"Why is the bear so pissed off? Probably the same reason the owl is the judge. Bears are angry murderers, owls are wise hooters. And in Slylock's forest, chicks are either old or hot, and green evil-looking people are always evil. Honestly, it's the easy-to-follow stereotyping in Slylock that I enjoy the most, and I really hope kids can take that from the comic and apply it in their day-to-day lives." --MolyBendum
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Mark Trail, 10/5/06
Molly is a coward who would rather humiliate herself than fight.
Marmaduke, 10/5/06
Marmaduke is a sexual harassment lawsuit waiting to happen.
Pluggers, 10/5/06
Pluggers have senile dementia.
Spider-Man, 10/5/06
Hitler is a big fan of Nicole Kidman.
One Big Happy, 10/5/06
Aldo Kelrast really was the ghost of Captain Kangaroo.
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October 5th, 2006 at 7:09 pm
I especially like the old she-plugger’s wig. or ears. or ear-do.
October 5th, 2006 at 7:12 pm
OBH: I bet Grandpa wants to come back as a “Chester the Molester” cartoon in Hustler
October 5th, 2006 at 7:13 pm
Spider-Man’s third panel might be the runaway winner for the Creepiest Look of the Week. It’s like he’s going to reach out of the frame and poke my eyes out. Also, his arm has got to be dislocated to point at that angle.
October 5th, 2006 at 7:16 pm
Pluggers: Of course a Plugger is going to forget what she was going to mend! Who the hell wants to mend a Wal-Mart greeter’s vest?
October 5th, 2006 at 7:22 pm
I don’t know about Gil Thorpe, there’s always something a little cockeyed about everyone in the strip. It’s like the whole town is submerged in a thick stench of homoeroticism, misogyny, and gender indifference. It’s a place where the men are pretty, the women are manly and the children are all below average.
October 5th, 2006 at 7:26 pm
Damn that Marmaduke, crushing my illusions!
Up ’til now, when that online foob chick was winking and blinking, I had rather fancied that she was winking and blinking just for me!
October 5th, 2006 at 7:29 pm
Peter Parker has become as apathetic about being a photographer as Spider-Man is about fighting Super Villains. He has the proportionate apathy of a spider.
October 5th, 2006 at 7:48 pm
Get out of the way, Trail? In panel 2 it looks like he has a clear shot to me.
October 5th, 2006 at 7:51 pm
But now that Aldo is dead, who is he the ghost of? Interventions Past?
October 5th, 2006 at 7:59 pm
Man, seriously? FUCK fake cartoon Ernest. That shit is nigh unto blasphemous.
And THIS son of a bitch needs to be beaten with a barbed-wire baseball bat.
-hx, tell us how you realllllly feel, hoop…
October 5th, 2006 at 8:04 pm
LOOK AT THE FACE’S IN THE LAST PANEL OF OBH!
I think they know something we don’t. The trend of killing off old people must be rubbing off in the non-soap comics too. Grampa has a heart disease, and the girl is trying to make him feel better about his untimely demise. Although you can tell that once he’s gone, she’s going to go through about ten minutes of grieving before she goes to watch some more cartoons.
October 5th, 2006 at 8:09 pm
I just don’t understand your hostility towards me.
October 5th, 2006 at 8:36 pm
Ok guys, long time reader, first time poster (god how many times have you heard that????). Anyway, can someone explain to me why COMICS.COM runs old versions of “One Big Happy” while the rest of the world gets the new ones? I always see the new ones here, but never on the syndicates website…..What the heck????
October 5th, 2006 at 8:50 pm
#13: Trapper, it’s stuff like that (”OBH Classics” my Aunt Fanny!) as well as their linking to bloated, slow-loading strip-sites like Dilbert.com and the blinking FOOB site, that drove me away from Comics.com and over to the Houston Chronicle site. A comics page that’s actually better than the Wash. Post funnies!
October 5th, 2006 at 8:53 pm
Josh got it all wrong about Molly – Molly is creating a diversion so that Mark Trial can reload the tree branch to hit old “Chicken-Kicker” in the nose/head (or I can only hope).
October 5th, 2006 at 8:53 pm
NO NO NO NO NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!
http://myspace.com/luannandfriends
October 5th, 2006 at 9:04 pm
#16- I can’t imagine a girl like Luann watching shows like “CSI” and “Desperate Housewives”. DH isn’t exactly a teenager show, is it? I wouldn’t know, I’m not a teenager and I haven’t seen an episode in my life.
October 5th, 2006 at 9:04 pm
What the hell happened to Aaron Hill? I got five years of mooning over the dope and he’s just gone?
As for the myspace page…Delta wants to meet Condi Rice? Didn’t picture Luann and friends going for the Bushies. And no one who calls himself “MacDaddy” should posting to the luann myspace page.
October 5th, 2006 at 9:11 pm
My problem with the HOUSTON CHRONICLE website is that its pages can take a long time to download, thanks to the ad links.
Marmaduke: He’s becoming the Aldo Kelrast of the canine world.
One Big Happy: Come to think of it, the girl in that strip looks like the reincarnation of Little Annie Rooney. (She was Little Orphan Annie’s second-rate imitation, who said “Gloriosky!” instead of “Leapin’ Lizards!” and whose dog was called Zero instead of Sandy.)
October 5th, 2006 at 9:17 pm
I’m a Plugger. I don’t need any fancy computers or cell phones or designer clothes or i-pods or microwave ovens or gym memberships or Netflix or YouTube or Starbucks or reality shows or earthquake preparedness kits or stem cell research or low-impact aeobics or creme brulee or digital cameras or time shares or teeth whitening kits or Doppler radar or hybrid cars or book clubs or plasma TVs or Magnetic Resonance Imaging or low-carb diets or home shopping networks or titanium drivers or Dr. McDreamy or life coaches or aroma therapy or…wait, what the hell was my point?
October 5th, 2006 at 9:19 pm
#16: “plumberninja says:
October 5th, 2006 at 8:53 pm
NO NO NO NO NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!
http://myspace.com/luannandfriends”
I tried to look at the site, but kept getting a message reading “You must be logged in to do that.” Now I’m trying to figure out which of the thirty-two punchlines that sprang immediately to my mind I ought to post here.
October 5th, 2006 at 9:22 pm
Crap, Ruthie – don’t you realize that you’re already a cartoon – which means that you’re already DEAD!!! Jeeze, girl – didn’t you see the Sixth Sense??
October 5th, 2006 at 9:25 pm
Josh – You observed Molly french kissing Buck, french kissing an adolescent moose, running with excitement TOWARD the barking of furious dogs, and, apparently, humping Andy. And you’re only now realizing she’s a lover, not a fighter?
October 5th, 2006 at 9:26 pm
Being a Plugger means never having to say, “Damn, I used all the soap.”
October 5th, 2006 at 9:31 pm
#18: Aaron Hill moved to Hawai’i a while back. Luann had a farewell date (and kiss) with him, then he left. Later, she won a contest or something, the prize being a trip to Hawai’i. So of course she dropped in on him…to find him with a beautiful Polynesian girl. Luann slunk away and that was the end of that.
(From memory. By all means make corrections or fill in blanks as necessary.)
October 5th, 2006 at 9:35 pm
#18: When Greg Evans decided he couldn’t get away with making Aaron gay, he made him dull(er) and sort of dense, then shipped him off to
Comics Limbo with LymanHawaii.October 5th, 2006 at 9:38 pm
“Hitler is a big fan of Nicole Kidman.”
Goddamn it, make the laughing stop. I’m practically crying here.
October 5th, 2006 at 9:45 pm
MT – Love how Molly’s trick has Hoyt scratching his head in perplexity. He’s utterly baffled. That doesn’t mean he won’t take a shot at her, though! Remember, he has facial hair, aka the Sign of Evil in Mark Trail.
October 5th, 2006 at 9:50 pm
In the last panel of Mary Worth today, her hand placement on her face made it look like she was ready to pull off her face as if it were a MW mask. Could it really be Aldo underneath there??? One can only hope….
October 5th, 2006 at 9:56 pm
My grandmother used to say that all of the ills of the world could be washed away with an enema. In the past few weeks of Mary Worth, Mark Trail, and FOOBville, we would need a county full of water towers to rid us of all the crap that’s been building up.
The only good thing I can say is that Molly the Bear is a much better dancer than Sara Evans. Wait, am I confusing my message boards?
October 5th, 2006 at 10:03 pm
i’ll let you guys in on a little secret… i work in the same building as mr. pluggers, and if you fine curmudgeon fans are real nice, i’ll collect your questions and have them answered by the man himself… once i get up the nerve to actually approach him that is.
while i’m not afraid to ask him some hard questions, i won’t ask him anything disrespectful (seeing as how i have to work there and all). so, email your questions to me at tod@youngamericancomics.com and i’ll pick my favorite ten and ask him sometime in the near future, (once i’ve been around long enough to arrange a meeting with him) and report back.
October 5th, 2006 at 10:05 pm
Dingo, I’m sure your grandmother was a woman of great
colonic hygienewisdom.October 5th, 2006 at 10:23 pm
I’d do a handstand too if it meant I wouldn’t get shot in the head because of an innocent misunderstanding.
October 5th, 2006 at 10:48 pm
Is, Fred P. Is. She’s 88 years young. No matter what time of day you stop at her house, the kitchen always smells of vinegar and bacon. She’s the antithesis of Mary Worth. Judgmental? Yes. But if she had people standing around her house talking about Aldo’s death, she’d be asking how much liquor was left in that bottle. No need to waste it, even if it was on sale!
October 5th, 2006 at 10:49 pm
TB Tabby, if only Mary Jo Buttafuoco had known that piece of wisdom!
October 5th, 2006 at 10:50 pm
Scooterboy: Why are all the Pluggers morbidly obese? Do Pluggers sue McDonald’s for plying them with fattening, unhealthy food? Why no gay Pluggers? (they won’t wear the clothes, I bet).
October 5th, 2006 at 10:58 pm
#5 and #7 are neck-and-neck in my personal COTW sweepstakes, their closing lines in particular. “Aldos Huxley” is a great name as well.
Forgot to say yesterday: love Marion Delgado’s “go hit on your sister” tee…but I’m guessing the reason Josh’s shirts never reproduce the actual cartoon is copyright issues. Still, “I’m married – go hit on your sister” is a winning phrase all by itself and eminently t-shirtable.
October 5th, 2006 at 11:15 pm
Wow. I am in awe. The “Melissa Jordan” who submitted the Pluggers gem? I know her. I went to middle/high school with her.
The girl is 21, a senior in college. She is a Plugger?
I am really confused now. For some reason, I was under the impression that older folks mainly submitted/enjoyed Pluggers. I mean, Melissa is definitely a highly conservative Georgia girl (and a giant bitch to boot–is that libel?), but a Plugger? Really?
And I am so confident that Plugger Melissa is the Melissa I am talking about, I will email her and ask her for sure. Though I don’t expect a response. She’s friendly like that.
October 5th, 2006 at 11:16 pm
Sent this to Pastis of “PBS” fame..
Hello:
Was in San Diego for a week. Read your strip in LA. Times. Saw it Mon. 10/2 in San Diego Union-Tribune. It was different from the Times Mon -Thursday.. I got home tonight went on Comics.Com & the Times had same as Comics.com..
The strips looked new to me..Today had Rat smacking Zebra on head with the “Mallet O’ Understanding”..
I’m confused as usual. What up??
Thanks, Awfulart
October 5th, 2006 at 11:26 pm
I like how Hoyt feels the need to holler “Are you nuts?” and only then sheepishly mutters, “…I saw it mauling an old man.” Come on, Trail, I got a shotgun and I’m itchin’ to use it!
P.S. What’s with the tiny silhouetted chick in the middle “Spider-Man” panel? I think it’s a cameo appearance by the woman stomped by T-Rex in every “Dinosaur Comics.”
October 5th, 2006 at 11:28 pm
We used to have a neighbor named Miss May. She was 90 or so and used to entertain us by drinking whiskey straight up out of a coffee cup. She must of been a Plugger. The Charterstone Mafia had an intervention for her. She started drinking tied up in the trunk of a car, drove it off a cliff, and of course it was all her fault. Well, actually that didn’t happen, but she did drink vast quantities of whiskey.
And it was entertaining.
October 5th, 2006 at 11:29 pm
Pluggers are apparently too stupid to know how to thread a needle. You can see she hasn’t wet the thread to keep it from fraying, and she’s holding it was too far away.
October 5th, 2006 at 11:29 pm
I meant way too far from the end of the thread.
October 5th, 2006 at 11:30 pm
Molly is a coward who would rather humiliate herself than fight.
Yeah, me too.
October 5th, 2006 at 11:31 pm
To Josh: Sir, you are speaking of the bear I love.
October 5th, 2006 at 11:52 pm
I read recent Luann comics, and now Luann has her own MySpace page (God help us, ‘toons have breached the internet world!). I’m confused about something… Luann could not possibly reside in Alabama or California. It must be Pittsville Wisconsin, right?
October 5th, 2006 at 11:52 pm
As long as you all promise to focus on the Daddy Foob molested Lizz and April main plot, I will reveal the denouement of Grampaw Foob’s stroke. Because she dithered around like an idiot so long that GF became a vegetable, when they finally put the pillow over his face, Iris’s plot gets only ONE THIRD of his ashes. His previous wife’s plot gets the other TWO thirds. I think Lynn understands the Pattersons – deep down they’re stern but fair.
October 5th, 2006 at 11:54 pm
#5 – Yours is a most excellent comment; possibly the truest thing that’s ever been said about Gil Thorpe.
October 5th, 2006 at 11:54 pm
Aaron Hill’s new girlfriend is Chinese, I think. At least, there’s one panel where the two of them are speaking in Chinese (written in characters, no less). He’s apologizing to her — the girlfriend, that is: He says “Dui bu qi” (”I’m sorry,” for the incredibly awkward intrusion of Luann, presumably,) and she says “Mei wen ti” = “no problem.” Eventually, and no doubt to their intense relief, Luann goes away.
October 6th, 2006 at 12:00 am
The Catch Phrase of this month of 2006:
“Who do I look like, a dick, Tracy?”
October 6th, 2006 at 12:10 am
The little girl walking Marmaduke really was the ghost of Kim “Sonic Youth” Gordon.
October 6th, 2006 at 12:29 am
A3G: The last two days of this strip read like a storyboard for “Nancy Drew: The Case of the Dippy Dilettante.”
MT: So Molly’s visiting her owner in the hospital? If Mark Trail had any sense of humor he’d wrap her leg up in a bandage and tell the hospital staff, “She wants to find the man who shot her paw.” Thanks folks, I’ll be here all week.
(DT)GT: Is this strip set in the early 70s? These players look like Greg Brady’s teammates. Groovy!
MW: Well, it looks like this story line is getting wrapped up in a nice neat package. But why does it look like Mary’s wearing a rat tail in her hair? She going sk8ter-boi on us?
JP: What’s with Raju’s evil look in that panel? I’m beginning to think he’s not from India at all, and this is all some elaborate frat prank at the Dorkichusetts Institute of Technology.
October 6th, 2006 at 12:38 am
Oh how lovely that Shannon is the only person to treat April with any sort of sensitivity whatsoever. Maybe next week she can go to the hospital and she and Iris can stare at Granpa and wonder back and forth to each other if he’s still in there.
October 6th, 2006 at 12:44 am
Wait, so if Aldo was a ghost, can he really have died? Or maybe, a la Fade Resistant, ghosts actually go back to the living world if they die. Meaning that we now have the zombie of Captain Kangaroo to contend with. Curse you, Charterstone meddlers!
October 6th, 2006 at 12:50 am
In my dreams at night, I open the paper and Zombie Aldo bursts forth from his casket, with his beloved “Johnnie” in hand, and proceeds to eat Mary’s and Toby’s brain and then the Professor’s chin and beard. But my guess is that in real life it will be a scene with much crying and pontificating about the “evils” of liquor and hugging your eyes when you’re driving.
October 6th, 2006 at 1:02 am
#31 – I would like to know the difference, scientifically, between a Plugger and a Plugger’s pet.
Also, ask him if Pluggers can marry non-Pluggers, and if this is frowned upon in Pluggerland. I’m thinking of course of the depressed kangaroo mom here.
October 6th, 2006 at 1:03 am
MT — Molly is going into a HOSPITAL?! Oh wait, it’s Jack Elrod’s fantasy, so no need to worry. Have a good time, Molly! Stop in at the Emerald City Beauty Spa before you visit Buck, and give my regards to the Cowardly Lion!
MW — Oh boy, we’re going to the funeral! We’re going to the funeral! I’m so excited I can hardly stand it.
JP — For cryin’ out loud, what’s with Raju? He looks like the Grinch watching GIRLS GONE WILD.
Stone Soup — I’ve always found Joan mildly annoying, and now I have a feeling she’ll be joining her horrid little son on my Boulder List by the end of the year.
October 6th, 2006 at 1:10 am
Are there really women in NYC (or wherever A3G takes place) who routinely carry around a flashlight? Or did she arrange a meeting with a caveat: “Yeah, it’s the apartments at 123 Fake street. Bring a flashlight, cause the lights are out in the stairway. Our super sucks.”
October 6th, 2006 at 1:23 am
As I suspected, Friday’s Mary Worth shows that Wilbur is in fact desperate to get out of there — just look at how he’s lunging for that door knob at the first sign that the conversation is breaking up. I wonder what Mary Worth would like from his point of view, or with his running commentary in thought bubbles.
Also, Camel-toe Toby has changed pants. Or they’re mood pants — which have turned from guilt-ridden purple to sheepish and cowed white. Apparently the top is just naturally that color.
Frankly, by the time they get to the funeral, I think they’ll be lecturing Aldo’s casket about how awful he was to burden them with his fagile state of mind and the inconvenience of being conceivably resonponsible. I suspect the gang of three will be yelling in unison again something along the line sof “You’re dead and it’s your fault!” Which, at least will give Wilbur a chance to say something.
October 6th, 2006 at 1:26 am
One Big Happy: Grandpa looks resigned in the last panel because he realizes he can no longer put off telling Ruthie that, as a matter of fact, they are all dead and did come back as cartoons. Or maybe he’s just thinking, damn, my grand-daughter is a moron.
You know you’re a plugger when you never see anything funny about Mark Trail.
October 6th, 2006 at 1:28 am
10/6:
MW: These people dare to attend Aldo’s funeral? Future strip, after Mary and the men are bodily tossed off the property….
Hal Kane: “Good riddance to bad rubbish! Toby, you were the only one who felt any genuine sympathy. I’d like to thank you for your kindness.”
Toby: ” It was my privilege, Hal.”
Hal: “I just wish I knew which of those vultures started the whole incompetent and badly concieved so-called ‘intervention’ in the first place!”
Toby: “Well…. I did, Ha—”
(Hal and others grab her and hurl her out with an angry shove)
October 6th, 2006 at 1:32 am
And, Hey! Peter Parker! Get your arm off Stormy Hicks! She’s mine!
October 6th, 2006 at 1:36 am
#3 — Even creepier for Ms. Kidman, should she read this particular comic.
October 6th, 2006 at 1:49 am
More Friday:
Garfield: Hey, cat, that’s hitting too close to home there, pal! (….did I type that out loud?)
FC: (rimshot!)
FOOB: That’s because Shannon’s a bigger saint than the Pattersons. And more noble than the Mtigpatronizingcliche.
BBailey: Nice sentiment, but it hardly did much to stop genocidal maniacs, nor the current religious fanatics hell bent on killing the infidels.
(DT)GT: …and Death to “What the heck?” and it’s squeezed-in serial contrivance.
SF: “Basketball slingshot”?? Jeez, “Extreme Makeover: Home Edition” could use those two for their demolition segments!
October 6th, 2006 at 1:56 am
i saw hitler (whats his real name? jameson?) as having ADD than just an obssession with celebrities. he’s all like “where are the freaking photos look its Nicole kidman omg lets go ride our bicycles!!!!!” his eyes are bulging so wide they’re symptomatic of a seizure/aneurysm/stroke/heart attack .
plus i don’t remember mj shedding 30 pounds and getting breast implants. when did she suddenly get hot?
October 6th, 2006 at 2:02 am
Above:
Marmaduke: …but it does make her a FOOB.
Pluggers: A plugger woman looks like Dennis Hastert.
S-M: And I thought the Osama/Whitney Houston thing was weird!
OBH: The “Hey, Vern” guy is dead? I thought this strip took place before he even got famous. The OBH time frame would lead to this commentary: “I dunno about our current president. Besides this Iraq mess (which he did so much better in Desert Storm), he screwed up Korea and Vietnam, too. And he did so well in World War II last week, too! Oh, well, let’s just listen to that great radio serial, Knots Landing…”
October 6th, 2006 at 3:12 am
#58: Yes, we do.
There’s been a lot of power outages this past summer, and in Manhattan proper there are some really old buildings with some problems. For example, I used to live in a prewar building in the East Village. Then one year, we got the gas cut off for safety reasons.
At which point I found out that the war the building predated was the Spanish-American war.
Going back to the original point, I always keep a flashlight and a knife in my bag around NYC.
October 6th, 2006 at 3:50 am
@ Scooterboy:
I like to know if there is a difference between a plugger and another animal on the strip
October 6th, 2006 at 4:26 am
#58: I’m assuming it’s a large metal flashlight filled with heavy D batteries; perfect for both lighting things up and putting out someone’s lights.
This Spiderman comic shows that J. Jonah Jameson, the order barking tyrant of the Daily Bugle, is really more like that nerdy kid who followed you around on the playground and thought you were his friend because you were the only person in the class who didn’t give him swirlies or use his backpack as a kickball.
October 6th, 2006 at 4:48 am
Gil Thorp–This is a “skull session?” “Trust your talent and your teammates?”
How about, “Git your ass out onto the practice field and throw about 500 passes. And quit throwing into coverage, you moron. We do have a backup quarterback, you know. Get a haircut and lose that stupid Cheerios shirt.”
You can’t coddle these boys. Football is supposed to make them manly men. Of course, there are the keen observations of Mr. Paratestes in his post #5. . .
October 6th, 2006 at 4:53 am
Oh man, I was really hoping for a big comics crossover to tie up all the loose ends. Aldo Kelrast’s flaming car plumments off the cliff road to land directly on the evil bear-threatening Hoyt in Mark Trail. Nonplussed by the explosion, Mark pulls the injured Aldo out of the burning wreck, ignoring his babbling about the woman he loves. As Aldo goes into shock and dies a quiet death, Mark Trail notices the shattered bottle of Johnnie Walker, and then spends an entire Sunday strip reflecting on the many uses and varieties of barley (and if you want to know more, look on the internet!)
I guess the dementia of these soap comics is getting to me. They build and build to some epic development, but then the characters slowly forget what they were doing and wander off to the next vague storyline.
October 6th, 2006 at 5:06 am
http://img172.imageshack.us/img172/3954/test2ya9.gif
It sees into your soul
October 6th, 2006 at 5:12 am
Ah! Ignore that last post. I made it better:
Now it not only sees your soul, it knows what scares you.
http://img88.imageshack.us/img88/25/test3my5.gif
October 6th, 2006 at 6:20 am
MW: Hal Kane… Hal Kane….
Ale Khan?
October 6th, 2006 at 6:28 am
10-06 TDIET
When it’s a restaurant that serves $7.95 dinners, the waiter’s spiffed up in jacket and tie.
When the menu has some real hi-falutin’ grub on it, the Sunday best is nowhere to be found!
* the urge to give that customer the take-out, like, for real *
Oh, yeah!
October 6th, 2006 at 6:52 am
MW: Huzzah! They’re going to Aldo’s funeral! Hooray! I wonder if they’ll all stand in a row beside the casket and tell Aldo what a loser he was for drinking so much.
MT: What’s this? Just, “oh, never mind.” Hoyt is the Emily Litella of villians.
October 6th, 2006 at 7:06 am
MT: Damn, Mark. Hoyt apologized. You don’t have to be a giant dick about it. Maybe Hoyt needs to have a Dick Cheney type “accident” and blow Mark’s face off.
MW: Too bad at this rate the funeral will be around Feb ‘07. In the last panel of today’s strip, does Mary have some sort of rat tail? What decade is this?!?
October 6th, 2006 at 7:36 am
Quoted from the book of St. Elly:
“And ye a retard shall speak the words that will affirm the Saintly.”
Maybe Mike can write a story about Shhhh ….. Shhhhhh….. Shhhhhhhhanoooooon. A writer with his depth and sensitivity could really do well with a story like that.
Sigh.
October 6th, 2006 at 7:39 am
Molly is a coward who would rather humiliate herself than fight.
Molly is a liberal. Help stop liberal bears at http://www.godhatescowardlyliberalbears.org
October 6th, 2006 at 7:46 am
With a new character, the anagram game begins anew. The best ones I could get for HAL KANE were:
ANKLE HA
HANK ALE
AH AN ELK
They all spell T-R-O-U-B-L-E.
October 6th, 2006 at 8:08 am
Spidey: A nobody like Mary Jane Parker has to wear a wig in case someone may recognize her and she’d be hounded by paparazzi. An Oscar totin’ Nicole Kidman, however, draws response only from cigar-smoking, Hitler-looking out-of-towners.
October 6th, 2006 at 8:17 am
Any bets on what surprises Ted Pearse of Gil Thorp?
1) A mirror.
2) A calendar, and the realization that no one has dressed that way since 1973.
3) The realization that he accidentally walked into the men’s locker room, instead of the other one.
4) Gil standing naked, asking if Ted would like to come out for some ice cream later.
October 6th, 2006 at 8:21 am
Foxtrot–Spending a week with an iguana on your head is not a good idea. Jason Fox is going to get a bad case of salmonella. And possibly parasites. Which, I guess, is no more than the little gink deserves.
FOOB–I’m starting to believe that Shannon is April’s imaginary friend who only shows up when Apes needs to feel better. That might explain why April never bothers to thank her, or let her know she’s appreciated, or asks her about her life.
A3G–Did I miss something? What the heck is the dumb blonde up to now?
MT–What?! No Hitting? “It’s a good thing I’m a bad shot? Are mark and the chickenkicker friends now? I want my patented Mark Trail fists of justice, and I want them right now.
MW–And if I were Hal Kane, I’d consider your request very seriously. And then I’d kick you both in your cameltoes.
October 6th, 2006 at 8:30 am
Poteet’s response to Josh’s hostility toward Molly, “Sir, You are speaking of the bear I love”, made me think about the Tower of London. Catholic prisoners held there under Henry VIII carved lyrical poetry and prose into the walls as tribute to their families and faith. There isn’t any, “The King sucks donkey dick” or “Henry VIII can kiss my arse” to be found.
.
It’s a level of graciousness I don’t have. My first thought today was “Hey! Back off the bear, vacation boy!!!”
October 6th, 2006 at 8:37 am
Notice how Wally starts running for the door as soon as Mary suggests attending any planned services for Aldo. He’s probably already received his first letter:
“Dear Wendy,
I know what you did last intervention.”
October 6th, 2006 at 8:48 am
Here’s a question for the “Mr. Pluggers.” Do you light and heat your studio using electricity generated by the rapidly spinning corpse of Jeff MacNally?
October 6th, 2006 at 8:52 am
#83: “‘It’s a good thing I’m a bad shot? …’…I want my patented Mark Trail fists of justice, and I want them right now.”
I read that line (”It’s a good think I’m a bad shot”) and immediately wanted to get a T-shirt with that on the back … combined with “I’m with Stupid” on the front, or one of those paired T-Shirts that couples wear to balloon festivals and walk-a-thons.
October 6th, 2006 at 8:59 am
So, I’m lounging in my trailer park pajamas this morning (baggy shorts with no underwear) reading the comics when I noticed a particular shout-out to this site. Could Garry Trudeau be a curmudgeonista? Months ago, writers commented on Mary Worth’s microbe-encrusted sweater. Lo! Today’s Doonesbury.
October 6th, 2006 at 9:28 am
#84 — Thank you, Summerhouse. What a kind, educational comment. And yet I laughed so hard that my cat left the room.
October 6th, 2006 at 9:29 am
“Shannon is the only one to make me feel better…imagine, a goddam ellipses-sputtering lumpy dimbulb being able to help, when all my other non-retard friends only care about themselves or inadvertently being mean.”
I wonder if Grampa Chinballs (and Aldo) will wind up in monk robes, rope belt and sandals, spooking everyone in the Family Circus? It would make sense for Halloween…
October 6th, 2006 at 9:31 am
Dingo, I love your grandmother. Can I come over for dinner?
October 6th, 2006 at 9:42 am
Mary Worth / Pluggers:
You know you’re a Plugger if Johnny Walker picks up the tab for your funeral.
Hey all:
How about this. The Charterstone cabal shows up for Aldo’s funeral, and being an open casket, get to see him in all his dead glory…..wait for it….wearing an Aldomania t-shirt!
October 6th, 2006 at 9:44 am
Ballard street: From the position of her hands, looks like she’s deriving pleasure from somewhere other than her mind!
October 6th, 2006 at 9:45 am
Hey kids, just remember if you are writing a story and you need someone noble, cast an aboriginal character and if you need someone who speaks the truth and has no emotions or needs or anything, cast a retard. They make you feel good and you don’t have to return the favor.
October 6th, 2006 at 9:46 am
MW Anagram madness
Hal Kane = A Klan He or Hank Ale
October 6th, 2006 at 9:49 am
With the “naysayers” present, Aldo’s funeral promises to be a jolly affair.
“Excuse me, you people were the last ones to see our dear Aldo alive. Please tell me, what was his last night on earth like?” “Well, let’s see…we tricked him into entering Mary’s apartment, formed a circle around him to prevent him from leaving, confronted him with dessicated cameltoes and hideous man-guts, then berated, humiliated and embarrassed him, pointing and chanting until he ran away, crying like a little girl. I hope that eases your pain.”
“Were there any last words?” “Well, the last words that we heard were a bitter, self-loathing ‘Goodbye, Mary Worth’, but I suspect his real last words were something along the lines of “Oh, no!!!!!!”
October 6th, 2006 at 9:50 am
Just… a… foob… that… is… so… mean… of… you… to … think… that… all… retards… speak… the… truth… some… times… I… lie…to…April…just…to…make…her…feel…good. Like…when…you…let…someone…pet…your…dog….and… you… don’t… tell… them… about… the… worms… or… rabies.
October 6th, 2006 at 9:58 am
Hal Kane also translates to “Anal Hek.” Oh, Mary! Oh, Toby! What might you have gotten into now?
October 6th, 2006 at 10:00 am
Hilary Forth is QB Ted Pearse! You read it here first.
TDIET: Today I eschew comments on all my faves, but I must take issue with J. Monohan of New Orleans, Louisiana for his particularly egregious submission. (I also think I know him and he’s a moron). Coming from any other city that might make some sense. Wait. No, no it still wouldn’t. Why would any busy waitress be angry when he orders a burger? It’s an easy order! The chef should be pissed if anyone is. This is one town where chefs are like rock stars.
October 6th, 2006 at 10:04 am
TDIET: Why does a restaurant that is supposed to be really fancy and upscale have a freaking bottle of ketchup on the table? Whyzat? Huh? It makes his request for a ‘burger ‘n’ fries’ seem rather reasonable. Oh yeah!
October 6th, 2006 at 10:08 am
Phantom is awesome. “A bandit? A pirate?”
No, pal. Talk Like a Pirate Day was last week. This is Wear Purple Spandex Day. Thanks for asking.
#36, there ARE gay pluggers. One plugger couple featured sometimes is clearly a boy dog (check under the tail) married to a rooster. Obviously, a same sex (though not same species, natch) committed couple
October 6th, 2006 at 10:08 am
It’s probably too verbose, but I like today’s Foxtrot for a T-shirt…”You look like a young man in need of tutelage in the amorous arts.” Now that’s so much classier than the “one in the pink and three in the stink” shirt offered on the ‘T-shirt Hell’ website.
October 6th, 2006 at 10:12 am
Here’s a question for the “Mr. Pluggers.†Do you light and heat your studio using electricity generated by the rapidly spinning corpse of Jeff MacNally?
Huh, I didn’t know Pluggers was originally a Jeff MacNelly cartoon (never saw it before checking out this site.)
And, interestingly, the Pluggers people don’t seem to be aware that MacNelly has been dead for six years:
http://www.pluggers.com/chief/faq.html
As far as I can tell, this FAQ hasn’t been updated since 1997. Well, I guess Pluggers by definition can’t surf the Intarweb.
October 6th, 2006 at 10:18 am
Saw an article by a Muslim Imam (phrase copyrighted by the Department of Redundancy Department) that tells the faithful that masturbation during Ramadan is forbidden. However, it’s ok if you “masturbate accidently.” WTF? Accidently?
October 6th, 2006 at 10:18 am
Friday’s MT: so Hoyt collapses like a cheap suit. What a lame ending! I really needed some more drama, or maybe some chicken-kicking. And Molly’s going to visit the old guy at the hospital? Good luck getting her in, Mark– with no collar, there’s nowhere to clip the visitor’s badge.
October 6th, 2006 at 10:43 am
Dadzilla, you have to think of accidental masturbation in the same way that you consider an intervention. Is that my hand? What am I doing? Why am I tugging on myself? Is that supposed to feel good? Why am I suddenly thinking about chicken kicking? Is this masturbation or could I have gotten poison oak on my crotch? What’s that feeling inside of me? Is my cock gonna vomit? Oh my God, my cock just vomitted! Or… maybe… I just masturbated.
What’s the difference between Ian Cameron and Mark Foley? The size of their waists and the age of their victims.
October 6th, 2006 at 10:44 am
Crossover alert: Cathy and Bizarro go after casual friday -
http://www.chron.com/apps/comics/showComic.mpl?date=2006/10/6&name=Cathy
http://www.chron.com/apps/comics/showComick.mpl?date=20061006&name=Bizarro
Please stop.
October 6th, 2006 at 10:45 am
Jeff MacNelly was great. When I was a student at UNC (his alma mater) in 1977, he came and gave a talk, drawing cartoons on an overhead projector. Apparently Pluggers wasn’t originally his idea, but he did the illustrations for it for the first four years.
October 6th, 2006 at 10:47 am
I think accidental masturbation often coincides with camel toe..
October 6th, 2006 at 10:52 am
Hey, Grundoon, #107. It’s Repulse and Frighten Your Coworkers Day at my office too! Hmm, it has nothing to do with our clothes, however.
October 6th, 2006 at 10:57 am
At Aldo’s funeral, you just know the casket is going to veer off drunkenly and go cliff-driving.
October 6th, 2006 at 11:15 am
I kind of hope that in her grief, Toby goes on a burrito binge and gets as tubby as Dawn Weston before her amazing transformation back in ‘95 or ‘96 – which is when I first got hooked on MW.
October 6th, 2006 at 11:16 am
If Hal is a nickname for Harold, and by gosh, I think it is, then “HAROLD KANE” is an anagram for “Harken, Aldo.”
As in “Listen up, you big drunken dope. Leave Mary alone, and stay away from the giggle juice.”
But did he listen? Oh, hell no.
October 6th, 2006 at 11:18 am
As far as accidental masturbation is concerned, the way I figure it, it’s my shower, my washcloth, my soap, and I can wash myself as fast as I want to.
October 6th, 2006 at 11:30 am
I prefer to think
Hal Kane = Ale Khan
October 6th, 2006 at 11:38 am
that Hal Kane is “a relative” of Aldo. So… uncle? Cousin? Why so vague, Mary? Or is it just tact, because she didn’t want to say “next of kin?”
October 6th, 2006 at 11:43 am
#114 – Anthony
Whatever gives you derived pleasure in your own mind.
October 6th, 2006 at 11:48 am
MW: I think I stumbled upon it the first try. Ale Khan. He was the one who got Aldo of Happy Memory hooked on booze.
I’m waiting for the panel on Sunday where a red-faced, enranged Mary yells into a cell phone: “HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAL!!!!
October 6th, 2006 at 11:51 am
DtM’s shovel-hand is creeping me out… did he melt his fingers together playing with matches in Mr. Wilson’s garage? No wonder he can’t get anywhere with that hottie Gina!
October 6th, 2006 at 11:53 am
Am I…the only one…who finds…all those ellipses…in Shannon’s speech balloons…annoying?
October 6th, 2006 at 11:54 am
Pluggers: Rug burn on his head? Pluggers have wild, acrobatic sex anywhere in the house?
Here’s a more realistic strip for that:
Newlywed sex: sex all the time: on the kitchen table, laundry room floor, in the coat closet, everywhere
After one year: sex still fairly regularly, but only in bed
Plugger sex: whenever they pass each other in the hallway, they both mutter “Fuck you”
October 6th, 2006 at 12:08 pm
#41: “We used to have a neighbor named Miss May. She was 90 or so and used to entertain us by drinking whiskey straight up out of a coffee cup. She must of been a Plugger. The Charterstone Mafia had an intervention for her. She started drinking tied up in the trunk of a car, drove it off a cliff, and of course it was all her fault. Well, actually that didn’t happen, but she did drink vast quantities of whiskey.
And it was entertaining.”
Do you really think you’d get a taker on a picture of a six-pack labeled “Plugger anti-depressant”?
#59: “I think they’ll be lecturing Aldo’s casket about how awful he was to burden them with his fagile state of mind ”
You don’t mean faygellah, do you? That brings a whole new dimension to it!
#64: “Shannon’s a bigger saint than the Pattersons. And more noble than the Mtigpatronizingcliche.”
But they‘re sensitive, you see. And the whole purpose of FOOB is to make us all sensitive. Notice, though, that the sensitive are always demonstrably inferior to ourselves — in terms of poverty, or handicaps, or masculinity, or whatever . . . which makes them more malleable . . . which makes them easier to control . . .
Ah, FOOB, thy name is Clintonian liberalism . . . !
#99: “Why would any busy waitress be angry when he orders a burger? It’s an easy order! The chef should be pissed if anyone is.”
That very thing did happen with folksy ol’ Jimmy Carter at a summit or somesuch of world leaders, and the chef went apoplectic!
(Hm. Should I say something derogatory of President Bu — sh — for balance?)
October 6th, 2006 at 12:15 pm
FW: Since this is Winkerbean, the judge will get trichinosis, and it will be painful. Also, call me crazy, but those two chefs look either high as kites, or in love. Who knows…
JP: You’re a mean one, Mr. Raju, you’re the king of sinful thoughts! You’ve got girlies in the car and transgressions in your mind, Mr. Raju…..if I had to pick between you and being trapped for eternity in a call support center in Pakistan…I’d take my chances with the Pakistanis!
MW: Yes, Wilbur is beating a fast track to the door, while Toby looks a lot like a melting Barbie doll. Oh, and her pants changed again…hmm…
RMMD: What the hell?
Spiderman: That settles it. Jonah is a meth head. Or a speed freak, or something. Whatever the case, he hasn’t been right in the head since he hit Cali. Wait…I’ve seen this before….OMG!!!! Jonah is doing the Wildly Inappropriate Margo Reaction Shot! Complete with requisite head bobble!
October 6th, 2006 at 12:27 pm
Ugh…apologies…my html sucks…I give up on the linking…….for now, anyways.
You guys get the idea, though, right?
October 6th, 2006 at 12:35 pm
Aldo/Foley alert:
On the FARK.com site, someone has been playing around with Photoshop (scroll down a while to see it)
http://forums.fark.com/cgi/fark/comments.pl?IDLink=2332899
October 6th, 2006 at 12:42 pm
A day late, but I had to point out how bizarrely close these two story lines are:
9 Chickweed Lane (it’s about a sick hereford bull, for any who doesn’t follow 9CL)
http://www.chron.com/apps/comics/showComic.mpl?date=2006/10/5&name=9_Chickweed_Lane
Pickles
http://www.comics.com/wash/pickles/archive/pickles-20061005.html
And no, neither of these makes sense to me either.
October 6th, 2006 at 12:46 pm
Aldo’s funeral:
Mary will deliver the eulogy and then do a Bible reading.
When she gets to the line about, “Dust thou art and unto dust shalt thou return,” Wilbur, Ian, and Toby will all point at the coffin and say, “You’d better!”
October 6th, 2006 at 12:47 pm
I’m confused as to why is Ruthie watching Ernest cartoons. I’m one of those nostalgic ‘child of the 80s’ types, and I wouldn’t even be caught dead watching that cartoon.
I’m also still confused about what exactly a Plugger is, but that is an ongoing thing.
October 6th, 2006 at 12:48 pm
Oh, so now Aldo has family. Why didn’t you contact them FIRST, bitch?
http://img233.imageshack.us/img233/2479/aldogy3.jpg
October 6th, 2006 at 12:53 pm
What I was trying to say was that both Jonah and whats-her-name from RMMD have the same awkward hand thing going on. Must be some sort of weekly comic thing, eh?
October 6th, 2006 at 12:57 pm
#130 – Zikar, I was just about to post the same thing.
Heather must be part T-Rex? And Wilbur has her breasts. I hope he’s hurrying over to give ‘em back.
October 6th, 2006 at 1:06 pm
Didn’t Hal Kane play Mr. Moose on the old Captain Kangaroo show?
October 6th, 2006 at 1:12 pm
Molly is displaying Rules of Cuteness #1, 2, 3 AND 6! ‘Tocks up and pawsuptitude!
(blog crossover mania 2006)
October 6th, 2006 at 1:17 pm
A Plugger is too stupid to know when to just lie down and die.
October 6th, 2006 at 1:17 pm
Two RMMD notes: First, if there was any doubt as to Rex’s incredible gayness, panel two of today’s strip removes all doubt.
Second: I happen to have seen Sunday’s RMMD, and I can tell all you faithful Curmudgeonites there is a character there who puts salami-wieding mama to shame. You will be in awe.
October 6th, 2006 at 1:18 pm
Conversation I’d Like To See
Hal: My name is Hal Kane, you killed my Aldo, prepare to die!
Mary: No, I can give you anything you want!
Hal: Promise me money!
Mary: All that I have!
Hal: Promise me power too!
Mary: Yes, yes!
Hal: Promise me anything I wish!
Mary: All that and more!
Hal: (stabs Mary with broken bottle of Johnny) Give me back my Aldo, you son of a bitch!
I know it’s a ripoff…but I still think it’d be cool.
October 6th, 2006 at 1:18 pm
MW: Perhaps the murder-by-proxy of his cousin was Hal Kane’s truimph of the mundane.
MT: Is it not possible that a trained bear can be trained & ordered to attack on command just as easily as for it to be trained to stand on its front paws?
Git yer dawgs offa Mark Trail’s lawn, ya young punk!
October 6th, 2006 at 1:24 pm
My heart be still, Fence Post Frank is going to show up and expect dinner (a salami sammich) from his ex.
Then he is expecting to play hide the salami with his ex.
BARK! BARK! BARK!
October 6th, 2006 at 1:39 pm
Re: Spider Man.
Kee-ripes, and JJ isn’t just any ol’ Hitler, he’s like raving coked-up Hitler with a boner.
October 6th, 2006 at 1:45 pm
If Mary and CamelToby go to Aldo’s funeral, I hope Mary reads from Shakespeare’s ‘King Henry IV’:
“Thou art so fat-witted, with drinking of old sack and unbuttoning thee after supper and sleeping upon benches after noon, that thou hast forgotten to demand that truly which thou wouldst truly know. What a devil hast thou to do with the time of the day? Unless hours were cups of sack and minutes capons and clocks the tongues of bawds and dials the signs of leaping-houses and the blessed sun himself a fair hot wench in flame-coloured taffeta, I see no reason why thou shouldst be so superfluous to demand the time of the day.” That would rock everyone’s day!
October 6th, 2006 at 1:48 pm
RMMD: Get out of the way, Rex, so we can see Heather goosing June. June looks like she’s used to such playfullness.
October 6th, 2006 at 2:03 pm
Wow, the people in Hi&Lois-Land are much cooler than I’d ever given them credit for (except the SM-stuff). Chip’s friend (does he have a name?) seems to be member of a Turbojugend. Rock against ass!
October 6th, 2006 at 2:11 pm
Today’s Hi & Lois also has a backwards-walking girl, like Betty from “Archie” was doing a couple of days ago.
Speaking of Archie, why is it that the hot chicks from Archie have better bewbs than other high school comic strip girls? I think Raju is working the wrong cartoon.
October 6th, 2006 at 2:15 pm
Is it my imagination or is blondie wearing a see-through skirt today?
October 6th, 2006 at 2:36 pm
Isn’t Hal Kane secretly the Green Lantern? Oh, no. That was Hal Jordan, drawn by Gil Kane. Coincidence, I’m sure. But if that guy turns out to have a funky ring…Mary Worth and company had better watch out.
October 6th, 2006 at 2:44 pm
Didn’t Congress try to pass a bill dealing with accidental masturbation? If I am not mistaken is was sponsered by Rep Foley (R, Fla).
It was a unique bill because it had a lot of bent over and stained pages.
October 6th, 2006 at 2:45 pm
At least one judge in Funky Stinkerbean is ready to tell the emperor that he’s got no clothes on. Wouldn’t the crust be like, just dough? How do you eat pizza if the crust is … oh never mind, this is Funky.
October 6th, 2006 at 2:50 pm
Blondie’s skirt isn’t see-through. She just has a terminally bad case of static cling.
Otherwise the perfect housewife, Blondie has apparently not yet discovered Bounce. Either that, or she paints on her clothes.
October 6th, 2006 at 2:57 pm
At what point was an old man mauled by a bear in this episode? Perhaps Hoyt saw this incident outside of Lost Forest. Wild and pet bears in Lost Forest are harmless, even those with ass arrows. The “wild” ones may growl a little but will run off like frightened little girls once you whack them in the head with a branch or 2×4. Even if they do take a playful swipe at you, it doesn’t hurt and you can get right back up as if nothing happened. I can forgive an uneducated chicken kickin’ evil lowlife loser like Hoyt for confusing a dwarf pet bear for a full sized grizzly, but an accomplished outdoorsman who writes for the world renowned Woods and Wildlife Magazine like Mark Trail should have known better.
October 6th, 2006 at 3:05 pm
112. Allie Cat:
I actually emailed Saunders at tellmary@aol.com way back then and asked how Dawn had changed from Wilbur Weston’s Velma-like pudgy little daughter into Charterstone poolside diva overnight. He replied that there was egg on his face, since the artists screwed up and didn’t time the artwork with the plot.
October 6th, 2006 at 3:08 pm
If Josh could get 2fs to be photographed in the same pose as Molly (buttocks in the air and balancing on his hands), I’d buy a round of Bombay Sapphire for everyone in the room!
Hoohah!
October 6th, 2006 at 3:19 pm
#150 -MossMoses – AWESOME! You are my hero!
I will never forget Mary chiding Dawn for fixing herself a snack saying something to the effect of, “I think you’ll find that the teens here in California aren’t huge lardbutts like yourself”. It wasn’t quite that harsh, but almost!
October 6th, 2006 at 3:22 pm
MossMoses, you got a REPLY? Cuz I pointed out to tellmary.com a looooong time back that it was ludicrous for Ian to be shocked! SHOCKED! at the idea of two college kids of opposite sexes shacking up. I mean, what century does he live in? That was routine back when *I* was in college, in the mid-70s.
*I* didn’t get a reply. Now I feel hurt.
October 6th, 2006 at 3:23 pm
I meant tellmary@aol.com. (I have to type standing up because I’m at work — screening the screen from prying eyes with my bod, doncha know :-)
October 6th, 2006 at 3:24 pm
Luann and friends would love to meet Bush admin people. First of all, it’s the president! Second, their biggest worry in life is the war on drugs (although virginity is important, too). I think Condi would be happy to say, stay in school, stay off the drugs, and you, too can succeed as a black woman, like I did!
October 6th, 2006 at 3:25 pm
#149
As your instincts rightly guided you, Moss, there was no mauling.
Molly’s owner, like Aldo Kelrast, was destined to drive off a cliff to due love. Unlike Aldo, however, he wasn’t driven over the edge by unrequited love. No, rather his downfall was that his affection was returned. And returned exuberantly. And with plenty of tongue action, too. So much so, that he became little… distracted, shall we say, and forgot to continue steering the pick-up truck which he was driving at time.
The temptress?
Molly.
Hoyt (just look at that moron) has not a lot of experience which make-out sessions, and naturally assumed that Molly was shortly going to assault her owner. Kind of like the way every woman that Hoyt’s ever attempted to kiss has violently assaulted him.
October 6th, 2006 at 3:25 pm
mossmoses, hoyt saw molly trying to wake her owner. molly didn’t understand basic first aid or CPR (how many of us are in the same boat). I bet she wished she’d listened in her Paramedic Training for Bears classes!
October 6th, 2006 at 3:30 pm
The weird thing about Saunders’ email was that it was a relatively long and windy with the same bizarre syntax and vocabulary throughout as the comic strip. I could almost picture his pointed finger in my face as I read it.
Before she transformed overnight into the slim sexy goddess she is now, Dawn Weston used to annoy Professor Ian Cameron to no end, thus endearing her to me.
October 6th, 2006 at 3:38 pm
Okay, this makes sense. Hoyt lied to Mark Trail. He never actually saw a bear mauling Buck Jones. He just saw Buck Jones injured and Molly hovering nearby, not knowing what to do and frightened in this unfamiliar environment. He fabricated the “mauling” part. He must be really stupid to think this. There was a totalled pickup truck right next to Buck Jones and a crowd of people talking about the accident when he showed up.
Once more this episode sends mixed moral messages. (Does this mean the terr’ists have won?) Justice is not applied justly. If ever any evildoer was begging for a Mark Trail fist to his face, it is Hoyt. Instead Mark Trail has a pet bear do tricks for him just so Hoyt won’t shoot her and sends him off with a timid “Keep your dogs out of Lost Forest” admonition. Sam Hill got off scott free despite confeessing to conspiracy, corruption and terrorism charges. I’ll bet Mark CornFolio wishes that was his district.
October 6th, 2006 at 3:49 pm
I’m guessing Folio might actually prefer Gil Thorpe’s district.
October 6th, 2006 at 3:55 pm
I always thought the “Hey Vern” guy was a cartoon character.
October 6th, 2006 at 3:59 pm
Aldo’s passing has really sucked all the life out of that Mary Worth strip.
C’mon, bring him back!! If Krusty the Clown can survive a drunken fiery death-crash, why can’t Aldo??
October 6th, 2006 at 4:00 pm
Re: accidental masturbation
In the French movie COUP DE TORCHON (which translates as “the mop-up”–it’s about a lawman in colonial Africa unofficially killing all the troublesome people) Philippe Noiret has the classic line “Does a man scratch his balls because they itch, or because it feels good?”
In that same movie his lover Isabelle Huppert has another great line: “I’d like to shove a red-hot poker up his [her husband's] ass…. Put your hand between my legs.”
October 6th, 2006 at 4:06 pm
#152 Allie Cat, I remember thinking that smackdown Mary handed Dawn was quite rude. It might have had something to do with her saying the teenagers in California were more “health conscious” but it seems like it was meaner than that. Was that really ‘95 or ‘96? Wow.
October 6th, 2006 at 4:06 pm
I just for the first time decided to read the Pluggers old strips over (I’m a newly minted masochist). And while they don’t want to tell me what a Plugger is, I’ve decided that Pluggers were old, fat, lazy, and poor. I’m waiting for the strips dripping in death, like “A Pluggers constipation is due to a massive tumor.”
October 6th, 2006 at 4:14 pm
I guess if you shake it more than two times, you’re accidentally masturbating..
October 6th, 2006 at 4:16 pm
Hope this link works. I couldn’t NOT try. /Users/Shared/i061004gilthorp.jpg
October 6th, 2006 at 4:18 pm
Library Cat – the reason I place it at that era is because I was in college then, and that’s when I had reliable daily access to the newspaper – I’d read it every morning at breakfast. And it was before chron.com had funnies, so…
Full disclosure – I was living in my sorority house at the time, and I used to get so irked if I got to breakfast and someone else had the funnies. This one girl always took FOREVER with that section of the paper, and I’m a fast reader. She was the kind whose lips move when she read.
October 6th, 2006 at 4:19 pm
Oops, guess not. How do I post art on this site??
October 6th, 2006 at 4:48 pm
In other news..
DT: Now there’s a face that just screams “neural depths”. Better set the gronkulator to 11.
JP The more I read JP, the less I “get” Raju. What’s he supposed to be? Ackward nerd? Dreamy inventory wonk? On the lamb from the Bombay vice squad? Help me out here. It’s like there’s a party in Raju’s mouth and everyone’s invited, but LeDoux et al just won’t come out and say it.
Shylock Fox: Hey Kids! Draw Jennifer Wilbanks!
Phantom Um, excuse me, it’s a uniform not a costume, Gopher. (Ok, so it’s not a uniform, it’s more like a cry for help).
MT I can’t explain why, but I find the ginormuous ducks in the center panel to be hysterical. Guess I’m picturing Elrod working on the strip, sort of losing interest in the story and just saying, eh, screw it, time for some big-ass ducks.
October 6th, 2006 at 4:49 pm
Shannon Lake returns.
I CALLED IT
http://joshreads.com/?p=772#comment-61434
October 6th, 2006 at 4:58 pm
171. Way…to be…Capisce…! You…know,…Shannon…is just…like…the …rest..of us…except for…more…loveable.
October 6th, 2006 at 5:36 pm
I think I know what would make FBOFW a great strip. Yes I just used “Foob” and “great” in the same sentence. They need to kill off Deanna’s mother. Since she likes to piss off more people than Ann Coulter, I would like to see her mouth off to a serial killer and he/she hack her to death. No one likes the woman so the funeral would be a quick and joyous one.
On the same note, is Kelpfroth really a real last name? Everytime I see that name, I think frothy kelp floating in the ocean. And Wilf. I know it’s short for Wilford “Oatmeal” but Wilf to me looks like a horrible version of Milf.
October 6th, 2006 at 7:04 pm
#139: “Kee-ripes, and JJ isn’t just any ol’ Hitler, he’s like raving coked-up Hitler with a boner.”
Which brings a whole new meaning to “For Evah and Eva” . . .
#144: “Is it my imagination or is blondie wearing a see-through skirt today?”
You’ll probably appreciate what was done to hawk the strip when it first started in 1930: Editors were sent suitcases full of women’s underwear with a note that Blondie would be by to pick them up. In those days, she was a flapper with a crush on young rich kid (can you believe it?) Dagwood Bumstead.
October 6th, 2006 at 8:41 pm
#170 – Your comment about MT has my vote for COTW. I, too, am fond of big-ass ducks.
October 6th, 2006 at 10:20 pm
You’re a plugger when the waittress dictates the tip, even if she’s known you for years.
October 6th, 2006 at 11:47 pm
Poor Dingo: I appreciate the torch you’re carrying … but it ain’t gonna happen. I’m far too clumsy to stand on my hands. Well, unless they’re on the ground and my feet are on top of them, which would hurt.
October 7th, 2006 at 1:06 pm
Fine, 2fs, fine. How ’bout instead you pull a Pauline? I’ll videotape the proceedings and make you a star in India and Japan! You’ll take the wife to see the Taj Mahal and notice everyone staring at you. Then, with a look similar to the salami skank, someone will say within earshot, “It’s him.” The next thing you know, you’ll have young Indian women bobbling their heads like Margo and men giving you looks of intense jealousy. All the wife will be able to muster is a “does this have anything to do with that weekend in Chicago?” as you scamper to your waiting cab.
Gosh, with each passing week that I’m on this site, I feel more and more like I’m becoming Ian Cameron, Ph.D. Granted, I don’t have his taste in clothes or women, but I keep feeling the urge to buy blue pants, shave off my mustache, and bring innocents to ruin.
October 13th, 2006 at 4:57 pm
It just now hit me what the term “Pluggers” means. These are people who have a plug in their anus and are therefore full of shit. Now this comic makes so much more sense to me!!!
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