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Family Circus, 5/17/06
“Yeah, know what else, kid? If your mother had remembered to take her pills every day, I wouldn’t have to listen to your jibber-jabber. Are you strong enough to pick up that bottle of bourbon and carry it over here? Oh, you are? Then do it and get the hell out of my sight.”
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rich
May 17th, 2006 at 2:58 pm
Before I read the caption I thought it was “Look, Daddy, I made a big poopy!”
brendan
May 17th, 2006 at 3:11 pm
“Let’s bury PJ underneath this one, Daddy!”
Dean Moriarty's Dead
May 17th, 2006 at 3:14 pm
This artwork will possibly be recycled come Thanksgiving-time with something about Plymouth Rock and Pilgrims.
Uncle Lumpy
May 17th, 2006 at 3:16 pm
That Nixon caricature on the “Dead Guy” blogad looks like Irving from “Cathy”.
That’s really unfair to Nixon.
MLH
May 17th, 2006 at 3:20 pm
“I’m going to stick my finger in this giant nest of red ants, Daddy!”
Will Bill Keane never retire??
David V. Matthews
May 17th, 2006 at 3:22 pm
Someone should revive the Psycho Circus, a.k.a. the PFC–that late lamented site where smart-alecks would write sarcastic, obscene, and/or Buffy-centric captions for current FC cartoons.
My caption for the above cartoon:
“Shinola!”
gnome de blog
May 17th, 2006 at 3:44 pm
Is Jeffy the rabbit, or the king? Or is he merely mad? Is he Alexander the Great to Bil’s Philip, or the weak-kneed putative Charles III?
“The rock is too heavy, daddy! I cannot bear up under this weightful legacy.” Does that mean he can’t wait for the old man to croak so he can break the mold and re-fashion the Circle of Hell in his own image? Or that he’s just going to blow it off and live on the residuals and commercial tie-ins? Maybe he wishes he was Jim Davis’ kid. Either way, Keane fils is cracking under the strain.
This is the best FC ever.
Dennis Jimenez
May 17th, 2006 at 3:59 pm
I miss Dysfunctional Family Circus. Damn you and your lawyers Keane.
roydrink
May 17th, 2006 at 4:07 pm
#8 Actually as I understand it, Bil Keane didn’t get offended by the Dysfunctional Family Circus. It was Jeff Keane who’s taken over the strip (he just puts his dad’s name on) and the syndicate (great image) who shut it down.
Chet McCord, Wildlife Defender
May 17th, 2006 at 4:13 pm
Bil Keane probably looks forward to the daily visit from the Pill Lady.
Paul Roub
May 17th, 2006 at 4:25 pm
I think he’s actually answering a fairly deep philosophical question here, given that Jeff(y) now writes the strip — “Can Jeffy create a rock so heavy even he can’t lift it?”
BassoGap
May 17th, 2006 at 5:47 pm
My nominees:
“Dolly! WTF did you feed Barfy yesterday?”
“Jeffy’s diaper leaked again!”
Moss_Moses
May 17th, 2006 at 5:50 pm
Mary Worth has been outsourced to the Bangalore Department of Redundancy Department. They are doing Sophie’s homework too.
“Lou tries to manage me like he did subordinates at the office”. Where did I hear that before?
What could be more banal and mundane than a Mary Worth episode? An episode where the mundane and banal dialogue is rehashed verbatim ad nauseum could be even more mundane and banal.
Mary Worth needs to butt out and leave Kelly to her own devices. From what I’ve seen of her, she deserves Lou.
deeeeeeeeelightful
May 17th, 2006 at 8:07 pm
The unscene second panel involves Ol’ Thel coming out screaming and crying, as Jeffy bleeds profusely after “he fell into the rock”. Meanwhile, big papa keane runs quickly off to the office aka mens bathhouse, to finish some unfinished business, sotospeak……
Frank Drackman
May 17th, 2006 at 9:04 pm
Jeffys wearing the leg warmers again….
Lady Penelope
May 17th, 2006 at 9:09 pm
When are these kids going to grow up and develop crack addictions like all the other child stars? Or wait, maybe that’s why PJ’s hand shakes whenever he takes over during Daddy’s “vacations.”
Lady Penelope
May 17th, 2006 at 9:12 pm
Oops. Jeffy, PJ, they all look like Mommy hit the Sherry hard before the stork brought them.
Mibbitmaker
May 17th, 2006 at 9:45 pm
Caption for FC:
“Duuuhhhhhh…rock!”
btw, “An unnecessarily tasteless interlude” could describe this week’s FOOB.
yellojkt
May 17th, 2006 at 9:50 pm
FC caption:
Daddy! Marmaduke crapped in our yard again!
Widdle Jeffy
May 17th, 2006 at 9:55 pm
FC caption:
“Daddy, I found where Billy’s dotted line ended!!!
Daddy, what are you doing with that shovel.?
Daddy, why are you laughing like that?
Daddy! Dadddddy !!!!! Da………..”
*clang*
Sheila
May 17th, 2006 at 9:58 pm
Anybody know who those two guys are supposed to be, in Dilbert? (The Google guys — are they [bad] caricatures of someone?)
Sheila
May 17th, 2006 at 9:58 pm
That’s weird — Josh changed the Submit buttons.
Marc
May 17th, 2006 at 10:19 pm
FC: My Submission: “Daddy, I finally got PJ to fit!”
deeeeeeeeelightful
May 17th, 2006 at 10:25 pm
I wonder just how Thel explained to Papa Keane her black hair, his light brown hair, and Jeffy-The red head
deeeeeeeeelightful
May 17th, 2006 at 10:28 pm
hey take at a look at the comic I found!
http://comics.com/comics/cowandboy/archive/cowandboy-20060514.html
Chet McCord, Wildlife Defender
May 17th, 2006 at 10:44 pm
Sheila, I’m fairly sure those are the co-founders of Google.
http://images.usatoday.com/tech/_photos/2005/06/27/google180.jpg
jonnya
May 17th, 2006 at 10:59 pm
That boy isn’t going to be able to pick up anything much with that crab claw of a hand. It’s inspiring that he is thinking somewhat positivley despite his handicap. What’s next for him, bowling? Or maybe with enough physical therapy when he becomes a “strutting” man ( yessss…”quotes” ) he’ll be able to form a grip secure enough to load a gun with his personal stats when he’s in his “personal space baby”
MotoMike
May 17th, 2006 at 11:00 pm
The “Beavis and Butthead” caricatures in Dilbert are Larry Page and Sergey Brin, the co-founders of Google. The joke yesterday (”look in the big hole, Eric”) was that the head of Google is Eric Schmidt, who, I think, used to run Novell.
NJP
May 18th, 2006 at 2:27 am
You attention please. Now batting and playing 2nd base for Milford High, Muamar Quadafi.
Mibbitmaker
May 18th, 2006 at 4:54 am
5/18:
The Misandry Sisters at FOOB suddenly hear a knock on the door. April opens it, and before her stands Roz from “Shoe” and Sara from “Zits”…
A3G: Blaze really looks bland without the cowboy hat. The man needs his gimmick.
Spiderman: “But that’s the idea, hon– …..busted!”
Shoe: Really, how does he see wrinkles beneath all those feathers? Gifted, or BOY! is this an odd animal universe!
Classic Peanuts 1993: Snoopy instead of Ruth Bader Ginsburg? History would be different, that’s for sure.
Fred Bassett: Gotta admit, nice bit of conceptual humor there… plus, less drawing. A 2-fer.
Rhymes with Orange: Looks like it’s picking up the slack for unemployed Dilbert.
SF: Hillary’s goth friend only needs to focus her fists on boys in order to be in:
FOOB: It’s getting stupider: Eva has the wrong stereotype going here. She should be focusing on the one with some merit: guys love car stuff, and prattle on about it because it’s something they’re into. Shared interest, not some furshlugginer shoot-out. Eva probably gets all violent listening to “Car Talk” on the radio.
Frank Drackman
May 18th, 2006 at 5:38 am
In FBOW the guys are having a sausage fest hanging around what his names new car…”30 Klicks to the Liter?????” How gay. A funnier stereotype would be Huey stealing a thumping sound system to put in Grandpas old Buic 225
Justafoob
May 18th, 2006 at 6:18 am
Too bad the FOOBs didn’t talk about how many girls they can rape in the backseat of their new ride. You know how guys get when they get all hepped up talking about KPL. They may whip out their cell phone and call some of their buds that aren’t down at the mini-mart. They are such pigs they probably want to have sex with any girl that goes by. Well, all except Eva because they just ignore her and make her feel left out and unloved.
Skip
May 18th, 2006 at 7:04 am
Is Jeffey planning on starring in an 80’s exercise video sometime soon? What’s with the bright blue ankle warmers worn with the black tights?
fimbulvetr
May 18th, 2006 at 7:15 am
FOOB: Gah! Will this story line never end? Why do people who know nothing about cars try to write about them? And fer cryin’ out loud, in Canadaland we talk about litres per hundred kilometres or miles per gallon, not “klicks per litre.” Besides, 30 km to the litre is equivalent to 3.3 l/100km, or 70 mpg. I want an amazing magic sport-SUV that gets better millage that a SmartCar!
Smokin Grassroots
May 18th, 2006 at 7:23 am
can anyone explain todays (5/18) BC? I get the gator-reptile part, but what does fumigation have to do with being large and angry?
fimbulvetr
May 18th, 2006 at 7:25 am
The gator is fuming. Fumigator. Haha. It splits my sides.
Chert the Chort
May 18th, 2006 at 7:43 am
I actually thought the fumigator at B.C. was funny… and I marked my calendar. Hmm, lessee, it’s been 2 years since I laughed at a B.C. And it was a chuckle, really, not a laugh. Oh well.
Anyway, it’s not the car stuff in FBOFW that has bothered me, it’s Eva’s talk about strapping things on and riding that’s got me all bothered. Does April have to have a roadside foil at all times? Beckers is out, Eva is in, but it’s all the same to me.
Chert the Chort
May 18th, 2006 at 7:48 am
Oh, and I laughed out loud at the new Strong Bad email at H*R for the first time in a long time. I’ve been worried about that toon a while now. The New Thy Dungeonman wasn’t quite up to par, and the emails have been… un-Strong Baddy. Maybe it’s a return to form.
Birdy
May 18th, 2006 at 8:15 am
#31 “sausage fest”??? (…makes note for future reference…)
Smokin Grassroots
May 18th, 2006 at 8:16 am
36- thank you. Now I get it, it still seems like a horrible stretch though.
yellojkt
May 18th, 2006 at 8:26 am
Keeping on the tasteless theme, the real last panel of the BC read:
fimbulvetr
May 18th, 2006 at 8:31 am
40 — well, in all fairness to Johnny Hart, the poor bastard ran out of all the non-horrible stretch puns and whatnot years ago. Amazing the sheer power of will that he must have to get up in the morning and keep going at it. A testament to the human spirit, I’m sure.
Anonymous
May 18th, 2006 at 8:40 am
ALMOST-DAILY FAMILY CIRCUS RESPONSE
I can’t tell you how many times someone in my family of six will be reading the paper and suddenly emit a groan, or exclaim, “Oh, my God!”
When asked what’s wrong, the response is invariably, “Wait til you see today’s Family Circus!”
Just when you think it can’t get any lamer…the Keane men establish a new standard.
Widdle Jeffy
May 18th, 2006 at 8:48 am
Today’s FC finds Dolly exclaiming, “The rainbow is Mother Nature’s way of saying she’s sorry for the bad storm.”
Mother Nature?????
I think that Dolly needs to have a helping of Grandmama’s fire and brimstone to wash those thoughts of Gaia out of her head. Just who the hell has she been hanging around and what have they been telling her?
I have been reading the FC for years and know that EVERYTHING is the handywork of God. Mother Nature is a liberal, wienie, fucked up, theory that is sending this country to hell.
dlauthor
May 18th, 2006 at 9:13 am
Dilbert: Good punchline today. Dogbert and Bucky from GF should meet sometime.
Curtis: There you go — Derrick and “Shallot” are both 14. But … um … that’s a pretty nice car for a working-class Philly neighborhood, isn’t it? Maybe the bigger story will be that these tiresome kids finally pissed off the local crime boss, and in Saturday’s strip they’ll be found in a dumpster. Oh, how we’ll all chuckle.
Spidey: Of course, the press missed the _big_ story — that apparently they have a gravity-defying cameraman who can get a shot like the one in the last panel.
Pluggers: See, sometimes it’s just harmless, and not smug. Today is one of those days. Like the push-mower, too: I bet there’ll be a run on those this summer, if gas prices keep going up. Which brings us to …
Mallard: Confusing. So what Bush and his oil cronies have been doing these past five years is actually acquiescing to liberal caricatures’ wishes and making the States more ike Europe, while saving the ozone layer? Man, that is one cunning chimp.
Foob: OK, we’ve got klicks, litres, and a chip stand. Good. Canada. Ontario. Yes. Except … why is the convenience store selling beer? Did the law change in Ontario, or is Lynn that out of touch with the world outside her hidden underground lair? (It’s possible that’s a restaurant, but I don’t know many restaurants, even crappy ones, that sell “lotto.”) Oh, and Eva must die. Or at least get knocked down a few pegs. Soon, dammit.
BassoGap
May 18th, 2006 at 9:17 am
RMMD – whoa…Chesty’s got quite a nice set of hips (Panel 2)
PBS – “Smoke break!”…duck’s not doing a very good job of hiding his Prison Break intentions
PreTeena – Of course, he’s forgot that her having all those names means he gets Sloppy Sevenths…
MW – it’s just not worth (ha!) the effort any longer.
Foob – Why is John hanging out with HS boys? does Elly know about this? or is she too busy taking care of Widdle Wobin?
Howard Erk
May 18th, 2006 at 9:22 am
Soon, Eva is going to reveal her plan to take April horseback riding to Foobback Mountain. There they won’t need those awful boys and their cars and those cell phones that they use to threaten women with. They can just get lost in each others embrace.
detrater
May 18th, 2006 at 9:25 am
Having a bad hair day are we??
michael
May 18th, 2006 at 9:32 am
#6 made me laugh until I had tears. Thanks.
Anonymous
May 18th, 2006 at 9:34 am
Re. #8: After the DFC (Dysfunctional Family Circus) had died, someone named Orrin revived it as the PFC (the Psycho Circus). Many of the old DFC running gags migrated to the PFC: Uncle Roy, “poop holds the tent wher it is,” etc. PFC running gags included losing the car keys, “filling the Johnsons’ house with poop,” RUTCH RUTCH RUTCH, and anything Buffy.
David V. Matthews
May 18th, 2006 at 9:35 am
I submitted the above anonymous message. Okay, so I forgot to sign it.
Irina
May 18th, 2006 at 9:36 am
Derrick and “Shallot”
Heh.
Aside from that, yes, I also noticed how uncharacteristically nice a car that is for their neighborhood, and am wondering (a) who the owner might be; and (b) how a couple of middle-school punks managed to disable the state of the art theft-deterrent system it would undoubtebly have.
MotoMike
May 18th, 2006 at 9:52 am
dlauthor: Re Mallard today (if you can stand to think about it any more): MF has a handy code for bad people; he makes them all bald. This, I guess, allows the point on their heads to be displayed more clearly, but, because of this, you don’t really have to know how to read to appreciate his strips. [Insert obvious wisecrack here].
Speaking of evil, or at least, virtue-challenged characters, why is it that the funniest strips and the funniest parts of the funny strips (that I find funny anyway) feature them (I’m thinking of Dogbert and Bucky today – still chuckling about Bucky’s “Senor Skeptico” comment a few days ago)? Also … Lucy in Peanuts, Catbert … while some of the unfunniest strips (the aforementioned FC, Garfield, Hi and Lois) have nobody that’s the bad guy. Is comedy like drama – do you need a good (bad) villain to make it work?
Len
May 18th, 2006 at 9:55 am
Jeffy is not wearing leg warmers. They’re black pants with blue linings, and the cuffs are turned up.
The rock really does look like an enormous turd, though, don’t it?
Meanwhile, in Wednesday’s Pibgorn, the Indian Changeling gets to dance for his American Idol appearance. Next stop, Bollywood movie studios! Why did Oberon/Geoff want this scene stealer, again? Is he planning on outsourcing his homework?
Vu42
May 18th, 2006 at 9:56 am
“Jibber jabber?” Someone was really taken with that old judge on Boston Legal…
Frankie
May 18th, 2006 at 10:15 am
Dysfunctional Family Circus Archive
Len
May 18th, 2006 at 10:26 am
Dolly has been reading too much Starhawk. She’ll be getting a Girl Scout merit badge for her work in studying Earth Religions, and will shortly join a Junior Miss’s coven.
http://www.chron.com/apps/comics/showComick.mpl?date=20060518&name=Family_Circus
Moss_Moses
May 18th, 2006 at 10:32 am
“Quit your jibba jabba” is one of the one liners that the Mr T in your pocket electronic device says.
http://www.emanation.com/mrtpocket.php
Today’s FOOB is full of car sex inuendos. “They’ve whipped their steed”. “You can hear her breath”. Eva is quite the misandrist. Will Gaypril fall for her?
“Boho” friends. I think considering that Brokeback Blaze is one of Alan’s friends, he isn’t referring to girlfriends.
treedweller
May 18th, 2006 at 10:33 am
#34: no, the odometer clicks avery tenth of a mile (I’m guessing), so it’s equivalent to 7 mpg, if I can trust your math to be right. The boys are impressed by how American John is with his “I can waste all the gas I want cuz I’m entitled” attitude. Admit it. We all know Canadians, like the whole world, want to be like the US.
I find it more disturbing that this “boys and cars” garbage has been removed from Eva’s little warped teenage conversation and now it’s just exposition from god at the top of each panel. Men are peabrained morons who are distracted by shiny things. That is the Way It Is.
King Folderol
May 18th, 2006 at 10:34 am
This comic ticked me off as well. There’s just a fine line between cute and mentally challenged, and FC crossed it with this one. When did Jeffy become Ralph Wiggum?
Zits (5/18) makes me think that Josh should start a new feature called “Panel 4″, and it should be suggestions of how this story should really end. An anvil falling on Jeremy’s head would be super.
FW – This nerdy kid is depressing. He also doesn’t seem like he’s in the best shape in the world. Ah, but compared to the “you have cancer and you’re going to die” storyline, I guess it’s amusing.
FBOFW – I hate stories that make broad assumptions that are supposed to be universal but clearly aren’t. Again, the father hanging out with kids. “Come into my gingerbread house…er, car…and have some ‘treats’.”
Blondie – I can kind of relate to this – my mom used to substitute ridiculous things for other things, but that still doesn’t make it funny.
fimbulvetr
May 18th, 2006 at 10:54 am
59 — “Klicks” is Canadian slang for kilometers and kilometers per hour (eg, “so, I was going 140 klicks down the 401 when I got pulled over” or, “It’s only 10 kilicks away, eh?”) .So, 30 Klicks to the litre is 30 km per litre. Which is about 70 MPG. Which is just insane.
Justafoob
May 18th, 2006 at 10:54 am
Not only does the dad hang out with the kids, they think his new Crevasse is totally roadside (or whatever hip word they now use up North). If I took my kids out with their friends and showed them my new Ford Escape, they would laugh their Crevasses off at me.
Only in Canada.
fimbulvetr
May 18th, 2006 at 11:00 am
Mind you, I’ve never seen anyone write it “klicks” before. It’s usually clicks.
mere cog in the machine
May 18th, 2006 at 11:04 am
Luann: Tiffany may be an obnoxious, vain, self-involved egotist, but with that cute little shirt in today’s strip she sure makes ol’ Luann look like a pile of yesterdays dirty laundry. Daddy likes!
Frank Drackman
May 18th, 2006 at 11:11 am
#39 “Sausage Fest” an all or mostly all-male social gathering or event. Refers to the predominance of peni present at such an event. Example: ” Did you have a good time at the Fantasy Football party?” “No it was all guys, a real sausage-fest”.
Moss_Moses
May 18th, 2006 at 11:20 am
While Papa Patterson is presiding over the cowboy car love snausage fest Eva and Gaypril are having their own misandrist Bagel Bash.
Lynn Johnstons gender bashing must stop. This “all men love cellphones and cars” crap is wrong. From my male perspective as a bicyclist, there is nothing worse than breathing the tailpipe pollution and having your life nearly snuffed out by some “cowboy” in an SUV blabbing contentedly on a smellular phone.
rich
May 18th, 2006 at 11:59 am
John will use the Michael Jackson defense — I don’t molest these boys, I just happen to feel more comfortable hanging around with young men (Anthony, Gordon) and boys (April’s 14-year-old friends), and playing with cars and model trains, than socializing with people my own age. May be true, but it does look bad.
SNF
May 18th, 2006 at 12:11 pm
From my male perspective as a bicyclist, there is nothing worse than breathing the tailpipe pollution and having your life nearly snuffed out by some “cowboy†in an SUV blabbing contentedly on a smellular phone.
Preach it, brother. Cars are for the weak.
Also, let’s have a show of hands: Who can think up a gayer name for a car than “Crevasse”? I mean, jeez, not only does it basically mean “a big crack”, the word “ass” is right in there. Anyone?
p.s. Is posting broken? If this shows up double, apologies in advance
rich
May 18th, 2006 at 12:23 pm
RMMD – Another comic strip crossover! “Remember, we’re having dinner with the Lockhorns tonight.”
Unnecessary exposition department: While standing on the front steps, Mrs. Doctor Troy says “Hand me the paper on the front steps, will you dear?”
Birdy
May 18th, 2006 at 12:26 pm
Hey, in RMMD, the doctor is asking Chesty to save him the comics to read later! I think that’s kind of odd.(There’s a snarky comment to be made, but I can’t think of one.)
Dr. Johnny Q. Beavispants
May 18th, 2006 at 12:30 pm
Did anyone else notice that today’s (5/18) Hagar and Hi & Lois are essentially the same joke? Ah, over-literal interpretations of prepositions. How precious.
(Oh, and BTW, long-time reader, first-time poster, etc., etc. Discovered this site over the Christmas holidays and now have my own personalized Houston Chronicle comics page that I check religiously.)
Pelagius
May 18th, 2006 at 12:48 pm
Calling all DC area curmudgeons! Speak truthiness to power! From today’s Washington Post chat with Cory Thomas:
BassoGap
May 18th, 2006 at 1:09 pm
This looks like a job for Finger Quotin’ Margo!
Oh, and “alot” isn’t a word…the WP is supposed to be one of the countries top papers, too. Sheesh.
Hogenmogen
May 18th, 2006 at 1:38 pm
Foobs: What is that Crevasse? In the 3rd panel it looks sort of like a mini-van. In the 4th, it looks more like an average plain sedan – not the kind you’d show off. Is it supposed to be an SUV? Judging by how tall it is next to the guys, either it’s fairly low, or Patterson and friends should consider trying out for the Toronto Raptors.
BassoGap
May 18th, 2006 at 1:49 pm
Dr. P’s Crevasse (ha!) is a tubo/sport version of St. Elly’s station wagon. He bought it to haul his trains and other junk around.
Moss_Moses
May 18th, 2006 at 1:53 pm
He may need the Canyonero to haul Saint Elly’s trunk junk.
Jimmy
May 18th, 2006 at 2:03 pm
This is the funniest comic I’ve ever read in my entire life.
GotFuzzy
May 18th, 2006 at 2:03 pm
She blinds everybody with her super high beams,
She’s a squirrel crushing, deer smacking, driving machine!
Canyonero!
Lyman Returns
May 18th, 2006 at 2:31 pm
The age of Doc Patterson’s friends is getting progressively younger and younger. Soon he’ll be hanging with the middle schoolers, then the little kids, then toddlers. After that he’ll open up his own nursery.
Seriously, what is up with FBOFW? Cars and cell phones equal horses, cowboys, guns and shoot-outs? I think Johnson’s been puffing on the Mtikitikitavian Indian peace pipe! Either that or she’s vacationing on the French Riviera and left the cartooning chores to her gigantic staff, who in turn are partying while the boss is away and churning out strips while totally wasted.
Austin
May 18th, 2006 at 2:47 pm
#58: Moss_Moses: I bought my roommate that Mr. T talking electronic thing for Christmas one year. He works at a video-game store, and he loved that thing.
Booger.
Library Cat
May 18th, 2006 at 2:48 pm
#79
“I think Johnson’s been puffing on the Mtikitikitavian Indian peace pipe! Either that or she’s vacationing on the French Riviera and left the cartooning chores to her gigantic staff, who in turn are partying while the boss is away and churning out strips while totally wasted.”
Thank you Lyman, the image you have created will help me make it through this crevasse-car-cowboy-cellphone (hey, they all start with C; maybe that’s it!) story arc.
Justafoob
May 18th, 2006 at 3:19 pm
clumsy-chaotic-crappy-crevasse-car-cowboy-cellphone-cartoon
BassoGap
May 18th, 2006 at 3:39 pm
I think Lynn’s about to put an end to the Mtingtangwallawallabingbangi storyline for Liz, who is showing extremely-unsubtle signs of homesickness.
Unfortunately, Liz will return to her father hanging out with HS boys in his midlife-crisis-mobile, her mother babysitting, Gwampa about to kick the bucket, her little sister out on Brokecrack Mountain, her brother still nursing the wounds from his wife’s smackdown when he tried to make a move on her after a week w/o sleep, and Anthony hiding in the corner with his tail between his legs and a baby on his shoulder (but in a nice house).
Somehow, someway, it’ll all work out, and everyone will live happily ever after. And the last panel will show everyone sitting together on the front porch. (snork)
JRM
May 18th, 2006 at 4:27 pm
#73 – “one of the countries top papers”? *snicker*
Yes, “a lot” is two words…and the possessive of “country” is spelled “country’s.”
And thanks for the tip, Pelagius! I just wrote to the Post to ask them (once again) to remove B.C.
Moss_Moses
May 18th, 2006 at 5:00 pm
I also emailed the Post. Here’s the email:
Please lose the worthless preachy, pandering, brain dead strips – BC, Cathy and Peanuts. “Classic Peanuts” is like Colonel Sanders from beyond the grave except without the secret recipe. BC is stale, self righteous, proselitizing crap. Cathy is a pandering piece of repetitive poo poo.
I am a soap lover and regular contributor to the Comics Curmudgeon (joshreads.com). Bring back The Phantom, 3-G and Rex Morgan, MD, please.
Braniff
May 18th, 2006 at 6:17 pm
JRM–I think that the Post runs BC with its right wing viewpoint to keep those who have such a viewpoint happy. Otherwise, the newspaper would be losing subscribers; these days, no newspaper can afford to do so.
Mibbitmaker
May 18th, 2006 at 9:35 pm
#68: I can think of a gayer name for a car: the “Rex Morgan, MD”. Gets great mileage on the golfcourse and at the Comics Curmudgeon.
Irina
May 19th, 2006 at 12:20 pm
FOOB: Stay tuned for Dr. P to start hanging out with Mewwiedef’s playmates. He’ll show them his big train set.
PEB
May 19th, 2006 at 1:00 pm
It’s a “freaking” station wagon, for God’s sake.
deeeeeeeeelightful
May 19th, 2006 at 10:21 pm
http://fbofw.com/strip_fix/
can somebody help me figure out today’s family circus?
Seriously, what teenagers talk like this, even if it is canada?
Hogenmogen
May 31st, 2006 at 2:20 pm
I just found out that llamas decide where they’re going to poop and from that point on they return to that place, piling up huge mountains of the stuff. If I were a bit smarter, I’d find a way to cleverly tie it in to the pile of dung that Jeffy seems so excited about.