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OH MY GOD OH MY GOD

So, I’ll probably do more comics later today, but I felt it was important to get right to work this morning on this … this … this.

Apartment 3-G, 7/27/06

Hat man? Hat man? Mark your calendars, folks, as this is the day that Margo went completely insane. I’ve already resigned myself to the fact that our finger-quotin’ beauty has gone bananas for this balding old grump, so now I’m just enjoying her deranged thought processes. “Sexy, cleavage-revealing dress? Check! Chunky necklace that further draws attention to the decolletage? Check! Loopy, Curtis-church-lady-style hat? You better believe that’s a check!”

Frankly, I’m surprised that Google didn’t have the answers that Margo sought. More information on hat men can be found on the Internet.

Update: Margo’s face in panel three has been naggingly familiar to me, and I finally figured out who she looks like: Jack Lemmon. Specifically, Jack Lemmon in Some Like It Hot. This has forced me to reconsider a lot of things about my life.

This entry was posted on Thursday, July 27, 2006 at 08:49 am and is filed under Apartment 3-G.

106 responses to “OH MY GOD OH MY GOD”

Moesy
July 27th, 2006 at 8:54 am [Reply]

I’m so glad you commented on today’s A3G, however, I’m a little disappointed you didn’t say anything about the huge Tommie slam in yesterday’s. LuAnn may as well have come out and said “You’re a hideous monster & nobody loves you!”
joe
July 27th, 2006 at 8:55 am [Reply]

Is that kind of like a “skat man”?
Moesy
July 27th, 2006 at 8:55 am [Reply]

my bad, I should catch up on my reading, I guess…
Hogenmogen
July 27th, 2006 at 9:03 am [Reply]

Josh, I always believed Margo’s interest in Hat Man was borne of his apparent monetary value, and not of the fact that he owns a toupe made by the same outfitters who do Trump’s.

I can’t help but read yesterday’s A3G without thinking that Tommie wanders off saying
“Yes…. crazy….. crazy… simply crazee… (strange gleams in her eyes) … crazy, am I? No, it is not me who is crazy, it is I who am mad! Ha ha ha! Yes, yes, Precious, soon we will kills the Hobbitses and we will takes it from them!”
Hogenmogen
July 27th, 2006 at 9:07 am [Reply]

And Margo looks to be in her 40’s at least. That’s one thing when you’ve got three young hot chicks in an apartment together, but when they’re all unmarried in their 40’s – not that there’s anything wrong with that – you just begin to wonder about their orientation – not that there’s anything wrong with that, either.
Bigfoot
July 27th, 2006 at 9:11 am [Reply]

Is there such a thing as a “hat man”? Come on! Only Granthony would feel a special stirring over something that old and boring.

Breasts, legs, butts, even eyes or lips…OK. But hats? Hats!?! I need to go hit my head against the wall.
treedweller
July 27th, 2006 at 9:14 am [Reply]

No, but seriously, everything I think I know about pluggers makes spelling in front of the dog completely un-plugger. Doesn’t a plugger marry the dog? Or maybe the dog is a plugger alarm clock? Or a plugger vacuum cleaner? A plugger burglar alarm?

And walking is the plugger Segway, right? The dog just pines away on a chain wrapped around a tree in the plugger back yard, right? Pluggers don’t w-a-l-k the d-o-g. Unless that’s a euphemistic “w-a-l-k the d-o-g,” and the pooch on the sofa is disturbingly voyeuristic.

I mean, this strip just turns Pluggerville on its head. Did the torch just pass to a new generation? A generation that never bothered to read the work of the previous generation? Jeffy Plugger, welcome to the comics pages.
smacky
July 27th, 2006 at 9:14 am [Reply]

I love how the words in the question get larger, finally becoming bold italics at the end: HAT MAN?
James Schend
July 27th, 2006 at 9:18 am [Reply]

A comic strip that knows about the internet? That’s amazing enough to forgive the horribly crappy writing and conception.
Power of 1000 Lemons
July 27th, 2006 at 9:23 am [Reply]

Namechecking Google – is there anything that smacks more of a desperate stab at relevance in the internet age? “Look, everyone, I’ve heard of something computer-related!” Never mind that Google’s ubiquity makes this reference about as impressive as mentioning the Macarena in 1997 and hoping people will think you’re clued into the music scene.
Wes Rand
July 27th, 2006 at 9:24 am [Reply]

She’s wondering if he covers the little head. Right?
Hat Man
July 27th, 2006 at 9:25 am [Reply]

Even if he is a hat man, wouldn’t a gallery owner notice that the pink ribbon on the hat totally does not match the black-and-white dress and the yellow earrings?

An internet search reveals that man hats can be found on e-bay. Which makes me think “man hat” is a new slang term for “condom.” Which brings a whole new level to the notion of “hat man.”

Oh, Yeah!
bupdaddy
July 27th, 2006 at 9:26 am [Reply]

On the right woman, y’know…not Margo, but…

OK I’m a hat man. What of it!? Hasn’t anybody seen “The Unbearable Lightness of Being”!?
Chris
July 27th, 2006 at 9:31 am [Reply]

Some GIS for “hat man”:

http://www.paulinaplunge.com/leaky%20hat%20man.jpg

http://www.goseentt.com/Photos/Rote%20hat%20man,%20cropped.jpg

http://www.balug.org.ar/5tasJornadas/Red%20Hat-man%201.jpg

Go nuts, Margo, go completely nuts!

http://www.gsb.uchicago.edu/fac/uri.gneezy/more/Disney/girls%20with%20%20hat%20man.jpg.JPG

http://mk29.image.pbase.com/u41/barbados/upload/26473958.redhatman4567.jpg
Jason B
July 27th, 2006 at 9:32 am [Reply]

Wes and Hat Man (11,12) are getting somewhere here. Another note, didn’t the Tommie/Lucy/Ted story line end kind of abruptly? Hopefully we’ll revisit this at some point and there will be a hot hot soap opera comic strip catfight. The final frame will have to be Margo slyly asking Ted “So, are you a HAT MAN?”
Dave
July 27th, 2006 at 9:37 am [Reply]

I’m disappointed HAT MAN is not in “quotation marks” …
rich
July 27th, 2006 at 9:37 am [Reply]

11, 12: Ahh, ya beat me to it — she obviously means “Does he wear a Jimmy Hat?”
java-jon
July 27th, 2006 at 9:39 am [Reply]

I googled “hat man” and got 11,800,000 hits.
Surely Eric Mills is in there somewhere.
mon-ma-tron
July 27th, 2006 at 9:58 am [Reply]

Urgh. When I saw HAT MAN, the first thing I thought of was that Joe Cocker song from 9 1/2 Weeks.

Now I have to gouge my brain out.
Islamorada Girl
July 27th, 2006 at 10:08 am [Reply]

FOOB: Let the train wreck begin!

Sorry, Josh. Your beloved Margo is a fickle, fickle woman.
D.A. Pennington
July 27th, 2006 at 10:11 am [Reply]

Today’s FOOB: Liz is nervous?
Yeah, she should be nervous when she is simply trying to test drive a car without some cow-eyed mustachioed stalker trying to put his tongue up her ass.

Unbenounced to Grantony, Liz was given a 3-demon bag before leaving the enclave at Mitaromneygacky. She’ll unleash her spirit guide, the white goose, upon his sorry limp dicked ass the moment he makes his move.
Dave
July 27th, 2006 at 10:18 am [Reply]

Is he a HAT MAN ?

I’m seeing a T-shirt in this – or, better yet, a hat !!
Sarah
July 27th, 2006 at 10:21 am [Reply]

PBS: I’d like to see the cage match between Rat and Mary Worth.
gnome de blog
July 27th, 2006 at 10:39 am [Reply]

Hats off to Margo! That’s the first appearance of decolletage in A3G in about 35 years.

Not to mention her aging, wrinkly neck. No wonder she has a closet full of fuchsia turtlenecks.

Moving on to yesterday, I thought Tommie’s panel 3 was a moment of come-hither wistfullness, like: “Crazy!? Hmm. Lucy’s already off the deep end and maneuvering to get the big half of the property settlement, so maybe…” But she’ll soon come to her senses. As Mary Worth’s secret daughter, the meddle instinct is just too strong.
Deckard Canine
July 27th, 2006 at 10:39 am [Reply]

I usually think PBS is grossly overrated, but today’s was worth a look.
Dji
July 27th, 2006 at 10:41 am [Reply]

#13. Saw it. Read it. Born during it (August 20, 1968: the scene where the tanks roll it. Oh yeah!). And yes, after that movie, I’m a hat man. Plus, I like to interrogate waiters about muzak then storm out of the restaurant.

And, while I’m listing my perversions, I’ll say that I think it’s totally hot that margo is adjusting that hat with finger quotin’ hands. She’s quoting her own head.
MossMoses
July 27th, 2006 at 10:44 am [Reply]

There is a terri’st with an automatic weapon pointed at the Phantom from 3 feet away who can’t fire because he might hit the pilots? Good help is hard to find, Chatu.

Blandthony makes his desperate passion play right in the car. How Foobian can you get!
Mark
July 27th, 2006 at 11:03 am [Reply]

That hat makes Margo look about 40 years older.
mere cog in the machine
July 27th, 2006 at 11:07 am [Reply]

What kind of man do you suppose Blandthony is? I’m guessing he’s a support-hose man.
Hogenmogen
July 27th, 2006 at 11:09 am [Reply]

Foobs: Blandthony’s passionate plea is less pathetic than the one he made before Liz went back to Mtw#$@$gi (the fateful trip that eventually resulted in Dudley Doo-wright). “Wait for me, Liz!” The unspoked part was “I’m going to kill my wife and tell people that she left! Then I’m going to kill some Kelrast lady and make it look like an accident.”

Phantom: Phantom had a gun with him all along? Why was he smacking people around with his hands, then?

Spidey: “You got the role that I wanted… I guess that puts us IN CONFLICT!”
bear
July 27th, 2006 at 11:20 am [Reply]

the really weird thing about this strip is how in panel one appears eldery, in panel two attractive, and in panel three positively masculine. ehhh.
Dennis Jimenez
July 27th, 2006 at 11:25 am [Reply]

Re: #28 – If the question on Blanthony is boxers or briefs, I’d say just Depends….
Yadda
July 27th, 2006 at 11:30 am [Reply]

Continuity error!

How could Margo google something… if no one in the Apartment 3Giverse has a computer!?
Doug
July 27th, 2006 at 11:33 am [Reply]

I thought she was wondering if he was “Batman”
gnome de blog
July 27th, 2006 at 11:33 am [Reply]

itâ€™s totally hot that margo is adjusting that hat with finger quotinâ€™ hands. Sheâ€™s quoting her own head.

Excellent!
Reid Kerr
July 27th, 2006 at 11:38 am [Reply]

For some reason, she felt the need to say “HAT MAN” in the same tone you’d normally say “ANAL RAPIST”.

Apparently the Apartment 3-G is changing with the times.
cheech wizard
July 27th, 2006 at 11:46 am [Reply]

19 – I had the same reaction – but the song is by Randy Newman – Cocker only covered it.

The Unbearable Likeness of Margo — can we only hope that Lucy and Eric wind up getting T-boned by a cement truck in a rainstorm?
Brent
July 27th, 2006 at 11:56 am [Reply]

A Hat Man?!?

There’s only two sorts of guys who are “Hat Men”. One is the type who desperately wants to seduce the pastor’s wife as his little way of saying “screw religion” (pastor’s wives always wear hats in church). The other, well there are kinks for everyone and maybe Margot is looking for a man to share her hat fetish. Long langorous nights of wierd sex featuring Margot dressed only in a hat with the guy doing amazing things – to her hat. I leave it to your imagination.
dimestore lipstick
July 27th, 2006 at 12:05 pm [Reply]

mon-ma-tron and cheech wizard ;

Me three.

I prefer the Tom Jones version, popularized in The Full Monty. (But then, I’ve never seen 9 1/2 Weeks.)
punchmonkey
July 27th, 2006 at 12:08 pm [Reply]

MT: I find the phrase “It was an enjoyable change” fascinating.
Other_Sally
July 27th, 2006 at 12:23 pm [Reply]

I have to say that I’m a Hat Woman. Or rather, a hat and stockings woman. I love love love stockings like these, and bowler hats, top hats, or fedoras to top them off.

However, no matter my admiration for nice hats, and no matter my having met men who do indeed like the hats, it would never occur to me to inquire if someone’s a “hat man.”

I think we need a t-shirt of this here.
mere cog in the machine
July 27th, 2006 at 12:23 pm [Reply]

#34: Can quoting your own head make you blind and crazy? Is quoting your own head “gay”? These are questions that I want answered.
mere cog in the machine
July 27th, 2006 at 12:27 pm [Reply]

#40: I just realized that I am a stocking man! Heck, I’d bang Elly if she were wearing a pair of those! Plus they’d cover up that unsightly stubble!
mere cog in the machine
July 27th, 2006 at 12:28 pm [Reply]

Most of it, anyway. Yeccchh.
Dondi
July 27th, 2006 at 12:36 pm [Reply]

Josh’s update is spot on … it IS Jack Lemmon.

This storyline absolutely must end with Eric Mills saying “Nobody’s perfect” as he and man-Margo ride off into the sunset.
Badly_Computer_Animated_Boy
July 27th, 2006 at 12:42 pm [Reply]

“HAT MAN” is an anagram for HAM ANT and “ERIC MILLS” is an anagram for RELIC SLIM. So I guess Margo is having lunch with a skinny, pork-loving insect who dabbles in archaelogy.

#40 Other_Sally: Will you marry me?
jonnya
July 27th, 2006 at 12:46 pm [Reply]

A-3g- I never noticed Luanne’s little art-studio nook before. Her recent works are looking a little minimalist. What a wasted oppurtunity, they could heve shown us her paintings and we could have seen even more into the inner soul of the blonde one.

Coincidentally I also have been googling Eric Mills. One of the first results was:
http://www.nyc.gov/html/nypd/html/wanted/si-eric-mills.html

Him being a “Hat man” or not wouldn’t be my first concern, oh googaliscious Margo. Not even my top 10.

Garfield- If Jon actually dates Liz isn’t that the same as Charlie Brown actually kicking the football? Isn’t stuff like that illegal in the comic strip universe?
Grandpas Dead
July 27th, 2006 at 12:49 pm [Reply]

Something has been bugging me about Lizardbreath’s latest storyline: Is it weird to anyone that she’s in her 20s, has a dentist for a father, has been working for a few years, lived in a remote area of the country and is JUST NOW getting her first car?

Or is that just the Texan in me, seeing that I got my first car at 15?
Jordon
July 27th, 2006 at 1:19 pm [Reply]

My dad always said that a woman with a hat on (in a bar, at least) is ready for sex. I think Margo is ready for some pleasure from something else besides her quotin’ fingers.
Pat Faraday
July 27th, 2006 at 1:22 pm [Reply]

MT: Am I imagining things or has Kelly-Welly’s head grown to gigantic proportions in the third panel? My gosh, its as large as her torso!
Duane Schneider
July 27th, 2006 at 1:26 pm [Reply]

Let me tell you how it will be;
There’s one for you, nineteen for me.
‘Cause Iâ€™m the hatman,
Yeah, Iâ€™m the hatman.

Man, I haven’t seen a story line so lame since Jake and the Hatman.

Hey, Hey, Hey…. It’s Hatttttt Albert.

shoot me now, please
Bigfoot
July 27th, 2006 at 1:37 pm [Reply]

Chris, #14: Those hats make me change my mind. It’s not a thought that makes me want to bang my head into a wall, it’s a fetish worth puking over.
Frank Drackman
July 27th, 2006 at 1:50 pm [Reply]

People always ask me…”are you a leg man..or an ass man?”..I guess I’m an Ass man..people are always sayin to me..”YOU”RE AN ASS….MAN”
Rodney Dangerfield 1981
Other_Sally
July 27th, 2006 at 1:53 pm [Reply]

Mere Cog: You’re more of a man than me. (Uh, obviously.) I don’t think I’d do Elly regardless of what she was wearing. Now if the much-maligned Therese were to put on those stockings…

B_C_A_B: As long as you have good health insurance.
yellojkt
July 27th, 2006 at 1:57 pm [Reply]

mon-ma-tron (#19), et. al.,

My first reaction to Margo this morning was also that she must have a date with Joe Cocker. I had no idea it was a Randy Newman song. It has also been covered by Etta James and Three Dog Night.

Margo can leave her hat on for me anytime. Grrr.
aeth
July 27th, 2006 at 2:00 pm [Reply]

I think yesterday’s slam on Tommie is proof that the good folks who write A3G read this blog, and are heeding our blood-thirsty cries for Tommie’s suicide. And could today’s Hat Man reference have something to do with this posting? I think so.
Justin
July 27th, 2006 at 2:01 pm [Reply]

The correct pronunciation is uh-NAL-ruh-pist.
brendan
July 27th, 2006 at 2:03 pm [Reply]

I lost my temper over today’s fbfw trainwreck.
Seriously, there is SO much to deconstruct in today’s strip, including the catchphrase that started casey jones’ locomotive heading over the trestle, “WAIT!”
So I will shamelessly blogwhore again.
Why?
Because the minute I post here, my sitemeter goes through the roof.
Islamorada Girl
July 27th, 2006 at 2:42 pm [Reply]

Eric Mills is an Asshat.

Do with that what you will; I’m still nauseated about the return of Granthony, the clawless, balless wonder.
brendan
July 27th, 2006 at 2:51 pm [Reply]

Islamorada: “Iâ€™m still nauseated about the return of Granthony, the clawless, balless wonder.”

Also, if you look at panel one in today’s strip, you’ll note that Granthony has become a chimera, one of those human-animal hybrids Bush warned about in his February SOTU: you can’t tell me that’s the way human legs bend. It’s like he’s got a horse’s rear legs.
Jordon
July 27th, 2006 at 3:00 pm [Reply]

brendan: You’re right. He is also tip-toeing. His legs look like the Apple-Bonkers in “Yellow Submarine.”
Mainspark
July 27th, 2006 at 3:03 pm [Reply]

Hat Man? No. First I look at the purse.

J. Geils Band

Some fellas look at the eyes
Some fellas look at the nose
Some fellas look at the size
Some fellas look at the clothes
I don’t care if her eyes are red
I don’t care if her nose is long
I don’t care if she’s underfed
I don’t care if her clothes are worn
First I look at the purse!
Some fellas like the smiles they wear
Some fellas like the legs that’s all
Some fellas like the style of their hair
Want their waist to be small.
I don’t care if their legs are thin
I don’t care if their teeth are big
I don’t care if their hair’s a wig
Why waste time lookin’ at the waistline?
First I look at the purse!
A woman can be fat as can be,
kisses sweet as honey
But that don’t mean a thing to me
If you ain’t got no money
If the purse is fat….that’s where it’s at.
Some fellas like the way they walk
The way they swing and sway
Some fellas like the way they talk
Dig the things they say.
I don’t care if they wobble like a…
or talk with a lisp
I still think I’m a good lover
if the dollar bills are crisp
First I look at the purse!
First I look at the purse!
First I look at the purse!
First I look at the purse!
I don’t care if you got yourself a wrap
all I want is your pretty green cash
Bought me a suit, bought me a car
Want me to look like a hollywood star
Money, (Money!) I want money (Money!)
Baby, ain’t no “why”, baby (Money!)
I need money!
First I look at the purse!
First I look at the purse!
First I look at the purse!
First I look at the purse!
brendan
July 27th, 2006 at 3:28 pm [Reply]

jordon: maybe he’s tip-toeing because he’s gonna pull a Howard and attempt to assault her.

awww, who am I kidding? Granthony’s had an erection once in his life, and he made a baby.

I swear to god, he’s gotta be a closet case.
MossMoses
July 27th, 2006 at 4:01 pm [Reply]

“Some rumors are based on facts”! Toby is spewing platitudinous herself now. Toby is Granthony-like pathetic in her own way. She is young and attractive yet marries a fat, chin-bearded, harumphing, curmudgeonous blubber tub twice her age and has nothing better to spend her time on than idle gossip about Charterstone neighbors. I’ve lived in the same Charterstone-like condo complex for years and don’t know any of my neighbors names, let alone anything whatsoever about their personal lives. Where does Toby get her intel?
catastrophile
July 27th, 2006 at 4:22 pm [Reply]

Surely the management at a place like Charterstone runs background checks on everybody who passes through the gates, no?
Zorba.the.Geek
July 27th, 2006 at 4:49 pm [Reply]

#32: “How could Margo google somethingâ€¦ if no one in the Apartment 3Giverse has a computer!?”

Yadda, they have a computer somewhere in the apartment. Long ago, in a plotline far, far away, Margo was shown at the computer, researching Lu Ann’s then-boyfriend/fiance, Scott Gaines. I hate that I remember this. (Surely this bit of utterly useless information is taking up room in my brain that would be better used for something useful, like how to use duct tape and plastic sheeting to seal up my house in case of an anthrax attack.)
GotFuzzy
July 27th, 2006 at 5:26 pm [Reply]

No need to clutter your brain up, Zorba. More information on the uses of duct tape and plastic sheeting can be found on the Internet. Some may be creepier than others, though.
jamison
July 27th, 2006 at 5:31 pm [Reply]

margo in the last panel? paula prentiss in “stepford wives”
Renee
July 27th, 2006 at 5:37 pm [Reply]

And I thougth A-3G took place in the fifties. Or maybe it’s that strange, alternate universe where it’s the fifties with the internet.
Pendragon
July 27th, 2006 at 5:54 pm [Reply]

FBOFW: So, when does the “for better” start?
dimestore lipstick
July 27th, 2006 at 5:57 pm [Reply]

MossMoses–
“Where does Toby get her intel? “

Illegal wiretaps, infrared goggles and a shotgun mike, is my guess. She seems to be Mary’s apprentice meddle-urgist, doesn’t she?
BTW:
Curmudgeonous Blubbertub would be a great name for a children’s book villain.
Brucker
July 27th, 2006 at 6:10 pm [Reply]

I hope everyone is noticing the plot developments (yes, after 28 years, Davis has decided to add plot to his strip) in Garfield. Also, vote in the poll:

http://joshreads.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=560
ohgrl
July 27th, 2006 at 6:18 pm [Reply]

“Finger-Quotin’ Margo” has just become “Hat-Wagglin’ Margo.”
ohgrl
July 27th, 2006 at 6:20 pm [Reply]

Oh, and Pluggers: How do they tell their pets from themselves?
Brucker
July 27th, 2006 at 6:34 pm [Reply]

Hmm, suddenly I’m imagining a new item for the Curmudgeon store: a hat with the phrase “HAT MAN” on it. You know the girls go wild for a HAT MAN.
Moby
July 27th, 2006 at 6:46 pm [Reply]

I thought she was starting to look like Katherine Harris, but, really, Jack Lemmon nails it.
Hank Kimble
July 27th, 2006 at 7:43 pm [Reply]

I know no one likes to be refered to (or is that (reefered) to as “You People”. But, “you people” are way too fast for me. Most times when I can think of something witty, you’ve already moved on to something else. I want to thank each and every one of you for the joy you give me every day.

Thank you, thank you, thank you. . .As George Carlin said, “I’d like to thank the individual that wrapped every slice of individually sliced cheese.”

That being said, I know a lot of Josh’s readers are big country music fans, so you’ve probably noticed Luann of A3G looks like Miranda Lambert. Tommie’s a red head so I think she’s HOT!

Elton John is a “HAT MAN”. Damn, the rum and cokes are hitting now. What was I talking about? Oh yeah, Hooterville. . .it’s right next to Pixley. . .
Braniff
July 27th, 2006 at 7:46 pm [Reply]

#47 and #72–Perhaps some plot is being added to Garfield, but I think it may be too late. If it doesn’t work, then the comic strip should be put to sleep.
AwfulArt
July 27th, 2006 at 7:49 pm [Reply]

Rats. Read it to fast. Thought it said Hit Man..Wishfull thinking..
With Rat in mind maybe the StereoRoid Raging Rat will put a hit on Mary..!!
AwfulArt
July 27th, 2006 at 7:56 pm [Reply]

Hey if you Google “Mary Worth” The C.C. is right there. Follows King Features as No. 2, of 67,200,000…!!!
AwfulArt
July 27th, 2006 at 8:14 pm [Reply]

Same thing for Apt. 3-G.. Out of 604,000…!!!
2fs
July 27th, 2006 at 8:20 pm [Reply]

Those of you who live in areas that get print editions of The Onion will observe that as part of its redesign, it is now featuring a thrilling selection of comics, including such immortals as “Mr. Breger,” “Laff-a-Day,” “The Spats,” “Mama’s Boyz,” “Stan Smith’s Tennis Class,” and “R.F.D.” And “Cathy”…in Spanish.
Anonymous
July 27th, 2006 at 8:59 pm [Reply]

Google FOOB….!!!!
Desdemona
July 27th, 2006 at 9:11 pm [Reply]

48: Probably. I grew up in Texas, and when I got my first car at 17, everyone was all, so what took you so long? I think the idea of everyone having a car, environment be damned, is kind of ingrained in the culture, like saying y’all and eating pecan pie. Also, I can testify that public transportation in Houston is a big joke, so cars are necessary. But you’d think that in Canada, things would be even more spread out, thereby necessitating even more cars because hell, Canada is even bigger than Texas.
James Schend
July 27th, 2006 at 9:18 pm [Reply]

Canada is even bigger than Texas

IMPOSSIBLE!
louielouie
July 27th, 2006 at 9:40 pm [Reply]

I’m a little freaked out by the fact that Margo’s nose seems to get progressivly smaller in each panel. Is the hat to distract people from her ever changing nose size?
catastrophile
July 27th, 2006 at 9:53 pm [Reply]

Canada is, geographically speaking, much larger than Texas . . . but there are actually less places to go in Canada.
Marc
July 27th, 2006 at 11:11 pm [Reply]

MW – Only in MW do stalkers have nice formal handwriting.

TDIET – This comic unnerves me! Why does this comic have to be discussed on this site!? Just the mannerisms and slaughtering of the English language are enough to make me gouge me eyes out with a knife! I’d rather endure the Lou and Kelly Stirling storyline again! Who the hell names their son Arfo! Sounds like dog food!

PS: 30 years from the strip there will be this invention called the PC. And on it, you can store all of these images! Scan them! Upload them! Woo!
Other_Sally
July 27th, 2006 at 11:47 pm [Reply]

I would just like to note how amusing I find Mary’s sudden moralizing about gossip to Toby, when she was the one who jumped on her with “tell me everything you got, sistah!” a few days ago. Yes, Mary gets her “friends” to give in and share gossip with her, despite reservations, just so that she can then act all superior and make them feel like crap about it. You’re a gem, Mary.
treedweller
July 27th, 2006 at 11:51 pm [Reply]

I mean, really, what the hell part of this definition is exeplified by spelling in front of the dog?!

Pluggers are the hard-working people the world depends on. They represent the 80 percent of humanity who unceremoniously keep plugging along, balancing work, play and family life. Pluggers encounter and conquer obstacles in their lives, but they always have a positive attitude and a good sense of humor. They’re the people who work hard for what they get. Even if they’re struggling, they are optimistic about life.

Is it a struggle for pluggers to spell “walk” and “dog”? Is that it? Cuz I was just kidding before when I said they couldn’t spell. I mean, I’m not sending that rhino to the Scripps-Howard, but even he can spell “dog,” I’ll bet. Hell, he can spell “Pawn Shop” and that’s at least as hard as “walk”.

Is it a display of their plugging humor? They know the dog is a pet dog, not a marrying dog, so they could just come up with different vocabulary to ask each other without using the dog’s cue words, but they are just so darn humorous that they spell anyway?

Is it a display of their optimism? They are optimistically hoping to teach their pet dog to spell despite the odds against it? Is that it?

Please, someone, explain this to me!
treedweller
July 27th, 2006 at 11:55 pm [Reply]

I mean, it doesn’t even say they choose to; it says they have to spell in front of the dog. What teh hell is that? What the hell is it about pluggers that requires them to spell in front of the dog?!
treedweller
July 28th, 2006 at 12:02 am [Reply]

I wonder if pluggers can spell exemplified in one try. Or the. Maybe not if they’ve worked themselves into a spittle-spewing lather over the inanity of their sad little universe.
jailbird
July 28th, 2006 at 12:12 am [Reply]

Okay, I’ve seen Friday’s strip of 3-G and I had to laugh at that hat ol’ Margo’s wearing. A little bit gangster, a little bit Duran Duran circa 1983. I think she went WAY overboard with that one, and has she always been so full of herself? I’m a bit of a newbie on the comix scene, so I’m not sure if this is classic Margo or if she’s becoming a little more desperate.
roydrink
July 28th, 2006 at 12:29 am [Reply]

Today’s Pearls before Swine

“Hey, first rule of Comic Strip Fight Club–You don’t talk about Comic Strip Fight Club”

Francesco Marciuliano

Who is the writer of Sally Forth, and has the best web comic @
http://www.drinkatwork.com/mediumlarge.html
Pantsman
July 28th, 2006 at 12:45 am [Reply]

The “point” of Pluggers is that dogs will understand you if you say certain words like “walk”, and start freaking out, getting all excited about going for a walk. My dog actually does this, so I try not to say “go for a walk” unless I’m really ready to go…I don’t however, feel the need to spell the word “dog” around my dog, what exactly is the point of that?

Even so, the fact that I am even slightly relating to a “Pluggers” strip greatly depresses me. Oh well, at least I still have my checkered shirt and kangaroo wife.
catastrophile
July 28th, 2006 at 12:48 am [Reply]

90 — “They know the dog is a pet dog, not a marrying dog”

Are we absolutely sure there’s a difference, in Pluggistan?
Desdemona
July 28th, 2006 at 12:55 am [Reply]

85- I hope that you realized I was making a joke. Contrary to popular opinion, most Texans are perfectly aware of basic geography; for those who enjoy stereotyping people, that may come as a shock. If my mocking of the stereotype was misinterpreted as genuine ignorance on my part, that was certainly not my intention, and in the future I’ll remember that some people really do take everything literally.
Mibbitmaker
July 28th, 2006 at 2:01 am [Reply]

I think Margo invented something new: the “Hat Bobble”.
RevTarthpeigust
July 28th, 2006 at 2:57 am [Reply]

The really weird part about this for me is that I went to school with a guy named Eric Mills. And he’s now a police officer. And he almost arrested me one night. But is he a hat man? That question I cannot answer, my friends.
Aerin
July 28th, 2006 at 3:45 am [Reply]

Na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na HAT MAN! Really, that’s the sum total and entirety of what my brain can produce after reading that strip.
craig3410
July 28th, 2006 at 7:30 am [Reply]

How did you guys miss this?

(check my URL)

3rd listing down; “Eric Mills” is a wanted criminal.
treedweller
July 28th, 2006 at 8:59 am [Reply]

#95 That’s all clear enough, but what about it makes it a Plugger characteristic? you shouldn’t be depressed, because this was an anomaly in the Plugger-space continuum. People who have indoor dogs will relate, but I still maintain that the plugger pet dog (as opposed to the plugger wife dog or husband dog) is chained to a tree in the back yard.
catastrophile
July 28th, 2006 at 2:37 pm [Reply]

102 — that’s an excellent point . . . for a dog to identify the word “walk” as associated with something fun, the owners would have to actually take it for walks as opposed to having it poop in the yard.
::wendy::
July 28th, 2006 at 9:28 pm [Reply]

Don’t mock the afflicted, is he a ‘hatman’ or not can be a critical question. I’ve experienced the ‘no hat man’ up close and personal, and its not good. The internet can rarely reveal such hidden personal foibles…
Craig Shergold
July 29th, 2006 at 9:57 am [Reply]

You know you’re a Plugger when your dog spells better than you can.
Spam Alert
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# 107 is SPAM and should be removed (yes, this is a very old thread, but it was included as a link in a recent thread). # 101 may be spam too, but I’m not sure.

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