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Tommie Thompson’s keys to happiness

Apartment 3-G, 10/23/06

Boy, Tommie sure is looking smug for someone who just yesterday was wandering the streets of New York aimless, confused, and unloved. Based on their unusual prominence in the third panel, I’d say those keys are the key to Tommie’s brand new attitude. Maybe they’re the keys that Alan left behind and she’s started going to Lu Ann’s creepy possessed studio, figuring that dream lovers are better than no lovers at all. Maybe she’s just returned from a swinging key party. Maybe she’s got Ted’s dismembered corpse locked up in a storage unit in Jersey City somewhere. Or maybe she’s decided that the hipster New York existence isn’t working for her and now she’s become a plugger.

Mary Worth, 10/23/06

Yes, Mary is making the universal “Call Me” gesture with her right hand. Yes, this is as angry as we’ve seen her since the capisce incident of this past August. Yes, Dr. Jeff had better call home soon … or not at all.

Pluggers, 10/23/06

Some pluggers need two labels to identify an object in a cartoon.

This entry was posted on Monday, October 23, 2006 at 03:12 pm and is filed under Apartment 3-G, Mary Worth, Pluggers.

219 responses to “Tommie Thompson’s keys to happiness”

Manacle
October 23rd, 2006 at 3:15 pm [Reply]

Perhaps Tommie finally started taking those Hummer commercials to heart.
rsf
October 23rd, 2006 at 3:16 pm [Reply]

Mary Worth seems to becoming more immature. Maybe the strip is morphing into one of those teenage ‘operas.
Marc
October 23rd, 2006 at 3:17 pm [Reply]

rsf – Shoot me now if I have to see Mary Worth in low cut magenta slacks. Just take the gun and point it at my head.
Harry Paratestes
October 23rd, 2006 at 3:18 pm [Reply]

Methinks that Tommy just got her satisfaction by having some knee-trembling sex, strangling a dog, kicking a homeless guy, and shoulder-blocking an elderly nun off the sidewalk into the gutter – all in the space of 5 blocks
mysterywoman
October 23rd, 2006 at 3:18 pm [Reply]

I think those are the keys to Tommie’s chastity belt.
Manacle
October 23rd, 2006 at 3:21 pm [Reply]

Panel three would have been an excellent time to insert an ellipses.
“It’s been… resolved.”
ohhhhh menacing!
And, curious, most pluggers I know have trouble forming a coherent sentence by age 30. I must know the wrong pluggers.
Harry Paratestes
October 23rd, 2006 at 3:21 pm [Reply]

I think that Mary Worth is actually getting ready to make the three-fingered ‘horns of the devil’ sign preparatory to jumping up and doing some headbanging and moshing in the cafeteria.
Harry Mirth
October 23rd, 2006 at 3:21 pm [Reply]

Has Mary been watching Austin Powers?
Alan Vanneman
October 23rd, 2006 at 3:27 pm [Reply]

Can’t believe that you focused on these lame strips instead of the smokin’ crotch shot in Judge Parker, not to mention the smokin’ dialogue in Mark “the King” Trail.
CheeseWeasel
October 23rd, 2006 at 3:27 pm [Reply]

Why yes Mary, there are pay phones on every corner and excellent cell phone coverage in third world countries. I bet when he does call he’ll have some excuse about having to drive for days to the nearest place that has electricity and running water, much less phone service.

Men!
Robert Whitaker Siorignano
October 23rd, 2006 at 3:28 pm [Reply]

Sometimes, I see the self referential stuff, reminded me of the older Dick Tracy, where you were always reminded of the “two way wrist radio”. Every single time it showed up.
bootsybooks
October 23rd, 2006 at 3:31 pm [Reply]

“What, he can’t call? He’s too good for me now? Big important doctor can’t call his mother…” Wait, Mary is becoming a Jewish mother!

Mom, do NOT call me about this!
SmartPeopleOnIce
October 23rd, 2006 at 3:32 pm [Reply]

6 (Manacle) And, curious, most pluggers I know have trouble forming a coherent sentence by age 30. I must know the wrong pluggers.

Um, I think they meant 10 in dog years…

And whatever Tommie did, it must have been pretty smokin’, cause her trenchcoat changed colors.

And Mary isn’t making a phone-me sign, but rather she’s clearly a Texas A&M fan. HOOK EM AGGIES!
SmartPeopleOnIce
October 23rd, 2006 at 3:34 pm [Reply]

Oh, and Bucky points.
Senator Wizzrobe
October 23rd, 2006 at 3:35 pm [Reply]

Perhaps because of her murderous facial expression, Mary’s attempt at the universal symbol for “phone” doesn’t so much imply “call me” as it does “I don’t care if Jeff is in an impoverished third-world country that is unable to construct either working telephone lines or a sustainable agricultural system to stave off mass hunger, that son of a bitch had better call me soon or I’ll slit his throat with my pointy pinky of doom!”
Shannon
October 23rd, 2006 at 3:37 pm [Reply]

I like that Mary has a hard time grasping the fact that telephones don’t exactly grow on trees in 3rd world countries.

“I know he’s in a bathysphere at the bottom of the Marianas trench, but would it be too much trouble to track down a WiFi node and IM me?”
Skullturf Q. Beavispants
October 23rd, 2006 at 3:38 pm [Reply]

I’m curious what everyone thought of today’s Fred Basset. I’m aware FB is one of those strips that a lot of people detest. I, on the other hand — and I realize I may be in the minority here — find its gentle brand of occasionally surreal “anti-humour” to have a certain zenlike charm.

But like I said, maybe it’s just me. And Alex Graham (oh no wait, he’s dead).
Senator Wizzrobe
October 23rd, 2006 at 3:41 pm [Reply]

Oh, and am I the only one growing impatient while waiting for Olive Oyl to completely lose it and bash in the head of one Sweetpea before feasting on his brains?
Prudence
October 23rd, 2006 at 3:44 pm [Reply]

#14 – 9CL is becoming a favorite of mine. Please enlighten me, what are bucky points?
Shannon
October 23rd, 2006 at 3:48 pm [Reply]

#17: That is pretty funny. Never heard of that strip, actually.
Foobaphobe
October 23rd, 2006 at 3:51 pm [Reply]

I’m surprised no evangelicals have pointed out that Mary is NOT emulating a phone but actually giving a ritualistic Satanic “hi sign,” signalling to the horde of demons with whom she consorts that they should cross the void of space and time and enter this world. (They frequently point out that our beloved President is actually doing then, while pretending to do the old Texas longhorn salute, as he conspires to frustrate the rapture.)
Rob H.
October 23rd, 2006 at 3:53 pm [Reply]

SmartPeopleOnIce, your link is a bit off.

http://www.comics.com/comics/getfuzzy/archive/getfuzzy-20061023.html

These are my favorite kinds of GF strips as they demonstrate that if animals could talk, they aren’t necessarily stupid, but their thoughts are filtered through someone who’s only exposure to the outside world is through TV. Or at least through the one or two channels Rob let’s them watch.
Reid
October 23rd, 2006 at 3:55 pm [Reply]

Some bloggers can’t tell the difference between a public blog, and a private diary they keep tucked in with the yarn they use to knit sweaters, even though they’re already covered in fur.
hogenmogen
October 23rd, 2006 at 4:03 pm [Reply]

On GF, I like the way that Rob and Buck are sort of silent in their surrender to the mix of astute knowledge about the arcane topic of rivers in the north of Africa and the absolute stupidity of missing Bucky’s reference.

That being said, why did Rob put a hat on half way through the strip?
ohyes
October 23rd, 2006 at 4:04 pm [Reply]

A3G:
Professor: Well, then, have you seen Gina lately?
Tommie: Gina? No, I haven’t.
Professor: I’m worried. She’s not coming home, she’s not answering her cell phone…
Tommie: I guess she’s sleeping with someone else, that’s all. I wouldn’t worry. Or maybe she went back to Kansas or wherever.
Professor: No, I think she’s missing.
Emily
October 23rd, 2006 at 4:08 pm [Reply]

MW: “So different that he can’t pick up a phone and call home?” Well, yeah, probably, you daft bitch. I hope she slips and stabs herself in the head with that razor sharp pinky nail.
Del
October 23rd, 2006 at 4:13 pm [Reply]

I’m new here, only been reading a couple of weeks. It’s really funny & clever here, I like it a lot. Anyway. I was hoping the Curmudgeon would comment on Sunday’s B.C. Does this really show a father abandoning his son to certain death because he asks too many pesty questions? Boy, what parent hasn’t been there, huh? Those kids can be so darned annoying, sometimes you just wish something would swoop down out of the sky and EAT ‘em!!
anne
October 23rd, 2006 at 4:13 pm [Reply]

17 – with your weird and awesome name – I’ve always hated Fred Basset more than any other strip. It’s the one I always tried not to read in the paper, but a little voice in my head went, “I dare you. Just a glance. You’ll get so pissed, it’ll be awesome. Won’t it be fun? Just look at it.” And I did, and it filled me with rage! It’s so terrible! I just hate it so much, I don’t know why! But the kind of rage that’s fun. Like when you hate dumb people.

That being said, it was kind of cute today.
treedweller
October 23rd, 2006 at 4:13 pm [Reply]

“Hi and Lois” usually seems to be a pretty innocuous strip. Not good, but just a generic “families are cute” kind of world. So when did Lois’ postpartum depression kick in? Was it when she realized her husband was never happier than when he was about to leave their wretched lives behind for the day? Or when she figured out the baby was going to stay on the bottle even after learning to sit at a high chair and eat with a spoon? Hey, wait a minute, what’s in that bottle, anyway?!
joe
October 23rd, 2006 at 4:14 pm [Reply]

somehow on my first glance I read the Pluggers caption as:
“Some pluggers have an IQ of 10″

more fitting, if you ask me. especially since this appears to be a middle-aged Plugger writing “Dear Diary” in big, flowery letters in her “My Diary”….. an activity commonly associated with 9 year old girls
Harry Paratestes
October 23rd, 2006 at 4:14 pm [Reply]

FW: Darrin saw his g/f in a french maid’s uniform and went to hog heaven. He didn’t faint, he’s lying down to offer her a moustache ride
hogenmogen
October 23rd, 2006 at 4:15 pm [Reply]

Where in the world is Dr. Jeff?

My theory: He got taken to Bangalla on a brick boat by the Doorman. However, now that he has been rescued, why can’t he friggin’ call already?

Ok, Mary, at what point do you think you’ve been blown off? Dr. Jeff only told you about the trip a few hours before he left. You had a sweet man who offered you roses and a lifetime (for you, that’s like 600 years) of attention and passion. Yet, you blew him off for the sake of the guy who doesn’t return calls or email (the device known as a computer has been used in Mary Worth, and so has email). By now, a postcard could have been sent out. Anything! Face it. Dr. Jeff’s real name is Troy Gainer, and he faked his own death at a maximum security pennitentiary a few years ago after being fired for having an affair with a male orderly. He has now tracked down this man, and they’re living in sin together, traveling the country, solving crimes and helping people in trouble while staying just one step ahead of Johnny Law. Coming soon to a comics page by you.
KJH
October 23rd, 2006 at 4:18 pm [Reply]

Some pluggers have no idea of what the meaning of “blog” is (I bet most pluggers don’t.) A blog is not a personal diary!
mindy
October 23rd, 2006 at 4:19 pm [Reply]

A diary is only an ur-blog if you photocopy it and stick it up on every telephone pole and bulletinboard in town.
treedweller
October 23rd, 2006 at 4:20 pm [Reply]

And the chiefplugger might be clueless about “what is a blog,” but at least give him credit for consistency; a true plugger would almost certainly not be literate enough to fill more than half her diary in the thirty or forty years this dogbear has been “blogging.” I imagine something like:
“Dear Diary, cooked a seven-course meal in the big casserole dish today.” “Dear Diary, let out the waist in hubby’s pants again today.” etc.
SmartPeopleOnIce
October 23rd, 2006 at 4:21 pm [Reply]

#22 Yikes, how did that happen? Thanks Rob.

#19 (Prudence) “Bucky Points” is based on the premise that any GF strip in which Bucky makes the pointing motion (or says the word “spork”) is comic gold. Please see #22 for correct link.

Hey, what can I say? A friend suggested I should find a happy place once a day. So sue me.

And by “friend” I of course mean: “therapist”.

Well, maybe not “therapist”. More like “parole officer”.

Hmm, I wonder if AppleGirl is doing anything tonight?…
hogenmogen
October 23rd, 2006 at 4:22 pm [Reply]

I’ve come to the conclusion that A3G is the most over-wrought, thought-balloon-laden piece of sap in print today. After three days of agonizing about “Good old Tommie” (was it the “old” part, or the “good” part?) she doesn’t actually resolve anything because she’s about to embark on a new overly analytical string of inaction. “The Professor said ‘Oh.’ I wonder what he meant by that.”
Christopher
October 23rd, 2006 at 4:33 pm [Reply]

Heart of the City: Heart is kind of a bitch.

Popeye: More evidence for my thoery that Popeye and his friends aren’t human: Swea’ Pea can apparently coil his lower body like a snake.

Slylock Fox relies on what is actually a fairly subtle detail for the solution. To be honest, I missed it, but I did accidentally see the solution after about a minute.

Sometimes my ability to read upside down plays havoc with my attempts to solve children’s puzzles.

The Lockhorns: It’s kind of hard to figure out scale in this strip, but it seems The Lockhorns own an, at minimum, 60 inch TV.

Who knew man Lockhorn made so much money?
BewaretheCreeper
October 23rd, 2006 at 4:35 pm [Reply]

Let’s see Mary, an Aldo in the Sack is Worth two Dr. J. Corey’s in the bush, or is it an Aldo in the bush is Worth two Dr. J. Corey’s in the sack, hell I get confused. Anyway you could have been doin the nasty but NOOOOOO…….. you had to intervene. LOL
ohyes
October 23rd, 2006 at 4:48 pm [Reply]

Poor Aldo just wanted a relationship with Mary like the Professor has with Tommie – live in the same apartment building and accost her in the halls to offer probing help with her “problem.” Sorry, folks, those are her own apartment keys, and not a clue to her contentment.

The source of her contentment is deeper in her purse, in a new box – a Magic Wand power massager, for deep stimulation of aching muscles.
dramashoes
October 23rd, 2006 at 4:49 pm [Reply]

Looks to me like old Mary is throwing up some devil horns in that last panel. If she can’t have Dr. Jeff Cory, she can at least summon Ronnie James Dio for some badass metal tunes.
Prudence
October 23rd, 2006 at 4:50 pm [Reply]

#36 thanks for the clarification.

methinks you have a closet thing goin on for chickweed
blessened
October 23rd, 2006 at 4:58 pm [Reply]

I’ve been reading Mallard Fillmore for a while now and I think I get it. Republicans are always good, democrats are always bad, no matter what.
P.S. get fuzzy is never funny, very well drawn yes, funny, never.
ratsonjulia
October 23rd, 2006 at 5:00 pm [Reply]

A pluggers comic strip is the same every day: “Content currently Unavailable.”

Sigh. I’ll figure it out one of these days…
ratsonjulia
October 23rd, 2006 at 5:03 pm [Reply]

Er. Plugger’s? Pluggers’?

Damn you to hell, apostrophe!
Son of Slam
October 23rd, 2006 at 5:15 pm [Reply]

When I was in junior high, I competed in a “Olympics of the Mind” segment called “Humor with Homer.” We had to take chapters from The Odyssey and write and perfom humorous skits. We had different chapters, and my friend had “Odyssius’ journey to Hades”, where he meets dead friends and relatives. At one point he meets his mother..
“Odyssius, vhy haven’t you called?”
“Mom, I’ve been on desert islands!”
“Vat, they don’t have telephones on desert islands?”
treedweller
October 23rd, 2006 at 5:16 pm [Reply]

I gave myself an idea for a new CC contest. We all seem agreed that pluggers are sad, depressed, stupid rubes. No doubt, chiefplugr thinks otherwise. Let’s see who can get the most uncharacteristic submission into print.
My submissions:
1. A plugger remembers the latest blockbuster movie from when it was still just a book.

2. A plugger sometimes graduates from college at the same time as her children.

PS Monkeyhawk, did you ever get anything for your winner?
java-jon
October 23rd, 2006 at 5:22 pm [Reply]

If I were Dr. Jeff I would be worried if Toby, Chinbeard or Wilbur gets word of his lack of communication and how much distress it seems to have caused Mary. I feel a third-world intervention coming on resulting in the untimely demise of Dr. Jeff as he steers his rickshaw or donkey cart over a cliff while half-baked on some local hooch.
cheech wizard
October 23rd, 2006 at 5:28 pm [Reply]

Looks like Dr. Jeff’s gone Brando, setting himself up in the Cambodian jungle as an absolute tyrant over a tribe of natives who worshipfully obey him without question. Sitting in front of a ruined temple, fat, bald and sweaty, loudy smacking on nuts. A surgeon operating without any moral authority.

Insurance handler Mary is meeting with Drew and Andrea to send them upriver in a boat to find Dr. Cory and terminate his practice. Because Gawd knows Blue Cross isn’t going to cover any of this.
cheech wizard
October 23rd, 2006 at 5:31 pm [Reply]

Even better would be to have Mary go herself, so Dr. Cory-Kurtz can tie her up and toss Aldo’s head in her lap. Now that would rock.
Genevieve
October 23rd, 2006 at 5:32 pm [Reply]

Has the stalker-ish spirit of Aldo invaded Mary Worth’s body?
Is she going to show up in the third world country Dr. Cory is in with a bunch of roses?
Johnny Q
October 23rd, 2006 at 5:32 pm [Reply]

A3G: Tommie likes to sneak into Luann’s studio and chant “Empty… empty… empty… ” so Luann will think the place is haunted. It’s fun to screw with your friends’ minds.

Sunday’s Family Circus: Not only are the kids attached to the animals they buried in the yard, Dad hasn’t forgotten the thirty pretty hitchhikers…
AppleGirl
October 23rd, 2006 at 6:00 pm [Reply]

MW – I was suspicious all along about Dr. Jeff Cory’s “work in Cambodia.” From the send-off at the fake terminal of the fake airport, the one where non-passengers can walk right in and wave to the plane–to the hastily-composed, weak, weak, weak story of repairing cleft palettes in a third world country.

Mary, take it from a girl who knows: Dr. Jeff Cory blew you off. He’s right there in Santa Royale, texting another girl. Probably some girl in your very own office.
Amy
October 23rd, 2006 at 6:12 pm [Reply]

Mary, Mary, Mary. Jeff’s kind children are trying to let you down easy. Don’t force their backs to the wall or they’ll have to tell you that not only could he pick up a phone any time he wanted to hear your charming voice, but he never went to the Third World at all and is actually living a blissfully meddler-free existence doing tummy tucks on aging society women on Long Island. And that if you even think of tracking down his number there, he’ll get a restraining order.
Monkey's Paw
October 23rd, 2006 at 6:20 pm [Reply]

I think that we arre about to be treated to the only thing to out shine Aldomania… Mary Worth treking through the dark jungles of Bruma with a pith helmet and machette in search of her lost love.

“Doctor Jeff I presume?”

Six months of Mary Worth the “great white hunter”
mon-ma-tron
October 23rd, 2006 at 6:28 pm [Reply]

Mary, He’s Just Not That Into Your… apple…
er…

cake.
mon-ma-tron
October 23rd, 2006 at 6:30 pm [Reply]

“no, Drew! It’s her tuna casserole that Dad hates!”
Air Forbes
October 23rd, 2006 at 6:37 pm [Reply]

I’ll admit I’ve been dumped a few times, but even I’ve never had a guy relocate to Southeast Asia on me with no forwarding address. That’s sad, Mary.

I think Amy and Applegirl have hit on the truth; this is all a ruse to let Dr. Jeff escape Mary and the Charterstone Intervention Quartet.

Isn’t that Rita Begler on the left in the first panel, though? The hair, the pink dress… Also, when I first saw Drew and Adrian, I thought it was Dr. Brian and Anna. Aparently this is another artist who can only draw so many people. Watch the backgrounds, people; I bet Aldo Lives!
2fs
October 23rd, 2006 at 6:39 pm [Reply]

metacomment: how long have I been reading and posting here but that just now, my brain decided to read aloud the name “Harry Paratestes”? Christ but I’m thick…

Reminds me of the time a friend and I back in college ordered one hundred “personalized” pencils imprinted with the name “Swami Aiwana Fak’yamahdah”…

(Sorry I haven’t posted much in the last few days…I’m heartbroken that Apple Girl has thrown me over for…for that other guy. It’s my own fault – I should have spoken up sooner. I’ll just weep in my licorice t-shirted sorrow now…)
Doug Puthoff
October 23rd, 2006 at 6:41 pm [Reply]

10-23:

MW: The more I see of Mary’s behavior, the more I am convinced that Aldo didn’t need an intervention. If he had his heart set on this Lucy Van Pelt of the Geritol set, he should have been given a padded cell and a rubber room

RMMD: Niki goes to the doctor, unfortanately, it’s Mrs. Morgan. To quote Lisa Simpson, that sort of coincidence only takes place in Dickens and “Melrose Place.”

Zits: Haven’t Jeremy and Pierce seen enought reruns of “The Brady Bunch” to realize it’s not wise to play ball in the house?

Pluggers: Reason #12 why “Pluggers” is slightly better than “Real Life Adventures” (though that’s like saying Saddam is a slightly more human being than Hitler): the kind of redundancy in today’s strip shows up all the time in “Real Life Adventures.”

Mallard Fillmore: What great, wholesome family entertainment.
Doug Puthoff
October 23rd, 2006 at 6:49 pm [Reply]

Funky Winkerbean: Does her mother know she’s wearing that outfit? Maybe the Taliban has a good point when it made the women go around veiled.
Treadwell
October 23rd, 2006 at 6:52 pm [Reply]

Apparently Mary can only go so long without Dr. Jeff Cory begging her to let him eat at the bumboat.
Cedar
October 23rd, 2006 at 6:58 pm [Reply]

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/fun/mallard.asp

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerry_Studds

No, Mallard, I don’t remember this affair, because it happened over 30 years ago.

And, dude was later censured. And now he’s dead (altho it’s possibly Tinsley wrote this strip before he died). What more do you want?
Cedar
October 23rd, 2006 at 7:01 pm [Reply]

#61 I think her mother’s dead. And this isn’t a “Isn’t Funky Winkerbean depressing?” joke. I’m pretty sure her mom (or maybe her dad; I can’t remember) was murdered when she was a child.
zenbowl
October 23rd, 2006 at 7:15 pm [Reply]

The plugger’s “Dear Diary” entry was needed to make it clear that this was one of those “I visited my destitute grandchildren and idiot son-in-law” entries, as opposed to a “THE GOVERNMENT CONTINUES TO MONITOR MY CABIN WITH HIGH POWERED LENSES HIDDEN IN SCREECH OWLS” entry.
Harry Paratestes
October 23rd, 2006 at 7:29 pm [Reply]

I don’t often read it, but Brewster Rockit put an interesting spin on obnoxious habits today (it’s over at the Washington Post comic section, http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/artsandliving/comics/
Zikar
October 23rd, 2006 at 7:29 pm [Reply]

Deactivating lurk…now…

I am just pleased as punch that Mary will, quite probably, finally get some of that comeuppance that she deserves. For just one of the Meddlin’ Quartet to die cold and lonely with nothing more than reruns of the Golden Girls to comfort them is more than enough for me. Well, not enough, but I’ll still be happier.

Also, I want to know why, in the Phantom, do they mention his name twice, and we aren’t treated to a panel of him suddenly spinning around while talking to the President, screaming “Who said that? WHO SAID MY NAME! IT NEVER STOPS!”
Or…err, something like that.
The Ray
October 23rd, 2006 at 7:32 pm [Reply]

Mary is lucky to have friends like Ian and Toby Cameron. Otherwise she would be the worst person in the entire world.
phil
October 23rd, 2006 at 7:33 pm [Reply]

You know what kind of woman an Amercan doctor can get in Cambodia? – probably the queen herself – (if she wasn’t in a “re-education” camp) – seriously Mary, Jeff is too busy banging to drop you a line.
Monkey's Paw
October 23rd, 2006 at 7:34 pm [Reply]

# 65 You wake up in the morning to find screech owls going through your mail.
Herold
October 23rd, 2006 at 7:34 pm [Reply]

Here’s where I’m seeing Mary Worth go.

Dr. Jeff Cory has been home for two weeks now, with his seventeen year old Cambodian bride, hiding from Mary. She manages to intimidate this information out of Drew or Adrian and arrives at the Cory residence with the dawn, banging on the door and demanding to be let in. The bolts are set and the seige begins. Mary first cuts off the water and electricity, then begins her random attacks both day and night. “Do not try to resist me, Dr. Jeff Cory!” she cries, her fingers hooked into talons scraping against the window. “I will not be denied!”

When the police finally arrive, Mary will already be gone, having fled once she heard the sirens. She will pick up a bottle of Johnnie Walker Gold. And go for a drive. As soon as she turns too far on Wrongful Death Suit Road, the smirking, booze-saturated spirit of Aldo Kelrast will leave her body, letting her pickled mind finally comprehend what ruin she has brought. “Oh no,” she whispers, right before her life ends in a nightmare of bent steel and broken glass.

Before her body even cools, the residents of Charterstone will have swarmed over her house like army ants, taking everything that isn’t nailed down and bringing a crowbar for the rest. Professor Chinbeard will barely be able to bring himself to say something condescending and smug at her graveside.

And the night of the next new moon, Charterstone will have another pool party, one they never talk about. Lots are drawn – Toby Cameron loses, but her increasingly frantic protests are unheard as the sound of drumming begins to echo through the air. When the ritual is completed and the smoke has cleared, Toby Cameron will be dead. And a new Mary Worth, like so many before her, will be born.
Omnicrom
October 23rd, 2006 at 7:43 pm [Reply]

After running through your archives something sticks out, if only the authors of these comics would take your advice the funnies would suddenly become readable.
Proteus
October 23rd, 2006 at 7:46 pm [Reply]

While she comments that things are DIFFERENT in a third world country Adrian…

is pickin’ her teeth with a haystraw

or

is makin’ the jack-off sign.

Your call.
Summerhouse
October 23rd, 2006 at 8:01 pm [Reply]

#17 – I looked. I did not find that particular Fred Basset to be gentle, funny or Zen like, but just stupid and annoying, much like my own life. Specifically it made me think of last week when my driver’s side mirror got out of whack and showed me part of my own car and I wanted to know WHY IS THAT SOB TAILGATING ME??!!! Once, when I had a really big perm in my hair, I kept thinking someone was walking close behind me. I snapped my head around a lot, till the perm settled down.

Did you notice I’m COTW? Occasionally I have a coherent moment.

SPOI – Where ya been? Seems like you’ve been gone. The hope that I can some day work, “prepare to feel the cold wrath that is my spork” into an ordinary conversation has gotten me through more than one difficult night.
Red Greenback
October 23rd, 2006 at 8:02 pm [Reply]

The Plugger appears to be a canine, so she’s been a “DIARYER” since the age of 70?
Len
October 23rd, 2006 at 8:13 pm [Reply]

http://www.gocomics.com/lio/2006/10/23/

Hey, those dreamy li’l one-eyed, one-horned, scaley purple people-eaters in Lio’s bedroom are gonna be earning a “full boat” basketball scholarship to State U one of these days. Then they can be invited to Neddy’s parties and flirt with hawt Hindu hunks. Opening line to Raju: “Me so horny. I got my eye on you.”

Things that go bump in the night might be induced to go hump in your rump, Raju. I see them as the sexual equivalent of Al Capp’s shmoos. Send one to Tommie, too.
Harry Paratestes
October 23rd, 2006 at 8:41 pm [Reply]

#73 Proteus
Maybe Mary and Adrian are making gang signs at each other.
Nori Chan
October 23rd, 2006 at 8:44 pm [Reply]

Well, you know what they say… Hell hath no fury like Mary Worth scorned.

I mean, look at what hapened to poor Aldo. :(
Harry Paratestes
October 23rd, 2006 at 8:47 pm [Reply]

You know what else they say: There’s something about Mary…Worth
(go ahead, picture MW in that classic scene, I dare ya)
whoamItoday?
October 23rd, 2006 at 9:22 pm [Reply]

By spending the day catching up on a week’s worth of this site (and following all related links) I have successfully wasted an entire day when I should have been a) planning like hell in order to deal with a horrible overbooking for this coming friday at the club I cook for and b) doing laundry and grocery shopping so that I have clothes and food availble during my brief returns home while implementing said unmade plans beginning tomorrow.

I love you guys.

And whatever happened to lizardbreath’s helicopter guy? He was the most interesting and least seen of the boyfriends.
san antone rose
October 23rd, 2006 at 9:51 pm [Reply]

OK. I now officially hate Mary Worth. Codependent phone whore bitch.
san antone rose
October 23rd, 2006 at 9:57 pm [Reply]

I love the talking animals in the second panels of Mark Trail.

Today it was a squirrel! Yay! I always knew they were masters of the English language. Bilingual furry cuteness.
Chance
October 23rd, 2006 at 10:02 pm [Reply]

17. I thought that Fred Basset was pretty amusing in a kind of bizarre, zen-ish way, but i can’t shake the idea that Peanuts used that same joke on Snoopy a long time ago.
AppleGirl
October 23rd, 2006 at 10:13 pm [Reply]

59 – 2fs, I thought you were already “spoken for.” So I backed off. I didn’t want an intervention with naysayers which would send me on a subsequent shopping trip to Wines Liquors.
2fs
October 23rd, 2006 at 10:21 pm [Reply]

84 – Oh, I am, darlink…but still, it pains my heart, you see…
AwfulArt
October 23rd, 2006 at 10:55 pm [Reply]

Giants Win…!!! Giants Win…!!!
Screw you T.O. & the rest of you Cowboys….!!!!
Edward W. Miller
October 23rd, 2006 at 11:02 pm [Reply]

#64 Jessica’s dad, John Darling was murdered when she was a child. Les and Lisa Moore, along with Jessica’s mom solved the murder. The “Plantman” did it.
Johnny Q
October 23rd, 2006 at 11:02 pm [Reply]

DICK TRACY had a really wussy Crimestopper’s Textbook yesterday. “Do certain people bug you? Ignore them if you can. Try kindness and respect when all else fails.”
ohgrl
October 23rd, 2006 at 11:19 pm [Reply]

FW: Darin hasn’t fainted at the sight of his girlfriend’s hot costume; he’s having a heart attack after eating one of those oversized fries.
Ohyes
October 23rd, 2006 at 11:19 pm [Reply]

53 – Apple Girl, my dear…

Apparently the other men in your life know how to “text” and use it as yet another medium with which to seduce women. This suggests a certain age cohort group.

Let me put it this way: I will never text another girl in your office, or text you an absurd storyline or excuse. I’m more mature than that.

… I said, while discussing comic strips.

Say, did you see Funky Winkerbean today?

Halloween weekend is coming up…

For Apple Girl, I also think of a rosy cheeked girl with peasant blouse and skirt, and an apron pulled up to hold fresh-picked apples.

Or Eve!

But you have the wit and charm to choose the perfect outfit.
reader-who-posts
October 23rd, 2006 at 11:42 pm [Reply]

Funky Winkerbean: Although it may appear as if french-fry boy fainted at the sight of his girlfriend in fishnets in a supposedly humorous fashion, don’t be deceived. Most likely it will turn out that he had a siezure caused by an inoperable brain tumor. Either that or once he wakes up Jessica will be anally raped by a giant foam french fry.

Batiuk actually drew a pretty sexy little underage girl’s leg in fishnets. Which makes him a potential pedophile on top of being the most depressing comic strip writer in the history of the universe.
weiser
October 23rd, 2006 at 11:45 pm [Reply]

Iâ€™m sure Adrian has one of those bendy-straws my kids used to love when they were little. You can see it in both panels.

Big brother Dr. Drew always gets her one when she comes to the hospital on her day-visit from the sheltered workshop where she works, folding linens. Todayâ€™s trip is extra special because she gets to wear one of Drewâ€™s â€œDr. coatsâ€ and includes lunch in the cafeteria complete with the bendy straw.

Ah come on, you could all see Adrianâ€™s a few CCs short of a full injection, not surprising since she was conceived during Dr. Jeffâ€™s torrid affair with Rita during her heavy drinkinâ€™ years. The physical resemblance has already been noted on previous thread.

The Cory familyâ€™s been covering nicely for years; Maryâ€™s in on it and that explains her â€œphoneâ€ sign. I think blackmail (or at least a dirty little secret) is the glue that holds Mary and Dr Jeff together.
Jordon Harriman
October 24th, 2006 at 12:02 am [Reply]

FC – Seriously, what the hell is wrong with Thel? She gets skinnier every day. She would be banned in Madrid.

Fred Basset – #17, I also enjoy its surreal, gentle humor. It’s so fascinating when there is just absolutely no joke. There is no mean-ness in the strip, but neither is it sickly sweet.

MW – #58, good catch on the Rita Begler sighting.
lascauxcaveman
October 24th, 2006 at 12:06 am [Reply]

#88 – Next Crimetopper Textbook tip in Dick Tracy: “When in a tense situation, try to diffuse the hostility in the room. Incense or scented candles can help relieve the agitated mind. Sprays of carnations strategically placed about can help add a cheery touch, too. Or balloons, preferably pink balloons.”
lascauxcaveman
October 24th, 2006 at 12:10 am [Reply]

Oh and Applegirl and 2fs, I’m confident I speak for the whole Curmudgeon Community when I say, (fingerquote*) Get a room (*end fingerquote)
kingkong
October 24th, 2006 at 12:16 am [Reply]

#88 + #94 – Next Crimetopper Textbook tip in Dick Tracy: “Sure bus fumes are fun, but think about your future.”
AppleGirl
October 24th, 2006 at 12:36 am [Reply]

95 – But lascauxcaveman, where would that leave sweet ohyes? Seriously, you guys, thank you so much for making me laugh so hard, taking the sting out of my pathetic real life. When I get my soap-opera comic strip syndicated, you’re all coming with me.

71 – Herald, your MW storyline is simply brilliant.

A3G – Ow, more daggers thrown at Tommie! Good ol’ Tommie, again. And this time, from the old/young/old professor. Did New Year’s Eve mean NOTHING to him? Opa, indeed.
Dub Not Dubya
October 24th, 2006 at 12:46 am [Reply]

Tuesday’s Mary Worth:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/style/comics/king.htm?name=Mary_Worth&date=20061024

In the last panel, she’s making the rude Sicilian gesture that Justice Scalia famously made a few months ago. Mary, honey, you can say “capisce” and make that gesture all you want, but you will never be Italian. Give it up.
FE
October 24th, 2006 at 1:20 am [Reply]

Funky Winkerbean: Woe betide the entire cast! Tom Batiuk, who thinks he invented the “very special storyline,”* must be seething with rage at the WaPo’s recent hagiography of Doonesbury’s Garry Trudeau. (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/20/AR2006102000446.html) So what if B.D. lost a leg? That girl in FW lost her arm in that car wreck ages ago — and that was before Funky became an alcoholic and Lisa’s cancer recurred. Clearly, Batiuk needs to do something drastic — I’m thinking maybe an avian flu epidemic will decimate Westview.

*The official FW site modestly claims: “His groundbreaking series on teen pregnancy, reading impairment dyslexia, teen suicide, teen dating abuse and breast cancer earned Batiuk high marks from fans, educators and community leaders.”
Albatross
October 24th, 2006 at 2:35 am [Reply]

Yeah, but what has Batiuk done for us lately?
Sister Sestina
October 24th, 2006 at 3:05 am [Reply]

Don’t believe the gossip about Dr. Jeff’s Cambodian trip being a ruse. He WAS going to Cambodia but the plane crashed on a remote South Sea atoll. He started conducting experiments, and now the Island of Dr. Jeff will ensure the supply of giant talking animals for Mark Trail will continue forever.
Nehdeen
October 24th, 2006 at 3:30 am [Reply]

9CL – This is incredibly anal, but the vet couldn’t have gone to “Cummings” unless she just graduated; the Tufts Veterinary School didn’t change its name until last year. I have a friend who’s studying there, so the mistake jumped out at me.
ChefMike
October 24th, 2006 at 5:50 am [Reply]

TDIET: The “Can’t a guy watch whatever he darn well wants?” department” Dad got a big bonus at work and splurged on a nice home theater system for his family. so what happens? on the weekend dad’s sitting back and watching some classic James Cagney movie while his long suffering wife whines about his insistence on watching black and white films on a plasma screen HDTV. Pop then turns around and yells. “FFS woman I worked like a dog near 20 years for that company to get the bonus I did, let me enjoy my TV my way” Oh Yeahhh!
seems to me that just because you have the latest technology available to you doesn’t mean that you always HAVE to watch new movies and such on it, but that’s just me.
Sheilagh
October 24th, 2006 at 6:18 am [Reply]

Do you get the impression Drew and Adrian are covering for Jeff? Their relentless cheerful smiles… their dismissive hand gestures… aw, don’t worry, Mary!

Either that, or he’s seriously overdue, has probably been eaten by wild animals, and the kids are filled with secret glee because THEY’RE going to inherit all his money and that biddy Mary Worth won’t get a dime…
dryman
October 24th, 2006 at 6:22 am [Reply]

Oh Tommie, people always talk about sex symbols like that.

Yep, good ol’ Marilyn Monroe..
Tukla in Iowa
October 24th, 2006 at 7:10 am [Reply]

I didn’t know that Spider-Man’s butt could also stick to walls.
Ohyes
October 24th, 2006 at 7:34 am [Reply]

95 – lascauxcaveman – Good idea! Thank you. A room, excellent – and this from a caveman! Thank God you didn’t say, “Find a cave.” Might have scared her.

97 – Apple Girl – Where does it leave me? (How dear of you to ask.) In the room. Hmmm. DOH! We’ve been “intervened.”

A3G – “Good ol’ Tommie,” who got tarted up in a teeny slip dress to drink with her friend’s husband in his apartment. Now an overbearing male neighbor speaks presumptuously as she opens her apartment door – surely there’s an intervention, behind that door! With Lucy giving her hell.
Pozzo
October 24th, 2006 at 7:37 am [Reply]

Just to let you know, I’ve kept a diary (well, “journal,” since I’m a guy) for twenty-some years now, and have never once started an entry with “Dear Diary” (or even “Dear Journal). Do even nine-year-old girls actually do this, or is it just another comic-strip convention, like feeding pigeons out of bags conveniently labeled “Popcorn”?
Allie Cat
October 24th, 2006 at 7:40 am [Reply]

#100 – I truly think we’re going to see some type of “consequences of teen sex” storyline really soon with FW.

At least, that’s what I hope.

I also have to assume that somehow, it’s going to come out that Darren Fairgood is really the fruit of Lisa’s loins – but it will only be revealed when Lisa has slipped into a coma, so she’ll never know.

But until then, we’re going to have to suffer through some crappy weeks of pizza making humor, one-armed band directing, and wondering if Wally is going to make it back to the states in one piece.
Pozzo
October 24th, 2006 at 7:43 am [Reply]

Incidentally, those keys mean Tommie has a new apartment. She’s moving out of 3G and into Brad’s bachelor pad in “Luann”.
Ohyes
October 24th, 2006 at 7:48 am [Reply]

MT – That Snake and Jake are slick. They can commit a robbery, undisguised, in daylight on a commercial street in their little, forest-abutting village, use their own familiar vehicle to “get away” to their home, and kick back and wonder what’s next. It was luck that the pedestrians didn’t just say, “It was Snake and Jake took the bear.” But it’s skill, professional poacher skill, that when the cops come round, they don’t answer the door!
Justafoob
October 24th, 2006 at 7:58 am [Reply]

“Iris is a sweatheart” trumpets Phil.

“I know. We are so lucky, Phil. We are so lucky.” muppeted Elly.

Yeah, you have a live in slave so you don’t have to change shitty Depends® every couple of hours.

Hopefully Gwampa can come away from his stroke enough to be the noble, wise gimp. Heaven knows, now that we don’t have the natives of Mtigwaskivania around, Shannon has a lot to pull. And her train doesn’t even make it all the way into the roundhouse.
Duane Schneider
October 24th, 2006 at 8:28 am [Reply]

good ol Tommie.

What a blockhead. (and if she went easier with the hairspray, she wouldn’t be)
Concerned Citizen
October 24th, 2006 at 9:01 am [Reply]

I could sort of see Mary getting a little pissed at Aldo’s advances (although she should have considered a relationship with him would have brought Mr. Moose and Mr. Greenjeans into her life), but she has now gone completely bat-shit crazy.

And what kind of hospital cafeteria is this anyway? It looks like they have other fare than deep-fried foods and Twinkies.
JohnWadd
October 24th, 2006 at 9:03 am [Reply]

A3G: Tommie, I’m happy that your brisk pantyless walk on the wild left you sated. But watcha gonna do with the Perfessor now that he’s 30 minutes into his Levitra hard-on?

MW: Cambodia is awash in cellphones these days. Really, I know. Now kids, fess up to Mary about dad’s asian daliances in a way that CRUSHES HER SPITEFUL HEART.
Albatross
October 24th, 2006 at 9:31 am [Reply]

Aldo’s death hasn’t slaked Mary’s thirst. Hallowe’en is just a week away, five minutes from now in Mary’s world, and whether father or children her Dark Gods will drink Cory blood.
elyse
October 24th, 2006 at 9:34 am [Reply]

I never thought I’d see the day when Mary Worth looked like she was starring in a rap video… word, M-Money, word up
jules
October 24th, 2006 at 9:36 am [Reply]

Today’s Foob: Anybody else notice the creepy eyeballs dominating Phil’s rearview mirror? Who or what, exactly, does he have in the backseat? Are we embarking on a Very Special Halloween Foob? I’d like to see that, now that I think of it.
AJ
October 24th, 2006 at 9:37 am [Reply]

FC, 10/24/06–I see the human/animal interspecies thing is contiuning. For some reason, Jeffy has grown “octopus” legs.
Donut
October 24th, 2006 at 9:42 am [Reply]

I like that in the first panel, Mary Worth is rolling a joint.

No wonder the doctors found time for lunch with her–have some Mary Jane with Mary!
andreavis
October 24th, 2006 at 9:56 am [Reply]

#120- Donut, you beat me to it! Mary is rolling a spliff right in front of the Cory spawn! Her technique is excellent, but will she offer to pass it?
Matt
October 24th, 2006 at 10:00 am [Reply]

At least the author of Mary Worth has removed any excrutiating decoding work on our part as readers. He helpfully labels the cartoon: “Jeff’s children tell Mary not to worry about their father.” and then he goes on to painfully iluustrate and put dialogue to exactly that. With no additional information to be gleaned from pictures or words. Why doesn’t he just write this as a novel and spare us the time?
bootsybooks
October 24th, 2006 at 10:01 am [Reply]

#122, cuz we’d never see her rolling a skinny for the kiddies!
"Ice Cold" Pierre Boulez
October 24th, 2006 at 10:10 am [Reply]

Mary Worth has finally won that “colossal bitch” award everyone wants to start a fund for so we can actually give it away. Regardless of her redundant ‘phone call’ gesture, Mary appears to think the world should revolve around her ass after losing any additional attention post-drunken careening (sic) off a cliff, now directed to the good doctor: “Screw your third world children work, I expect a phone call, bitch”.
Christopher
October 24th, 2006 at 10:23 am [Reply]

It bothers me a LOT that Funky Winkerbean is neither funky nor winkerbean.

Seriously, I lie awake nights worrying about it.
In other news, I have a new appreciation for Sally Forth from reading this site. Today’s punchline just comes completely out of nowhere.

I’m not sure it’s there yet, but I’m starting to look at it as superior to Blondie, Hi and Lois, Hagar the horrible, and all the other completely nonthreatening dinosaurs that roam across the frozen tundra of the newspaper page, or something. Sally Forth is probably like, a caveman, or something. But not the cavemen in BC. They suck.

Mallard Fillmore: Kim Jong Il and Don King. Seperated at Birth?

Judge Parker: Raju may be unhip, but he’s apparently a fan of Radiohead.
Kevin
October 24th, 2006 at 10:25 am [Reply]

Treedweller (#47) I went ahead and submitted my own Plugger:

“You’re a Plugger if your golf bag has woods actually made of wood.”

That does sound like something that would have probably already been done, but what the heck. Also, has anyone seen the Plugger from the 17th? Is it me or is that a Jeff Foxworthy joke someone recycled?
lesles
October 24th, 2006 at 10:29 am [Reply]

MW: in that first panel i thought she was giving the combat/drill signal for “danger area” – letting the kids know the territory they’d be stepping into should they thwart her will – before she calls for communications.

and 2fs and applegirl: better not let dingo catch you talking like that. remember the baby incident …
merchmesh
October 24th, 2006 at 10:35 am [Reply]

The true horror of todays TDIET is the news that Jimmy Cagney gangster films were actually released in the mid-sixties, when film tickets were only a quarter. Maybe you have to be a Plugger to have that sense of history.
Christopher
October 24th, 2006 at 10:41 am [Reply]

Also, I forgot to mention it, but Funky Winkerbean kind of reminds me of this
Mazeville
October 24th, 2006 at 11:06 am [Reply]

For some reason, in the 10/24 MW, I was drawn to the menu on the wall.

There’s a list entitled Meats, I guess. Items #2 and #3 are probably Chicken and Hamburger. But what’s #1? What meat starts with Ros?

This reminds me of that “LE” graffiti a while back on RMMD (or was it JP? I always confuse those two).

Hospital food is an interesting thing, actually. My husband covered the medical profession as a reporter, and did several stories on it. Although you’d think they’d just serve healthy stuff, they are somewhat at the mercy of customer demand. And customers demand greasy, fried foods MUCH more than they do veggies and low fat stuff.

It’s even more amusing to realize many of the customers are doctors, nurses, etc. Apparently, health care professionals don’t necesssary have “healthy” lifestyles.

Which comes full circle to the elder Dr. Cory…
MaryAnnTheRest
October 24th, 2006 at 11:10 am [Reply]

From Dick Tracy’s Crimestoppers Notebook: Kids, if your parents aren’t home, don’t give out this information–especially not to Dad’s spiteful girlfriend who just manipulated you into eating lunch with her. That lunch invitation could be from a woman WHOSE LAST KNOWN LOVE INTEREST DIED SUDDENLY AND VIOLENTLY!!
Harold
October 24th, 2006 at 11:22 am [Reply]

Is it possible that the keys Tommy is brandishing are the same keys that Mary Worth was using to taunt poor Aldo in this image?
http://www.cnn.com/2006/SHOWBIZ/10/18/eye.ent.worth/
In that case, perhaps Tommy’s “problem” has been “resolved” in the same way that Mary’s Aldo problem was “resolved”?
Internet Find
October 24th, 2006 at 11:25 am [Reply]

MT: Are we not supposed to notice that Ranger Miller looks like Mark’s twin, only with curly hair?
Bill
October 24th, 2006 at 11:37 am [Reply]

“Third World countries are so different that he can’t pop into a Net CafÃ© and use a VOIP connection over his bluetooth-enabled cellphone to talk to me wirelessly using the local satellite connection?

As if!“
Zikar
October 24th, 2006 at 11:39 am [Reply]

#108 – I personally have had boxes of popcorn that were convieniently labeled “Popcorn”. It can happen!
Dadzilla
October 24th, 2006 at 11:44 am [Reply]

10/24 – (DT)GT…”Stormy Hicks notches the sack” I am so tired of all these homoerotic references in GT.

RMMD – If his jaw is so sore, he should have had eggs benedict for breakfast. I worked with mentally ill prison inmates for 20 years and had my jaw broken and wired shut twice. I lost 30 lbs. in 6 weeks, but I don’t recommend it as a weight loss program. To this day I gag when I see a milkshake.
tefflan
October 24th, 2006 at 11:47 am [Reply]

Tefflan is on vacation right now, so, in place of his usual rapier-like comment, here is a rerun of a comment that we regard as a “Tefflan classic.”

[[[MW: Mary: â€œSo different that he canâ€™t pick up a phone and call home?â€

In a word, Mary, yes.

1. United States : Cambodia :: telephone : _______

a. jungle drum
b. smoke signals
c. yelling as loud as possible
d. all of the above

2. Gesture at side of head representing holding a telephone receiver : person trying to be â€œcoolâ€ :: using the word â€œcapisceâ€ : _______

a. person trying to be a â€œwise guyâ€
b. person trying to get rid of a stalker
c. person telling another person to get drunk and drive off a cliff
d. person is Mary Worth and has watched â€œDie Hardâ€ too many times

3. Unisex twins : craniopagy :: Mary Worth : _________
a. dumbass
b. busybody
c. passive aggressive
d. all of the above

Thanks for taking this quiz. Drop $50 certification fee to tefflan and receive 5 CEUs.]]]

Copyright 2006, Tefflan classics, all rights reserved.
Splinky
October 24th, 2006 at 11:48 am [Reply]

OK, Mary. In a perfect world, every impoverished nation would have postcards for sale on every corner and comprehensive cell phone coverage. Of course, in a perfect world, you would constantly be covered in fire ants.

So, yes, between the lack of proper sanitation, rampant disease, and crippling malnourishment, a third world country might just be different enough that Dr. Cory can’t muster up the enthusiasm to call and get all the details about whatever pot holder you might be knitting this week.
ohyes
October 24th, 2006 at 12:04 pm [Reply]

Judge Parker:

Raju! Remember the party mantra for guys: “Stick around. It’s early.”

And remember your Kama Sutra: Pleasant manner, confidence and… foot massage.
SmartPeopleOnIce
October 24th, 2006 at 12:16 pm [Reply]

#136 …and isn’t their interchange a little, well, odd?

I can’t open my mouth all the way, mom!

It sounds almost preemptive. Is this a request Elvis gets regularly from his mom? …ok honey buns, it’s 7 AM and you know what that means: time to open your mouth all the way! Leeeeet’s not go there…

#74 (Summerhouse) SPOI – Where ya been? Seems like youâ€™ve been gone.

Yep, I was away at a conference all last week. Kind of you to notice. Some folks take their laptops to those things, but I’ve found that’s just one more thing for the hookers to steal :-). So I was incommunicato.
AirForbes
October 24th, 2006 at 12:21 pm [Reply]

#133 MT: Are we not supposed to notice that Ranger Miller looks like Markâ€™s twin, only with curly hair?

All humans in the strip look like Mark’s twin:

Bad guys – Mark’s twin, only with a mullet or facial hair
Kelly Welly and other gals – Mark’s twin, only in a pink shirt
nancysluggo4ever
October 24th, 2006 at 12:22 pm [Reply]

71: Your MW scenario just made me splort. We can dream, can’t we?

And, Pluggers: seriously, how about a t-shirt that expresses exactly how much we despise that strip???
Potato
October 24th, 2006 at 12:38 pm [Reply]

Having been to Cambodia, I can say, “Yes, It is so different that one can’t just pick up the phone and call, Mary.” Assuming the doctor is in one of poorer areas of the country, phones would be relatively scarce. On top of that, the odds of getting a decent connection are fairly slim. On top of that, it is 13 hours ahead of CST, so there is only a hand-full of times a day when a call wouldn’t be waking someone up. Finally, Mary, you just sent a man to his death; haven’t you ruined enough lives already. Let the man prevent some early childhood malnutrition is peace.
benro
October 24th, 2006 at 12:51 pm [Reply]

RMMD – It’s pretty obvious where this is going. Niki is going to meet up with Rex at the free children’s clinic, and Rex will engage in a confrontation with Mama Skank and Elvis, while unbeknownst to him, Niki will proceed with stealing his wife’s identity.
Marion Delgado
October 24th, 2006 at 1:18 pm [Reply]

san antonio rose: that’s why i called the proposed Phantom/Trail crossover comic “The Ghost-who-walks vs. the Squirrel-who-talks”
Anon
October 24th, 2006 at 1:24 pm [Reply]

If you post comments on news stories that you post links to on wordpress, you might be a blogger.
Jorge2090
October 24th, 2006 at 1:54 pm [Reply]

##120 & 121 – Pass the dutchie on the left hand side?
Proteus
October 24th, 2006 at 2:12 pm [Reply]

#130
Could be:
Rosemary-Smoked Peruvian Oysters
Rosewater-drowned Songbird Pate
Roswell-style Alien BBQ
Rosh Hashashan Honey-Dipped Apple Hash

But probably is:
Rost Beef

With gravey.
MJ1066
October 24th, 2006 at 2:14 pm [Reply]

Sally Forth: That Ted is such a crybaby. He should be saying a prayer of thanks that his only problem is being upset by other’s people’s alleged lack of creativity in Halloween costumes.
MJ1066
October 24th, 2006 at 2:17 pm [Reply]

Sorry, that should have been “other people’s,” not “other’s people’s.” I still think that Ted Forth is a whiner.
JoJo
October 24th, 2006 at 2:50 pm [Reply]

It’s a sign of the Apocolypse: Today’s TDIET actually amused me. I had the exact experience with my parents. They bought and installed a jumbo hi-def TV and spent the rest of the day watching B&W Turner Classic movies.
Jahqdruh
October 24th, 2006 at 2:50 pm [Reply]

10/24 A3G: Sheesh — even the Professor is jumping on the “Good Ol’ Tommie” bandwagon.

I would love to see Tommie grab the professor by his jacket, drag him into the apartment, and proceed to show him that there is a bad side to her. Very bad. And it involves leather, zip ties, a whip and a can of Cheese Spam.
Derelict
October 24th, 2006 at 2:58 pm [Reply]

So I wonder how many more “good old Tommies” she’ll endure before she snaps? And what form will that snapping take? Serious debauchery? Or over-the-top born-again puritanism?

Maybe she can apply for a transfer–after MW finally croaks from the rare and incurable tropical venereal disease Dr. Cory brings home, she can take over in Charterstone.

Hmmmm…..Tommie Worth….Hmmmmm……..
Red Greenback
October 24th, 2006 at 3:06 pm [Reply]

Today’s MF: Nice to see Kim Jong Il rocking Dockersâ„¢ and Lands’ End-Just like me!
Da Scrodfather
October 24th, 2006 at 3:19 pm [Reply]

The name “Ranger Rick” doesn’t make anyone else think of that raccoon from that Wildlife for Kids magazine? This COTW attempt would be a helluva lot more effective if I could remember the mag’s name.
MGArchitect
October 24th, 2006 at 3:21 pm [Reply]

To: Mary
From: Dr Jeff

I’m sorry my dear that I haven’t called you lately but I have been very busy. You will be happy to know that recently I saved the life of one of the townsfolk who was severly depressed after he was rejected by the love of his life. He almost killed himself after driving off of a cliff after drinking an entire bottle of Johnny Walker. It was my intervention that saved his life. It reminded me of how important you are to me. So what’s new with you?
Audible Sigh
October 24th, 2006 at 3:42 pm [Reply]

#155: Ranger Rick -A talking raccoon ranger would make sense in Mark Trail’s neck of the woods.
ragthetiger
October 24th, 2006 at 4:04 pm [Reply]

#59: 2fs, I suspect neither you nor Harry Paratestes are from Noo Yawk/ Noo Joisey. I said Harry’s name aloud several times but was bewildered until I tried talking like a tourist – then I got it. I always thought that name meant something like “almost as good as, but not quite” testes, as in paralegal or paraprofessional. You see, we here in Noo Yawk would never think of merry, marry and Mary as homonyms, and we know the Staten Island ferry doesn’t have gossamer wings and a magic wand.
Miss Alexandra.
October 24th, 2006 at 4:06 pm [Reply]

It’s totally obvious in today’s Mary Worth, that in the last panel, Mary is imagining all the different ways she wants Dr. Jeff Cory… er…

I think I need a bath now..
Steve Sturdevant
October 24th, 2006 at 4:07 pm [Reply]

Doesn’t a talking raccoon ranger make sense everywhere?
Islamorada Girl
October 24th, 2006 at 4:11 pm [Reply]

Unless it’s Halloween and the Staten Island fairy is heading for Christopher Street.
compass rose
October 24th, 2006 at 4:27 pm [Reply]

#155
Oddly enough, it’s called “Ranger Rick.”

(Unless you are thinking of “My Big Backyard,” which is for the tiny tots – Ranger Rick appears there too, on occasion)
Uncle Lumpy
October 24th, 2006 at 4:35 pm [Reply]

I’m puzzled by the current Phantom plotline.

So the Doorman is smuggling people “desperate for hope of a better life” – into Bangalla.

I gotta ask – where are these poor sods coming from that Bangalla looks so sweet? And shouldn’t the Phantom be working there?
Mike
October 24th, 2006 at 4:42 pm [Reply]

I haven’t taken the time to search all the comments about Mary Worth / Aldo / Dr Jeff, but has it been mentioned that Aldo and Dr Jeff were the same person? The good doctor left in a hurry, but was he seen on the plane? Was “Aldo” testing the faithfulness of Mary? Did he then fall so much into the character of Aldo that he couldn’t face the rejection?
Mmmmm… I wonder….
Jennifer
October 24th, 2006 at 5:03 pm [Reply]

Meanwhile, in Luann

Duhn-duhn-duuuuuuuuuuuuhhhhnnnn!

He’s baa-aack…
Uncle Lumpy
October 24th, 2006 at 5:07 pm [Reply]

#165 Jennifer -

Gack. I can’t wait until Aaron Hill hooks up with Toni Daytona and sticks LuAnn with Brad.
MonkeyHawk
October 24th, 2006 at 5:09 pm [Reply]

Doctor Jeff Cory will return on Halloween and, in in the spirit of the holiday, will purchase a Captain Kangaroo costume at the Bankcock Airport.
B
October 24th, 2006 at 5:10 pm [Reply]

I imagine a plugger’s diary at age 10, or any age after that, would be something like this:
http://www.angryalien.com/amys_diary.html
cheech wizard
October 24th, 2006 at 5:26 pm [Reply]

165 – Hmmmm – you don’t suppose “Aaron Hill” might really be Tiffany, paying LuAnn back for the talent agent scam? After all, they were last seen engaging in a literal MySpace catfight.

Then again, Tiffany’s not that clever. For that matter, neither is Greg Evans.
cheech wizard
October 24th, 2006 at 5:44 pm [Reply]

A3G – Tommie looks awfully happy about not getting laid – because let’s face it, the reason she’s called “Tommie” is that she looks like a 12-year-old boy when naked.

Meanwhile, the Professor’s ears sure perked up when he heard Tommie has resolved her problem. No doubt he’s hoping that her “problem” is a secret yearning that she wants to resolve by jumping him like a pogo stick. Boy, is he going to be disappointed. Not only that, but he ran out of paper bags to put over Gina’s head, so he won’t be able to expend his pent-up lust that way either. Tough luck, pal.
Bobdog
October 24th, 2006 at 5:45 pm [Reply]

MW: She wouldn’t want him any other way because if he weren’t a work-a-holic he might want to engage in nasty, gross sex-type stuff. Mary is peeved not because she feels abandoned by her one true love, but rather his violation of her Miss Manners sense of ettiquette — imagine, not calling her at the intervals proper decorum perscribes for a charming but chaste liason which they are sharing! There is no escape clause in the book of proper ettiquette for 3rd World Conditions, Dr. Jeff.

I think she’s not so much interested in actually making contact with Dr. Jeff as she is haranguing his children so they know what a horrible man their father is.
Bobdog
October 24th, 2006 at 5:46 pm [Reply]

MW: She wouldn’t want him any other way because if he weren’t a work-a-holic he might want to engage in nasty, gross sex-type stuff. Mary is peeved not because she feels abandoned by her one true love, but rather his violation of her Miss Manners sense of ettiquette — imagine, not calling her at the intervals proper decorum perscribes for a charming but chaste liason which they are sharing! There is no escape clause in the book of proper ettiquette for 3rd World Conditions, Dr. Jeff!

I think she’s not so much interested in actually making contact with Dr. Jeff as she is haranguing his children so they know what a horrible man their father is.
AppleGirl
October 24th, 2006 at 5:47 pm [Reply]

168 – I’ve been laughing like a fool at that Dairy. Thanks for the link, it’s brilliant!
deadkitty
October 24th, 2006 at 5:56 pm [Reply]

I find it eerie that Pluggers apparently show no signs of aging or gender.
ben
October 24th, 2006 at 6:03 pm [Reply]

#173: You dumb pig ….
Sinig
October 24th, 2006 at 6:37 pm [Reply]

Just at the moment that Mary threatens to force-feed Drew and Adrian her ’special’ apple cake, on a tropical island far away from Cambodia and far, far away from Charterstone, Dr Jeff Cory takes another sip of his White Russian. He snuggles up closer to the blonde on his right, taking care to caress with his foot, the redhead on his left.

Suddenly, on the horizon, he spots something white, something that looks like a white head. He sits straight up, startling his nubile teenage consorts. It couldn’t be…and it isn’t. It was just a bit of sea foam and not Mary Worth, that hag, that old bag that he finally ditched. It was all so easy, just wine and dine her and spin her a tale about do-gooding in Cambodia. He sighed in relief. And not only that, but he had also escaped the greedy clutches of his children who had done everything to try to keep in in their power; they had even become doctors so they could watch him – watch him! – at the hospital.

He looked at the sea again and shuddered. Mary couldn’t find him here, could she? He had even gone to the trouble to distract her by arranging her to ‘accidentally’ meet the cousin of one of the Charterstone inmates, a man who had recently lost his wife under mysterious circumstances. Maybe he could ‘lose’ Mary as well… What could go wrong?
dramashoes
October 24th, 2006 at 7:34 pm [Reply]

For the love of Margo, when will the stomach churning pluggerisms end? What’s next, a little baby kangaroo and a bunny or something, and they’re playing with a coloring book and it says “Plugger Photoshop?” Hoo Hoo Hoo, that would be so funny! Haw! Or maybe Rhino Man with no clothes on, and a stack of Playboys next to him, and it says, “A Plugger works out his issues?” Har Har! Get it? Like “issues” of the magazine? I know- a pimply faced teenage raccoon driving his father’s piece of shit car off a cliff into an ocean of fire, and his squirrel father is chasing after him and it says, “Plugger valet parking?” Ok, I know, that one didn’t make any sense. I just want to see some Pluggers catch on fire and die.
Anonymous
October 24th, 2006 at 7:52 pm [Reply]

#26 Emily. I would pay Moy a gazillion samolians to change the name of the strip from Mary Worth to Daft Bitch. For one, think of the possibilities on the school yard:

Margo: Tommie, I heard Sonja say that Elroy heard Kinja tell Lamont that Bertrice blurted out to Sammy that Gina and Ari went roadside.

Tommie: Margo, you’re one daft bitch!

Margo: I’m not THAT old!
MonkeyHawk
October 24th, 2006 at 7:52 pm [Reply]

If we ever get around to organizing a Comics Curmudgeon reunion, I demand “Sinig” and “dramashoes” bring at least a bowlful of what they’ve been smoking.
Dingo
October 24th, 2006 at 7:54 pm [Reply]

Damn, I forgot my name. I’m not Anon the Moose. I’m a dingo. #178 is mine.

Gosh, if only the world of dibs worked in the comics. I’d have Mark Trail’s feet in stirrups and a jar of Vaseline on the nightstand faster than he could lose a bear from a Jeep. Throw in chicken-kickin’ Hoyt on a 3-day weekend. Woof.
heckler123
October 24th, 2006 at 7:55 pm [Reply]

Am I the only one that longs for more blood, violence, and obscenity in these comics? It looked to me like MW was flashing a gang sign in yesterday’s strip, but that obviously went nowhere.
hogenmogen
October 24th, 2006 at 7:56 pm [Reply]

#172 – Bobdog:
“I think sheâ€™s not so much interested in actually making contact with Dr. Jeff as she is haranguing his children so they know what a horrible man their father is.”

Is he this bad? I don’t know if no one else caught it (hard to believe) or if I’m just out of sorts because I’ve had a tumultuous few days and couldn’t check every post (more likely). A father abandoning his young son – a son who apparently is still at the age when he idolizes dear Dad. I’m the father of two young children. I couldn’t imagine abandoning them at a time of crisis (like the sudden airal onslaught from a pair of McDonald’s arches) and cheerfully diving down a conveniently placed manhole essentially saying “Y’all are on your own, ladies!” Actually, he says even worse than that, since “For me to know and for you to find out” implies that he’s willing his son to be eaten in order to satiate the appetite of the arches so they won’t come hunting for him as well. Hart hasn’t just “lost it”, he’s full on malicious in the guise of a God-fearing, bible-thumping, supposedly family strip. Say what you will about the evil doers in the world, but Saddam was grooming his sons to take on leadership roles. Kim Jong Il’s father put Kim in charge, and Kim is grooming his own sons to take succession. Even Bush Sr. worked on Bush Jr. (should have worked a bit harder, but at this point – whatever). Even vicious terrorists blow up other people’s kids. What kind of sick, twisted moral compass has Hart been consulting lately? And above it all – This is supposed to be FUNNY??
heckler123
October 24th, 2006 at 8:01 pm [Reply]

Uh..Hogenmogen, when I clicked on your link it took me to a B.C. comic about gambling.
Treadwell
October 24th, 2006 at 8:18 pm [Reply]

158: I’m glad you NYers don’t consider merry, marry and Mary homonyms, because they aren’t.

I am curious, however, about how you were originaly pronouncing Harry Paratestes.
Uncle Lumpy
October 24th, 2006 at 8:18 pm [Reply]

#183 heckler -

Sunday’s BC re: annelid abandonment.
hogenmogen
October 24th, 2006 at 8:22 pm [Reply]

http://featurepage.creators.com/washpost.html?next=3&name=bc

Sorry, I was referring to Sunday’s strip. This should be it.
benro
October 24th, 2006 at 8:29 pm [Reply]

Try this link to Sunday’s BC. Hogenmogen’s link was to the current comic, which was correct two days ago, but not today.
benro
October 24th, 2006 at 8:31 pm [Reply]

By the way, I only recently started reading Luann (because of this confounded web site). Can someone please explain to me the signifigance of Aaron Hill?
dramashoes
October 24th, 2006 at 8:40 pm [Reply]

#179 monkeyhawk: Actually, I’m additive-free, thanks. Stupid bullshit is my anti-drug.
Doc Bill
October 24th, 2006 at 8:45 pm [Reply]

Aaron Hill is Kenny reincarnated.

How else could you explain that Aaron is “killed” from Luann time and time again, only to return?

Aaron is on the rebound because in a strange twisting of the fabric of Comic Space, Dr. Jeff Corey returning from the Third World via Honolulu hooked up with Aaron’s Hawaiian honey, proving to be the “bigger man.”
ragthetiger
October 24th, 2006 at 9:19 pm [Reply]

#161 – Ooh, good point, Islamadora girl!

#184 – “Harry” like “carry”, not “scary”; and “Para” like “Lara’, as in Dr Zhivago.
yellojkt
October 24th, 2006 at 9:24 pm [Reply]

Tommy:Ted::Luann:Aaron
Air Forbes
October 24th, 2006 at 9:35 pm [Reply]

Luann: Greg Evans is getting more wrapped up MySpace than most teenagers I know.
Jennifer
October 24th, 2006 at 9:57 pm [Reply]

note to benro: Aaron Hill was never actually killed.

Aaron Hill started out as Luann’s secret crush back when she was a very ordinary, gawky girl. She eventually got his attention, got a makeover, upgraded to friend-of-Aaron, and then the strip spent several years dancing around whether he LIKED-her liked-her, and when it seemed he might, SHE waffled around about it, too. Eventually, after many variations on this theme, Aaron moved to Hawaii, never to be heard from again…

Until today… maybe he’s now homeless thanks to that earthquake (he did always seem rather parentless) and will be needing to crash on her couch… or with BRAD in the new house?! AIGH.
Jennifer
October 24th, 2006 at 10:00 pm [Reply]

ragthetiger

Where are you from that â€œHarry,â€ â€œcarry,â€ and â€œscaryâ€ don’t rhyme?
fillmoreeast
October 24th, 2006 at 10:10 pm [Reply]

Incidentally, the Boston Globe yesterday decided not to run Tinsley’s attempt to excuse Foley by attacking the recently deceased. They replaced it with a strip from two years ago, playing the Hannity-esque card of encouraging people not to vote.

Only in the sad, vitriolic, spiritually empty world of Mallard Fillmore would an exhortation to abdicate one’s social responsibilities be considered a relatively lightweight, acceptable selection.
treedweller
October 24th, 2006 at 10:16 pm [Reply]

196 we got that strip in Austin, too. Actually, to me, it seemed to advocate that those who have abdicated their social responsibility to educate themselves on the issues not go out and muck up the process by voting blindly. As always, a little too much simplification for my taste, but the closest I’ve ever come to agreeing with the effing duck.

Now, look what you’ve done. You’ve gone and made me defend MF. I will curse you forever.
san antone rose
October 24th, 2006 at 10:42 pm [Reply]

“and now the Island of Dr. Jeff will ensure the supply of giant talking animals for Mark Trail will continue forever. ”

Yay!
fillmoreeast
October 24th, 2006 at 10:51 pm [Reply]

197: Don’t worry. You know that on Planet Tinsley, the people who don’t “know” the issues are the ones who don’t vote for the most right-wing option, Fox News-approved option available. I agree with the idea that the totally ignorant shouldn’t vote, but you know that’s not what he was going for.
san antone rose
October 24th, 2006 at 11:00 pm [Reply]

145 – fabulous! talking squirrels are the best.

147 – pass the dutchie…now that takes me back to the good ol’ days of taping songs off the radio.

And now that I think about it, MW is clearly “hanging loose” with that hand signal. Which we all know is a reference to testicles. Oh, yeah. She likes the ol’ teabag.
mcmc
October 24th, 2006 at 11:06 pm [Reply]

playing the Hannity-esque card of encouraging people not to vote.

Anyone who would listen to that damned duck shouldn’t be voting anyway.
Gringo
October 24th, 2006 at 11:13 pm [Reply]

MW: Oh my, oh my…not only does Wednesday’s strip feature an over-use of the words “comings and goings” but it looks like there’s a brand new biddy moving into Charterstone!

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/style/comics/king.htm?name=Mary_Worth

Of course, that doesn’t explain the asexual creature walking behind her but, hey, this is Mary Worth, the land where “explanation” means “nonsensical self-righteousness”.
Jennifer
October 24th, 2006 at 11:18 pm [Reply]

#201 mcmc

Anyone who would listen to that damned duck shouldnâ€™t be voting anyway.

T-shirt!!!

(also, RMMD — I miss the Sin City version of this strip. The art devolved back into the ordinary after those few glimpses of s’h'exy… *sigh*)
Bill Peschel
October 24th, 2006 at 11:27 pm [Reply]

Ah, Charterstone, the roach motel of the California gerentocracy.

Biddies check in, but they don’t check out!
Anonymous
October 24th, 2006 at 11:39 pm [Reply]

MW: Charterstone’s Brand New Biddy (BNB) looks like an elderly version of Ruthie from “One Big Happy.”

RMMD: They say this chick Salami Mommy is a bad mother-shut-your-mouth…
Anonymous
October 25th, 2006 at 3:04 am [Reply]

143: Let the man prevent some early childhood malnutrition is peace.

Oh, “early childhood malnutrition”: so that’s what we’re calling it now.
Amy
October 25th, 2006 at 6:03 am [Reply]

202, the woman walking in with the new biddy is her daughter, the Episcopal priest.
Len
October 25th, 2006 at 6:22 am [Reply]

Sunday’s “B.C.” –

Worms! They’ve got no love of their progeny. Birds coming? Eat Junior! Eat Junior! And if I recall correctically, worms are all androgynous. Two worms mate, and both go away pregnant. Easy come, easy go.

But even in B.C., I think worms do not have to accept Beezus as their personal Savior.

I thought at first this was a family of serpents, and they’d be bashed to death by the Fat Broad.

In a cross-over to Fambly Circus, Mr. and Mrs. Worm are seen crawling in the topsoil of the backyard. “Another helping of Beast, m’Dear?” “No thanks, I’m stuffed.”
ragthetiger
October 25th, 2006 at 7:26 am [Reply]

Jennifer – Harry/carry yes, Harry/scary no.
Jennifer
October 25th, 2006 at 7:42 am [Reply]

ragthetiger –
ah. so how do you pronounce ’scary’? ’cause ’round these here parts, all three rhyme.
ragthetiger
October 25th, 2006 at 8:16 am [Reply]

Jennifer – Harry, marry, carry with a short A; scary, hairy, Mary, fairy with a long A; merry, ferry, very with a short E. The three pronunciations sound very different to the ear where I come from. Guess it’s a regional thing.
Jennifer
October 25th, 2006 at 8:49 am [Reply]

gotcha. divided by a common language, indeed :)
Skullturf Q. Beavispants
October 25th, 2006 at 12:38 pm [Reply]

See this wikipedia entry on the Mary-merry-marry merger.
ragthetiger
October 25th, 2006 at 1:22 pm [Reply]

Skullturf, that’s fascinating! Yeah, that’s me, the New York-New Jersey accent.

The only real problem I have with the merged pronunciation is that it makes Erin and Aaron sound exactly alike (to my New York-bred ears, anyway). Someone can tell me their new baby’s name and I have to listen for more clues before I know if it’s a boy or a girl.
Skullturf Q. Beavispants
October 25th, 2006 at 2:03 pm [Reply]

I was in a karaoke bar last night, here in my newly adopted hometown of Toronto, and the host called a singer to the stage, and I couldn’t tell if he was saying “Don” or “Dawn” so I didn’t know if a man or woman was about to come up.

I grew up on Canada’s west coast, and I think that both there and in Toronto, the difference between Don and Dawn is almost negligible. But if I’m speaking very slowly and emphatically for some reason, I might make a subtle distinction between the two.
King Folderol
October 25th, 2006 at 5:38 pm [Reply]

I was thinking Margo’s dismembered corpse. But Ted’s works, too.

Mary’s making the universal hand job gesture, but the artist forgot to draw the lines indicating motion. And that’s what Jeff’s going to be doing if he doesn’t call soon.
Robster
October 25th, 2006 at 11:11 pm [Reply]

My brother is working at a hospital in Kenya. I got an email from him a week ago. We’ll probably get a call from him on Thanksgiving. For a real human being, he’s a lot more thoughtful than some 2D jerk on the funny pages.
nemoErensenuT
February 9th, 2008 at 6:54 pm [Reply]

I’d prefer reading in my native language, because my knowledge of your languange is no so well. But it was interesting! Look for some my links:
PedroSteckecilo
March 17th, 2008 at 3:06 pm [Reply]

The complete failure of the pluggers joke enrages me, never has one comic made so many stupid jokes that proove “You know your a plugger if your an out of touch geezer who can’t even be bothered to research your joke because it’ll illicit the proper reaction from your lazy hillbilly IQ 60 fanbase anyway”.

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