Using “game” as a verb is a huge red flag, in my opinion
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Intelligent Life, 7/18/25
Look, buddy, John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich, also liked to engage in marathon gaming sessions, but he forced his servants to put nutritious slices of meat between pieces of high-fiber bread so he could keep at it for hours, and he didn’t leave that legacy to the world so you could stuff your maw with unhealthy chips and candy and use your entertainment proclivities as an excuse. Anyway, I was going to say that this lady never asked for any of this information, but I guess she kind of did by remarking on this set of purchases in the first panel. I’ve always assumed that if you work in customer service you want to minimize your interactions with the public to the barest necessity to avoid being subject to these kinds of conversations, though really that’s a good rule for being out of the house and seeing strangers in general.
Mary Worth, 7/18/25
“How wonderful for them! They have their overbearing, mobility impaired father helping them schlep boxes around instead of professional movers, just like everybody dreams about. Welp, smell ya later!”
Wizard of Id, 7/18/25
The final thought balloon here really elevates this one for me. You think this medieval (?) pharmacist (??) is enjoying any of this? Wrong! He’s trapped in a broken system, just like everybody else!
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MW:
Prince — well, adapted Prince — expressed it best: “This is what it sounds like/When schlubs sigh.”
RMMD:
“I guess I shoulda thought more of it when I saw Varla ‘n’ Spuds on the Jumbotron together during the Hank Jr. concert!”
MW-“Adrian and Scott know how to touch me, Mary.”
FC-Jeffy’s trying hard to get into the Olympics.
This is the Medieval period, so the anti-depressant is either praying or booze
MW:
“I’ll MISS you, Mary…”
“I’ll miss you MORE, Jeff!”
“No, I’ll miss YOU more!”
“I’LL miss you more!”
“No, I’ll miss YOU, MORON!”
“I WANT to miss you, NOW.”
“You’ll miss ME, all right…!”
“Get out!”
MW: Outside Mary’s condo, Wilbur lurks in the bushes and quietly sings “Two Silhouettes on the Shade.”
MW: I love how emphatic Jeff is about not going with Mary and is finding the most out of the way excuse to get out of this trip. After all, who can honestly say that they remember, let alone be fully invested in the story of Dr. Adrian Corey who was scammed by a dating site but would eventually hook up with the son of Jeff’s
true lovecollege roommate?IL: Judgmental, opinionated cashiers are definitely a thing. If you’ve ever wondered why people opt for the self-checkout, that’s why.
MW: Is there a single healthy relationship in which one partner calls the other “dear”?
WOI: The current caretakers of The Wizard of Id have clearly just given all the way up on whatever the premise once was of this strip. Does it even need to take place in Olden Times anymore?
IL: Gamer’s look in panel two shows that he considering this to be humblebragging. The cashier is not impressed.
RMMD:
“So — my mom and this Spuds guy….”
“Yeah, I remember when they used to wander off together to the local ‘greenhouse’ grower’s establishment to fill their, um, recreational needs.”
“Really? — what was the name of the establishment?”
” ‘ “Hash” Brown’s ‘ !”
“Oh, that’s right! I totally forgot you were busy and did not specifically plan to travel in that date to prevent you from coming and enjoy the trip alone!”
FC: Today’s big reveal is that Thel reproduces by budding. Makes sense. None of those heads can fit down a cervix.
Beatoff Bailey – Good to know Lugg and Sarge have discovered Sweardle.
Rex Morgan, MILF Diver – Cory’s joy in finding out he’s not related to Truck (and the hope that carrying the genes of a drummer named Spud is an upgrade) reminds me of the final episode of The League when the kid learns that his biological dad is Pete and not Andre.
IL This might be the first case of sodium-induced alopecia I’ve seen. I can’t imagine what the other symptoms of this syndrome might be…
MW Ha, nice save,Dr Jeff: preemptively find an reason to skip out in the trip to spare yourself the embarrassment of Mary telling you plainly why she doesn’t want you to come along. I think I’m finally understanding how this relationship has lasted so long…
WoI I think the extra punchline here is ‘cyanosis epidemic’ or as it’s commonly know ‘Grimace dosease’
Intelligent Life : “Gaming sessions”? AFAIK, that character has ZERO friends outside of the weird, Peter-Griffin-looking main character, and they’re never shown playing tabletop RPGS or video games or anything else that would be qualified as “gaming” together. He really should just admit he’s gonna eat 3 bags of chips and 3 bags of Skittles in one sitting instead of having a proper supper.
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Luann : Well, I believe I was mistaken earlier this week; it now seems to me that rather than avoiding current events (a campground getting flooded), this rerun is meant to be advertising UPCOMING events (the Evansii are going to hold a panel at the San Diego Comic Con to celebrate the strip’s 40th anniversary).
…This is the best “Comic-Con” themed storyline they had? What, they couldn’t use the “Luann cosplays as the Eyez of Zeye” one? They have NOTHING on Comic Con despite Bets’ entire thing being attending conventions (or, at least, used to be, she gave it all up to continue dating Gunther instead, didn’t she)?
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Mary Worth : “I’ll miss you more” is, of course, multiplicative rather than additive, which means Mary is telling the truth; multiplying zero by ANY number is still zero.
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Slylock Fox : that crude attempt at tracing a picture of Naruto’s dad is a creepier creature than the lovable muppet-like monster the step-by-step produced.
The Lockhorns: Summer vacation for the writer means reruns from, oh I guess 1959.
Beetle Bailey: Mort Walker coined grawlixes; this gets a hat tip.
IL – A Benjamin of crap from a “convenience” store fits in one bag. That’s Plugger wisdom….
MW – Three doctors supervising three movers. Ya gotta watch ‘em every minute….
WoI – And in Canada it’s 37 cents….
Adios Amigos, DJ.
I understand why everyone got so outraged by inflation if three bags of Skittles, two bags of chips and an off-brand bottle of Faygo costs $105.95. This price increase is going to drive home-grown American WoW guilds out of business, and before we know it the Chinese will have monopolised the Spine of Deathwing raid business.
MW: Wow. Two options, both so unappealing that the only solution is to use each one to get out of the other, then hide out in a decent hotel all week.
RMMD: Truck really is a jerk. If this culminated in him discovering Wanda/Rhonda and Cory/Cody doing the horizontal hula, that would be supremely satisfying.
Friday Six Chix Maria gives some good advice to depressed Tuesday Six Chix Bianca. I hope it works for her.
MW: Dr Jeff presses his groin against Mary’s during their hug. She pushes him back to arms length.
“I’ll miss you more, Jeff —but not that much.”
The Wizard of Id is full of anachronisms. Beyond obvious modern conveniences, its medieval setting is a disaster. You have people dressed up in early modern clothes while also having Huns as the main enemy, despite the Hunnic empire falling before the official start of the Middle Ages. But let’s say it is medieval or at least early modern. The US Dollar is based on the Spanish Dollar, which first appeared as the Joachimsthaler in 1520 — which is after the end of the Middle Ages, but not so much. Comparing prices across centuries is a fool’s errand, since the cost of commodities has radically changed, but we can calculate the value of a coin from its content of precious metal — the Spanish dollar weighed 24 grams of silver. So, $ 2500 in the early modern period would mean 60 kg of silver, which would be worth 74,580 in 2025 US Dollar! It would also be impossible to carry on your person. Well, now I could make a joke about how by their anachronism the writer has conceived a sum that it is totally unrealistic. But from what I have seen on the internet, having a surprise health bill of 75 K is not unheard of in US healthcare, so reality is, depressingly, stranger than fiction
CS: So Batton went to New York, cold-called publishing offices, then went home and got a contract by snail mail? Where’s Lillian McKenzie when you need her?
Hide the lampshades! The Lockhorns just pulled up!
Listen, as long as this guy’s gaming hobby centres around actually playing videogame and not publishing YouTube videos about how female characters are made too old and too ugly by feminist game developers, we should cut him some slack
@Joe Blevins: MW: Is there a single healthy relationship in which one partner calls the other “dear”?
I’ve never called my husband ‘dear’. ‘Sweetie pea’, ‘love poodle’, etc. but never dear. I agree with you.
@Anonymous: Wasn’t it Tiffany who did the ‘Eyez of Zeye’ cosplay? And I’m ashamed of myself for knowing that.
MW: Jeff isn’t going to argue the point with Mary, I’ll bet. Sure, sure, you will miss me more than I miss you.
@lynn:
I’m kinda sure there was a storyline where LUANN is the one who dressed up as Eyez of Zeye. Mostly because I remember running into a blog article that did some pretty impressive mental gymnastics to treat Bernice’s criticisms (“You look like a slut. Comic books are for losers. You’re too ugly to be portraying a character meant to be sexy”) as less insulting than Tiffany’s (“I look more like the character than you. I should be the one portraying her instead.”)
…Of course, I might be misremembering…
@lynn: Yeah, today’s Mary Worth is the biggest ever data point for the “Mary is Jeff’s beard” theory. Jeff must be so deep in the closet he found Narnia.
“Dollar” as a monetary unit originates from joachimstalers, abbreviated talers, coins minted by Count Hieronymus Schlick of Bohemia. This is much more informative and way funnier than today’s joke, but less immediately relevant to the lives of the retirees who will read The Wizard of Id in today’s tissue-thin paper, smile, nod, and then feign outrage at the poop-based outrages of Marvin to distract themselves from their ever-dwindling bank accounts.
@Joe Blevins: O man, just try paying for “morally questionable” foodstuffs with FOOD STAMPS. Even if you’re paying for the “bad” stuff out of your own pockets.
Mary Worth: Now I know this relationship is a sham: Mary drinks wine, Jeff drinks beer from a can. They’re doomed to separate lives, rather than the grape- and terroire-based conversations God intended for them!
I never understood “gaming food”
It’s a stereotype for gamers to binge on junk like Doritos and Cheetos while gaming.
If I was eating that stuff and playing at the same time, all I can think of, is how horrifying it would be to have all that cheese dust clogging my (expensive) controllers from my cheese-gunked fingers. And that’s disgusting.
@Ettorre: At least he’s not concerned with Ethics In Gaming Journalism.
Neither Mary nor Jeff are very good shots, are they?
Intelligent Life: Do Josh’s rules for public interaction include resisting the urge to beat complete strangers viciously and mercilessly with a baseball bat upside the head? Because [looking at Intelligent Life guy with eye twitching] mine do…
Wrecks Moregone:
Hey, Spuds was a *great* drummer; he drummed a kid right into Varla!
“What a pity you can’t make it Jeff, I was definitely going to invite you. Maybe I’ll give Ken Kensington a call.”
@The Rambling Otter: Don’t forget the 2l bottle of Mtn Dew to wash all that down with. A responsible gamer has moist toweletts at the ready sitting next to the Jergens lotion.
@The Rambling Otter: Sadly, gaming isn’t necessary for gunked up controllers or other peripherals.
[Looks down at my own disgusting keyboard, strictly from scrolling while eating meals].
I read a Family Circus comic the other day, it genuinely made me laugh.
Billy (to Thel): Did you know that the four of us are going to be teenagers all at the same time?
Thel: (Looks absolutely horrified)
@Buck Ripsnort: Exactly
Mary Worth: June Brigman does a really good job depicting Mary’s arms draped over Jeff’s shoulders as they move in for the kiss, almost as if they really loved one another. I demand this filth be removed from the comics page immediately.
@Ettorre: Also just playing the game, not constantly ranting about “this sucks” or whatever while they play.
One gaming Youtuber Chuggaconroy really really hates “Paper Mario: Sticker Star” and he lets everyone know it, and has been letting everyone know it for about the last decade. I mean, yeah the game DOES suck so he’s not unjustified for not liking it. But still, he really should let it go by now.
It’s kind of sad because otherwise he’s extremely charismatic, his let’s plays are usually very enjoyable.
@Needless Exposition: Yeah Mary seems really broken up over Jeff’s rejection of this trip she’s already packing and preparing for (to see a guest that probably doesn’t have accommodations for an extra person).
You can tell how utterly disappointed Mary is by the fact that she’s clearly not even listening to her boyfriend! Note how “wonderful” Mary exclaims this completely context-free move is (Jeff didn’t indicate if Adrian and Scott were going to a bigger and better place, after all, For all we know one of them could have lost their job and they’re downsizing or something,) But Mary’s auto-response will not be denied.
Jeff: “I can’t go to the big apple with you Mary. Adrian and Scott were short in a gang-related drive-by and I have to keep a bedside vigil while doctor’s try to repair their shattered vertebrae.”
Mary: “How wonderful for them!”
I agree. This cashier had it coming.
I think I mentioned that before we were married, Madame Ovary went to the drug store to got a home pregnancy test kit. At the checkout, the cheerful young cashier said, “What [result] are you hoping for?” Madame Ovary at least thought, “None of your fucking business.” Maybe she even said it. I would have.
It makes sense now why the bald guy has no visible teeth when he’s talking. Are we sure he didn’t mean to say “gumming sessions”?
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Mary Worth asks us to suspend our disbelief a LOT. We’re expected to believe that there are people who want to have sex with Wilbur, that the grey slop Mary feeds people is delicious, or that occasionally there is anything even remotely interesting about Ian and Toby. But asking us to believe a doctor in the modern United States would physically help people move? I’d sooner believe that Toby finds Ian’s chin beard attractive.
MW: Most couples engaged in this conversation would be hugging each other tightly. Yet, Mary and Jeff are about ten inches apart. Maybe Jeff has an extraordinarily large boner. “Please, Dear. Let me draw the curtains.”
@pugfuggly: That’s what I’m talking about! While Olive’s parents resort to rutting like wild animals, mature couples know that the right way to spice up a relationship is with some insincere passive-aggressive role-playing.
I love that term (humblebragging). On Facebook, people often start with “I am humbled and honored . . . ” to lead into whatever they’re about to brag about.
@Anonymous, Luann: Unfortunately, GoComics became a paywall to its archives. Tiffany did Eyes, but it was for Slutshamming along with OMGShe’sATeenAger!
@2+2=7: I watched this one show, this one married couple are so white-bread lame, that for a night of pleasure, instead of watching porn like any regular couple likely would. They rented Free Willy to watch. Then get disappointed that they accidentally did rent a porno by mistake.
MW: Sorry, Mary, I’d love to go with you, but I need to stay home and rearrange my sock drawer.
Luann: Yeah, how do you make the hole wider?
“Look, man, fuck you, I’m the one that has to collect the phlogiston, the bat urine, the crystalized heart of a mountain, and the blood of a royal virgin for this potion, and that shit costs!”
@Liam: FC-Jeffy’s trying hard to get into the Olympics.
Obviously The Special Olympics.
@Tabby Lavalamp: On MW: Contemporary comic strip writers love writing about people with money. However, since they don’t have any, they have no idea how people with money live.
IL: Is Nerdboy hitting on the cashier? Because I can’t read his coy look in panel two any other way.
MW: Mary has to be the best at absolutely everything, doesn’t she?
RMMD: Cody thinks; “Shit. If we lived in a rhythm based music culture and not pitch based, I might have been buying my father’s albums and not this has-been’s.”
@Anonymous: Sigh. Yes I’m embarrassed that I remember something about “Luann Classic” (it’d be less embarrassing being caught in a Jumbotron at a Coldplay concert), but Lynn is right and it was Tiffany in the “Eyez of Zeye” cosplay to promote and star in a terrible, widely-panned movie created by whoever the short “Elvis-y” one, because the point of Tiffany (especially around that time) is to be humiliated and degraded so that
Karen EvansLuann and her “inner beauty” can feel better about herself in comparison.@Little Guy: Luann: Yeah, how do you make the hole wider?
I’m glad someone didn’t let this one go by without taking a swing. Even though it’s disgusting to think about Cunther’s hole.
RMMD – What do you call a woman who uses the rhythm
sectionmethod?Mom.
Dustin: “It also helps to treat them like individuals with identities and personalities of their own, rather than prizes in a claw game that you can grab if you just know the right strategy.”
@2+2=7:
Yeah, Tiffany was the main “actress” when it came to playing the Eyez of Zeye, but I DID find the blog articles in question.
@Ettorre: Now to be fair, if this art style is any indication, no one in this universe is concerned about characters being “too ugly.”
@The Rambling Otter: Yep, review shows of videogame and other pop culture phenomena capitalising on anger and “this sucks!!!” were an early signal of how the economy of attention worked on the internet. This mechanism would prove to have terrible social and politica consequences
MW: Note the absenice of Doves of Love. My guess is that the budget has gotten tighter in the soaps and they can no longer afford Sids’ A-list clients. Window eels are cheap.
I think Luann did go to Comic Con with Knute and Gunther, but she wound up having to dress as “Paddy the notepad” to promote the Paddy and Penrod comic that K&G were selling. It was an uncomfortable and unattractive costume.
Intelligent Life – You’re as likely to find a joke in this comic as you are any nutrition in the stereotype of ‘gamer food’, and somehow more likely to get diabetes by reading this strip regularly.
Mary Worth – If I were to introduce someone to Mary Worth who had never read the comic before, I would use this storyline: Mary invites her long-term, low commitment boyfriend Dr. Jeff to a New York trip last minute, ignoring that he’s a doctor with patients who rely on him, and forgetting that he already planned to help his kids move. The self-centered narcissism in a nutshell.
Wizard of Id – The Wizard of Id is what would have happened if a Medieval society invented capitalism, but skipped developing democracy, the Enlightenment, and the Scientific and Industrial revolutions.
@Ettorre: “Why not both?” said the Belgian Trappist monk, prior to tapping a keg of ale.
JP: Yes, Sophie should call Randy in the middle of the night in the US* to tell him about April fighting for her life in a Norwegian coffee shop, maybe he can figure out how to call the cops in Norway.
*8am in Oslo would be 1am Central, etc
@Voshkod: Especially now that you can’t get phlogiston from anywhere but China…
Don Abundio, translated:
“You ordered a mirror?”
“Yes. It will be the fourth wall of that alcove!”
“But Juan, there are no doors in those walls. How will you get in and out?”
“I’ll be inside!”
“I can spend eternity looking at my favorite person!”
There’s the laziness of simply copying and pasting each panel, and then there’s the level of ‘fuck-you’ laziness where you copy-paste each panel but move the head and lips slightly, probably using a rotate tool in Photoshop, and that’s where the god-awful Intelligent Life lands. I think I prefer Six Chix or even (god save me) Alice, because at least they try to draw something.
@CanuckDownSouth: It’s 112. How in the hell is that hard to dial?
REX MORGAN M.D.: I was going to complain that, no Truck, this doesn’t explain why you’re marriage fell apart, since you didn’t know about Spuds banging more than his drum until now, and you’ve implied earlier in the story (and the strip as a whole) that you were responsible for the disillusion of your marriage(s), but then I realized that this is what this arc is really about: to retroactively place the blame for his multiple divorces on his former wives and reassure Wanda that moody, cantankerous, uncommunicative Truck is the perfect husband after all!
@Ettorre: Although many reviewers didn’t actually have animosity in which the “anger” was a fake gimmick
Nostalgia Critic and Angry Video Game Nerd for example.
@Guy Nerdlinger: Now, now, let’s pay due respect to the historicity of Wizard of Id. You get it from the Silk Road, beyond Tabriz, in the land of the Tartars, surrounded by walls along the river Bautis.
MW: You’re staying to help two people move, instead of a fun vacation? I don’t even have the words for how absolutely stupid that is.
@Voshkod: Photoshop is expensive and difficult to learn. For peak of laziness the IL creator probably just used MS Paint.
@LTJpezcore1: Vacationing in a big crowded city which is “stereotyped” to be full of assholes, to meet and stay with a family you’ve never met for an entire week with a woman who friendzones you at every opportunity.
@Voshkod: “Historicity”? Hah hah, good one, bro.
IL: You can tell the cartoonist drew this scenario from real life. It’s not like he spent a lot of time on this strip, so I guess the rest of it was spent on gaming.
MW: “I’ll miss you more, Jeff! But the assassin I hired won’t.”
WoI: The feudal system of old was really brutal for the underclasses. Good thing we don’t have anything like that today.
@The Rambling Otter: Yeah but helping someone move, even if it’s your kids, is the WORST.
@Voshkod: “I think I prefer Six Chix or even (god save me) Alice, because at least they try to draw something.”
(My mind is blown here)
It’s almost like that Spongebob cartoon where he was in a burger competition with King Neptune.
King Neptune used magic to instantly summon a million hamburgers. While Spongebob made just one burger by hand.
His of course was superior and won the cook-off.
Not saying that Six Chix or Alice are any “good” but I think that I’m going somewhere with this.
@Voshkod: You can’t even do a “find six differences” puzzle with this.
@Guy Nerdlinger: Oh, I agree – especially with a local barista right there with you.
I can see them not having called the cops yet – they ran out the back and might have left phones on the counter or in a forgotten purse (barista may have had it put away for his shift). But they should be flagging down anyone on the street or in an open shop/cafe to call for help
Luann: I can see why Knute was written out of this strip. He’s optimistic and fun.
CS: It checks out that Battom is easily impressed. How else could he have such a high opinion of his art?
9CL: Ha ha! These salespeople are just props for Alistair and Lolly(?)’s sexcapades. How delightful!
@Joshua K.: Bring back Gunther as “Billy the Bookworm”!
(bats: style)
FC: Here comes that drowning death I foretold.
Dustin: Meanwhile, that passing lady is checking out the bartender.
I was working the register at the store just before closing time.
A shlub who looks a lot like the guy in IL comes over to buy 90 cans of a discounted energy drink we had on sale.
Said it would last him about a month of gaming marathons.
He also bought a toilet seat.
I think there might have been a connection.
@taig: Jeffy the Melonhead, a fortnight dead,
Forgot the cry of Thel, and the nearby Marvin smell
And the malapropisms,
A current under sea
Picked his bones in whispers.
Ever since Funky Winkerbean ended, half the cast (among others) have migrated to Crankshaft, and Ed’s starting to be crowded out. I wonder if there’s a home for upstaged comic strip characters to go to? Ed and Judge Alan Parker can reminisce on better days.
@taig: Head angle; lip shape; eye shape. Done.
FC – Thel looks disappionted that Jeffy remembered to put on his life jacket. If anyone could manage to drown in six inches of water, it’s him!
@Rover Berkeley:
#94. Actually, yes! There are two– the Bedside Manor for the more affluent and discombobulated, and the fun one featured in GA about a month ago where poor hillbillies go with their animals for barnyard carousing. But with Medicaid cuts, those characters may need to return to work.
DT: Poor guy was attacked with the “Poof gun” from Disney’s Babes in Toyland.
MW – “Adrian and Scott asked me to help them move.” Which will likely means going over there to bust up their X-box, boot them off the couch and make them go take a walk or something. At least this isn’t Rex Morgan, or this could involve cod liver oil or it’s modern equivalent. Then again, Jeff is a doctor as well, so I guess we can’t rule that out.
MW:
Having initiated the imprinting protocol early in their long relationship, Mary now reaches behind the nape of android “Jeff’s” neck and presses the nodules to reset its “affinity” and “affection” subroutines to “hibernate” for the duration of her leave. Damned if she will let her supertoy interact with another human being in her absence.
Late COTW– so glad Josh is able to sleep off the effects of the party last night. He really seemed to appreciate all the work you put into those two cakes.
Baja, yours was beautiful! I don’t mean to get up in your business, but next time it might be easier if f you moved it BEFORE Ike crawls inside with his ukulele.
Although I do love warped logic at times.
There was this Canadian Cartoon called “Jimmy Two-Shoes” about Jimmy the happiest guy in the world that not even being in
HellMisery-ville can bring him down.One episode, he and his friend found a woman locked at the top of a tower, Rapunzel style, saying that (the villain) Lucious trapped her in there.
So the two spend the entire episode trying to get her out of the tower, they finally succeed and… she immediately turns into a giant dragon and goes on a destructive rampage.
Lucious casually walks by “You do know she was locked in there for a reason.”
What really gets me is that our gamer friend has purchased three bags of Skittles, but not all of the same size. Two large bags, and one extra small one. Is he afraid the Skittles will go bad if he buys too many? Is he spending his last worldly funds on these gamer snax, and $105.95 wasn’t enough to cover three whole bags? Is the third bag actually the same size and just farther away from the viewer? Questions torment me.
Mary’s Worst: “I’ll miss you more, Shmoopy, no I’ll miss you more, Shmoopy!”
@Navigator: No, he’s got a small bag of Skittles, a large bag of Kith, and a large bag of Tittles.
Mary Worth: “To keep from having to travel to New York with you to see your weird friends, I promised to help someone move. I also would have promised to take someone to the airport, babysit a screaming toddler for a weekend, or spend a whole day with Wilbur. That’s how much I didn’t want to go!”
Wizard of Id: Look, if this guy has medications that are actually effective against disease — as opposed to, say, applying leeches or drilling a hole in your head — I’d say they’re worth any price. (Even if that is $12 billion in today’s dollars, so let’s hope the customer has a CVS discount card.)
@Voshkod: Beautiful
@Voshkod: Bob Weber cries.
@Peanut Gallery: You think a puny life jacket will counteract Jeffy’s stupid? Ha!
9CL – While test driving a car, Lolly and Alistair are thinking about boinking. While testing a mattress, Lolly and Alistair are thinking about boinking and acting on it. Brooke is in a rut in every sense of the word. Get help, Brooke. An editor would be a good start.
Mary Worth – Mary was invited to visit Olive on Tuesday, July 8. In the ten days since, she wondered what to pack and talked with Toby and Dr. Jeff about the trip. She is nowhere near getting on a plane and getting a cab from the airport, let alone actually getting together with her hosts. This dragged out beginning does not bode well for this story.
It looks like Moy and Terry Beatty are having a contest to see who can pad a story the longest.
“That’s ‘Gamer Food!’ Now that game prices are ‘skyrocketing’ and Nintendo can ‘brick’ my ‘console’ for playing a ‘pre-owned game’, with Sony and Microsoft sure to follow, I’ve started ‘sailing the seven seas’ on PC instead! I have ‘way more money’ to spend on ‘Gamer Food’ now, is what I’m saying. See you ‘tomorrow!'”