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Sarah can be bought … but not forever

Rex Morgan, M.D., 3/5/10

Say, it’s been a while since we checked in with the refugee-ne’er-do-well wackiness in Rex Morgan, hasn’t it? Today, it seems that Sarah is learning a valuable lesson: that, when you’re in a position of power over someone in a desperate situation, they might give up their most treasured possessions “voluntarily,” just to buy themselves a few more days or hours of survival! This knowledge will come in handy for her future career as a brutal post-apocalyptic warlord.

Unfortunately, Toots is about to learn a similar important lesson as well: when you’re a refugee and not in a position to be economically productive, you only have so many things you can trade away for safety. When Sarah comes back for more — and she will — the pickings will get slimmer, and fast. “Say, little girl, do you want this stripey shirt? All the other kids will think you’re super cool if you’ve got a stripey shirt? Hmm, how about this half-empty paint can? No? Uh … dirty socks? I found some dirty socks over here…”

Barney Google and Snuffy Smith, 3/5/10

As part of my policy about being open and honest with you when normally unfunny comics make me laugh, I admit to being amused that Elviney is reading a publication called Tabloid Doin’s. However, the fact that Loweezy is perusing something with a much more conventional name confounded me a bit, and forces me to conclude that in fact Tabloid Doin’s is some kind of trade magazine detailing the hiring and firing of editors at various tabloid publications. “I don’t care what you say, Loweezy! Ain’t nobody in this latest crop o’ gossip maven ken hold a candle to Bonnie Fuller!”

Gil Thorp, 3/5/10

The Mudlark basketball team has once again failed to even make the playdowns, which I’m frankly glad about, as it allows me to focus more energy on Coach Thorp’s increasingly twee wardrobe. First a sweater vest, now some kind of cardigan, complete with a chunky piping? I love it, Gil!

Shoe, 3/5/10

Roz’s interlocutor is in fact a bird; so, while she shouldn’t be anxious about using her wings to travel through the air, being killed, dismembered, fried, and eaten is a legitimate concern.

Jumble, 3/5/10

I kind of love how enthusiastic this guy is about fresh-ground cheese. “Yes! It adds so much flavor! Look, look at this cheese I’m pointing to, everyone! Oh my God, it completely transforms the dish! Keep adding more! Pile on the cheese! Don’t ever stop!”

Pluggers, 3/5/10

You’re a plugger if the terrifying secret government lab that created the man-animal abomination that you are saved money by grafting variously sized torsos onto identical sets of cloned legs.

This entry was posted on Friday, March 5, 2010 at 01:36 pm and is filed under Barney Google & Snuffy Smith, Gil Thorp, Jumble, Pluggers, Rex Morgan, M.D., Shoe. |

233 responses to “Sarah can be bought … but not forever”

Baka Gaijin
March 5th, 2010 at 1:38 pm [Reply]

Spiderman: To those commenting on how outlandish Spidey’s makeshift costume is, remembering he’s in Miami, under that angel dress he could be wearing a baboon-butt red over sized leather codpiece with hot pink and yellow feathers surrounding the spiderjunk-holder.
Brian
March 5th, 2010 at 1:41 pm [Reply]

It’s not just the jeans…they can wear each other’s bras as well.
Baka Gaijin
March 5th, 2010 at 1:45 pm [Reply]

Mary Worth, panel 2: The snoopcam is doing its job. That howl Dawn and Wilbur just heard is the first in a series of increasingly strong meddlegasms.

@Baka Gaijin (#3): No, Mr. Plugger is at least 2 cups sizes larger.
bats :[
March 5th, 2010 at 1:47 pm [Reply]

But Sarah will have hit the jackpot on so many levels when Toots uncovers Rex’s stash of vintage “health and hygiene magazines” and offers them as a means to buy “just a little more time” in the old root cellar…
zenvelo
March 5th, 2010 at 1:47 pm [Reply]

I think Coach Thorp is going for the Ed Ames/Mingo look…http://tommcmahon.typepad.com/photos/uncategorized/ames.jpg
Sans Sense
March 5th, 2010 at 1:47 pm [Reply]

You’re a Plugger if you’re androgynous… not in the hip way but in a sad, mostly disgusting way.
It's time to pay the price
March 5th, 2010 at 1:53 pm [Reply]

First the Puggers claim the hipsters, now the girl’s-jeans-wearing emos? Dear lord, pretty soon they’ll be big enough to assimilate the yuppies and the mods. Then there will be no hope.
Digger
March 5th, 2010 at 1:58 pm [Reply]

I thought that Pluggers couldn’t fit into any sort of jeans and had to wear sweatpants all the time. Methinks these two are nothing but a couple of Plugger Posers.

GT: I’m loving the “Hulk Smash” sign being held up by a lonely looking fan in panel two. Is it relevant to the game? Probably not. But he’s made the sign and probably wants to show it off. So who am I to question his sanity?
Perky Bird
March 5th, 2010 at 2:01 pm [Reply]

OK, I can see a man an a wife being able to interchange pants because they have the same waist size, or have the same leg lengths, but there is surely some variance in the…uhm…crotchial region, isn’t there? Wouldn’t a man find a woman’s pants a little snug in that department? Or do Plugger women have hideous crotchial bulges that GAAAAAHHH WHY DID I EVEN PICTURE THAT?!
Death to the FOOBS!
March 5th, 2010 at 2:04 pm [Reply]

I like how this 6 year (8 year old? whatever…) can completely manipulate this goofy early-Bob Dylan-lookin’ skater and switch from rigid tattletale to pure lust for an object she likely has no idea how to use.

(Also, how about the eyes on both of them…P2 looks like an outtake from Un Chien Andalou)
edp
March 5th, 2010 at 2:09 pm [Reply]

Ok, if faced with the fill-in-the-blank “you’re a ___ couple if you can wear each other’s jeans,” I’d have said gay. Why is pluggers insulting my people by like that?
edp
March 5th, 2010 at 2:11 pm [Reply]

@edp (#11)</ @edp (#11): Obviously I meant that as a gay, not as a monstrous suburban furry
Taquelli
March 5th, 2010 at 2:11 pm [Reply]

“It’s heavy…but I like it. I could probably crush an esophagus pretty easily with this. Now cough up some real money, you hippie.”
Sans Sense
March 5th, 2010 at 2:19 pm [Reply]

GT: Come on, I wish Marty and Gil would just come out and say it. Milford cannot compete against Tilden’s student-wizard depicted in Panel 2 (who I might add looks a bit like Stiles from “Teen Wolf”).
Red Greenback
March 5th, 2010 at 2:30 pm [Reply]

GT: GO Ñ!
Fashion Police
March 5th, 2010 at 2:30 pm [Reply]

One supposes Plugger fashion principles apply equally to skirts, the point being that just because one can doesn’t mean one should. We shall now retire to a dark room and think about goats – specifically the breeds that produce cashmere. Perhaps we shall go shopping later.
Doc Lemming
March 5th, 2010 at 2:32 pm [Reply]

Ziggy: The cartoonist is aware that there was a show in Canada called Canadian Idol, I hope. For six agonizingly long years, it was a Canadian counterpart to American Idol, hosted by the son of a former Prime Minister.

How sad when even bald pantless dwarfs can accidentally mock Canada. We’ll get all fucked up on hockey and come beat your butts. (A reference to Canadian Stereotype Comics.)
Walker of Dog
March 5th, 2010 at 2:32 pm [Reply]

JP: Henry’s prison time has left him badly warped – even an activity as pastoral as fly fishing is now viewed as a blood sport. He won’t be a welcome addition at the next salmon run.

S-M: I wonder if the artist is trying to downplay the absurdity of the situation where Peter brings his web-shooters but not his costume to Florida. That would explain the lack of an on-panel THWIP.

RMMD: What Sarah has decided to do with the skateboard is adopt it as some sort of pet or surrogate baby – aww. Little does she know that it’s been CURSED (although she really should be able to infer that, having met its previous owner). And now she’s getting schmutz on her hoodie from cuddling it too close. CURSED!
bats :[
March 5th, 2010 at 2:38 pm [Reply]

@Walker of Dog (#18): re JP: what you say about Henry may be true, but honestly, wouldn’t you pay to see him going mano-a-mano with a grizzly over a big ol’ salmon?
Patrick
March 5th, 2010 at 2:39 pm [Reply]

I think Gil Thorp is just an artist’s exercise in seeing how many different patterns you can put in a 2″X2″ square as closely together as possible before it just turns completely black.
Trae Dorn
March 5th, 2010 at 2:46 pm [Reply]

Maybe it’s just the creepy way the artist draws his expression, but I can’t help but think that Toot’s is aiming to get himself sat down in an empty house’s kitchen with Chris Hanson and a Dateline camera crew.
Walker of Dog
March 5th, 2010 at 2:53 pm [Reply]

@bats :[ (#19): Absolutely, unless I was watching on pay-per-view – I don’t see that fight going multiple rounds. Based on his weight class, Henry would probably be more evenly matched if he cut out the middleman, waded into the stream and started punching the passing salmon.
Matt Algren
March 5th, 2010 at 2:56 pm [Reply]

So that’s what sex is like in the Winkerverse. It’s not quite as morose as I’d expected.
Ant
March 5th, 2010 at 2:57 pm [Reply]

You’re a plugger if the terrifying secret government lab that created the man-animal abomination that you are saved money by grafting variously sized torsos onto identical sets of cloned legs.

That sentence is incredibly difficult to parse.
Violet
March 5th, 2010 at 2:59 pm [Reply]

I used to read Gil Thorp fairly regularly as a child, and I can well remember looking up from the paper with wistful, saucer-like eyes, saying “Daddy, will Milford ever win a game?” And he, not wanting to crush my fragile dreams, would gently assure me that the Mudlarks were due for a win around the turn of the millennium, which of course to my childish imagination seemed impossibly far away. Well, I’ve been very patient with you, Gil Thorp, but it’s 2010 and I’m pushing forty; what the fuck??!!
Mibbitmaker
March 5th, 2010 at 3:00 pm [Reply]

@bats :[ (#19):

Caption: “The grizzly doesn’t understand Henry’s hostility.”
Naked Bunny with a Whip
March 5th, 2010 at 3:00 pm [Reply]

You’re also a plugger couple if you can wear each other’s shoes, but the other pluggers will kick you of the church.
Naked Bunny with a Whip
March 5th, 2010 at 3:01 pm [Reply]

You’re also a plugger couple if you can wear each other’s shoes, but the other pluggers will kick you out of church services.
Darkefang
March 5th, 2010 at 3:11 pm [Reply]

9CL: I guess if I’m going to figure out what exactly is supposed to be significant about the goings on in 9 Chickweed Lane, I need to find someone fluent in pretentious hackery to translate for me.
bourbon babe, unbuckled
March 5th, 2010 at 3:14 pm [Reply]

Josh: “Stripey shirt”? Has “stripey shirt” now truly entered the CC vernacular?

This is the proudest day of my life.
gnome de blog
March 5th, 2010 at 3:22 pm [Reply]

@Darkefang (#29): Pretentious hackery, McEldowney style, is so obscurantist that no one but Brooke himself can translate it, leaving him secure in the delusion that he is a superior being. He should be shivering in the fear that the Didactic Duo will someday find him worthy of their attention.
AndyL
March 5th, 2010 at 3:23 pm [Reply]

I don’t understand today’s Hagar The Horrible.

Since Hagar is a viking warrior whose goal should be to die in glorious combat to get to Valhalla, is he depressed at the idea of world piece? Is that the joke?
HB Glord
March 5th, 2010 at 3:24 pm [Reply]

Shoe: Awww, isn’t that cute — she thinks we think she’s people!
Dr. Weird
March 5th, 2010 at 3:28 pm [Reply]

@AndyL (#32):

Regarding Hagar, Fred Basset has shown that for a well-established legacy strip, jokes are entirely optional. By just drawing some pictures and having some words instead of spending that extra effort on humor, there’s more time to go down to the golf course and have drinks at the club afterwards!
dale
March 5th, 2010 at 3:32 pm [Reply]

Josh
If you want to risk sending me a USPS type address, I’ll send you the two pages of Chicago Trib commics I have from 5/14/90. Back then, Gil could keep his eyes open. (The e-mail address I’m using is a real one that I actually check.)
Josh
March 5th, 2010 at 3:38 pm [Reply]

@Ant (#24): I know, but I was kind of in love with the formulation “man-animal abomination that you are.” How about:

You’re a plugger if the terrifying secret government lab that created your race of man-animal abominations saved money by grafting variously sized torsos onto identical sets of cloned legs.
dale
March 5th, 2010 at 3:42 pm [Reply]

Mark Trail

The senator might not want to call the cops about the dust-up with the Parker brothers. He really wasn’t on any kind of official business. Also, he could be forced to admit that he started a fight and lost.

3/5
Panel 2 needs “That’s Mr. Trail to you, Buzzy.” or do all forest rangers and ranger wannabe’s know each other?
In panel 3, Mark looks like he’s running for election.
Dragon of Life
March 5th, 2010 at 4:00 pm [Reply]

A brief skim of Gil Thorp had me believing that the team was being soundly defeated by a tilde. Go ~!
Baron Bizarre
March 5th, 2010 at 4:08 pm [Reply]

@edp (#12):

Didn’t Doctor Who fight the Monstrous Suburban Furries? If he didn’t, he should!
Baron Bizarre
March 5th, 2010 at 4:09 pm [Reply]

@Doc Lemming (#17): We?ll get all fucked up on hockey and come beat your butts.

But you just did that last weekend!
skullcrusherjones
March 5th, 2010 at 4:12 pm [Reply]

Toots will give anyway anything to make sure he’s not caught… except his hair product. He may be hiding in someone’s basement but he’s hiding in someone’s basement with style!
BRWombat
March 5th, 2010 at 4:15 pm [Reply]

We are one step closer to the day when we learn that Pluggers flat-out enjoy cross-dressing.
cj
March 5th, 2010 at 4:20 pm [Reply]

Thorp:
@Digger (#8): Also digging the Hulk Smash sign. Just think of it now: “After exposure to gamma rays at a government lab in New Mexico, physicist Bruce Banner becomes the Incredible Hulk, an emerald titan powered by rage! Rage that can no longer be held back after Tilden’s latest victory!” …and he’d bust through the gym walls, tearing up the stands and maiming Marty Moon. But no, all we get is: “Most teams would.”

Rex:
Sarah a “Post-apocalyptic Warlord”? As the offspring of June Morgan, we can expect no less.
cj
March 5th, 2010 at 4:23 pm [Reply]

@BRWombat (#42): Yes, but nothing tasteful – only as frumpy housewives.
Aviatrix
March 5th, 2010 at 4:30 pm [Reply]

@astroboy (Y205): It’s a cultural observation about the fickle self-centred prejudice of the Anglo-Saxon ruling class, not a condemnation of any whom it ever chose to exclude. People are weird. Did you know there used to be prejudice against people who wore eyeglasses?
LUJBEM FEJF
March 5th, 2010 at 4:31 pm [Reply]

Jumble- “Give us a bottle of your finest Champagne, five shrimp cocktails, and some bread for my brother.”
Josh, Do you have any idea how expensive cheese is? Especially Parmigiano-Reggiano? That guy’s gonna ask for a doggie bag for the FREE cheese. “Ooh, they also have SALT! Iodized no less. That really packs a punch to this dish” “And look at that! Fancy Catchup…….fannnncy!
Nomi
March 5th, 2010 at 4:31 pm [Reply]

BC: Just walk away. Don’t make eye contact with it. Don’t acknowledge the “joke.” Just…walk away.

Dennis the Menace: Dear Satan, My Name is Dennis’ Shadow, and I haven’t been to confession in three years. I have sinned in the following ways: I haven’t done anything menacing in a nine months…

Manic highs! Crippling lows! Today’s Crankshaft and Funky Winkerbean have been brought to you by the American Pharmaceutical Association.

Beetle Bailey: You’re a Plugger if — no wait you’re a U.S. Army General — if you and your wife are both too drunk to drive to some bloody Lions Club dinner.

Lockhorns: For the first time in 18 years, Leroy acknowledges Loretta’s ass.

Mark Trail: Hi! I’m a polite, competent law enforcement figure working benevolently with a respected political figure! In Bizarre-o-verse, crime solves us!

Spider-Man: “Who are you?” / “I’m Freeballin’ Man.”

Crock: … Just walk away. Don’t make eye contact with it. Don’t acknowledge the “joke.” Just…walk away.

Marmaduke: Marmaduke ate the Jesus.
Ned Ryerson
March 5th, 2010 at 4:31 pm [Reply]

@Digger (#8):

Allow me to direct you to This Week in Milford’s post from a few weeks ago to illuminate the Hulk reference.
Perky Bird
March 5th, 2010 at 4:42 pm [Reply]

@LUJBEM FEJF (#46): But if it were really fancy, it would be spelled “ketchup”.
Charlene
March 5th, 2010 at 4:43 pm [Reply]

@Baka Gaijin (#1):

Still unrealistic. If someone dressed like that showed up in Miami, the cops wouldn’t bat an eye.
AmazingThor
March 5th, 2010 at 4:44 pm [Reply]

FW: Whew! For a second there I though Becky and Wally had bored each other to death.

Gil: Maybe they’re losing to Tilden because their coach is off fielding questions about why he’s losing to Tilden.

S-M: What’s he got on under that robe? Whatever it is, the Miami Fire Department just got a good look at it.

Zits: I call gratuitous use of the word ‘urine’! I don’t think any actual human has ever uttered the phrase “urine tested.” Sorry, we would have accepted “drug test” or “pee in a cup.” Thanks for playing and please come back next week on “Comic Strip Dialogue that sounds even remotely human.”
queek, source of Cuteness, Kawaii Commando
March 5th, 2010 at 4:47 pm [Reply]

@edp (#12):

They aren’t mutually exclusive, y’know. If you’ve ever seen the one existent Plugger Rule 34, then you’ll understand.

You’ll also want to drown your brain in vodka, light it, and then bleach the remains afterwords. just sayin. o_O.
Lou Shumaker
March 5th, 2010 at 4:48 pm [Reply]

GT: I’m especially digging Gil’s response to Radio McDrunkey’s non-question. “Why, yes, I am incapable of devising a game plan that would minimize my opponent’s strengths and enable us to win a game. What am I, a coach? Let me rephrase that ….”
Dentuck
March 5th, 2010 at 4:55 pm [Reply]

Barney Google: Loweezy would have said the same thing if Elviney were reading the New York Times, thanks to her daily diet of Limbaugh, Hannity, and Beck.

“Drive-by media! State-run media! B’gawk!”
Dingo, the Essence of Purity and Virtue Incarnate™
March 5th, 2010 at 4:58 pm [Reply]

Before this series is over, Sawah is going to have Toots naked, with a broom handle stuck up his ass, juggling Barbie dolls.

In Goebbels had been a little girl, Sawah would have been a role model.
queek, source of Cuteness, Kawaii Commando
March 5th, 2010 at 5:01 pm [Reply]

There’s an interesting story here. Or maybe its just two pics of cute aminals.
queek, source of Cuteness, Kawaii Commando
March 5th, 2010 at 5:03 pm [Reply]

here.

/fail.
Lanfranc
March 5th, 2010 at 5:04 pm [Reply]

MW: No, Person Who Writes Mary Worth! That is not right! You had the perfect opportunity to set off the bombshell that Wilbur, contrary to everyone’s assumptions, is in fact Kurt’s father, thus setting the stage for a hilarious comedy of errors in the best tradition of Italian opera. Instead, we’ll just get more pointless moping around by uninteresting characters nobody cares about. Yay.

RMMD: There was a time when I didn’t really like Sarah very much, but I must admit this slide into outright corruption is both very endearing and quite refreshing compared to her parent’s horribly bland personalities. I’m already looking forward to how she’ll explain where she got a custom-made skateboard from.
Oavis
March 5th, 2010 at 5:06 pm [Reply]

Reading “Pluggers” is like being under mortar fire and hearing them get closer and closer with every salvo. My wife has indeed appropriated a pair of my jeans for her own use, and yet in every other conceivable way I swear on all that’s holy we do not plug, have never plugged and will take any measure necessary to avoid plugging at any point in the future.

Unless “plugging” is a not-so-subtle euphemism for doin’ it, in which case up is down, black is white and everything I’ve ever known is wrong.
Ed Dravecky
March 5th, 2010 at 5:08 pm [Reply]

Toots’ plan to remain hidden will fail because 1) Sarah has no way to conceal the skateboard, 2) June will detect his life signs with her tricorder, and 3) Abby just took the only food he’s had in days. He’ll be found out by nightfall (aka “late May 2010″).
HB Glord
March 5th, 2010 at 5:15 pm [Reply]

@Aviatrix (#45): Recommended reading on this very topic: the admittedly provocative How the Irish Became White, by Noel Ignatiev.
KarMann
March 5th, 2010 at 5:18 pm [Reply]

@queek, source of Cuteness, Kawaii Commando (#57): The story behind the pictures.

In other news, today’s Blondie has me wondering whether it’s worse to find that you have something in common with Pluggers or with Dagwood. I’m known for wearing a hat much like the one in today’s strip, except black. On the other hand, it’s hardly “a new look” for me; been doing it for about two decades now, with occasional hiati.
Fashion Police
March 5th, 2010 at 5:21 pm [Reply]

We were reminded by seeing Mrs. Merrill Magee’s frightening buttercup-yellow coat that we have been intending to mention that our favorite reclamation project, Miss Abigail Thompson, has indeed undergone a slight but significant makeover. Yes, there’s the same old dull-as-industrial-carpet hair, and she can’t get rid of those stodgy church-lady blouses, and she probably still wears earth shoes. However, she has abandoned dingy scrubs-green for primary colors! Kelly green! Electric blue! Yes, Miss Thompson, there is within you a tiny spark of your glamorous past.

We note also that the receptionist that Mrs. Merrill Magee is browbeating is quite casually dressed for a fancy uptown law office. No wonder she doesn’t have the gumption to stand up to the pushier clients.
Alfred E. Neuman
March 5th, 2010 at 5:24 pm [Reply]

FW— This strip is normally a slough of despond, but now it is presenting a slew of despond. I think I’m ready for queek’s remedy (@ #52) of potato-ade and brain bleach. Does potato-ade come in chocolate?
vanya
March 5th, 2010 at 5:25 pm [Reply]

Shoe: Birds talking about fear of flying and airplanes? Obviously Roz’s interlocutor has a fear of getting sucked into the jet engine of a passing 757. Seems reasonable enough. Outside that diner the denizens of Shoe live in a world of terrifying machines, random cruelty and painful death. The real horror is that the birds are just self-aware enough to understand this, but powerless by their bird nature to change.
UncleJeff
March 5th, 2010 at 5:27 pm [Reply]

Annie: Ladies and gentlemen, an actual sighting of Annie in her eponymous comic strip. And not just Annie, but Sandy and Oliver Warbucks! And an actual “Leapin’ Lizards”! (But where did Annie get that swim suit?)

Love Is: staring at her as she comes out of the bathroom.
Perky Bird
March 5th, 2010 at 5:28 pm [Reply]

@Alfred E. Neuman (#64): No, potato-ade doesn’t come in chocolate, but you could add a squirt of Hershey’s syrup, if you like.
mustang
March 5th, 2010 at 5:39 pm [Reply]

This is a serious question. What seems like many many years ago, I recall that Wilbur was chatting with Mary at a pool party about the challenges of “learning” Facebook and such. I have not been reading the strip long enough to know the train wreck known as Wilbur as intimately as I would like to. Didn’t Mary ask him about some woman? And Wilbur said she was away. Who is the woman? Is it Wilbur’s wife or best girl or what?
Fashion Police
March 5th, 2010 at 5:41 pm [Reply]

@KarMann (#62):
Hats aren’t as bad as bow ties:, but it is far too easy to look silly in one, as Mr. Bumstead so capably demonstrates. As he is one of the relatively few who can actually manage a bow tie, we are rather shocked at his poor taste in hats.

We have no doubt, Ms.(?) KarMann, that your taste in hearwear is as appropriate and discriminating as your commentary.
Bootsy
March 5th, 2010 at 5:44 pm [Reply]

@Red Greenback (#15):

I will admit shamefacedly after I stop laughing that Red Greenback is my hero.
AMC
March 5th, 2010 at 5:45 pm [Reply]

MW – Of course, the joke is that Kurt actually swabbed Dawn’s toothbrush….
queek, source of Cuteness, Kawaii Commando
March 5th, 2010 at 5:49 pm [Reply]

@KarMann (#62): I loved that show. :-D
Fashion Police
March 5th, 2010 at 5:51 pm [Reply]

@mustang (#68):
We believe that Iris, the woman in question, is Mr. Weston’s neighbor and companion and that their relationship may be an amorous one. Iris, is, we recall, off on extended visit to relatives far from the cosy confines of Charterstone.

She may also be the mother of Mr. Tommy the Tweaker, whose saga took place duing our own long hiatus from the adventures of Mrs. Worth. Mr. Tweaker is currently serving time in the Santa Royale correctonal facility for drug-related offenses.

We are confident but not certain our description is correct, but we will humbly defer to others who may have more personal knowledge of events from several years ago.
Little Guy
March 5th, 2010 at 5:51 pm [Reply]

@zenvelo (#5):

Never took Coach Thorp as a moil.

Oh well, with Milford out of the playdowns, they can wrap up this storyline for baseball season, which starts in June according to the strip timing.
Bootsy
March 5th, 2010 at 5:53 pm [Reply]

@HB Glord (#61):

Hey, HB Glord! Good to see you again!
KarMann
March 5th, 2010 at 5:55 pm [Reply]

@Fashion Police (#69): “They call me MISTER KarMann!” But I understand the confusion, due to similarity to Carmen. Been using this nick almost as long as the hat, now, so it’s hardly the first time.
ElkMeadow
March 5th, 2010 at 6:02 pm [Reply]

@skullcrusherjones (#41):

I am reminded of “Oh Brother, Where Art Thou?”

Would Toots be “a Dapper Dan man”?
H-Bob
March 5th, 2010 at 6:04 pm [Reply]

@AmazingThor (#51): I always liked the phrase “pee narc” from The Drew Carey Show !
fnord3125
March 5th, 2010 at 6:10 pm [Reply]

oh dear gods, Josh? are you telling me that i’m a plugger!? why couldn’t you let me continue to live in blissful, unnatural, ignorance?
JD
March 5th, 2010 at 6:16 pm [Reply]

Josh: The cheese being grated, not ground. Technically, it’s not being sprinkled, either, but grated over the pasta.

I would have thought, based on the jokes, that “Jumble” would have a deeper understanding of all things cheesy, but apparently not.
Wraith
March 5th, 2010 at 6:17 pm [Reply]

“This knowledge will come in handy for her future career as a brutal post-apocalyptic warlord.”

Anybody else picturing Marvin as Master Blaster to Sarah’s Aunty Entity?
Fashion Police
March 5th, 2010 at 6:22 pm [Reply]

@KarMann (#76):
Our deepest apologies, sir!
Howland Al
March 5th, 2010 at 6:23 pm [Reply]

RMMD: What the hell is happening to that little girl’s head in panel three? She’s clearly so excited to receive what appears to be a mid-’70s Variflex covered in grip-tape that her brain is attempting escape; or her perhaps her avarice is warping the very fabric of reality.

Look out! Hijinks will ensue! Dogs and cats! Rex seeing patients!
dale
March 5th, 2010 at 6:24 pm [Reply]

Shoe

I’ve read read the definition on many occasions and always come away unsure, but isn’t Roz the interlocutor? Assuming Roz is the one behind the counter.
Walker of Dog
March 5th, 2010 at 6:28 pm [Reply]

Josh, you’ve outed yourself as a ~ booster. Marty said the loss would “all but” eliminate Milford from the Big Dance, so they’re not dead yet (well, their hands are, but that’s it). The key questions: Can Gil rally the team to fight their way off the bubble and into the playdowns? Will they fall just short and end up in the play-sideways NIT tournament? Can Gil look any more dapper? Hulk Smash?
firedmyass
March 5th, 2010 at 6:31 pm [Reply]

So basically, you’re a plugger couple if absolutely no one else on Earth would ever want to f__k you.
gnome de blog
March 5th, 2010 at 6:34 pm [Reply]

@JD (#80):

***JUMBLE SPOILER ALERT!!!!***

According to the Law of the Jumble using a word incorrectly in the clue is a lesser offense than using a form of the word that’s also in the solution. Hence the misuse of the word “ground.”

Care to comment, LUBJEM?
HB Glord
March 5th, 2010 at 6:39 pm [Reply]

@Bootsy (#75): Back atcha, Bootsy! Good to be back, cher!
Alfred E. Neuman
March 5th, 2010 at 6:42 pm [Reply]

@Perky Bird (#67): Great idea! In fact, screw the potato-ade and brain bleach, I’ll just chug mass quantities of chocolate syrup.
zerowolf
March 5th, 2010 at 6:50 pm [Reply]

Pluggers: I’m pretty sure that caption is a typo and should been “You’re a Plugger couple if you have the same genes.”
zerowolf
March 5th, 2010 at 6:54 pm [Reply]

FW: I never realized Wally was such a lothario. He just stares at a woman and she exclaims she’s coming.
Chyron HR
March 5th, 2010 at 7:09 pm [Reply]

Jumble – Uh, I’m pretty sure the diner said, “It adds so much flavor”. It’s written right there. Try to make the puzzle harder next time, Aragorn.
queek, source of Cuteness, Kawaii Commando
March 5th, 2010 at 7:10 pm [Reply]

@zerowolf (#90): win. Not sure if its COTW level, but it’s pretty darn spiffy as far as I’m concerned. :-)
commodorejohn
March 5th, 2010 at 7:11 pm [Reply]

Today’s Pluggers reminds me of a temp job I had not so very long ago. One of my coworkers there was…nearly indescribable, really. This person was about 60, moderately obese and wrinkly, smelled like cheese (not like “bad hygiene cheesy,” like actual cheese,) dressed neutrally, and was completely devoid of secondary sex characteristics. Even the voice was neutral, inasmuch as it sounded more like a 12-year-old boy’s rather than any adult voice I’d ever heard. It took me a full week to figure out that this person was spoiler.

Of course, the difference is that my coworker was actually a pretty pleasant sort, and enjoyed talking about classic Star Trek, Led Zeppelin, and a variety of other interesting stuff, whereas I imagine if you mentioned anything of the sort to the featured Pluggers, they’d snub their bloated Farley noses at you and walk off to somewhere where they wouldn’t have to suffer any mention of the hideously corrupt post-’40s popular culture.
gnome de blog
March 5th, 2010 at 7:11 pm [Reply]

@zerowolf (#91): That’s a float rider, at least.
Muffaroo
March 5th, 2010 at 7:27 pm [Reply]

@Nomi (#47): Marmaduke – “He ate the Baby Jesus!” (yesterthread)
Joe Blevins
March 5th, 2010 at 7:33 pm [Reply]

GT: I was disappointed to find out Milford was playing a school called Tilden because for a second there, I thought someone in the audience was expressing his support of the tilde, perhaps a member of “Generation Ñ.”
bman
March 5th, 2010 at 7:34 pm [Reply]

You’re a Plugger if you sometimes forget whether you’re the husband or the wife.
Jimmyleg Jehosephat
March 5th, 2010 at 7:35 pm [Reply]

Reading Gil Thorpe is like swallowing drier lint. It’s just me. Right?
commodorejohn
March 5th, 2010 at 7:38 pm [Reply]

@Jimmyleg Jehosephat (#99): I thought reading Gil Thorp was more like swallowing a 12-dimensional spacetime anomaly.
Jamus The Bartender
March 5th, 2010 at 7:45 pm [Reply]

FOOB: Lawrence is complaining about having an itch he can’t scratch. Yeah, that’s not the least bit creepy, or ironic. Foreshadowing….your cue to quality literature.
Jamus The Bartender
March 5th, 2010 at 7:50 pm [Reply]

Spider-Man: I’m just praying the Saint of Killers from Preacher (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_of_killers#Saint_of_Killers < there's a link, fyi) will show up to put a few rounds or ten into Peter's pasty hide, putting him out of his misery. And our's.
Jamus The Bartender
March 5th, 2010 at 7:57 pm [Reply]

RMMD: Hm. Toots is smarter than i’ve given him credit for being. He could become something of a modern day Anne Frank, hiding from Rex and June indefinitely, living on peanut butter sandwiches for years. The only difference is that while Anne Frank was a young girl on the cusp of womanhood during a time of war, tribulation, sadness and senseless death, Toots is a major douche.
Jamus The Bartender
March 5th, 2010 at 7:59 pm [Reply]

My Cage: So….the My Cage gang live in Jersey? I did not know this. That is so cool. Ed, I bet you could talk Kevin Smith into a crossover with Jay and Silent Bob. I mean, he’s had a rough time on airplanes of late and could use the positive reinforcement……
Jamus The Bartender
March 5th, 2010 at 8:00 pm [Reply]

Mary Worth: Wilbur !! Wilbur, it’s over man. It’s Chinatown, let it go !!
Jamus The Bartender
March 5th, 2010 at 8:02 pm [Reply]

JP: Henry….you really don’t wanna mention “spending the rest of your days fly-fishing” while in a men’s correctional facility. You really don’t.
mustang
March 5th, 2010 at 8:03 pm [Reply]

@Fashion Police (#73): Thank you. I’m imagining what sort of entity would love up on the “Bur”, and am now unabashedly excited to see this troll-like creature with fangs and weeping boils covering most of its body.
Jamus The Bartender
March 5th, 2010 at 8:04 pm [Reply]

FW: …………coming…..
Jamus The Bartender
March 5th, 2010 at 8:06 pm [Reply]

DtM: Wow. Today’s strip colored by Lynn Varley, who also did Sin City, if i’m not mistaken.
Fashion Police
March 5th, 2010 at 8:11 pm [Reply]

@mustang (#107):
We can only recall seeing Iris once or twice in passing. We fear you will be disappointed, but not too much.
KarMann
March 5th, 2010 at 8:19 pm [Reply]

FW: And by the way, aside from everything else (not) going on here, what is up with Becky’s Incredible Shrinking Face between the first pair of panels and the third panel?
Écureuil Écumant
March 5th, 2010 at 8:28 pm [Reply]

RMMRSA: Yeah, those are top-of-the-line skateboard wheels — circa 1965. A whole inch wide and made of clay. Big bux on ebay.
bats :[
March 5th, 2010 at 8:57 pm [Reply]

@Jamus The Bartender (#106): @Jamus The Bartender (#105): Rather, “It’s Charterstone.”
queek, source of Cuteness, Kawaii Commando
March 5th, 2010 at 9:11 pm [Reply]

@Jamus The Bartender (#104): the mind, it boggles.

Violet + Jay: sex into the third trimester + dead Jay.

Silent Bob & Jeff, somehow on the same wavelength of Zen.

Norm knowing what a “Dutch Rudder” is, while Maureen doesn’t.

Jeff, totally baffled by Randal and Dante’s banter, when all he wants is a bagel with lox.

Serendipity and Ashley. . . . . *swoon*
queek, source of Cuteness, Kawaii Commando
March 5th, 2010 at 9:23 pm [Reply]

oh, and this and this.
Jamus The Bartender
March 5th, 2010 at 9:45 pm [Reply]

@queek, source of Cuteness, Kawaii Commando (#114): I am ashamed to admit that I had to look up “dutch rudder”…..The More You Know.
queek, source of Cuteness, Kawaii Commando
March 5th, 2010 at 9:51 pm [Reply]

@Jamus The Bartender (#116): It’s from “Josh & Miri” so perhaps less well known than the earlier classics. ;-)
Gabe
March 5th, 2010 at 9:58 pm [Reply]

Josh: Ah, so you have seen my one-man show “This man, this pasta topping.”
mr 12 oz can
March 5th, 2010 at 9:59 pm [Reply]

maryworth – hey dawn you got a big mouth
rex morgan – making sarah look 17 in last panal thats creepy

gil thorp – what the hell was the final score
Bitter Scribe
March 5th, 2010 at 10:24 pm [Reply]

If “Tabloid Doin’s” were really “some kind of trade magazine detailing the hiring and firing of editors at various tabloid publications,” who would advertise in it? Libel lawyers? Suppliers of telephoto lenses?
Muffaroo
March 5th, 2010 at 10:33 pm [Reply]

Speaking of tabloid doin’s, I happened to notice that Google Books has a magazine section, with years of scanned Popular Science magazines, and LIFE… and Weekly World News (among others). You can’t download them, though screen snaps seem to work well enough.
NoahSnark
March 5th, 2010 at 10:39 pm [Reply]

Snuffy Smith surprised me today. I was under the impression that the folks in Hootin’ Holler thought literacy as a venereal disease you caught when you didn’t sleep with your cousin.
mejulb
March 5th, 2010 at 10:41 pm [Reply]

@JD (#80):
Referring to the cheese as grated would give away the killer pun in the solution.
Peanut Gallery
March 5th, 2010 at 10:50 pm [Reply]

Gil Thorp – You lost to Tilden? No worries. The Electoral College will wrangle over it for a while, then ultimately a special commission will award the victory to Milford. Oops, no, that was Rutherford. Sorry.
Muffaroo
March 5th, 2010 at 10:52 pm [Reply]

History repeats itself. The first time as comedy. The second time as tragedy. The third time as Gil Thorp.
HAMMY THE SQUIRREL!
March 5th, 2010 at 10:57 pm [Reply]

YEA!!
I’M STERILE!
Red Greenback
March 5th, 2010 at 10:58 pm [Reply]

Hazel T. Van Syckel and the Cloned Legs is a great name for a band.
Farley's Revenge
March 5th, 2010 at 11:44 pm [Reply]

@commodorejohn (#94):

If anyone even looks like they’re about to snub my nose, their name would go from “Plugger” to “plugged.”
Farley's Revenge
March 5th, 2010 at 11:47 pm [Reply]

Sorry about the mangled verb tenses. I fling myself upon the mercy of the Didactic Duo. Or would bourbon and chocolate be better to fling at them to buy time for me to enroll in a bonehead grammar course?
Matt Algren
March 5th, 2010 at 11:59 pm [Reply]

@mustang (#68): re: Wilbur’s missing lady companion, Iris is his girlfriend, but not Dawn’s mother. Wilbur and his ex-wife apparently divorced when Dawn was still a child, as evidenced by the strip from October 29, 2005 during a four month (Oct. 24, 2005 – March 12, 2006) story arc about Wilbur being sued by a reader of “Ask Wendy”, the newspaper advice column he writes.

Incidentally, that particular storyline featured several weeks of Wilbur reading letters to himself, which is almost as riveting as several weeks of cramming white bread into his mouth while surfing the facebook.

. . .

Why no, I did not spend an hour combing through the Mary Worth archives last week trying to figure out who Iris was. Whatever would give you that idea?
Uncle Lumpy
March 6th, 2010 at 12:04 am [Reply]

@Matt Algren (#130):

Comic Strip Archive is a mitzvah, and its admin the patron saint of OCD comics fans everywhere.
Super King
March 6th, 2010 at 12:30 am [Reply]

Wait, they can read in………wherever Barney Google takes place?

I’m astounded because it doesn’t fit the hillbilly stereotype.
HAMMY THE SQUIRREL!
March 6th, 2010 at 12:52 am [Reply]

TEN LITTLE KNOW FACTS!
1. BARNEY GOOGLE DOESN’T GOOGLE!
2. DICK TRACY DOES NOT TRACE DICKS!
3. DAGWOOD IS NOT MAKE OF WOOD NOR HAS HE ANY DAG!
4. BEETLE BAILEY IS NOT A BEETLE!
5. REX MORGAN IS NOT A KING! BUT HE DOES HAVE AN ORGAN IN HIS NAME!
6. MARY WORTH IS ACTUALLY WORTHLESS!
7. ZIGGY HAS A TWIN BROTHER NAMED ZAGGY! (ZAGGY’S GOT PANTS!)
8. ZIPPY THE PINHEAD IS BUFF UNDER THE MUMU! (I ONCE CRAWLED UP HIS LEG… HE DIDN’T EVEN FLINCH!)
9. CAP’N CRUNCH IS SOGGY!
10. HAMMY THE SQUIRREL IS NOT MADE OF HAM! BUT HE IS SMOKIN’!
Kibo
March 6th, 2010 at 1:00 am [Reply]

I’m still concerned that the Jumble is sending secret messages to our nation’s space aliens.

PRYAT SOGEO ROTHEX AREETA AREETA AREETA transmission ends 000000000000 beep

The Junior Jumble exists just to throw off any children who might be sleuthing the case for their clue clubs. Children are our nation’s defense against our nation’s space aliens.

Do not suspect me, I can prove I am human by solving any Jumble in 0.0003 seconds real time.
ElkMeadow
March 6th, 2010 at 1:37 am [Reply]

How long is it going to be before Wally finds out his gun is missing? How long before ~~Chunky~~ Funky lets him know that he has the gun?

How many more guns does Wally have? And how soon before he starts using them?
Ned Ryerson
March 6th, 2010 at 1:56 am [Reply]

@HAMMY THE SQUIRREL! (#133): Thanks HAMMY, that made my day (already).
Jimmy crack corn
March 6th, 2010 at 2:30 am [Reply]

And I don’t care.
Jimmy crack corn
March 6th, 2010 at 2:31 am [Reply]

And I still don’t care.
Jimmy crack corn
March 6th, 2010 at 2:32 am [Reply]

I just don’t f***ing care!
My master's gone away
March 6th, 2010 at 2:33 am [Reply]

Rats.
Donkey Hotey
March 6th, 2010 at 2:34 am [Reply]

Deep Blue Funky Winkerbean: After surviving what was beyond any doubt the worst week of my life at work, today’s panels one and two made me seriously consider shooting myself in the head.
notapipe
March 6th, 2010 at 2:39 am [Reply]

I am happy for this continuing hipster/Plugger fusion. I look forward to strips proclaiming that “You’re a Plugger if the only apparel you wear is american,” and a host of jokes about how Pluggers were into everything before Stephen Malkmus was even born. Plus, there can be strips about how Plugger wives always make sure their Plugger husbands shirts have the proper amount of iron-y before they leave the house.
bourbon babe, unbuckled
March 6th, 2010 at 3:16 am [Reply]

@Farley’s Revenge (#129): Bourbon and chocolate will buy you time, and much more, my dear.
Ed Dravecky
March 6th, 2010 at 3:23 am [Reply]

3/6 Blondie: I’m not bothered that Elmo thinks Dagwood can “rake in a small fortune” on eBay by selling a boom box, a bird cage, a CRT monitor, and assorted old newspapers. I am wondering why Dagwood was leading Elmo up to the attic for no apparent reason. Dagwood having both his hands in his pants in panel one does not make this scenario any less troubling.
Ed Dravecky
March 6th, 2010 at 3:36 am [Reply]

Really, Gil Thorp narration box? You show Cassie only from boob to butt then introduce her with “…and Steve Luhm gets the trash.” For shame, Gil Thorp narration box. For shame!
Ed Dravecky
March 6th, 2010 at 3:46 am [Reply]

3/6 One Big Happy: Ruthie’s dad has a copy of Dick Whittington and His Terrible, No-Good Childhood and he’s reading it as a bedtime story? Who knew that adapting Mad Men for kids in storybook form would be so lucrative?

(Changing the boy’s name from Dick Whitman to avoid licensing issues was a stroke of genius.)
dale
March 6th, 2010 at 3:49 am [Reply]

Mark Trail

So the most efficient way for Mark and Buzzy to get to the north end of the lake is to paddle a canoe? And when they get there they will find water. Canoes don’t work all that well on land. Not to worry, the Parkers will be happy to lend them some horses or ATVs, also: cameras, guns, metal detectors, tracking dogs, lunch, toilet paper.
Jason1981
March 6th, 2010 at 4:08 am [Reply]

3/6

reFOOB: He thinks you’re an idiot for asking his dumbass sister what he thinks.

Curtis: Well, Barry, unlike you, at least he’s likeable SOME times. You, on the other hand, can go jump into a volcano.

Luann: “You Aussies. Always eating kangaroos and wrestling crodocdiles while yelling ’she’s a lil beauty, in’t she! ”

“You yanks….so effing stupid and ignorant. No wait, that’s just the strip’s writer..”

S-M: “Or you could say it was someone escaped from the mental hospital. Man, I gotta find something to close up the back of this hospital gown..”
Nomi
March 6th, 2010 at 4:31 am [Reply]

3/6

Shoe: Wow, Shoe phones in a joke from 1983.
Baka Gaijin
March 6th, 2010 at 4:42 am [Reply]

Mary Worth: Dawn continues, “Plus they were out of Miracle Whip at the Super SantaRoyMart. Two disappointments at the same time you can handle not.”

Pluggers: Alternate caption: “You’re a Plugger if you put on a heavy sweater to wash the truck.” I mean, really. It’s going to sog up a heap of water, then Pluggerbear is going to smell like wet dog all afternoon.

Sally Forth: Missing from panel 3: Jazz hands!

Lockhorns: Has hell frozen over? A recognizable room, complete with background and foreground in today’s Lockhorns.

Marvin: Isn’t that a Lockhorns joke? Actually, blackened meatloaf sounds pretty good.

One Big Happy: Again with Ruthie pontificating. Love that dismissive hand in the last panel. And Joe completely ignoring her and getting stuck in the chair. Typical kids.

Zits: Mr. and Mrs. Jeremy’s Parents need to send Jeremy to Walmartopia for a, say, record player needle. He needs to be knocked down a peg or two.
Mordock999
March 6th, 2010 at 6:55 am [Reply]

Today’s Luann – 03/06/2010

Quill – “Hi, Luann! Did you put up any Westside Story Posters today?”

Luann – “Oh, hiiiiiiii, Quill! (Siiiiigh!)”

Quill – “I put up EIGHT!”

Luann – “Oh, WHAT a MAN! (GUSH!)”

Quill – “I put up 3 at the local funeral home!”

Luann – “(GUSH!)”

Quill – “I put up 3 more at the local Toyota Dealership where an ANGRY Mob had gathered!”

Luann – “(SIGH!)”

Quill – “I taped 1 to Gunther’s back while he wasn’t looking…,”

Luann – “(FAWN!)”

Quill – “…and I put the last one up at an ‘Outback Steakhouse’! I would have put up MORE but I was surrounded by a bunch of attractive teenage girls who kept throwing their underwear at me and FORCING me to take their cell numbers!”

Luann – “(SNARL!)”

_________________________

DEATH to TJ!!!
Eric the baker
March 6th, 2010 at 7:26 am [Reply]

MT: “Since our budget has been cut, we just don’t have the personnel to check everything that happens on the lake!” — Especially the one thing we get most of our complaints about. Priorities, y’know!
zerowolf
March 6th, 2010 at 8:55 am [Reply]

@ElkMeadow (#135): No matter how many guns Wally has, he can’t start using them soon enough.
Mibbitmaker
March 6th, 2010 at 9:03 am [Reply]

Cranky: “Uh… no thanks… we’d rather be waited on by that rat over there…”

RMMD: June Morgan, Dumping Ground.

Sherman’s Lagoon: “Consider yourself lucky!” — Squidward (or whatever his parody name is)
zerowolf
March 6th, 2010 at 9:05 am [Reply]

RMMD: Who is dumber, Brook for hiding Toots in the cellar, or her mother for not cancelling the credit card?
zerowolf
March 6th, 2010 at 9:07 am [Reply]

HtH: That’s right, you must remind your mother in law that her son is now a man and the proud owner of a wife.
queek, source of Cuteness, Kawaii Commando
March 6th, 2010 at 9:45 am [Reply]

It’s an odd day in the funny papers when the biggest laugh of the morning is from The Lockhorns.

6Cx: ooooooo, Avatar-burn! and a third panel dollop of win for the Playboy ref.

Dilbert: *squick*

GT: wow. awkward kissing is one thing, but the art here borders on the non-Euclidean.

Doons: has Trudeau been to TVtropes?!? (mmmm, Winry. . . .)

MC: “I read it for the articles” *snurk* Nice trope subversion there, Ed!

Zits: The queeksgirl feels your pain, Mr & Mrs Duncan.

A&J: I feel your pain, Arlo.

Lio: well, its better than Buttercup’s “too stinky to fight monsters” method.
gleeb
March 6th, 2010 at 10:00 am [Reply]

Gil: She shoots, she scores!

‘bean: Told you she had the weapon. Funky, a middle-class business owner, is clearly shocked by her cavalier attitude toward property.

Spidey: I sure hope he’s wearing shorts under that thing.
HAMMY THE SQUIRREL!
March 6th, 2010 at 10:11 am [Reply]

BOY! I’M AWAKE NOW!
A LIZARD RUN UP MY LEG!
I’VE BEEN GEKKOED!
WHY DO I FEEL LIKE BUYING SOME CAR INSURANCE?
I DON’T EVEN HAVE A CAR!!
Baka Gaijin
March 6th, 2010 at 10:13 am [Reply]

@queek, source of Cuteness, Kawaii Commando (#157) on Lio: Who’s Buttercup?
HAMMY THE SQUIRREL!
March 6th, 2010 at 10:32 am [Reply]

@Baka Gaijin (#160): BUTTERCUP!
Hank
March 6th, 2010 at 10:36 am [Reply]

Metacomment: Check out this photo of New York’s Governor, David Paterson (often the brunt of SNL skits) in front of a cartoon-themed mural at an opening of a recent restaurant in NYC. The pic is, as you might guess, getting a lot of coverage in the local tabloids this morning.
LUJBEM FEJF
March 6th, 2010 at 10:42 am [Reply]

@gnome de blog (#87): “Ground” was Josh’s description. The official clue said “sprinkled” which is the result of the cheese falling through the grater. When we were testing this one at the Jumble labs we had a “grate” debate as to which adjective to use to describe the falling cheese. I believe the vote was 137-43 for “sprinkled”. So there you go.
queek, source of Cuteness, Kawaii Commando
March 6th, 2010 at 10:54 am [Reply]

@Baka Gaijin (#160): as Hammy has linked, Buttercup is the “tomboy” member of the PowerPuff Girls. In one episode, she decides that she doesn’t want to take baths any more, and ends up so stinky that the monster that she’s fighting tries to swallow her, spits her back out, and declares her too stinky to fight, and leaves. This embarrasses her into getting a bath. Its one of my favorite episodes.
TheDiva
March 6th, 2010 at 11:01 am [Reply]

Cathy:…Didn’t we spend the last two weeks watching Cathy spend the GNP of a small country on facial care products? Or do they only have the budget for one neurosis at a time?

C’shaft: Ha-ha, he lost is job and is now suffering for it! (Seriously, on behalf of everyone I know who was/is unemployed by the current economy: fuck you, Batiuk.)

FW: “Well, I’m going to let him work in my restaurant and basically ignore him the rest of the time. Oh and don’t worry, I’ll be sure to dump that loaded gun where some children can find it.”

Luann: And yet, Quill is still much more desirable than Gunther. Of course, short of trying to rape Luann onstage in front of her friends and family, I don’t see how he’s going to drop below THAT benchmark.

Pluggers: It’s still a true bucket list in that Mr. Plugger will be lucky if he completes it before dropping dead of a heart attack.

MW: “Besides, crushing you this way is much more satisfying!”
professor fate
March 6th, 2010 at 11:14 am [Reply]

MW: “Becaue I knew it would be much more staisfying to watch your dreams get crushed by an outside athority.”

FW: So the rules of dramatics are now – when a gun is shown in the first act you hand to Funky to toss in the river. Really Beck’s – Wally’ll be able to get a replacement the next time he goes for beer and frozen dinners – they’ll be in the store next store.

9CL: if this hadn’t taken 45 years to set up it might have been a touching moment. Now I’m just hoping this was a good bye hug before she smothers the chattering old bitty.
anon
March 6th, 2010 at 11:16 am [Reply]

RMMD: Yesterday’s ‘gift’ – this is weird. She says “it’s heavy – but I like it!”… Does she even know what it IS and what to do with it??? Or is she just pleased with receiving a gift. Any gift. And “it’s heavy”….I foresee a terrible skateboard accident in her future.
shermy glamrocker
March 6th, 2010 at 11:18 am [Reply]

@Lanfranc (#58): Sarah may use the excuse I gave my parents when I came home with an item that was clearly too expensive for a child to buy: “I found it in a trash pile.”

Since we were the poorest family in an otherwise upscale neighborhood, it usually worked. You wouldn’t believe the good shit those rich assholes would throw away.
HAMMY THE SQUIRREL!
March 6th, 2010 at 11:26 am [Reply]

@queek, source of Cuteness, Kawaii Commando (#164): I LIKE THE TIME CHANNEL!!
Thomas B.
March 6th, 2010 at 11:33 am [Reply]

3/6/10 FW

Anybody else read this as Becky killed Wally and enlisted Funky’s assistance in hiding the murder weapon? This will will be a great lead-in to NBC’s newest show: “Law and Order: Comic Crimes Division.” The first victim is entertainment.
HAMMY THE SQUIRREL!
March 6th, 2010 at 11:33 am [Reply]

WOW! THE TIME ALL THE TIME!!
bourbon babe, unbuckled
March 6th, 2010 at 11:34 am [Reply]

SM: Peter, take a cue from the old woman: Knees together!

FC: Oh, farewell, mildly amusing retro-FC! We will miss you!

(I kind of love how happy the collected Keanes are to see Daddy get his hooch.)

MT: Even with budget cuts, I would think that “crime” would still be a priority item.
Thomas B.
March 6th, 2010 at 11:37 am [Reply]

FW:

Later that night someone breaks into Wally’s “place” Wally reaches for his gun, finds it gone, he is then shot and left for dead. Thanks Becky.
HAMMY THE SQUIRREL!
March 6th, 2010 at 11:40 am [Reply]

@bourbon babe, unbuckled (#172):
YOU’RE A BABY WHO DRINKS BOURBON?!
WOW AND KOOL!!
Thomas B.
March 6th, 2010 at 11:44 am [Reply]

MT:
Maybe there is an i-phone ap for handling the things that happen on the Lake. Oh wait this is Mark Trail, the i-phone wont be available for another 40 years.
HAMMY THE SQUIRREL!
March 6th, 2010 at 11:45 am [Reply]

@bourbon babe, unbuckled (#172):
AND YOU GOT OUT OF YOUR CAR SEAT!
NEATO!!
commodorejohn
March 6th, 2010 at 11:51 am [Reply]

Agnes – Heck, I’d join a group with a name like that.

Archie – Looks like Cammie is starring in a low-budget King Kong knock-off. Good for her, I guess, but let’s hope she doesn’t get typecast.

BrS – Hey, wow, the Brenda Starr team actually has people in other countries speak foreign languages sometimes!

BR – And they bring the joke home. Bravo, Tim Rickard!

Crankshaft – Ha! Ha! The irony, it kills!

Curtis – Yeah, well fuck you, Barry.

DT – You could say it was a blast, yes. If you did, you would deserve whatever bloody mauling Dick Tracy happens to throw your way.

FC – Bil, having bought into the myth about St. Bernards and barrels of whisky, doesn’t realize that getting drunk out in the cold will actually lower your body temperature and increase your risk of hypothermia. Thel, of course, is counting on it.

FB – Wow, I think Fred Basset actually tried to have a joke today.

FW – “Why?” Funky thinks. “This could be the solution to all my problems!”

GT – Psst, Cassie, usually one does that from the front of the face, not the side.

JP – Yeah, I haven’t been seeing any pockets in these prison jumpsuits, nor would it be advisable for prisoners to have any. So you may want to ask where he’s been keeping that, Sam.

Luann – DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE

MW – Wilbur just looks hilariously befuddled here. “How can this be?” he thinks. “He looks like his mother, whom I knew! And…and we…we connected on many levels!”

MC – Norm, this is one of those situations where you just silently savor the victory. It’s just as satisfying and leads to less trouble.

Phantom – Whoa, Captain Sea Goddess has lost it!

SF – Uh-oh, Ted’s come down with MARK TRAIL SYNDROME.

SM – “Okay, I’ll tell them it was my guardian angel who shoots webbing from his hands and climbs on walls, traits which are in no way distinctive or recognizable. Now, if you had had a sort of precognitive ’spider-sense’ to warn you of danger, that’d be another thing, but I think it’s pretty obvious you don’t.”
bourbon babe, unbuckled
March 6th, 2010 at 11:53 am [Reply]

@HAMMY THE SQUIRREL! (#176): I’ll get out of any kind of seat for a nice bourbon.
One-eyed Wolfdog
March 6th, 2010 at 11:56 am [Reply]

I fear the GT team has had a slight misunderstanding involving the contemporary usage of the word ‘junk’, which can not always be replaced synonymously with ‘trash’.
HAMMY THE SQUIRREL!
March 6th, 2010 at 11:58 am [Reply]

I’VE NEVER MET A NOT-SO-NICE BOURBON!
BUT I’M A SQUIRREL! WHAT DO I KNOW?!
AND YOU CERTAINLY SOUND LIKE AN INTERESTING BABY!
BUT I’M A SQUIRREL! WHAT DO I KNOW?!
One-eyed Wolfdog
March 6th, 2010 at 11:59 am [Reply]

JP: “You bet! We’re not in that Funky Deathsentence strip, after all.”
HB Glord
March 6th, 2010 at 12:02 pm [Reply]

@Hank (#162): What’s left of Paterson’s gubernatorial dignity would have been preserved if Jack Elrod were involved. That offending balloon would be emanating form Daisy the Dog’s rumpus instead.
One-eyed Wolfdog
March 6th, 2010 at 12:03 pm [Reply]

MW: “I felt sorry for him! But I don’t see any reason I shouldn’t rub salt in your wounds, and those white shorts pretty much clinched the deal.”
dreadedcandiru2
March 6th, 2010 at 12:19 pm [Reply]

Sunday Un-funnies:

ReFoob: Lizzie mashes her fingers in a dresser drawer; at the outpatients, Elly wishes that the next time something bad happens, it should happen to her. I wish that she’d been more attentive; that way, it would never have happened at all.

FW: As Wally plays his trombone, we see snapshots of his crappy life; since Becky is the only bright spot, Mopey Pete is about to have a roomie: Comic Book John.

Crankshaft: Cranky celebrates Oscar Night by being a nasty olld coot laughing at his child.

S4th: Ted is now officially the sane parent; this means that Hilary had better book time with a shrink now and save time.
Little A and his Verkokte Magic Ball
March 6th, 2010 at 1:32 pm [Reply]

MT: Let me get something straight. I’m a little confused. (This may have been noted already). The only way to get the ailing senator to the hospital was to paddle him out in canoe and through the dangerous Boom Bam Rapids (or whatever the hell they are called). Now Mark and this other guy are going back — so they are going to paddle UPstream through the Boom Bam Rapids???? This I gotta see. But of course in this strip, we ain’t going to be shown such thrilling action unless the rapids is wearing a mustache or sideburns.

Which brings us to another question. How did the Senator and Mark get to Milton Bradley Brothers’ lake in the first place?

We had an expression in the Old Bronx when I was growng up, and which is still applicable: what shit!!

One reason I liked Nancy and Sluggo so much was, I didn’t get a headache from thinking about it.
Muffaroo
March 6th, 2010 at 1:37 pm [Reply]

9CL – What makes this really touching is that from 1940 to 1948, Gran was actually in the Home for the Completely Delusional.

archie – The voice of the ticket taker today is provided by Frank “y-yyyYESS!” Nelson.

Family – “Here’s the deal, Bil. You get to drink the coffee while I hump your leg.”

Smirky – “Oh, I see. And here I thought I only imagined hearing that gunshot.”

(Can’t preview today. FYWP.)
Muffaroo
March 6th, 2010 at 1:38 pm [Reply]

Gasoline – Don’t anybody show this to Frank Buckles. He mustn’t know that his life is a hollow sham. [*]

Herb – I get it. The strips are being published out of order. And anyway, he needs to find a “Huge Shoe Sale.”

Mark – So apparently what happens on the north end of the lake stays on the north end of the lake.

Mary – The Hitler mustache in panel 2 seems to give Wilbur a trace of character. Which, of course, completely violates his character.
Baron Von Foobenstein
March 6th, 2010 at 1:38 pm [Reply]

The plugger on the left is Mark Trail! The disguise didn’t fool me a bit.
Muffaroo
March 6th, 2010 at 1:38 pm [Reply]

Ghost-who-phones – The wonders of tiny-sized online comics, continued: I saw the top balloon in panel 2 as “BLAH! BLAH! BLAH! BLAH!” and was starting to assume that when the Phantomettes hear their Dad’s voice on the phone, he comes through as something akin to Charlie Brown’s mom. If only I hadn’t looked more closely.

@Eric the baker (#152): Even if you know everything that happens on a lake, you’ve only touched the surface.
kkarenb
March 6th, 2010 at 2:07 pm [Reply]

Today’s New York Times crossword, 9 across: “Steve Canyon” cartoonist.

Other newspaper news: The Philadelphia Inquirer has dropped One Big Happy and replaced it with Dustin. So far I am not impressed. It employs the literal-minded exaggeration of Zits (which annoys me to no end) without the occasional humor. Maybe I’m biased, though, as I adore Ruthie.
Numbat
March 6th, 2010 at 2:12 pm [Reply]

@commodorejohn (#177):

MW – Wilbur just looks hilariously befuddled here. “How can this be?” he thinks. “He looks like his mother, whom I knew! And…and we…we connected on many levels!”

But obviously they never connected at a level just below the waist.
tb4000
March 6th, 2010 at 2:46 pm [Reply]

“It’s heavy…..but I like it!”

I won’t say it. I will not say it. I’m dying to say it, but I won’t say…..THAT’S WHAT SHE SAID!!!!!

I am weak.
Aviatrix
March 6th, 2010 at 3:06 pm [Reply]

@Little A and his Verkokte Magic Ball (#185): If they didn’t fly in, then this story makes no sense at all. Notice I’m not claiming they did fly in.

@Baron Von Foobenstein (#188): Maybe all the talking animals in MT are really pluggers.

MW: I will be disappointed if the wrap-up does not feature Wilbur telling Mary he has laid some demons to rest.
Dan Coyle
March 6th, 2010 at 3:31 pm [Reply]

Do veterans groups ever complain about FW? Because they really fucking should. Anything to disturb Batiuk’s sleep, I say.

I see Graham Nolan’s other comics gigs are affecting Rex Morgan, because that’s barely inked.
bats :[
March 6th, 2010 at 3:36 pm [Reply]

@Little A and his Verkokte Magic Ball (#185): while too lazy to look things up, I think the first time Mark was in the canoe, he portaged it up past the Boom Bam Rapids. Now, whether we’ll see a second portaging (although, while necessary, is kinda dull) is anyone’s guess.
Thomas B.
March 6th, 2010 at 3:37 pm [Reply]

@Aviatrix (#193): “MW: I will be disappointed if the wrap-up does not feature Wilbur telling Mary he has laid some demons to rest.”

I hope by “laid some demons to rest” you mean his compulsion to wear shorts and too small polos shirts.
cheech wizard
March 6th, 2010 at 3:51 pm [Reply]

FW – You know, if would have been a lot more exciting if we’d actually seen Becky gunning down the husband she abandoned, rather than the aftermath where she enlists his brother in disposing of the murder weapon, because everyone in town has it up to here with the mopey cuckold.

Phantom – Kit probably should have kept his voice down when telling his kids that he has absolutely no romantic interest in an unbalanced and vengeful woman who cruises the oceans looking for people to slaughter.

FC – Back in the 60s, alcoholism wasn’t such a big deal, especially in a wholesome family environment.

Hell Hound – From Marmaduke’s come-hither look, my guess is that his idea of making the dog catcher feel good is to give it to him hard and fast in the back of his van.

GT – Sly joke there, Rubin, referring to Cassie as “trash.” Upcoming episodes will no doubt refer to janitor Steve having to deal with “scum,” “garbage,” “filth” and “a randy bitch in heat running loose around the school grounds, so maybe you should give her a bone or something so she’ll quit annoying people.”
Écureuil Écumant
March 6th, 2010 at 3:56 pm [Reply]

@195 bats :[ said:

I think the first time Mark was in the canoe, he portaged it up past the Boom Bam Rapids. Now, whether we’ll see a second portaging (although, while necessary, is kinda dull) is anyone’s guess.

It couldn’t be any duller than the way they shot the rapids. Oh, wait, unless they don’t have any talking rocks this time.

GT: It’s easy to find someone in half the usual time when you have eyes that look two directions at once.
quirk
March 6th, 2010 at 4:03 pm [Reply]

RMMD: Apparently Toots is on stage one of his ingenious plan to kill Sarah and take everything of value from her, as it’s obviously quite impossible to skateboard successfully when your head is the size of your entire upper body. That’s just an accident waiting to happen.
commodorejohn
March 6th, 2010 at 4:16 pm [Reply]

@cheech wizard (#197): Looking at the culture of the time, it seems to me that from about 1950 to 1964 America pretty much subsisted on alchohol. I figure it has to do with post-WWII being the first time since the Prohibition that people were both allowed to buy booze and able to afford it.
Anonymous
March 6th, 2010 at 4:22 pm [Reply]

Tabloid Doin’s is funny, but Tabbyloid Doin’s would’ve been funnier still, and more in keeping with Hootin’ Holler’s vernacular.
Wally Ballou
March 6th, 2010 at 4:27 pm [Reply]

@Digger (#8):

The tucked-in shirts are a dead giveaway, too.
agony
March 6th, 2010 at 4:28 pm [Reply]

I think there’s a typo in 9CWL – Gran’s name couldn’t be Edie, it’s gotta be Mary Sue.
cheech wizard
March 6th, 2010 at 4:28 pm [Reply]

@commodorejohn (#200): Actually, it seems to me the heavy boozing pretty much ran from V-J day through 1980, when the last major recession forced businesses to cut back on the 3-martini lunch. Actually, I think the 3-martini lunch explains a lot about American automotive design during that period, particularly tail fins and the Chevy Vega.

Then again, they put us on the moon, although if everyone had been sober, they might not have tried it in the first place.
gnome de blog
March 6th, 2010 at 4:29 pm [Reply]

@dale (#147): Don’t they have to paddle up the rapids at Devil’s Pass? Mark’s a super-hero but not that super.
Jamus The Bartender
March 6th, 2010 at 4:43 pm [Reply]

FOOB: NOW you want to know what he thinks, Connie? Honestly, I’m not sure thinking is one of Phil’s strong points.
Jamus The Bartender
March 6th, 2010 at 4:47 pm [Reply]

Spider Man: Disney’s got the opprotunity to showcase their Marvel catalog on the comic’s page, and, apart from some cameos by the Fantastic Four, Sabretooth, Iron Man, and a Daredevil who pretends not to hear, the big story is Peter Parker’s second secret ID? A cheapshit gown and wings and he’s the Guardian Angel? This makes One More Day look like Hamlet.
Jamus The Bartender
March 6th, 2010 at 4:50 pm [Reply]

Sally Forth: I gotta go along with Ted on this one. Newly single guys are not a pretty sight. Ted would be hitting on girls only a year or two older than Luann and her friends, wearing shirts open to the navel, gold chains, and driving a convertible with Playboy Bunny licence plate holders.
Jamus The Bartender
March 6th, 2010 at 4:51 pm [Reply]

@queek, source of Cuteness, Kawaii Commando (#117): I’m gonna have to check that one out. :)
Jamus The Bartender
March 6th, 2010 at 4:54 pm [Reply]

FC: And, if the early Family Circus is anywhere as edgy as people have been saying, I bet that thermos has a wee bit of brandy to take the chill off. Thel, you are a good lady. :)
Jamus The Bartender
March 6th, 2010 at 4:56 pm [Reply]

My Cage: Mmmm…Bridget’s got a cute little hinder…..
mollificent
March 6th, 2010 at 5:02 pm [Reply]

Trying-to-get-back-in-the-swing Saturday snark:

FC: Wow. That is actually a great strip. I guess nostalgia has its place…

FOOB: …until the next strip on the lineup is this crap. Ugh.

Luann: It’s nice to see SuperQuill act like a douche every so often. His relentless “Perfect Aussie Hunk” character gets a little tiring (though not as tiring as, say, Gunther’s relentless “Whiny Passive-Aggressive Loser” character. Ick, I thought I was done bitching about Gunther.).

Phantom: Wow! Now THAT is some comic-strip action! Kudos for bringing a little excitement into this so-far-obnoxious storyline.

Spider-Flasher: Please, PLEASE say he left his underwear on. Those firemen are going to need therapy for YEARS.
Tim O'Shenko
March 6th, 2010 at 5:02 pm [Reply]

S-M: I, for one, totally support Spiderman’s transition to “The Guardian Angel.” In the past two days, he’s done more superheroing than in the past two years. Not only that, but the opportunity to spout out non-webbing-related one-liners seems to have (at least partially) restored Parker’s sense of humour. This is by far the most interesting any Marvel production has been in a long time.
Artist formerly known as Ben
March 6th, 2010 at 5:18 pm [Reply]

3/6

Baldo: Well Gracie, you ask a silly question…

GT: Pink hearts, yellow moons, and blue diamonds! Never have I seen a work try so hard for squirm-inducing and end up so firmly in knee-slapping territory. Goofy valentine heart graphics and all. It’s like watching a Todd Solondz movie remade with the Three Stooges.

FW: Good news in that Becky was at least canny enough to get Wally’s gun away from him. Which will stop him from hurting himself until he can find an open gun store or a high window. And I’m sure Funky will get rid of it, once he has an enhanced father-son talk with Cory.

FC: Barfy is enabling daddy’s lush habits? 1960 gets better all the time.

6C: That’s actually a pretty canny look at the Oscars.

BB: Whoo! That’s the kind of positive thinking that had Wally Winkerbean sleeping with a lead pacifier under his pillow.

Phantom: “Whoops. Gotta run. Savarna let her friend Rip Torn dry out in one of the guest cabins.”

DT: Yes, you could say it was a blast. But then you’d be the kind of person who says things like that, and no reader would really care if your father followed through on his impotent death threats.

GA: Very big of you, Centennarian Who Doesn’t Really Exist.

SSmith: Jughaid can’t be blamed for his expression of alarm. He may not have heard the word “sterilization”, but he knows that with this level of inventory control in the doctor’s office, the odds of his losing one or both feet to infection are pretty good.
dale
March 6th, 2010 at 5:27 pm [Reply]

@gnome de blog (#205):
MT
They went down the rapids because weather conditions precluded flying out that day. Presumably, they could fly in now and start their trek from Ben’s fishing camp. What escapes me is: If they really can’t get to the north end by land, why don’t they use a boat with a motor instead of paddling?
bunivasal
March 6th, 2010 at 5:37 pm [Reply]

Toots speaks like a first year student’s final paper in Skateboarding as a Foreign Language.
Mibbitmaker
March 6th, 2010 at 6:22 pm [Reply]

A3G: “No, Bobbie. I just wanted you to answer this question: If heaven exists, what would you like to hear God say when you arrive at the Pearly Gates?”

DtM: Dennis really insulted 1970s Dan Rather.

DT, p2: Now I want to kill him!

FW: Even more morose scene averted.

Luann: (to Quill) You non-Yanks. So judgmental! (actually, if I pretend he’s referring to the Yankees, it works much better for me)

MT: Can “canoe paddling” be added to “rock climbing” and “sandstorm” as MST3K-style “deeeep hurrrting”?

Phantom: Prez: “Um… are you kids okay? You two look like that guy from “Finnegan’s Flea”*.”

*That’s like a Batiuk version of “One Froggy Evening”.
queek, source of Cuteness, Kawaii Commando
March 6th, 2010 at 6:34 pm [Reply]

@Jamus The Bartender (#211): the art today was especially good. Perspective, yur doin pretty well, actually! (if you take an infinite number of Gil Thorp strips, shuffled by an infinite number of monkeys, would you be able to get proper perspective like this? Or merely the Classics Illustrated version of “Hamlet”?)
bunivasal
March 6th, 2010 at 6:34 pm [Reply]

You know, it doesn’t have anything to do with anything, but I was just reading an old Spiderman comic book wherein a blood-donation truck parked outside the Daily Bugle office, and Jonah was demanding that all of his employees donate blood. Peter Parker, afraid that his radioactive blood would give away his secret identity to the nefarious Red Cross, was reluctant to donate, but didn’t want to be suspicious about not donating blood. So he decided to steal an “I Donated!” sticker.

I realize we give the Spiderman newspaper comic a lot of flak for telling the dullest possible stories about a person with superhuman powers, but with stuff like this I get the feeling Spiderman just has the proportional compelling narrative abilities of an ordinary spider.
dale
March 6th, 2010 at 6:36 pm [Reply]

Funky
Dream story line -
Funky gets caught with what turns out to be stolen gun. (Simple scenario: Pulled over for broken taillight warning. Gets out of car. Gun falls out.) Any hope he has a felony record?
Funky points to Becky.
Becky is torn between taking the rap or pointing to Wally. If the latter, real fun ensues: barricade situation, shootout, suicide by police
queek, source of Cuteness, Kawaii Commando
March 6th, 2010 at 6:40 pm [Reply]

squee(k) with fingers
bats :[
March 6th, 2010 at 6:50 pm [Reply]

@queek, source of Cuteness, Kawaii Commando (#221): oooooh, tie-tie bebehs!

I’m a little tired myself, but pleased with the results.
Comcis Fan
March 6th, 2010 at 6:54 pm [Reply]

My name is Dawn and I’m a passive aggressive. It’s been five minutes since I last pretended to show respectful concern for a loved one. I found I am masterful at feigning distaste for meddling in the business of someone whom I knew was headed for crushing disappointment in which I secretly took pleasure. Far from hitting rock bottom, I am quite buzzed about it so I’m not sure why I am at this meeting.
queek, source of Cuteness, Kawaii Commando
March 6th, 2010 at 7:03 pm [Reply]

@bats :[ (#222): bats :[, your mash-ups are made of awesome and win. That one is just inspired. *applaz*
wossname
March 6th, 2010 at 8:03 pm [Reply]

Thomas B. #173 –

Later that night someone breaks into Wally’s “place” Wally reaches for his gun, finds it gone, he is then shot and left for dead. Thanks Becky.

That occurred to me too. So did a scenario where Wally thinks somebody is breaking in, reaches for his gun, finds it gone, goes into some kind of PTSD terror and does something scary. Thanks Becky.

HAMMY THE SQUIRREL! #180 – You should ask B. Racoon for his opinion on whether bourbon babe is an interesting baby.

Little A #185 – I think — with a fairly low degree of certainty, since this is a MT plot – that Mark and the rest of his entourage got back to the lake somehow not involving canoes or Boom Bam Rapids (maybe the bad weather in the city had passed and they flew on a float plane?) and now they are setting out from their camp on the law-abiding South End of the Lake to visit the notorious North End.

But bats :[ #195, I too recall the first time we heard about Boom Bam Rapids (aka Devil’s something or other) Mark was portaging past it. And I too am too lazy to look it up.

Anonymous #201- Tabbyloid Doins would be the print version of the “icanhazacheezburgr” site, right?
mustang
March 6th, 2010 at 8:08 pm [Reply]

What the hell is a plugger anyway? We only get all these clues. It’s some sort of endless horrible logic puzzle. Has anyone been keeping track of what a Plugger is? Maybe if they started a comic called “You’re not a Plugger If” it would be more fair and we could get all the data we need figure out what is a plugger.
Uncle Ritzy Fritz
March 6th, 2010 at 8:10 pm [Reply]

@bunivasal (#219): To get even further off topic, I’ve always wondered about that – how do guys like Peter Parker or Clark Kent explain the radioactive blood or their skin’s inability to be pierced by a flu shot, or their 20/one million eyesight or whatever to their doctors? Has this ever been addressed in a storyline? The one about the blood donation probably comes the closest that I’ve seen.
Buck Ripsnort
March 6th, 2010 at 8:33 pm [Reply]

@wossname (#225): Silly-heads. Cory finds the gun and shoots Funky. Wally admits it’s his gun, goes to jail, Cory remains a total dick.
queek, source of Cuteness, Kawaii Commando
March 6th, 2010 at 9:22 pm [Reply]

@Uncle Ritzy Fritz (#227): both of those have been dealt with at various times in canon.

Clark Kent was deemed 4F during WWII because his X-ray vision was reading the chart in the next room, for one example.
gnome de blog
March 6th, 2010 at 10:19 pm [Reply]

@Artist formerly known as Ben (#214):
Re FW: Or Corey finds the gun…
Bluetunic
March 7th, 2010 at 1:19 am [Reply]

If taken out of context, every single line of Rex Morgan sounds like something that could get you sued for sexual harassment. Bad euphemisms for fun and profit!
Bennui
March 7th, 2010 at 12:01 pm [Reply]

It sure is heavy Sarah! But not as heavy as that oversized melon of a head you have precariously balanced on your twisted little body!
Melch Melch
March 7th, 2010 at 3:00 pm [Reply]

Is it just me, or is Sarah starting to look more and more like a baby June? And starting to act more and more like a baby Rex? It all adds up to the makings of a truly delightful sociopath.

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