Let’s get biblical
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Hi and Lois, 6/25/24
Over at here at Hi and Lois, we’re working to reassure you that it’s not just desperate old people falling for those “Make Money At Home – Set Your Own Hours!” scams on Facebook. No, teenagers are falling for them too! Or at least we’re pretty sure they are. We asked our grandson “What’re you looking at on your phone, buddy? Facebook?” and his grunted reply seemed like an affirmative, so we’re running with that.
Rhymes With Orange, 6/25/24
Um actually Adam, it wasn’t the “tree of knowledge,” it was the “tree of knowledge of good and evil,” so maybe you can annoy your wife when the kid gets to his ethics homework, huh? Oh, what’s that, you, as one of the only two adult humans alive, weren’t planning on teaching him ethics? Do you want to raise Cain, the first murderer? Because that’s how you get Cain, the first murderer.
Marvin, 6/25/24
[desperately trying to think of something non-poop related to say about Marvin] You ever notice how messed up the feet in Marvin look? Check out those feet! The heels are sticking out further from the leg than the toes! And those toes … well, just try imagining what they look like under those “shoes”! Ha ha! Real messed up, right? Messed up enough to purge all thought of the poop jokes from your mind?
249 replies to “Let’s get biblical”
Mary Worth Mashups: Which way do you want the storyline to continue?
MW:
[Bird 1 to Bird 2]: “Say, where’s Jonathan Livingston? — without his being in our group to make us a threesome, we can’t sing ‘To everything, tern, tern, tern‘ !”
“It’s not a big deal — that song is for the Byrds, anyway!”
H&L: Night shifts mean that Thirsty can sleep off his hangover and possibly be a functioning sober member of society while Hi would just continue to be as useful as an asshole on an elbow.
Marvin: Marvin’s myopia is clearly getting worse for he has mistaken the new plungers for his grandmother’s feet. The rest of the family is hoping that Darwinism will do the rest of the work.
MW: And just like that, it’s time for the other Charterstone residents to ignore Wilbur’s existence until he has another mundane problem that is worth seeking out attention and shallow validation for…like a splinter or a hangnail.
Tina’s Groove: In today’s second panel, Tina doesn’t look like a puppy dreading the upcoming trip to the vet. She actually looks happy. It’s weird.
@Baja Gaijin: I think we need a combination of 1 and 3 where the gulls completely overtake Mary and Wilbur with the corpse of Stellan snatched up from the guano wreckage.
RMMD:
“Hey, Flat Top, how about a nice Hawaiian punch?”
“Sure!”
“Well, then, meet my friend King Kamehameha here!”
THWACK
“Wasn’t that a refreshing denouement?”
JP: You can see why Reena often gets invited to parties and trips, she’s just such gracious guest and a fun, likable person. But if there’s one thing we know about Reena, it’s that she cannot stand a rich person with a chip on their shoulder, which explains why she’s best friends with Sophie Spencer.
CS: Pete and Mindy have been dating for years and are engaged to be married, and they’ve decided she should move in with him, and yet this is the first time she’s seen his home? And Pete has been living like a hobo who doesn’t have any furniture, even stuff that people have left out on the curb?
RMMD: Given the previous numerous references to 1930s pop culture, I was hoping that the eventual fistfight would see Parker unleashing his inner Stooge with a barrage of eye pokes, nose pinches, and foot stomps to pick apart and utterly defeat the more conventional Haw Haw Boy. But Terry Beatty is a boring person whose idea of funny is “’What’s up?’ ‘As always, the sky,’” so instead we’re doing… whatever this is. Well, intentional or not, it is pretty amusing to see Haw Haw Boy triumphantly no-selling Parker’s mightiest punch like a stage performer who just called someone up from the audience.
Huh? I thought Marvin was a preverbal infant. And now he’s making fatuous, self-serving comments in complete sentences like a common Jeffy Keane? I’m sorry, I’m going back to bed.
Rhymes with Orange:
“I’ll see if I can help you and Seth. Say, where are Cain and Abel, anyway?”
“I think Cain has Abel off with him on some petrology study.”
Crankshaft : I like how Crankshaft feels like a completely superfluous addition to this strip, even though he’s the one delivering the “punchline” of this pretty much joke-free day.
I like how Mopey Pete’s place having no furniture is treated as being this maddening, inexplicable thing despite us being given the explanation for it yesterday (you really want to carry a bookcase up a flight of emergency stairs, Mindy? Even a really tiny one would be THE WORST!).
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Hi & Lois : I like how Hi is persuaded that working the graveyard shift is “setting your own hours” and Thirsty believes it’s not this soul-crushing, boring solitude in darkness.
Okay, this is just second hand from my BROTHER hating his “night watchman at a park/lake” summer job, but still…************
Luann : Oh, great, a WHOLE WEEK of “If Shannon was raised RIGHT, she’d be responsible for herself, and also US, instead of being a burden we actively hate!” I was hoping it would be a different artist each day, but it seems it’ll be Jay Fosgitt the whole week, too
(also, looking at his oeuvre, it looks like he’d be more suited to depicting the chaos the REAL Shannon causes, rather than the idealised fantasy Shannonvs Phoebe and Unicorn : Another week of a Shannon fantasy, another week of “Phoebe draws the comic” being simultaneous. How does it go? “Once is accident, twice is coincidence…”?
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Marvin : …how do you screw up so bad you put the ankle at the MIDDLE of the feet? They’re near the heel, on the opposite side of the toes (then again, these don’t look like FEET at all, but weird plunger-like suckers… Is this secretly a comic about aliens?)
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Rhymes with Orange : I dunno, Josh, that doesn’t look like Cain OR Abel to me. I think that’s SETH.
RMMD:
Hey, check out that manicure on Flat Top in the first panel. I think he’s just back from the nail salon.
H&L — From that description, Chip has found employment either as a lumberjack or a gigolo. Frankly, I find him unsuited to either of those options. . .
At least Marvin got the gender right today.
And…um…didn’t Adam eat the apple (or whatever) too?
RWO: “As if manual labor and the pain of childbirth weren’t bad enough, now we gotta do math!?”
RMMD: What, we’re supposed to belive Flattop Jughead here is a gym rat who’s been hiding a rock-hard sixpack under that baggy shirt all this time? Sure, I can buy that he can take a punch (he wouldn’t be a bully if he couldn’t) but not even a single reaction? Maybe it’s a prank and he put a steel plate or plank of wood under his shirt first so Parker would break his wittle hand.
Luann: Uh Evansii? Are you SURE you want to have a whole week of showcasing an artist who blows your own artwork completely out of the water? Even hampered by your abysmal writing I’d sooner give this Fosgitt guy a chance.
JP: Boy, that JP/RMMD Pissyface disease spreads like wildfire, doesn’t it? Now Reena’s got it bad. As to the point of why she’s friends with Sophie if she cannot abide ‘poor little rich’ people, hey, it’s hos before bros, amirite?
HnL: Chip is an anti-lumberjack.
RwO: Adam unfortunately was the human-equivalent to a beta release, so he really couldn’t retain more than three words. God never got around to getting all the patches (or DLC) done.
Marvin: Sometimes your brain will respond to a stimulus without you being conscious of it at first. Unfortunately, this has caused “Grandma’s” body to twist horrifically as her brain tried to get away from Marvin.
Wary Morth:
By the ghost of Chinggis Khaan, will this story ever end?
Popeye:
By the ghost of Chinggis Khaan, will this story ever end?
Questionable Cobwebs:
By the ghost of Chinggis Khaan, will this story ever end?
Marvin: From that perspective, Grandma is either seven foot tall or Grandpa is an unlikely sixty feet away. Since Marv is usually drawn the size of a basketball, a violent ‘stuffing’ is inevitable.
Marvin: Uhhhhhh… whose idea was it to draw the lace of grandma’s bloomers peeking out of her shorts? Who has a sick fetish for elderly underwear wardrobe malfunctions? Is every Marvin strip an attempt to out-deprave everything that came before?
RWO: Theologians have argued for centuries about whether or not Adam had a belly button, but maybe they should have been arguing whether he had male-pattern baldness.
Frazz: Oops, I made a mistake yesterday and assumed this would be about something interesting. Instead, it’s just Frazz being superior about “appreciating things,” like appreciating how he and Caulfield make fun of people behind their backs.
Luann: It’s telling that in Toni’s fantasy, she doesn’t interact with Shannon except to benefit from her unhealthy love of structure. I’m faintly hoping this turns out to be less Small Wonder and more Deadly Friend.
CS: Wait…Mindy has never seen the inside of Mopey’s apartment?!? I’d assume some kind of self-preservation at work, but then she decided to move in with him.
H&L – Did Chip get a job as a lumberjack?
>Messed up enough to purge all thought of the poop jokes from your mind?
>Spots Grandpa on the chair in the back
>Nope
Six Chix-“Why yes. It is a rather gripping compelling story about treating a grown adult like a child by giving a funeral for one of his dead fish.”
FC-Dolly, that’s not what your mom meant when she said that this lady Hoovers the neighborhood.
MW-Let this end with the whole funeral thing being a hallucination of Wilbur’s who is now in a mental institution.
MW-Jeff already has Wilbur’s measurements for a pair of cement shoes.
@Hibbleton: I preferred the “sixty feet away” idea, which would also explain those endless floors. The characters in Marvin are so loathsome that I could easily imagine “Jeff and Pam dump demented Grandpa at an abandoned Sears with Marvin, who tries to form a feral bond with a half-melted mannequin” as a 2024 story arc.
@Pozzo: Yes.
Hi And Lois: Strips like this convince me that the people who write newspaper comics are generally quite desperate to find whatever reason they can to convince themselves that the younger generations suck and theirs was so much better, and as the years have gone by, they’ve only gotten more and more labored about it. “Fucking kids and their… their, uh… their decent work hours that they can customize so it works better for them. In my day, work sucked and treated us like shit, and we liked it!”
Rhymes With Oranges: Pretty much anybody who actually read the Bible will tell you that Adam ate the forbidden fruit too with little convincing and thus has no place to be making passive aggressive cracks about Eve eating it, so I can only presume this midrash has made the decision to depict Adam as some kind of gaslighter. “What are you talking about? I don’t know what good and evil are. I didn’t eat the fruit. What? You sound crazy…”
Marvin: Love how Marvin’s grandpa is sitting comatose in the chair in the background, devoid of pupils or emotion, as if Marvin has eaten his soul and is about to do the same to grandma.
@Liam: Let’s hope that he surprises Mary with a pair and gets rid of the beard with the bloat.
Hi and Lois – Either Hi and Lois live in one of the red states that overturned their child labor laws, or Chip is now a local vampire’s Renfield. and is serving a dark beast as a servant.
Rhymes with Orange – At this point God decided to employ his backup strategy of giving humankind horniness, since he couldn’t trust them to be fruitful and multiply on their own.
Marvin – The creator of Marvin is preventing Quentin Tarantino from bidding on the rights to the Marvin Movie by disgusting him.
9CL: Leave it to Brooke to use “turgid” to describe a full bladder.
I think the first definition in the online Merriam-Webster dictionary works pretty well:
excessively embellished in style or language : bombastic, pompous
turgid prose
@Baja Gaijin:
Number one!
Hi and Lois: I have a son like this, who often works the closing shift at Domino’s and then sleeps or lounges in his bed until it’s time to go to work again. In theory, that means this strip ought to elicit a warm smile of recognition. In fact, it just nudges me to set a firm move-out date. He doesn’t do anything around the house! Thanks for reminding me, Hi and Lois!
RWO: There are very few benefits from being kicked out of the Garden of Eden, but I, for one, am glad this version of Adam and Eve faced banishment. “And they were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed.” This version of Adam and Eve needed to be ashamed of their nudity on day one.
Rhymes with Orange: If you want to get truly Biblical here, the arithmetic problem should be “1 + 1 =” with the answer being “1 (flesh, and where did our kids find wives anyway?)”.
@Baja Gaijin: I think Sheriff Dan Stober speaks for most of us at this point.
MW: I’m looking forward to Wilbur throwing a tantrum on the docks because he doesn’t want to get on Jeff’s boat.
Zits: Is this strip portraying Jeremy as clueless or lazy? I kind of hope it’s the former. We don’t need this one slipping into Dustin territory.
FC: “It’s also got one of those self-emptying bags. Jeffy, no!”
MW: -Wait- Aren’t there usually three doves outside Mary’s window? Balls! Here we go again.
@Baja Gaijin: I want the owl to carry Stellan away.
MW: As Mary and Wilbur leave for the burial at sea, Ian splutters in apoplectic indignation. “We’re not invited to go on the boat ride??!! That’s the only reason I agreed to attend this funeral farce!!”
You can’t spoil Marvin, he’s already rotten!
@Baja Gaijin: Ow-els! Ow-els!
RWO: Finally some artist is publicly endorsing Gnosticism! Nicean Christianity had its run, it’s time to hear the alternative!
H&L – I said work all night, Thursty, not drink….
RwO – You should’a dumped this bozo and gone with the serpent….
Marvin – Grandma looks like some sort of Zamboni bot, that cleans shit off the floor….
Adios Amigos, DJ.
Bizarro: It’s Fred Ziffel!
Six Chix: Is she getting paid for this?
@taig: I want the owl to carry WILBUR away.
Repeat after me: I am not my brother’s keeper. And remember to not look down and to the left when you say it and you’ll be fine. And get some sun screen.
@Charterstoned: I would be feeling cheated too. These people were forced on a Friday morning to dress up in funeral attire and go to their meddling pseudo-landlady’s living room because a sociopathic middle aged man wants to hold a funeral for his goldfish. And all they got out of it were dry muffins?
MW: Control Tower to Sid, Control Tower to Sid! Low altitude alert! Repeat, low altitude alert!
Chip is a minor working graveyard shifts? Hahahaha! Zing! He sure got one over on his dad there!
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As an aside from my younger days when I worked graveyard shifts, there are people who really can’t get past the “sleeping all day” part. Intellectually I’m sure they’re aware that you are awake all night but it really, really bothers them to see you in bed at 3pm.
Hi and Lois-Chip’s a male prostitute?
Marvin-Poor Grandma. Look at all that mess on her shoes just from walking through the house.
Marvin-“Let’s play a game. You go hide in the closet with your friend Jeffy and I won’t look for you.”
H&L: This is not the way I wanted to learn about Chip’s OnlyFans channel. I never wanted to learn about Chip’s OnlyFans channel, but Thirsty considering following in his footsteps just makes it ten times worse.
Rw/O: Eve’s “I’ll never live this down” hits pretty hard for a throwaway gag, considering that for centuries her name has been invoked for painting women as a whole as deceptive, troublesome, and morally and spiritually weak. Eve has had her eyes opened to good and evil, and systemic patriarchal oppression definitely falls into the latter category.
I recall a Family Circlejerk strip from long ago with Thel, in Home Depot or someplace like that, yelling, “No, Jeffy, that’s the display model.” Perhaps someone more talented than me can find it.
Meanwhile, that dog will soon be vacuuming Jeffy’s crotch.
Rhymes with Orange:
“I ended up with knowledge when I sampled from the tree
So now I’m banished to this earth for all eternity
But now I also know that to preserve its ample fruit
I have to use cling plastic, and refrigerate to boot!”
“What in the world are you chanting, Eve?”
“Saran rap!”
DT: Aha! It’s “0403,” spelled backwards!
Sally Forth-“I know you! You’re that blond girl in ‘Judge Parker’.”
“It was a funny joke once, Dave. Once. And honestly, since the bombs fell, I’m not sure arithmetic matters any more. Now get over here and help me with this stew. We need more meat, and the neighbors aren’t armed.”
C’shaft: There is no way that cardboard box is supporting a television, unless it’s got a cabinet inside it.
And how pathetic is Pete that he can’t even rise to the level of a sheet of plywood and a couple of cinder blocks?
GT: You sure about that, Gil? Mimi may take one look at your bikini-clad bartender and decide she’s up for a polycule, and Beth may see how good your ex has it and take her up on it.
Luann: So, we’re really doing a whole week of this, huh? Okay, get bent.
I’m really not digging this art style on these characters, either. Toni looks like she runs a tradwife TikTok, and Brad looks like he’s about to roll up in his Cybertruck and talk to you about investing in AI technology.
MW: That silly little cocktail party was supposed to be a “wake”? No wonder Ian was so pissed; he was hoping to get a few good shots of Irish whisky or at least a pint of Guinness out of the deal.
Phantom: In better news, the new Phantom antagonist is an Elon Musk knock-off and if I ever wanted to see someone get his jaw permanently branded by a skull ring…
RMMD: Why did they even go to all the trouble of identifying Parker as non-binary if the bully was just going to fall back on lame “look at the nerd with their nerd glasses” taunts?
GT: “Hi I’m Beth.”
“Hi I’m Mimi.”
Their eyes meet. “Love is a Many Splendored Thing” begins playing.
“Not again,” Gil moans.
Luann: I can’t spend a week looking at this irritatingly Disneyesque art.
9CL: Edda is about to urinate all over the sofa. Punchline: it’s Seth’s sofa!
Marvin’s grandmother is a Sensorite. She wouldn’t get along well with Dagwood’s boss.
Marvin: Them ain’t feet, those are suction cups.
Marvin – Marvin is not for foot fetishists. It is for scat fetishists only. They don’t kinkshame, but they have boundaries.
Dick Tracy: “3040” upside down is “Ohoe,” the criminal mastermind whose head is shaped like both an oboe and a hoe.
@Lord Flatulence: Three weeks of this garbage, preceded by the nose ring close up (yuck!)…someone is having a laugh. That would be Xunise and no one else.
@Charterstoned: You’d need an owl the size of a C-5 to carry Wilbur away.
@Baja Gaijin:
Tough call between #1 and #3, Baja, but I think I prefer the full-on carpet- and clothes-bombing air raid to the single stealth sortie.
@Lee S.: Ohoe, first appearing in August, 1957, led a crime ring specializing in the theft of rare and valuable woodwind instruments and farm implements. Once captured Sam Catchem in a death-trap involving four soprano saxophones and a thresher. Defeated when Tracy impaled him on a priceless antique grain scythe and a giant novelty double-reed.
RWO: It’s difficult to understand Arabic numerals before they or Arabs were invented.
GT – So, they’re going RVing with Mom and Mom’s new lover? I really, really hope they named their RV “The Tuna Can”.
@Baja Gaijin: The owl!
Bizarro – It’s Emmitt Pissmire!
Frazz – Of course, if you run, you’re in constant motion, so neither ticks nor mosquitoes will bother you. Have I mentioned that I’m a runner?
Mary Worth – A dog is a beloved pet. A cat is a beloved pet. Maybe a hamster. But a fucking goldfish? Are you on drugs?
MW: It’s hugely disappointing that the whole gang won’t be joining the official funeral party on Jeff’s yacht. I was looking forward to Ian drunkenly playing “Going Home” on the bagpipes. (Although it’s hard to distinguish a drunken bagpipe player from a sober one.)
Marvin: Meanwhile, Grampa sits in a catatonic state unnoticed.
CS: Mindy, you don’t want to see the bed. Get out while you can.
MW-If this was ‘Funky Winkerbean’ we would get a time jump showing Mary at Wilbur’s grave.
@Charterstoned: Relax, CS… we got special clearance for the Doves o’ Love to make a low-flying Swoop o’ Sympathy memorial tribute! And they’re gonna provide an honor escort for the processional. Well, for a few blocks anyway – the Gulls are pretty territorial about the dock area. My Intern is there already, and says the Dolphins o’ Death are warming up, doin’ their stretches and a few practice flips. Their routine is gonna knock it outta the water!
Thanks to Baja for creating “make a wish day” for the Gulls! They really appreciate it, and say they’ll avoid his car for a couple of weeks as thanks. Also Stellan is grateful that the Fish mannequin was used for the Owl scene. No point in risking a disabling injury at this point….
@Liam: If this was an ideal world, we would have everyone shoving Mary into Wilbur’s grave.
@TheDiva: CS: Do college kids still furnish their dorm rooms and apartments with plastic milk crates stolen from behind Kroger? I had a friend whose whole house was done in Prairie Farm Modern.
RMMD: I was soooo hoping for an old-fashioned cartoony image of Flattop getting socked in the jaw, his features deformed, his neck extended and a stray tooth flying out of the panel.
@erdmann:
CS: Do college kids still furnish their dorm rooms and apartments with plastic milk crates stolen from behind Kroger? I had a friend whose whole house was done in Prairie Farm Modern.
I’ve seen photos where a few crafty folks used old wooden pallets from behind the grocery store to make shabby chic headboards for their dorm rooms. It’s honestly ridiculous how much goes into dorm accoutrements in this modern age. And yes, you better believe I had some crates for bookshelves.
Serious question: did I miss something? Marvin never used to speak, right? And definitely not complete sentences. Did they do some sort of time-jump from the preverbal toddler stage to the not-yet-potty-trained preschooler stage?
RMMD: At least when it comes to gender (or non-gender) identity, Pudgy’s tormentor has enough sensitivity to use his victim’s preferred pronoun. That’s right, friends, we have a woke bully. That’s real progress. I think.
H&L: Um, having a hard time believing that Thirsty would want to work all night.
@taig: 9CL: Actually, Edda’s bladder is “turbid,” because of her constant UTIs.
H&L: I think the cartoonist means that Chip has a software job, but he doesn’t trust his audience to understand the term, “coding.”
@Schroduck: Marvin: Since it’s now 2024, Marvin’s grandma was probably born in our around the 1960s. No one from that era is going to be wearing a lacy slip. This is just another example of an elderly cartoonist drawing the old people and their stereotypes that he remembers from his own long-ago youth.
MW: Wait… they still haven’t dumped the fish??!
RxMD: Even OG Gil Thorp would have allowed “We didn’t see anything” from the bystanders. But Beatty is BoyScouting this storyline to lead us into “Yes, they threw the first punch. Violence is bad. You should be passive in your response to being bullied….”
Was the forbidden fruit something like Pandora’s Box? “Eat the forbidden fruit and evil is unleashed upon humanity” more or less?
MW: I don’t even know what to say any more. Either this arc has reached the stupidity saturation point, or I have.
RMMD: Oh, Parker, Parker, Parker. The nads. Always the nads.
Hi and Lois A job where a 15 year old kid can work wherever and whenever he wants would be pretty interesting, which no doubt is why the writers can’t be bothered to figure out what it is.
JP: We all realize that the fiancé and the date belong to the same family, and that there are three sons. Just checking the slow reveal.
And April never revealed any of this? Lousy CIA Sources.
Phantom: Kit is no Korath.
Luann – So did Shannon serve them moldy rye bread? Cool. Maybe next week’s menu will be pufferfish,
MW: I’m probably being overly optimistic about the strip, but it does feel like it’s building to something. Something REAL dumb, mind you, but something nonetheless.
RMMD: Pudgy Parker strips down to underwear and reveals – a Sumo wrestler! Who’s laughing now, Bully Boy? Will Parker wear a bra?
MW 2: Am I the only one who has been humming Solsbury Hill through the last couple strips? Gotta put down the Time-Life Soundtracks of Our Lives, I guess…
Marvin’s Grandmother doesn’t have feet, she has suction cups that keep her firmly connected to the polished floor
Six Chix – “Hell yes, I got an idea for a comic. Clyde from Pac-Man sprouts a human arm and head dressed like a punk rocker and harasses a fish that’s suffocating in a tiny bowl with no aerator. And then the authorites break down the door and shut that mofo DOWN!”
@Rube:
My nephew, age 16, has a summer job working 8-12 Monday – Friday, and any weekend work he can pick up.
What’s he doing? He’s working at a surfing school in California. He makes, per hour, more than I did at my first job out of college teaching people to surf. And what would he be doing if not working? Surfing. So…
Me? I was a cashier. Now, I loved it, and it was the foundation in customer service that informed everything I did from that point on, but it was hard to get a tan.
Don Abundio, translated:
“The boss is getting his shots today”
“Quick! To the staircase!”
“I’ll help you wrap him up and put him in the car, but who’s going with him to the vet?”
May I gently suggest that the Marvin team stop drawing Marvin at angles where they have to show closeups of grownups’ feet? Then we can work on stopping drawing Marvin. And Marvin.
MW: This seemingly never ending arc is so lame I don’t even bother reading the dialogue any more. I see the same group of dolts or a close up of Mary and scroll on. Baja is great and the snarks are, as ever clever. Moy has long passed “jumping the shark” and is now “dumping the goldfish”.
Palurdeando Spanish to English.
H&L, panel 3: “So Chip, who do I see about becoming a downtown rent boy?”
@97 Unca Bob: Let “dumping the goldfish” be a new Comics Curmudgeon term for “storyline that needs to stop but just shambles on seemingly endlessly.” For instance, the Starbuck Jones movie premiere storyline just won’t “dump the goldfish.”
@100 Baja Gaijin:
Oh, I don’t know. We’ve already got “bee grinding”.
The heels are sticking out FARTHER [not further] from the leg than the toes.
@TheDiva: I guess that’s Ces in a cameo yesterday thanks to Jim Keefe (according to Ces on his Facebook page). Oversnark apologies to anyone who already noted this.
@TheDiva: Re: Rex Morgan M.D.: I’m usually loath to use a perpetually misconstrued and misappropriated term like “virtue signaling” but….
“Oh look,” the nonexistent Gen Z audience is supposed to proclaim, “That comic about dull milquetoast schlubs is pretending to be ‘hip’ and ‘relevant’ by displaying it totally doesn’t understand what ‘non-binary’ means (“That’s the one that uses pronouns or whatever, right?”) or what queer issues are about! I’m in! Maybe they’ll start talking about more “diverse” “young people” issues like 30’s pop culture references and which retro-themed diner has the most digestible meatloaf.”
@Unca Bob @Baja Gaijin: Petition to make “dumping the goldfish” the comic equivalent to “jumping the shark.”
@Baja Gaijin: I think there is also room for “It’s just a fucking fish, Wilbur”.
@Unca Bob: It’s an especially egregious storyline because the primary character is someone who should not be this hung up about a goldfish. Wilbur is a known sociopath who doesn’t care about anyone but himself, known for emotionally abusing his last partner and traumatizing his daughter until she ran away to her estranged mother. He only “cares” about his goldfish because it gives him attention. Look at how he perked up from everyone giving him attention and now he’s sulking again because they’re all gone.
@Sequitur:
Oh, I don’t know. We’ve already got “bee grinding”.
That one has actually worked its way into my vernacular outside of this forum.
@Baja Gaijin: Tough choice, this one, but I’ll take the pooping gulls.
@Old School Allie Cat: I would appreciate and enjoy an example, if/when you have time.
@109 Poteet:
Nobody gets by the pooping gulls.
REX MORGAN M.D: See, this is why they had to break Parker’s glasses: because only a blind person couldn’t see this transparent plot “twist” coming.
@Needless Exposition: On top of that, the goldfish is an obvious symbol for what Wilbur’s really mourning: his failure to get a girlfriend. It’s even named after her.
So Chip’s a lumberjack? Is he okay?
@Poteet:
Here’s an example. I’m going to be in a meeting this afternoon with one of my colleagues who always waits til we’re seconds away from ending the call and she asks a question or makes a suggestion that prolongs the call for another ten useless minutes.
At which point I will mutter, “Enough bee grinding, I have stuff to do”.
@Cleveland Mocks: Re MW – I love the thought of Ian playing the bagpipes, tears streaming down his face like in the famous photo of the man playing Going Home on the accordion as FDR’s casket left Georgia.
(Seriously, that photo is one of my favorites – very moving.)
(I also like bagpipe music, but not in large doses.)
@Baja Gaijin: Maybe bee grinding could apply to stories that repeat, go nowhere, and won’t end. Dumping the goldfish could be reserved for stories that are batshit insane and/or infuriating and won’t end.
Marvin: Grandma has set up a tripping hazard with that floor lamp cord, to finish off that old coot once and for all.
@Schroduck: Uhhhhhh… whose idea was it to draw the lace of grandma’s bloomers peeking out of her shorts?
That’s not lingerie, it’s toilet paper left hanging. You knew there had to be a poop joke somewhere, right?
RwO: What is Eve doing with that vessel she’s carrying? Is she going to balance it on one hand while filling it from the pot on the fire? Seems difficult and unlikely. Is she going to place the vessel into the pot over the fire? Also seems unlikely, though I suppose a primitive sous vide is a remote possibility. Is she going to place the vessel on the ground and then tend the pot on the fire? Why should she have to do that to her back? Build your wife a decent table she can use when cooking, Adam! Don’t just spend your time making a weird primitive blackboard and hogging the only table there is.
@Quiggle: I hope to see that again on Friday.
@Scratchy Scrotum LXIX: I recall a Family Circlejerk strip from long ago with Thel, in Home Depot or someplace like that, yelling, “No, Jeffy, that’s the display model.” Perhaps someone more talented than me can find it.
Find it? There’s more than one. The Home Depot on New Brighton Blvd might be convenient for you.
Marvin: So these characters are really Tralfamadorians in unconvincing human disguises who don’t bother hiding their suction-cup feet? That explains… not a lot, unfortunately.
GT: Yes, I did read the previous comments, but I still think its a bold move to introduce the younger, hotter, non-lesbian version of your ex-wife to the ex herself. You go, Gil!
@Banana Jr. 6000: The sad part is that Wilbur is never going to have what he wants because he’s unwilling to change. He doesn’t want a partner; he wants a mommy whose whole life and personality revolves around him and who coddles him instead of letting him take responsibility for his actions. Basically he wants a super attractive version of Mary that’s more of a doormat.
LUANN: This theme doesn’t work because the real current problem is not that Bwadoni are unrealistic about their future child, it’s that they are clueless about how to deal with the existing child who stays with them frequently. The home of relatives can be a place of stability and behavioral learning for a child living with an erratic parent, but only if the relatives are competent. These two are not.
RMMD — no snark here. I haven’t looked ahead, but I suspect this plot eventually ends up with a gun being pulled out.
@Little Guy: JP: My Three Sons? Where’s Fred MacMurray.
@Baja Gaijin: #1
That owl…oh my goodness…he’s perfect!!!
But, truth be told, I would like to see all three happen, one after the other. Good riddance.
@Bob Tice: #2
*SCREAM!!*
@Unca Bob: Ok. I’m going to be honest; while I certainly don’t think this current storyline is “good” by any stretch of the imagination (god forbidden), I think it’s a little much to claim that this is the story that “dumped the goldfish” (see, now, I’m using it.) I just think Wilbur is such an emotional black hole that all memories and feelings of Worthian history gets sucked into it’s singularity. I’d say the previous two stories (“ACAB: A Love Story” and “Dog Fight Club”) were way worse in never-ending deplorability. (so much so, that at the time we were begging for Wilbur’s return as a life-preserver for being in an endless sea of mind-numbing madness. I know, right?)
Luann: why does Brad look so weird in Toni’s fantasy. That’s not Brad. Is that her secret to staying with him?
@Al of the Christian Singles Jungle Patrol: Nope that turn of events might be “interesting”, so it won’t be happening here! The most shocking development that can happen in Rex Morgan M.D. is someone not singing “Muddy Boots” (where’s the fainting couch?)
@2+2=7: While this storyline is nowhere near as insulting as some things we’ve seen, it’s basically been two months of playing ping pong with Wilbur plots that have gone from eye rolling to head scratching to wondering what kind of drugs Moy has been ingesting/injecting/smoking to get to this point.
@Quiggle: #25
That would definitely pique my interest!
@131 Professor Well Actually:
This dream sequence is being drawn by guest artist Jay Fosgitt.
C&H: Given the existential terror the knowledge of angular displacement has apparently given Calvin, Dad should probably stick to making up nonsense like “The world used to be black and white”.
DT: Okay, but why? Was suicide guy worried he might forget about his blackmail payments if he didn’t keep a record of them? It can’t be an “in the event of my death…” thing, because it was encrypted and doesn’t actually name anyone.
HtH: We replaced Hägar’s script with Garfield’s! Let’s see if he notices!
RWO: I’m no religious scholar, but didn’t they both eat the fruit? I’m pretty sure they both ate the fruit.
SH: Yeah, you’ve got to be pretty clumsy to trip over a rock and fall on your face, when you’re floating underwater. Also, didn’t Ming’s thing used to be the Absolute Truth of her documentaries? Isn’t there an ethical issue in having her editing her portrayal of a friend to make her look better? (Ha ha, I’m kidding, it is literally impossible for a Holbrook main character to have an ethical issue; everything they do must be right Because It’s Them.)
S4th: Yep, magical realism nonsense.
@Needless Exposition: I dunno if they were all forced. Not only would Saul and Even make sure to enthusiastically agree to to it, I’m sure they have a variety of pet funeral outfits and accessories for such occasions (or better yet, spend a small fortune to buy some.)
H&L: HI: “It’s funny, but I can’t help but see how much Chip looks like someone else I know. His laziness, his perpetually hidden eyes. Yes, Chip is the splitting image of… his uncle Beetle. Really, it’s uncanny.” As Hi spoke, he failed to notice how quickly Thirsty shifted from fear to relief. Hi failed to notice a lot of things.
JUDGE PARKER: Reena: “Just because I’m taking advantage of this guy’s generous hospitality like a freeloading leech doesn’t mean I have to treat him with any basic civility or human compassion. Pshaw! Don’t you agree, fellow trust-funder who also perpetually whines about how unbearable her wealthy family is?”
@2+2=7: Those two are definitely one dimensional characters who clearly are meant for the “dogs are great” agenda so they would be into pet funerals. A goldfish is still a stretch, though.
What a day… it was a little windy out, was playing Sims 3 (haven’t saved in a while) when my PC restarted on its own, due to a power flux because of the storm.
So, I’m like “Okay, I’ll just let it restart” and before it could restart fully, it reset itself again…
So I decided to just turn my computer off, I waited for it to restart again this time, and it fully booted up. I went to “shut down” and as it was in the middle of shutting down, it restarted again…
(me screaming)
I just forced it off in the end, couldn’t take it anymore and will deal with it, and whatever repercussions later.
RMMD: I had forgotten that Parker was non-binary. At the end of the fight, they wind up embracing in one long kiss. I guess I shouldn’t have expected more than just another typical high school “enemies-to-lovers story.
@Old School Allie Cat: #79
Or my favorite DIY decoration from when I was in college – wine bottles wrapped in raffia with candles jammed into them and torrents of wax drippings!
@The Silent Penultimate Panel: #80
A suddenly articulate Marvin, a new artist for “Luann”…the comics are becoming increasingly unsettling…
@Horace Broon: #136: re-RWO: You’re correct. They BOTH ate of the fruit. What’s bothered me about the story is that Eve is always portrayed as the gullible asshole even though it took Satan with all of his slick talk and beguilements to trick her into eating it while all it took Adam was Eve saying, “Hey, try this.”
Notice too how once they were caught Adam was real quick to throw Eve under the bus. “The woman made me do it!”
@LTJpezcore1: #89
It is definitely building to a stunning anticlimax, that much we know.
@Pozzo: He did indeed. I was just about to comment on that.
@Guillermo el chiclero: Its worse than that… Adam was willing to through God under the bus as well: “The woman YOU GAVE ME made me do it!”
Old joke: What was Eden’s phone number? Adam 8 1 2
@Daisy:
Listen, No 55 is a lot worse!
Ziggy-Ziggy was laughing at a ‘Ziggy’ card.
@Old School Allie Cat: I worked at a urinal cake factory on Avenue D in Rochester, NY.
Well…well…we…we…now know what to look “forward” to in Sally Forth for the next several days. Groan…groan…
@The Rambling Otter: #141
Ah yes…computers make our lives more (a) interesting; (b) productive; (c) maddening…sometimes/usually all at once!
@Bob Tice: #149
I *did* see that one and hurriedly scrolled past it, overwhelmed…two amazing puns in one day are just too much for my peanut brain!
@Sally…Sally Fif: #152
Honestly, yes…Hilary’s recurring fantasy time-jump sequences are becoming tiresome.
@76 Sid, Agent to the Animal Stars!: The gulls seemed on edge waiting for their on panel time. I’m glad they enjoyed it. Tell them they have great aim!
Yes I used a simulated Stellan. The real Stellan would have been barely visible. The mannekin (fishekin? piscekin?) is double sized. I wonder if the owl can fly over to Family Circus and drop the mannkin right on Holier than Thou Grandma’s white mushroom cloud hair?
@128 Daisy: I didn’t think the owl would be so popular. I figured Gull Poo would have buried the competition, so to speak.
@Baja Gaijin: A stuffed Piscean knockoff courtesy of Bob’s Taxidermy. “You snuff ‘em, we stuff ‘em!”
@157 Baja Gaijin:
Baja. You really have to do something about Mary.
MW – This is appropriate because this is the 73rd birthday of Stellan Skarsgard. It took Moy nearly a year, but she finally made this topical.
@Sequitur: Perhaps they’ll finally get to the boat before Jeff leaves them with a rowboat so he and the sailors on shore leave can party on international waters.
@168 Scratchy Scrotum LXIX:
He’s only about five months younger than me. It must be nice being the 12,005 most popular of something.
@Sequitur: GOOD! Ground Zero should be Wilbur’s awful combover.
@Old School Allie Cat: Excellent!! Thank you.
@161 Needless Exposition:
They get on the boat Sunday. When i looked at the Sunday strip a couple of days ago it seemed that this was the end of the story. It should have been but no. I’ve just read next Monday and Tuesday and the story continues…
@163 Poteet:
I think it would be ironic if Wilbur bends down and the gulls zero in on his exposed butt crack.
@Dreamz: Looxury!
@Sequitur: Four days to get on the boat…did Wilbur need to get a Happy Meal and forget his credit card? No lie, that call back actually would get a chuckle out of me.
@Daisy: YES!!! Although in my dorm, even the raffia was often skipped and we just had the jammed-into-wine-bottles very-drippy candles. And now I’m remembering those big Seventies candles that were hand-carved with ribbon swirls. Ooooh ahhhhh.
@Needless Exposition: Maybe Mary needed him to help her pick out new tires, and they just happened to go by The Pet Store…..
@159 Sequitur: “…do Something about Mary.” Uhhh, I wouldn’t touch that with Ben Stiller’s hand.
@162 Sequitur: When Scratchy mentioned Stellan’s age, I wondered if you were close to the same age. Now I know.
@163 Poteet: There’s still time in this storyline. I don’t want to get prematurely pooped out.
@166 Sequitur: There’s still time in this storyline. I don’t want to get prematurely pooped out.
@Old School Allie Cat: You sound like exactly the kind of cashier that my retail boss, fifty-odd years ago, wished he had. He was kind to put up with me for a summer instead:-).
@108 Needless Exposition:
Oh, you optimist. Mary encourages Wilbur on Thursday and Friday. Friday they also reach the boat.
@Arabella: Watch as the new fish accidentally goes overboard and there’s still a stinking defrosted fish casket.
@171 Baja Gaijin:
Are you planning on being eaten by gulls?
@Sequitur: Bwahaha!
@Sequitur: Or perhaps a barn owl that may or may not be David Bowie?
@Lord Flatulence: My Three Sons? Where’s Fred MacMurray.
I’ve read that Fred had so much clout on that show, so much clout, I say, that he had all his shots done first for the entire season. Then he went off to play golf and the rest of the cast filled in their scenes without Fred.
@Al of the Christian Singles Jungle Patrol: #148: I thought of that part too right after I hit submit. Was thinking of adding that fact in another text but I figured someone would catch it soon. Plus, one of my dogs ran off and it took an hour of cruising the neighborhood to find her.
@White Rabbit: #178: Not just golf. MacMurray was still an in demand movie actor at the time and the show had to accommodate his film schedule.
@Baja Gaijin: “Owl” go with the owls ’cause, y’know, they’re a hoot.
Several comments about Luann‘s guest art, but little about Nancy‘s. I like it; she’s not so uptight here.
FC: That hound dog probably has a taste for dog and goose droppings.
Any attempt at the God of Abraham humor that doesn’t make any sense is quite fitting.
@The Rambling Otter: #141 this was immediately a better story that 75% of the strips today
@Daisy: a shockingly moribund antepenultimate installment….
@The Rambling Otter:
Welcome back
@Guillermo el chiclero: Hope you found the dog in one piece!
@LTJpezcore1: Interested in knowing which 25% were better than the story.
@The Rambling Otter: ok, I’ll make this short in case you weren’t serious.
2 trees in the Garden, bearing either:
1) the fruit of everlasting life.
2) the fruit of the knowledge of good and evil.
You get to choose one, but not both (yet). You choose (1) and you get to commune with God directly forever. You choose (2) and you can convince yourself that you’re like God.
Throw in a fallen angel who had some serious resentment and trust issues, and you basically get the first four chapters of Genesis.
@I speak Jive: re Bizarro: You’re right! That IS Emmet! My Intern said we never got a casting call for this part, so I guess they had already made the hire – what a larger-than-life role! And what an effortless delivery! I’m really impressed at how far Emmet has come in acting skills and self-promotion! You’re doin’ OK for yourself, kiddo!
But in case you ever want the safety net of professional representation.. you have our number…
@Al of the Christian Singles Jungle Patrol: Add a god who could have put a fence up around the damn trees, or maybe set them up in a different garden, I mean, it’s like he wants us to fall.
H&L: Was going to make a joke about Chip working as a meth cook or something, but it’s honestly funnier if he’s mowing lawns at 3AM on the daily.
RwO: Adam heard Eve say that she learned about the tree by talking to “some kind of snake, maybe an adder.” Very prone to misunderstandings is our Adam.
Dustin: Hayden isn’t lucky(?) enough to live near Mary Worth but luckily(?) for him Dustin is also ready with a platitude.
GT: “I’m always good, daddy.”
“And I sometimes exist, pops!”
JP: Did Reena transfer from a college out west? She seems to have taken Advanced Rude Stage Whispering with Professor Ian Cameron.
Luann: I see Project Lets Use a Guest Artist So Everyone Forgets That This Is Luann continues apace.
MW: It looks like Mary might have slipped on a pair of sunglasses, but Brigman forgot to draw the temple tips, so she’s just got a weird black line in front of her eye. Or she’s in the process of dropping her alien disguise so she can kill and eat Wilbur, but we’re not that lucky.
Phantom: Like his real-life model Ian Mollusk dresses in Silicon Valley non-style, so it’s a treat to see President Lamanda still rocking the wing collar shirt and cravat.
Pibgorn: Oh right. The prince is named “Crwth.” Welsh early music ensembles must be relieved when their audiences are unfamiliar with this strip.
6C: “Had one thirty seconds ago but it’s gone. What’s your excuse?”
@Voshkod: Well, there is something to be said for what you’re saying. But as Kris Kristofferson once said, “The going-up is worth the coming-down.”
Or, put another way, the Garden was never “plan A”.
A&J: Okay, this is ridiculously late, but if anyone could very kindly explain the Sunday A&J to me, I’d greatly appreciate it, and thank you very much for indulging my failure to comprehend. Probably short words would be best. *sniff*
@Guillermo el chiclero: MacMurray was still an in demand movie actor
That’s very true. An earlier Fred favorite, is 1945’s Murder, He Says, possibly the high-water mark of American hillbilly humor, with Fred getting entangled with the Fleegles, and their whip-cracking Ma, played by Marjorie Main.
@195 Poteet:
I think the best way is for you to follow this link and scroll down a bit and hit “Show All Comments” and let the people explain it. A few are confused as you.
@Rube:
I just find it weird that Lois and Beetle have a 6 year old brother named Chigger
(who may or may not still be remembered by “Walker-Browne Amalgamated Humor Industries LLC”)
How awkward must it be to have an Uncle who is less than half your age.
@The Rambling Otter: I just find it weird that Lois and Beetle have a 6 year old brother named Chigger
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Probably just so they could set up a strip featuring light 70s racism with Lt Flap mis-hearing a conversation.
_@Guillermo el chiclero:
@White Rabbit: #178: Not just golf. MacMurray was still an in demand movie actor at the time and the show had to accommodate his film schedule.
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“Can anything truly be said to STAR Fred McMurray?” -Tom Servo, “Riding With Death” (Adapted)
Late Thread Cuisine: Breakfast never looked so.
@Garrison Skunk: “Can anything truly be said to STAR Fred McMurray?” -Tom Servo
Double Indemnity?
@Artist formerly known as Ben:
RwO: Adam heard Eve say that she learned about the tree by talking to “some kind of snake, maybe an adder.” Very prone to misunderstandings is our Adam
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“Black Adder Beginnings”, Series 3 Episode 2
No wonder Marvin is so screwed up, his stink is melting his Grandma.
@Baja Gaijin: Nice try, making it look like a reasonable meal by putting it on a fancy plate. WTF is that runny stuff?
@Al of the Christian Singles Jungle Patrol: But as Kris Kristofferson once said, “The going-up is worth the coming-down.”
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That was while he was dating Barbara Strisand, wasn’t it?
@Charterstoned:
WTF is that runny stuff?
Cheese? Bechamel sauce? Hopefully?
@Baja Gaijin: Late thread cuisine – I didn’t know that an omelet could barf.
@White Rabbit: My first thought, too.
@Baja Gaijin: It’s “plain” and “filled?” Make up your mind recipe card!
Six Chex In Search Of A Punchline: Just let your cat keep writing it, she’s proven she can do the job.
@Charterstoned: @Baja Gaijin: Nice try, making it look like a reasonable meal by putting it on a fancy plate. WTF is that runny stuff?
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I think Baja’s using Woody Allen’s “The SLEEPER Cookbook” and that dish is Leader’s Nose Flambe.
@Garrison Skunk: Ah, yes, Leader’s Nose Flambé. That meal was once thought to be good for you— precisely the opposite of what we now know to be true.
@White Rabbit: #196: The original Captain Marvel’s face was based on a young Fred MacMurray. Race Bannon of Johnny Quest fame was based on 1950s leading man Jeff Chandler.
@Poteet: #169: Did you also have a blacklight poster and a construction site cable spool for a table?
@Tom T.: #82: re- Marvin: Yeah, and I’ll wager that the grandpa is still supposed to be a WW2 vet, just like all middle aged adults are boomers who grew up in the 50s.
@204 Charterstoned: Flour, milk, butter, mushrooms and some salt and pepper.
@206 Anonymous: You got it in one.
@207 I speak Jive: My first thought too.
@208 taig: The card held 2 recipes. They illustrated only the grody looking one.
@210 Garrison Skunk: I never read Woody Allen’s cookbook or any of his books for that matter.
@White Rabbit: In his heyday, Fred MacMurray was the highest paid actor in Hollywood.
@White Rabbit: It couldn’t have been too hard. Most of MacMurray’s scenes were him sitting in his easy chair, smoking his pipe, dispensing sage advice.
@200 Baja Gaijin:
That… that.. That looks normal. Something I might eat for breakfast.
Okay. What’s the zinger… the punch line… the revealing.
@Baja Gaijin: Just as I thought. BLECHH!
@Lord Flatulence: Even so, I don’t think his career was handled as well as it could have been. Another actor I would say that of is James Garner. Both should have been high-level stars. Maybe not Robert Mitchums or John Waynes or Kirk Douglases, but close behind..
@Al of the Christian Singles Jungle Patrol: Yeah, there’s a whole theodicy argument to be had here.
Mutt & Jeff: Amazon. The early years.
@White Rabbit: MacMurray admitted he was too lazy to be a big star.
@Lord Flatulence:
MacMurray’s performance as the heel in The Caine Mutiny is superb.
@221 N. Scudder, b’god!:
Apparently Jeff is not a Prime member. More like a slime member.
Fred MacMurray. Who remembers the Flubber movies?
@Hibbleton: I liked him best when he was paired with Barbara Stanwyck.
@Hibbleton: #223: He also had a good heel role as Jack Lemmon’s philandering boss in The Apartment.
@Guillermo el chiclero: I didn’t in my own room, but I spent part of a year living in a dorm suite, and the suite common room had both. It’s like you were there!
@Sequitur: Thank you. I feel weirdly vindicated.
@Liam:
MW: Too many security cameras at the Marina. They’d see Jeff and Mary leave with Wilbur, but return without him. On second thought, would anyone care? Nevermind.
DT: I’m going to take a wild guess on the significance of the number 3040. Since Gabriel has already been shown as a Luddite who embraces old technology, 3040 may be a reference to the .30-40 Krag rifle cartridge, the standard US Army rifle round during the Spanish American War/Philippine Insurrection/Boxer Rebellion era. Though still a popular hunting cartridge to this day, the Krag rifle and it’s cartridge (30 for the caliber and 40 for the powder charge in grains) enjoyed one of the shortest service lives of any US small arm. The Krag was shown to be inferior to the 7mm Mauser rifles wielded by the Spanish Army and was quickly replaced by the 1903 Springfield, a more or less Mauser copy.
@Garrison Skunk: Probably not. Pilgrim Chapter 33 I think was before Janis…
@Voshkod: Clerihew Warning!
The subject of theodicy
Is different from physiology:
Theodicy explains the goodness of God,
Physiology is about your bod. — Albert Camus
@Baja Gaijin: The filling looks like the punchline to a blonde joke I heard on Denver radio this morning.
RwO:
Cain and Abel, Adam and Eve,
A serpent too, some believe.
But Josh does more than Milton can,
To justify God’s ways to man. — Jean-Paul Sartre
@Baja Gaijin: It looks like a clam. Not a clam omelet, just a clam.
Marvin: Grandma does seem to have a lot of under-standing. No doubt she is very stable on all sorts of terrain.
@234 Al of the Christian Singles Jungle Patrol: Uh, I don’t think I want to know…
@236 Peanut Gallery: SNERK!
Judge Parker – is this trip to the Hamptons going to turn into some weird “Saltburn” sex orgy in a bathtub?
Gil Thorpe- Gil makes enough money as the most mediocre COTY to have his own private plane on 24 hour standby including a crew sometimes, and his ex – wife lives in a bus???????? That is truly the Power of the V!!!!
I still stand by my theories that Marvin and Daddy Daze-Angus are primordial dwarves who have some sort of sick infantile role-play with their “parents”
When you have less class than Baby Herman…
@Sequitur: I do. My middle school would show those movies in the gym on Saturday afternoons sometimes. Pete’s Dragon too.
@Al of the Christian Singles Jungle Patrol: The fallen angel/serpent was the only one of the 2 who weren’t lying.
@Baja Gaijin: Oh for crying out loud, even a mediocre cook like me has made mushroom omelettes that look far better than THAT. I won’t even type what I think it looks like, I’m grossed out enough already.
@243 Poteet:
Looks okay to me. But then, I like falling out of trees.
@Poteet: And the parsley and tomato slices are obviously trying to crawl under the omelette and hide because they are so embarrassed.
@Sequitur: I do respect you, so perhaps I am missing something. *looks at photo again* I definitely continue to respect you. This omelette, not so much.
@Late night lurker:
“And then Lucas woke up.”
@243 Poteet: And yet of all the people who were paid money to make the omelette, to stage the photo, take the photo, and print the photo, no one realized how icky it looks.
@245 Poteet: SNERK!
@Anonymous: new horrible idea: Marvin takes place in zero-g and they need the plungers to stay affixed to surfaces. I hope those diapers have a vacuum seal…