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Two things that are always funny: Dogs and buttocks

Family Circus, 4/5/06

PJ’s squalling. Jeffy’s furious. Barfy looks like he’s about to live up to his name. Yep, dad, this is why you became a workaholic. The less time you spend under that hideous drop ceiling, the better.

Herb and Jamaal, 4/5/06

For a while, I thought that the vertical line near our patient’s posterior was supposed to be his buttcrack, which we were seeing thanks to some cubist-style unrealistic perspective, but after some consideration I think it’s just the edge of his hospital gown, and we’re just seeing sidal cheek nudity — naughty, but not offensively icky. It’s a delicate balance when you want to do a rear end gag in a family comic strip. I imagine the artist and the syndicate going back and forth on this one until there was just enough tuckus showing to make the punchline clear, but not so much as to give the bluehairs a case of the vapors. They were ultimately successful, but, sadly, all that effort was still put out in the service of a joke about Jamaal’s ass.

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142 responses to “Two things that are always funny: Dogs and buttocks”

Wordmama
April 5th, 2006 at 8:44 am [Reply]

And of course, the basic question of the H&J strip is — what is it about Jamaal’s butt that makes it so hard to flirt? Is it huge? pimply? covered with signatures of all his cowboy friends, or perhaps a huge tattoo that says “MISTER PUFFY LOVES YA”?
Smitty Smedlap
April 5th, 2006 at 8:47 am [Reply]

Herb (or is it Jamaal) has a nose-erection in panel two. SPROING! That’s gotta be a serious detriment to gettin’ your flirt on.
yellojkt
April 5th, 2006 at 8:50 am [Reply]

Hitting on nurses in the exam room. Jamaal is such a playa. Maybe he’d have more luck with the gown on backwards.
Anon
April 5th, 2006 at 8:50 am [Reply]

Today’s RMMD Dr Troy states that Dr. Ellis was never his friend.

yeah right

I guess you just used him as your **** buddy.

No emotions. No commitment. Just a roll in the hay.

Well, that attitude it is cumming back to haunt you now.
Widdle Jeffy
April 5th, 2006 at 8:53 am [Reply]

Pops in the FC is going to spin on his heels and head down to Moe’s for a few frosty ones.

One question, where the hell is Billy? I think he has some ’splaining to do why he missed Barfy’s party. God I hope it is not drugs again, that kid gets so strung out. Did you ever see the lines he does?
bart
April 5th, 2006 at 8:56 am [Reply]

You are a wise young man, but have you the wisdom to explain what is going on in the recent “Get Fuzzy” episodes?
plumberninja
April 5th, 2006 at 8:56 am [Reply]

In MT, one of our good hillbillies makes an appearance as a demolition worker. Mark Trail’s universe IS populated by 8 people.
PBS about made me crap my pants.
And in today’s RMMD, we learn about an old lover’s tiff!
And Mrs. Tubby McLardfat in MW today is displaying a veerry interesting expression of surprise, no doubt brought on by envisioning exactly what Lou wants to do with those creamy, creamy blaze orange potatoes.
Badly_Computer_Animated_Boy
April 5th, 2006 at 8:56 am [Reply]

The thing is, the nurse is totally checking him out!
Len
April 5th, 2006 at 9:14 am [Reply]

Wednesday’s Pibgorn — So Pib’s playing Puck? Robin Good-FELLOW? Surely, Good-GAL!

I guess the chorus girl is Peaseblossom, or Mustardseed… I can never remember the names of the Faeries in Oberon’s court. Is the changeling Indian boy going to be played by Asok from Dilbert?

And with the way all these Fae Folk smoke cigarettes, is it any wonder we don’t see the Good People anymore? (I’m reminded of the cartoon of dinosaurs smoking and doing drugs, saying “No wonder we’re going extinct!”)
plumberninja
April 5th, 2006 at 9:21 am [Reply]

This faerie doesn’t have a name, I don’t think, but I could be wrong. At any rate, I want her pants.
BassoGap
April 5th, 2006 at 9:30 am [Reply]

(DT)GT – Nice little bat you’ve got there, Trey…you gonna swat some flies with it? ‘Cause a pitched ball will shatter that thing pretty quick. Oh, and I guess you haven’t heard of the “off” button on your phone, or not checking the mail. And constantly complaining of all the attention you’re getting for your basketball prowess, and how you’re only on the baseball team to hide? It’s not complaining, it’s bragging, and it’s not going to go over well with the guys who take this seriously, and the kid whose place on the team you took. Watch out for a blanket party in the locker room, Trey…

GF – Love the perspective of panel 2.

Bizarro – If exercise equipment was designed for its eventual real-world use.

MF – I’m not so sure Tinsley’s not trying to make fun of people who believe in dinosaurs, too…you know, those “fakes” planted by Satan to make us think the planet’s older than 6000 years…liberal, intellectual “elites” have obviously fallen for it, right?
10-96
April 5th, 2006 at 9:45 am [Reply]

What is up with the nurse’s boobage in H&J? It’s like she’s being yanked out of the panel by an invisible hand clenched on something tender. Plus what happened to her arm? She’s obviously an amputee in panel 2. It looks like it’s there in panel 1 altho she seems to be wearing black opera gloves, then suddenly, poof! No arm above the elbow. Did that scornful whiplash-inducing motion rip it off at the same time it sucked Jamal’s nose out of his face?
Sassy_Rocks
April 5th, 2006 at 9:46 am [Reply]

Harry Ellis is Doc Troyser Trout’s long lost Brokeback Mtn colon cowboy butt buddy. HIs sordid past is catching up with him. I think Rex would be angrier than Chesty about this. Chesty Trout should form a support group at the new clinic with June for busty wives of gay doctors.
Sassy_Rocks
April 5th, 2006 at 9:52 am [Reply]

We learned a new tenet of intelligent design from BC today. Any science that doesn’t accept creationism is to be defined as fiction.
BassoGap
April 5th, 2006 at 9:55 am [Reply]

I like that idea, Sassy:

“My husband’s the gayest doctor!”
“But I wear tighter outfits on my bigger bust!”

Booger.
Dark Star
April 5th, 2006 at 10:08 am [Reply]

FYI Looks like RMMD is having another Brokeback Moment.
Lloyd S.
April 5th, 2006 at 10:14 am [Reply]

It’s spelled “tuchus”. Yiddish. Throaty “ch.” Phonetics uses the combination “kh” to represent the sound. And of course, you’re right. It’s always funny, and preferably displayed in a tasteful manner…
dimestore lipstick
April 5th, 2006 at 10:16 am [Reply]

Today’s spin of the Family Circus Space-Time Roulette Wheel has landed us in 1987.

Teal couch, rose curtains and lampshade, narrow brass picture frame & dropped ceiling?

Yep–1987.
Adouble
April 5th, 2006 at 10:20 am [Reply]

B.C. — How do you get my goat so consistently? I’m not even sure what Hart means by “scientific acclaim that omits God”, but I’m sure I’m failing as a scientist somehow. I guess I’m supposed to say things like “PCR was invented by Kary Mullis AND GOD in 1983 . Ten years later Mullis recieved the Nobel prize. Tragically, the Nobel Prize committee denied God the prize for the 105th year in a row.”
Badly_Computer_Animated_Boy
April 5th, 2006 at 10:42 am [Reply]

#5: I think Barfy ate Billy. He’s probably leaving dotted line trails all over the inside of the poor fella’s digestive system right now.
juggernaut
April 5th, 2006 at 10:45 am [Reply]

#6 – Get Fuzzy seems to have given up on any semblance of plot or coherency. The joke seems to be that the word “booger” will guarantee laughs. The first attempt disproved this theory 100%, but he’ll be damned if he’s gonna give up on the idea now……………
Howard Erk
April 5th, 2006 at 10:57 am [Reply]

GF knows its core audience.

Say “booger” and college frat boys fall all over themselves in laughter.
Smitty Smedlap
April 5th, 2006 at 11:00 am [Reply]

(dt)GT today — Brett Rap-Dog and Trey Cool appear to be afflicted with Shannon’s Disease. There’s about a 30 second gap between each line of dialogue, based on their positions relative to each other in each panel.

Also, the last panel makes no sense.

Also, Rap-Dog appears to have entered the priesthood.

Also, Rap-Dog’s off-season fitness regimen seems to have failed him.
clark
April 5th, 2006 at 11:18 am [Reply]

My least favorite jokes are those that take 5 minutes to set up only to end in a disappointing pun. In a cartoon, the set-up could take three or four days increasing the tension until the joke is revealed in a side splitting, Coke spewing denouement. I hope the current Get Fuzzy arc is an example of the latter and not the former.
Fred P.
April 5th, 2006 at 11:28 am [Reply]

-19
Leaving aside the mysterious term “scientific acclaim” (perhaps some sort of personification of Science that acclaims things?), I do like the way Hart (professional to the core) is so subtle about the way he works his personal religious views into his comics. No ham-fisted Mallardesque pseudo-jokes from him!

I mean, from him and God.
King Folderol
April 5th, 2006 at 11:51 am [Reply]

JP – The guy in Panel 2 looks like a leftover from the old Coffee Achievers commercials in the 1980s.

MF – You know things are going bad for the Republicans when Mallard has to make up some ridiculous scenario about liberal cavemen.

MW – Why is Kelly talking about her husband in the third person today? And what is Ned doing with his right hand?

RMMD – Obviously, Harry is Troy’s old lover, but forget about all that. I feel sorry for this hottie that Troy’s living with. She looks like she deserves some sweet lovin’. She seems to be getting younger as the week goes on, too.
420
April 5th, 2006 at 11:55 am [Reply]

H. E. you are a lonely, uninteresting man begging for attention.
BassoGap
April 5th, 2006 at 11:57 am [Reply]

RMMD — Harry’s not just Troy’s old lover…he also knows Troy never finished med school. Or maybe it was his transcript onto which Troy forged his name, and he’s back in town to kick some golf-club-swing-both-ways ass?

Booger.
Irina
April 5th, 2006 at 12:00 pm [Reply]

Webpage design request to Josh:

Could you add the “One topic ahead” and “One topic back” links to the bottom of the thread, too?

Since I often keep track of several threads simultaneously, it’d just add a bit of convenience to this wonderfully-designed site, to be able to hop from one thread to the other when I’m done reading the thread, not when I start it ;)

Hugs!
dlauthor
April 5th, 2006 at 12:22 pm [Reply]

The humour in this week’s GF lies not in Bucky, but in Satchel’s growing irritation with him. It’s worrisome that a strip that involves the word “booger” is somehow too subtle for so many people. Except for Erk, of course — that’s just expected.

And as far as Mallard goes, this is just one of his regular memes that Tinsley retreats to when he’s not making Chappaquiddick jokes or drawing offensive Jewish caricatures. No doubt tomorrow he’ll have a joke about stupid liberal cavemen who try to import drugs from the Neanderthals in the valley to the north.
Hysterical Woman
April 5th, 2006 at 12:51 pm [Reply]

Hmmm, the recent Mallard Fillmore reminds me of the Valerie Plame case. Wilson told the neighbors she was a consultant. Perhaps the cavewoman is really an secret agent and everyone knows it so it’s not a secret and anyway Joe Wilson deserved it for speaking against El Presidente, chappaquiddick chappaquiddick.
Howard Erk
April 5th, 2006 at 1:07 pm [Reply]

Thanks for the attention 420.

It gets powerful lonesome here under the bridge.
Harry Worth
April 5th, 2006 at 1:08 pm [Reply]

The dad in FC looks like the only thing going through his mind is “why did I say no to that vasectomy.”
gnome de blog
April 5th, 2006 at 1:18 pm [Reply]

Re #30: It’s not that we don’t get the ‘joke;’ it just ain’t that funny. As Clark (#24) says, we can hope for the big coke-spewing payoff. Or maybe not.

Hey Howard – can I camp out under your bridge for a while if they turn on me?
yellojkt
April 5th, 2006 at 1:24 pm [Reply]

Mallard Fillmore is the Chappaqui-Duck.
Sassy_Rocks
April 5th, 2006 at 1:29 pm [Reply]

If an advertising campaign can be based on an “Aflac” quacking duck,”booger” spewed by a cat for several days is a good two syllable brain washing slogan in its own right.
FleaBailey
April 5th, 2006 at 1:41 pm [Reply]

Potatoes au gratin and exercise discussions are all well and good, but the real treasure in today’s MW is the up-close-and-personal look we get at Mary’s china cabinet, with her intricately-ornamented Wedgewood Winter Wheat, both of which items look like she picked them up on sale at Sears.
Harry Worth
April 5th, 2006 at 1:44 pm [Reply]

And if you look carefully in the back of the cabinet, there is a set of dollar store swans that have been painstakingly super-glued back together after being broken in a drunken fists of rage display.
DCBirdblaster
April 5th, 2006 at 1:59 pm [Reply]

GF – Oh there will be Coke-spewage! I’m counting on it. This arc reminds me of Monty Python / Benny Hill show that thoughout all the skits, some naked guy would just wander into the scene and exclaim “Bugger!” and then walk out of scene as if nothing happened. The other characters just looked around mistified and continued on with the skit. By the end of the show everyone was pretty fed up with it and in the last skit, they interrupted the ’script’ and all the characters and some crew members ganged up and beat the shiz out the naked guy. Credits rolled…etc.

I’m hoping that’s the case here where Satchel will become one with his inner dog and finally bite Bucky or chase him up a tree or something.
MaryAnnTheRest
April 5th, 2006 at 2:28 pm [Reply]

Between Monty and Non Sequitir yesterday and BC today, I’m sensing an all-out, hair-pulling fight between creationist comics and Darwinist comics a-brewin’. Yes, God is not happy about being shunned repeatedly by the Nobel Prize Committee, and I don’t see his billing on the author byline of BC either.

It’s time to resurrect Flying Spaghetti Monsterism. Anyway, wikipediating Flying Spaghetti Monster: I think we can all look forward to the time when these three theories are given equal time in our science classrooms across the country, and eventually the world; One third time for Intelligent Design, one third time for Flying Spaghetti Monsterism, and one third time for logical conjecture based on overwhelming observable evidence.

Booger.
BassoGap
April 5th, 2006 at 2:33 pm [Reply]

My guess is that Bucky can’t recall where he put the booger that fell out of his nose a couple days ago, now needs it for some stange ritual, and is simply searching the house, trying to find it.

Or…Bucky knows Satchel found it and ate it, a la the “look what I found on the sidewalk…I’m gonna eat it” storyline from a couple weeks ago, and he’s reduced the “I want it back” taunt to “booger”, whenever he sees Satchel enjoying a quiet moment to himself (bathtub, dining room table, his dog bed, etc.).

Either way, I/we have put *way* too much thought into a story arc that has encompassed only three words…actually, one word, repeated each day this week.

Oh, and “booger”.
dlauthor
April 5th, 2006 at 2:46 pm [Reply]

39: I will forgive you the sacrilege of grouping Benny Hill and Monty Python together, because the whole Pythonian aspect had occurred to me as well. The past three days have been an amusing bit of nonsense, in the same way that having a knight come in and hit someone with a chicken is, or cutting away to someone dressed as a Viking just so he can say “and then …” before cutting back. Even if it _doesn’t_ build to anything, it’s fun just for the absurdity of it (and, of course, for Satchel’s facial expressions).

Plus, of course, this is Bucky. If this were the first GF series I’d ever seen, I wouldn’t think it was that hot, but familiarity with the character, and his love for causing confusion and mayhem, makes it so.
TEM
April 5th, 2006 at 2:49 pm [Reply]

Has anyone else had their corneas seared by Jeremy’s mom in today’s “Zits”? She’s wearing the world’s most butt ugly sweater, which makes her much discussed rack look even more freakish. How can breasts point upward and sag at the same time? That must be some of that new cartoon physics they’re teaching now.

I’ve also noticed that she has horrible posture. Could it be that her breasts are so freakish in nature they’re pulling her down? It’s very John Merrick-ish if you think about it. They are not animals, they are (cartoon) human mammaries!
TEM
April 5th, 2006 at 2:49 pm [Reply]

Oh yeah. Booger.
Marc
April 5th, 2006 at 2:56 pm [Reply]

“But I am a fan of these potatoes Au Gratin!

How WASPY?!

But meanwhile, Mary has the most generic china hutch dishes in the entire world.

And Josh, he also spends time to get away fron his teal couch, not just the drop ceiling.

And..is it me, or does Barfy look Marmaduke-esque, today?
lilybdcsa
April 5th, 2006 at 3:27 pm [Reply]

GF is Too Zen for most people to get. It’s just funny. Does there have to be a logic to it?

Having said that….I believe Darby is building up to a great Bucky moment. If not, then it would still have been worth it for the artwork.
Sassy_Rocks
April 5th, 2006 at 3:36 pm [Reply]

Aflac
gnome de blog
April 5th, 2006 at 3:52 pm [Reply]

Okay, let’s review the bidding: the current Get Fuzzy arc is a) funny and b) building up to a coke-spewing conclusion because Conley’s recycled a Monty Python joke? What’s so brilliant and original about that?
dlauthor
April 5th, 2006 at 3:59 pm [Reply]

You know what is funny? Misinterpreting people’s arguments in order to glibly insist that you’re the arbiter of unfunny.

On another topic, I’m amazed that no one (unless I missed it) has remarked upon the absolutely “extreme” freaking lameness in Foobville today. Lynn: if puns are the lowest form of humor (or humour, if you will), then backing into a weak pun based on the title of a reality show is the premature infant in an incubator of humour. It’s like gnome wrote the gag or something.
BassoGap
April 5th, 2006 at 4:15 pm [Reply]

Not that this has *ever* stopped anyone here, but today’s Foob was just so unworthy of comment that nobody’s bothered.

That’s my guess, anyway.

Q: for those who were once fans/followers of all-things-Foob, when do you think the shark was jumped?

Yeah, I know, this might spark a war between those who’ll say “the first panel of the first day” and those who think today’s strip was the height of hilarity.

Ignore those two groups, Gentle Reader, and see if you can come up with a semi-serious answer. Tall order, I know.

My first thought? About the time Mike got married.

(Booger)
Happenstance
April 5th, 2006 at 4:56 pm [Reply]

God, Jamaal–it wouldn’t be a problem if you’d wipe occasionally.

Booger. Oh, come on, guys. Bucky’s making Satchel crazy with this already. Come Friday, all Hell is going to break loose.

It’s just…sometimes, GF is weird rather than funny. Remember when Bucky went a little too far, and Satch backed him up against the wall and threatened him? Threatened him so seriously that the last panel showed Bucky (now alone) staring down and trembling? That wasn’t funny. I’m not sure what that was.

Maybe Darb was telling us “be careful what you wish for.”

Uh-oh. I’ve fallen in love with another talking-pet comic…

http://www.ucomics.com/poochcafe/
DCBirdblaster
April 5th, 2006 at 5:00 pm [Reply]

DLAuthor: (#42) I did not intentionally group or mean to imply that Benny Hill was even in the same universe of hilarity as Python. I simply could not remember which show I was watching with the naked guy and stuff. The absurdity could be Python, the naked could be Benny.
I like ‘em both for entirely different reasons. And now for something completely different…

Maybe Darby has figured out that one can write the word Booger in the comics without ticking off the general censors. So, in a WKRP Dr. Fever moment is using it for the sheer fun of it.

(oh, I think I just dated myself).
yellojkt
April 5th, 2006 at 5:03 pm [Reply]

I’m on the record as saying FBoFW shark-jumped when Farley died. Lynn found out how maudlin can beat funny and never forgot.
DCBirdblaster
April 5th, 2006 at 5:14 pm [Reply]

FBoFW shark jumped when the kids stopped being kids. The whole appeal of the early stuff was Ellie dealing with all the little kid behavior, tantrums and the gotta luv ‘em ’cause ya can’t shoot ‘em situations all good parents encounter.

Now that the kids are grown and starting families of their own, it doesn’t appeal to as big an audience. The comic itself went from ‘Young Mom Sitcom’ to ‘Teen Angst After-School Special’ to ‘Empty-Nesters Anonymous’.

Does that make sense?
kostia
April 5th, 2006 at 5:27 pm [Reply]

It was sometime between April’s birth and Farley’s death. Considering April as good as killed Farley, I blame her entirely.
Maughta
April 5th, 2006 at 5:42 pm [Reply]

I agree with DCBirdblaster. I think Mike going to college sounded the death knell for FBoFW. Now it’s the equivalent of overhearing two parents at their kids’ soccer match, “Well, Gisela is starting Japanese today, but we’re a little worried that at four she might be starting a little late for that all important Harvard degree. And it might interfere with her underwater ballet lessons.” Has Michael won that Pulitzer yet?
Len
April 5th, 2006 at 5:45 pm [Reply]

#52 — DC Bird blaster: So, you dated yourself? Who picked up the tab? I date myself because I know I’m easy.

Wheeee! and Booger.
Old Fogey
April 5th, 2006 at 5:58 pm [Reply]

There’s something weird in the ether this afternoon. They’re discussing shark jumping on another blog I frequent.

FBOFW probably jumped when Farley died. I still like it though, even though it’s usually boring.

How do you rate a strip like MW in terms of shark-jumping? Did it ever NOT jump?

As for RMMD, when I was a little kid I really liked it. I thought it and Dick Tracy were real, in some alternate universe. I even had a crush on one of the characters, a bearded guy named Keith. Or maybe that was Judge Parker. I’m pretty sure that RMMD is now drawn by somebody different, so I’m assuming it jumped when the new artist came on board.

I didn’t have a life then, either.

Booger.
King Dogmeat
April 5th, 2006 at 5:58 pm [Reply]

Re Herb & Jamaal: Scrunching up one’s eye and making it emit an audible “wink!” may not be an effective way to impress nurses, buttocks or no.
Marc
April 5th, 2006 at 6:05 pm [Reply]

Maughta: Trust me, where I’m from, parents teach their children before they’re even born! All these post-Yuppie “Raise your offspring the correct way” magazines say anything, and the Nouveus Riche listen! (They have nothing better to do than count the inheritance from Great Granddad who left an enormous fortune to each of his great grandchildren.

Conversation I heard a week ago at Starbucks:

PYM1 (Post-Yuppie Mother): I’m so glad I had a chance to finally calm down and unwind! Darren kept me and David up til midnight!
PYM2: I finally have time to relax during the day ever since I enrolled Erica in Pre-Pre-school Yoga and Shiatsu massage class.
PYM1: Your daughter is going to be a masseuse?!
PYM2: Gosh no! I read in Parenting magazine that two year olds get stressed out daily from just exploring and taking in the endless sights and sounds of everyday life.
PYM1: We signed up Darren for Pre-NBA superstars Part 1 class at the YMCA.
PYM2: I love the Y! We send Stacy there for “I’m Ready World!” class which teaches her and her fellow five-year-old friends how to stay safe in case they’re in an iffy area!

..Okay, I’ll stop boring you.
anonymous
April 5th, 2006 at 7:31 pm [Reply]

FBOFW jumped the shark the moment April was born. I loathed her from the very beginning, lord forgive me, I wanted to drop kick her to the moon. I hate her as much today as I ever did. Maybe more.

Booger.
Zorba the Geek
April 5th, 2006 at 8:12 pm [Reply]

I agree- the entire Foobiverse jumped the shark (or “married Irving,” as the comic-equivalent phrase would have it) when April was born. The child is and always has been a brat. I don’t remember Mike and Liz being quite this bad.
martin
April 5th, 2006 at 8:57 pm [Reply]

When a family has three or more children the youngest always seems especially obnoxious. Maybe its because a proper family should only have two or fewer children. Somehow that third child always gives the impression of being an afterthought and a nuisance. This is where Lynn Johnson is so brilliant, she knows this and presents it well. Personally, I think the strip jumped the shark when the old man and old woman got married. Ugh, the thought of those two having sex turned me off the strip for good. Knowing how Lynn thinks, however, I presume one of the old farts will drop dead in some dramatic fashion and greatly improve the strip.
DCBirdblaster
April 5th, 2006 at 9:22 pm [Reply]

Yes, I dated myself. It looked funny when I wrote it and it looks funny now. But it’s a valid expression meaning that I made some comment that gave away my age by referencing a piece of pop culture only a person my age would know about. And yes I saw the original episode of WKRP on TV. Back when there were only 3 channels broadcast over the air.

And yes I do date myself in the other way too. God knows nobody else will, not even my wife.
bozo
April 5th, 2006 at 9:34 pm [Reply]

I agree with Martin that FBoFW will be improved when the grandfather takes the final dirt nap. As the only non-member of 4-evah who gave a damn about the group, his death will throw April into a sea of self-pity, despair, anger and bitterness that will lead to running with the wrong crowd, the bottle, the pipe and eventually the needle. She will also illustrate her sloppily shaved mons with a tatoo of a gaping fang toothed mouth. Lynn Johnson will find a way to make it all so amusing.
Colleen
April 5th, 2006 at 10:13 pm [Reply]

Unlike everyone else, I love the current GF strip…it has me cracking up every morning. If you don’t find it funny, I suggest you go to work tomorrow, walk into random rooms, say booger and walk out, and see what people’s reactions are. Then you will find it funny.
Ferd Berfel
April 5th, 2006 at 10:31 pm [Reply]

#51/Happenstance has Get Fuzzy nailed. All hell is going to break loose on Friday when Rob gets home. This has all been in one day. Poor Satchel is sort of an au pair for the satanic Bucky, he walks him on a leash remember? Bucky is just trying to drive him nuts.

Believe me, Rob is going to come home from work to find Satchel dressed up as Carmen Miranda and spinning from a ceiling fan. Or something like that.

As for FOBOW jumping the shark, I never liked Johnston’s trite tripe from the beginning. However, like many others, I’d have to say the strip descended into a deeper circle of hell when April was born. That just smacked of those ‘very special’ episodes sitcoms resort to when the writers run out of ideas. Her Foobness is slowly slogging through all the standards; births, marriages, ’serious social issues’, and death.

I’m hoping she’ll recycle the death trope and flush Ol’ Scrotum Chin down to Goldfish Heaven. She has already wrung out that particular hanky with that damned dog from several years back.
Marc
April 5th, 2006 at 11:09 pm [Reply]

April 6th, 2006: Mary Worth resorts to talking about potatoes Au Gratin…………for more than one panel. I see this as a week long journey from plate to mouth, am I wrong? Mary has that look on her face as if she didn’t make those, and it was a boxed mix she bought at the grocery store. You tricky person, Mary!

“Diets are meant to be broken!”

Mary thinks: “Shovel it down, fatty, unhinge your jaw. This mix expired five years ago!”
mfdshan
April 6th, 2006 at 12:26 am [Reply]

Phantom 4/6: If that’s how Heloise is going to fill out the purple suit, she’d better keep that rifle handy.

I hope Kit decides he’d rather be a professional polo player.
Happenstance
April 6th, 2006 at 12:49 am [Reply]

Oh, wait, now I remember when I started actually hating FBOFW. One of the daughters–Liz, I think–started lecturing a friend about smoking. And she wouldn’t back the **** off.

Now, I’d personally love to waste everyone in the boardroom of Phillip Morris with a baseball bat–aluminum, for that sweet bink! sound!–and I don’t tolerate any nonsense from thoughtless tobacco junkies who think I have to accept their habit on their terms.

But Liz’s friend wasn’t bothering anyone, and told Liz she knew she’d be better off without her addiction–but it was her decision to make, and she didn’t need anyone nagging her about it.

Completely ignoring this, Liz just kept badgering her and badgering her with her “I know what’s best for you! I’m your friend and mental superior!” attitude, all the while wearing this blank expression that says, “No, I don’t belong to a cult! It’s a legitimate religion!!”

Hate people like that. Bink!

Oh, check out the flash animation for Liz. It looks like it’s about to go somewhere you don’t expect…

http://www.fborfw.com/char_pgs/liz/
Happenstance
April 6th, 2006 at 2:16 am [Reply]

http://www.comics.com/comics/monty/archive/monty-20060406.html

Holy moley–Monty’s week of running one stupid gag into the ground over and over again actually ended with a genuine laugh. Was Meddick’s editor sleep on the job?
Frank Drackman
April 6th, 2006 at 5:44 am [Reply]

Back in the Nam, we called the C-ration Potatoes Au Gratin, “Potatoes all rotten” it still brings back flashbacks when i think of it.
anonymous
April 6th, 2006 at 6:20 am [Reply]

4/6/06 FBOFW – Isn’t that the looming shape of Shannon-the-learning-disabled behind Apes? Who wants to bet she’ll commiserate with Apes over Becky’s bragging and will reveal herself to be a keyboards genius?
SteveDallasFan
April 6th, 2006 at 7:16 am [Reply]

In RMMD, Dr. Troy’s old “room mate” is Harry Ellis.

I wonder if he’s related to Bill Ellis, “Mark Trail’s editor-from-Woods-and-Wildlife-Magazine?”
Harry Worth
April 6th, 2006 at 7:35 am [Reply]

So, the Beckster is showing some signs of success.

Fie on here.

She is not a Patterson so she is not deserving of success. She needs to get hit by a bus or something just to show here that it is not nice to do anything outside of the “family”.

Tony Soprano could learn a few lessons from Elly.
Howard Erk
April 6th, 2006 at 7:37 am [Reply]

booger

bwaaaaaaaaaaaaaa haaaaaaaaaaaa haaaaaaaaaaa haaaaaaaa haaaaaaaa

booger booger

heeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee heeeeeeeeeeeeeee heeeeeeeeeeeeeeee heeeeeeeeee

Man, how did I NOT see the humor in that.

Maybe on Friday, the frat boys and I can go on a panty raid.
420
April 6th, 2006 at 7:47 am [Reply]

What a dope.
juggernaut
April 6th, 2006 at 7:52 am [Reply]

see, we rip apart the serial strips for moving sooooooooooooo slow. we rip apart the “humorous” strips that are almost never ever funny. we rip apart strips that hamfistedly attempt cerebral humor.

and YET – we defend GF to the death, simply because it’s usually sort of funny, or at least mildly entertaining. this whole week, tho, has been a waste. NO joke could be so funny as to justify such a long, f***ing boring buildup. sure, it’s funny to go into a room and say “booger” just to get a reaction. but to have to read the same damn joke day after day in a 3 panel cartoon? that ain’t funny. if it were the foobs, or b.c., or curtis, we’d be crucifying the strip.

a crap joke is a crap joke, no matter which strip it shows up in. it ain’t “zen”, it ain’t “cerebral”, it ain’t “surreal”. hell, it’s not even as entertaining as dilbert, and that’s pretty sad………………
Chris
April 6th, 2006 at 7:53 am [Reply]

April killed Farley. All that crap about “sail the boat” was a total lie. She murdered a dog in cold blood.

She is pure evil.

And, by the way, a big Python fan way back in the original day, but there old stuff is unwatchable now, except as history. But most of Benny Hill remains highly amusing.

So there.
MaryAnnTheRest
April 6th, 2006 at 7:54 am [Reply]

I made my 7 year old read all of this week’s Get Fuzzy strips and she thinks they’re hysterically funny and original. Of course she also thinks that knock knock jokes are hysterically funny and original. But we’re having fun sneaking up on each other and saying “Booger”.

I don’t think that “marrying Irving” works as a synonym for jump the shark because Cathy was never good. Marrying Irving is more like when something is abysmal and you don’t think it could get worse, and then it does. Like when you’ve been getting your teeth worked on for half an hour and then the dentist picks up the really big and squealy drill.
Chris
April 6th, 2006 at 7:57 am [Reply]

Okay, I need some coffee…”their” old stuff…sorry.
Sassy_Rocks
April 6th, 2006 at 8:24 am [Reply]

The new Phantomette fills out her skintight lycra spandex very nicely!

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/style/comics/king.htm?name=Phantom
Len
April 6th, 2006 at 8:36 am [Reply]

#71 — I like how Dave the Alien pantomimes holding a firearm, so as to make clear that Beetle Bailey’s “action” was not sexual.
dlauthor
April 6th, 2006 at 8:40 am [Reply]

Actually, old Python is eminently watchable. How is this possible? Well, people watch it. And much of it is still funny, although obviously familiarity will end up breeding contempt for some.

Foob: I like how Becky’s new admirers thoughtfully label their offerings things like “Math Quiz Answers” and “Essay”. Wish I’d had the postmodern thought to name one of my essays “Essay” when I was in high school. But does anyone else think it a trifle odd that all her admirers are … well, girls? Has she gone roadside on the other side of the road?

Mallard: dastardly taxes! Evil taxes! Wasn’t America founded on the principle of “no taxation,” after all? What’s that? “No taxation _without representation_?” Nah, that’s too complex for Tinsley’s target reader. And too many syllables.

Prickly: I like how the “channeling Reagan” thing captures his witless stare. Must be channeling him from the latter, when’s-my-naptime?, days of his presidency.

Dilbert: is at its best when it gets absurd.

GF: Booger. Hell, yeah. Too bad people have such a short attention span that they can’t deal with this week’s strips. The payoff might not come till Saturday, though — hope people can keep from having mental breakdowns!

Oh, and have fun with the panty raid, Howard. Good to see you’re finally thinking of getting some new underwear.
Sassy_Rocks
April 6th, 2006 at 8:41 am [Reply]

In Taiwan “holding a firearm” or loosely translated, “shoot a handgun” is the slang term for auto gratification. Perhaps Beetle’s action was of that variety.
Hogenmogen
April 6th, 2006 at 8:54 am [Reply]

#80, “Marrying Irving” sort of works in the cartoon universe as “Jumping the shark” did for TV. It’s not like “Happy Days” was the “Citizen Kane” of TV. It was a mediocre show that just lost all semblance of bearability at that point. In fact, I used to watch it every week, but I never saw another episode after the shark jump. In fact, if I remember correctly, the jump was at the climax of a two parter, and I never saw the second part. For all I know, the Fonz got mangled horribly by Jaws and died screaming.

I’d partake in the discussion of Foobville’s shark jump moment, but I’m sorry that I’ve always felt that For Better Or For Worse would have been bettler titled “For Worse”.

MT, by the way, doesn’t it look like Mark himself is one of the miscreants who are borrowing Bizarro’s ubiquitous sticks of dynamite to blow up the road?
BassoGap
April 6th, 2006 at 8:58 am [Reply]

Phantom — Holy Crap! can we get one of those suits for June Morgan?

Frazz — love how the kid’s shoe is blown off.

GF — panel 2, with Bucky in silhouette…cool.

PBS — I didn’t think the “Old Yeller/Eat da dog!” could be topped. But “leetle bacon girl” and “Miss Baloney Ball” have done it. Congrats, Mr. Pastis.

MW — Are Lou and Kelly *standing* at the table? And Kelly, Lou’s not even trying to be subtle. He doesn’t want you thin–he knows you’ll leave him for a guy who craves you, instead of potatoes au gratin…

RMMD — “Politely hang up, Lilly”…before he asks if I’ve gone fishing lately, and you realize I never found that note from you.

Booger.
Len
April 6th, 2006 at 9:10 am [Reply]

I was brought up Jewish, and can totally relate to Abby (in Edge City) and her brisket-cooking mother. My Mom was also what I called “a Cullinary Jew.” She didn’t care what the religious significance of a holiday was, but would totally obsess over what foods were used to celebrate. I came home from Hebrew School one evening, and said, “Tomorrow is an obscure Jewish holiday. It’s Tu Bishvat.”

My Mom’s response? “What do you cook for that?”

(Since Tu Bishvat celebrates the growing of trees, I should’ve suggested “maple syrup and brocolli,” but I wasn’t as quick a thinker in those days.)

http://www.chron.com/apps/comics/showComick.mpl?date=20060406&name=Edge_City
Irina
April 6th, 2006 at 9:12 am [Reply]

MW: I like how Lou piles potatoes on Kelly’s plate in a mound similar to Richard Dryfuss in Close Encounters of the Third Kind in panel one of Thursday’s strip.

And I’m a little sad that Lou dropped his maniacal laugh in the second panel. The production assistant had the echo-effects on his boom mike all prepared and everything.
Chris
April 6th, 2006 at 9:15 am [Reply]

People watch a lot of crap, doesn’t make the crap any less crappy.

The Python stuff just hasn’t aged well for me. Other stuff (the original Producers movie, Yes, Minister, the really good Get a Life episodes, The Honeymooners, for example) I can watch till the end of time. But the Python stuff, while intermittently amusing, seems so self-conscious to me these days.

Back to comics–Phantomette=Femdom, and I mean that in a good way!

Mary Worth is redifining banal. Downwards. To the very bowels of hell.

Yeah, Troy in RMMD is a glory hole veteran, big time.
Irina
April 6th, 2006 at 9:19 am [Reply]

Here’s a little picture for ya, Len, compliments of Gene Weingarten’s chat update:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/liveonline/images/image5.jpg

Hope you and your mom enjoy the irony.
BigJoe
April 6th, 2006 at 9:49 am [Reply]

BC: Another masterful job combining humor and cleverness.

http://www.chron.com/apps/comics/showComic.mpl?date=2006/4/6&name=BC

Now according to Hart’s logic, in this alternate reality wouldn’t the “union guy with the 5-foot pole” have a job? So how does that explain anything? And why am I wasting time on this stupid strip?
TEM
April 6th, 2006 at 9:51 am [Reply]

#46: Good point, lilybdcsa. Does that mean our favorite siamese is actually Buckysattva?

#66: Colleen: I’m digging (probably not the right word to use for booger jokes) the GF strip just because of what you said. I think I’ll try it in random spots where nobody knows me – elevators, the grocery store, with the attendant at the gas station – to see the reactions.
Len
April 6th, 2006 at 9:53 am [Reply]

#90 — I don’t think Mom would’ve served pork chops for Passover… But she WAS confused by why chicken cutlet parmegian was NOT kosher! What part of this cuisine relates to “a calf seethed in it’s mother’s milk”? –Buck buck ba-buck, Mom! –Moo, son!

But then if in Pearls Before Swine, Rat can have dated “Bacon Girl”… See the problems involved in mixed marriages?
Library Cat
April 6th, 2006 at 9:59 am [Reply]

#75
Perfect! I can’t pinpoint an exact time when Lynn jumped the shark for me. But it was when she got the mindset (#70) that she and her comic family could do no wrong and in fact needed to counsel the entire world to do better. Liz couldn’t just be a teacher at the elementary school down the road, she had to go to BFE and teach the noble Native Americans. Cause she’s just that damn selfless.
Sarah
April 6th, 2006 at 10:24 am [Reply]

Did you see Judge Parker, today – I think Abbey (sp?) is carrying around an extra pair of legs!
Howard Erk
April 6th, 2006 at 10:30 am [Reply]

Here’s something to keep you GF fans in stiches

booger

and here is a bonus

poopy

that should keep you laughing for a week
SteveDallasFan
April 6th, 2006 at 10:32 am [Reply]

Having just recently watched all six hours of the retrospective “Monty Python’s Personal Best”, and having laughed my ass off at most of it even though I know most of the dialogue by heart, to those who no longer find it funny I can only say:

Booger.
BassoGap
April 6th, 2006 at 10:33 am [Reply]

Sarah (#96) — Abbey might have an extra pair of legs, but she definitely has a daughter emailing with the DHS press secretary…
SteveDallasFan
April 6th, 2006 at 10:37 am [Reply]

I think it’s time for the Phantom strip to fast-forward permanently to “Phantomette”*

*Bust who Walks”
Irina
April 6th, 2006 at 10:44 am [Reply]

“Bust who Walks”

Heeheeheehee.

Yeah, all-grown-up Heloise does give June a run for her money, doesn’t she?
Sassy_Rocks
April 6th, 2006 at 10:51 am [Reply]

That mature Phantomette is a brick house, mighty, mighty, just letting it all hang out. Although June hasn’t really donned the form fitting lycra spandex of the Phantomette, she would probably look good in it, too.
plumberninja
April 6th, 2006 at 10:51 am [Reply]

Sounds to me like Lou wants to do very indecent things with those Potatos Au Gratin…
Howard Erk
April 6th, 2006 at 10:51 am [Reply]

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Irina
April 6th, 2006 at 10:55 am [Reply]

LOU> You know that exercise bores me, Kelly! … And I’m not really a fan of the outdoors! But I AM a fan of these boogers au gratin!

LOU> You HAVE to try some of these boogers, hon! They’re superb!

KELLY> No! It’s OK! *looks at the heaping mound of boogers on her plate, and smiles* Well, diets are meant to be broken, aren’t they?
maureen
April 6th, 2006 at 11:04 am [Reply]

Aside the point, unfortunately, but anyone who doesn’t think Python represents the highest, most sophisitcated, most subtle and side-spittingnest form of houmour should read :
this

and this.
BigJoe
April 6th, 2006 at 11:17 am [Reply]

#96 – Actually, she must be an acrobat. She’s obviously sitting on a stool due to how high she is. Have you ever tried to pull your legs up to your chest like that on a stool?

And it appears that Sam is delusional. Since he apparently doesn’t know, when you wake up hours before dawn to finish a paper, it doesn’t mean you’re an “achiever supreme.” It means you’re a “procrastinator supreme” and you’re frantically trying to churn out a barely passable paper to avoid failing.
rich
April 6th, 2006 at 11:22 am [Reply]

42 and 46 summed up this week’s Get Fuzzy better than I could have. Not side-splitting, but strange and beautifully drawn. The humor this week may be minimalist but the art has been maximalist (?)!

100: The new Phantom will be called Nancy Walker*

* for the Ghost Who Walks in Ladies’ Clothing
dimestore lipstick
April 6th, 2006 at 11:27 am [Reply]

At last, it can be said.

Mark Trail truly blows goats.
420
April 6th, 2006 at 11:33 am [Reply]

Just a thought: If someone were to critique the humor level in a certain comic wouldn’t they want to be funnier than the comic they berate? It doesn’t work if the joke(s) they post aren’t the least bit humorous and said comic regardless of it’s lack of humor is still funnier than the poster’s attempt to mock it.
BigJoe
April 6th, 2006 at 11:59 am [Reply]

#110 – That wasn’t very funny.
Lyman Returns
April 6th, 2006 at 12:08 pm [Reply]

I love the panel in today’s GF where we are staring directly downward on Bucky and Satchel. Interesting angle, well rendered by the artist, and very avant-garde for comic strips.
rich
April 6th, 2006 at 12:12 pm [Reply]

I thought the coyote in Prickly City was supposed to be the “liberal” one (or is it all relative — like compared to Pat Robertson, George Will is “liberal”?)

Two examples:

1) Why would a liberal (or moderate) “channel” the likes of Ronald Raygun? (And thanks to little Prickly Heat for reminding us that “Reagan was all about smaller government!” — trillion dollar deficits, yep, that’s some small government!)

2) Why would a liberal jump on the knee-jerk anti-French bandwagon?
420
April 6th, 2006 at 12:12 pm [Reply]

# 111

Back at ya.
Irina
April 6th, 2006 at 12:20 pm [Reply]

rich — people (well, comic-people, at least) can channel anyone, personality/ideology notwithstanding.

Case in point: Back around 15-20 years ago, Doonesbury’s Boopsie would periodically channel a 10th c. mongolian warlord named Hunk-Ra.

Our favorite comic ex-stripper/B-grade movie starlet/airhead didn’t exactly have the same temperment as the bloodthirsty axe-wielding warrior who would occasionally take over. :)
BigJoe
April 6th, 2006 at 12:23 pm [Reply]

#114 – Okay, that was mildly amusing.
Howard Erk
April 6th, 2006 at 12:25 pm [Reply]

booger
Irina
April 6th, 2006 at 12:27 pm [Reply]

*silently glowers at Howard Erk from afar*
420
April 6th, 2006 at 12:27 pm [Reply]

# 116

I got nothin’
Sassy_Rocks
April 6th, 2006 at 12:40 pm [Reply]

Howard Erk:

Maybe you can channel some of that negative energy and make Grandpa die before May 6th. I pity the funeral parlor that has to make his death chin look scrotum-like.
rich
April 6th, 2006 at 12:48 pm [Reply]

115: That’s true, but I suspect Stantis truly believes that Reagan was someone who united the country and that everyone’s got a soft spot in their head, uh, heart, for the ol’ “Great Communicator.”

I mean when the coyote comes back to his original self he isn’t going “Ewww — I did what?!”, as I would.
Howard Erk
April 6th, 2006 at 12:50 pm [Reply]

booger booger
dlauthor
April 6th, 2006 at 1:01 pm [Reply]

4. Donâ€™t be an insufferable prick.
Goober
April 6th, 2006 at 1:19 pm [Reply]

121: You just have to remember that not everyone understands that politically conservative people are morally blighted and sub-human. Your physical disgust at channeling Reagan speaks well of your moral purity, though. I for one am fucking impressed.

(DT)GT: Brent’s suddenly very masculine white-trash mom raises her creepy, elongated index finger. Brent forgot to pick up her Marlboro Lights, Moon Pies, and Dr. Pepper.

MW: Lou smirks at his triumph in once again sabotaging Kelly’s diet, and he drags her back into the land of Fat.
Widdle Jeffy
April 6th, 2006 at 1:23 pm [Reply]

Billy is the kind of dope who takes 50 minute showers ’cause the shampoo says lather rinse repeat. . .
Josh
April 6th, 2006 at 1:29 pm [Reply]

Thus speaks Josh: the tone of this thread is becoming unplesant. Just becuase someone says something pissy you don’t like doesn’t mean you have to respond in kind. Repeat after me: it’s just an Internet discussion board about comics and is meant to be fun. If you’re thinking of posting something pissy, think thrice and then chill.

Back to your discussion.

jf
Smitty Smedlap
April 6th, 2006 at 1:56 pm [Reply]

Indeed.

Anyhoo, I just got a look at yesterday’s Foobetter or For Worse in color, and I have one question about Eva.

To quote The Waco Kid from Blazing Saddles; “Are we….black?”
Howard Erk
April 6th, 2006 at 2:27 pm [Reply]

So if I say “booger” it is being pissy but if GF says it, it is high art.

Well…..

booger
Sassy_Rocks
April 6th, 2006 at 2:33 pm [Reply]

Mary Worth could have been a little more considerate about the dinner menu, knowing as she does that Kelly is a plumper trying desperately to lose weight. Potatoes au gratin contains 106% of the mdr for saturated fat and that’s from the freeze dried variety. The greasy coronary in a blob of gelatinous goop that Mary Worth serves is probably twice that amount.
Harry Worth
April 6th, 2006 at 3:18 pm [Reply]

Mary likes them a little on the plump side.

Why do you think she sent Rita packing?
Irina
April 6th, 2006 at 3:32 pm [Reply]

Mary’s Superb Potatoes au Gratin posted in the Kardinal’s Kitchen …
Goober
April 6th, 2006 at 3:44 pm [Reply]

Even though poor Kelly told Mary that she’s trying to lose weight and make herself over, Mary still puts out the extra fatty potatoes au gratin. Mary’s working in collusion with Lou to keep Kelly plump, because both Lou and Mary’s tastes run that way. After dinner she’ll make Kelly put on a too-tight bustier and serve dessert. Mary and Lou will end up eating Cool Whip off Kelly’s fat naked body.
Hogenmogen
April 6th, 2006 at 4:06 pm [Reply]

MW: Kelly needs to practice a little more restraint. One panel between “No, it’s okay.” and “Oh well, diets are meant to be broken!” Actually, Kelly, they aren’t, but why let that get in the way of some worthless platitutde?

Kelly looks and acts far differently than that sad looking brown-haired weary power-walker that we first met several weeks ago.

Kelly Stirling is obviously obsessive-compulsive, and that’s the mental problem that Mary Worthless will eventually try to fix. She says she’s going to work out, and then dives into it with such vigor that she almost gets an arrythmia for her troubles. Then she’s on a strict diet, until someone offers her food. Prepare for the worst tomorrow as she indulges in the potatoes with such shameless abandon that it makes Rita Bugler look prudent.

#110 et al: Josh’s critiques are usually milk-through-the-nose-funny. But even if his critique was only mild, he doesn’t make nearly what the heirs of Ketcham or Schultz do for their repeats. The rest of us plebians don’t have to be funny because we aren’t paid at all.
Len
April 6th, 2006 at 4:38 pm [Reply]

#127 — I thought Eva was Hispanic, but how many Hispanics do you find in Canada? Would Lynne allow the black kid to flirt with Eva if she was a white girl? Lizard-breath is having her fling with half-Ojibway Dudley Dew-Rite, but the Patterson’s are more open-minded than your run of the mill Canadians. And Grandpa obviously has Alien DNA, having cross-bred some generations back with the ET’s who have genitalia in their chins (a la “Men In Black”).
leathermessiah
April 6th, 2006 at 5:37 pm [Reply]

GT: Man, I gotta say, I didn’t think it was possible to beat the poofy-haired lump that is Brent, but that was before him mother entered the strip. It all becomes clear…

GF: Okay, was there a lead-in to this whole “booger” saga that I missed? Does Satchel have a pathological fear of boogers? What is going on? As amusing as it is to see Satchel in various states of panic, I kind of wish I knew what on earth was happening.
leathermessiah
April 6th, 2006 at 5:41 pm [Reply]

Evidently no, nobody else knows where this came from. That’ss teach me to post before reading the backlog of comments…

(Booger)
Marc
April 6th, 2006 at 5:44 pm [Reply]

Kelly is obviously OCD as hogenmogen stated.

Aren’t diets meant to be kept so that the desired weight is achieved? Wouldn’t OCD Kelly want a nice body without cottage sheese theighs and rolls of fat? Eating Potatoes Au Gratin on a diet is as bad as having a stuffed crust pizza from dominoes with a Big Mac side dish. For dessert, I bet Mary is going to whip out some left-over apple strudel from Wilbur, who visited her about
two months ago..or so it seems.

CUT TO SCENE: Kelly is hunched over an electric blue toilet with her finger about to be inserted into her mouth.

“What a delicious dinner! Too bad it has to go now.” proclaims a saddened Kelly Stirling.
bell hooks
April 6th, 2006 at 7:09 pm [Reply]

booger
bell hooks
April 6th, 2006 at 7:10 pm [Reply]

Heeeelllooo zeeba neeba!!

booger
Vince M.
April 6th, 2006 at 7:48 pm [Reply]

MT – How far away IS that goat? Dynamite Guy must have super eagle vision.
Chet McCord, Wildlife Defender
April 6th, 2006 at 7:51 pm [Reply]

134: Len, I think there are more interracial marriages in Canada than in the US, and it’s a much more tolerant society in general. Unless we’re talking about anglophones and francophones.

Now, am I the only one who thinks that Luann might be switching over to play on Tommie’s team?
420
April 7th, 2006 at 8:04 am [Reply]

133-

My comments were not directed to Josh. I thought it was obvious who it was directed to. I never had a problem w/ Josh and probably never will. He does in fact make milk shoot out my nose unlike 1 other guy I will refer to as Howard Erk so as not to let on who I actually meant it for.

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