get her postage stamp licked though…

    CircusJerk: aw…no ha ha…Jeffy with his Jiffy should have said “We’re gonna need a bigger slice of bread.” No Jaws reference…no score…

    FW: And over in the other Batiuk death zone…outrage over a charging penalty.

    GA: “But I thought Slim was here in bed with me…we even had sex…no wait…just my hand again.”

    Luann: Ah…male bonding…and bonding with T.J. too.

    S-M: All this trouble just to run back to Aunt May, whose living mummy of a body got “the vapors” when she spent one too many minutes staring at a male model for Jockey underwear in her Macy’s sale book.

67. Mel
    February 24th, 2009 at 9:25 am [Reply]

    Welcome, Rachel!

    As you have already noticed, a side effect of this place is beginning to follow strips you didn’t know were still running — and ones that you didn’t know existed.

    I have been grateful for being introduced to My Cage. It almost makes up for 9CL. Almost.

    No pressure, Ed and Melissa.

68. Winky's Spleen
    February 24th, 2009 at 9:25 am [Reply]

    FC – Requires a wistful salmonella reference. It’s too early to fill in the details, though.

    Prick City – I guess elections have consequences, ya little snot.

69. Dan
    February 24th, 2009 at 9:32 am [Reply]

    NO ONE could boss cartoonist Robert Crumb – well, maybe his ole’ lady…..into moving to France!

70. Harold
    February 24th, 2009 at 9:36 am [Reply]

    Rachel @ 34, I’m 41, but very immature for my age.

71. Carlo
    February 24th, 2009 at 9:37 am [Reply]

    I prefer to think of this week’s Luann story focusing on the sticky icky. That makes the dialogue much more entertaining.

    OK, maybe not. But it’s still better than the lame ass “Dee Cee” story.

72. Marthas Rolling Pin
    February 24th, 2009 at 9:38 am [Reply]

    Ink Pen takes a jab at our favorite old biddy

73. Brick Bradford
    February 24th, 2009 at 10:28 am [Reply]

    Welcome Rachel. I’m 56 (egad!) and obviously old enough to remember old strips like Brick Bradford.
    I remember when Peanuts was cutting edge stuff and BC was funny every day. Heck, I remember when PJ in Family Circus was born (some time in the early 60’s).

    Mature? I have a little plaque on my desk that reads “If You Haven’t Grown Up by Age 50 You Don’t Have To”. It speaks for me.

    I think we tend to not be contentious around here for the simple reason that we don’t take ourselves terribly seriously and we know that Ted Forth’s little hands and Sam Driver’s asexuality would be ridiculous things to get cranky about. So we have good fun.

74. Muffaroo
    February 24th, 2009 at 10:44 am [Reply]

    rachel @34 – I’m 52, so I skew the average some, though not as much as Little A and AhClem. I have several hundred 78 sides (from archive.org) on my iPod, but my favorite stuff is probably classical. For the thrills.

    True Fable @51 – Then I threw the little bastard and his toy out the window, and all the way down, he kept saying “Giddyup Go! Giddyup Goooo…!”

75. Esther Blodgett
    February 24th, 2009 at 10:49 am [Reply]

    Hi, Rachel! I’m 206, but I’m pronounced Throatwarbler Mangrove.

    But wait…I cannot let pass something at the tail end of yesterthread. tk, your dad made the Freedom Rock commercial? Someone needs to put your dad on stage in front of five washed-up actors in formalwear cooing banal platitudes, stat! I can’t believe I’m touching the same Internet as you! This is awesome!

    OK, I’m better now. It’s just…Freedom Rock, shit!! That rocks!

76. Islamorada Girl
    February 24th, 2009 at 6:18 pm [Reply]

    Hi Rachel! I’m two days older than dirt, but I act like I’m about fourteen. Welcome!

77. Steve H
    February 24th, 2009 at 8:41 pm [Reply]

    As one o’ them sybaritic Lost Angelenos, I was dismayed to find “Sally Forth” gone, replaced by yet another strip of nauseating fourth-graders spouting precociously arch dialogue. Maybe it’s time to switch to all-online comics, all the time. That paper has gotten so thin and bland that only the comics were really keeping me coming back to it, and now they’re busily watering those down, too. Bleah.

78. sarah
    February 27th, 2009 at 12:35 am [Reply]

    OH MY GOSH. my parents live right by location #1. i used to go there on friday nights home from college and be bored. damn, and i almost took my vacation home last weekend. quelle bummer.

79. Anonymous
    March 4th, 2009 at 1:29 pm [Reply]

    Dear !,…

    I have been grateful for being introduced to My Cage. It almost makes up for 9CL. Almost.

    No pressure, Ed and Melissa.

    Ioffersearch.com Blogs – Just another Ioffersearch.com weblog

80. Ioffer Search
    March 4th, 2009 at 1:30 pm [Reply]

    Dear !,…

    I have been grateful for being introduced to My Cage. It almost makes up for 9CL. Almost.

    Ioffersearch.com Blogs – Just another Ioffersearch.com weblog

    No pressure, Ed and Melissa.

81. ioffersearch001
    March 5th, 2009 at 6:28 am [Reply]

    Dear !,…

    I have been grateful for being introduced to My Cage. It almost makes up for 9CL. Almost.

    Ioffersearch.com Blogs – Just another Ioffersearch.com weblog

82. ioffersearch001
    March 7th, 2009 at 7:25 am [Reply]

    Hii Dear Frend!,..

    I prefer to think of this week’s Luann story focusing on the sticky icky. That makes the dialogue much more entertaining.

    OK, maybe not. But it’s still better than the lame ass “Dee Cee” story.

    Ioffersearch.com Blogs – Just another Ioffersearch.com weblog

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