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Today is not Thursday! Today is FOURSDAY!

That’s right! I couldn’t settle one just one, so I’ve got four comics for today! I hope this is storing up goodwill against those days when I don’t post anything at all.

Apartment 3-G, 4/6/06

Tommie’s secret thought balloon in panel three: “Ugh … Lu Ann’s self-actualization … so boring … must pinch neck … to keep myself awake …” Fortunately, she’s a medical professional, and won’t accidentally cut off the bloodflow to her brain and collapse in a heap on the floor. Not that it would stop Lu Ann from nattering on.

9 Chickweed Lane, 4/6/06

Yeah, go ahead, show him the address. After all, he’s a priest! And we all know that they never do anything disreputable or pervy. No sir.

(So I’m going to hell for that. But I was going anyway, so I might as well enjoy the ride.)

Family Circus, 4/6/06

So this is the cookie aisle, right? And all the boxes are arranged on the shelf so that their fronts, with their lovingly detailed close-up pictures of delicious, delicious cookies, are turned so as to be largely invisible to hungry shoppers, while their sides, with detailed information about the massive amounts of fat, industrial chemicals, and animal byproducts in said cookies, are prominently displayed for all to see. Plus, the boxes are all a muted brown. Where do these people shop, the Depressing Store?

Also (and this next paragraph is an extended shout-out to my professional linguist homies over at the Language Log, who have linked to me several times despite my near-total absence of linguistics content), I’ve always found the verb construction Mom’s deploying here pretty stilted and weird. It’s a verb of being governing a negative infinitive, which makes it … well, hell, if I knew that, I’d be writing “I analyze syntax so you don’t have to,” or, you know, the Language Log, instead of this thing. I reached back a decade and rummaged around my half-remembered memories of Latin for a while and came out with the phrase “hortatory subjunctive,” but I don’t think that’s right. Anyway, it does have a certain advantage in that saying “Don’t open it until you get home” would make her look pretty dumb, since he’s already opened it. This way she gets to make a general statement of fact without having to either ignore or explicitly acknowledge the reality of her greedy, gobbly, smarmy little brat of a son.

Gil Thorp, 4/6/06

I’m going to hazard a guess that a year from now the Rap-Dog is still going to be fetching menthols and Mello Yello for his overbearing trailer-bound Momma. Either that or he will have killed and taxidermied her, though even then he’ll probably still be alternately cowering from her wrath and having sullen arguments with her in his mind. Come to think of that, he might very well be doing that already.

It’s hard to stay mad at a woman whose shirt is decorated with tasty Doritos, though. Mmmm … Doritos.

This entry was posted on Thursday, April 6, 2006 at 07:28 pm and is filed under 9 Chickweed Lane, Apartment 3-G, Family Circus, Gil Thorp.

99 responses to “Today is not Thursday! Today is FOURSDAY!”

fred p.
April 6th, 2006 at 7:45 pm [Reply]

I think Tommie’s just checking her pulse to make certain that she has not, in fact, been bored to death by Lu Ann’s spiel of tedium
Vince M.
April 6th, 2006 at 7:51 pm [Reply]

GT – Panel 3: Now I know where Cheney hides out when he’s at an ‘undisclosed location’.
Mac
April 6th, 2006 at 7:58 pm [Reply]

Brent is getting really porcine. At least, I assume he is and that it’s not just a particularly bad-even-for-GT couple of drawings.
Howard Roark
April 6th, 2006 at 8:08 pm [Reply]

“Garfield” is very funny today. He gormandizes lasagna in the penultimate panel.
John
April 6th, 2006 at 8:09 pm [Reply]

I like how both Apartment 3-G and 9 Chickweed feature characters shifting position relative to each other from panel to panel.
Marc
April 6th, 2006 at 8:27 pm [Reply]

“Plus, the boxes are all a muted brown. Where do these people shop, the Depressing Store?”

haha!! The Depressing Store. AKA the Gradient store.

“Mommy! Can I get the box of cookies with 240 grams of fat?!”
“Sure dear, but if the box has a happy feeling conveyed, then no.”
prepress monkey
April 6th, 2006 at 8:44 pm [Reply]

Thel has one of the finest comic bosoms known to man, and by thunder I will not sit idly by while her syntax is disrespectfully parsed.

Booger!
Ron
April 6th, 2006 at 8:45 pm [Reply]

Brent’s going to be like that one kid in Friday Night Lights!
Frank Drackman
April 6th, 2006 at 8:45 pm [Reply]

Ahhh Lu Anns lovely DSLs……that Priest looks like one of those creepy Dr. Seuss characters from the Grinch movie. AT first I thought Billy and Mom were shopping at the public library in the middle of the stacks. I think Moms using the future perfect subjuctive tense/mood…when you talk about something that will have already happened in the future..
dee
April 6th, 2006 at 8:46 pm [Reply]

To #4:
Somebody likes his thesaurus………
Maughta
April 6th, 2006 at 8:47 pm [Reply]

Anyone else getting a weird kind of “Psycho” vibe from (DT)GT? …Coming, Mother…
Scott
April 6th, 2006 at 8:59 pm [Reply]

It’s “You’re not to open that before you get home,” no?
AwfulArt
April 6th, 2006 at 9:06 pm [Reply]

A pig in a bubble surrounded by crocs.. “PBS” is great today.. I don’t know how to post it so everyone can see it.. Help….
Doug Puthoff
April 6th, 2006 at 9:08 pm [Reply]

What’s the that cash register in “Gil Thorp?” That kind went out with David Cassidy.
TDB
April 6th, 2006 at 9:08 pm [Reply]

The boy is a literalist…he’ll probably grow up and try to “drink Canada Dry”. Which is what I suspect his dad does in secret anyway.
Jimmy
April 6th, 2006 at 9:26 pm [Reply]

Thel should have said “you weren’t to open those until we got home,” which is a usage of the Past Future Perfect Laudatory Declamatory Tense Twice Removed, which is only used by loser Moms who spend their days fighting Pyrrhic battles.
Ferd Berfel
April 6th, 2006 at 9:27 pm [Reply]

I’m enjoying the Donald Trump cameo in (DT)GT. I think casting him as Rap-Dog was inspired.
AwfulArt
April 6th, 2006 at 9:28 pm [Reply]

“Unfit” is also great tonight. Maybe after a hard day the strips are funnier at night..
kostia
April 6th, 2006 at 9:33 pm [Reply]

What really bothers me about that Family Circus is that I can’t get it through my head that there’s some sort of sequential conversation going on between “Text in speech balloon” and “Text in under-panel caption.” It’s just so ODD.
mooselet
April 6th, 2006 at 10:01 pm [Reply]

If Edda Burber were a young boy, there’d be problems.

And what kind of grocery store not only stacks cookie boxes sideways, but puts them in the same aisle as jars of mayonaise? Does mayo make a good cookie dip?
Marc
April 6th, 2006 at 10:19 pm [Reply]

Mooselet- I think the jars are too small ot be mayonaisse, but they are the right size to be some sort of dp, such as the processed cheese dips that Kraft puts out.
Badly_Computer_Animated_Boy
April 6th, 2006 at 10:21 pm [Reply]

All linguistic debate aside, Billy has a point.
thetachyix
April 6th, 2006 at 10:29 pm [Reply]

Oh. The title is a pun. For “Thor’s Day.” Well played Josh, well played.
Mibbitmaker
April 6th, 2006 at 10:40 pm [Reply]

Josh, I like my absurdist joke about the last panel of (DT)GT better: (continuing the speech balloon) “…You KNOW when I get this worried, the triangles on my shirt get really itchy!”

Given the current GF, maybe Abbie the Wonder Dog’s tagline should be “BOOGER! BOOGER! BOOGER!” this week.
Scipio
April 6th, 2006 at 10:59 pm [Reply]

I think what you’re searching for is “negative future passive participle”, specifically,

“tibi non aperturum est donec domi revenerimus.”

“it’s not to be opened by you until we shall have returned home.”
2fs
April 6th, 2006 at 11:15 pm [Reply]

I think the verb tense in question is properly referred to as “you little shit now I have to pay for another goddam half-eaten box of drool-covered cookies oh christ where’s that damned flask of scotch…” Also, re PBS today: I spent the whole day thinking “leetle bacon girl” and giggling to myself. Good thing I’m not a priest.
Honey
April 6th, 2006 at 11:56 pm [Reply]

Or she could just say, “I’ve told you not to open those before we get home!”

But that would be too normal for round panel comic world.
Matt
April 7th, 2006 at 12:06 am [Reply]

I’d like to note that all week long, Get Fuzzy has been the apotheosis of awesome.
Mordy
April 7th, 2006 at 1:13 am [Reply]

Or she could have said; “You awful kid. Don’t play stupid with me.” But that would break the fourth wall of cordiality that the Family Circus parents are forced to respect. The only time my parents used the word “till” when talking to me was in reference to alcohol – I believe they favored the colloquial “until” when deriding my cookie habits.
Len
April 7th, 2006 at 1:16 am [Reply]

#20 — But Mooselet — what happens when the priest meets Seth, and they recognize each other from hanging out at the same gay bar?

Bugger, not booger.
Hank Kimble
April 7th, 2006 at 7:30 am [Reply]

I may have missed this comment before, but Ted Forth looks like Conan O’brien.
GotFuzzy
April 7th, 2006 at 7:41 am [Reply]

Not only is Mama Raptor wearing a shirt covered with Doritos (or are they embedded right into the fabric?), she’s also sporting the same hairstyle as Josh Hartnett in Lucky Number Slevin.

Booger
Julia
April 7th, 2006 at 7:46 am [Reply]

When I saw the FC my first thought was, “Doesn’t he know eating isn’t allowed in libraries?”
RichM
April 7th, 2006 at 7:48 am [Reply]

That’s Rap-Dog’s mama? I thought it was his father with a mullet.

28: C’mon, Darby’s just phoning it in.
Hogenmogen
April 7th, 2006 at 8:08 am [Reply]

Today’s (Friday) 9 Chickweed has done the seemingly impossible hat trick in respect to three panels of silence.

#5, 9 Chickweed’s priest clearly starts at the front of the desk, then begins walking to the side of the desk, then is behind the desk. It looks a bit awkward, and improbable that an office would be arranged in such a way that the person at the desk would have her back to you when you come in.

A3G’s person and background shifts are due to artistic lisence. They are meant to symbolize the disorientation of Luann, due to the fact that these women are totally strung out on drugs. Today, the third panel shows Luann’s hand cupping Margo’s breast, symbolizing their more-than-platonic relationship.
Sassy_Rocks
April 7th, 2006 at 8:39 am [Reply]

LuAnn is having serious doubts about her bisexuality. Soon she will unleash her inner carpet muncher on her willing roommates and the Professor will be a willing spectator.
BassoGap
April 7th, 2006 at 8:44 am [Reply]

MW – Mmm…my favorite: red Kool-Aid from a red bottle.

RMMD –
Panel 1: “I’m afraid I can’t go with you.”
Panel 2: “This pain in my neck is from…”
Panel 3: “…the thought of the innuendo and winks I’d have to watch between the two of you…just go alone, dammit.”

SF – Ted has the smallest adult mitt in the world. Maybe it’s a euphemism, which explains why Sally suggests he read a book, instead of sticking with the baseball theme and suggesting they get past 2nd base while Hillary’s otherwise occupado…

PBS – While today’s “Maybe not that close” is funny, I was hoping for another installment in the “Life and Times of Leetle Bacon Girl”. Oh, well.

Booger.
Harry Worth
April 7th, 2006 at 8:52 am [Reply]

Thank……..

Goodness……….

ssss

ssshhhhh

shhhhhaaaaa

shaaaaaaaaaaannooooooonnnnnnn….

sh

show

showwwweedddd upppp today

She can listen to Beckster’s recording and then do her own rendition that will exude innocence and true beauty. It will be like heaven opened up and the we could hear the angels signing.
BigJoe
April 7th, 2006 at 8:57 am [Reply]

MW: So Mary has one of those trick bottles that never empties? It’s still 100% full even while liquid is flying out of it and the glass is half full.

http://www.chron.com/apps/comics/showComick.mpl?date=20060407&name=Mary_Worth
Sassy_Rocks
April 7th, 2006 at 9:02 am [Reply]

I think I’ve figured out who Shannon is modeled after. It is Benny, the loveable, heartwarming mentally impaired go-fer from L.A. Law. It is the same concept as the all too frequent treakly anthropomorphization of robots with heartwarming human emotions in sci-fi movies. Shannon is not a spasdic, downs syndrome child with drool soaked clothing, but rather the projection of Lynn Johnston’s whitebread, sanitized “normalcy” on a really clumsy attempt to portray a retarded person in the comics. (See her patronizing, clumsy attempt to portray native people). The one and only outward sign of Shannon’s mental retardation is the ellipsis in her speech, which is meant to connote pauses, I guess. The actor who played Benny is not retarded and Shannon is not very convincing either, imho.
Widdle Jeffy
April 7th, 2006 at 9:09 am [Reply]

Whenever the FC tribe shows up at the A&P, the manager weighs the kids on the way in and on the way out. That way he will have an idea about how much produce the kids ate.

You all have seen the families in the store. Their rugrats are sitting in one of those ankle busting “kidcar” carts and mom has stuck a bag of grapes down there to keep them quiet. And the demon spawn that can walk are over at the salad bar helping themselves to whatever they can get their grubby little hands on.

Sickening.
Shannon
April 7th, 2006 at 9:20 am [Reply]

That’s a *woman* in the Doritos shirt…?
Sassy_Rocks
April 7th, 2006 at 9:22 am [Reply]

Shannon:

“Thatâ€™s a *woman* in the Doritos shirtâ€¦?’

Shouldn’t that be more like, “That…’s…a…woman……in…the…Dorito’s…shirt…?”

It looks more like Lou Stirling with a wig to me.
Sara Dear
April 7th, 2006 at 9:25 am [Reply]

When I read Mommy Circus’s line the first time, I mentally added “You’re not SUPPOSED to open it till you get home” without realizing it. I wonder when this mental defense against awkward phraseology sprang up? It’s doing me absolutely no good, since I’m a copy editor. Still, in my version, M.C. does sound like an actual mother and not a medieval nun when she tells little Billy that he can only eat to fill up his sadness when there’s no one watching.
rich
April 7th, 2006 at 9:41 am [Reply]

Today’s Apartment 3-G almost reads like an acknowledgement that the strip’s in-house bickering and revolving door romances (Luann was on her third engagement?) have grown tedious and now they might actually be returning to more substantial storylines. Margo’s denial of her natural bitchiness and Luann’s string of bland boyfriends have ground this strip to a halt lately.

Also, nice job with yesterday’s #73 (”Anonymous”) correctly identifying the lurking presence of Shannon in the background of Thursday’s final Foob panel.
Fred P.
April 7th, 2006 at 9:51 am [Reply]

Check out the camera the kid in Mark Trail has! It blows up mountains and shit! I totally want one!
Matt
April 7th, 2006 at 10:00 am [Reply]

I think I saw this mentioned above, but it bears more scrutiny — the MW girls magically change positions in the last panel in the middle of a monologue that can’t take any more than 6 seconds for Lu Ann to spew out.

What, are they talking while engaged in some semi-modern minuet? Is this a little square dance to relieve the spirit-crushing ennui of their lives spent listening to each other drag out the most mundane details of their existence?

That strip needs a good axe murderer.
meagan
April 7th, 2006 at 10:02 am [Reply]

GT: is that brent’s mother, or him in a doritos shirt and glasses? same bad hair, same jowls. we’ve never seen them together, have we…?
Harry Worth
April 7th, 2006 at 10:11 am [Reply]

MW certainly loves to serve RED wine, doesn’t she.
Irina
April 7th, 2006 at 10:37 am [Reply]

Hey, Momma Brent-dog spent a long time meticulously sewing the Dorito corners into her blouse! Don’t diss her! It’s that kind of entreprenuerial spirit that will pull them out of their trailer, and get them lunching with the Donald any day now!

Momma Brent has been keeping up with all the medical journals, reading about the obesity epidemic across the U.S., and being the marketing and textile whiz that she is, is about to launch her new line of snackwear. You’ll never have to get up again in the middle of Oprah to refill your chip bowl again!

On a side note, it appears that Brent-dog stopped listening to Ludicris a while ago, if you know what I mean …
Howard Erk
April 7th, 2006 at 11:03 am [Reply]

Gosh, if only Billy said “booger” instead, everyone would be peeing their pants.
plumberninja
April 7th, 2006 at 11:06 am [Reply]

We can tell that Tommie’s not paying attention to LuAnn in the first panel from the levitating roses. Tommies hidden thought bubble: “Screw this. Let’s practice FLOWERKINESIS!”
Pansy
April 7th, 2006 at 11:11 am [Reply]

MW — Are they drinking wine or ketchup?
Harry Worth
April 7th, 2006 at 11:21 am [Reply]

Ketchup.

Heinz.

vintage ‘57.

A great year for the tomato.
rich
April 7th, 2006 at 11:35 am [Reply]

There are some howling gems in the latest “Monthly Letter” from literary lion Michael Patterson on the Foob site…

“I scan my physical landscape for signs of rot and detritus”

“…caught between the frivolity of youth and the factoids of frenetic day-to-day professional grind” (not to mention an adundance of atrocious alliteration)

We also learn that Michael had once been “radically opposed to the status quo” (Remember those days? He once had a naked suction-cup man stuck to his window! Take that, you pigs!)

And if you go back to his March letter, Michael shares with us the vision of “a sylphan lovely removing her garments” and offers that he’d “like to protect this child, not paw her.”

You’ve been duly warned.

(I would like to offer my sympathies to the poor Johnston Enterprises grunt who has to crank out this tripe, month after month – imagine having to constantly find new ways for Deanna to describe her pharmacy work and chocolate cravings, for instance.)
James Schend
April 7th, 2006 at 11:42 am [Reply]

Pop quiz:

What’s more irritating? Family Circus’s “voice bubble answered by caption,” or Gil Thorpe’s horribly eye-searing super-wide lettering?
BassoGap
April 7th, 2006 at 11:50 am [Reply]

#56 – FC, by far. Just pick one spot for the dialogue, and put it *all* there. Though the idea that it’s a secret conversation between the thought bubble and the caption, separate from whatever artwork might exist, is a nice bit of surrealism.

At least with GT, the wide-screen lettering (yeah, that’s the ticket: it’s HD-ready!) takes up space that would otherwise be filled with yet more ’50s-era clip-art. And we can’t have that.
Widdle Jeffy
April 7th, 2006 at 11:55 am [Reply]

FC is so horrible that grandmama is taking off her glasses so that she doesn’t have to see any of it. What the Keanes didn’t say was that she turned off her hearing aid too so that she doesn’t have to listen to any of it either.

She is just waiting for death now so that she can join grandpa up on a wispy cloud and look down with smug satisfaction that she has been saved.

Plus it gets her on the inside track of FBOFW’s gwampa death pool. She thinks he is hot and wants to set up a heavenly 3way.
MLH
April 7th, 2006 at 11:59 am [Reply]

With respect to “Gil Thorpe”, I vote for “killed and taxidermied”; curiously, that’s also my vote with respect to “Family Circle”.
loudfan
April 7th, 2006 at 12:25 pm [Reply]

Get Fuzzy: Tomorrow had better be the mother of all payoffs.
Sassy_Rocks
April 7th, 2006 at 12:35 pm [Reply]

Why are people so picky about “booger”? It snot very funny.
brendan
April 7th, 2006 at 12:37 pm [Reply]

60: you said it. what’s with all the booger stuff.
FOOBS: Shannon is retarded, not asthmatic

Also, anyone catch the bass player for 4-EVAH leering at new member Eva’s rack?

The latest low for Johnson’s pathetic plot telegraphs, although still not as bad as the “Mr. Wright”/”Mr. Right signage a few months ago (When Lizzy Met Pauly).
Pardon the blog-whoring…
Nick
April 7th, 2006 at 12:43 pm [Reply]

I’m surprised no one has pointed out that mid-eighties Michael Jackson is the cashier in Gill Thorp.
mere cog in the machine
April 7th, 2006 at 1:02 pm [Reply]

FBOFW: Thats some imagination you’ve got there my little, challenged friend. Now try imagining this: Dank, peeling stairwells, urine-soaked mattresses, tiled rooms and fire hoses. Stick with that little fantasy and you won’t be so dis a ppoin ted down the road.
Lady Penelope
April 7th, 2006 at 1:12 pm [Reply]

Are you kidding? Tommie’s been waiting for one of her roommates to give up on men since the day she moved in to Apt. 3G (and she would’ve settled for Margo, but she secretly hoped it’d be LuAnn). Why do you think she never leaves the apartment?
brendan
April 7th, 2006 at 1:32 pm [Reply]

FBFW: in the second panel, Shannon is draw like a short, albino Grimace.
Abbey the Wonderdog
April 7th, 2006 at 1:47 pm [Reply]

Well, widdle Sawah is going to bed sick.

June has devious plans up her sleeve and some fresh leathers in the closet

better behave Rex

BARK! BARK! BARK!
Jim Thorp(e)
April 7th, 2006 at 1:49 pm [Reply]

If you think the Doritos™ shirt is bad

man you don’t want anything to do with the Cheesy Poof underwear.

Believe me.
Pansy
April 7th, 2006 at 1:54 pm [Reply]

I went a little out of my head and checked out the FBOFW website. I looked at the section on miscellaneous characters. One of them has a daughter who was born with one extra finger on each hand! Whose idea was THAT? I’m thinking Apwil ought to approach the aforementioned freak and see if she’s any good with a keyboard.
mere cog in the machine
April 7th, 2006 at 2:02 pm [Reply]

#55 Rich: I made the mistake of checking out Mike’s Monthly Letter – man o manishevitz was that sick and disturbing! I have come to the conclusion that Mike Patterson has now usurped Ted Forth as King of the Ball-less Wonders.
Howard Erk
April 7th, 2006 at 2:07 pm [Reply]

When they finally get copies of Mike Patterson’s work that he has been doing in the attic, it will consist of

All Work And No Play Makes Mike A Dull Boy.

done over and over and over and over again

Redrum! Redrum!
Goober
April 7th, 2006 at 2:12 pm [Reply]

GT: Panel 1; Gil’s assistant is Beavis’ uncle.

JP: What the hell’s up with the text? And what’s “oursourcing”?

MT: The kid got a picture of the explosion. Who could have seen that coming?

MW: Lou violates the laws of physics as Kelly’s glass is less full in panel 2 than in panel 1. He’s also gone from giddy to smug to pissed-off during the course of the meal. Tomorrow: “Don’t you try and tell me what’s good for my goddamn wife, you old bat!”
Maughta
April 7th, 2006 at 2:15 pm [Reply]

Guess we all feel the need to comment on the FOOBiverse website today. I made the mistake of going to the “Shannon” page, where Lynn says she wanted to be the first comic to deal with “special needs” folk. Maybe it’s a little “alternative” for Lynnie, but Lynda Barry beat her by a long shot. Gd, I hate Lynn Johnston.
Pansy
April 7th, 2006 at 2:23 pm [Reply]

Oh, it’s better than that, Maughta. Lynn not only wanted to be the first cartoonist to deal with “special needs”, it was HER DREAM. Sounds like maybe Lynn was a beauty pageant contestant in her younger years.

As far as Michael Patterson goes, I read about two paragraphs of his rant and nearly threw up. He’s a baby boomer wannabe of the worst stripe: inventing his own nostalgia before it even happens.
fred p.
April 7th, 2006 at 2:30 pm [Reply]

holy jumping fuck but if that fbofw website isn’t about the most irritating horriblest mass of inanification on god’s green earth! Tripe! who was it that supplied that infernal link? Gor! I’d go back and find out if I weren’t so all-fired ding-blasted messed up on cough syrup! I’ve got lighter fluid in the garage and murder in my soul!
Pansy
April 7th, 2006 at 2:37 pm [Reply]

Next week’s entertainment: the Cathy website! I don’t know if there is one and I don’t want to look, either.
Irving
April 7th, 2006 at 3:01 pm [Reply]

There is a Cathy site. It is set up somewhat like a ladies magazine. Here some of the categories to choose from:

fashion tips

dealing with parents

dealing with your husband
financially
in the bedroom rowwwww rowwwww

weight control

and a bunch of other fun filled places to go to get the wit and insight of Cathy.
Sassy_Rocks
April 7th, 2006 at 3:03 pm [Reply]

Something about Edgar is not right. He is the son of Farley and the neighbor’s golden lab that the heroic Farley knocked up in a fit of doggy lust. Why does he look 100% Old English Sheepdog and 0% golden lab?

The sickening pyloric stenosis inducing treakle on the foob website is the sappiest, most repugnant drivel this side of strawberry shortcake kids.
Howard Erk
April 7th, 2006 at 3:10 pm [Reply]

For all you GF fans, here is a headline that should keep you in stiches for hours.

http://www.cnn.com/2006/TECH/space/04/06/rings.of.uranus.ap/index.html
gnome de blog
April 7th, 2006 at 3:15 pm [Reply]

RMMD haiku (courtesy of Abbey the Wonderdog, #67, BARK! BARK! BARK!)

Sawah sick in bed
fresh leathers in June’s closet
better behave Rex
Abbey the Wonderdog
April 7th, 2006 at 3:25 pm [Reply]

I never knew I could write haiku. The only thing I could write were limericks like

I went out swimming with sharks
without Noah or his fool ark
I swam and I swam
but not worth a damn
and no one heard my BARK! BARK! BARK!\

Not very good, but what do you expect, I am a dog after all.
MotoMike
April 7th, 2006 at 3:40 pm [Reply]

Re #71: “All Work And No Play Makes Mike A Dull Boy”:
Good catch. – my favorite Steven King book. .. and re: #64 – wouldn’t Shannon be good in one of the little-girls’ parts in Dark Water? “Just can’t fix that leak in the ceiling – but for God’s sake don’t go out on the roof…”
gnome de blog
April 7th, 2006 at 3:48 pm [Reply]

“I am a dog after all.” (Abbey the Wonderdog, #81, BARK! etc.)

Maybe but you posess the spirit of Haiku. Not to mention your helicopter piloting, archeologist rescue and medical miracle skills.

Where have you been? Haven’t seen you around the Morgan estate lately. Did you move in with Fence Post Frank or something?
brendan
April 7th, 2006 at 4:09 pm [Reply]

Mikes Letters at FOOB Central leave me nauseous.
I think I may have to go home and commit suicide now. Lynn Johnson, my blood is on YOUR hands!
Old Fogey
April 7th, 2006 at 4:32 pm [Reply]

Get a grip, folks! It’s just a corny website. Not worth dying over!
Happenstance
April 8th, 2006 at 4:30 am [Reply]

#79: Dilbert fans too.

http://www.unitedmedia.com/comics/dilbert/archive/dilbert-20060403.html

(I still can’t believe this strip got pulled in some papers.)

Fry: “This is a great! Just as long as you don’t make me smell Uranus. Heh heh.”
Leela: “I don’t get it.”
Farnsworth: “I’m sorry, Fry, but astronomers renamed Uranus in 2620 to end that stupid
joke once and for all.”
Fry: “Oh. What’s it called now?”
Professor: “Urectum!”
jeanne
April 8th, 2006 at 9:02 am [Reply]

#74 “inventing his own nostalgia before it even happens”
Pansy, you are so right. This little poser is, what, all of 30, and he’s writing about his 7 year (?) class reunion from college? Who has a 7 year reunion, and spends the night Philosophizing and showing baby pictures. Then returning to one’s room with your best friend, only to fall asleep with one’s clothes on and listen to your friend breathing in his sleep.
Mike must have gone to the Lord Bulwer-Lytton School for Disembodied Prose for his Journalism degree, or as he calls it ‘J-School’.
It must have been his love letters that swept Diana off her feet.
King Folderol
April 8th, 2006 at 9:18 am [Reply]

#55 – Canada’s penal system is more lax and forgiving than ours but, actually, one of their punishments is having to write one of those “Monthly Letters” for the FBOFW website! It’s a little known fact, but true.
Squidd
April 8th, 2006 at 9:29 am [Reply]

Maybe someone mentioned this last week when it was in the papers, but this Family Circus stuck out as particularly egregious to me:
http://www.chron.com/apps/comics/showComick.mpl?date=20060331&name=Family_Circus

Dolly is the only one talking, but for some reason she has two lines in balloons and one in a caption? What?

Is there any way that makes sense?
juggernaut
April 8th, 2006 at 9:55 am [Reply]

so, are we all in agreement? 5 supremely lame Get Fuzzys, followed by saturday’s “payoff” strip, which was even less funny than the previous 5. smells like creative bankruptcy. think i’ll go read The Lockhorns.
AJD
April 8th, 2006 at 12:50 pm [Reply]

Scipio: aperiendum, not aperturum.
Mad Latinist
April 9th, 2006 at 2:39 am [Reply]

Right, aperiendum, the “gerundive.” Also known as the “passive periphrastic” (though that name, I believe, properly applies to the construction, not the form), or the “future passive participle.” Course, it’s not a future passive participle in any real sense: such a form (which does not exist in Latin) would be translated as “…which will be opened”, whereas this form means “…which must be opened.” Still, that name has stuck.

And I suspect that Scipio noster would not have confused those two forms were it not for their confusing names!

And um… CC, aren’t you glad to have people like me posting such relevant comments to your blog? ;)
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April 10th, 2006 at 3:35 am [Reply]

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Cee
April 11th, 2006 at 10:37 pm [Reply]

When are they going to get an artist with some talent who likes drawing attractive women to work on Apartment 3-G ?

Stop drawing guys like they belong in a pre 1965 Disney movie, too !
Steven
April 12th, 2006 at 8:23 am [Reply]

I am surprised we don’t get more linguistic oddities out of Family Circus. The real life mom is German, so if he wanted to, he could have some real fun with it.

If he wanted to sleep on the couch most nights.
Adam
April 17th, 2006 at 7:30 pm [Reply]

So I wasn’t the only one that noticed BC suddenly turned into Clumsy Carp.

Must be the hand of god..
Billy
April 22nd, 2006 at 6:46 pm [Reply]

Family Circus is such a celebration of willful ignorance.
Sanjay
April 26th, 2008 at 3:07 am [Reply]

These are all nice funny cartoon picture but all cartooon is very very impressing wish they all the best.
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March 6th, 2009 at 12:23 pm [Reply]

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