There’s only four women for the six men, bad news for somebody
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Gil Thorp, 11/21/23
Hey, remember earlier this year, when Gil Thorp did a ripped from the headlines story about about a player who got terribly hurt during a game, only unlike the headlines, where professional athletes refused to return to play, the high school students were forced to forced to finish the game while their friend might’ve been dying? Well, looks like it’s happening again, and this time the injured student is Coach Luke’s son, still playing for Valley Tech even after his dad had to take a job working for his hated rival Gil Thorp. Why do these gruesome injuries keep happening to Valley Conference players? Probably for the same reason that the games continue after the kids are medivac’d off the field: because none of the adults involved care whether the student-athletes live or die.
Mary Worth, 11/21/23
“Did you know that this huge, beefy hunk is also a man-whore, who has impregnated at least one woman, via sex? Do with that information what you will, though if what you’re going to do with it is masturbation or dissociative fantasies during your thrice annual marital encounter with Ian, please feel free not to tell me.”
Beetle Bailey, 11/21/23
I know Beetle is using “neat” in the first panel to mean “tidy” but it’s hard for me to not read it as just “good” in general. He likes beds! He spends a lot of time in them, and has come to appreciate the ones that are especially interesting or high-quality.
Hagar the Horrible, 11/21/23
Hagar and his warriors have all suffered battle wounds during their latest raid, and their loved ones are waiting for them as they return to Norway, doing their best to nurse them back to health. That’s not a joke or anything, just a thing that’s happening in this comic strip!
207 replies to “There’s only four women for the six men, bad news for somebody”
Mark Trail: What kind of marital…PROBLEMS did Connor have that could only be rectified by running off into the woods? Sexual frustration. After bingewatching Mutual of Omaha’s Wild Kingdom his latent bestiality came to fore. In a lustful frenzy he ran into Lost Forest, ahem, “looking for love” that his wife could not longer supply.
Dustin: Ed Kudlick’s a total selfish dick, part 2,343,283.
Mary Worth Mashups: Which missing final panel do you think best illustrates what Mary’s alluding to?
MW: Toby tries her best to follow Mary’s lead; “Drink?….cup?…Muffin?…Not,” She thinks.
@Baja Gaijin: Well, thanks, Baja. I can’t unsee any of them, but I was at least relieved to see that was Grandma Keane, not Mary, sporting the WW outfit.
MW: Judging by the expression on Mary’s face, her dialogue should read: “Girrrl! You won’t BELIEVE this sh*t!”
9CL: Like obnoxious, self-absorbed mother, like obnoxious, narcissistic daughter.
BB: Something tells me that Julius is #2 on Sarge’s “Beat to a Whimpering Pulp” list.
Hagar: Today’s strip correctly depicts the fact that the Vikings definitely had contact with the Berber, Turkish and Arab worlds, and probably some migration or inter-marriage occurred. The suggestion that severe impalements were survivable in an era before blood donation and antibiotics is less historically justifiable.
BB: The fact “Julius” is written slightly differently (with a narrower pen nib, by the looks of it) is an interesting glance behind the curtain – whoever lettered this obviously had to put their pen down to look up what ‘chubby blond soldier who loves tidying’ was called, and then picked up the wrong one. If even Beetle Bailey‘s creators can’t remember their one-note side characters, what hope is there for the rest of us?
MW: Toby sips her muffin and listens eagerly for the details of Keith Hillend’s recently resurfaced PERSONAL history.
Beetle Bailey-Beetle, that’s Killer’s bed and those aren’t mints.
Six Chix-I would say nothing like beating a joke into the ground but what joke.
RMMD-“That’s it. I’m going down to the courthouse to end this myself.”
JP-Yes. I’m sure you will be “coming” down hard on April.
FC-“So that guy we saw is a pumpkin pie?”
People used to say that The Far Side was one of the darkest, most twisted comics out there.
Let’s compare:
-The Far Side: Vikings coming back to their ship from a raid of pillage and murder, their dog is happily waiting for them wagging its tail.
-Hagar: The Vikings coming back home brutally wounded and their wives tending to them, one guy has a literal F***ING sword in his chest.
Looks like we have a new champion.
I’m confused by Beetle’s expression going all grim in the second panel. It was all fun and games at first, but the addition of the mints took it too far, apparently.
It actually looks like Julius has laid condoms on the pillow. What kind of hotel did he work in, anyway?
RMMD:
“The next machine that has the power to pass/Will get this plasm in its goggle glass.”
“This is no time to be reciting Robert Frost poetry, Pops. And besides, it’s not a train engine you’re mad at — it’s Belluso!”
Beetle Bailey : “Mints? Those are condoms, for me and my boyfriend later tonight.” “Y-YOU CAN’T SAY THAT!” “…They repealed ‘Don’t ask, don’t tell’ AGES ago, Beetle.”
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Bizarro : is undershooting how much black comedy there is in the situation. I mean, it’s roughly “Convict : How long will my prison sentence be? Lawyer : It’ll be over tomorrow, after they execute you.”, isn’t it?
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Gil Thorp : can afford being an incompetent who constantly loses, but knows his rivals CAN’T.
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Hagar the Horrible : I like how two are the vikings are pretty obviously MORTALLY wounded, too. Getting back home alive just means their loved ones get closure
and also to watch them die.**********
Luann : Wait, don’t these dorms lock electronically to keep non-residents out? Wouldn’t Bets student card not work anymore, or did she pay for a college semester+dorm fees she would be spending driving across North America?
I mean, if anyone can get in after curfew, that means Bernice’s whole angsting during the initial Piro storyline was completely baseless
which would make a lot of sense…**********
Six Chix vs Slylock Fox : nice synchronicity. Though wait, instead of a pumpkin slowly rotting off of Bianca’s head, we’re getting aliens having a terrible vacation on Earth?
Phantom: Four days of Savarna fanservice this past week? I like this timeline.
BB: I think I’m in dirty mind mode right now… as those mints look like nipples.
I was going to make a joke about that… but that just made me realize how much I miss Chip Gizmo and his canonical (terrifying) sex-robots.
B. Bailey: Julius replies; “I used to work in a hotel. By the way, that’s a neat grout brush you have there, Beetle.”
“Thanks, I use to work in a Turkish bath.”
Thus begins this year’s Camp Swampy Avant Garde theater production of No Exit.
MW:
“He has a little guttersnipe of a daughter who could give Mao Zedong’s wife Jiang Qing a run for her money when it comes to spouting Marxist cliches!”
MW – will the next storyline confront Toby’s obvious cocaine addiction? Her septum has completely eroded and no one is mentioning it.
GT: It may seem a bit melodramatic to summon a helicopter to evacuate a football player with a knee injury, but you have to remember, this is the vast expanse of Milford we’re talking about. Visiting your mother in the local retirement home requires at least a week of PTO for travel time, and returning home from your favorite bar in town after receiving your annual Coach of the Year plaudits means chartering a private flight. Honestly, they probably should have used a Fulton Recovery System with a faster fixed-wing aircraft instead; even if it’s just an ACL tear, Li’l Hernnadez will be long dead before the chopper gets him all the way to that distant local hospital.
HtH: Holy smokes, how did they publish this shocking brutality? From bow to stern, we’ve got:
– a guy who will be dead in minutes,
– a guy who will be dead by morning,
– a guy who is apparently blind from the Saxons’ use of poison gas artillery,
– another guy who won’t see tomorrow’s sunrise,
– Lucky Eddie, who has an orbital fracture and has lost an arm, and
– Hagar, who has suffered an unspeakable war crime involving a boat oar.
Grim stuff for Tuesday morning funnies.
GT: Is this possibly the most homoerotic strip Gil Thorp has ever produced? I’m not sure what’s going to be going on all night, but I’ll bet it goes ‘whup whup whup…’
MW: I like how Mary doesn’t even try to be discrete about dishing on the new neighbor. I mean look how smug she looks! “Yeah, I caught a pretty hot one this time. It’s like I always say, Toby: keep at least 4 casseroles on hand at all times, you never know when one is going to pay big gossipy dividends.”
BB: Those aren’t mints, those are condoms. Two condoms. I’m not sure how much clearer Julius could telegraph his message to you, Beetle.
HtH: Ha it’s funny cuz that woman at the end is just here to pick up her husband’s corpse! Hopefully he died on the battlefield and not slowly afterwards from gangrene! :D
JP: Yes, April. Your life would be a whole lot easier if you just killed Sam.
When the jolly band of six left home, they dreamed of foreign lands, treasure, the sating of their bloodlust, and the love of their families. Many Franks suffered for this, my brothers!
As the battered but victorious longboat returns, it becomes apparent that Othilia and Alfhidir are not amongst the crowd waiting to celebrate. They’ve left for the bright fires of Trondheim, the opportunity to be more than just a wound tender, worried about a sudden traumatic berserking during the long Norwegian winter.
Today’s Hagar didn’t provide a joke, but the guy crying while pointing at the arrow in his head made me laugh.
As Mary describes how it’s par for the course for marines and cops to be strong and silent, but basically “good guys,” even fucking Toby is sitting there thinking, “Your experiences are not universal, Mary.”
GT: I look forward to tomorrow’s strip where Gil ups the stakes. “What’s the matter? Are you chicken? Bok bok bok!”
MW: Of course you’re “intrigued by his personal history.” That’s where the meddling gold is, baby!
BB: Unfortunately, mints aren’t regulation, so Sarge will have to beat the crap out of Julius later.
HtH: They tried to offset the grimdarkness of medieval battle with the whimsicality of the longboat also suffering injuries. Just don’t anthropomorphize the boat.
@nescio: Do you think he’s saying, “I’m a WILD and CRAZY guy!”
MARY WORTH: I love Mary’s smug grin like she’s the Queenpin of Gossip or something. Good thing Toby has her cup ready because Mary is like a kettle boiling to spill the hot tea!
MW: On the lawn outside Mary’s apartment, Carlos Alora sighed in resignation and disgust as he drew on his gardening gloves. “These two will make 26 in this week alone,” he muttered, opening a lawn and leaf bag that was already nearly full. He had agreed with Mary that the problem should be dealt with, somehow, but the solution she had demanded went against both his advice and his principles—not to mention his phobias, as the installation and the daily maintenance often required him to climb the dreaded extension ladder. Altogether, Mary’s remedy seemed extreme, just because of some bird poop. He could see Mary and Toby chatting gleefully as he worked, but his own expression was grim. Carlos grunted with the effort as he once again peeled dead doves off the sticky trap film that now covered the windows of Charterstone.
MW: Mary is going to tease this out over the course of the next week or so…did she get her story telling training from Mozz over at “The Phantom”?
GT: The county goes to great lengths in order to keep Gil engaged in football for more than a week instead of wandering over by the basketball court to go make up names for this years roster.
Frazz: Was this guest-written by Batiuk? It’s a bunch of nonsense masquerading as a joke.
Luann: “No, his name is Ox, not Bull.” Anyway, I’m looking forward to Bets getting arraigned on assault and battery charges.
CS: ah ha ha ha it is a good thing we had the set up from yesterday so the final panel made sense
9CL: Something something apples and trees.
Zits: Turkeys are stupid. They definitely don’t know what class they are, let alone their phylum or order.
FC: “And it’s not Pi, so you don’t have to lobotomize yourself. Not that anyone would notice.”
@4 Charterstoned: One panel that got nixed included a Speedo-clad Wilbur Weston. I didn’t want to traumatize myself so…
@Baja Gaijin: Each of those is freaky in its own way.
GIL THORP: Ohohoho, I see Gil is playing the long game here. Making an opponent (and you rival’s son to boot) take a helicopter ride to hospital insuring that the transportation bill alone will have him indebted for years, almost literally adding insult to injury! Are we sure Luke is the vindictive vengeful-minded coach of the strip?
@4 Charterstoned: One panel that got nixed included a Speedo-clad Wilbur Weston. I didn’t want to traumatize myself so…
@33 taig: Would including Dagwood into one of the scenes been freaky too?
FC: Thel hasn’t made a pie with a ‘roof’ on it since Big Bil’s American Pie moment.
@Baja Gaijin: Yes, especially if he were inhaling some food item.
Luann: It sure is useful that this strip told us that Stef is the bad guy, because I’m still baffled on what exactly she supposedly did. Either Stef forcibly posted that photo on Bets’ stream, which is not a possible thing that could ever actually happen without some hacking shenanigans of which Stef is completely incapable, or Bets is the one who screwed up and showed it to her stream, which isn’t Stef’s fault at all. Regardless, Stef is the designated villain, so it’s perfectly justified for Bets to hunt her down and assault her in her home.
JP: It’s adorable when this strip pretends it has consequences.
RMMD: What lesser charges? Did Rene’s lawyers negotiate his attempted murder charge down to swimming without a lifeguard or something? And wouldn’t Rene have already been on probation from his previous prison sentences? For goodness’s sake, Beatty, just move on from this foolishness already.
MW:
SANTA ROYALE CLARION-BUGLE
Tuesday, November 21, 2023
CHARTERSTONE RESIDENT SPONTANEOUSLY COMBUSTS
Purple cowl-neck blouse worn by elderly resident for 3,568th consecutive day suspected accelerant
Gil Thorp: Gil’s ego is unbreakable because he treats both victory and failure as an excuse to humble-brag obnoxiously.
Mary Worth: I see Mary is just straight up admitting now that she’s only in it for the drama and meddling. At least she’s being honest for once.
Beetle Bailey: I do like the implication that Julius sneaks off-base to steal mints from a local hotel so he can accurately replicate his rituals from his motel days. Presumably we’ll eventually get a strip that’s just a headline reading “local soldier shot while breaking and entering; protests that he only wanted candy”.
Hagar The Horrible: Hagar is acting like he’s badly injured too when all he’s got is a broken nose. Naturally, he’ll be prioritized in treatment because he’s the leader and a cad who insists on using his rank that way. Sorry, guy with an axe embedded in his nervous system! You’ll just have to tough it out!
HtH — Hagar’s band knows the Valkyries aren’t interested, so they headed home to die with their wives. . .
Apparently, the Agent’s Mother, assuming she had one, failed to teach her you catch more spies, er flies, with honey than with vinegar.
PBS: Who wants body horror in their morning comics?
RMMD – This story line looks like it’s pivoting from people getting rich off a self-help scam to senior citizens dispensing vigilante justice and I am totally down for it.
@Charterstoned:
MW— Totally agree. Holier Than Thou, Kean grandma!
Why isn’t there a wife-boat with a little box of carpentry tools? That would have been a joke!
@Baja Gaijin:
Number three. Yahoo!
GT – Why bother finishing the game? You both just got whupped!
HTH: The hilarity of the anonymous Viking stoically standing with an axe in his head is ruined by the sight of Lucky Eddie crying about his right hand being severed off at the wrist. You can’t do that to a fan favorite, guys.
The sad woman at the end of the pier with the wheelbarrow to cart her dead or dying loved one to his Viking funeral boat, ready to be set aflame, is pretty grim. Not as grim as a high school coach forcing his traumatized adolescent charges back onto the field to finish something as ultimately meaningless as a football game, but still grim for a Hagar the Horrible strip.
Gil Thorp – If Upton Sinclair were alive today instead of writing about the horrid working conditions of slaughterhouses (okay, he actually would still be), he would be writing about Milford, where the town lives on high school athletics, but underinvestment in schools forces teens to turn to selling addicting vapes, then gets them arrested where the juvenile detention facility has state-of-the-art athletics facilities, but for degenerate online bettors to wager on underage players, presumably without the protections of the state high school athletic associations rules of safety. In this darkest part of late stage capitalism, it’s the bodies of youth, not pigs, that are sacrificed to the alter of money.
Hagar the Horrible – Sports are often scene as war transmitted into a less deadly, but often still violent, form. We think we advanced away from extractive pillage-based economies of yore, but have we just transmitted the extraction into other forms? Even if this comic is side-by-side with Gil Thorp in the newspaper, would people reading make the connection?
Beetle Bailey – While the town of Milford uses up teen athletes for profit, the military industrial complex also saps the life and talents of young men that could be used elsewhere. Julius’ time in Camp Swampy, (doing drills, using up ammunition in training, and otherwise taking up money and resources that could help society), could better be spent learning the hotel trade and helping provide people a great vacation.
Mary Worth – Mary, meanwhile, is comfortably retired and semi-dating a doctor, and is outside the worries of money. Her trade is in gossip, and using the trauma of others is her entertainment. She’s Facebook before Facebook, where the people around her both use her for gossip, at the same time knowing she will use their issues to entertain others. It’s a sick cycle. I wonder if Mark Zuckerberg was a fan of this strip growing up?
9CL – “I just kinda always wondered what Prince Valiant would looks like if he was a chick! And had a pronounced overbite. And a set of tig ole’ bitties!!!
“No problem, I’ve already given the issue some consideration. I’ll draw it right up for you!!!”
@jroggs: On the other hand, abortion is apparently the equivalent of getting your wisdom teeth pulled: outpatient surgery, a few days recovery at home, and nobody speaks of it again ever
Hagar: Given what we now know of the benefits of hydrotherapy, I guess Lucky Eddie will be quickly healed once his mermaid girlfriend gets hold of him.
9CL – We, of course, already did this sequence back in 2021. Edda wears schoolgirl outfit, her mom joins in on the fashion show. Last time, Amos was inspired to confess that he always thought that Juliette is hot and would love to pork her.
Well, I’m off to write my parody strip, “”69 Chick Pileup”. It mostly features Amos and Edda and the twins siting around discussing music and the arts and reading great works of literature to each other. Although occasionally there is a scene reminiscent of a vivid video made for ppv feature, with the dirty parts carefully edited out.
HtH: “And the award for ‘Most Gruesome and Likely Fatal Combat Injuries in a Children’s Comic Strip’ goes to …”
@37 taig: Dagwood would have been biting into a big kielbasa.How could it be anything else?
@45 Unca Bob: I almost didn’t include Holier Than Thou Grandma; I found her clip art before I found “Wonder Worth.”
GT: Now taking bets on who will die tragically young from complications from CTE. My money’s on Luke, but at this rate I wouldn’t rule out one of the students biting it before graduating college.
HtH: My Norse mythology is a little rusty. I know that men who die in glory on the battlefield have a 50-50 shot of getting into either Valhalla or Folkvangr, while less dramatic deaths get you into Hel’s realm. So what happens when you’re mortally wounded in battle, somehow have the fortitude to survive the long ocean journey to your home, the enemy’s weapon protruding from your flesh the whole time, and die in the arms of your womenfolk? It’s not “dying in battle” per se, but it’s pretty impressive and that’s gotta count for something.
MW: No wonder Toby hangs out with Mary. The muffins might not be anything to write home about, but she REALLY serves the tea!
@jroggs: Stef could have tagged Bets’ account, which would have alerted Bets and a good portion of the people who follow her. Bets in turn had multiple options available to her that did not involve deleting her entire account (muting the post, blocking Stef, reporting the worst of the harrassment), but none that would allow her to be so annoyingly self-righteous.
GT – The Gil Thorp coaching philosophy: Lose a bunch of games early to lower everyone’s expectations, then you can coast for the rest of the season.
Don Abundio, translated:
“Don Abundio, you’ve come up with some crazy ideas, but this version of basketball where the hoop moves to intercept the ball…”
“It’s the stupidest thing I’ve ever heard!”
“Oh, that’s where you’re wrong, Polonio…”
“This will be in the next Olympics”
Hägär the Hörrible: In this week of problematic American Thanksgiving, a holiday that celebrates the hospitality of a tribe who were later massacred by the same people they hosted, I’m going to take this mini-saga as a nod to the Skrælings who handed the Vikings their asses in the 11th century. It’s either that or a riff on traveling Icelandair, and I know they have better seating.
Mary Worth: [Offscreen: a 3″ binder that Mary peruses as she speaks] “For example, were you aware of Keith’s long and torturous journey through potty training? According to testimony from his mother offered during his Navy SEAL background check…”
@Peanut Gallery: In the NFL, it’s known as the Brandon Staley philosophy.
JP: “Make sure he stays far away from that redheaded arsonist bimbo.”
“Do with that information what you will, though if what you’re going to do with it is masturbation or dissociative fantasies during your thrice annual marital encounter with Ian, please feel free not to tell me.”
Not only does Mary know about those thrice-annual marital encounters, she has them marked on her calendar ahead of time, and for all the other Charterstone residents as well, using her subtle (?) wiles to ensure they happen precisely when scheduled. All part of her generations-long plan to breed Santa Royale’s version of the Kwisatz Haderach.
9CL: Most women will just buy a sexy schoolgirl costume if they and/or their partner are into that kind of thing, but Brookeworld ladies demand that air of authenticity. Creepy, creepy authenticity.
DT: Man, you’d think they’d be inured to punny names in Neo-Chicago by now.
Dustin: “Now if you’ll excuse me, I have to go berate my son for being a self-centered lout with no sense of responsibility to others. Must get it from his mother.”
JP: No, not constant surveillance! Who could conceive of such a thing in this day and age? Alexa, play “Somebody’s Watching Me.”
Luann: Ugh, Greg has a sketch of Stef and Bets mud wrestling somewhere, doesn’t he?
P&HU: “Ignore the Strange Distracting Human” would be a good memoir title.
Phantom: “In fact, Sarvana and I will be sharing the bed too, so you can just sleep with the natives tonight.”
RMMD: “I mean, what’s the POINT of a criminal justice system if it doesn’t brand people as evil for life with no hope of redemption?”
MW: “I sense that he is a good guy despite being the strong and silent type, I think most good guys are the weak and loud type, like Wilbur!”
BB: Those aren’t mints, those are pepto tablets.
Luann: Sexy throwdown between Bets and Stef? Will Gunther intervene? Will Gunther get naked too? Will Wilbur and Mary join in with Ma Berger and Mr. Gray?
The possibilities are endless! Move over Tolstoy, we have a new literary champion in G&K!
(20 minute Cannes film festival applause ensues)
GT: “Are you afraid that you’ll miss that big meeting, be late for the wedding, or your ambulance will be stuck in heavy Milford traffic? Have you fallen and can’t get up? Worry no more! Next time you have to be somewhere in a hurry, just shout MEDICA at the top of your lungs. One of our helicopters will be there in a flash! Discounts for seniors and vets, call today! Se habla español.”
“I used to work in a hotel! But before full employment, service jobs were badly paid and offered no career advancement, so the only way to acquire skills or education was to be willing to risk your life in the army”
Mary Worth: Normal human female fine motor skills and impulse control continue to elude Toby as she raises both a muffin and an awkward cup of coffee at the same time. Being a listening bot isn’t easy.
9CL – Do you think they used mothballs when they stored their schoolgirl outfits away for future use? Or did they know they’d be regularly getting them back out for impromptu schoolgirl fashion shows and the like?
I don’t recall Edda’s mother being so …. pneumatic. Did she spring for a lift and a refill? It would explain her eagerness to put on a sexy fashion show for her daughter and her gimp.
“Shall we pick up where we left off?”
“I’ve got all night coach Kim”.
Finally “Gil Thorp” offers another key benefit of sport: sublimated, barely concealed homoerotic vibes!
How…how does Brooke McEldowney continue to get more squick as he goes along?
MW: For a gossip, Mary sure uses a lot of fancy words.
@Everything Is Better With Monkeys: “When their septum has completely eroded due to their cocaine addiction, don’t mention it.” — Emily Post, Southern California edition, copyright 1985
@nescio: “Steve Martin made this look funny, but it’s not! It hurts!”
MW – “Toby, dear, did you just insinuate that there was even the slightest possibility I haven’t already inserted myself into the new Charterstone resident’s life, learned all about his background, and eavesdropped on a very private, personal situation of his that I’m about to dish to you? Have we not been having these conversations since 1981?”
WHUP—WHERE DISCO LIVES FOREVER…..
@taig:
Personally, I hope that he goes “Cheep cheep cheep cheep” in a perfect imitation of Tommy Wiseau
Women: caring whether their loved ones live or die! You gotta hand it to ’em. [shakes head ruefully]
BB – Oh, Beetle, Beetle, Beetle. You sweet, innocent little lamb, not recognizing condoms. From this I gather Miss Buxley ain’t gettin’ any, at least not from you.
MW: I love this new Mary, who has no time for subtlety. “What is this Keith life?” “Who cares! What I am interested in is gossiping about his personal life!”
HtH: I can’t help noticed the dark-completed man near the center of the boat, whose eyes the enemy cruelly gouged out with sharp knives (or dull grapefruit spoons) amidst his pitiful screams, leaving him dependent on alms and fated for a slow lingering death from starvation. Cool!
DT: Wendy Wichel: “Do they call you ‘Pruneface’ because your face is like a prune? And you, do they call you ‘Flattop’ because your top is flat? You know, like a joke?”
@Charterstoned: I’m not sure whose hand is holding the cup. If those both belong to Toby, I’d have to guess her mom was on thalidomide?
@jroggs: RMMD: What? And introduce new characters? Unheard of!
@TheDiva: RE: Luann: But it’s not one-millionth as disturbing as the one Brooke has of Edda wrestling her mom. Brrrr!
DT: Watch out, Wendy! She’s about to go full Joe Pesci on you!
GT: They called in a helicopter for what appeared to be a broken bone? When my son broke his leg playing football during an away game, my wife drove him 20 miles to the hospital in our car.
Our home games always had an ambulance on standby. And, of course, in a high wind you could spit and hit our hospital from the football field, so no flying was needed.
Wailing over a broken nose while one mate has an arrow in his brain and the other somehow lives with a sword in his heart? You are definitely not getting into Valhalla, Hagar.
Hagar the Horrible: Hagar’s signature dragon boat looks upset and needs dental work. That’s kind of a joke, right? Since only cartoon boats feel pain?
@astroboy: As a U.S. Army base “bachelorette,” Miss Buxley is used to the raw-dogging. She douches with Clorox after every encounter to avoid STDs and unwanted babby.
@erdmann: Building the hospital next to the high school football field is some savvy urban planning!
BB: That doesn’t explain the fried eggs on the pillow, though.
@Ukulele Ike: Given the perpetual 1955 that this strip exists in, that’s fairly plausible.
Hagar got it easy! Just a small wound on the nose. Wait, where is that oar stuck? Oh no!
Brookeworldgirl
She’s been living in her Brooke world world
I bet she’s never had a Six Chix guy
I bet her momma never told her why
I’m gonna try for an Brooke world girl
She’s been living in her Brooke world world
As long as anyone with hot blood can
And now she’s looking for a Six Chix man
That’s what I am
“Brooke World Girl” by Weird Al Yankavic from the album “It’s Still Billy Joel To Me”
I wrote this to answer someone who used the term ” Brooke world girl”, then lost the reference post. Sorry for any inconvenience or incontinence this may have caused.
SallyF: After today’s offering I’m skipping this comic for the duration. Sally’s mother drags everything and everyone in her vortex to the depths of despair and takes great delight in doing so. There’s nothing funny about it. She is sadistic, pure and simple.
BB: “Julius, what are the mints for?”
“I heard some of the guys saying that they would make me bite the pillow this night! I don’t know what it means, but this will probably make it tastier!”
GT – It’s really sad that high school students who will never earn the school a dime in TV ad revenue are treated as a pieces of meat.
Hey kids, you’re cannon fodder to entertain the town! And they don’t even donate money to support the school, although somebody pays for your uniforms and gear. Sucks to be you!
No wonder high school football stars are the least likely to show up at alumni reunions. Their fifteen seconds of fame was gone the instant they graduated or aged out of the team. Unless someone gives them a car dealership…
@95 Daisy: Maybe a house’ll fall out of the sky and crush her like a grape under a plugger’s boot heel? (The plugger will consider eating the grape before realizing he’s too fat to bend over that far.)
Luann: Based on the university naming a dormitory “Dorm Building B,” it may be the one Karen Evans went to for creative writing.
RMMD: I imagine being pissed off about something out of their control is commonplace in this household, peaking during the break between Jeopardy and Wheel of Fortune.
Six Chex And A Cat Named Theodore Cleaver: Remember that episode of “Leave It to Beaver” where Ward and June were shocked that Beaver would actually make people pay for water?
MW- Who the HELL eats a muffin with the liner still on??? WHO THE HELL TRIES TO EAT A MUFFIN WHILE AT THE SAME TIME TRYING TO DRINK COFFEE???
Phantom- Savarna wants….no, NEEDS the D big time!
@Victor Von: I took it as meaning that the boat also suffered in the battle: dragon-figurehead teeth knocked out, a neck wound, dismasted, side planks and stern torn off. I guess Hagar had to row back the whole way.
@erdmann: I broadcast a high school football game from a brand-new field.
Something about the fencing and placement of concrete barriers around the field caught my eye.
It seemed the locals were doing doughnuts on the field with their pickups.
I asked a school official why they had their ambulance parked outside of the fence.
He said “what’s the worst that could happen?”
About 3 plays into the game, the home team’s star running back sustained a dislocated hip.
They did not have a gate to the field wide enough to get the ambulance through.
It took nearly an hour to cut down a panel of the fence to get to the kid.
The game went on but you could tell the home team was completely demoralized and more concerned about their teammate than the game.
Phantom Phan Service Week: Flip the flap Savarna and we’ll all have a Happy Thanksgiving!
Of all the annoying people – which is all of them – I think this group is the last I would want to spend time with. Buck Futt would be more fun, esp. if his ex-wife is in the vicinity.
@Danielakiiki: The liner is the tastiest part of Mary’s muffins. Or Toby has the manners of a four year old and eats the top off the muffin, leaving the stump behind on her plate.
Phantom: For those special empty-nester long weekends, Diana keeps certain outfits in her closet that make the Bandar Butt Barer look positively puritanical. Savarna will beeline for those.
The Familliar Mucus: Jeffy’s expression shows he’s ignoring Dolly’s carp about pie roofs and is thinking “Did Mommy use the Jack O Lantern I urinated in to make that pie?”
@Danielakiiki:
MW- Who the HELL eats a muffin with the liner still on???
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You don’t practice safe muffin eating procedures? What do you think the liner condom is there for?
Well, obviously the one with the sword in his chest isn’t long for this world, and Lucky Eddie needs a fish, not a woman, so they’ll be fine!
HtH – Wheelbarrow or Tumbrel? Discuss.
@Schroduck: Dr. Zook always has plenty of irons in the fire for cauterizing those sucking chest wounds.
Dirk Twacy Hollistic Defective: “No, I don’t find YOU funny, just the fact that you’re making such a fuss over an original copy of “M*A*S*H Goes To Maine”.
@Danielakiiki: If Keith “ate the muffin with the liner still on” his obnoxious daughter might not have been conceived.
Not that Toby has to “eat” hers since these are just props Toby plays along with to get the juicy dish from Mary (which will be far tastier than any muffin for vapid dilettante trophy wife wit nothing else to do.)
@Baja Gaijin: The third one! Poor Keith. He spilled his guts to Mary and had to listen to her blathering, then here comes holier than thou Grandma to spout platitudes at him. If he tries to get away, she’ll tie him up with that lasso.
@Lord_Flatulence: The new characters would be roots country musicians. I for one do not want that.
@Noel:
fried eggs on the pillow
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Wasn’t that a hit for Lesley Gore?@The Rambling Otter:
a literal F***ING sword
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Gotta give Brooke credit…that’s one fetish he hasn’t used in 9CL….yet.
Finally – Turkeypalooza is gaining steam!
Zits: Pierce’s therapy Turkey is gettin’ a full week gig… probably. Assuming he makes it through Thursday.
Bizarrro: A tragi-comic reprise of a classic joke! An outstanding performance by our Turkey star, and excellent production values by their staff.
Mark Trail: Tessie gets a repeat Foreground Fauna shot today! I’m sorry they put her in the last panel instead of the first… you had to wade through all that fiddle faddle to get to the money shot. They’ve realized that’s the way to get the audience to stay more than five seconds. What do they expect when they’ve turned to “domestic drama” about marital problems? What happened to the corrupt politicians and evil corporations who are endangering the Wildlife and the environment? The Mark Trail classics? But at least Tessie came through with a pose showing her utter disgust as she prepares to upchuck! Great interpretaion and exposition, girl!
HtH: I’d like to think that the writer for Hagar was wondering one day if anyone still reads newspaper comic strips, which in turn will lead him to create increasingly darker strips just to see if anyone notices. It’s different, I’ll give him that.
FC – Ye gods, what is that that black stuff she’s putting in that pie? On second thought, I don’t want to know.
Rex Morgan – One could say that Justice tripped over its muddy boots.
Mrs. Hank: “Play Muddy Boots!”
Frazz – I don’t know what the joke is, but they’re smug about it.
Mary Worth – Seriously, this is not good. I would think that if I discussed my problems with a meddling neighbor, I would be upset if she turned around and gossiped about me with another neighbor. It’s especially bad because Keith’s issues are on the sensitive side. Professionals have ethical standards that require confidentiality. I know that Mary is an amateur, unlicensed meddler but surely she should keep her mouth shut. If the story gets out, it shouldn’t come from Mary.
This conversation puts Mary in a bad light.
It doesn’t help that she’s sharing gossip with the village idiot.
I read Josh’s title and thought
Toby, Estelle, Mary, Dawn
Ian, Wilbur, Keith, Drs Drew and Cory, Saul.
And THEN I realized he was talking about Hagar the Horrible.
9CL: “Well, hello there, sexy schoolgirl in a sexy, sexy, schoolgirl outfit. Let’s just see what you’ve got goin’ on, underneath that sexy, sexy, schoolgirl outfit and… ew! Ew! A Cesarean scar! Ew! Ew! Ew!”
GT: Once again, Gil unleashes his power move of “Wow, I’m glad I’m not like you guys at Valley Tech, who are so needy you care about winning!” It broke Coach Luke, will it have the same effect on Coach Kim?
Heath: Funnier name for an all-slug rock band : And You Shall Know Us By the Trail of Slime.
Phantom: Sarvana and Diana will be sharing a closet, or possibly leaving one together.
Hägar, the Horrible Comic Strip: The four women who have been anxiously awaiting the return of their lovers look upset at the knowledge that their sexual needs will not be attended to tonight, owing to the men’s vague symptoms such as headache, not in the mood, and impalement. Clearly the men have actually all picked up venereal diseases yet again, and the women will settle for pleasuring each other – oh darn!
MW: My God, the smug look on Mary’s face as she prepares to unload the gossip on Keith to the only person stupid enough to ask her.
Pluggers: Well, this may be a new trope for the long-running feature. Dentists are all Communists.
I think the joke here in Hägar is the ship’s dragon head got beaten up, but its expression is more shocked while all the vikings are just in pain, like whatever happened to them was so bad it traumatized a thing made of dead trees.
Comedy!
Dick Tracy: “I just wanted to know… does any of the readership want the joke spelled out for them?”
Phantom: ”Sharing a closet, fine, but I’m not putting on any of your skanky white girl underpants unless you boil them first. Besides, I’m kinda enjoying the breeze, here.”
Well, Lucky Eddy is canonically single, and one guy’s stabbed through the heart with a sword, so I think we know which two are out of luck.
MW- Why does Mary just hint at these things and not just go ahead and spill the tea?
Does she want Toby to plead with her , or does she think her meddling is somehow requiring her avoid a HIPPA violation?
Gil Thorp: “Wh’up, bitches?”
GT – I guess Coach Luke had dandruff, because they’re going to find his head and shoulders over by the fence.
Mary Worth: I just got my mind blown by that crazy Six Chix artist who’s into aliens and shit, and come back to Mary Worth for some much needed reality and normality, and what do I see but A COFFEE CUP AND A MUFFIN ABOUT TO BE USED AT THE SAME TIME BY ONE PERSON! Mind blown, again.
@The Rambling Otter: I almost went with that one.
@cheech wizard: GT – I guess Coach Luke had dandruff, because they’re going to find his head and shoulders over by the fence.
“I don’t know. How do you give ‘shoulders’?”
@UncleJeff: Flip the flap Savarna
Is that was the young folks are calling it nowadays?
^^^ what
Beetle Bailey: “That’s a nice bed. Be a shame if somethin’ were ta happen to it.”
MW: I know all you Melody Mare fans were concerned when she and her cousin didn’t appear today on panel. Yesterday it seemed that they could be getting into an …unsavory… situation. Well, she has let me know that everything is under control there. She and Miranda did a coordinated “trip and throw” maneuver that cooled off both Kitty and Keith in a trailside stream! That apparently worked… at least for now… to quell their
lustemotions. We’ll get back to the action there as soon as the crew gets them dried off. Oh, they will dry their clothes *on their bodies*!! No need to add fuel to the “fire”Great job as usual by the Doves o’ Love today! There is absolutely no truth to the rumor that they are replaced daily by cloned versions, or that they are being harmed in any way! And they are definitely agile enough to avoid colliding with those windows and getting trapped on the sticky stuff. I gotta speak to The Ladies about that…
RMMD — In an action-packed strip, Junior here (and possibly Senior as well) would go rogue and attempt of assasinate Rene. Unfortunately for us, this isn’t action packed.
@taig: “Turkeys” aren’t stupid — the wild variety is actually considered among the smarter birds out there. “Domestic turkeys”, on the other hand, are so stupid they are basically inanimate bricks (and that is insulting bricks).
GT – “As a former marine and police officer, Keith thought he faced too many risks for him to get married. He never knew when his co-workers might drag him off to the titty bar for a lap-dance and god knows what else.”
MW: Now that Toby knows what kind of hunk of manly man-meat Keith is, at the next Charterstone pool party she’ll be sporting a micro-kini that will make Savarna’s jungle princess outfit look like a nun’s habit in comparison.
@Baja Gaijin: #98
Honestly, that would be too kind for that harpy. I would prefer to see her soaked in her favorite wine then buried to her neck in sand and slowly chewed to death by a swarm of fire ants. That’s what I’d like to see.
I’m glad you didn’t say Jerk O Lantern or I would have thought Jeffy did more than urinate in it.
FC: What did Thel do to that pumpkin pie? It isn’t even cooked yet, and she’s already burned it!
Why isn’t Beetle wearing shower shoes? Going barefoot in a barracks shower no telling what his feet have been in.
Phantom: I chuckled.
@Daisy: #144: Why waste good wine on that harridan? Honey or molasses will get those fire ants going just as quick.
“That’s a neat bed, Julius.”
“Yes, I was in the Army. Still am, actually. We all are.”
@Daisy: @Guillermo el chiclero: Now, now. It’s society that made Sally’s Mom what she is today. Society is to blame.
@Ukulele Ike: “Right then, we’ll be nicking ‘im, too.”
@BananaSam: “Remember all the time we spent in Basic, learning how to do it the Army way? No?”
@Guillermo el chiclero: As long as Toby doesn’t rummage through an old trunk for her 8th-grade school girl outfit.
@Tom D.: #147: I believe our military issues flip-flops for that purpose but why would we expect the Walker/Brownes to know that when they’re still issuing 80 year old rifles to the men.
@Guillermo el chiclero: #149
True!!!
@Baja Gaijin:
I was really hoping for something involving Andy bear and a chest harness.
It’s a shame The Worthy Awards have been retired. (I believe that’s correct.) Because today’s P2 would definitely have made an appearance. “Who’s Arm Is That, Anyway?” or “Toby and Mary Share an Arm.”
FC: Cooking tip of the day: Do not let your Halloween pumpkin get all black and moldy before using it for Thanksgiving pie. Your idiot children might not notice, but it makes an unattractive presentation, worthy of late night cuisine.
@Al of the Christian Singles Jungle Patrol:
@taig: “Turkeys” aren’t stupid — the wild variety is actually considered among the smarter birds out there.
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Hunter S. Thompson always spoke highly of them.
@Ukulele Ike: #151
Harumph, my good sir…I would turn that around and say that people like her have made *society* what it is today. Harumph!!
@Daisy: “The lights are growing dim Otto. I know a life of crime has led me to this sorry fate, and yet, I blame society. Society made me what I am.”
I’ll tell you what I am. I’m a Repo Man.
@astroboy:
“Toby and Mary Share an Arm.”
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It’s plainly stated in the Charterstone constitution: Mary, aka the House Meddler, has the right to Toby’s bare arm.
So in Mary Worth, after an unknown number of weeks of following Keith Bellend around, now we’re going to a recap of everything that’s happened in his story? I don’t understand how they can get away with this.
The more I think about it, Mary’s behavior is completely reprehensible here. She’s practically wetting her granny-panties over spilling the very personal issues of her neighbor, issues that she only learned about in the first place by blatantly eavesdropping behind Keith’s back on his conversation at the door with Sonia. This is really despicable even for The Meddler, Moy.
BB: Glad Beetle explained the pillow, which I thought had sprouted demonic red eyes.
GT: “How to Turn a Losing Season Into Devastating Verbal Jiu Jitsu.” A tutorial from Coach Gilbert Thorp.
MW: That’s it, Mary. Just bait the hook and drop it in front of the craftsy trophy wife.
9CL: I don’t think this little mother-daughter scene will ring true with anyone who’s ever had a family, or met a family, or heard much about families.
C-Shaft: Crankshaft pops a tempting baked good into his mouth but it turns out to be a different baked good from the one he was expecting. Classic!
DT: If my Pesci-to-English dictionary has it right Xaveria Libris is just messing with Wendy Wichel but in a few minutes she’ll kneecap a busboy.
Dustin: Let’s see if the strip gets a creative jolt after the title character’s father is beaten to death with a coffee mug.
Phantom: Starting to wonder if Savarna was created by the same brilliant minds who brought us the Swedish Bikini Team.
6C: Because you’ve been sent to Earth without mouths and are thus unable to consume either the clean or the dirty water?
@Artist formerly known as Ben: Crankshaft pops a tempting baked good into his mouth but it turns out to be a different baked good from the one he was expecting. Classic!
The rum ball recipes I am aware of don’t involve any baking.
PHANTOM:
What a lousy houseguest Savarna is! She doesn’t even bring s bottle of wine or offer to do the dishes. Then she seduces father and son. I trust we all will do better on Thanksgiving and offer to bring green bean casserole or a pie.
Second, I can still see Diana ditching her husband. She wants to act but he just sings, ,”Cais sera sera.”
@Daisy: I’m cutting her some slack. She said she would be happier celebrating with her friends at the facility. I can only assume that “I’m going to pick up mom” involved a tranq dart in the ass, tying her up, and putting her in the trunk. That’s how you get the family together for the holidays in a Marciuliano strip. Jeez, the least Sal could do at this point is to let her have the Malbec!
@I speak Jive: Mary Worth practices the Crocodile Dundee approach to mental health: “if you got a problem, you tell Wally. And he tells everyone in town — brings it out in the open — no more problem.”
Thank you, Believe it or Not, knowing “Dumpster” is a trademarked name will improve my life immensely.
The Six Chicks aliens actually prefer the dirty water because, y’know, metabolism and all that. They just feel guilty because they’re consuming the delicacy at such a cheap price.
@richardf8: I can’t wait until Wilbur runs into Keith and says, “Hey! I hear you knocked up your girlfriend, but she didn’t tell you and you didn’t find out until the adult kid contacted you. At least that never happened to me! – Oh, wait, it did, except it was a false alarm.”
MW – “I’m more intrigued by his personal history, such as the fact he’s obviously fertile. Unlike your shaggy old lump of insolence. You know, you could still pop out an offspring to take care of you in your old age, after Chinbeard is gone. With his ego he wouldn’t even be suspicious – he’d think he’s still a hell of a man. You might give it some careful thought.”
GA: Hey, everybody, it turns out that Slim really DID disappear from the bed of the pickup at some point, somehow! Isn’t that interesting? He was asleep in the bed of the pickup as Rufus and Joel turned onto the entrance to the freeway and then they were on the freeway and started circling around the city of Charlotte, unable to figure out how to get off the freeway and return home, partly because Joel can’t read the signs, and then they…um…where are you going? Don’t you want to hear the rest?
*sigh* Damn you, GASOLINE ALLEY.
That is some hard core resting bitch face on Mary
@I speak Jive: Was that the kid who flew the kite with Wilbur? Was that a false alarm? I have read MW every day for years and years, and yet even if I were offered money to accurately recite a dozen past MW plots, I would have trouble. “And then I think Wilbur, umm…uh…oh hell, forget it. Keep the cash.”
@richardf8: I’m going with Wheelbarrow, and how the heck Apron Woman is going to drag it back up that slope when it’s carrying a maimed or dead man is beyond me, even if she gets Rx Woman to help.
@Poteet: Yes, that’s the one. The kite kid. He thought that Wilbur was his father, but it turned out that he wasn’t. The mother was a hippie girl that Wilbur had a relationship with when they were in college. However, the relationship wasn’t exclusive, at least on her part.
I don’t remember if the kite flying was before or after the DNA test.
HtH:
“only four women for the six men”
Yeah, but two of the men are gay so it evens out.
HtH:
“only four women for the six men”
That was the problem with the Bounty mutineers. They didn’t bring enough women when they settled on Pitcairn’s Island. They soon started fighting over them. In fact, mutiny leader Fletcher Christian was murdered three years after they landed. It wasn’t quite the idyllic tropical paradise with bevies of nubile South Seas babes depicted in the movies.
@Poteet: @I speak Jive: I don’t remember kite flying but I do remember the FROLICKING!
https://joshreads.com/2014/07/anniversapost-comics-curmudgeon-year-six-mark-trail-fights-the-power/
Soooooooooooooooooo much frolicking. BTW, did you know that there are 2182 posts tagged ‘Mary Worth’ on this site? I do now. Also anyone know where I can find the mary Worth antidote? I think I’m ODing.
@Danielakiiki: Didn’t the frolicking involve kite flying? I hope I don’t have a false memory of that.
That link was wonderful. I had forgotten the phone call with the drunken alleged aunt. I don’t know which is more hilarious – her (hic) or Wilbur and Kurt “getting along so well.”
Joe Giella did a great job with that drawing of the aunt (hic).
REX MORGAN M.R.: The Hardwoods: “I am SO MAD about that thing I didn’t give two shits about when it actually happened!” (I mean if Rene escaped, then the Hardwoods would have shrugged and focused their intensity on more pressing issues, like finding their “Muddy Boots” CDs.)
@cheech wizard: Oh, Toby will be revisiting the “give birth to my old-age work slave” thing when Professor Chinbeard kicks and she finds he left the house, car, and all the cash to the Institute for the Preservation and Appreciation of Single-Malt Scotch Whisky.
Late Thread Cuisine: I was going to post a jiggly red monstrosity then I remembered the jiggly red monstrosity from yesterthread. I guess this’ll do.
@Baja Gaijin: It’s not too horrifying, apart from the fact they don’t say where the corn comes from. It just magically appeared, and that’s troubling.
@87 erdmann: Should people in the football field really be spitting on the hospital? I’m pretty sure that’s an infection control issue.
@93 Ettorre: Wait, where is that oar stuck? In the butt, Bob.
@101 Danielakiiki: Who the HELL eats a muffin with the liner still on??? Everyone who eats Mary’s muffin. She soaks the liners in amaretto flavored oral hypnotics.
@Baja Gaijin: number three number three number three number three
@taig: Yeah, what you said. Troubling. It is also troubling that a collection of ingredients that theoretically seem okay should, in this photo, seem rather repellent. But that’s Late Thread Cuisine for ya.
@157 Doug: Whaaa? Do you mean this?
@157 Doug: Whaaa? Do you mean this?
//Stupid WordPress logged me out while I was commenting.
@186 taig: On a completely different topic, corn hulls are one of the few things to pass through the human digestive tract intact.
@188 Poteet: Seems to be a trend.
@189 Poteet: The corn glop’s recipe is simply boiling 1 can each whole kernel corn with sweet peppers (drained, condensed cream of mushroom soup, and mushroom stems and pieces (with liquid).
@Baja Gaijin: Thanks. Gack.
rmmd is there no justice not when your a mobster named bernie who can get a country singer and agent to save your butt due to a con involving mind control time for renee to have an unexpected accident. luann pity hope betts manage to not break her phone and shares the video footage that is sure to really increase her views when she finaly knocks out stephanie with kiff also saying oh by the way babe i am breaking up with you finaly.
@Danielakiiki: @I speak Jive: My eyeballs are twirling and my lower jaw is on the floor. Thank you, Danielakiiki. Thank you for reminding us of the, um, good times. And thank you, Jive, for starting this journey to the past. Soooo weeeeeiiird.
@Poteet: Frolicking I tells ya. Frolicking.
@Baja Gaijin: I guess that would be edible. There’s no gelatin or pimento.
Mr. Jive’s favorite Thanksgiving leftover dish is similar to this. Leftover cooked turkey, stuffing, and gravy combined in a casserole and baked. It’s delicious. No corn, however.
@Baja Gaijin: #185
Um…ewww???? They lost me at “egg gravy mixture”…ack!!!
@Poteet: #175
I *think* Slim bounced out of the truck when they ran over a big pothole or something. But how he made it to the shoulder in one piece in that rush hour traffic is a puzzler.
@richardf8: #170
That is true. What I think we have in this strip whenever these clashes occur is a recurring failure, or unwillingness, for each side to listen to the other and make their honest feelings known. Mom could have told Sally that she has already decided to spend Thanksgiving with her friends at the senior living center – which was her preference – and Sally could then have respected her mom’s decision without judging her. Instead, we have the mom grudgingly, reluctantly, resentfully letting herself be dragged to the family dinner where she plays out her script of the grudging, resentful, unwilling and ungrateful hostage to her “unreasonable” daughters…resulting in unpleasantness for everyone. In that case, open another bottle of wine…we’re gonna need it.
@197 I speak Jive: Yes, this recipe sounds a lot like Mr. Jive’s Thanksgiving leftovers, until the mushroom-corn sauce gets glopped on top.
@198 Daisy: The egg-gravy mixture is eggs, water, and gravy mix. Gotta have something to stick everything together, like cheese in hot dish.
@199 Daisy: Seeing Slim wandering around the interstate, drivers avoided him as they would a toilet that fell off a truck onto the road surface.
@Daisy: I helpfully suggested a few days ago that falling out of the truck would be a fine and interesting way for Slim to die. And another Mudge made a great reference to “street pizza.” But no such luck, and Slim probably doesn’t even have any injuries like a normal human would who bounced out of a pickup at, what, 60 mph. To follow GA is to live with constant disappointment.
@Baja Gaijin: It’s a nice touch. That way it doesn’t look any worse when you’ve puked it back onto the plate than when it was served. Presentation is all about paying attention to small details like that!
@203 richardf8: [SNERK!]
RMMD:
“You don’t think we’ll be in any danger from him, do you?”
“Danger, Will Robinson, danger!”
“Well, neither one of us is named ‘Will Robinson,’ Yvonne, so I guess we don’t have to worry about what that robot is saying!”
@Poteet: #202
“To follow GA is to live with constant disappointment.”
Soooo true! Disappointment, and disbelief…