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Target: Funky

Funky Winkerbean, 7/25/10

It seems my earlier suspicions — that this strip’s implacable torment has shifted from Les to Funky — has now been confirmed. Thus Les’s sheepish smirk in the final panel: he knows that every car accident or cancer diagnosis Funky is involved in means one less pregnant daughter or dead spouse for him. Holly is grinning like a maniac mostly because she knows Funky will be dead soon, and then she’ll be free, free.

Family Circus, 7/25/10

I think my favorite of the “Ma Keane is irritated by her children” panels here is the one at the lower right. In most of the other ones, she’s just intervening in momentary crises so as to prevent her arrest for child neglect and/or public nudity ordinances. But it’s when she’s forced to play some stupid ball-toss game with her feeble little daughter that the rage lines really begin to radiate from her head. “Damn it,” she thinks, “Does she never get bored with this inanity? I’ve been trying to work my way through this damn novel for the last eight years!”

Slylock Fox, 7/25/10

I’m pretty sure this is the first time I’ve ever seen Slylock mediate in a human vs. human dispute. It goes to show how low the status of H. sapiens has fallen in this nightmare world of bipedal talking animals that the Josh family would be willing to turn to a canid law enforcement. If I were Slick Smitty, my defense would be that I was trying to protect the boy’s delicate mental health, as waking up every morning to find that piggy bank grinning at you like that is a guarantee of nightmares and insanity.

Meanwhile, in the six differences, a little boy has extorted some free cake out of the local diner by bashing one of the counter’s stools with a baseball bat. “Hand over the cake or this clown in the hat is next,” he growls.

Beetle Bailey, 7/25/10

As part of its atonement for years of making light of sexual harassment, Beetle Bailey has begun putting out a series of PSA pamphlets on social and relationship issues. This one is called “How to tell when you’re in an abusive relationship.”

This entry was posted on Sunday, July 25, 2010 at 12:29 pm and is filed under Beetle Bailey, Family Circus, Funky Winkerbean, Slylock Fox. |

281 responses to “Target: Funky”

mr 12 oz can
July 25th, 2010 at 12:32 pm [Reply]

mary worth- who cares about what there talking about how did the bookrack and tablelamp sneak in the room
mollificent
July 25th, 2010 at 12:32 pm [Reply]

Augh!! Posted to a dead thread! *facepalm*
mollificent
July 25th, 2010 at 12:36 pm [Reply]

P.S. Josh, I’m glad to see we’re on the same wavelength about the pig. *shudder*
commodorejohn
July 25th, 2010 at 12:41 pm [Reply]

A3G – *gleeful anticipation*

AS – I’ve made my feelings on The Argyle Sweater pretty well known, I think, but I guess I do have to admit that if there’s a way to my heart, it’s probably through unapologetic sociopathy and serial murder of the casts of stupid TV shows.

BB – Wow. This has to be one of the most straightforward “all about the subtext” Beetle Bailey strips yet.

BBlue – Well no wonder they don’t like it! Who the hell pollutes a perfectly good tuna casserole with peas and onions?

BR – I likes.

Crankshaft – Charm and celebration of childhood nostalgia in Crankshaft? The hell!?

DT – Dick Tracy suggests that taking a dog on a walk is a surefire means of protection. Clearly Dick has never read Mark Trail.

FoxTrot – Win. I know a few people this is going to be the new desktop for.

FW – Ha ha!

MW – GNARGLE.

MC – Awww. Cheers.

OB – *smile*

OBH – AMEN!!!

Pickles – Make some goddamn real waffles! It’s not like that’s a particularily challenging task.

PV – Dude, if this turns out to be an Arthurian take on Judge Parker’s brownie storyline…

RMMD – Is it too much to hope for Rose to be a shrieking monster who verbally abuses Rex until he’s a quivering puddle on the mayor’s villa floor?

SFx – Josh, man, you never told us you had a past with Smitty. Casts a whole new light on some of your previous commentary.

SM – It’s nice to be reminded now and again that about the only thing capable of propelling Peter into actual superheroics is money.
Peanut Gallery
July 25th, 2010 at 12:44 pm [Reply]

Mary Worth – Notice how the doc pointedly looks at the “Moy & Giella” signature box as he says “ultimately disappointing if I ask for more than is given in any one moment”?
smallwonderrobot
July 25th, 2010 at 12:48 pm [Reply]

I’m not ashamed to admit that I find Ma Keane darned sexy in her jet black bikini and Elton John-sunglasses
Spiff Bereft
July 25th, 2010 at 12:48 pm [Reply]

FC: It’s Thel’s own fault for counting on cats to bury at least a few of them in the sand.
Miss Othmar
July 25th, 2010 at 12:49 pm [Reply]

re: where to find comics online — I like the Darkgate Comic Slurper. Occasionally has server issues, but overall everything is there (including Sunday strips).
Patrick
July 25th, 2010 at 12:50 pm [Reply]

I love how PJ gets farther and farther away from Thel as the day progresses. I’m sure she’s hoping that when it’s time to pack up the car, she only has three children to buckle in.
Aviatrix
July 25th, 2010 at 12:51 pm [Reply]

Solve the fingerprint problem (but possibly introduce some psychological ones) with one of these. They do assure would-be purchasers that they are made only from piglets that die of natural causes.
Calico
July 25th, 2010 at 12:53 pm [Reply]

Thel is on her knees because she is praying, praying that a giant shark will come and eat the melonheads.
Baka Gaijin
July 25th, 2010 at 12:58 pm [Reply]

@Spiff Bereft (#7): Ah ha ha ha ha HA!
Calico
July 25th, 2010 at 12:58 pm [Reply]

In other relatively non Homo Sapiens news, here finally are a few pics of our latest squee:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/25708522@N06/4827483736/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/25708522@N06/4826874037/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/25708522@N06/4826873245/

Meet Charlotte the Torty! She’s almost 4 months old. We brought her home Fri. eve. – we had to wait two weeks for her vaccines to kick in to get her here safely – our B & W cat got distemper last Oct. (he had his shot, but two years in between – was not soon enough, sez our newest vet), and the virus is still most likely lurking in our home.
Steve the Pocket
July 25th, 2010 at 12:59 pm [Reply]

Funky Winkerbean continues to baffle me. Is it being ironically self-effacing, or is it really unaware of what it’s implying? Are we actually supposed to sympathize with this character that the writer has repeatedly made out to be an insufferable douche, or enjoy his torment? There are just too many questions.

Meanwhile, The Family Circus shows it’s not afraid to experiment with unorthodox layouts, even if it means nobody’s going to read the panels in the right order on the first try. Seriously, Whichever Keene Drew This One, English-speaking audiences read left to right, not … edge to middle! How hard is that to remember?
Lawyerbob
July 25th, 2010 at 1:05 pm [Reply]

FW: As a further dark joke on Funky, the surgeons seem to have tattooed “Montoni’s” on his chest while he was under anasthesia.

FC: I hate to admit it, but today’s strip reminds me of my childhood. Like the Keanes, there were four of us (unlike the Keanes, we were two boys and two girls, were not obnoxious, and had normal-sized heads). My mother would take us to the beach during the summer. She used to make us stay out of the water for 30 minutes after we ate lunch, which I now realize was not for safety purposes but to give her a chance to take a nap on the beach.

SF: So Slylock’s solution involves smashing the kid’s piggy bank to fingerprint the coins? Also, that dog’s “daydream” is pretty erotic, if you ask me. I guess that’s why we can’t really see his back paws.
Hank
July 25th, 2010 at 1:05 pm [Reply]

I love Pearls Before Swine. However, the oil slick strip, rather than illuminate the problem through humor or metaphor, just fell into cloying “We are the World” style angst. For a better take on the slick through the medium of comics I’ve been enjoying the past week’s Brewster Rockit.

As for today’s Doonesbury, I don’t get the point. Does Trudeau think that kids actually read his strip or, equally implausible, does he think that parents who spend too much time on the computer (some reading his strip) are actually going to let Zonker (of all people) tell them how to raise their kids?
Baka Gaijin
July 25th, 2010 at 1:08 pm [Reply]

@Calico (#13): Now to bring your post to relevance: Could Charlotte kick Bucky’s ass? Garfield’s? Marmaduke’s?
Pete
July 25th, 2010 at 1:09 pm [Reply]

The waitress is obviously happy with what she sees as she stares wide-eyed at the young man with no pants.
pepperjackcandy
July 25th, 2010 at 1:09 pm [Reply]

@Steve the Pocket (#14): Meanwhile, The Family Circus shows it’s not afraid to experiment with unorthodox layouts, even if it means nobody’s going to read the panels in the right order on the first try. Seriously, Whichever Keene Drew This One, English-speaking audiences read left to right, not … edge to middle! How hard is that to remember?

The sequence of events seems even more effed up because her coverup is buttoned all the way up in the far right-hand picture, giving (me, at least) the feeling that that should either be first or last in the sequence.
danceswithsmurfs
July 25th, 2010 at 1:11 pm [Reply]

Is it hot out or is it just Mommy Keane?
Digger
July 25th, 2010 at 1:15 pm [Reply]

FC: I find it very disturbing that Thel’s ass has learned to talk, and that it refers to her as “Mommy.” But I’m also curious to find out what it can do.
Calico
July 25th, 2010 at 1:17 pm [Reply]

@Baka Gaijin (#17):
All of them, but she is currently resting after a morning of extreme play and jumping. What a pill.
Aviatrix
July 25th, 2010 at 1:26 pm [Reply]

@Lawyerbob (#15): My mother wouldn’t let me go wading or even take a bath within an hour of eating. I think she thought that my stomach would explode if there was food on the inside while there was water on the outside. She also believed you should rub snow on frostbite.
Joe Blevins
July 25th, 2010 at 1:26 pm [Reply]

FW: So much to comment upon here. Let’s see…

* “I used to go years without stuff like this happening to me…” – “In fact, there are whole years of my life that I simply can’t account for, as if time just jumped forward magically or something. Anybody else having that problem?”

* Re: Funky’s appearance in panels 3 & 5: “Enjoy my exposed, fleshy, inked-up torso, everybody!”

* “When the guy upstairs wants to be entertained…” – The Supreme Being that Funky is describing here seems to be a lazy, unimaginative sadist. In other words, Batiuk has just declared himself God.
Baka Gaijin
July 25th, 2010 at 1:26 pm [Reply]

@danceswithsmurfs (#20): It’s hot out. It’s definitely not Momma Keane.

@Calico (#22): Does she do that random pouncing on individual dust particles or whatever the hell it is that only kittens can see? Has she gotten into that spontaneous hyperspeed across the house? Cute cat, unlike, say, the one in Apartment 3-G.
Gary
July 25th, 2010 at 1:27 pm [Reply]

Appropriately enough, Funky has decided to use the photo of his mangled car as his desktop picture.
Indichik
July 25th, 2010 at 1:28 pm [Reply]

Ha ha! It’s funny because Sarge and Beetle are gay.

Also Beetle’s sense of self-worth has been completely destroyed by years of mental and physical abuse.
Somos Legión
July 25th, 2010 at 1:32 pm [Reply]

Blondie: I’m a little horrified that Blondie’s weeping for no apparent reason aside from “having the blues” all week, and then Dagwood sends her to the mall to make her feel better, which is sadder still. Of course, this lead Dagwood to lament spending money they don’t really have. I wonder if Dean Young decided that he couldn’t capture and emptiness and ennui of the consumer capitalist bourgeoisie in a comic strip so he wrote a tragic strip instead.

Crankshaft: Meanwhile Batuik has changed gears, if not the entire engine, and offers us a spritely and heart-warming Sunday strip, a welcome change to a week of Crankshaft “witticisms” that read more like a fusion of Keane-kid malapropisms and senility.

7/24 Hi-Lo: Just want did you see in the paint, Ditto? The end of the world?

Ghost-Who-Accosts: Wolf or no wolf, the Phantom scoffs at your leash laws.

@smallwonderrobot (#6): Yes. Thel is certainly hot, and frankly, I don’t know how a schlump like Bil ever landed her.
PeteJayhawk
July 25th, 2010 at 1:32 pm [Reply]

What is the deal with Batiuk’s slavish devotion to the PT Cruiser? Other cars are the typical genericized comic strip cars, but even the photos on Funky’s computer have the actual dash design of the PT Cruiser.
Nick@Nite
July 25th, 2010 at 1:35 pm [Reply]

FAMILY CIRCUS:
I sincerely hope there’s a swing set on that beach, because the only other reason I can think of for that wildly overhead “Watch what I can do, mommy!” word balloon is that one of the kids has been abducted by someone wearing a jet pack. Which, by the way, hardly counts as an achievement on their part.
Victor Von
July 25th, 2010 at 1:38 pm [Reply]

Beetle Bailey actually kind of makes me want to cry. Seriously.

On the other hand, Funky’s flesh-colored “Montoni’s” t-shirt introduced a moment of glorious confusion for me. I thought that, while he was unconscious, the doctors tattooed him with images from other comic strips in a desperate attempt to reintroduce humor into the Funkyverse. Alas, it is not to be.
Rusty
July 25th, 2010 at 1:39 pm [Reply]

@PeteJayhawk (#29): Batiuk himself rocks the Cruiser. And not in an ironic matter. I used to believe Les was Batiuk’s character, but Funky is coming on strong. He must be a delight around the house.
Rusty
July 25th, 2010 at 1:40 pm [Reply]

That would be ironic manner. Jeez.
Karen
July 25th, 2010 at 1:42 pm [Reply]

The one word that ran through my mind when I read Mary Worth today: “NNNNGGGHHHHHH.” No. Just….no. Stop enabling Mary, Dr. Mike!
Joe Blevins
July 25th, 2010 at 1:43 pm [Reply]

SF&CFK: “How will Slylock Fox prove Slick Smitty is lying?” I know the answer isn’t “savagely beat a confession out of him, secret police style,” but one can dream, right? Meanwhile, I love Slick Smitty’s optimism. He’s been caught in a humiliating robbery, and yet you can tell he’s thinking about hitting on the mom right at that second. He’s really trying to live up to that moniker of his.
Chance
July 25th, 2010 at 1:45 pm [Reply]

From now on, whenever I set down a drink, I’m going to say “SET!” loudly and authoritatively.

I will be a hit at parties.
Baka Gaijin
July 25th, 2010 at 1:48 pm [Reply]

@Joe Blevins (#35): Somehow, after a thorough investigation, Slylock will determine that Reeky Rat actually stole the pig and Smitty is just pig-sitting while Reeky’s out rustling up some grub.
cshabsin
July 25th, 2010 at 1:49 pm [Reply]

So, what, is Funky Winkerbean going to be playing the Book of Job, but in modern times or something?
Krazy Kat
July 25th, 2010 at 1:54 pm [Reply]

Holly’s grinning because she’s been waiting for the perfect time to tell Funky she’s been cheating on him, God and above has granted her this perfect moment. The situation couldn’t be better if she had scripted it herself.
Anonymous
July 25th, 2010 at 2:02 pm [Reply]

I like Funky’s full chest tattoo celebrating Montoni’s, No doubt a reminder of one of his booze fueled benders.
wossname
July 25th, 2010 at 2:03 pm [Reply]

I just noticed another alarming thing about MW: Take a closer look at what initially seems to be Dr. Mike’s left arm in the last panel. Why is it in a black sleeve? And how does it relate to the black-sleeved arm that popped up at Mary’s side in Friday’s strip? Obviously a disembodied zombie arm has invaded Dr. Mike’s office. Soon it will tire of merely gesturing and start killing.
Joe in Seattle
July 25th, 2010 at 2:12 pm [Reply]

Damn, what did Mrs. Keane look like BEFORE she had four kids?
Lawyerbob
July 25th, 2010 at 2:14 pm [Reply]

@Aviatrix (#23): My mother originally made us stay out of the water for an hour, but we bargained her down to 30 minutes. And yes, my brother and I are both lawyers. Why do you ask?
commodorejohn
July 25th, 2010 at 2:16 pm [Reply]

@cshabsin (#38): Nah. The Book of Job has its tribulations as a (strange, unsettling) character test; the horrors visited on Funky characters serve no greater purpose, happening only for their own sake. It’s more like torture-porn movies, if they were written by a guy with his head so far up his own ass that he thought the worst things in the world were the minor indignities of aging and the fact that modern culture has moved on and evolved in different ways than he and his ’60s-children brethren would have liked.
NoahSnark
July 25th, 2010 at 2:20 pm [Reply]

The creator of Funky Winkerbean finally admits he tortures his characters for his own amusement – and the rest of world responds with “We know Tom”.
Dark Corner
July 25th, 2010 at 2:23 pm [Reply]

“Watch what I can do, Mommy!… I can crawl right up your butt!”
Fata Morgana
July 25th, 2010 at 2:25 pm [Reply]

BB: Beetle listens to this song every night, and cries.
Calico
July 25th, 2010 at 2:27 pm [Reply]

@Baka Gaijin (#25):
She was jumping maniacally this AM on a snake-like fabric cord on a stick, and chasing my partner up and down the stairs. : )
I haven’t seen the turbo-vision thing yet, but I’m sure it will happen.
Calico
July 25th, 2010 at 2:29 pm [Reply]

@Somos Legión (#28):
I hope Blondinette isn’t becoming Bonnie Johnson. She’ll end up getting meddled by Mary Worth, and that ain’t good.
Poor Blondie is entering perimenopause.
Rocky Stoneaxe
July 25th, 2010 at 2:32 pm [Reply]

Funky Winkerbean — Why hasn’t anyone remarked on the Montoni’s Pizza chest tattoo FW is sporting? Tightwad that he is, I wouldn’t be surprised if Funky went under the needle, so he wouldn’t have pay someone else to advertise his business! (Never mind that no one wants to look at Funky’s pasty white flesh or his saggy moobs — it seemed like a good idea to him at the time!)

Soup to Nutz — Why is there a “HBM” on the side of Andrew’s cupcake? “HB” probably stands for “Happy Birthday”, but who (or what) is “M”? Inquiring minds want to know, Stromoski!
BigTed
July 25th, 2010 at 2:33 pm [Reply]

Since Ma Keane has buttoned up her shirt by the end of this panel, it’s clear that she’s given up on the idea of attracting a sexier husband by displaying her still-taut torso. But it’s just as well — when you have a kid who can nearly drown in just four inches of water, you need all the focus you can muster.
wossname
July 25th, 2010 at 2:34 pm [Reply]

@Calico (#13): She is adorable! queek can take a day off from providing the squee – you’ve got it covered. And I’m very glad Charlotte has a good home now with you.
agony
July 25th, 2010 at 2:35 pm [Reply]

SFx – to Emma Mchenry of Sacramento CA – Awwww
Flamedrake
July 25th, 2010 at 2:36 pm [Reply]

The Six Differences kid seems to have lost his pants, too. Obviously the waitress is giving him the cake to placate him until the police arrive. The seventh difference is the police in the bottom panel won’t show up before the massacre begins.
Rocky Stoneaxe
July 25th, 2010 at 2:37 pm [Reply]

@Anonymous (#40): In the time it took me to compose my thoughts, you beat me to the punch! Great minds, etc.
Smokehouse
July 25th, 2010 at 2:42 pm [Reply]

The six-differences boy will soon get his comeuppance. Judging by the stack of dirty dishes right next to coffee machine this diner must be violating some health codes. Who knows what’s in that cake.
bats :[
July 25th, 2010 at 2:43 pm [Reply]

Emma’s dancing squirrels in today’s Slylock Gallery are great!
Rocky Stoneaxe
July 25th, 2010 at 2:49 pm [Reply]

@Rocky Stoneaxe (#55): Lawyerbob and Victor Von also posted their comments first, so now I’ve got a lawyer AND Dr. Doom ticked off at me!
bats :[
July 25th, 2010 at 2:57 pm [Reply]

@Steve the Pocket (#14): re FW: art imitates life (in this case, Batiuk’s life).

Oh, Beetle Bailey! I’m sure you’d appreciate this.
Rimpy
July 25th, 2010 at 3:15 pm [Reply]

Family Circus: Thel’s figure sure looks great after pushing out four giant melon heads. When do we ever see her at the gym?

FW: Perhaps I haven’t been paying attention, but what are these car wrecks or other tragedies which happen every five minutes to which Funky is referring? Could this strip get any more self-pitying and depressing? Wait, don’t answer that, Batiuk, I really don’t want to know.
Austria
July 25th, 2010 at 3:24 pm [Reply]

A3G: Your psychological breakdown tactics won’t work on these three, Kat. Two of them interact with Margo on a regular basis, and the third IS Margo.

BC and PBS: Okay, the gulf thing is starting to turn anvilicious.

FW: OH MY GOSH THEY’RE BECOMING SELF-AWARE

Luann: What the crap is Parents Day? Is that some sort of Greg Evans holiday made to consolidate both Mother’s Day and Father’s Day, so he only has to make one strip? Or has PC reached so far that anything other than an all-inclusive holiday is somehow offensive? I hate the world.
Uncle Lumpy
July 25th, 2010 at 3:32 pm [Reply]

@Austria (#61):

What the crap is Parents Day?

Read ‘em and weep:

“U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg said replacing “Mother’s Day” and “Father’s Day” with a “Parents’ Day” should be considered, as an observance more consistent with a policy of minimizing traditional sex-based differences in parental roles.”
tb4000
July 25th, 2010 at 3:32 pm [Reply]

SFx – There is so much Freudian shit going on with Count Weirdly in his panel that it ain’t even funny.
Joe Blevins
July 25th, 2010 at 3:33 pm [Reply]

SF&CFK: This image of two albino squirrels slow-dancing has been brought to you by Slylock Fox and Comics for Kids.

FC: Notice that Thel’s reaction to the phrase “Watch what I can do, Mommy!” is to crane her head upwards and look at the sky. She’s heard that phrase before and knows it leads to nothing good. That’s right, Thel, just avert your gaze until it’s over. My god, how that woman has suffered!
Baka Gaijin
July 25th, 2010 at 3:34 pm [Reply]

@Rimpy (#60) on Family Circus: Keeping those malaprop spouting kids and lead-eating toddler from accidentally maiming or killing themselves is a workout in and of itself.

@Austria (#61) on Apartment 3-G: You’re right. I never thought of that. Only tomorrow will tell. And its tomorrow. And its tomorrow…
Somos Legión
July 25th, 2010 at 3:34 pm [Reply]

@Austria (#61) re: Luann: And then they’ll change it to the more-inclusive Adults Day, then Person’s Day, then Vertebrates Day, then Animals day, then Matter Day, and finally, they’ll have Existence Day—which is where I drawn the line. It’ll be a cold day in hell when I recognize the non-existent—or Missouri.
Steve S
July 25th, 2010 at 3:35 pm [Reply]

Rejected punchlines for Beetle Bailey: “You don’t know him like I do,” “I got this black eye falling down the stairs,” and “He only hits me to show how much he cares.”
Rocky Stoneaxe
July 25th, 2010 at 3:36 pm [Reply]

Family Circus — Thel’s reading a book on how to prevent unwanted pregnancies, but she keeps getting interrupted!

Nancy — Sluggo takes ennui to a new level!

Monty — There’s always the snail race over at 9 Chickweed Lane!
Artist formerly known as Ben
July 25th, 2010 at 3:37 pm [Reply]

Ah. So Sllylock Fox is the latest comic to reach out to the ‘mudge community by including a cameo by the Joshmeister himself. Hey Josh, it’s a little weird that Bob Weber, Jr, seems to think you’re seven years old, but I’d take it as a compliment.
Andy L
July 25th, 2010 at 3:37 pm [Reply]

Hey, Slylock! You grow up in the woods or something? Shut the door!
Austria
July 25th, 2010 at 3:47 pm [Reply]

@Somos Legión (#66): *reads*

*weeps*
Austria
July 25th, 2010 at 3:47 pm [Reply]

Fff — I was trying to reply to Uncle Lumpy.
Andy L
July 25th, 2010 at 3:52 pm [Reply]

Wait, Smitty’s alibi is that he was just sitting there watching TV with a giant ceramic pig in his lap?
Somos Legión
July 25th, 2010 at 3:55 pm [Reply]

@Austria (#61): Yeah, there’s a good chance the makeover will end up with Margo making Tommie and Luann wear matching Kit-Kat suits, as in, suits made from Kit and Kat. Ed Gein-style.

@Austria (#71): Please don’t cry. I didn’t mean to hurt your feelings. I really don’t hate the non-existent. Some of my best friends don’t exist.
Shawn S.
July 25th, 2010 at 3:58 pm [Reply]

Slylock: Anyone ever wonder what would happen if you combined The Flash and Captain Marvel? Me neither, but the TV is all over it.

FC: Why are P.J.’s trunks off? Every week someone from Family Circus is getting naked, and it’s never Thel. :(
Somos Legión
July 25th, 2010 at 4:01 pm [Reply]

@Shawn S. (#75) re: Slylock: I just had a dorkasm.
Baka Gaijin
July 25th, 2010 at 4:01 pm [Reply]

@Somos Legión (#74) on post #61: Matching Kit-Kat suits. That could be an unexpected twist.
Poteet
July 25th, 2010 at 4:09 pm [Reply]

PBS — If Pastis were heavy-handed all the time, or even frequently, I might raise an eyebrow. As it is, I say he’s earned the right to do this, and I say win win win.
Andy L
July 25th, 2010 at 4:10 pm [Reply]

By the way, this is not the first time Slylock has been called upon to solve a human-v-human dispute.
Notice Slick Smitty’s attempt to defraud a pet store owner, here.
Nick!
July 25th, 2010 at 4:10 pm [Reply]

Aw…I was going to go all fancy on you and point out that Slylock is not Canid, but rather Vulpine…then I learned that you are the master, as Canid is a superset of Canine, also including Vulpine, Lupine, et al.

And then I cried a little.
Andy L
July 25th, 2010 at 4:17 pm [Reply]

@Poteet (#78): But … he’s already done the strip where Pig curses out BP.
Seems like poor form to be paid to tell a joke, and then use that space to preach to people. (In an obvious way, too. Oil spills == bad? Thanks.)
He should pay the syndicate to run preachy strips! Not vise-versa.

There are plenty of other cartoonists who would have been thrilled to have drawn a strip to run in PBS’s place on that day, and actually include a joke.
John C Fremont
July 25th, 2010 at 4:21 pm [Reply]

@Rusty (#32): “He must be a delight around the house.” Thank you for that one, Rusty!

This now has me imagining Batiuk puttering about the house in his stained housecoat, Jonathan Harris-style. (Sorry. I’m required by law to reference “Mike Nelson’s Movie Megacheese” multiple times daily. Hey, it’s the law.)
queek, source of Cuteness, Kawaii Commando
July 25th, 2010 at 4:23 pm [Reply]

@Nick! (#80): Foxes, the ‘lesser-included’ of the Canids.
queek, source of Cuteness, Kawaii Commando
July 25th, 2010 at 4:25 pm [Reply]

o goddess, I scrolled down and had a squee-gasm!

o, and Calico, those pics of your new squee-producer are mighty wonderful, and captionable. The first one could be “stair-way to basement Cat” of some sort, among others. :-D
Andy L
July 25th, 2010 at 4:28 pm [Reply]

By the way, just so I understand this properly, the super-hot, sexy lady in the bikini , who’s drawn from multiple sexy angles is the artist’s mother, right?
Baka Gaijin
July 25th, 2010 at 4:29 pm [Reply]

@queek, source of Cuteness, Kawaii Commando (#84) on Charlotte: How about “I can has toez?”
queek, source of Cuteness, Kawaii Commando
July 25th, 2010 at 4:33 pm [Reply]

@Baka Gaijin (#86): the famous Mustelid battle cry, “Carpe Featum!” (“Seize the Socks!”)
Somos Legión
July 25th, 2010 at 4:35 pm [Reply]

@Andy L (#85): Actually, it’s the artist’s (ittle Jeffy Kean) grandmother.
A Dude from Dallas
July 25th, 2010 at 4:36 pm [Reply]

@Andy L (#85): Yes… that’s why she doesn’t have Blondie’s rack.
bats :[
July 25th, 2010 at 4:38 pm [Reply]

@Uncle Lumpy (#62): Today (July 25) is officially Parents’ Day in the U.S. (Who determines this is probably something like Hallmark.) Apparently, the card companies, didn’t quite take Justice Ginsburg’s idea to heart, particularly when something like this can be padded out to three corporate holidays instead of combining it into one.
Bleah.
Ed Dravecky
July 25th, 2010 at 4:41 pm [Reply]

Mary Worth is missing its final panel: “Mike, I am your father.” “No, Mary… that’s not true! That’s impossible!”
Andy L
July 25th, 2010 at 4:42 pm [Reply]

@Somos Legión (#88): Really! Wow, shows what I know. I didn’t realize how many generations of Keanes had past.
bats :[
July 25th, 2010 at 4:42 pm [Reply]

@Shawn S. (#75): in case you missed it, Shawn…
Baka Gaijin
July 25th, 2010 at 4:44 pm [Reply]

@Ed Dravecky (#91): Ed, anything’s possible in Mary Worth. Mary’s not a psychiatrist, nor does she play one on television, yet she’s psychoanalyzing a psychiatrist. I wouldn’t put it past her to have had a penis in the past.
Calico
July 25th, 2010 at 4:47 pm [Reply]

Aw, thanks all.
Char is a real hoot – she was just acting as “Rocket Cat” (apologies to Reg Dwight)!
She ran outside like a friggin’ arrow and I had to really move to catch her-we don’t want her out until after neutering and microchipping, which will be soon.

@Ed Dravecky (#91):
Oh my, that reminds me of SP, in which Cartman’s Mom turns out to be the Mom AND Dad. Gaaarrrgggghhh.
Uncle Lumpy
July 25th, 2010 at 4:51 pm [Reply]

@Somos Legión (#66):

Happy Parents’ Day wishes to you!
Adults’, Persons’ and Vertebrates’, too!
With their Animal Matter,
We hope Mom and Dad ‘r’
Enjoying Existence anew!
Uncle Lumpy
July 25th, 2010 at 4:53 pm [Reply]

I bet Herb and Jamaal celebrate Entity Day.
queek, source of Cuteness, Kawaii Commando
July 25th, 2010 at 4:55 pm [Reply]

@bats :[ (#93): Rule 34 win! :-D
Écureuil Écumant
July 25th, 2010 at 4:58 pm [Reply]

SF: “Waking up every morning to find that piggy bank grinning at you like that is a guarantee of nightmares and insanity”

Josh, the piggy’s only grinning like that because Smitty’s got him entrapped on his lap. Apparently Smitty’s trying to pick the lock by emulating Barnacle Bill the Sailor.
Écureuil Écumant
July 25th, 2010 at 5:00 pm [Reply]

@29 PeteJayhawk said:

What is the deal with Batiuk’s slavish devotion to the PT Cruiser?

It all started when a drinkin’ buddy told him the “PT” stands for “PoonTang”.
Lorne
July 25th, 2010 at 5:11 pm [Reply]

@queek, source of Cuteness, Kawaii Commando (#87): Nevertheless, the amount of effort Jeffy puts into drawing his mom or grandma as a smoking hot object of voluptuous desirability is quite disturbing.
demoncat
July 25th, 2010 at 5:34 pm [Reply]

mother kene expression is one of darn my plan to have the beach finaly free me from these evil spawn is failing so i have to now interact with them instead of finshing my book. bb . beatle after decades of beatings from sarge has finaly gone into acceptance as the beatings being a normal way of life his smile is saying so. marmuke is planning on making the life guard his next victim.
Donruss
July 25th, 2010 at 5:37 pm [Reply]

FC: Thel is literally talking out of her ass! Her twin to the right is gazing longingly at it to see just what it CAN do. Personally I’m hoping it will sprout a trunk and shove those little bastards back where they belong. Also, there is NO way that is the body of someone that spawned those 4 instruments of Satan!

MW: Freud said that sometimes a cigar is just a cigar, well George Carlin said that sometimes its a big brown dick! What does your clever insight say to THAT Meddler Worth?!?
McManx
July 25th, 2010 at 5:39 pm [Reply]

Seems as if all the comics are at the beach this week. Particularly noted an Aunt Fritzi sighting on July 22 (hot!).

Family Circus – I must say that having Ma Keene in a bikini is out-of-place in this strip. Not because it bothers my sense of family values; it bothers my sense or reality — she actually looks good in a bikini. One would think that after birthing this brood of vipers that she would be one big stretch mark in a gunny sack.

Mary Worth – I keep hoping the hospital’s medical board of ethics is going to burst through the door any minute not, first to cite Dr. Mike for breaking HIPPA regulations in sharing confidential patient information with Mary, and second to bust Mary for practicing psychology without a license.

Mark Trail – Increasingly Mark is commenting on fauna well beyond the boundaries of Lost Forest. It’s like he just got cable TV and is all caught up in Discovery or Animal Planet.

Mutts – Oops. Do you hear that whirring sound? It is Charles Schultz spinning in his grave.

S Fox – However anticipating the confrontation, Smitty is prepared. Upon closer observation, Slylock discovers that this is indeed not Josh’s piggy bank, but a REAL pig into which Smitty has carved a coin slot (they don’t call him “Slick” for nothing). Tomorrow’s episode: Slylock investigates the disappearance of neighbor Peter Pig.
Poteet
July 25th, 2010 at 5:44 pm [Reply]

@Andy L (#81): You make a valid point. However, I don’t remember ever seeing Pastis preach on any other issue, and two preach strips in several years, both about a disaster, doesn’t seem like too many to me. If there’s another preach strip about the Gulf and/or if I find out I’ve missed Pastis preach strips in the past, I’ll tip my hat and be much more inclined to agree with you.
Poteet
July 25th, 2010 at 5:45 pm [Reply]

FW — I don’t suppose we’ll ever find out what happened to Chatty Cathy, and that was the only part of this story that really interested me.
Poteet
July 25th, 2010 at 5:50 pm [Reply]

RMMD — I’m kind of agog about this house call. I don’t know of any doctors in my area who would make a house call for a prostate cancer diagnosis. Of course Rex is such a very special doctor in so many ways *cough* that I shouldn’t really be surprised.
Artist formerly known as Ben
July 25th, 2010 at 5:55 pm [Reply]

@Poteet (#106): Aren’t they ever going to get to the dynamite factory?
Andy L
July 25th, 2010 at 6:06 pm [Reply]

@Poteet (#105): Fair enough.
Master Mahan
July 25th, 2010 at 6:26 pm [Reply]

Dear King Features Syndicate, when Jeff Keane sends you a drawing of his mother in a sexy bikini, the appropriate response to get him therapy.
Zla'od
July 25th, 2010 at 6:27 pm [Reply]

Is that porn on Funky’s computer?

And is that a word-balloon coming out of Ma Keane’s ass?
Aviatrix
July 25th, 2010 at 6:32 pm [Reply]

@Poteet (#107): And he does have a special interest in the region of the prostate, too.
queek, source of Cuteness, Kawaii Commando
July 25th, 2010 at 6:35 pm [Reply]

@Master Mahan (#110): It could be worse. It could be Francis Hobbs doing the drawing. Then we’d ALL need therapy.
Rana
July 25th, 2010 at 6:41 pm [Reply]

@Austria (#61): Re: BC – no kidding. Not only was today’s strip grotesquely heavy-handed, it destroys the entire set-up of the “send a floating tablet to sea, get an answer back” shtick the strip’s been working for years.

The idea is that the BC character sends a message off, and gets one back that makes clear that whoever’s on the other side belongs to a society that’s much superior to the BC one.

Here’s how it should have gone: Thor writes “We use fossil (ha ha) fuels for our energy needs. What do you use?” He tosses it in, waits, sees it floating back. Picks it up, reads, “We couldn’t read your message. It was all covered in oil.”

Or something that made even a bit more sense!
Rana
July 25th, 2010 at 6:44 pm [Reply]

@Uncle Lumpy (#96): Oh, that’s excellent! :)
wossname
July 25th, 2010 at 6:51 pm [Reply]

@bats :[ (#59): Now that (the Anne Sexton poem) is disturbing.
carbunicle
July 25th, 2010 at 7:02 pm [Reply]

@Uncle Lumpy (#62): Argh.That whole section is aggravating in its triviality.
UncleJeff
July 25th, 2010 at 7:06 pm [Reply]

Marmaduke: All the valiant efforts of the Allied soldiers, the relentless hunting of Simon Wiesenthal, even the “Valkyrie” revolt by his senior Wehrmacht officers failed to bring him to justice.
In the end…it was the beast he thought was his best friend and protector in his new hideout in suburbian USA who turned on him…not over politics, or war but over the last pork chop on the platter.
Justice wears an XXXL collar. And tags.
Edgy DC
July 25th, 2010 at 7:09 pm [Reply]

“Hey, Les, while I blacked out I remembered how pathetic I was back in high school. No, why should I button my shirt. If I do that, I’ll deny you the spectacular sight of the Montoni’s ads I’ve tatooed all over my mushy broken torso.”
Jonn
July 25th, 2010 at 7:15 pm [Reply]

@Pete (#18): Saw the pants, but I can’t unsee the smile.
Motorposus
July 25th, 2010 at 7:15 pm [Reply]

FC: This exact strip–all the same artwork except Thel’s “modernized” hairdo–appears in a mid-70s collection I used to have. Even the annoyance lines are the same.
poppies
July 25th, 2010 at 7:43 pm [Reply]

Ma Keane’s two-piece is exactly why she’s alone at the beach with the kids. Pa would never suffer such a bold display of strumpetry, not while he heads the compound.
Rusty
July 25th, 2010 at 8:13 pm [Reply]

@Motorposus (#121): I was going to note: It’s not icky when Jef Keane draws his own mother as a bikini babe, because he’s merely tracing her.
kkarenb
July 25th, 2010 at 8:14 pm [Reply]

@Poteet (#107):

I don’t know of ANY doctors who make house calls. A 98 year old with the flu, a wheelchair bound person with pneumonia – they have to come into the office. But Rex is making a house call to discuss a non-life threatening diagnosis. Of course, he has a caseload of only one patient.
un malpaso
July 25th, 2010 at 8:20 pm [Reply]

re: Funky: Maybe Holly is just waiting for Batiuk (the all-too-real “guy upstairs”) to die and be replaced by a new, less tormenting artist; otherwise, for all we know, Funky may die and Batiuk’s outlet for existential suffering will pass on to her.
Dr. Duck
July 25th, 2010 at 8:27 pm [Reply]

FOOB: Once again Lynne points out the foibles of the stupidization of America. In this case, Ellie is so dopey she reaps her own rewards. When are we ever going to learn that abortion is the answer, if you think of it in time that is, and that childcide in cold blood coupled with clandestine backyard burial is a close second, towards keeping a home neat and tidy? The stinking idiot husband can be trained with enough bitching, but children? No way. Get real.
Mibbitmaker
July 25th, 2010 at 8:30 pm [Reply]

I haven’t seen alot of the comments, so apologies for any oversnark (and, on the first part of my comics commentary, narrowly averted):

FW: Joe Blevins is right: the Guy Upstairs is Tom Batiuk, and he is a sadist.
Crank: And yet, he’s still capable of a charmer like this! What gives, TommieBoy? Spread the fun around for once in 18 friggin’ years!

MW: Breakthrough! …..aw, who gives a rat’s patootie?

A3G: “Welcome to Dressed in the Dark! And now, the host of our show,
The Katmics Katmudgeon!”

Mutts: Plus, it’s freakin’ July! Oh, good grief!
Poteet
July 25th, 2010 at 8:35 pm [Reply]

@kkarenb (#124): And as other Mudges have pointed out, they are going to talk about the male prostate gland. Woo-hoo. This may be the biggest thrill Rex has all week.
Uncle Lumpy
July 25th, 2010 at 8:38 pm [Reply]

@Poteet (#128):

… they are going to talk about the male prostate gland.

Um, as opposed to …?
Anna Nimity of the 2010 Jungle Patrol
July 25th, 2010 at 8:38 pm [Reply]

This is totally off topic, but True Fable, have you seen the GOAT CAM? Whoa! All goats, all the time! I believe this is your dream come true…

Yours In Goats,

Anna

http://planetgreen.discovery.com/tv/the-fabulous-beekman-boys/watch-the-beekman-farm-goat-cam.html#mkcpgn=msn3
The Poster with No Name
July 25th, 2010 at 8:40 pm [Reply]

@Calico (#13): Great pics! I really like tortoiseshell cats myself, if only because their crazily random coloration just makes them really interesting to look at.

As for my actual snarking, well, things might get less interesting:

Ballard Street: The narration box might call it “allergies,” but that color scheme makes it pretty obvious that With one breath / With one flow / Neal will know / Synchronicity.

Shoe: Alternative setups and punchlines:

1. “I would probably have made a darned good plumber — I spend an awful lot of my time passing crap.”
2. “I would probably have been a darned good politician — I spend an awful lot of my time passing crap.”
3. “I would probably have been a darned good gigolo — I like making people laugh. What? Of course that’s what a ‘giggle-o’ does.”

Family Circus: So where the heck is Bil during this Keane Family Mandatory Beach Frolic Activity? Is he the one shouting, “Look at me, Mommy”? If so, then I imagine that it’s because he’s been drinking too much and that as a result, he is now debuting a performance art piece entitled, “Tidal Pools: Nature’s Urinal.”

Crock: What is the most egregious aspect about today’s Crock? Is it the portrayal of French Legionnaires who are inexplicably singing the American National Anthem? Is it the baffling sight of just one half of a ping pong table set up in the middle of the desert? Is it the ping pong balls that don’t bounce and roll away in random directions but instead land with a thud in an ever-growing pile of inert ping pong balls? Is it the background figures that are rendered with no sense of perspective as compared with the foreground figure? Or is it the uneasy realization that, when one considers the Crock comic strip’s usual standards, today’s installment actually isn’t nearly as bad as it could’ve been?

Crankshaft: In most contexts, this would seem like a rare moment of carefree, childlike glee. In the Batiukverse, however, it’s technically classified as “a remission.”
The Poster with No Name
July 25th, 2010 at 8:41 pm [Reply]

@Uncle Lumpy (#129): I think that it’s as opposed to the male prostrate gland, which is an organ that just sort of lies there.
Black Drazon
July 25th, 2010 at 8:50 pm [Reply]

It’s bikini day! Ma Keane is wearing one, Count Weirdly is wearing a constrictor as a bikini, and as always, we walk away from Beetle Bailey consciously glad that they are not.
Motorposus
July 25th, 2010 at 8:58 pm [Reply]

@Rusty (#123): On a whim, I checked familycircus.com and found the original!
http://www.familycircus.com/files/70/images/760718.gif
dale
July 25th, 2010 at 9:10 pm [Reply]

@Aviatrix (#10):

Some history books tell us Edward II had a red hot poker shoved up his butt.
Naturally, he died.
Rocky Stoneaxe
July 25th, 2010 at 9:25 pm [Reply]

Someone with considerably more talent than I possess needs to do a mashup of Saturday’s Marmaduke and Sunday’s 9CL! (Would bats :[ consider such an undertaking?)

Two characters (Marmaduke and Edda), two different takes on “Mack the Knife”…

“Marmaduke the Knife” (adapted from the original 1928 German version composed by Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht)

And the shark, it has teeth
And it wears them in its face.
And Marmaduke, he has a knife
But the knife cannot be seen.

Then there’s the version with Edda Burber as “Macheath”…

“Edda the Knife” (adapted from the 1954 English version made popular by Louis Armstrong)

Oh the shark has pretty teeth dear
And she shows them pearly white
Just a jack-knife has Edda dear
And she keeps it out of sight.
mollificent
July 25th, 2010 at 9:33 pm [Reply]

@Calico (#13): Oh my good lord, that is a sweet kitty.

@Anna Nimity of the 2010 Jungle Patrol (#130): Nana nana nana nana GOAT CAM!!!!

(with apologies to Batman fans everywhere)
Oregonian
July 25th, 2010 at 9:37 pm [Reply]

True story: At 9pm this evening I went over to the Yahoo comics site and tried to get a sneak peak at the Monday Doonesbury… but it wouldn’t show me the strip. I reloaded a few times and still didn’t get anything. I double-checked the clock. Was it really past nine? Yep, it was 9:15, but still no Monday strip. I sat there for more than five minutes, grumbling about the incompetent Yahoo web publishers, until it hit me: I moved to Florida a few days ago.

Takes some getting used to.
Calico
July 25th, 2010 at 9:42 pm [Reply]

@The Poster with No Name (#131):
Char reminds me of a piece of caramel infused fudge, which is ok, considering I’m not a sleepwalking mega-eater like Dagwood.
Charles
July 25th, 2010 at 9:45 pm [Reply]

So, I must admit that my familiarity with recent Funky history is spotty, to say the least. But did that whole brouhaha with Les and Black Woman Whose Name I Don’t Know and the mopey woman who shared champagne with Mr. Sexy Les blow over or was it just never resolved?

‘Cause they sure seem to be a paired couple in this strip.
Rocky Stoneaxe
July 25th, 2010 at 9:46 pm [Reply]

@Oregonian (#138): Welcome to paradise! (I’ve lived in Florida for over 50 years, so I’m definitely biased!)
Uncle Lumpy
July 25th, 2010 at 9:53 pm [Reply]

@Oregonian (#138):

Huh. Working fine here in California.

Time zones are mysterious things. I don’t trust ‘em.
carbunicle
July 25th, 2010 at 9:55 pm [Reply]

@Motorposus (#134): So lame. Newspapers pay money for this? Why?
Moosebyte
July 25th, 2010 at 9:57 pm [Reply]

First off I’m slightly disgusted that In being presented with Funky’s naked chest, but more importantly is that Snap, Crackle, and Pop he has tattooed there?
agony
July 25th, 2010 at 9:58 pm [Reply]

I live in a small town in Western Canada, and my doctor makes house calls. He set up an office in his house, and makes rounds at the hospital in the early morning, sees office patients after that, and drives around town seeing everyone else in the afternoon. Gets a nice write off on the house and car, still sees enough patients to make a good living, and gets out in the air every day. He’s been doing this for nearly ten years now, and says he doesn’t regret making this move for a minute. And this is under socialized medicine. I’m a little surprised it’s not more common down in the land of free enterprise.
Austria
July 25th, 2010 at 10:00 pm [Reply]

Wait, wait, wait, you guys. I got this. I can’t believe no one’s made this mashup yet. Inky blackness and despair!

(i know it doesn’t make any sense shut up)
Poteet
July 25th, 2010 at 10:11 pm [Reply]

@Uncle Lumpy (#129): BWAHAHA! Sorry, I deserved that. I was trying to put myself into Rex’s mind, always a mistake, and figured the word “male” belonged in that phrase just to make it more exciting to him.
queek, source of Cuteness, Kawaii Commando
July 25th, 2010 at 10:14 pm [Reply]

@Rocky Stoneaxe (#141): Paradise and cute cats, both involve cheeseburgers.

;-)
Oregonian
July 25th, 2010 at 10:17 pm [Reply]

@Rocky Stoneaxe (#141): Oh, you’re from around here? Then maybe you can fill me in on something. WHERE THE HELL ARE ALL THE COFFEE SHOPS IN FLORIDA??? It ain’t paradise if you can’t find a decent cup of joe.

But yeah… it’s growing on me. I was looking at a shrub today and I found a little green tree frog about the size of a penny. No place is hell if it has cute little tree frogs.
Comcis Fan
July 25th, 2010 at 10:29 pm [Reply]

Meanwhile, why is Cayla with Les? Does Les know better than to bring his adoring younger groupie to Funky’s frumpy, grumpy self-pity party? Cayla and Les just rambled along with no discussion about Susan and Cayla’s not-unreasonable insecurity over the time Les was spending with her — and without Susan popping up at all Les’ right times and places, given the heavy face time she was getting with him?
commodorejohn
July 25th, 2010 at 10:29 pm [Reply]

@Austria (#146): *SNRK* I love it!
Poteet
July 25th, 2010 at 10:31 pm [Reply]

@Calico (#13): Oh, what a darling, and what a great name! She looks a lot like my Boone, named after the river she was swimming in when rescued. Boone lived eighteen happy years. May Charlotte live a long, happy life with many more squee photos to come.
Poteet
July 25th, 2010 at 10:35 pm [Reply]

FW — Dammit, Chatty Cathy, why didn’t you aim better?
Charles
July 25th, 2010 at 11:17 pm [Reply]

FW: And Holly’s profile in the final panel is one of the most revolting things I’ve ever seen. She’s the most manliest man ever. You could open tin cans with that face.
Charles
July 25th, 2010 at 11:19 pm [Reply]

I also died a little when I realized that the sexiest thing I’ve seen in a newspaper in a good long while is Thel Keane in that smoking bikini. Christ, it almost turned me on.
J.D. Hammond
July 25th, 2010 at 11:27 pm [Reply]

I feel a Le Tigre parody coming on:

“Oh / Beetle / YOU DON’T SAY ANYTHING!!!! (All that glitters is not brass. / All that glitters is not brass….)
Chip Whittle
July 25th, 2010 at 11:27 pm [Reply]

Could someone please translate today’s Tarzan into the Bandar tongue? I’ve read A.J.P.Taylor histories with less space given to footnotes.

Also think how hard it’s got to be, being Australian and having little caption boxes explaining everything you try to say.
Doug Puthoff
July 26th, 2010 at 12:01 am [Reply]

For the past week the cast of “Funky Winkerbean” has been snarking on each other–Dear Heaven! The strip has turned into “The Comics Curmudgeon!”
Hi There
July 26th, 2010 at 12:08 am [Reply]

Monday FW: The physical therapist mentions the possibility of inserting a steel beam into his bloated body. Old Funky realizes that this is as close as he’s come to having sex since the start of the Clinton Administration.
Baka Gaijin
July 26th, 2010 at 12:14 am [Reply]

@Écureuil Écumant (#100): So that explains the popularity of that car.

@Mibbitmaker (#127) on Mutts: That’s increases the humor factor. Not only did the stupid cat pick the wrong kind of big hard round fruit/vegetable patch, he’s there at the wrong time. What a marooon!

@Oregonian (#138): Add half a dozen more time zones and you have my problem.
Poteet
July 26th, 2010 at 12:20 am [Reply]

7/26

CRANKSHAFT — I don’t want to have to worry about where my cats are, so they are always in the house or in outdoor enclosures. Cat freedom has a price, Cranky. You pays your money and you takes your choice.

MY CAGE — I’d be more optimistic about this relationship if they weren’t annoying each other so very often during their engagement. I don’t see how that’s going to get better if they marry.

RMMD — As June and Rex continue to fling down and dance upon medical disclosure rules and ethics, I’m starting to become a wee bit annoyed. Especially since they like to stand well away from each other and yell their indiscretions across the office.
Carly
July 26th, 2010 at 12:27 am [Reply]

In the Funky ‘verse, as age approaches life expectancy (~50, because it’s FW), Bad Shit Happening approaches infinity.
I’d really like to see that worked into a complete calculus word problem, like bad shit over a lifetime or something.
Poteet
July 26th, 2010 at 12:29 am [Reply]

7/26

A3G — To hell with Tommie. Get to the frump! Get to the frump!

JP — Abbey, you don’t want to go there. Really.

MW — Oh merciful providence, thank you. I feared we were going into a *shudder* flashback.
Poteet
July 26th, 2010 at 12:30 am [Reply]

7/26 FW — Thanks, Funky! I wasn’t the ideal physical-therapy patient, but compared to you, I was angelic.
ElkMeadow
July 26th, 2010 at 12:47 am [Reply]

@Oregonian (#138):

There’s a lot more to get used to in Florida than the time. How are you going to live without mountains on the near horizons? You are so going to miss the mountains.
ElkMeadow
July 26th, 2010 at 12:48 am [Reply]

@Comcis Fan (#150):

I was wondering the same thing. How did the two of them get back into the same room, and be sitting next to each?
ElkMeadow
July 26th, 2010 at 12:50 am [Reply]

@Uncle Lumpy (#142):

Well, that has to be one of the shortest Doonesbury arcs ever. Although I did choke on my orange juice with the exploding meth lab gag.
ElkMeadow
July 26th, 2010 at 12:52 am [Reply]

MW–Where did that reclining couch come from? And how can he keep moving it up and down, over and over again? And where did that big pillow come from? And why doesn’t Mary just snatch it up, wave it at him and yell at him, “Move that couch one more time and you’ll be eating this!”
DeLand DeLakes
July 26th, 2010 at 12:59 am [Reply]

I had to do a double-take on Funky’s Montoni’s t-shirt–for a second I thought maybe the other driver was a true “Deathproof”-style sadist who had crippled Funky and then carved some little mushroom-headed glyph into his chest as a sort of bizarre calling card. Or maybe that it had just appeared spontaneously in the form of blistering welts, a hallmark from the Funkyverse’s malevolent God.
Buck Ripsnort
July 26th, 2010 at 1:07 am [Reply]

SlyFx: Given the position of the pig on Smitty’s lap, and their overjoyed expressions, I can kinda guess how the world became populated w/ human/beast hybrids.
dreadedcandiru2
July 26th, 2010 at 1:09 am [Reply]

9 Endingfatigue Lane: Well, isn’t this a surprise; Edna and Don Naziovanni’s last kiss is going to take another couple of hours. Or at least that’s the hope; my guess is that Col Iago will interrupt and tell them both to say hello to his little friend: an agent of Mossad.
Buck Ripsnort
July 26th, 2010 at 1:14 am [Reply]

No one snarks on Frazz, but I have to point out– Being top of the food chain IS a superpower.
Girl Reporter
July 26th, 2010 at 1:18 am [Reply]

As the mother of two, two 15 month old babies, I wonder why Thel thinks she even gets to read a book at the beach. The beach; where there is water with waves and currents and rip tides. Not to mention choking hazards like pebbles, dead jellyfish, e coli and discarded hypodermic needles. I don’t know how old PJ is supposed to be, but he looks younger than my babies. And Thel is sitting on her (far more slender than mine) butt more than an arm’s reach away from PJ who is crying about his toy being ripped out of his reach by the freaking ocean?! While she’s reading a freaking book?!

I am outraged by Family Circus. Time to put down my drink and go to bed.
bats :[
July 26th, 2010 at 1:24 am [Reply]

@Motorposus (#134): wow. Not. Even. Trying.
And they still get PAID for this drivel?!

@carbunicle (#143): I’ve got half a mind (hey!) to write our local newspaper and ask why they carry FC and feel the need to keep shrinking the comics section with repeats.
Oh, yeah…the Foob Corollary.

7/26

MW: COMEDY GOLD!
CanuckDownSouth
July 26th, 2010 at 1:26 am [Reply]

Phantom is demonstrating why, rather than live by the rules of movies and novels, when briefly eluding captors to call a loved one, you should always start with something like last Christmas the usual fight about The Tambourine Incident came up on the 23rd over coffee after supper. I’m [...] , really, and …
Sam L
July 26th, 2010 at 1:28 am [Reply]

Wait, wait. Back up to the bit where mommy Keane is allowed off of the compound in that skimpy number.
Rana
July 26th, 2010 at 2:04 am [Reply]

@mollificent (#137): Shouldn’t that be nanny nanny nanny nanny GOAT CAM?

;)
Lucky
July 26th, 2010 at 2:48 am [Reply]

B.C. – “Fine! You just whine, whine, whine about my BP-gags, so I’m going back to baseball/steroid-jokes. How do you like that, huh!?”

Baldo – Gracie will be a colouring gnome once she grows up.

Beetle Bailey – Open Photoshop and switch the colour of that mud to red. I know you want to.

Family Circus – Oh for ef’s sake, get Dolly a bigger swimsuit already! That blubber is unnerving to look at.

Hi & Lois – Also known as porn.
Ed Dravecky
July 26th, 2010 at 3:24 am [Reply]

Comparing the 1976 and 2010 days at the beach in Family Circus, it seems Thel has gotten leaner while the kids are ever closer to becoming perfect spheres. A subtle critique of the exploding childhood obesity crisis in the United States or just Jeffy Keane repressing like crazy?
Roman Fingers
July 26th, 2010 at 3:52 am [Reply]

Luann: Brad appears to have set the car’s A/C to provide maximum cooling. Well played, Bradley. Well played.

9CL:Lost control and rang your bell, I was sore
Let me in or else I’ll beat down your door
When two strangers who have been two silhouettes on the shade
Said to my shock “you’re on the wrong block”

MW: Yeah–I want somebody that screwed up psychoanalyzing me. I mean Dr. Jim, not Mary. Although I really don’t want her analzying me, either.

A3G: Tommie fearlessly embraces change, while keeping her eyes shut so she can’t see it.

Zits: Jeremy’s parents find the section of his page entitled “Let’s draw other cartoon characters without their clothes”.

MT: Looking at Rusty’s hair, I have to assume he was struck by that lighting that Mark warned us about a couple of Sundays ago.

GT: I know where this is going. Kemper admits to Gil that he really doesn’t like golf, but plays to make his father happy. Gil talks to Old Man Peake, who may or may not come around. Since Old Man Peake has a mustache, it might be easier to just get Mark Trail in to punch him.
Ranchoth
July 26th, 2010 at 4:26 am [Reply]

I think that Funky strip is the most disturbing thing I’ve seen in the comic pages in…ever. Something about the combination of the sorta smug, self-referential “hey, get a load of what I’M writing? I *do* hear what the critics are saying…an’ I’m just gonna keep on doing it!” with the awful, cringingly battered and prematurely aged appearence of Funky—who STILL manages to seem vaguely whiny and self-pitying, even with his genuine physical pain and chilling insight into the cruelty of his life…

…anyone else remember “Grave of the Fireflies”? Somehow, that reminds me of how Batuik’s treating his main character. Same sense of auto-Schadenfreude born out of self-hatred, just with less napalm drops.
Just some guy
July 26th, 2010 at 5:05 am [Reply]

I’m not a follower of the Funkyverse outside of this site, so I was curious if Funky always had tattoos on his chest. But reading the comments, it makes more sense that the colorist just screwed up and didn’t color the shirt.
John C Fremont
July 26th, 2010 at 6:23 am [Reply]

Phantom – Okay, so Mark Trail still hasn’t figured out the concept of caller ID. Please be smarter than Mark Trail, guys!
John C Fremont
July 26th, 2010 at 6:33 am [Reply]

Oh, and I refuse to believe that Rob Wilco would make Freedom Fries from scratch.

Hey, who was the idiot who said that you can’t call it junk food if it’s made from scratch? What a foob.
Rocky Stoneaxe
July 26th, 2010 at 6:55 am [Reply]

@Oregonian (#149): Florida is actually several states in one, so you need to go to the same places as the Spanish speakers for good coffee (Los Cubanos love the stuff!). If you live in an area with a large Jewish population (West Palm Beach, Miami), then you have the additional choice of a New York-style deli.
Roman Fingers
July 26th, 2010 at 7:07 am [Reply]

@Rocky Stoneaxe (#185): A company I used to work for had a bunch of clients in Florida, so I’d get sent back there about once a month. One of the people in Tallahassee once told me that Florida was unusual because the further south you went, the less “southern” it was.
Naked Bunny with a Whip
July 26th, 2010 at 7:15 am [Reply]

this nightmare world of bipedal talking animals

Remove your shoes, monkeys. Conform.
LP2004
July 26th, 2010 at 7:21 am [Reply]

9CL – I’ve become convinced that three things would survive a cataclysmic nuclear holocaust: cockroaches, Boss guitar effects pedals, and this storyline.
Rocky Stoneaxe
July 26th, 2010 at 7:21 am [Reply]

@Roman Fingers (#186): Which is why North Florida is also known as South Alabama!
Rocky Stoneaxe
July 26th, 2010 at 7:36 am [Reply]

La Cucaracha — Shout out to the late HARVEY PEKAR!

Dick Tracy — I think Dick just likes saying “David Dierdorf D’Buckworth”! Why didn’t the writer pick a less pretentious-sounding name for the character… like “Benedict Cumberbatch” or “Brooke McEldowney”?

Last Kiss — Drama Queen!

Love is… mooning him among the stars!

Pluggers… put the “tired” in retired!
SWMBO
July 26th, 2010 at 7:47 am [Reply]

Monday – Gah – Rusty-thing alert! Even when tiny – too much for me before my coffee.
wossname
July 26th, 2010 at 8:00 am [Reply]

MW – Mary can barely suppress a giggle of glee at the meddletopia that’s being spread out before her like a feast of salmon squares. Meanwhile, Dr. Mike attempts to pull his face off as a demonstration of anguish. Even though no lamps jumped around today, I’m pretty sure Giella is toying with us just as much as Moy is. And I love it.

MT – What I hope to see tomorrow: Sassy, hearing Rusty’s voice, bursts out of Mildred’s slimy clutches and bounds toward her beloved gnome-thing. Roger McEvil tries to stop her in some brutal way. The punching commences.

BrS – I was thinking Felicity Fox was going to be some kind of Lindsay Lohan/Paris Hilton type – but if the young dude has never heard of her, I guess she’s some baby boomer icon. Grace Slick?
tb4000
July 26th, 2010 at 8:14 am [Reply]

Luann: Ironically, this is the closest Bradley will ever get to anything resembling a handjob from Ms. Daytona.
Écureuil Écumant
July 26th, 2010 at 8:25 am [Reply]

DTM: Y’know, Wilson, that looks like a pretty big drop off the edge of that railing. If your leg had an involuntary reflex reaction to its toes being tickled, I don’t think there’s a jury in the country that’d convict you.
Little Guy
July 26th, 2010 at 8:25 am [Reply]

yFC: This is a repeat from the late 70s/80s? I could swear I’ve see this exact strip before.

yBB, BB, tBB: Ha ha ha Non-Com on Non-Com violence ha ha ha.

Candorville: Yes, Lemont is as an underappreciated writer who may be crazy because he talks to ghosts. Sucks to be you, but there’s room for only one Les Moore in the comics.

MT: Ha ha ha, your puny Fourth Amendment rights are no match to Rusty’s creepy smile.
Little Guy
July 26th, 2010 at 8:27 am [Reply]

And the winner of today’s Comics Boobiage award is…. Garfield?!? Did the Mayan calendar or Book of Revelations predict this?
Rocky Stoneaxe
July 26th, 2010 at 8:32 am [Reply]

Gil Thorp — “Choke”? I think Kemper’s hidden anger is finally “Peak”ing out — he’s that much closer to strangling his father with his bare hands!

Scary Gary — Owen’s theory is all wet!

Brenda Starr — Felicity Fox? Still dead! (“Like who’s Felicity Fox?”)

Lio — Never mind the trip… someone needs a pedicure!

The Flying McCoys — On the other end is Dick Dastardly’s old sidekick… Muttley!
Écureuil Écumant
July 26th, 2010 at 8:44 am [Reply]

MT: Looking at that last panel, now I understand exactly what my grandpa meant when he said “Lord, boy, don’t scare me like that! You just took twenty years off my life!”
Uncle Ritzy Fritz
July 26th, 2010 at 8:44 am [Reply]

Sunday BB: Last panel stand alone. SUBtext? We don’t need no stinkin’ SUBtext.
Ethan Shuster
July 26th, 2010 at 9:03 am [Reply]

Haha! That Funky logo should be now be the official logo for the comic strip. The title, alongside the main character broken, beaten and bruised. Also, frowning miserably.
Ethan Shuster
July 26th, 2010 at 9:05 am [Reply]

Parents Day? Has anyone else ever noticed that newspaper comic strips are often the only places where certain new, obscure and unpopular holidays are mentioned?
Jerseygull
July 26th, 2010 at 9:05 am [Reply]

@Calico (#13): too kewt!
BeamStalk
July 26th, 2010 at 9:06 am [Reply]

Why did Funky’s airbag deploy under the steering wheel?
Écureuil Écumant
July 26th, 2010 at 9:10 am [Reply]

@BeamStalk (#203): It’s a conspiracy between the automakers and the AMA. They’ve shifted their emphasis towards preserving our organs for harvesting.
queek, source of Cuteness, Kawaii Commando
July 26th, 2010 at 9:17 am [Reply]

A&J: this could be an interesting week. Follow the link in the strip to J. Johnson’s blog for more, and some interesting background and commentary.

CdS: black panel o despair!

IP: *snurk*

Lio: *cue BOC intro* “Ohhhh No! There goes Tokyo!”

OtH: ROFL! well played!

TMMB: I shall endeavor to use “fun-sucking safety police” in conversation more often.

Dilbert: *giggle*

F-: I laughed. Once a fortnight, as usual.

JP: Dingo, I do believe that is your cue.

Luann: Brad is a Ferengi?

MC: girls get their fanservice, mild and furry.

6C & RwO: looks like the AC was down in two cartoonists abodes.

SF: yay for Robot Monkeys!
wossname
July 26th, 2010 at 9:34 am [Reply]

@queek, source of Cuteness, Kawaii Commando (#205):

MC: girls get their fanservice, mild and furry

Except the alleged studmuffin isn’t furry, he’s human — isn’t he? I was already thinking that was kind of odd, like the human victims and perp in Slylock yesterday. Are [comic] humans plotting a takeover of the anthropomorphic animal strips?
Jeff Lindholm
July 26th, 2010 at 9:35 am [Reply]

So how come there’s a black-and-white picture of Funky’s demolished car on his computer screen? Who takes black-and-white pictures anymore? Must be that bleak Funky universe doin’ it.
TheDiva
July 26th, 2010 at 9:36 am [Reply]

FW: The Batiuk philosophy in a nutshell.

Luann: Please, please let this turn into a distracted driving cautionary tale.

MW: Mary fights to keep from vomiting in revulsion at Dr. Mike saying “me and my mother” instead of “my mother and me” as is grammatically proper.

PBS: ….And damn proud of it!
Artist formerly known as Ben
July 26th, 2010 at 9:39 am [Reply]

7/26

9CL: Edie and Kiesl’s silhouettes… They’ve disappeared. The flashback is over! Hallelujah!

MT: “I’m Mark Trail, and my fists can enter anything of yours that they… Start over!”

BB: And face down, yum.

HtH: Haha, it’s funny because Hagar and Lucky Eddie will both be bleached skeletons in a few hours.

H&L: HI Flagston. America’s proudest semi-literate.

S-M: Read the Civil Rights Act, Flattop. You can’t bitch-slap your city editor.

Archie: You go into a restaurant called “Chicken Chunks”, you need to adjust your expectations.

JP: Abbey’s been reading “Forcing Your Husband Out of the Closet For Dummies.”

RMMD: “Heh-heh. Ram-ifications.”

MW: “So when I heard that my dad killed himself, I started dressing like my mom… Then a few years later in the army… You’re still here? Dammit!”

GT: The Williams sisters if they were white. And if one of them were a guy. And if he was a dork who thought his haircut made him look cool.

SFx: Slylock breaks Shady Shrew’s wrists for playing pocket pool while he’s trying to talk, then explains the alarm clock thing.

Garfield: Jim Davis’ pencil just ejaculated lead all over the paper.

6C: “If you’re drinking orange soda at 7PM and listening to the toaster, take something fizzy and go back to bed.”

H&J: This is why cable guys and pizza deliverers wear uniforms.
Artist formerly known as Ben
July 26th, 2010 at 9:40 am [Reply]

EC: Guessing the nephew is on Team Edward.
bourbon babe, unbuckled
July 26th, 2010 at 9:40 am [Reply]

JP: “Well, Abbey, there’s the way the light in the barn hits his hair just right, giving it a soft, golden glow. There’s that bit of scruff on his chin that tickles when he kisses. And there’s his young, supple back that….—wait, was I supposed to talk about his shoes?”

MT: I have to agree with Stachy McNapper here; certainly the law allows a person to prevent horrific mutant forest boys from entering his home.

DtM: You know, Martha could lure Dennis away with some of those cookies she’s always baking. So today we have further evidence that, after Mary Worth, Martha Wilson is second-Most Evil Biddy on the comics page.

MW: I think that we can all agree that Mary is stifling a giggle of delight as the meddle foreplay commences. What you don’t want to think about, though, is what she’s doing with the other hand.
Dingo, the Essence of Purity and Virtue Incarnate™
July 26th, 2010 at 9:41 am [Reply]

Someone needs to talk to the parents of Emma Mchenry (Note the “H” is not capitalized. Very liberal parenting.) about her fornicating squirrels. If this doesn’t stop, someday she’ll take over the duties on Mark Trail.
Artist formerly known as Ben
July 26th, 2010 at 9:42 am [Reply]

@TheDiva: Are you sure you’re willing to see Brad meet himself in preschool?
Little Guy
July 26th, 2010 at 9:44 am [Reply]

@BeamStalk (#203): To protect his non-existent nutsack.
Calico
July 26th, 2010 at 9:46 am [Reply]

MT – what a cut-and-paste frenzy!
Panel two is such an awful mélange of old and inappropriately sized images, I did laugh out loud when I saw it.
I wonder what would happen if I wore a T-shirt with that horrible Rusty creature on it…I’d love to see reactions.

MW – if she actually had a knife in her hand, today’s last panel would be perfect.
Calico
July 26th, 2010 at 9:52 am [Reply]

Oh, and here is a nice little love song for Sam and Jules.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2LEesmUe5ng&feature=related
Abbey won’t like it when she finds most of her lingerie missing either.
teenchy
July 26th, 2010 at 9:57 am [Reply]

@Lucky (#178): Speaking of BB and coloring, I look at the Sunday BB above and think of the gullible Man in the Yellow Hat from the Curious George movie (where he’s given the name Ted, I dunno why) buying unwanted safaru wear becuse “yellow is the new khaki.”
teenchy
July 26th, 2010 at 9:57 am [Reply]

Oops, that’s “safari.”
Anonymous
July 26th, 2010 at 10:01 am [Reply]

GA: Come on, Gertie! Either call the police or swing the bat! If not for the stolen food, but for the obliteration of grammar.
Mela
July 26th, 2010 at 10:11 am [Reply]

Monday:

9CL: We interrupt the narrative yet again for more sex. In fact, if there’s an arc title for this whole WWII slog, that’s what it should be.

A3G: Tommie is proud to be treated like an unfeeling puppet.

Baldo: So is this supposed to be cute & precocious because Gracie screwed up? Because most of the time, you’re going for that with her being nauseatingly smart.

BB: That ain’t mud. That’s Otto’s reaction to the discount food Sarge bought.

‘Shaft: This just in – Crankshaft owns a cat. (Seriously, this is the first time in almost two years of daily reading I’ve seen a cat.)

FC: And then He washes it over with lovely litter and debris after a few hours.

FW: That last panel is Batiuk’s entire creative philosophy in a single sentence, as repulsive stated as it is in action.

GA: Wake me up in three months when this conversation ends. Thanks.

H&J: Also, try to dress weather appropriate. Christmas sweaters in July are just sad.

Luann: “And I think we hit a jogger.” “Hm?”

MT: I don’t think Shady McPuppynapper’s reaction is untoward. I wouldn’t want that unwashed, gap-toothed, wild eyed monstrocity entering my house, either.

MW: Mary Worth laughs at your childhood trauma.

NS: I smiled because I agree with Wiley. I think this is a sign of the end times.

Pluggers: Again, bullshit. Pluggers only work jobs where high school diplomas are optional and literacy & social skills are not priorities.

Popeye: Wait, the old story ended? Did the artist just get bored drawing Popeye in a dress? And where’d that dog come from?

RwO: Frighteningly accurate.

Rubes: Cute.

6Chix: And if you read this strip, your IQ will feel like it’s in negative numbers. It’s just that dumb.

Zits: Oh, horrors! Hateful Mom is now forced to acknowledge that her son is an adult-to-be and no longer a dependent, pliable toddler! (BTW, I love when this happens to smother mothers in real life.)
spike
July 26th, 2010 at 10:14 am [Reply]

@Mela (#220): Re: 9CL: You just wait until we get to the “Bill” part of this saga.

MW: Father abondonment!!! Mary and Mike now have a bond that shall never be broken!
Calico
July 26th, 2010 at 10:17 am [Reply]

@Baka Gaijin (#25):
Spontaneous hyperspeed happened about 20 min. ago.
“It Happened!”
Artist formerly known as Ben
July 26th, 2010 at 10:18 am [Reply]

@Mela (#220):

‘Shaft: This just in – Crankshaft owns a cat. (Seriously, this is the first time in almost two years of daily reading I’ve seen a cat.)

He wants to know when his friends are going to die.
wossname
July 26th, 2010 at 10:30 am [Reply]

@Calico (#215):

I wonder what would happen if I wore a T-shirt with that horrible Rusty creature on it…I’d love to see reactions.

You would have enjoyed MidAtlanticon, where Perky Bird led us around the zoo by waving a round banner on a stick, featuring exactly that Rusty face.
Snapdragon
July 26th, 2010 at 10:36 am [Reply]

I now have a horrific vision of what might happen if you mashed up Jeffy Keane’s Oedipal complex from Family Circus with Brooke’s obsession with handsex in 9CL, with a healthy dose of magical time-travel a la Funky Winerbean, in order to get Dolly and Jeffy a bit older.

I’m going to go hit the bourbon now.
Howard
July 26th, 2010 at 10:37 am [Reply]

Funky gets Cranky: Today’s Funky involves … an admission on his part that he doesn’t appreciate humor, and doesn’t think it makes for good medicine. “You’re not funny,” his eyes seethe, as his hatred at the universe weighs him down. His black, withered heart, knows only that there was a lightness to her tone. Never mind that she was actually perfectly serious, and was trying to use a reassuring tone. He just wants to yell at her. His hatred knows no bounds.

Cranky gets Funky: Today’s Crankshaft is a continuity strip, but it centers around Crankshaft’s cat. His palpable worry now that Pickles has gone missing is touching… but panel two really sells it. He looks away from the author, unwilling to let the readers see the tears brimming in his eyes. He had sworn long ago that he would never care again, would never open his heart again, because when you do that you can get hurt, your heart can be torn open. And he had thought he was doing all right–he’d pushed every human in his life as far away as he could. But now, with his cat missing one meal, he realized that he hadn’t put up enough armor. He had that same sinking feeling, the same pain, the same heartache. His daughter is here, showing how he is trying to open up to her. The short, stilted sentences, are all he can manage. How can he share with her all the pain he feels now, the terrible memories this brings back? The ways that this missing cat makes him think of her mother, the brother she’d never met, never known? How can he possibly share with her that he is still shaken by these losses so many years later? But he steels himself. Maybe he won’t today… but someday, he will.
KayJayWhy
July 26th, 2010 at 10:39 am [Reply]

My first thoughts upon reading Slylock Fox: Oh, cool! Another comic artist has put Josh in a cartoon. But why does he have him wearing a dress?
bourbon babe, unbuckled
July 26th, 2010 at 10:39 am [Reply]

@wossname (#224): And don’t forget that we ate dinner with that thing staring at us, too. Thankfully, the wonderful conversation served as a distraction.

@Snapdragon (#225):

I’m going to go hit the bourbon now.

((ducks))
Oh, wait…. okay.
Les of the Jungle Patrol
July 26th, 2010 at 10:40 am [Reply]

Mary Worth is totally going to punch Dr Mike! “Snap out of it! That was 30 years ago!” *Pow*

Look at her raised fist!
Radar
July 26th, 2010 at 10:42 am [Reply]

This has probably already been mentioned, but I never realized just how much Montoni’s means to Funky. I’m fond of my business too, but I’ve never once contemplated tattooing my business name and logo on my chest. Hopefully he didn’t simply hand the Yellow Pages advert to the tattoo artist; I don’t want to know where the cut-out coupons are.
Écureuil Écumant
July 26th, 2010 at 10:54 am [Reply]

@149 Oregonian said:

[Florida is] growing on me. I was looking at a shrub today and I found a little green tree frog about the size of a penny. No place is hell if it has cute little tree frogs.

You’ll also discover that you’ve traded banana slugs for, er, “palmetto bugs”…
Chip Whittle
July 26th, 2010 at 10:58 am [Reply]

@Radar (#230):

This has probably already been mentioned, but I never realized just how much Montoni’s means to Funky. I’m fond of my business too, but I’ve never once contemplated tattooing my business name and logo on my chest. Hopefully he didn’t simply hand the Yellow Pages advert to the tattoo artist; I don’t want to know where the cut-out coupons are.

Well, it relates to why there aren’t more Mini-Funkys.

Apartment 3-G: And with her bold declaration that she will embrace change from wearing scrubs and sweatpants, Tommie thinks she’s plunging into a life of wearing T-shirts and sweatpants. Solid T-shirts, of one color at most.

Between Friends: This panel really works because whoever these Between Friends characters are so rarely talk about coffee. And by “so rarely” I mean “only a little more often than the National Coffee Promoters Association talks about coffee.”

Hi and Lois: Ah, Hi, strutting smugly away as though he had enough joy in life to read a book. Lois will soon crush his dreams, but for now, he has momentary smugness. He’s all set to transfer to Funky Winkerbean. Why, I don’t know. Maybe he’s been embezzling from his company and needs to make a getaway.

Mary Worth listens, carefully measuring this tale of woe, deciding whether the occasion warrants summoning her salmon-pink-and-bowling-shirt-green Tardis and going back to the 80s to fix this poor slob’s life.

Non Sequitur: Actually, if a magic elephant wants to eat every TV news reporter and pundit I’m fine with that. Who’s with me?

Popeye: Wait, so, besides being tenured Professor Watasnozzle got to skip the whole Popeye-Bride-Of-Blozo thing? What gives?

Six Chix: … Wait, they’re right, that is how it works. I’m sure I’d have noticed if it hadn’t been 140 degrees and 800 percent humidity the past month.
Professor Fate
July 26th, 2010 at 10:58 am [Reply]

MW: “And of course in all the years I spent in training to become a therapist this subject never came up. Not once.”

Forgive me if i’m wrong but isn’t a part of becoming a therapist undergoing therapy youself? It’s the whole wounded healer thing – many people are drawn to this kind of work because of their own deep emotional wounds. Which while it does give the therapist insight into what’s going on, can have very bad consequences if the therapist’s own hot buttons get pushed.

At least so I understand.

FW: “And then you’ll be lightly whipped. There’s no threaputic value from it but the head nurse’s a bit off in the head”
Carlo
July 26th, 2010 at 11:08 am [Reply]

FC (apologies to Donruss, who broached this already): No lady looks as good as Thel after four kids, amiright? Also, airline food!
edp
July 26th, 2010 at 11:15 am [Reply]

FC: I disagree with what’s happening in the lower-right blobby/panel. I believe Thel, in her haze of heat, perscription drugs, and idiot-child-minding, has only just realized that she’s playing catch with her daughter, and as a result doomed her to a lifetime of lesbianism.
UncleJeff
July 26th, 2010 at 11:18 am [Reply]

A3G: Isn’t Tommie a nurse? Wouldn’t she be smart enough to tell host Kat that nurses wear t-shirts and scrubs because in a hospital you get exposed to blood and puke and other body fluids?
I guess I can answer my own question.
Carlo
July 26th, 2010 at 11:19 am [Reply]

@Austria (#61): RE: Parents’ Day. First thing this morning, I looked on my wall calendar and thought the same thing when I saw “PARENTS’ DAY” in all caps on July 25. Wouldn’t you know, they have a Poorly updated Web site, and it appears Parents’ Day was codified by W. Congratulations, taxpayers!

Luann: Brad’s totally getting a handy.
Howard
July 26th, 2010 at 11:21 am [Reply]

@Professor Fate (#233): Although not a therapist myself, I do know a few; and it is my understanding that questions about your relationship with your father would be the second question you’d answer pursuing that line of work. The first? Your name, of course.

In all seriousness, yes, the idea that somehow Mary Worth is better able to help a therapist with issues like… well… DADDY ISSUES… than all of the therapists in the world, or therapy training, or… well, yes.

Mary Worth’s middle name is Sue.
Calico
July 26th, 2010 at 11:33 am [Reply]

@wossname (#224): @bourbon babe, unbuckled (#228):

“That thing”…hahaha!
I hope you all were able to keep a good appetite!
I’ll bet you got some peculiar looks at the Zoo. : D
Walker of Dog
July 26th, 2010 at 11:34 am [Reply]

A3G: Wow, for Tommie there really is no such thing as unwelcome attention.

FC: Every day PJ lets some water out and Daddy has to wet-vac the carseat.

GT: The kids at the golf camp were pestering Gil with too many golf-related questions, so he spiked the water coolers with LSD.

Poor Kemper – after every tournament loss, his dad removes another strip of his hair. And not with a razor.

MT: Sorry, Roger the Dognapper, denying permission to enter only works on vampires. It’s understandable that, failing to come up with a proper monster category for Rusty, you would fall back on your horror-movie training. Still, you’re doomed. Bet that $500 reward sounds pretty good right now.

9CL: In the first panel, Keisl’s below-the-waist protrusion – that had better be a shirttail.

MW: As the meddle-urge rises within her, Mary covers her mouth so Dr. Mike can’t see her fangs extending.

FW: Silly physical therapist, anyone carrying a steel rod who got close to Funky would use it to bash his head in.
Howard
July 26th, 2010 at 11:40 am [Reply]

@Ed Dravecky (#179): Also, the coloring is much superior when it was done by hand….
A Dude from Dallas
July 26th, 2010 at 11:43 am [Reply]

Mary Worth covers her mouth to try to conceal the fact that her breathing has become slow and rhythmic as she progresses toward her meddle-gasm.

Dr. Mike, however, has noticed and facepalms as he realizes that could have been Jenna moaning in ecstasy in his office.
mollificent
July 26th, 2010 at 11:45 am [Reply]

@Rana (#177): I was going for the subtle approach. ;)
Mibbitmaker
July 26th, 2010 at 11:46 am [Reply]

I was watching some Don Rickles stuff on YouTube last night — so, I decided to do
DON RICKLES-STYLE COMICS SNARK

9CL: Here we go again! By the time they’re done, Marvin will be in the old folks home!

A3G: Yeah, great! Hey, Tommie, nobody likes an arrogant loser!

BC: A steroid joke, huh. Nice. Hey, muscles, you’re supposed to lift the rock, not lean on it!

Between Friends: Hey, “real woman”, please stop!

Blondie: Dagwood — if you were any simpler, you’d be a stick figure! And Blondie — you’re getting on my nerves! Keep it up and Danae will grow up to be you!

Crank: Is that “Death Cat”? Hey, Dracula, be at Dean Booth’s site by Friday, he’s getting worried!

Curtis: Well, Michelle, there’s also waiting long enough to be the stalking victim of midget Aldo over there. By that time, nobody’ll care anymore!

DT: 3 days, 3D? Oh, that’s so clever, Locher! Next villain will be named Nobodygivesacrap!

Dilbert: Hey, great job, Wally! There’s a cave in Pakistan with your name on it! Meanwhile, Wiley’s in Manhattan going, “YAY! YAY!”

FC: Yeah, right, kid. He’s just making room for the lightning bolt! Hey, Big Guy — this time, don’t miss!

FW: Laughter? What laughter?? I’ve seen clinical depression cases with a greater sense of humor than your strip! Next time you go back to 1972, stay there! Batiuk’s standing there going, “I’m depressed! I’m depressed!” Good for you — here’s a cookie!

GA: What happened? Did Norm Crosby go south and clone himself? Lady, just throw them out of a window and go stick your head in a bucket of warm water!

GF: Rob, you ate the beanbag’s toys! He’s gonna be so lonely!

GT: Hey, Johnboy! Whadda you looking at me for? I don’t care!

Great, Gil Thorp and Mary Worth, just great! You’ll make a wonderful Father’s Day card! What? — Parents’ Day? (pained look, eye roll)

HotC: Hey, Heart, why don’t you just ditch the Geek Twins and go play with dolls or something?

Lockhorns: Hey, Hoest and Reiner! I hope Schulz rises from the dead and is coming to get you!

Zits: great job, kid. Now they’ll ground you until Brooke McEldowney’s done with his story!

MT: Yeah, kid, you can’t just go in that guy’s house! Kid looks like something Marmaduke threw up! Think of the cleaning bills for Marmaduke vomit!

R&R: Great, Littlest Masochist! I hope John Melancamp sues you!

R=R: Right now, she’s bucking for the Rusty Trail lookalike contest!

SL: All this talk about skeletons, they’re scaring Geoff Peterson half to death! Then again, how can you tell? C’mon, Geoff, I’m kidding! Next time I do Ferguson’s show, don’t talk to me!

[/Rickles]
commodorejohn
July 26th, 2010 at 11:55 am [Reply]

A3G – Dear God, Kat’s putting on a full-blown cult-leader act here. And Tommie is playing right along. Just watch out for the Flavor-Aid backstage, Tommie.

Archie – The name of the restaurant is “Chicken Chunks!?” Good Lord, that’s almost as humorously terrible as “The Golden Trough.”

AS – Ha ha! It’s funny because 1500 people drowned!

Crankshaft – A missing pet? BETTER call Mark Trail!

DTM – Hey, Mr. Wilson, since that porch of yours seems to be just a row of bushes apart from a yawning, featureless abyss, I see an easy way to solve your problems.

Dilbert – Wally knows how to party.

FC – Dolly thinks the Moon is God.

FW – Aww, look at her smile. At least someone is getting some j-OH GOD GET OUT OF THERE NOW, LADY! YOU’VE JUST MARKED YOURSELF AS A TARGET!!!

GT – Nobody with that kind of haircut should ever take that kind of crap. Dude, you should be giving out double-fingers like they’re complimentary after-dinner mints with hair like that.

JP – “Abbey…I think I’m in love!”

Luann – Oh goody! Time for some more hi-larious cock-blocking humor! Who will it be this time? Annoying small children? Or will Nancy deGroot have mysteriously decided to book her own reservation at the restaurant? Oh, I’m just on tenterhooks trying to guess how Brad and Toni will be prevented from ever making any progress in their relationship this time! [*]

MT – AAAAAIIIIEEEEEE GET RUSTY OUT OF THE FRAME PLEASE EVEN IF THE JACKELROD BALL WOULD JUST COVER UP THAT HORRIBLE HORRIBLE FACE

MW – “But the meanest thing that he ever did was before he left, he went and named me ‘Sue!’”

Momma – Fuck you, Momma.

MC – Oh, don’t be such a party-pooper, Norm. Remember, if you don’t cut her some slack, she’s going to be less inclined to cut you any.

PBS – If you think Rat is wrong, you obviously haven’t spent enough time on the Internet.

Popeye – Well! That was a pointless, baffling, and occasionally infuriating giant non sequitur of a storyline we just finished! On to the next pointless, baffling, and occasionally infuriating giant non sequitur of a storyline!

RMMD – Yow, June, think you could perk those out any further?

Ripley’s – Benjamin Franklin drew America’s first political cartoon in 1754. Bet he regrets it now.

SFx – Now this right here is some awesome squalor.

Edison Lee – sucks. I’m not talking about the strip, though that sucks too. It’s the character that sucks. I don’t think I’ve ever seen a comic-strip character so completely devoid of any interesting property or characteristic. Even Spider-Man isn’t so determinedly skull-shrinkingly boring.
Walker of Dog
July 26th, 2010 at 12:02 pm [Reply]

@commodorejohn (#245): RMMD: June has those new breast implants, where the silicone has been replaced with helium.
Dark Corner
July 26th, 2010 at 12:10 pm [Reply]

*Sigh* “Mary Worth” has reached that tipping point where I can’t even enjoy its awfulness anymore. It’s like picking on the mentally-challenged kid on the block.
Vince M
July 26th, 2010 at 12:18 pm [Reply]

@Ethan Shuster (#201): Well, now I’m wondering – does Greg Evans have a line of Parents’ Day cards?
Uncle Lumpy
July 26th, 2010 at 12:19 pm [Reply]

I’d love to see a production of Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf with Funky as George, Holly as Martha, Les as Nick, and Susan Smith as Honey (sorry, Cayla — too strong).
Baka Gaijin
July 26th, 2010 at 12:19 pm [Reply]

@wossname (#224): I had a spontaneous hyperspeed laugh when that sentence ended. I’m imagining some of those crowds of Japanese tourists being led by a sweet young lady with Scary Rusty Face-on-a-stick instead of the tour company’s banner. Chattygenes, can you imagine?

@bourbon babe, unbuckled (#228): You ate with that thing in the room? Hey now! I can see the infomercials for the “Scary Rusty Face Diet Aid. Just $49.95 plus shipping and handling. But wait! There’s more! If you call within the next 10 minutes, we’ll throw in another full-sized Scary Rusty Face Diet Aid AND a Pocket Scary Rusty Face Diet Aid for discreet use. But wait, there’s even more! If you pay by debit card, you get a 30 day supply of barf bags, personalized with the Scary Rusty Face for easy identification.”
Mr. Coffee Nerves
July 26th, 2010 at 12:28 pm [Reply]

I’d cite this story as proof that “Garfield” should be put down, but poor “PBS!” How can a double-murdered have such eclectic tastes?

Valdes e-mails letter to paper

OGDEN — As Jeremy Valdes faces the death penalty in a double homicide, he recently e-mailed a letter to the Standard-Examiner, much to the surprise of lawyers on both sides of the case.

Commenting on a June 25 hearing on a motion to suppress his apparent confession to the murders, Valdes comments on a police officer cousin’s testimony against him, calling another officer apparently drunk on the stand, and attacks, mildly, the credibility of his co-defendant Miranda Statler. She is the main witness against him and is already serving a potential 20-year prison term for her guilty pleas in the murder case.

Valdes also faults the Standard-Examiner’s coverage, and concludes by casting votes for cartoons under consideration by the paper.

“While I have you here, my friends and I would like to request that you bring back the comics, Pearls Before Swines and Garfield. Thank you.”

Valdes assails the testimony of Sgt. Shane Hubbard of the Roy Police Department at the June 25 hearing, which has been continued to Aug. 13: ” … was so impaired that he literally nodded off several times during his very slurred and confusing testimony. There is no way that Judge Di Caria (sic) and the prosecution didn’t notice. The reason I’m certain, that his testimony was cut short.”

Advised of the letter, Weber County Attorney Dee Smith asked to respond on Hubbard’s behalf: “That’s ridiculous,” Smith said. “He didn’t nod off and he certainly wasn’t impaired. I’m certain Mr. Valdes is saying that because Sgt. Hubbard’s testimony is very damaging to his case.”

Smith said he found the statement peculiar because Hubbard wasn’t the only officer in the room at the time of Valdes’ admissions. He wouldn’t comment further.

Like the prosecution, defense attorneys had no idea Valdes was sending the letter, transmitted by e-mail from a relative.

“We, and defense attorneys in general, absolutely do not like clients doing that,” Ryan Bushell said. “It hinders what we’re trying to do with a case. We want to control what goes out to the press.”

Bushell also declined to comment further.

Valdes is currently held without bail in the Weber County Jail.
seismic-2
July 26th, 2010 at 12:30 pm [Reply]

FC: Yes, Dolly, God has let the water out. It’s called a “tsunami”. The Lord works in mysterious ways. However, considering that it’s you who’s on the beach, the only mystery is why it’s taken Him so long to get around to it.
Écureuil Écumant
July 26th, 2010 at 12:44 pm [Reply]

@Baka Gaijin (#250): The tourists probably all assumed we were headed for the Primate House. The Capitol City Brewing Co. told us we couldn’t come back with it again because it depressed their dinner revenues too much.

I could also see the Rusty’s-Head-On-A-Stick being useful for leading tour groups around the caves at Lascaux.
cheech wizard
July 26th, 2010 at 12:55 pm [Reply]

MT – Looks like we’ve got a mustache-punching coming up. It’s too bad Mark doesn’t have a ring like that Phantom’s, that would permanently scar those he strikes. Instead of a skull, it could leave an indelible imprint of Rusty’s hideous visage.

Then again, Mark would never wear jewelery of any kind. So maybe he could just pick the kid up and swing him like a baseball bat, whacking the bad guys with his face.
Baka Gaijin
July 26th, 2010 at 1:04 pm [Reply]

@cheech wizard (#254): I disagree. Mark doesn’t need a ring for Rusty’s hideous visage to leave an indelible imprint. Can anyone truly scrub Rusty’s hideous visage from his retinas? That’s not a rhetorical question.
Ethan Shuster
July 26th, 2010 at 1:06 pm [Reply]

MW: “OK, OK, so your father left when you were young. What’s that got to do with anything? I’m just tryin’ ta get you laid, Doc!”
Walker of Dog
July 26th, 2010 at 1:14 pm [Reply]

I feel like there is a great King Canute joke embedded in today’s Family Circus, but I haven’t been able to put it together.
littlestevie
July 26th, 2010 at 1:33 pm [Reply]

RMMD: Yes June, Mayor McCheese was all smiles after he caught a glimpse of your sweater puppies.
bats :[
July 26th, 2010 at 1:56 pm [Reply]

@Howard (#238): But wait! There’s more!
ComcisFan
July 26th, 2010 at 2:06 pm [Reply]

@Mela (#220):

Disagree on the Zits mom being smother mother. Jeremy acts like a wet-nosed toddler, although with none of the charm and cuteness. The mom actually tries to treat him like a young adult — a person who would converse with the people he lives with and clean up after himself. Instead, she’s living with a smelly sloth who eats all her food, doesn’t lift a finger to help, and who mostly speaks only to snark on her and his father.
ComcisFan
July 26th, 2010 at 2:09 pm [Reply]

@spike (#221):

Except that she didn’t let that get in the way of having love in her life, or so we are led to believe. Next up, she’ll tell him his father’s actions shouldn’t deprive him of a full live. This will be all he needs to hear to solve this lifelong problem.
T. Chicana
July 26th, 2010 at 2:39 pm [Reply]

MW: So now Mary is going to have to help him track down his deadbeat dad? This is tiresome.
spike
July 26th, 2010 at 2:46 pm [Reply]

@ComcisFan (#261): Are you’re suggesting that the on-again, off-again relationship with Dr. Jefferson Cory (complete with the occassional sailboat ride or visits to snappy restaurants like The Bum Boat) constitutes a “love relationship”? Yikes! *Smakes forehead.*
spike
July 26th, 2010 at 2:47 pm [Reply]

Duh! “Are you…” Smacks forehead again.*
seismic-2
July 26th, 2010 at 2:50 pm [Reply]

MW: Mary covers her mouth in shock as the truth sets in. “Tell me, Mike… by any chance, was your father’s name ‘Wilbur’”?
wossname
July 26th, 2010 at 2:59 pm [Reply]

@bats :[ (#259): I’m so glad you’re taking maximum advantage of this bounty that Giella has spread out before us!
bourbon babe, unbuckled
July 26th, 2010 at 2:59 pm [Reply]

@seismic-2 (#265): I don’t know….. Are you prepared to live in a world in which Wilbur Weston had sex three times?

Then again, that would give new—and literal—meaning to the idea that “bad things come in threes.”
bats :[
July 26th, 2010 at 3:01 pm [Reply]

Jump that thread! Hi-ho, here we go!
Rocky Stoneaxe
July 26th, 2010 at 3:02 pm [Reply]

I don’t know if anyone has posted this yet, but cartoonist John Callahan passed away in Portland, Oregon on July 24. Callahan, who was a quadriplegic since the age of 21, died after a year-long battle with complications following surgery. He was 59 years old.
Anonymous
July 26th, 2010 at 4:17 pm [Reply]

so, is lady gaga taking style cues from ma keane? you decide!
ElkMeadow
July 26th, 2010 at 4:44 pm [Reply]

@Girl Reporter (#173):

I’m the mother of twin girls too.

At that age, I would have never taken them to the beach. Even out in the back yard, there was still plenty of death-traps that kept me from peeling my eyes off of them. (“Ew, Mom, don’t ever say that again! It’s just gross. And you did so not watch us. Remember when we disappeared and you were running up and down the road screaming our names and we were right there?”)

And I’m still carrying around my fat from the pregnancy. I did finally read a book, though, while they were both at college.
rriis
July 26th, 2010 at 4:45 pm [Reply]

Does Funky have a tattoo of Montoni’s Pizza on his chest, or is that just a flesh-colored t-shirt?
Ace
July 26th, 2010 at 5:36 pm [Reply]

Okay, here’s the thing, Tom Batiuk. You really need to stop pointing out that God is apparently torturing Funky and making his life miserable for the heinous crime of being Funky. Making Funky blame God for his woes is just a really dumb thing for you to do. It’s pretty much dumb for any author blame God for their grievous and horrid misfortunes, and it really should be obvious why that is.

YOU ARE GOD.

That’s right, Mr. Batiuk. You are the one smiting your characters with cancer, incest and irresponsible teen drivers at every turn. You are the one providing them with only the most incompetent hospital personnel who ever stumbled out of med school on what we can only assume is an athletic D. You are the one who allows people to be declared dead because you have a tenuous grasp of military protocol. You are doing it to them, not God. Because you are their God.

And their blaming you is entirely justified.
True Fable
July 26th, 2010 at 5:49 pm [Reply]

@Anna Nimity of the 2010 Jungle Patrol (#130): GOAT! Live goats! Goats standing around flipping their tails and chewing and pooing! Goats milling about aimlessly without a care in the world!

I especially like the view where it shows goats chewing on a tractor, and the one standing on top of the front loader ready for a hefty game of King Of The Mountain. !!! Thank you !!
Dano
July 26th, 2010 at 10:07 pm [Reply]

Thel looks as good in this “2010″ strip as she did in the same stip from the 1970’s (7/17/1974). Go to the FC website, (http://www.familycircus.com/), choose FILES, 70’s CARTOONS, then “next arrow” to the ninth cartoon. Eerie, huh? I wish my 55 year old friends could rock a bikini like they did 36 years ago.
Dano
July 26th, 2010 at 10:15 pm [Reply]

I guess Thel uses better sunscreen now then in the same strip 36 years ago.

JF: I wish I could post the images side by side 7/18/74 vs. 7/25/2010
Imfromthepast
July 26th, 2010 at 11:02 pm [Reply]

God help me, but Momma Keene is rocking that bikini.
Imfromthepast
July 26th, 2010 at 11:03 pm [Reply]

@Imfromthepast (#277): No seriously God, help me!
Rimpy
July 27th, 2010 at 11:21 am [Reply]

I’m confused – I’ve been trying to follow Funky Winkerbean at the Houston Chron’s site, but its self-pityingness seems to have become incomprehensible. What was the deal on 7/24 with Funky meaningfully (as indicated by the use of ellipses) saying “Nooo, if I was really lucky…” and that signature smirk on Bull’s fat face? There was no conclusion to that! The Houston Chronicle site doesn’t run the Sunday strips, which is what I assume Josh ran on 7/25. Is there a Saturday FW? Can anybody help me out? I can’t believe I’m getting this worked up about FW, but when a character makes a leading statement like that, I want to know what he’s getting at!

I used to like FW when we were both teens. I’m glad I haven’t become a bitter, morose middle-aged man like Funky has.

Oh, and if Funky’s car is so smashed up, what became of the other driver? I guess she was just a plot device and we don’t have to worry about her as a human-type person. Couldn’t a deer and/or a telephone pole have served the same purpose?
Rimpy
July 27th, 2010 at 11:53 am [Reply]

@Rimpy (#279): Ooos, I was a little off on my days and dates; 7/24 was Saturday, so shouldn’t Monday 7/26 have been the continuation of that part of the story arc (if random acts of meaningless depression could be considered a plot)? Instead, we’re treated to Funky bitching at a physical therapy session. Wait, maybe that is the continuation – it’s a fantasy sequence: “If I were really lucky…I’d be giving some poor physical therapist shit instead of talking to you, Bull.”
pharmacy tech
August 10th, 2010 at 11:45 am [Reply]

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