And this is why we love Margo
Mary Worth, 6/28/06
I must admit that I’m a little puzzled about what might not “go well” and extend Dr. Jeff’s stay in Cambodia. Is he concerned that three months might not be enough time to repair every cleft palate in the country? Is he worried that one of the 152 heroin-filled condoms he plans to swallow is going to burst while he’s in the air? Does he think his charisma might be so overwhelming that he’ll inevitably become the head of an apocalyptic rebel movement that worships him as a god? Is “Cambodia” a code word for “the next town over, after I’ve done the painstaking work of changing my identity?”
In her grief, Mary has joined the “people who stab themselves in the throat with off-colored food-style substances” club.
Apartment 3-G, 6/28/06
This, on the other hand, makes total sense. Hey, Tommie and Lu Ann, you wanna know why this site has a “Finger Quotin’ Margo” contest and not a “Head Bobblin’ Lu Ann and Tommie” contest? You wanna know why you’re losers and Margo’s a winner? This is why. Seeing Margo utter the phrase “parading her hottie boyfriend” is like having a present you’d wanted all your life, but not realizing how much you needed it until you received it. In all the excitement of rubbing her roommate’s faces in things, you can understand why she’s neglected her morning hair dying. That’s OK, Margo; the salt-and-pepper look becomes you.
Speaking of the Finger Quotin’ Margo contest … I fear I must confess that I’m having a very busy week, work-wise and otherwise, and can’t dedicate the psychic energy required to really judge effectively, so look for the contest’s resolution early next week. Honest. But in the mean time, here’s some stuff to entertain you. Faithful reader Kaycee sent me one of the most awesome objects ever put together with stuff purchased at the dollar store: the Finger Quotin’ Margo Action Figure!
Note the strings, which you can use for true finger-quotin’ action. Also note the hooker boots.
“Josh,” you might be saying, “I think your stalling makes you lame, but I guess I can’t make you come up with a winner on my schedule. But still, I’ve got a yen to compete! What sort of contest-y things can I get involved in?”
Well, I’m glad you asked. First off, if it’s lookalike contests you crave, why not head over to Drink At Work’s Medium Large Guy Lookalike Contest? It won’t make much sense if you don’t already read the stellar Medium Large Web comic, but you really ought to be doing that anyway, as it’s been on fire lately. Thrill to the adventures of Victorian-Era Superhero (the summer replacement for Teenage Girl President), check out T.O.D.D.’s special brand of whimsy, and peek behind the scenes at new character development. You’ll be glad you did!
The next option is a bright idea from commentor Fred P., and I can’t say it any better than him:
Well, I’m sure we may be all — I know I am! — suffering from the early whiplash symptoms of contest-o-mania after the whirlwind of excitement, heat and flash that was the FQ’nML-A-L Contest, but I sure got my sporting blood flowing. So allow me to humbly suggest one more competition. Now, we can’t impose upon Josh the burden of adjudicating, because he has already taken on the unenviable task of choosing between a field of such staggering perfection that my mind, for one, is truly boggled. So, why not have the brain trust at, say, chiefplugr@aol.com be our next judge? What I am proposing, ladies and gentlemen, is a race. A race to see which of us will be the first to have a submission featured in either TDIET or Pluggers! So make up some preposterous nincompoopery now! Submit early! Submit often! Remember, you have nothing to lose. And if you win, you will revel in eternal glory! Eternal that is until next Thursday, when the recyclers pick the old newspapers up. Oh yeah!
Good luck — and Godspeed!
(And on that note, I might direct your attention to “Crap Every Time, a new blog dedicated to mocking TDIET full-time. All I can say is that I admire the dedication and personal sacrifice required.)
June 28th, 2006 at 10:30 pm
I’ve always loved “parading” – it seems to mean, “doing nothing out of the ordinary, boastfully.” It’s the opposite of “skulking”, in which the ordinary action is done ashamedly.
So here we have Tommie and Lu Ann skulking around in their bathrobes, as Margo parades in hers.
What a broad.
June 28th, 2006 at 10:36 pm
Speaking of mash-ups (yeah, I’m continuing this from the end of the previous thread), notice that Ted Forth’s winning streak coincides with Charlie Brown’s baseball game? Could Goth girl really be the great-granddaughter of Roy Hobbes?
June 28th, 2006 at 10:43 pm
I like her gold midriff-baring hooker top
June 28th, 2006 at 10:48 pm
I am far too busy being lost in you eyes to notice what kind of boots you have on.
June 28th, 2006 at 10:55 pm
I think Dr. Corey’s decision to help poor unfortunate children (a direct result of too much time at home alone watching bad TV) will put Mary over the edge. How can her hospital-volunteering and neighborhood life-mending compare with Jeff’s planned good deeds?
The best Mary can hope for is that sponsoring a Sally Struther’s orphan, added to her on-going helpfulness (saving drunks, patching marriages) will win her enough “goodness points” to compete.
I predict a BIG Chaterstone disaster with Ian and Toby to keep our Mary in the game.
June 28th, 2006 at 11:15 pm
I have to delurk to mention this. My father actually had a Pluggers strip to his name a few years ago. It was quite the ‘what the hell’ moment for me, as he hadn’t mentioned it to me and I ended up hearing about it through a friend of a friend who saw it that day. I can tell you at least that if the comic runs, you’ll get a signed print of the strip and maybe some other swag too.
June 28th, 2006 at 11:37 pm
My first thought was that Mary was making a Scalia-like gesture at Jeff.
June 29th, 2006 at 1:52 am
No matter what the content of the strip or the necessity of the plot, Margot MUST have motion lines around her hands in the last panel.
I accept this pluggers challenge, and I hope you all can forgive me for the horribly base submissions that I shall stoop to in the name of victory. as in: mousetrap= how a plugger gets a new mouse. or natty lite and cheetos=a plugger wine and cheese party. or toilet=a plugger confessional.
I could go on. And unfortunately for the comic reading public I may.
June 29th, 2006 at 2:51 am
Today I saw a sign on a store door that said “‘use’ the other door ->”; I thought immediately of Finger Quotin’ Margo.
June 29th, 2006 at 3:37 am
They’ll do Mary Worth Everytime!
http://acebonestudios.com/tdmwet.html
(Dub not Dubya-thanks for yesterday’s comment )
June 29th, 2006 at 3:47 am
They’ll do Mary Worth Everytime!
http://acebonestudios.com/tdmwet.html
( Dub Not Dubya – Thanks for yesterday’s comment)
June 29th, 2006 at 4:25 am
Dr. Jeff doesn’t need to go swimming to Cambodia. Just lower down on the comics pages is the Patterson family. He can use his plastic surgeon skills to repair all the cleft CHINS that afflict them! Take Mary up North for a meddling vacation, Jeff!
June 29th, 2006 at 4:55 am
The guy stabbing himself in the throat really looks like Dick Van Patten. Hey, Dick!
June 29th, 2006 at 5:11 am
Uh, so… I just went onto the yahoo page to check something… and they have a comic spotlight. usually something like Get Fuzzy or Foxtrot or whatever. But today, thsi greeted me:
Wow.
I wonder which newspapers run that one…
June 29th, 2006 at 5:24 am
Jane’s World is awful. Poorly drawn and written, it’s only claim to fame is that it’s about a lesbian. It’s terribly boring.
June 29th, 2006 at 5:41 am
I bet Dr. Jeffs “Cambodia” is really South Beach Miami and hes finally going somewhere to enjoy the Gay lifestyle he can’t at home. Hopefully Mary will catch a glimpse of him walking in the Gay pride parade from a clip on FOX news.
June 29th, 2006 at 5:56 am
Cambodia? I hope Dr. Cory checks in with Gary Glitter for some excellent travel advice!
June 29th, 2006 at 5:57 am
Hey Josh, do they sell men’s clothes where you bought that top?
: )
June 29th, 2006 at 6:25 am
I’ll bet you if we could actually be inside of Apartment 3G, it would smell like a bag of rotting codfish that I forgot to take out of my car’s trunk for a month.
June 29th, 2006 at 7:35 am
Hi Paradox-
I actually got the shirt in Crete on my honeymoon last year. It’s traditional Cretan garb. Cretan men are rustick badasses who will gut you like a fish as soon as look at you, so I hope for your sake none of them are reading this and noting that you’ve denigrated their national costume.
jf
June 29th, 2006 at 7:50 am
Josh- You’re the one calling them cretins!
Huh?
Oh.
Never mind.
June 29th, 2006 at 7:56 am
You ought to see the national costume of Tennessee. Wife beater, thongs, long dirty hair, gruesome tatts, NASCAR ballcap, facial hair optional.
Accessorize with a dirty, ten year old beat up two-tone blue and white Ford pickup truck that spews bluish smoke from the tailpipe.
June 29th, 2006 at 8:19 am
6.29.2006
FBOBW – Liz’s real thought balloon – Does this mean I get a cut of of the casino revenues?
RMMD – Dr. Troy cowers in panel two, as a menacing Chesty glowers from panel three. I’m scared, Josh.
June 29th, 2006 at 8:45 am
Many things need to be said about Josh’s top. For example, the fact that it is too weird to be a “shirt” and must therefore be referred to as a “top” is already a bad sign. Doesn’t it look like something someone who had never seen on a hippy would draw a hippy wearing? I just think that if I guy who often makes snide comments about the clothes, chest hair and armhair in comics posts a picture of himself with a bizarre, effeminate shirt that shows off his hairy chest and arms people should take note.
I feel like I am blaspheming in a church and that the curmudgeon will strike me down.
June 29th, 2006 at 8:52 am
FOOB: Not only do we have blinkin’, we have smokin’, too! Egads, the “animation” blows.
June 29th, 2006 at 8:54 am
Crete, huh? Lemme guess, they wear those baggy Kurdish MC-Hammer pants, too…ooooh, I’m shakin’!!
: )
June 29th, 2006 at 8:55 am
Spidey: Peter’s spider sense is tingling because, from the looks of panel 2, he just sat on the gear shift.
Pluggers: Wait, my wife cuts my hair. Does that make me a Plugger? Oh, wait, no — I forgot. I’m not a sexist idiot who “turns over” his paycheck.
Mallard: Tinsley continues to burrow up his own ass for warmth.
Foob: Nice. The Natives do all sort of Native-y rituals that have nothing to do with Christianity, and Lizard calls it a baptism. You go, white girl. And did she actually have a toot off the peace pipe in Panel 2? Because I didn’t think the Pattersaints did that sort of thing. And lastly, after yesterday’s strip, she gets her nifty Mtigwhatever name in pantomime? Nice job carrying through from one day to the next, Lynn.
Stone Soup: Wait, Wally’s Jewish? Why don’t I remember this coming up at all before?
Rose is Rose is Rose is Rose: Stay in the house. That pool is 80% pee.
June 29th, 2006 at 9:18 am
You mess with our Pope and Evil Overlord’s sartorial choices at your own peril. One keystroke and you’re deleted from the universe faster than an Apt 3G boyfriend from a promising storyline.
June 29th, 2006 at 9:47 am
groovy purple wall behind you, josh
June 29th, 2006 at 9:51 am
Who knew pluggers were accepting of interspecies marriage! A chicken and a dog. But wait, that actually looks more like a rooster. Who knew pluggers were accepting of gay interspecies marriage?
More about interspecies gay marriage can be found on the internet, but not if the firwewall on your work computer blocks it. Bastards.
June 29th, 2006 at 10:00 am
The dumb crocs in PBS crack me up every time. Newt McNuggets.
June 29th, 2006 at 10:00 am
My question, Josh, is whether you put the shirt on specially for the photograph, or whether you just happened to be lounging about the house in traditional cretan attire, one lapel jauntily folded back to expose some extra chest hair?
June 29th, 2006 at 10:14 am
I can see that I’m going to have to address this shirt issue in more detail. We had actually just returned from a cocktail party/fundraiser for Mrs. C.’s work, and she had suggested that I wear it. The ladies seem to like it, particularly the lady I’m married to, so I’m not going to let your jibes get me down (too much).
There is a flaw in the fabric around the necklines that keeps the lapel popping open like that. I was trying to fix it all night, lest some total stranger come up and run her fingers through my sexy chest hair, thus causing a scene. It popped open again just before the pic was taken, thus supplying an added sexy bonus for all of you.
jf
June 29th, 2006 at 10:32 am
MW today, Tommie makes a guest starring appearance with Blonde hair. Notice her face is looking down and her hair is dyed a different color. Hey, I’d be embarassed too if I had to make a cameo in a strip that sucks.
June 29th, 2006 at 10:33 am
I suggested a TDIET contest in the 6/21 comments (#42). There were some brilliant entry suggestions, but I doubt anyone actually mailed them in.
http://joshreads.com/?p=651
As just-now-self-appointed-judge for that contest, I declare Ginger the winner for most antiquated, Badly Computer Animated Boy for most modern.
You each win a pair of hobo pants.
June 29th, 2006 at 10:37 am
Don’t worry, Josh. SOME of us ladies around here appreciate a good hippy shirt with a little exposed chest-thatch. Like me.
Oh, yeah!
June 29th, 2006 at 11:16 am
I, too, appreciate Margo foregoing her dye-job. It makes her look positively Cruella Deville-like, especially while she brandishes her talons.
p.s. Nice housedress, Josh. Hope the “mules” match.
June 29th, 2006 at 11:30 am
You know, it’s funny; my Uncle Jeff used to occasionally dress in “traditional cretan garb”. Only he did it while belting out Judy Garland tunes in a smoke-filled private club. Oh well, I’m all for embracing diversity! : )
June 29th, 2006 at 11:41 am
Never you mind, Josh, you look cute in the shirt (although you’re far too fair to pass as a ΚÏητικός.) And you’re right about Cretan men. They can be wonderfully hospitable, but they carry a grudge forever.
June 29th, 2006 at 11:43 am
I thought traditional Cretan garb was a seven-tiered, flounced skirt and a bodice that lets your bosom hang out. Oh, and snakes. Gotta be a couple of snakes in there.
June 29th, 2006 at 11:49 am
#33 Yes, Josh, we do appreciate it. I have long lamented the comic world’s lack of sex objects for women to enjoy. The menfolk are having all kinds of fun with Pigborn but Lysander just looks like a horny muppet to me. If that is not the blond guy’s name, don’t bother correcting me, I really don’t care.
FBOFW: Are we going to learn Lizardbreath’s new name or what? Or will I have to go read the Monthly Letters to find out? It would be great if it turned out to be “Breath of the Lizard” after all.
June 29th, 2006 at 11:53 am
FBOFW: That blinking Elizabeth in the last panel is freaking me out.
Somebody make it stop.
Also, that smoke in the 2nd panel. Perhaps they’re smoking mitigackywackytabacky in that peace pipe?
June 29th, 2006 at 11:58 am
Josh, now that you’ve stirred up a bunch of trouble wearing an “ethnic top” (thank you McGriddle), maybe you should raffle the thing off to make money for the site. You know, autograph it and the whole ball of wax. Whoever wins it can have their pic posted to the site in a place of honor. You’ll eventually get to get another shirt when you head back to Crete due to your jetsetting lifestyle, but you could really give one of us pluggers, who will never go anywhere closer than the local convenience store, a thrill if someone won the shirt. Wow!
June 29th, 2006 at 12:00 pm
Oh, and raffle off that Barbie-like marionette you’re holding in the picture, too. Depending on the audience you pitch it to, you could make more money with the puppet than the shirt.
June 29th, 2006 at 12:03 pm
All the cute guys in the comics are in Archie. Sad but true. Although David Hasselhoff is about to kiss Monty today.
June 29th, 2006 at 12:10 pm
Pluggers: (#27) My husband cuts his own hair and the kid’s hair with the electric clippers I got him at Walmart for Christmas. I wonder what kind of irredeemable Plugger trailer trash that makes us?
June 29th, 2006 at 12:12 pm
Nice shirt, comic boy.
June 29th, 2006 at 12:19 pm
#35 Joan – Thanks, I never win anything! I wonder if I can run to Crete and pick up a nice matching man blouse for myself before the weekend gets here.
PS: In case it isn’t clear by now, nothing published in any of the funny papers, the PBS Crocs at their dumbest or Margo at her finger quotingest, is as much fun to discuss as Josh’s shirt.
Sincerely,
A Cretan Curmudegeon
June 29th, 2006 at 12:22 pm
This may have been pointed out before, but the dude who writes and draws TDIET is 78 freaking years old. I’d say he’s a relatively pretty hip guy, all things considered.
June 29th, 2006 at 12:27 pm
I bought a ‘top’ like Josh’s when I was in Africa, except that it really was made from tie-dyed material and had embroidery where lapels would be if the shirt had lapels and also around the sleeves – all adding to the hippie shirt look.
June 29th, 2006 at 12:28 pm
I know Josh’s groovy shirt and virile chest hair is distracting but, people, can you stop gawking at my husband for a minute and show some appreciation for Kaycee’s handiwork! Her Finger-Quotin’ Margo Doll is inspired! It arrived in a decorated carrying case! (which in hindsight we should have photographed instead of Josh’s shirt…)
June 29th, 2006 at 12:29 pm
#13, I thought it was the guy from Seinfield
June 29th, 2006 at 12:34 pm
grinderman beat me to it, but Dr. Cory should check with Gary Glitter about which Southeast Asian countries enforce their statutory rape laws.
June 29th, 2006 at 12:58 pm
When Vicky Value Shopper goes through the grocery checkout, her cart is filled with generic labels and off brands. But Wanda Welfare Queen right in front of her – real Campbell’s soup and Heinz ketchup! Oh yeah.
June 29th, 2006 at 1:00 pm
I lived for two years in a predominently South Asian community in Flushing. My Hindu friends convinced me to start wearing Kurtas — the voluminous embroidered shirts everyone wears in India. They are comfortable, easy to care for, and cool in summer weather. I still wear them in the summertime, or when I’m teaching meditation at the Yoga Center. They look rather like Josh’s “top.”
They couldn’t get me to put on a Dhoti, however — it still appears to me like I’m wearing a diaper in those things!
June 29th, 2006 at 1:15 pm
#51: Had I known that the Margo doll arrived in its own decorated carrying case, I probably would not have taken notice of Josh’s “shirt”. However, congratulations to Kaycee on an inspired (by what strange impulses I know not) piece of workmanship, and a sincere mea culpa to His-and-Her Holinesses.
June 29th, 2006 at 1:31 pm
Gil Thorp is in the middle of a three-day tension-filled arc. Will Jimmy knock the ball out of brother Danny’s glove? Will Milford beat New Thayer? God, the excitement is almost too much.
June 29th, 2006 at 1:33 pm
Baby Blues: Okay, today I am feeling deeply sad for little Hammie. I mean, I was on the edge already, since he’s named “Hammie” and all, but basically it always seemed like a normal, mostly happy family over there.
Today he comments casually to his sister that Mom told him she never travels because “airports are dirty and crowded and the only souvenir she ever brings home is a case of diarrhea.”
Poor Hammie. I picture this revalation coming as he sits at the side of the tub during her “mommy-break” bubble bath, scrubbing her feet and giving her a pedicure. Mom is drinking her “medicine” and Dad and the girls have escaped to the playgroud for the afternoon. Hammie is enojoying time with his mother but dreading the leg shaving that he knows will be coming next, because he always has to do things he doesn’t enjoy if he accidentally nicks her skin. He can’t talk about this stuff because it is “our little secret.”
Yes, I’m deeply sad for Hammie.
June 29th, 2006 at 1:49 pm
#52 Speaking of Seinfeld— what’s next for Josh, a puffy pirate shirt???
Harrrrrdeeeeharhar!
June 29th, 2006 at 1:56 pm
Ok. I bit. I submitted this to Pluggers:
“Being an uninformed simpleton is a Plugger’s way of smiling all day long.”
I hope they run it. I think my chances are really good.
June 29th, 2006 at 2:06 pm
#14 Other Sally, speaking of belly kissing, Vladimir Putin planted one on the stomach of a little kid in the Kremlin yesterday.
http://www.newsru.com/russia/28jun2006/kiss.html
Click on one of the images to view the slide show, then look at slide 5
MOSCOW, June 28 (Reuters) – Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday stopped on a walk through the Kremlin to speak to a young boy before lifting up the boy’s shirt and kissing the astonished youth on his stomach. Putin was shown by state television chatting to graduates of military academies before he took a walk through one of the Kremlin’s courtyards, often full of tourists. He stopped and spoke to a young boy who appeared to be aged four or five and turned away shyly when asked his name. “What is your name?” Putin asked, kneeling down in front of the fair-haired boy and holding him by the waist. “Nikita,” the clearly shocked boy answered, looking from side to side. Putin then lifted the boy’s shirt and kissed him on his stomach. The Russian president then patted the boy on the head and walked off through a crowd of astonished tourists..
June 29th, 2006 at 2:12 pm
Treedweller (#58) — I’ll never read Baby Blues again. Yeesh.
The Paradox (#59) — You need to say that in a Low Talker voice. “I heard that!”
(DT)GT – Pearse the catcher is about to find out he dropped the ball in the collision with Hughes the baserunner, then he’ll be knocked into the next county by Rapdog, who’s closing fast, and will be the winning run. He’s the hero, headed off to college, Mom no longer wears the Doritos dress, girls going crazy for him. Too bad they all look like monkeys in wigs…
PBS — Woohoo! Crocs finally get something to eat, even if it’s the equivalent of a Cornish game hen.
Luann — Yes, Brad, another sister. Didn’t we tell you about your twin, the one we sent to live with distant relatives, to keep the Emporer from finding you? I think they named her…what was it…started with a T…rhymed with “roni blaytona”…
June 29th, 2006 at 2:14 pm
Thanks for the plug, Josh! Much appreciated. I needed a forum to vent the bile; I didn’t want to frighten my friends with pent-up TDIET aggravation.
June 29th, 2006 at 2:16 pm
I submitted my “Plugger:”
Here’s my idea:
A Plugger FAX means going to your friend’s house with information you promised: “Here’s the fax!”
Notice I made a real effort to come up with what I hope will be a winner, instead of going for one of the myriad possible shots I could have taken that would probably be ignored.
I hope they really do send a copy to the winners. Otherwise, I’ll never know I won, cuz you ain’t gonna get me to start reading this thing (well, maybe if they ran it in the local daily, but I won’t be seeking it out). (Note to local daily: please don’t start running “Pluggers”).
June 29th, 2006 at 2:24 pm
Also, even though Joan didn’t declare them winners, I submitted two of my TDIET ideas. Perhaps they are a bit too tongue-in-cheek to get serious consideration, but then again, I would have wondered about a lot of ideas that get used. Again, I won’t know if they run one unless I hear about it here or from them directly. Watch for the typewriter idea and the programmer/VCR idea.
June 29th, 2006 at 2:24 pm
New Foobimation!
http://acebonestudios.com/foobliz.html
June 29th, 2006 at 2:27 pm
#62 no need to thank me. I will consider it my public service for the day.
June 29th, 2006 at 2:33 pm
# 46 – That makes you THRIFTY ones! With shaved heads. Being a thrifty housewife myself, I applaud you.
Our newspaper is putting out their bi-centennial comics survey. They want to know our ages (since they’re so desperately trying to get younger readers, I suppose all the entries by oldsters will get deep-sixed.) I voted for Mutts, Get Fuzzy, FOOB, Peanuts and Luanne. Yes, yes, I know, but I really enjoy those last two, I’m sorry. I voted against B.C., Marmaduke, Ask Shagg, Beetle Bailey, and Gil Thorpe. (Gil Thorpe is just too boring, as hideously and piteously as it’s drawn).
Oh, and Funky Winkerbean, 6/25 – we don’t get this strip, but thank you for printing the panel the other day. I thought it was two cute gay guys getting together, and it was getting sort of…warm..in here…
June 29th, 2006 at 2:37 pm
#35 – Joan – belated entry –
Grog the caveman make fun of Grunt.
“Ha, Grunt light fire to appease weather god! Not do him good! *snort!*”
But, at attack of Cave Bear clan, looka whooz at altar now? Oh yeah!!
“Grog sacrifice rabbit – no, sheep – er, goat – COW. Grog must sacrifice cow for war god! Whole lotsa cows!!”
June 29th, 2006 at 2:57 pm
Margo in all her evilness. Wow, that was a treasure.
June 29th, 2006 at 2:59 pm
Finger’ Quoting Margo Action Figure is great! Comes with its own carrying case and business card. Lu Ann and Tommie Head Bobbin’ Action
Figures sold separately.
June 29th, 2006 at 3:30 pm
The concept of a Tommie Action Figure boggles the mind.
June 29th, 2006 at 3:38 pm
How about an Ian Cameron inaction figure complete with cardio paddles and a coffin carrying case?
June 29th, 2006 at 4:09 pm
How about a stomach kissin’ “King” Vlad Putin action figure? I wonder if that kid saw into his soul when Putin kissed his stomach.
June 29th, 2006 at 5:14 pm
“Ethnic group & Trudeau are Poles apart.” This was the headline of an artical written by Lloyd Grove in todays N.Y. Daily News 6/29/06. Here are some of the highlights..
The New York branch of the Polish American Congress has just branded “Doonesbury” creator Garry Trudeau a bigot.
But Trudeaau, whose often-controversial cartoon strip runs in more than 1,000 papers and on slate.com, isn’t fazed by the group’s attempt this week to present him with a bogus certificate dubbing him an “Authentic Bigot.”
The May 14 edition of the comic featured a character named Kaminski, who receives his college diploma by overcoming “the worst skill deficiencies in reaching the minimun threshold of achievement”.
The rest of the artical can be found on page 35.
June 29th, 2006 at 5:21 pm
What some people won’t do for publicity. Maybe Trudeau should have called him Mxyztplk.
June 29th, 2006 at 5:41 pm
The May 14 edition of the comic featured a character named Kaminski, who receives his college diploma by overcoming “the worst skill deficiencies in reaching the minimun threshold of achievementâ€.
The rest of the artical can be found on page 35.
Ok, that’s just too damn funny for words. On several levels.
And I’m an over-edge-you-muh-kated Pole, too.
June 29th, 2006 at 5:51 pm
Well, it turns out I didn’t enter either contest after all. Both my emails bounced back. One address came from the quoted text above (chiefpluggr@aol.com), so maybe that was just a joke. But the other came from the actual TDIET strip I view at the King Features web site (alscaduto@ptonline.net). Go figure.
I don’t care enough to go looking some more for the right addys., but if anyone cares to find them I’ll try again.
June 29th, 2006 at 6:10 pm
BTW, the charity is called the smile train:
http://www.smiletrain.org/
June 29th, 2006 at 6:11 pm
Try alscaduto@optionline.net
That should get you where you want to go for TDIET.
June 29th, 2006 at 6:45 pm
Thanks Josh, you reminded me of that “Sanford & Son” episode where Lamont goes all African and wears a Dashiki.
June 29th, 2006 at 7:08 pm
You can’t communicate past the time-barrier to TDIET via email because computers didn’t exist in the late 1940s. You have to use a form of communication that was common then, like paper mail or perhaps a telegram… a phone might be too iffy.
June 29th, 2006 at 7:52 pm
Oh good lord! In today’s GA, the strapping bear is planning to get in “a little cave time” with baby Boog! I hope that doesn’t mean what I think it means!
June 29th, 2006 at 7:52 pm
Forgot the link:
http://www.chron.com/apps/comics/showComic.mpl?date=2006/6/29&name=Gasoline_Alley
June 29th, 2006 at 8:13 pm
Josh’s shirt: reference – Get Fuzzy – 27 June
http://comics.com/comics/getfuzzy/archive/getfuzzy-20060627.html
Do you have those slippers?
June 29th, 2006 at 8:20 pm
Gil Thorp today:
“Raptor rounds third, but there’s still no call at the plate!”
“More Doritos, Mule!”
June 29th, 2006 at 8:24 pm
Josh baby, luv the Fu Manchu,Sideburns, and Man Thatch, also the MW style forearm hair, the Barbi bringin back some childhood memories I bet :)
June 29th, 2006 at 8:31 pm
62: The catcher for New Thayer is the famous Danny Hughes, hence the unbearable tension as brother Jimmy crashes into him. Also, Rap Dog “rounds third,” which is apparently about ten feet from home. I guess they use a smaller field for high school baseball.
June 29th, 2006 at 9:17 pm
Josh Sez: “I must admit that I’m a little puzzled about what might not “go well†and extend Dr. Jeff’s stay in Cambodia. …Is he worried that one of the 152 heroin-filled condoms he plans to swallow is going to burst while he’s in the air?”
Oh irony, thy name is Rush.
Returning via private plane from the Dominican Republic (known for its child prostitution), Big Fat Idiot was caught with a vial of little blue pills. (Bag or colon? Didn’t say.) Viagra, it is reported. (However Oxycontin–AKA “Rush’s Choice”–also comes in little blue pills.)
http://www.hoffmania.com/blog/2006/06/limpbaugh.html
…One week after Bruce Tinsley falls on his face in worship of Rush. Why mention the child prostitution? Because it’s not even a month since (as DLAuthor noted back then) Tinsley smeared the entire UN peacekeeping forces and their “little blue helmets” over a year-old sex scandal:
http://world-o-crap.com/blog/?p=41
Glass houses, Brucie.
I guess Tinsley applies that “few bad apples” routine very selectively. I’m sure he’s been working feverishly to blame Rush’s current and future activity on the mainstream media (formerly “Liberal Media,” formerly “Jew-Controlled Media”)…
June 29th, 2006 at 9:23 pm
I like that someone upset about a “smear” includes the cute parenthetical “(known for its child prostitution)” . Mmmmm-mmm that’s some tasty irony.
June 29th, 2006 at 9:43 pm
Here is a suggestion I sent to TDIET:
Al-
I read “They’ll Do It Every Time” at http://www.dailyink.com. I enjoy your strip.
Here is an idea: My wife wanted a treadmill to exercise on, so I bought her one. Now, she just uses it to pile boxes on!
Enjoy,
Tim Begley
Omaha, NE
June 29th, 2006 at 9:59 pm
#89: Reflexively assuming the defensive, shrill, self-urinating posture of the cornered neoconservative, Goober feigns missing my point completely, attempting to reverse it into my face. (He also assumes I’m “upset” by anything Tinsley does, which is not only incorrect, it’s flatulently stupid.)
Let me dumb it down for you, Goober:
“The Dominican Republic is known for child prostitution” = fact. (Go ahead, Google it. It’s known for all sorts of illicit sex trades, but I’m operating on the assumption that if Rush wanted an adult woman, he would’ve stayed married to one out of three.)
“UN Peacekeepers are child rapists” = lie. (Tinsley’s next strip pulled out the image of a little girl praying that the UN would leave her village and stop raping her. That’s what you’re making a fool of yourself striving to “protect,” Goob.)
Thank you for the dance.
June 29th, 2006 at 10:26 pm
91: Dear self-righteous asshole; The UN child sex scandal is a fact, as is the UN’s slow response. Your “assumption” about Limbaugh is made up – in other words, a smear.
I’ll leave it to others to decide which of us seems “defensive [and] shrill.”
June 29th, 2006 at 10:55 pm
my my my
I liked it better when we were making fun of Mary Worth and Josh’ shirt
June 29th, 2006 at 11:18 pm
Dear Goober and Scumbaggioni-
Will you feel better and fair and balanced if I call both of you self-righteous assholes?
There are nearly infinite numbers Web sites available for arguing shrilly about politics. Please refrain from doing so here.
Here’s a handy little tip about getting into a pointless fight with somebody about politics on the Internet: don’t. You don’t have to get the last word. Really, you don’t. Even if you do, you will not succeed in foiling Rush Limbaugh/the UN/whoever you think you’re foiling. Chill.
jf
June 29th, 2006 at 11:38 pm
I liked the shirt. I liked the action figure. And I really liked Jonnya’s Foobimation!
June 29th, 2006 at 11:40 pm
#32 & #33: Don’t get me wrong, I wasn’t dissing on the shirt–it’s actually quite hip. I was just questioning whether this hipness was consciously arranged for our benefit, or whether you are so routinely hip that, if photographed at any given moment, chances are that the photo would display your hipness without any further effort.
June 30th, 2006 at 12:48 am
Hey, how ’bout this:
“Plugger summer getaway” = round-trip tickets to the DR and a bottle of someone else’s Viagra.
June 30th, 2006 at 12:55 am
Also, on the Tinsley hypocritometer: didn’t he just do a strip about how people should be innocent until proven guilty (as a “shut up about Haditha, you mean liberals” whinge)?
So-o-o … as anyone been found guilty in the sex-for-food thing? I don’t mean to dispute that there have been allegations, or belittle the seriousness of the situation, but … well, if the Marines allegedly responsible deserve their day in court over Haditha (and I agree with Tinsley that they do), shouldn’t he also keep a lid on it with the UN thing? Oh yeah!
Not that consistency of position (except on the “liberals/teachers/reporters/Jews suck” level) is a hallmark of Tinsley’s, but still … just saying.
Disclaimer: I promise not to respond to political baiting from the likes of Goober _or_ the other guy; this post is just pointing out another exciting way that Bruce Tinsley, a cartoonist and therefore fair game for this site, is an idiot.
June 30th, 2006 at 12:56 am
PS: You going to update Friday, Josh? Or are you too busy trying on traditional Bulgarian pants or something?
June 30th, 2006 at 1:36 am
How about a fustinella? Zorba would approve (although technically the fustinella was worn in Attica and the Peloponnesus, not Crete. I looked it up).
June 30th, 2006 at 5:49 am
6/30:
Zits: Omigod, Pappa Zits is a Plugger!
FOOB: Hey, a decent joke/punchline in FBOFW. Yeah, but Jesse already got even with her with the first spirit name: he mocked her race! Calling her a goose to boot. Good one, Jesse. “I’ll always return”, yeah, right. Mtiggy-bye-bye, Waabshki-Nika.
A3G: What’s Margo’s type, anyway? Have WE met Eric Mills, and is he one of those beatnik guys? Now, if that’s the Eric that done Lizardbreath wrong a while back, *that* would be Margo’s type, big-time! Then, Lu and Tommie can learn from Liz how to belt her, Six Chix-old lady style.
BB: What kind of big, round thingamabobs is Sarge knifin’ out of his nails, anyway? Thems gotta hurt!
Nancy: Hey, no fair; they’re doing a “Mutts” strip (and not the good kind, either).
Crankshaft: That’s depressing on at least two levels.
Garfield: This one’s good if you leave off the “Next”.
Spiderman: Going from attempted murder to snarky graphiti on a billboard? Narna’s really slumming it, isn’t she?
June 30th, 2006 at 5:54 am
This one isn’t sendable, but I have an idea:
“Gary Brookins is a Plugger Jeff MacNelly.”
June 30th, 2006 at 7:22 am
#101: gnome, I approve even more of the traditional Cretan solder’s costume, since my ancestors came from Crete (although some of them wound up in Crete by way of Sparta). The Cretan soldier wears white boots and dark blue breeches, with a knife always worn in the belt (presumably, the knife is at the ready to “gut you like a fish”- see Josh’s post #20, above).
June 30th, 2006 at 8:13 am
#91 Ted, nice touch including a little flattery with your submission. If you win, you will have earned it.
To all, I have to admit I got curious/bored enough to go to Pluggerville. The actual submission address is chiefplugr@aol.com (one less ‘g’). I didn’t spend any time exploring while I was there, but did notice there is an online submission form if you prefer that to email.
June 30th, 2006 at 8:41 am
(DT)GT: New Thayer holds on to a 3-2 lead (see Wednesday) to win 2-1.
DEE-FENSE!
June 30th, 2006 at 8:43 am
FOOB: Wow, I don’t think I’ve laughed out loud at this strip in quite a long time… might be years. but yeah, Lynn caught me off guard with that one and ogt a bit more than a chuckle from me.
GF: Is Darby making another mildly obscene joke and covering it up with Bucky’s stupidity, or do I just have a dirty mind (I’m assuming the latter).
9CL: OK, We get it. Thorax is craaaazy and from another planet. I was enjoying the “Priest falls in love with Ex-Nun pretending to be her own neice” story-line. can we please, please get back to it so we can have some resolution??
Pibgorn: This doesn’t often happen with me and Shakespear, but I’m lost. maybe it’s because some of the characters look similar, maybe it’s because He’s on an “update every M-W-F” schedule. maybe it’s because Comics.com wont let me go back more than a month to review again… can anyone tell me what the hell just happened the last few weeks? I’ve been reading, but I’m a bit lost as to who-is-who and who’s betraying who.
A&J: I’m liking it, but I’m kinda curious what’s with the meditation-kick this week? is it national relax-or-die week or something? It’s funny, it’s informational, but I’m curious as to the “Why?”
June 30th, 2006 at 8:46 am
#106 – That’s old news. Didn’t everyone see the highlights on SportsCenter last night? The play at the plate made the daily Top 5.
June 30th, 2006 at 9:18 am
What, exactly, are Mary’s “responsibilities” that are so onerous that she can’t run off to Kampuchea with Jeff? Granted, there’s a big backlog of Charterstone meddling to work on, but she could outsource some of that. Mary should go. Keep Jeff out of trouble. And imagine all the new meddling that could be done, all those mixed up Khmers who could use a dose of good common sense.
June 30th, 2006 at 9:26 am
MW in the far east – talk about Cambodia returning to the year zero.
June 30th, 2006 at 9:27 am
The horrors – the horrors.
June 30th, 2006 at 9:38 am
103: He’d probably take it as a compliment, though.
Spidey: Is it my imagination or is that Sewer Urchin on the billboard?
Mallard: The only thing that would satisfy Tinsley, I imagine, would be concluding all newscasts with a musical number about Zarqawi still being dead. For a year. Nice of him to point out, in his own strip, that Dubya’s still failing at finding Osama, though.
Foob: Yay for the return of the Lizard Breath moniker, but for the love of GOD, Lynn. Show, don’t tell! You hadan entire pantomime strip yesterday, and today you catch us up on Lizard’s Mtigromney name. That’s the first case of on-camera off-camera action I think I’ve ever seen. It’d be like if, in a book, I described the action in one chapter, then recapped the dialogue in the next. Bad writer! No biscuit for you.
Monty: Yay! I love it when we peek into Monty’s fantasy life. There’s always something a little extra off about it.
June 30th, 2006 at 9:49 am
I’m with TheNewGuy (#107) — I have to give credit where it’s due, especially after ranting that the strip is so terrible most of the time. Lynn nailed today’s strip, with the perfect punchline.
GF – Mmm…good carpet.
SF – Ted, we all know a 3-minute deadline is plenty of time for you.
Non Sequitor – I’m cutting this one out for my office door (yes, I have an MBA, and I was a lifeguard when in HS/undergrad days).
Luann – Mom was in parades, when she was in school? President of her HS chapter of Future MILFs of America, maybe? photographic evidence, please…preferrably of the swimsuit variety, and not the blue corduroy jacket variety.
June 30th, 2006 at 10:14 am
FBOFW: Well, holy crap, I was right. #41
I must savor this moment, it doesn’t happen often. It is just so unfortunate that it concerns Lynn Johnston.
June 30th, 2006 at 10:32 am
I just wanted to say that “Reflexively assuming the defensive, shrill, self-urinating posture of the cornered neoconservative” is one of the greatest opening lines of anything ever including “Call me Ishmael” and perhaps exceeds in greatness “It was the best of times; it was the worst of times.”
Oh, and leave Josh’s shirt alone. It takes a man to wear a smock weaved of Bounty triple-ply.
June 30th, 2006 at 10:38 am
I notice that the second panel of 3G seems to have been printed backwards — or else Tommie and Lu Ann quickly switched positions while Margo was gloating over how much fun the party was. Maybe they do that to see if she’s paying attention to anything besides herself. (She’s not.)
June 30th, 2006 at 11:03 am
#115: I still prefer “It was a dark and stormy night”.
June 30th, 2006 at 11:06 am
Also, what, exactly, does “self-urinating” mean?
Ok, I’ll fess up. I just wanted to put the term “self-urinating” in quotes.
Ha! I did it again!
June 30th, 2006 at 11:13 am
109 – Chet – Are you kidding? When Mary had to go downtown to the women’s shelter, she had to wear latex gloves and openly sneered at anyone who appeared vaguely non-WASPy, or dressed in worn jeans (the kind you might pay extra for if you were going to a hobo gathering). Imagine Mary in the third world! And cleft palates – Poverty striken people with speech impediments would be actual problems. Mary’s meddling is only effective if your problem is so trivial as to be reduced to a few quick one-line platitudes. Chet, what were you thinking?
June 30th, 2006 at 11:24 am
Ziggy (6/30) reveals that he lives in pop-land as opposed to soda-land. Or at least he was driving through pop-land. (See http://www.popvssoda.com)
–A proud pop-drinking British Columbian
June 30th, 2006 at 11:42 am
#118:
Cog, I agree, “self-urinating” does not make much sense. However, I could see someone “self-marinating.”
Also, you’re more than just a mere cog. You are a vital spoke in the wheel of life.
On the bicycle of happiness.
Riding on the road of freedom.
To the…uh…
…land of knowledge…
June 30th, 2006 at 11:43 am
FOOB: The foobimation just doesn’t cut it with me.
My case in point is todays strip.
Having Jesse eyes blink in the 3rd panel, while the rest of the scene is frozen. It’s eerie. Like some alien came down and froze the party goers, and the only part of their body they can move is their eyes.
Freaky.
Also the Mitigagwaggy jab at Elizabeth’s race is hitting below the belt. White goose will return with some fire water to put the whole settlement ont their ass. An while they’re drunk Granthony will bring the pox ladden blankets for everyone.
Take that red man!
June 30th, 2006 at 12:17 pm
Ben: I am quite seriously considering changing my screenname to “vital spoke in the wheel of life”. It seem so much more positive and, well, happy. Also, thank you for the opportunity to use quote marks again, to which I have seemingly become addicted.
June 30th, 2006 at 12:21 pm
‘Pox Laden Blankets’ would be also be a good screen name.
June 30th, 2006 at 12:27 pm
121: “Self-urinating” makes perfect sense. It means that Goober wettem.
Here’s how Foob could have made me set myself on fire in anger today: if the alternative name had been Mtiggersnlionznbears for “Cinnamon Buns”. Jesus, now I have to go wash that thought out of my head. With vodka.
June 30th, 2006 at 12:34 pm
dlauthor et al.-
PLEASE STOP SINGLING OUT FELLOW COMMENTORS BY NAME FOR PANTS-WETTING-RELATED INSULTS.
Don’t be assholes. I don’t know how to make it any clearer to you.
jf
June 30th, 2006 at 12:45 pm
#107 – Bucky has simply added a few carpet fuzzies, to add body to his rubber band/toilet water smoothie. Mmmmmm, carpet ….. I think it would be hilarious if he and Satchel somehow got into the firewater!
June 30th, 2006 at 12:51 pm
Now we know that Bucky is a carpet muncher. Another one slips by the editor.
June 30th, 2006 at 12:55 pm
I really hope that Bucky Gets a hold of the whiskey. Now that would be funny.
June 30th, 2006 at 1:09 pm
Togagate: My Dad was wearing a shirt a lot like Josh’s in pictures taken at my cousin’s birthday party circa 1965. And I’m pretty sure he’d never been to Crete. Between that and the purple wall, I thought Josh had just gone really retro on us.
Foob: Lynn likes the tell, don’t show, approach because it fills twice as many strips by showing wordless (non) action and then allowing the characters to describe what happened the next day. Saves on the number of storylines you have to write.
I like both Liz’s spirit names, though. White goose reflects her tendency to fly south every year. But Breath From Lizard is her true spirit name.
June 30th, 2006 at 2:14 pm
ah, thanks anon (127). I didn’t realize that was carpet-fuzz on there. when he mentioned carpet I though (asside from the obvious 5th-grade approach) that he had actually put either pieces of carpet or some carpet dust-bunnies into the beverage in question. either way you look at it it kinda makes me throw up in my mouth a little, but hey, if Buck DOES get into the sauce, Hilarity is bound to ensue…. so I URGE you Robert – give the cat the whiskey! It’ll probably Shut him the HELL up for a little…. seriously, Bucky is one of the few characters in the Newspaper comics that I have daydreams about offing in various ways….. him and parts of the cast of Luann
June 30th, 2006 at 2:19 pm
One last unnecessary cheap shot at Josh’s shirt: The Institute of Questionable Fashion Choices just called. They have an open display booth between J-Lo’s green Oscar dress and Prince’s ‘Diamonds And Pearls’-era assless pants.
Ha ha!! The Curmudgeon has become the Comic!
June 30th, 2006 at 2:24 pm
Apropos of nothing: I vaguely recall a thread here a month or three ago in which Lynn Johnston’s alleged trolling of this blog was mentioned. Can anyone confirm this for me, or is it just the absinthe talking?
More information about finding information on the internet can be found on the internet
June 30th, 2006 at 2:31 pm
Foob: Liz will fly back to the saintly realm of the Pattersons via Helicopter Boy’s helicopter – which will crash en route, killing them both. Offissa Wright will be the cop first on the scene – and Liz’s body will be returned to Mgtwkchrdbyndrcgntn for burial. That Jesse’s one spooky kid.
Shirt: I like the shirt. So there.
General comment re “action figures”: At the Elvis Costello/Allen Toussaint concert last night in Mtgmilwaukee (note: go see them if you can), EC had a bit between songs about a genuine George W. Bush Action Figure (this was introducing “River in Reverse” re Katrina). It was either invisible or extremely small (couldn’t tell from my vantage point) and (to quote EC) “was unusual for action figures in that it does nothing at all.”
June 30th, 2006 at 2:56 pm
DAMN YOU, CURMUDGEONS!!!!
I lived my life blissfully unaware of (DT)GT until you people entered my life! (Well, actually, I entered yours, but that gets in the way of me blaming you. Live with it.)
The umpire calls “OUT!” as the catcher recieves the throw. Unless there’s a force at the plate, the catcher must tag the runner before there’s an out.
I don’t give a damn about (DT)GT, but you’ve already pulled me into your web of cynicism by making me type “(DT)GT” and knowing what it means. You’ve already got me wrestling with the urge to call out my uses of quotation marks, however grammatically correct such usage might be. Until you people creeped into my consciousness, TDIET had quietly slipped into my past, as no newspaper I’ve seen in 20 years carried that feature and I figured it died the death it’s so worthy of. Before you people got to me, I steadfastly believed a preposition was nothing to end a sentence with.
I never ended every sentence with an explanation point! I knew (but rarely used) an interobang (”?!”) and knew that it originally consisted of a question marke overtyped with an exclamation point (but, since computers have taken over, you can’t overtype anymore so the approved usage is now “?!”. Not “!?”, damnit, but “?!”!
I read (but hated) FOOB simply because it seemed to always appear at the upper left-hand side of the comics page, but never really realized why or how much I hated it until you people came along. (Okay, *I* came along. Don’t distract me.)
I steadfastly avoided SF simply because it was un-funny and banal those times I did read it, so I swore off of it altogether. Until you people made an issue out of it.
Until you people corrupted my life, I had no idea what a “plugger” was.
I’d given up on ZtP long ago since it never really was A) funny, or B) ironic. Now I spend 4.3 seconds of my every morning reaffirmiung that ZtP isn’t A) funny, or B) ironic, or C) relevant.
I now live ’til midnite when the Houston Chronical updates me on a bear with an arrow up its butt!
I’ve now read more of “A Midsummer’s Night Dream” than I did back when I bluffed myself through an essay test in that Shakespeare class I shouldn’t have taken back in college. And it’s all your fault!
YOU PEOPLE HAVE RUINED MY LIFE!!!!
Thanks.
June 30th, 2006 at 3:00 pm
#134, I’d like to up that prediction with more detail.
Unable to make out the identity of the corpses in the helicopter crash, Dr. Patterson will pull himself away from his train set to id Liz from dental records.
At the funeral, Granthony, overcome with grief at the funeral, will thow himself ontop of Lizard Breath’s casket as it lowered into the ground.
In the background, 10 tribal Mitagabbyhayes warriors bang drums and do the dance of “fire water and spirit” to send Liz’s soul to the happy hunting ground in the sky.
Deana will for the 10th time that day, wearily change Merdith’s shatty diapers, while Michael looks hungerly at his wife’s backside.
June 30th, 2006 at 3:03 pm
Foob: Y’all wished it into print! Awesome! Several commenters wanted “Lizardbreath” as her sprit name, though Big Ass Moose, or something like that, was cool too. The animation should have had her blink rapidly. But I think that’s a little beyond Lynn.
On a different note, Mr. Curmudgeon, (may I call you Josh?) you do a great job keeping the assholes in line, and I think most of us appreciate it.
I discovered this site not long ago, and as a Katrina refugee (you can call me that. It’s not politically incorrect; it’s the way many of us here feel anyway) it makes me laugh out loud, which I need most times.
Thanks.
Oh crap, that sounds mushy. sorry.
June 30th, 2006 at 3:11 pm
First off, Mary is not stabbing herself in the throat with a fork.
She’s feeding herself through her trache hole. Obviously tired of chewing that shoe-leather steak, she cut out the middle man of her tired jaw and just crammed the piece of meat down her windpipe.
June 30th, 2006 at 3:18 pm
Regarding Lizard’s tribal name: personally, I was hoping for “Spreading Eagle.”
I’m not so sure about Lynn killing off Lizzie, despite the way spooky Jesse keeps linking her to flying angels and stuff. She didn’t kill off April when she had the chance, she didn’t knock off little Robin when that seemed likely — she’s just not that dark. Still, we can hope (or “still, we believe” — for you Bosox fans).
Unless it was used as a means to wrap up this hopeless Anthony storyline — the Spruce Goose crashes, Anthony finds her near death, she declares her love in a fit of delirium, a local medicine man “marries” them, and Liz dies. Mr. and Mrs. P take in Anthony and the baby. Anthony loses the girl but gains something far greater: membership in the Patterson clan.
June 30th, 2006 at 3:19 pm
126: Easy, Josh, easy. People asked what self-urination meant, and I elaborated using the original context. I didn’t mean to “single out” anyone. So don’t soil your traditional Albanian britches.
June 30th, 2006 at 3:20 pm
#134 Monkeyhawk: I am sure Pope Josh finds great satisfaction in giving purpose to another meaningless life.
June 30th, 2006 at 5:38 pm
I still think Lizardbreath’s schmock is about as attractive as a moldy bag of potatoes. Remember her emphasized eyelash mid-drift baring party goin’ college days? Alas, poor Lizzie is one step away from Elly zombie-eyed frumpishness. That should coordinate nicely with her panty-waisted inevitable husband, brush-stache.
June 30th, 2006 at 6:05 pm
As someone who gave up bed-wetting only after a protracted battle, let me assure you that “self-urinating” and “self-marinating” are inextricably linked.
June 30th, 2006 at 11:07 pm
“Who would eat Garfield?” Hmmm…maybe Marcy from Peanuts?
June 30th, 2006 at 11:08 pm
#80 alscaduto@optionline.net bounced back, too. Maybe Al is overwhelmed by all the things they’ll do everytime.
June 30th, 2006 at 11:10 pm
alscaduto2@optionline.net is the latest attempt on my part to get my own TDIET published. I found it on th emost recent TDIET at king features.
June 30th, 2006 at 11:23 pm
#145-146 — the real address is:
alscaduto2@optonline.net
That’s “opton” not “option”.
jf
July 1st, 2006 at 9:19 am
(if anyone’s still reading this thread)
#35 — Thank you Joan! I’m honored, plus now I have something to wear to the hobo gathering.
#69 — Hogenmogen — excellent, and you win in the antiquity dept.
I second that the Lizardbreath punchline was actually good. I dislike FBOFW so much that it kind of hurts to admit that. Congrats to Library Cat and any others who predicted it.
I shoulda said a week ago when I first posted: Longtime lurker, first time poster, etc.
July 1st, 2006 at 8:38 pm
I used to have a shirt kinda like that while doing grad school in the early 80s. Only mine was an authentic African shirt purchased at the Ohio State Fair after watching Kenny Loggins (or was it Cheap Trick that time?) in concert at the fair…. It was very comfortable (the shirt) especially as I went through summer with no AC.
July 1st, 2006 at 10:01 pm
monkeyhawk wrote:
You mean you can’t‽
Nick Theodorakis
July 1st, 2006 at 10:04 pm
Hmm. The “‽” seems to work with Firefox but not IE (wotta suprize).
Nick
July 2nd, 2006 at 12:02 pm
107 – I just realized no one explained the last few weeks of Pibgorn for you. I agree, many of McEldowney’s women look alike. The sleeping woman with curly brown hair is Hermia, the blonde woman with glasses is Helena, and the dude with “reason” tatooed absurdly on his chest is Lysander. Hermia and Lysander are in love and ran off together, while Helena is in love with Demetrius (the guy with the pencil-thin mustache, last seen 6/14), who is betrothed to Hermia. Oberon (the fairy king) took pity on Helena and told Puck/Pibgorn to enchant “the Athenian” with a magical flower that causes the sleeper to fall in love with the 1st person s/he sees upon awakening. However, Puck/Pibgorn enchanted Lysander by mistake, who then woke up to fall in love with Helena/out of love with Hermia. Helena fought him off b/c she thinks he’s mocking her.
(Whew!)
OK, cut to the chase, Lysander is betraying Hermia (the sleeping chick with dark curly hair) with Helena (blonde chick with glasses), who loves Demetrius (mustache dude), all b/c of the wacky meddling of the fairy people.
February 9th, 2008 at 8:07 pm
I’d prefer reading in my native language, because my knowledge of your languange is no so well. But it was interesting! Look for some my links:
June 27th, 2008 at 2:30 pm
Regarding the interobang, it is still very occasionally in use (for an hilarious example, see Texas Senator John Cornyn’s ad for reelection — it’s near the end of the commercial.
You can create the diacritical mark on a PC by typing in the ” ` ” character (upper left corner of the keyboard), highlighting it, and selecting WIngdings2 from the font menu.
June 27th, 2008 at 2:31 pm
oops, sorry, that ad is at http://www.dscc.org/blog?blog_entry_KEY=292
August 7th, 2008 at 11:00 am
Why would you say that?