Another comic that I, like, totally meant to do but then forgot so now it’s a bonus post
Family Circus, 5/4/06
So why do you suppose that this panel is completely devoid of background details of any kind? And yet why is Barfy’s mangy little head poking in at the bottom of the frame, despite the fact that he’s not involved in this “joke” at all?
My theory about the first question: The utter blankness is supposed to cue us off that the Keanes live in an archetypical existentialist meaningless void — like Waiting For Godot, with more malapropisms.
My theory about the second question: Mom has grown so enraged by Billy’s awful horn-tooting that she’s trained Barfy to kill, kill, kill at sound of the first note. Thus the little hint of a smile on her face.
Can these two theories be reconciled with one another? I leave this as an exercise for the commentariat.
BassoGap
May 4th, 2006 at 4:56 pm
Thel: Almost, Billy, why do you ask?
Billy: ‘Cause Daddy’s napping on the couch, and Barfy and I are going to try to make him crap his pants.
edgeways
May 4th, 2006 at 5:05 pm
“No, the valium hasn’t kicked in yet”
1) That is one ugly shirt Thel is wearing
2) Her profile is a bit… suggestive? no… not quite right…. Er, lets just say the cartoonist made sure we all know Thel is a well proportioned lady.
art
May 4th, 2006 at 5:05 pm
POZZO:
He used to dance the farandole, the fling, the brawl, the jig, the fandango and even the hornpipe. He capered. For joy. Now that’s the best he can do. Do you know what he calls it?
ESTRAGON:
The Scapegoat’s Agony.
VLADIMIR:
The Hard Stool.
POZZO:
The Net. He thinks he’s entangled in a net.
His mother so maliciously beat him down, down, that not only did his dancing days end but his horn playing days as well. Quiet time never ends and Godot never comes.
Firegoat
May 4th, 2006 at 5:08 pm
Um, that’s not Barfy, that’s Sam.
http://www.kingfeatures.com/features/comics/familyc/about.htm
saint ruby
May 4th, 2006 at 5:11 pm
who the hell gives their kid a bugle? seriously! In what universe would giving a child a bugle seem like a good idea?
(of course, I play trumpet, so perhaps I should shut up)
BassoGap
May 4th, 2006 at 5:13 pm
R-rated version:
Billy: Mommy, is ‘quiet time’ over yet?
Thel (in a quiet aside to her husband, behind her): Dammit…I *knew* you couldn’t just lean me over the kitchen counter without the kids hearing us from the other room!
Moss_Moses
May 4th, 2006 at 5:36 pm
For whatever little this may be worth, in Taiwan the mandarin expression for playing trumpet (chui laba) means to give oral sex. Is little Billy being groomed for a career of chui laba?
Jim C.
May 4th, 2006 at 5:37 pm
Firegoat,
I’m glad you posted that.
I was thinking about that when Josh posted it. I thought, “Wait, that’s not Barfy. Barfy is the Santa’s Little Helper looking dog in the Family Circus Universe. What’s the name of that dog? Wait! Why do I care!!??”
Yes. I really did. Then I thought about all the Gil Thorp trivia I know, and I switched on the Marty Moon show and relaxed.
On the other hand, I thought Thel’s mouthless blank expression was a tribute to Crockett Johnson and his fabulous strip, Barnaby.
Mic
May 4th, 2006 at 5:57 pm
Whoever the hell the dog is, he’s certainly not impressed.
‘Who do you think you are, Billy? Satch? Miles? You can’t play that horn to save your life.
Also, that’s a bugle.’
Eamonn an Chnuic
May 4th, 2006 at 5:58 pm
Stupid Billy trying to become slightly cultured and expand his knowledge of music to things outside church hymns. Everyone knows swing and jazz are the works of satan.
Lassie
May 4th, 2006 at 6:03 pm
#3 – Huh?
Dan
May 4th, 2006 at 6:47 pm
#1 – would that be the “brown noise,” then?
Marc
May 4th, 2006 at 7:21 pm
I like how the Keanes are living in Abyssville today.
And how Kelly from MW looks like she’s mentally retarded and flailing her arms in fear. And…why is she looking the other way? Not good manners, miss!
super susan
May 4th, 2006 at 7:49 pm
Because this is a dumb cartoon bubble anyways, and the cartoonist was like…why should I bother with furniture in the background for such a dumb cartoon? I’ll just save myself time and move on.
mollyann
May 4th, 2006 at 7:50 pm
Either way, the dog looks really annoyed to be there. As he should.
Len
May 4th, 2006 at 8:17 pm
I am confused. Effie, the grey-haired lady who always cooks whole octopusses for her gentleman caller Sid, appears to rent her upstairs apartment to Sid’s nephew Ernie. But she doesn’t know that Ernie and Sid are related? She hears Ernie playing slap & tickle with his girlfriend, and is offended? But doesn’t mind having Sid in her apartment (evidently their relationship is Platonic).
Who is Effie calling to complain about Ernie’s trysts upstairs? The police? When Sid is shooed out without his meal of octopus, he goes upstairs to complain to his nephew (and mooch a meal), and Effie complains about the loud eating noises from Ernie’s apartment.
Does nobody in this strip have two brain cells to rub together?
http://www.chron.com/apps/comics/showComick.mpl?date=20060504&name=Piranha
Len
May 4th, 2006 at 8:39 pm
Hmph! As I recall from High School Biology, Lady Bugs are not just adorablely cute. They are predators of innumerable smaller insects. My Bio teacher called them the lions of the insect world. Monty as Lady Bug Man should obviously EAT his various opponents.
Poor “Dave,” the little green alien. “Unicorn Boy,” indeed!
http://www.chron.com/apps/comics/showComic.mpl?date=2006/5/4&name=Monty
Braniff
May 4th, 2006 at 8:39 pm
Here’s my take . . . Daddy’s sleeping off a hangover which he acquired when he was fooling around with the other woman (which begs the question–why fool around when he’s got Thel or whatever her name is for a wife?). Were this to be a regular comic strip, we could only imagine the mayhem to take place when Billy blows his horn and awakens Daddy.
MrP
May 4th, 2006 at 9:00 pm
“No, son, this is Nirvana. Quiet time is never over here. We discussed this when we all agreed to become Buddhists, didn’t we? There simply is no trumpet playing in Nirvana.”
“Mommy?”
“Yes, son?”
“Nirvana sucks.”
dimestore lipstick
May 4th, 2006 at 9:05 pm
A thread that quotes Samuel Beckett and references “the brown noise”?
Golden. This is what I love about the “commentariat”.
Len
May 4th, 2006 at 9:17 pm
Well, this mutt that is my namesake wants to impress a potential Master by showing him how light on his (four) feet he is.
http://www.chron.com/apps/comics/showComick.mpl?date=20060504&name=Mutts
Fooey! Even an empty-headed SHEEP can Riverdance! Watch out, Sheep! Lou from Mary Worth is gonna stew you and feed you to Kelly!
http://news.yahoo.com/comics/uclickcomics/20060430/cx_lost_uc/lost20060430
mere cog in the machine
May 4th, 2006 at 9:20 pm
This is not a cartoon, it is a moving and powerful visual allegory of Bill Sr.’s haunting yet dignified “close of life”. The meaning of the empty background is, of course, twofold; the blank emptiness on the one hand representing the final, entropic stages of senile dementia, on the other the slow but ultimately triumphant journey to a golden-hued heaven where one’s ancestors repose upon clouds – literally – clad in classical tunics and comfortable sandals. Billy is our Pilgrim Christian; captured for all time in the ingenuous, youthful innocence that is Bill Sr.’s soul. His trumpet is a daring – even biblical – representation of our beloved artist’s chosen medium: Wry, sympathetic commentary about our Imperfect State. The poignant query, “Mommy, is quiet time over yet?” points both to the Mommy’s role as Creator as well as the octigenarian weariness of life in any prosperous assisted living facility; a longing, one may suppose, for the final sojourn. As for Barfy, well, your guess is as good as mine.
Doug Puthoff
May 4th, 2006 at 9:30 pm
Can we please stop with the “Family Circus” bashing and start bashing “Real-Life Adventures?”
Library Cat
May 4th, 2006 at 9:33 pm
#14
So true. Bother with furniture…..he didn’t even bother with a punchline.
Widdle Jeffy
May 4th, 2006 at 9:50 pm
I hope that Billy blows the bugle better than . . .
TDB
May 4th, 2006 at 9:50 pm
The dog is obviously the reincarnated soul of a 1950’s era hipster, whose punishment in this life to be forced to listen to a talentless, suburban white kid desecrate the jazz music he used to love.
Marc
May 4th, 2006 at 11:06 pm
MW: I’d love to see some violence, I mean it has been about a year since Ritzilla had her little run-in with the busboy.
In panel two, Lou looks like some Italian mobster who is saying: “Fuhgetta ’bout it.”
lilybdcsa
May 5th, 2006 at 12:45 am
Ha ha ha! What about the violence in PBS? That’s the funniest ever!! Just the expression on Ms. Bush’s face when the frog lickety lickety licks her ear.
Mibbitmaker
May 5th, 2006 at 2:28 am
Thel, Billy and their pooch are trapped in the void. Which makes her need for quiet for her sleeping husband (not in void) more poignantly off-putting.
Mibbitmaker
May 5th, 2006 at 2:34 am
Taking another look at the strip, #29 should probably read: “Billy, we’re trapped in the void. Quiet time is now forever!”
(”See it before you say it” – which I’ve been skipping lately – also refers to the strip in question, I’m now convinced)
Monkeys Uncle
May 5th, 2006 at 7:05 am
This is obviously a cut and paste panel hastily thrown together from stock drawings thus the lack of back ground and the lame gag (although a lame gag in FC is not always a dead giveaway). Keane must have had an early tee time.
Len
May 5th, 2006 at 7:09 am
Friday’s Pibgorn…
Brooke shows a female (and apparently horny) Puck humping her master Oberon so forcefully he loses his hat. He asks for the magic flower from Puck, and she pulls it out of her bosom; — perhaps seeking more flowers, Oberon takes Puck’s blouse down from her shoulders.
This comic strip is a hot-house of (mostly unrequited) lust! Oberon has a sexy wife, and a servant who thows herself at him, but he seems obsessed with obtaining the hunky Indian “boy.” That magic flower (if plot follows the play) is going to give Titania the hots for the loudmouthed girl dancer, “Bottom.”
The fact that Oberon resembles Geoff, Pibgorn’s human boyfriend, is mildly creepy. None of these “Faeries” have displayed their wings yet, nor particular magical abilities (unless making a jalopy seem to fly counts). The dialog will mention hiding in acorn caps, but none of the Faeries has taken tiny form yet, either. “Pibgorn” in it’s non-Shakespearean form has been much more magickal. Beautiful art, though.
Len
May 5th, 2006 at 7:26 am
The women of Dunder need clingy gowns and shoes with [bleep]-me heels.
I figured Olive must have added pheromones to the “smell water.” But if it works on Popeye, it must contain Eau du Spinach!
http://www.chron.com/apps/comics/showComick.mpl?date=20060505&name=Popeye
Plumberninja
May 5th, 2006 at 8:37 am
I. WANT. TO. BE. OBERON.
And Len, have you ever been wearing a hat, and have somebody love-tackle you? humping is totally different than the tackle of sexitude.
dlauthor
May 5th, 2006 at 8:40 am
Curtis: OK, I had to check to see if I should fly into a murderous rage. Ray Billingsley _is_ black; so unlike, say, Scott Stantis’s recent “Mexican” coyote, this isn’t some white dude drawing a hideously ugly racial caricature. But it _is_ still some black dude drawing a hideously ugly racial caricature, which still ain’t that great.
Mother Goose and Grimm: OK, actually quite funny today. But I think all comics should be half-filled with screaming, horrified children.
Spidey: What? “Some nut?” Wait, wasn’t Peter Parker sympathetic to the (apparently now-forgotten) sad-sack bereaved suicidal fireman dude who was impersonating him? Or is it possible that, when he puts his costume on, he gains a spider’s power to be a complete dick? And is it me, or is every other person in this version of L.A. morbidly obese? This ain’t Indianapolis, Stan; this is the land of liposuction.
Mallard: Third day of this lame joke? Fourth? Who cares? And like someone said when this started, back in the late fifth century, I’m sure Tinsley would positively leap to defend kids’ “free political speech” if the shirt said, say, “Impeach the MF Already”, instead of depicting a soaring eagle painted with the stars and stripes and baked into an apple pie.
Foob: Oh, that’s right, there’s a fourth contender for Lizard,. Forgot about him, but his “we’d like to have the rest of you” comment is pretty glaring. This includes her coffee cake, I would guess. She does at least seem intrigued, in the last panel, by his ability to throw himself at will into silhouette.
Prickly: Yeah, yeah, we get it, Stantis. Us liberals are too effete, with our cell phones and lattes, to survive in the rough-and-tumble world of conservatives — i.e., often rabid pack animals who like to feed off carrion. Move on.
dimestore lipstick
May 5th, 2006 at 8:42 am
Marc:
“In panel two, Lou looks like some Italian mobster who is saying: “Fuhgetta ’bout it.â€
I thought the same thing when I saw that. Maybe it’s the Paulie Walnuts-style “wings” he sporting.
BassoGap
May 5th, 2006 at 8:53 am
Friday’s rants and raves:
9CL – If we’re lucky, Thorax will just connect Diane and Father Durly, and let one of them listen to the other’s story of (what they believe to be) unrequited love…
(DT)GT – “What’s that about?” It’s about the ‘catcher’ asking his ‘pitcher’ to not play so rough, to ‘throw softer’. Oh, and that bus, in panel 3, has the biggest seats I’ve ever seen.
MW – I can’t tell if Lou tried to smack Kelly in panel 1, or he’s trying to do one of Justice Scalia’s dismissive Sicilian hand gestures…
MT – Sorry….there’s just nothing here worth the effort. Apparently, Jack Elrod thinks so, too.
RMMD – “Oh, I forgot” means Harry knows Troy tossed the “Do no harm” oath aside years ago, of course.
SF – “You know, Ted…the apron that has the cute little plastic balls on the hem, so you can pretend you grew a pair? Yeah, that one. Now, go cook, Mule.”
PBS – Damn, and I liked Stromoski. Sorry to see him go. Especially since I was waiting for him to leave some woman in a quivering-jelly state when he licked her ear. Too bad it wasn’t Bar…
GF – I like that version of “This Little Piggy”. I’ll use it with my 2yo daughter, see if she notices…
Foob – Time for Liz to take over from Elly. Today’s Panel 2 makes it official, with a full view of Liz’ can. Next, we’ll see her under the sink, leaning over a desk, etc.
“We’d like to have the rest of you.” Left unsaid: “And if you don’t agree, there’s a local custom of chopping up disloyal visitors, so each of us can have a piece of you with us, always.”
Doug Puthoff
May 5th, 2006 at 8:59 am
Today I read “Zits,” and Jeremy’s mother was in it. Now I can’t read a strip with Connie in it without looking at her breasts. Thanks, Josh, for making me a pervert.
mere cog in the machine
May 5th, 2006 at 9:01 am
#37: There was definately something a little Hannibal Lectorish about that last FOOB panel. The sudden erie switch to a sillhouette and the “rest of you” comment has sort of got my hopes up.
Doug Puthoff
May 5th, 2006 at 9:03 am
At least the Keanes can draw human beings.
Dennis Jimenez
May 5th, 2006 at 9:18 am
SF – 5.5.2006 – What? Not kiss the cock?
dlauthor
May 5th, 2006 at 9:25 am
39: Yeah, I’d be entertained if Lynn went all Wicker Man with the Mtiwakkawakkas. But you know this is just another laborious step in the “Lizard has so many bright futures ahead, she can’t choose one, but eventually she’ll shack up with Granthony” storyline. Maybe Mewedith’s mysterious illness (which was, no doubt, contracted while showing signs of musical talent!) will worsen, and hasten her back to Toronto or wherever. One can only hope.
David V. Matthews
May 5th, 2006 at 9:26 am
The dog in the above FC panel is SAM, not Barfy. (By the way, did you Curmudgeons know that the Unabomber used to sign his letters FC?)
The late, lamented Psycho Circus (a.k.a. PFC) used to make jokes about the redundantly-named Featureless Void.
Liz’s ass looks pretty decent in today’s FBOFW, but then she hasn’t much competition tush-wise on the comics page. Everyone likes ze boob, as the popularity of Thel Keane, Blondie Bunstead, Helga the Horrible, every woman in Liberty Meadows, etc., demonstrate.
MaryAnnTheRest
May 5th, 2006 at 9:26 am
Woo-hoo! I’m part of the commentariat! Anyway, I thought that the last panel of SF read that Ted’s apron says “Nashgirl.” Ohhhh, Nashgrille. Yeah, that makes a lot more sense.
Plumberninja
May 5th, 2006 at 9:39 am
After pibgorn’s sexitude, I read 9CL and my head exploded from the sheer wrongness of the mental image. If you don’t know what I’m talking about, read these two strips one right after the other, but remember: Robin Goodfellow is Puck’s nickname.
http://comics.com/comics/pibgorn/index.html
http://chron.com/apps/comics/showComic.mpl?date=2006/5/5&name=9_Chickweed_Lane
you should be very disturbed.
SNF
May 5th, 2006 at 9:47 am
Re Pibgorn:
Whoa. Is that strip actually showing up in a newspaper somewhere?
Pun intended.
Anonymous
May 5th, 2006 at 10:05 am
Sam’s (the FC dog pictured) thought ballon should read “boy that kid is so fucked for waking up daddy”
Megan_Koumori
May 5th, 2006 at 10:30 am
18. None of the kids look like either parent. Thel’s the one messing around.
PBS: Funny as hell. Barbara Bush looks like a zombie.
Get Fuzzy: Has there actually been an explanation as to why Satchel can’t sleep, like he’s loaded with caffeine/crack/other?
Hogenmogen
May 5th, 2006 at 10:51 am
Phantom: After getting the Bandar’s report, Phantom* scratches his head because they appear to be waving their arms about without saying anything.
*For “Ghost-Who-Wears-Striped-Speedo’s”
BassoGap
May 5th, 2006 at 10:53 am
Megan_Koumori (#48) – no, no explanation for Satchel’s insomnia…not yet, anyway. I know I wouldn’t sleep too soundly with Bucky roaming the house.
Here’s where Howard Erk chimes in with “I bet it’ll have something to do with ‘booger!’ “
Howard Erk
May 5th, 2006 at 11:13 am
I was going to say boogie.
So there, nyah.
plumberninja
May 5th, 2006 at 11:38 am
46- it’s a websclusive. Meaning that Pibgorn can display her boobalishus goodness as much as she wants. Oberon’s bedroom eyes=more than a little creepy.
Morokiane
May 5th, 2006 at 11:39 am
#45 Pibgorn isn’t in papers…exactly for that reason. McEldowney didn’t want restrictions on it….now lets get to the wam-bam-thank you ma’am scenes!
dodgefan
May 5th, 2006 at 11:41 am
#42 – Robin has the mystery disease, not Merrie. BTW, if you read the retcons the big mystery is an ear infection (OMG an EAR infection!!!!). If I were a pharmacist I suppose I wouldn’t have a clue WHAT to do in this dire situatation.
Ear. Infection.
SuperDickery
May 5th, 2006 at 11:44 am
I realize that my previous attempt at a comment alias, Superdick, made it sound like I was extolling the virtues of my penis. I’m actually a girl with a figure very similar to June Morgan’s (34DD). Yes, it is possible, and no, it’s not comfortable. I find that wearing a corset every day is the best means of support for my “family”.
And that’s just terrible.
johnw
May 5th, 2006 at 11:48 am
The Keanes’ furniture has been repossessed, just like Arlo and Janis’. The Keanes’ downfall was when “Nobody” stole Daddy’s credit card, and went for a dotted-line stroll through the shopping mall. In Arlo’s case, Gene is addicted to Internet gambling. Next week: Bruno and the boys show up to collect. Gene heads for the hills, and they break Arlo’s legs.
As for Barfy the dog, he performs the same role as Grimmy does, when MG&G does a sight gag. He’s always off to one side for no apparent reason. I think it’s in Grimmy’s contract: he has to appear in the strip every single damn day. Which is more than you can say for Mother Goose.
Bitter Scribe
May 5th, 2006 at 12:03 pm
Johnw, you mean “Not Me,” don’t you?
But you’re right about the dog just being there, just like Daisy never leaves Dagwood’s side in the Bumstead house. Barfy is just more conspicuous because there’s hardly anything else in the frame.
Mister Nobody
May 5th, 2006 at 12:05 pm
That is NOT Barfy!
SuperDickery
May 5th, 2006 at 12:07 pm
What’s going on with blondie? It’s actually been funny a couple of times in the past few weeks. I’m starting to think I might start to like it.
And that’s just terrible.
BassoGap
May 5th, 2006 at 12:19 pm
HickoryDickery now has everyone’s full attention (#55).
And that’s not so terrible. ;-)
Jim Thorp(e)
May 5th, 2006 at 12:34 pm
And we are waiting for photographs.
;-)
Hogenmogen
May 5th, 2006 at 1:00 pm
#59 – Dickery – You mean that it’s humorous the way that Dag ka-choo’d all over this little man? Or the way that he didn’t even offer a “Bless you”? Or the way that Ernie on the third floor inexplicably knew that it must have been Bumstead? Or – my fave – the strange way that the unnamed little man on the other side of the desk remains silent as Dagwood Bumstead unapologetically sprays him with contagious filth from his nose? He’s now coated with a fine glaze of disgusting drippy nasal goo laced with the plague, and all he can muster up is “!”
YeahWeGetIt
May 5th, 2006 at 1:12 pm
Way to go, SuperDickory, you got everyone’s attention.
And I’m sure you don’t think that’s “just terrible” at all.
Old Fogey
May 5th, 2006 at 2:02 pm
Superdickery,
I have a friend who noticed a universal truth about twenty years ago: that as soon as you pass forty, “Blondie” becomes funny.
Of course I have no idea if that is the case with you, but it certainly proved true for me.
Lyman Returns
May 5th, 2006 at 2:02 pm
How long do you think the ‘Dilbert is unemployed’ storyline will last? I’m surprised Addams has never done this story before. Or has he?
‘Crankshaft’ is making me think of my parents dealing with my grandparents and their stubborness and thoughlessness in the face of old age. It’s sad and angering, not funny.
Library Cat
May 5th, 2006 at 2:25 pm
43
“Liz’s ass looks pretty decent in today’s FBOFW”
Really? I thought it was a very unflattering depiction. Kinda coffee cake with a side of pear going on. Perhaps it was just the teeny tiny waist that made the butt look extra wide and Lynn-like.
Moss_Moses
May 5th, 2006 at 2:31 pm
Yes ‘ir, there are a lot of animals in Lost Forest.
That is strange even by Mark Trail standards. Only in LoFo do kids run around with handkerchiefs on their necks calling grandfathers Papa and responding “yes ‘ir” when spoken to.
Lou looks positively Ernest Borgnine-like when he’s ranting and judging from the exaggerated hand gestures, he is probably Italian, like McHale.
http://www2.una.edu/library/borgnine/borgnine9.jpg
SuperDickery
May 5th, 2006 at 2:36 pm
no, I haven’t found it funny at all in the last few days, but I can distinctly find at least two instances in the past 30-45 days, which is a huge increase in the instances that Blondie is funny.
>Dag Jr. inquires to Dag about what to do if he forgets his girlfriend’s birthday. Dag advises Dag Jr. to look for a new one. It’s funny because it reminds me of several women I know.
>Dagwood’s evil expression as he sends nasty e-mails to his boss.
I’m sure I’ll find another soon.
Old Fogey~ this is NOT the case, due to the fact that it will be three weeks and two days before it would be legal for you to see me posing in my ‘roadside’ corset, if such a thing existed.
And that is NOT just terrible.
SuperDickery
May 5th, 2006 at 2:37 pm
by ‘it’ I mean blondie…
Jim Thorp(e)
May 5th, 2006 at 2:45 pm
gives you time to order a roadside tee from Josh’s shameless huckstering and get a picture posted.
Len
May 5th, 2006 at 2:47 pm
#37 — Bucky forgot “This little piggy was stupid and taken advantage of by his rat friend.” For when there’s another PBS cross-over with Get Fuzzy.
SuperDickery
May 5th, 2006 at 2:51 pm
I most definetely will make an attempt to gift this site with a picture of me wearing a roadside tee, but I don’t really have a credit card….
And that’s just terrible.
Jim Thorp(e)
May 5th, 2006 at 2:59 pm
We could start a collection
SuperDickery
May 5th, 2006 at 3:03 pm
Hmm… Like an ad saying “If 15 or so comic geeks each give a dollar we can all look at SuperDickery’s enourmous boobs!”? I actually like that a lot…
And that’s NOT just terrible.
otho van oost
May 5th, 2006 at 3:05 pm
PBS: The drawings of Barbara Bush were some of Pastis’s best work, but from what I’ve heard of the Grey Lady, she wouldn’t leave the ass-whuppin’ to be done by some lowly Secret Service agent. Scary lady…not to be messed with.
Foob: Anyone notice that according to Lizzie’s page on the Foob website, her ambition is “to marry a guy like dad”? Holy crap!! Warren and Paul, it’s been nice knowing you, but it looks like this contest has already been decided.
Fingle
May 5th, 2006 at 3:08 pm
Pibgorn & 9CL McEldowney’s women have the odd feature of all looking exactly alike unless they are old ugly nuns. Wide shoulders and no hips. While I am not complaining exactly, it does seem rather, er, limited. Likewise, Frank Cho can draw 100s of different beautiful women who all look the same.
Justafoob
May 5th, 2006 at 3:08 pm
Well, Liz says her heart is in Mtiholyguacolmoleebatman. . . (but my pussy is in the big smoke)
SuperDickery
May 5th, 2006 at 3:14 pm
Is that how it’s spelled? I thought is was something along the lines of
Mtiwanahakaloogie. Yes, it’s totally unoriginal.
But not that terrible.
Moss_Moses
May 5th, 2006 at 3:24 pm
“SuperDickery’s enormous boobs”.
Before I fork over the donation, how does your software package compare to Dr. Troy’s wife, Chesty?
Justafoob
May 5th, 2006 at 3:24 pm
And before we have tirades about the meaning of pussy, there is only one pussy in the Big Smoke and his name is Granthony.
DCBirdblaster
May 5th, 2006 at 4:25 pm
Superdickery – I believe they call this kind of behavior entrapment.
We all know you’re actually some hickbilly Sherriff in his late 50’s trying to nail online sex offenders with offers of photos of underaged “enormous boobs”.
Or…
You’re phishing or setting up for a phish on the premise of getting contributions for a Roadside TShirt.
Zorba the Geek
May 5th, 2006 at 5:03 pm
Thank you, DC, I was thinking of posting a comment such as yours to warn those who may be salivating that this is either the cops or a scam artist trolling for some bucks (or, if by some vanishingly small chance it’s a real girl playing headgames with the men- she’s seventeen, guys- or at least claims to be- so, watch it).
Zorba the Geek
May 5th, 2006 at 5:07 pm
PS And, Josh, for your own (legal) protection, you may want to block this person from posting on this site, if you can do so (and I suspect you can). You can never be too careful, whichever scenario turns out to be true- cop, scammer, or underage would-be Lolita.
Josh
May 5th, 2006 at 5:16 pm
Uh, yeah, what Zorba says. Knock it off, everybody, with the underage sexyness.
The Management
dimestore lipstick
May 5th, 2006 at 8:29 pm
Fingle–
“McEldowney’s women have the odd feature of all looking exactly alike unless they are old ugly nuns”
…And his ugly old nuns look like Thorax in drag.
Dan
May 5th, 2006 at 9:08 pm
#65/Lyman Returns -
Sure, Dilbert’s been fired/downsized before. Once he was brought back as a consultant, I think, and then rehired, and so on. Usually Dogbert has something to do with his dismissal and rehiring.
otho van oost
May 7th, 2006 at 12:13 am
86: My favorite was when Dilbert actually died about ten years back, stayed dead for a while, then was brought back. (Does anyone recall how? It might’ve involved that metaphysical genius garbageman of his.)
lilybdcsa
May 7th, 2006 at 3:23 pm
I remember that and I vaguely remember the garbageman bringing him back to life out of a garbage can.
superdickery
May 8th, 2006 at 9:29 am
I actually wasn’t serious about a collection OR photos. yeesh.
superdickery
May 8th, 2006 at 9:30 am
And if I was setting up a phish, I’d be doing it for a ‘More zippers, mule!’ T-shirt.