Keep it like a secret
Mary Worth, 3/19/05
How torn up is Anna about her raging infertility problems? Even when she’s alone in the apartment, she has to switch from speaking aloud to no one in particular to encapsulating her exposition in silent thought balloons when ruminating on her stony insides. Poor Anna! If she can’t even say it to herself, how is she going to tell the fecund baby-making machine that is Dr. Brian?
On the other hand, she may just be worried that he’s got the place bugged. If I were looking for hidden microphones, I’d be checking behind that “starving artist quality at starving artist prices” seaside landscape on the wall there, Anna. The newlyweds seem to be so busy not getting pregnant that they haven’t had time to decorate the place beyond the Motel 6 level.
Woodrowfan
March 20th, 2005 at 5:55 pm
Maybe she’s a post-op transexual! that’d liven this strip up!
willowy1
March 20th, 2005 at 6:28 pm
It’s clear that Anna didn’t want her shadow to think badly of her deceptive ways.
A refill of that black coffee in bed and she’ll be up for a new start in the morning.
Sassy_Rocks
March 20th, 2005 at 6:49 pm
Anna’s infertility is a medically reversible problem that Dr. FeelGood will fix for her.
I still don’t know where that meddlesome biddy neighbor of hers got off telling Anna to email a man she knew was married and was obsessing over. If it turns out she can’t get pregnant why not implant her egg and the doctor’s sperm (or maybe just the doctor’s sperm) into Dawn Weston. As a last resort, she could always adopt Mim’s love child?
saint chree in the living room
March 20th, 2005 at 7:40 pm
It’s also worth noting that her breasts in panel one seem to be dodging to the right suddenlt, like the breasts in Rex Morgan on the opposite page pulled a gun on them and they need evasive maneuvers stat
Mark Kawakami
March 20th, 2005 at 8:38 pm
Just tell him already!!!! Or think about something else. Please, for the first time in three weeks, could you think to yourself “I want French Toast but I’m too lazy to beat eggs” or something?
Smitty Smedlap
March 20th, 2005 at 9:01 pm
Dr. Good better wear some goggles next time he and Anna get down to baby-makin’. That breast could put an eye out.
Oh, and Anna….love the suit.
Tracibub
March 20th, 2005 at 9:06 pm
One word… Madonna.
Dub Not Dubya
March 20th, 2005 at 10:26 pm
Simple, she switched to thinking so that meddlesome biddy Mary Worth wouldn’t hear her. But then again, we don’t know that Mary didn’t install the bug herself, along with one of those tiny cameras that used to be advertised in the pop-up ads all the time. Yes, the painting is a good place to check–I bet it was a gift from Mary! Muhahahhaha!
Islamorada Girl
March 20th, 2005 at 11:07 pm
Maybe she’s talking to that lovely cup and saucer! They’re such good listeners.
Dub Not Dubya
March 20th, 2005 at 11:16 pm
On a completely separate topic, La Cucaracha has been sending people from other comics to Iraq. Start with http://www.ucomics.com/lacucaracha/2005/03/18/ and then go forward to the next day. The previous day alludes to Doonesbury, but that’s not as much of a gag since Doonesbury actually did set a storyline there.
Incident
March 20th, 2005 at 11:26 pm
Funniest.
Dog.
EVER.
Incident
March 20th, 2005 at 11:27 pm
Crap. I meant the dog in Rex Morgan.
violencejackal
March 21st, 2005 at 12:06 am
The painting is a metaphor; think of it as a haiku:
A sea of passion,
waves fall on a barren shore.
Damn that Mary Worth!
I bet there’s totally cyanide in that coffee, too.
Yaddayadda
March 21st, 2005 at 1:33 am
“How do I tell you, my darling brian, these hardest of words”
Who the hell talks like that? I swear she’s on the verge of breaking into poetic meter there.
PizzaBagel
March 21st, 2005 at 2:03 am
Finally! After 50-odd years, Beetle Bailey might actually get to participate in some actual military actions. It’s about time they shipped the “boys” from Camp Swampy out. I expect U.S. casualty figures in Iraq to rise dramatically in the near future as a result of this.
King Of All Paperboys
March 21st, 2005 at 2:25 am
I just wish Anna would do something about those ROOTS.
Seriously. See a stylist. You’re bringing down property values.
Peaches
March 21st, 2005 at 8:45 am
Mary Worth ain’t doin’ no yoga! It would cut into her valuable meddlin’ time!
Monkeys Uncle
March 21st, 2005 at 8:47 am
She might have the weight of the world on her shoulders, but at least that burden is lightend but the enticing aroma of her Gevalia(tm)hazelnut ladybug crunch. It simply washes aways the cares of the world and the endless yapping about your cold barren womb.
Moesy
March 21st, 2005 at 11:10 am
WOW, I wish my thoughts were as poetic as Barren Anna’s. I think I would’ve thought something like this, “Aw crap! We’re never gonna have a kid ya know!” I’m actually surprised she said “How do I tell you…” instead of “How shall I tell thee?”
Renee S.
March 21st, 2005 at 11:28 am
Anna looks like she’s going to break out into song.
daChipster
March 21st, 2005 at 11:33 am
Greetings, poetry lovers.
Don’t we all think and write in such exalted phraseology? I know I do:
As trees with blighted roots can bear no food
or those with buds untimely nipped by frost
So Anna cannot raise her Brian a brood
She might as well just keep her stockings crossed.
Enough already please quit with the cryin’
It doesn’t matter what you say or think
These ruminations by the Wife of Brian
Are just a waste of bad cartoonist’s ink
Why not adopt some orphan Asian child
With jet black hair and oddly-tinted skin
Or buy a kid from some gig that’s been wild
Like Tommy’s little roadside neice – Miss Mim
Whatever, just get over giving birth
‘Cause you’ve been cursed by that Witch, Mary Worth
DrBear
March 21st, 2005 at 12:26 pm
Today, class, I’d like 500 words on the symbolism of the empty field, meaningless fence and barren rock behind the woman.
Double-spaced, please. Due by your next class.
Risha
March 21st, 2005 at 12:27 pm
*claps wildly*
Risha
March 21st, 2005 at 12:28 pm
Err, I was clapping for daChipster. Just wanted to clear that up. Not that DrBear’s comment is not worthy… it would just be a little odd. OK.
Incident
March 21st, 2005 at 12:40 pm
Speaking of shooting blanks, did everyone see yesterday’s Cialis dream sequence in FBOFW?
Why is there so much sexual content in that strip lately?
Irina
March 21st, 2005 at 1:11 pm
I thought Grandpa Jim mighta finally been kicking the bucket, and we were seeing his entrance into the afterlife.
What I didn’t realize was that he was a fundamentalist Islamic martyr.
PizzaBagel
March 21st, 2005 at 2:15 pm
Yup, Grandpa isn’t long for this world, I tells ya. He’s had his ongoing health problems and general frailties for quite some time now. Lynn Johnston could have slid him gracefully – certainly with a huge smile on his mug – into the afterlife yesterday, but noooooooo. He still lives. And it’s a given that April will strum his guitar at the funeral. Too cliché, but that’s to be expected from FBorFW.
REB
March 21st, 2005 at 2:28 pm
did anyone read B.C. this morning? i think he’s gone off the deep end.
Isaac B2
March 21st, 2005 at 2:49 pm
Steve Martin said that bad news should always be delivered with banjo music, but I guess Anna thinks the blow can be softened with a nice cuppa coffee.
Sassy_Rocks
March 21st, 2005 at 3:07 pm
Yes, Grandpa FBOFW’s scrotum chin does seem to be sagging badly lately…
DrBear
March 21st, 2005 at 5:17 pm
Risha – I don’t mind. I’ll take applause I haven’t earned and that was meant for somebody else. I’m not proud.
Woodrowfan
March 21st, 2005 at 5:51 pm
REB: yeah, BC made even less sense than usual!
King Of All Paperboys
March 21st, 2005 at 6:05 pm
I guess Johnny Hart showed ‘em! Zing! Take THAT, godless liberals!
zot
March 21st, 2005 at 7:34 pm
And yet, somehow, the godless liberal media keeps running B.C., no matter how offensive it is.
Anne Nonymous
March 21st, 2005 at 9:34 pm
What godless liberal media? They’re all corporate whores.
Francois Mitterand
March 22nd, 2005 at 12:10 am
Problem solved! On Tuesday, Anna is now stifling a barf while on the phone with Mary. The stork is coming and Brian need be none the wiser!
Meanwhile, over in Rex Morgan, the pus-encrusted grad student’s expertise in fence cost estimation has produced an obvious lustful gaze from June…
Sharkbait
March 22nd, 2005 at 1:39 am
Johnny Hart’s message is clear: if a person is a True Christian(tm), no amount of adversity can negate his faith.
Unless, of course, he lives in a country with a dang-blasted Constitution that prohibits promoting a particular sect in government buildings. Walking into a Department of Motor Vehicles office that does not have the Ten Commandments prominently posted would try the faith of a saint.
Curious George
March 22nd, 2005 at 6:35 am
So this Brian isn’t just looking for sex, he’s hoping this middle-aged broad with two-tone hair will provide him with offspring?
That’s a fecund stupid storyline.
Islamorada Girl
March 22nd, 2005 at 7:53 am
Godless liberal media is what the right wing calls corporate whores, Anne. Oh, unless you’re Fox News, of course.
I am stunned, stunned I tell you by the easy way out of today’s Mary Worth, where Anna’s morning sickness clearly indicates the good doctor’s seed has fallen on fertile soil. Maybe even the writer got bored with this stupid story line.
RememberByronFrost
March 22nd, 2005 at 3:01 pm
Well, thank God that Buck is there to rescue the damsel in distress from the villainous shyster, FPF.
Goes without saying that since she’s only ‘the little lady’ she’s too ditzy to recognize an over-priced fence estimate.
“Thanks SO much, young Buck! How did I ever survive before you came along?”
Anne Nonymous
March 22nd, 2005 at 3:07 pm
Islamorada, you’re right- Anna is obviously preggers, and this is an easy out. I wanted to see the good Dr. Good operate on his own wife (of course, docs don’t usually do this in “real life,” but, hey, this is a comic) and have her die on the table. Perhaps this would be a bit “dark” for Mary Worth, but it would have served that idiot right for all his “I wanna baby” speeches (as if women are only good for making babies).
RememberByronFrost
March 22nd, 2005 at 3:18 pm
Amen Anne!
And sorry, I posted my Rex Morgan comment in the wrong place, in case anyone was confused.
Yaddayadda
March 22nd, 2005 at 5:46 pm
That was beautiful daChipster.
PizzaBagel
March 25th, 2005 at 1:05 am
Re MW of 3/25: Snooping through a medical newsletter in her hubby’s mail has planted the idea that maybe the infertility problem lies with her better half. So if she is in a family way, then can we assume that she has been roadside with another dude?
And if we thought that the painting of the shoreline fence on 3/19 was bad, check out the one of the radio tower. (No, it’s not the Eiffel Tower.) There must be some subliminal symbolism going on with those pictures.
Check out June’s pose in panel #1 of today’s RM,MD. The best I can describe it is she’s thrusting out her breasts at Fence-Post Frank. Must see!