Teen-ish girl Sunday
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Dustin, 4/27/25
You might recall last week when Dustin was, if not concerned about his parents’ increasingly obvious marital dysfunction and mutual antipathy, then at least kind of satisfied to see it. But Meg? Meg’s younger, and she no doubt has even fewer memories of her parents ever having been happy. This is just the background radiation of her life, and if she has a choice between listening to her father mutter about the long list of resentments her mother clings to or looking at literally anything on her phone, well, that’s not really a very hard decision for her.
Mary Worth, 4/27/25
I’m sorry, I object to this. One thing that I am very certain about is that, culturally speaking, Dawn is an utter philistine. Dawn has not seen Psycho enough times for it to worm its way into her subconscious. Dawn has never watched a black and white movie, or really anything longer than one of your middle-length TikToks. This scene should really be overlaid with the text “POV: Your father’s new girlfriend tries to unalive you with a kn*fe” and somehow take place in the front seat of a car.
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RMMD-Dull and boring typical routine of this strip.
MW-“Here! Here! Here’s your paper! Here’s your paper!”
FC-Not the sort of ass Daddy was hoping for.
FC-Cash, grass, or ass.
MW: It’s more than past time for Mary and Belle to meet. Let’s hope this week brings a good old Worthian ass-whupping.
RMMD: Next up: The last woman Augie dumped (Belle Battsfrey’s sister) arrives to seek revenge.
MW: Dawn wakes up wet from sweat and takes a shower -along with a .45 Auto. “Forewarned is forearmed;” she thinks.
Mary Worth: So now Mary Worth is just is just outright plagiarizing Bernard Herrmann? The “skreech” in Psycho‘s shower scene was made with high violins, which, come to think of it, is probably as close an instrumental approximation of Dawn’s voice that you’re ever going to get. (Also, if Dawn’s blood turns out to consist of 80% Hershey’s chocolate syrup, will anyone really be surprised?)
I’m not sure if Dawn has even seen “Fatal Attraction,” but that might be a more believable subject for her dream. But maybe she doesn’t dream in color.
FC:
“Mommy, can I come back in the house or am I going to be an orphan?”
“That’s up to your father.”
Dustin: I like that Dustin’s dad seems to have jumped straight into his flower defense the second he stepped in the door. “What are you looking at? It’s not unusual for me to bring home flowers for your mother! I have a well-established pattern of buying flowers for her! No, what would be weird was if I didn’t buy flowers for her, because I knew some kind of tragedy had befallen her, in which I might be involved. But I have no such knowledge, so all of this is very normal! Boy, look at the time: 5:18. Yes, I am back in the house at 5:18, which is at least 35 minutes from the quarry…”
MW: I’m really hoping that Dawn takes the complete wrong meaning from this dream and accuses Belle of being a man in drag.
First of all Belle, you’re never gonna kill anybody gripping a knife like that.
@pugfuggly:
MW: I’m really hoping that Dawn takes the complete wrong meaning from this dream and accuses Belle of being a man in drag.
Madman Butterfly
Dawn and Wilbur are working hard to disprove the adage “the audience loves a slow thinker.”
What kind of weird usage of “anymore” is that in Dustin? He should be giving ME flowers for that.
Even “MARY WORTH” has to resort to showing young, half-naked ladies to sell newspapers! But since it wants to punish us for our carnal desires, it shows us Dawn
Mary Worth dream sequences are usually fun because they exaggerate the characters’ psychological issues into over-the-top visuals, like Estelle having Wilbur quadruplets or Drew getting drawn and quartered or Cal’s emojiface or DaWnilbur. But this? Nods to cinema aside, this is no more over the top than the “what if Wile E. Coyote were a poisoner” shenanigans that are already happening. I half expect this dream to be as prophetic as Abraham Lincoln’s was: Dawn wakes up in a cold sweat, can’t remember the nightmare’s specifics but remains rattled, takes a midnight shower to relax, STABBITY STAB. By next Sunday, Wilbur is saying, “It’s strange that Dawn took that sudden trip to Jamaica and only left me a text…” and Belle is all, “Not as strange as the position I want us to try this morning! HEH HEH!”
You can tell Dustin’s parents are really Gen X-ers, not Boomers because, scarred by years of Got Milk? ads, they still make their kids drink huge glasses of plain milk. You can watch your brainrot TikToks, but for the love of God, get enough calcium!
Skreech Skreech Skreech.
Skreech Skreech.
Skreech.
No, I protest! even in a dress and a wig, Weelbur’s too fat to pass himself off as Bats In The Bellefry.
Weelbur Bates, the Charterstone Motel.
@Liam:
That kid gets no tip.
Don Abundio, translated:
[Sign: CIRCUS]
“So you don’t like me! You could still give me a chance”
“Actually, I have an even better reason not to go out with you”
“What’s that?”
“My horse doesn’t like you either!”
MW: “Dawn has never watched a black and movie”.
Well, there goes my Dawn & Belle Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? fanfic.
Pluggers: If you’ve never taken pressing sharp reeds into wet clay in school because you thought it was a skill you never needed, you’re a Sumerian plugger.
BG&SS: “A sugar maple tree” rolls off the tongue like “a chicken bird“. But hey, ChatGPT’s writing is not that bad.
MW. I was going to say this lack of realism didn’t matter because Mary Worth readers don’t know anyone in their early twenties, but then I remembered that’s exactly who staffs their assisted living facilities.
MW- au contraire. I think Dawn has seen a boatload of old movies. She’s been in college for decades- there’s no way she hasn’t majored in film studies for at least one or two semesters.
MW: Dawn is surprised to see Belle with a knife, but what’s really driving her mad is that irritating SKREECH! SKREECH! SKREECH!
JP: Good ol’ Sophie never runs out of things to be miserable about. Look for her in an ongoing cameo role in Hi and Lois.
RMMD: Sadly, an hour later Summer has to bring the cops back because Augie sexually assaulted her.
6Chx: Big props to Isabella for raising awareness of habitat loss of the endangered tapir — and by raising awareness, I mean elevating it up to No. 783,498 on the Bad Things To Be Aware of list.
Dustin: Why does Meg look so smugly satisfied in panel three? My guess is that she has an entire, surprisingly-popular subreddit devoted to her parents’ terrible marriage, and she can’t wait to tell them all about this latest pathetic incident.
MW: Meanwhile, Wilbur is having a dream in which he’s Violet Beauregarde in Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, but do we get to see that?
DT: The cherry on top of this idiotic scam is that San Theodoros is a notoriously unstable banana republic, not a place you’d think would have good international banking. Mille millions de mille sabords…
RMMD: Too bad the strip is written so far in advance. Augie and Summer can otherwise make the most of that rare period between Popes when unmarried Catholics can sleep together.
@Copperhead:
First of all Belle, you’re never gonna kill anybody gripping a knife like that.
For some unknown reason that has baffled researchers for decades, characters in the Worthiverse never developed opposable thumbs.
@Dee Dee:
Apparently, it’s “positive anymore”: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Positive_anymore
unless Dustin’s dad is having a stroke.
MW: Clearly Dawn has only watched the 1998 “Psycho” remake by Gus Van Sant. The reason it’s in black-and-white here is simply because she’s too dull to dream in color.
Dustin-What does Dustin’s Sister know about getting flowers most guys just give her a pearl necklace.
MW: Maybe Dawn saw it in a Scary Movie. After all, thanks to a “wacky” series of events, that’s how The Usual Suspects got ruined for me (still not bitter!).
Dustin: I doubt Ed hears, “You’re my favorite customer,” when he buys his roses.
MW: So Belle is one of Kate Gosselin’s sons in drag? That actually makes more sense.
RMMD – Ok, Augie, you have committed to the most important precept of the strip. Welcome to the cast.
Ripley’s – Roald Dahl’s writings were not all sunshine and lollipops, to wit (twit):
Characters in Dahl’s works have been criticised for perceived racist and sexist stereotypes. In 1972, children’s book author Eleanor Cameron compared the Oompa-Loompas in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory to African slaves in an article for The Horn Book Magazine.[6] These statements were echoed further following Dahl’s death in 1990, with book critic Michael Dirda accusing Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and The Witches of racism and misogyny, respectively, in an article for The Washington Post.[7] In the Jewish-American and feminist publication Lilith, Michele Landsberg argued that “evil, domineering, smelly, fat, ugly women are [Dahl’s] favorite villains”.[8] Dahl’s short story collection Switch Bitch was criticised for its crude and disturbing themes.[9] In 1973, Dahl rewrote Oompa-Loompas, making them white in skin colour.[10] In 2020, Dahl’s family apologised for his antisemitic comments.
Believe it or suck my dick.
Got the reference! (High Anxiety)
MW – Dawn would have absolutely have seen Psycho in that undergrad film crit class with the hot professor who wears his riding leathers to class. She would have even looked at the academic articles he handed out about them, and would have gone to his office hours in her dance gown to have him help “explain” them to her. And then his boyfriend came by to pick him up for lunch, further demonstrating Dawn’s basic thesis that “life is brutal.”
Luann: I get it, Puddles. You’re not nearly as obnoxious as Luann, and she doesn’t get yelled at like this.
CS: Did Batiuk not tell Davis to put smirks on their faces? That seems like any other “smirk-worthy” bit of dialogue in this strip. Instead, it looks like Pam is going to demand to speak to Kay’s management.
Sunday Mary Worth quote: Verified. This seems to be from a January 2024 post on Medium.
I have to call foul on yesterday’s lampshade hanging though. “What kind of name is Belle Batsfrey?” Dawn thinks. It’s a completely absurd name thought up by the writer to tip off the readers, from the beginning of the storyline, that Belle is crazy. You aren’t supposed to notice it! It’s like if she thought, “Why, when Belle opens her mouth, are her teeth an undifferentiated mass of white with no lines between them?”
Dustin: The placement of the “Anymore” in the final panel rubs me weird. It’s used that way irl too. Not a fan.
@Roscoe: Yeah I heard the positive “anymore” all the time growing up in Pittsburgh. This is the most interesting thing ever to happen in Dustin as I would expect Ed to look down on anyone who talked like that with withering scorn. It must be part of the writer’s idiolect for him to let it slide!
…ok, of all the things that happened in Dustin it is the most interesting to me.
@Cleveland Mocks: Belle was a FNAF animatronic this whole time.
Dawn awakens with a start. “Oh, no, I forgot to get the chocolate syrup for Dad’s health shake!”
@The Rambling Otter:
Belle was a FNAF animatronic this whole time.
Well, she DID say she works for a major corporation based in Orlando… Who’s to say she’s not the Mom from EPCOT’s Carousel of Progress, gone berzerk?
Dawn Worthless – I was going to note my surprise at Dawn showering, but realized it was a dream. Her hair looks greasy. Even if Belle killed her while she was showering, at least she would die with clean hair.
MW – In a horrible nightmare, Dawn dreams that she stole $40,000. Oh yeah, and she got stabbed.
MW: The Weston Dream Sequences brought us Dawn turning into a bloated version of her father and Wilbur turning into a cartoonish fish. I’m ridiculously disappointed that Belle didn’t turn into a vampiric woman-bat since horrible abominations are par for the course but not as much as I am in Belle for not taking the opportunity to smother Dawn.
MW@MKay:
Flash forward days later. Mary and Belle meet, eyeing each other over a kitchen island. Belle’s eyes narrow as she reaches for the knife on her person, a cunningly concealed Parker-Imai K-633 survival knife. Too late, for Mary kicks the island hard enough to send it slamming into Belle, sending her staggering back, breath knocked out of her, as Mary goes for the karambit concealed on HER person.
Dustin: Putting aside the other problems with this strip, I HATE the abuse of the word “anymore,” which isn’t a synonym for “anyway,” “anyhow,” or “nowadays,” or “recently.” It means “no longer” or “to any further extent.” As in “I used to read Dustin, but I don’t anymore.”
@MKay: MW: A true ass whupping of Worthian proportions, indeed.
In the “Josh Cut” of today’s Mary Worth, Dawn hears “The Rains of Castamere” playing whilst Belle sends her regards.
And as Dawn lies on the floor of the shower, slowly bleeding out, a single phrase escapes her lips: “Life is brutal.”
9cl: Hypothesis #1 – Brooke fantasizes about divorcing his wife and marrying a teen but has to rationalize it to himself. Hypothesis #2 – months of strips had been completed, accidently dropped, and we see them in the order that they were picked up. I thought there was a marriage and honeymoon already…
MW: What a remarkably staid, if cliche and overdone, dream sequence… except for that white-hot implied-nudity Dawn shoulder exposure action! Yowza!
MW: Man, Belle is now disturbing Dawn’s erotic dreams about “Saved by the Bell,” the reruns which I am sure she did watch. But just as Dawn is about to start thinking about Slater or Zach–or perhaps Belding or Jessie or Kelly–Belle is there to remind her and all of us about Dustin Diamond’s character by saying his name six times, even if she spelled it wrong.
@Liam:FC-Cash, grass, or ass.
Do the grass stains on Jeffy’s pants count?
Dustin: Clearly Meg is texting the deets to her mom.
Dustin: Somehow, thinking that a dozen roses grabbed at random from the grocery on his way home from work will make up for any of the myriad behaviors that he continues in defiance of the knowledge that it irritates his wife makes me hate him even more.
MW: Of course Dawn hasn’t seen Psycho, but like most people with an American-centric cultural lens she’s seen enough homages, spoofs, and “great moments in film history” retrospectives that she knows all about the shower scene. If she’d actually seen the movie in its entirety, she’d know this situation implies Belle is killing her in a schizophrenic fugue state brought on by feeling sexually attracted to Dawn while harboring the ingrained belief that such attraction is inherently evil and its source must be eradicated. (Yes, I did throw up in my mouth a little while typing the phrase “sexually attracted to Dawn,” thanks for asking.)
MW:
Tired: Life is brutal.
Wired: Knife is brutal.
Dustin’s writer putting a weird regionalism into his character’s speech is irritating me beyond all proportion.
Dustin: “It’s not unusual for me to give your mom flowers” is the biggest load of horseshit I’ve ever read. There is no fucking way Dustin’s Dad would do something as nice as regularly giving his wife flowers withouf ulterior motive. Hell, even WITH ultieror motive like in this comic, it feels out-of-character for him to do it.
Mary Worth: “At least my nightmare was like the original Hitchcock version and not that shitty remake with Vince Vaughn.”
Luann: Puddles, you are the size of a throw pillow and the shape of a potato, and your name indicates your primary trait is an inability to be paper trained. Your ability to fulfill either of those tasks is questionable at best.
Phantom: They disturbed a WWII archaeology dig; you don’t have to be so melodramatic about it.
RMMD: You’re already succeeding spectacularly at that, Augie.
Dawn can only hope to achieve clean hair in her dreams except she can’t dream of a better haircut. Or her hair even getting wet. At least Brigman seems to be enjoying herself by drawing Belle with her crazy eyes.
Crankshaft – Her hands are PUFFY? Is that really a thing? If her hands are puffy, wait until she notices that her ankles are swollen to the size of watermelons.
Rex Morgan – If they want dull, boring, and uneventful, they’re in the right comic strip.
Actually, they’re past their first date, so it’s okay if they boink.
9CL – Sure. Sophisticated professionals would be overjoyed when their twenty year old daughter announces she’s getting married to an elderly virgin who buys his clothes at the Goodwill Reject Shop.
Get help, Brooke.
Dustin: Ed seems to think that his passive aggressive disdain for his family is some sort of gift equivalent to flowers.
@KMD: As a 90s kid, I would only watch “Saved By The Bell” for Slater since Mario Lopez was my first celebrity crush and the show really loved to put his body on display as well as those dimples in his cheeks when he smiles. Jimmy Fallon did a reunion short that brought together about two thirds of the main cast and of course they had Lopez wearing a skintight leotard purely for the fanservice.
Dustin’s Dad doesn’t get to complain about Kids These Days™ if he’s one of those people who has forgotten how to use the word “anymore”
Dustin – Oh, the irony – a phoned in strip about phoning it in, featuring a character with a phone….
MW – So…next week Belle introduces Wilbie to her mummified father back at the old home place….
Adios Amigos, DJ.
@taig: Oh hai Taig!
Lockhorns: They did a meme!
Dustin’s dad buying flowers to mollify his wife goes against everything we know about him. This would require him being aware of other people’s feelings and caring about them. This would be like Dick Tracy trying to arrest a suspected perp without shooting them, or Snuffy Smith not being a mildly offensive stereotype.
Dawn is dreaming that mayo shower her Dad had installed.
@wesccov: It always seemed to me that Brooke writes a series of strips and then picks from them at random.
@ValdVin: Ha ha ha, what a story, ValdVin.
@Tom T.: Lockhorns: They did a meme!
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Leroy claims to have done many Mimis in France, along with a handful of Fifis.
Dawn’s subconscious is warning her about the present danger! I mean, thank you subconscious, but where were you when this [gestures at everything in Dawn’s life] happened?
Dawn is a Philistine who has never seen a Hitchcock’s movie, but let’s be honest, living in our postmodern world it is possible to know what happens in an iconic scene simply by the parodies on “Family Guy” or TikTok
MW Can’t Dawn repeat her concerns to Mary and ask to housesit another condo while the owners are out just so she doesn’t have to listen to the loud “activities” that Wilbur and Belle get up to at night?
Or maybe move to an empty one for a few nights? Mary is running Wilbur’s column for him, so might be making money off it, so comp her a room someplace else. Mary, switch on your meddling, or if you have any, compassion and empathy.
Oh, and finally Dawn wonders what kind of name is Belle Batfrey. Check the internet child! You have a computer and cell phone, right?
I am sorry, but Dawn thinks Belle is Norman Bates?!?! Ugh, spoilers I guess! Anyway, who is the stunted adult child who lives at his parent’s home and is unable to escape the shadow of his parental figure?!
@Anonymous: Technology in Charterstone is in a weird state of limbo where they all have smartphones but have no idea how online banking works. My mom was the one who told me about CashApp and she’s about on par with Wilbur in age while Wilbur probably doesn’t even know that he can order sandwiches online.
Phantom: “Nazis! I hate those guys!”
MW: Finally, Dawn wonders what kind of name is Belle Batsfrey. It’s Welsh.
@Ettorre: “…Anyway, who is the stunted adult child who lives at his parent’s home and is unable to escape the shadow of his parental figure?!”
And who’s that woman buried out in Green Lawn Cemetery?
@I speak Jive: Re-sizing rings due to the flesh gradually thickening as you age: definitely A Thing. If they look puffy suddenly, though, should probably check with a doctor for possible serious medical reasons like kidney issues and circulatory problems. Oh, who am I kidding? Crankshaft has inherited Batiuk’s need for ignoring early signs of disease until you can have a Serious Story about the Medical Issue.
MW:
“AUGGHH! Right after I dreamed about Belle, I dreamed that the NFL franchise for which Santa Royale roots drafted Shedeur Sanders!”
@CanuckDownSouth: Thanks. I didn’t know about the skin thickening issue. That’s different from looking puffy, which I’m sure would appear different. You’re right that she should see a doctor if the puffiness appears suddenly.
Pluggers: Pluggers will eat anything, even pineapple on a pizza.
CS: They went to the trouble of re-animating Rush Limbaugh’s corpse only to have him play a jewelry story salesperson.
CS: Misters Batiuk and Davis, if you’re going to pay homage to the jewelry counter scene from “Breakfast at Tiffany’s” could you at least draw the clerk to look like John McGiver and not Rush Limbaugh?
Phantom – “You foolishly disturbed a land that lies beyond our understanding of time itself!” Man, parenting is difficult no matter where you are.
MW: KILLER KARENS: coming soon to a theater near you.
“You’re gonna speak to the DAMAGER.” “Just like my coupons, you’re EXPIRED!”
OK, the taglines needs work.
Phantom: I was hoping for a Green Mansions homage plot complete with a Bangalla-style Rima the Bird Girl, but I’ll settle for these Space Nazis journeying through the heavens in their fiery Space Nazi chariot roaring down to Earth to retrieve their ancestors’ relics. That’s great-grampa’s Iron Cross!
@Peanut Gallery: “…But, if you do sell that stuff online, cut me in for 25%. The belt buckle will get a few coins, but if that P08 isn’t completely rusted to hell you’ll see some nice offers, believe me.”
MW!-Fortunately we were spared Willie’s cameo in the shower.
@Dee Dee:
I’ve read that panel a dozen times now and I still can’t understand that sentence.
H&L: Uh, engine? Caboose? I think it’s time Hi and Lois moved Trixie’s crib out of their bedroom.
DT: Now that we’ve got most of the details, I started doing an itemised list of all the ways Piltdown’s plan doesn’t make any sense, but I feel like I should at least wait to see if Costello is even going to attempt to explain why the idiot nephews tried to steal the body.
HtH: I don’t blame Hägar for needing help with this one. I’m pretty sure if I was looking for “the Duke’s hidden retreat”, the castle surrounded by rolling fields which the road leads directly towards wouldn’t be my first guess either!
S4th: I guess this is an attempt to do “recap the week for the Sunday only crowd” while at the same time including new jokes, but what it feels like is either that the Sunday strip is set in a parallel universe that isn’t quite different enough to be interesting, or Sally and Ted have anterograde amnesia, and also may have put the patio furniture out twice.
HtH: Funnily enough, there is a reference in the classic 16th century ninjutsu manual, the Shoninki, where Natori Masazumi recounts the story of a spy employed by Tokugawa Ieyasu who infiltrated a hilltop castle in Gifu by pretending to be a takoyaki delivery guy. The spy managed to count the total number of warriors and garner a nice 500-yen tip.
@Cleveland Mocks: re 6Cx: Thanks for mentioning today’s Very Special Guest Star, Tomas the South American Tapir, in his celebratory appearance! Yes, this the very day we bring attention to the endangered status of the Species as we honor their role in the ecosystem!
And I’m tellin’ ya, it took a lotta coordination and hoops-jumping to make this gig happen. Thanks to the Six Chix staff for obtaining a Work Permit for Tomas to come here from Brazil for a weekend stay to do the shoot. It took place at an undisclosed location here in the US and as you can imagine, security has been tight! We’ve got Ol’ Rex on the detail, as well as our Wolf Team. But rest assured, Tomas is now back on his way home, with no “misunderstandings” about his status or his purpose.
He’ll be gettin’ back just as mating season there gets into full swing – this international exposure can only enhance his cool factor and his celebrity vibe! He’s gonna have the Lady Tapirs lining up for him to father their offspring! Just doing his part to help the species survive….
It’s true, everyone. Meg is so desperate to escape that conversation that she’s reading Rex Morgan M.D. ON PURPOSE.
Dustin: The archives are also the reason Dustsis is taking a closeup picture of the aphids in the bouquet.
MW: Um, no, not getting much of a Norman Bates vibe from Belle as yet. For one thing I can’t see her taking up as exacting a hobby as taxidermy.
PV: Uh-oh, change of plans. That’s the chieftain of our war band, Hagar the Horrible, pulling up. You guys had better get ready to get screwed in this deal.
MW: I don’t understand Josh’s “somehow take place in the front seat of a car.” But wait, that must mean that a lot of TikTok stuff happens in the front seat of a car! Haha! I learn so much here.
@Artist formerly known as Ben: #98:
“as exacting a hobby as taxidermy”
I can picture Belle murdering Dawn and having her corpse taxidermied in a natural position and pulling a Weekend at Bernie’s. Wilbur would never catch on.
“Dawn’s been pretty quiet these last few weeks, Belle. Oh well, let’s go have some more wild sex.”
“Heh-heh.”
9C: “Hello there, elderly prospective son-in-law. They told me I might find you floating in an endless featureless void. Now I have, but I don’t know how to get back. Guess we’re both doomed, ha-ha.
BB: The guy who’s supposed to be a plumber has literally been some officer background character for decades, and now Sarge will be drummed out of this man’s army for face blindness.
C-Shaft: Oops, sorry Mr. Salesman, that joke wasn’t licensed and is not being received in the spirit of Boomer camaraderie with which it might have been meant. The (whatever Jeff’s last name is) will be taking their business elsewhere.
DT: The reveal that the whole fragmented mess was heading for a Tintin crossover both comes out of nowhere and was probably inevitable.
JP: The guy watching with binoculars from across the street has finally hit the girl-on-girl paydirt he’s been waiting for.
Phantom: Guy, I’m pretty sure your understanding of time encompasses the 1940s, but kudos on avoiding the “did Nazi that coming” pun.
PV: You might think that if you were a woman in serious danger, turning out to be Prince Valiant’s sister would be a huge advantage. *checks out the latest installment of the long distraction* You’d be wrong.
@Guillermo el chiclero: If that’s all she’s getting out of this it’s even more disturbing.
6Chx: Thank you, Isabella Bannerman.
@Poteet: #103: What are the odds Gawain will pass out drunk before he ever finishes this long, rambling story?
FC: Hey, Jeffy. Why don’t you start pumping those fat legs of yours instead of using your dad as a pack mule? It’ll do you some good.
LUANN: Puddles deserves a role in a different strip. He may not qualify for a Pawscar, but he’s been stuck in LUANN for many years and he still seems to be mostly sane, which is a real achievement right there.
@Poteet: re: PV: Sure, an’ it’ll be Pat n’ Mike arrivin’ in the new boat from across the Hibernian Sea! Peredur an’ the boyos will be catchin’ a bone-crunching punch in the nose from one of these Paddies, once they’ve taken a drop o’ the malt.
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@Artist formerly known as Ben:
Thank you for picking up on San Theodoros – last seen in Tintin and the Picaros.
RMMD: [2 dates later] “Augie, I have to admit… these dates with you have been dull and boring beyond my expectations.”
“Yeah, well you’re no Ms. Exhilaration yourself!”
“Do you think something is missing now from our relationship – maybe a sense of excitement, the thrill of adventure, living on the edge?”
“YES, YES! Let’s get mocha chocolate walnut this time! With sprinles!!,”
@Myrtle: or sprinkles, whatever