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37 responses to “Questions from the weekend”

1. Dingo
   February 27th, 2006 at 10:27 pm [Reply]

   I, the bunny, am prepared to die. O Death, bring on thy fate for me. Take me away from this horrible, wretched girl. Thy sting can be no worse than the sound of her band.

2. Ralph
   February 27th, 2006 at 10:34 pm [Reply]

   My Dad had a dog that used to get off on shocking itself. It was the 1992 Summer Olympics, my stepmom paid a bunch of money for the multi-cast, and the dog was hell bent on eating the cable running into the house. It would hurt him to the point he would run away and cry, but he kept going back for more. He chewed through a fiberboard we put up over the cable. Prehaps he hated my step-mom. I could happen.

3. Ubiq
   February 27th, 2006 at 11:00 pm [Reply]

   I see Ellie’s been telling Butterscotch about the Qwertyuiop tribe again. I’d try to end it all myself if I were in that situation.

   On the other hand, it does look awfully happy in a couple of those panels and looks completely wasted in that last panel. Maybe it’s the rabbit form of meth.

4. Marc
   February 27th, 2006 at 11:19 pm [Reply]

   Is it true that this bird you cannot chai-yi-ay-yi-ay-yi-ayn?

   I’m having a little trouble understanding? Is it a reference to Chai, the number 18, which is good luch to the Jews? Or…is it a play on “Flying high…?”

5. arto
   February 27th, 2006 at 11:20 pm [Reply]

   Either your sarcasm is more advanced than mine, or y’all don’t know no Skynyrd.

   *flicks lighter*

6. pengoons
   February 28th, 2006 at 12:01 am [Reply]

   Can someone help me with the perspective in the middle panel, last row, of the FBOFW above? Stairs appear out of nowhere, hallway kicks off at a weird angle, either picture or wall or both horribly off-kilter…am I just as addled as the poor bunny or do the Pattersons live in a house designed by MC Escher? Either option would explain quite a bit, I suppose…

7. TDB
   February 28th, 2006 at 12:18 am [Reply]

   I’ve heard of slow cooking a rabbit before…but this is ridiculous.

8. Other_Sally
   February 28th, 2006 at 12:36 am [Reply]

   The running theory over at the livejournal FOOB community is that the bunny is an e-stim enthusiast.

   http://www.sextek.com/faqs-experience.html

9. Some Guy Here
   February 28th, 2006 at 12:41 am [Reply]

   In regards to FBOFW…

   …uhhh, shouldn’t that thing be dead?

10. Mibbitmaker
    February 28th, 2006 at 1:45 am [Reply]

    A3G: In the last few panels, Margo looks more like she’s being little Miss Dramatic, giving her an unsincere look. That aside, she tells the truth here. Again, blink your eyes and you’ll miss it.

    FOOB: First, it was rabbit in the freezer, now it’s electricuted rabbit. Soon enough, Bugs Bunny’s going to show up at Foobville with a stick of dynamite and a can of alum.

    Psychedelic shocks, huh? I blame Blue Cheer, myself. It may be the first comic strip rabbit to appear on “Little Steven’s Underground Garage”.

11. lilybdcsa
    February 28th, 2006 at 1:46 am [Reply]

    Today’s GT!! Ack! The hair styles are out of control!! They look like their hair stylist is a drunken Donald Trump!

12. Sheila
    February 28th, 2006 at 5:11 am [Reply]

    #11, lilybdcsa: It’s okay, they’re transvestites — it’s supposed to look like that.

13. Johan
    February 28th, 2006 at 6:13 am [Reply]

    Ralph says: I could happen.

    But you won’t.

14. GotFuzzy
    February 28th, 2006 at 7:25 am [Reply]

    Ted must have gotten a haircut, or he’s got a button in the middle of his back that retracted his Laura Petrie flip into his scalp like my Fabulous Chrissie doll.

    And is Steve Luhm wearing a marabou boa?

15. micedwhale
    February 28th, 2006 at 8:01 am [Reply]

    Re: #9 I had a rabbit when I was but a wee lad. It chewed on the light cord. When we came home from church he was smoldering. It was really quite horrifying for a small child. Lynn made me die a little inside when I saw her disregard for my Thumper. On the other hand it looked like so much fun that I tried it. I didn’t get no trippy colors though, only a numb tongue.

16. Badly_Computer_Animated_Boy
    February 28th, 2006 at 9:53 am [Reply]

    One wire makes you larger
    And one wire makes you small
    But the ones that Butterscotch chews on
    Are the best ones of all
    Go ask April
    When she’s ten feet tall

17. Tim O\\\\\\\'Neil
    February 28th, 2006 at 9:55 am [Reply]

    Does that Gil Thorpe strip make sense in a language other than English? It’s like three non-sequitors in a row. It’s crazy.

18. Pozzo
    February 28th, 2006 at 9:59 am [Reply]

    I’ve probably heard “Free Bird” 4,200 times over the past 30+ years, and all these times, I thought Ronnie was singing “This bird you cannot CHANGE.” Thanks for setting me straight, Josh. (Though I’m still pretty sure that, just before the interminable guitar duel, he does sing, “Lord, I can’t change,” because “chain” wouldn’t make sense in that context.)

19. MotoMike
    February 28th, 2006 at 10:03 am [Reply]

    Hey, Badly_Computer_Animated_Boy, excellent. I can hear Gracie Slick now.

    Uh-oh … here comes the rest of the sixties. E-Yaaaaa!
    ….
    Whew. Wasn’t it Paul Krassner who said,”If you can remember the Sixties, you weren’t really there”.

20. Josh
    February 28th, 2006 at 10:05 am [Reply]

    Pozzo, you’re right, not me. I made the “change”. Ha! Get it?

    jf

21. Sourbelly
    February 28th, 2006 at 10:41 am [Reply]

    Actually, “chain” makes more sense than “change.” One might, conceivably, chain a bird by the leg so it won’t fly away. But how/why would one change a bird? Change its diaper? Paint it?

22. Sourbelly
    February 28th, 2006 at 10:44 am [Reply]

    #11. Don’t worry. The Mudlark players have all adopted Ted’s hairstyle out of solidarity. Like when team members shave their heads when a teammate is going through chemo.

23. jimbo
    February 28th, 2006 at 11:53 am [Reply]

    It’s definitely change, not chain. You can’t change a bird, it’s always going to be the same.

    Just like you can’t change the fact that Elizabeth’s mountie is going to end up wearing her skin as a mask. That bird ain’t gonna change either.

24. Hysterical Woman
    February 28th, 2006 at 12:43 pm [Reply]

    Actually, it sounds like Margo did a good thing. Better there be no wedding than a messy divorce. Of course, this means she’s out of work.

25. Jim C.
    February 28th, 2006 at 1:32 pm [Reply]

    14,

    I noticed Steve’s boa too. Maybe hanging with Rap Dog has given him a taste for the life of a playa.

26. brendan
    February 28th, 2006 at 1:58 pm [Reply]

    O/T, but does anyone read “Yenny”?
    Alvarez shoudl change the name of the strip to “Cheesecake”.

27. rich
    February 28th, 2006 at 2:37 pm [Reply]

    14: I think that’s actually a gorilla costume.

    Steve Luhm looks a lot like Chad and Jeremy. Or is it Peter and Gordon? I always got them confused.

28. Lady Penelope
    February 28th, 2006 at 5:12 pm [Reply]

    Thanks for posting the Sunday Apt. 3g, which I can’t find on the web. I was worried there that they were making Margo good (always a downer), but I’m relieved to see that she’s still operating purely out of self-interest.

    What up with her middle finger in the last cell? Crikey!

29. Rana
    February 28th, 2006 at 6:08 pm [Reply]

    You can find some Sunday comics (including 3G) at the Houston Chronicle make-your-own-comics-page. Weirdly, they’re not all available on Sunday, but if you load up the page on Monday and hit “previous day” — well, there they are!

30. Lady Penelope
    February 28th, 2006 at 6:53 pm [Reply]

    Thank you for the tip, Rana! That’s awesome!

31. Tom T.
    February 28th, 2006 at 8:16 pm [Reply]

    If Cafe Press were to put that tie-dye electro-bunny panel on a coffee mug, Lynn Johnston would be a billionaire.

    In Canadian dollars, of course, but still….

32. stavner
    February 28th, 2006 at 9:17 pm [Reply]

    Yeah, rabbits will do that.

33. Elizabeth Bilberry
    February 28th, 2006 at 11:41 pm [Reply]

    I saw that FBOFW in the paper and right away I went, “Ahh, the bunny’s getting high!”

    One could say I’m amused easily

34. Steven
    March 1st, 2006 at 12:17 am [Reply]

    1) The bunny is under a table up against the wall, so we are looking at the doorway from very low.

    2) M C Escher was a great architect. I would really enjoy living in any house he designed. Especaily the one with the perpetual motion waterwheel. Take that, Electric CO!

35. Schteve
    March 1st, 2006 at 12:52 am [Reply]

    “margo, bambina –”

    Margo is one of the Sicilian Magees?

    And while I’m posting, what’s the best source for Sunday strips online?

36. Hogenmogen
    March 1st, 2006 at 11:06 am [Reply]

    Why does Lynn Johnson think for one minute that this strip contains one tenth of one chortle (which is one tenth of a guffaw, which is itself one tenth of a chuckle, which is of course one tenth of an actual laugh)? Butterscotch is deliberately zapping herself on the cord. Then April assesses the situation and discerns that Butterscotch is, in fact, deliberately zapping herself. The hum-o-meter did not register.

37. Len
    March 1st, 2006 at 7:07 pm [Reply]

    #35 — There have been allusions to the fact that Margot was adopted. Gabriella was her birth-mother (and apparently, Italian). Margot was brought up by the MaGees, and is passing for Irish.

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