Sunday is for large bearded men
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Mary Worth, 11/30/25
Ahh, the moment we’ve all been waiting for: when Ian returns from his weeks-long “teachers conference” and confronts the bird who has taken his place and reduced him to a mere “friend” of the household. This bird was perfectly nice to Mary when she came over, so he obviously isn’t strictly speaking aggressive towards newcomers; rather, he just instinctively recognizes Ian as his main antagonist going forward and has decided to go on the attack from a position of strength as the current possessor of the disputed territory. I’m glad this week’s Sunday Mary Worth Quote® is from David Mamet, because that implies that the dialogue that ensues after the final panel is just a nonstop stream of colorful obscenities.
Pluggers, 11/30/25
Why is this plugger looking so depressed? Nobody’s making him eat that pie. Nobody’s making him work as a mall Santa either, unless you count his underfunded retirement account as “someone,” I guess. Still, you’d think he could at least spend a minute to enjoy the pie.
124 replies to “Sunday is for large bearded men”
I choose to believe that the squawk box in the last panel is also part of Ian’s dialog.
Slylock Fox-You’ll notice that it’s a long snake in the picture.
MW-“Master of my domain.” Are you really? I propose a contest.
FC-“Ask to see God’s bathroom.” The holy of holies.
Pluggers practice No-Shave November because they are physically unable to break No-Nut November anyway
Mary Worth: Ian goes by David Mamet’s famous slogan from Glengarry Glen Ross: ABC, or “Always Be Complaining.” Also, “Atta-Boy, Cameron.” And also, “Annoying Birds (belong in) Chowder.”
Pluggers: That’s his 15th piece of pie today. The look on his face is sheer exhaustion, combined with diabeetus.
Pluggers’ euthanasia involves a combination of hypothermia and diabetes
Plugger Santa gives a sarcastic “‘HO HO HO’ Yeah, I’m getting paid but it’s still fat shaming.”
RMMD: Augie is understandably confused, he’s never been on the receiving end of a booty call before.
Pluggers: Santa’s family exiled him outside during mid-dessert due to obnoxious political views and body odor.
MW: Sorry, Ian, but ‘Master of my Domain’? Do you mean to say that you’re irritable you hadn’t masturbated during your trip, or have you just never seen Seinfeld?
Pluggers Ok that’s all good and well, but why is he eating outside? Turkey farts? Probably turkey farts.
Mary Worth:
“A nickel saved is a nickel earned. Okay, so this comment is not really pertinent to the current story line, but it is Sunday Quote Box day, and I am trying to be au courant.”
— Benjamin Franklin
Pluggers: How fat do you have to be to wear suspenders with sweatpants? THAT fat.
FC: Adult Jeff did a good job this morning eliminating dated references from today’s old strip.
The original punchline was “and it’s confederate money!”
MW — Seems like Ian needs some QUALITY PELLETS to calm him down–the good ones, the Glengarry pellets. . .
Luann : Bernice should stop speaking in a way designed to obfuscate and confuse what she’s trying to say to mess with Luann; Luann just hears what she wants to hear anyway.
….And hearing “You should keep only what you like, and get rid of what you hate” leading Luann to go “I’m keeping Puddles. Get the Hell out of my room, my house and MY LIFE, Bernice.”, which is the
correct, extremely belated andexpected reaction.…It’s going to turn out I read this comic wrong and it’s LUANN who is leaving her own HER OWN ROOM, isn’t it?…***********
Mary Worth : Who knew that BIRDS is what would get Ian Cameron to start acting like his old self again? We need to book a Mary Worth/Shoe crossover for the next storyline!
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Pluggers : are not miserable, it’s just that the giant droopy beard is concealing their massive smile underneath, and the droopiness is giving the ILLUSION of a frown.
PLUGGERS: He’s depressed in advance about how much pie he’s going to lose in that beard.
MW: I’m 10% sympathetic towards Ian, 40% disgusted with his chauvinism and 50% laughing my ass off, because damn, that was FUNNY!
RMMD: “But, Summer, it’s been two years. I’ve moved on! Now, go away, or you’ll wake the baby.”
Pluggers: Looks more like it was No-Shit November, hopefully that’s pumpkin pie with a modicum of fiber.
You think it’s bad now Ian, wait till you see this month’s credit card statement. Quality pellets and fancy cages ain’t cheap.
Mary Worth:
“Toby, dear, I’m home! — and there’s great news: I’ve just snagged the title role in the Santa Royale Players’ forthcoming production of ‘Haystack Calhoun: The Musical‘ !”
Mary Worth:
“What are you so upset about, Ian? — he flew over to me from the docks of Santa Royale, and now he simply wants to subject you to pier review!”
Pluggers:
“I’m going as Wilford Brimley for Halloween next year!”
Yes, Ian is extremely into David Mamet. This is absolutely in line with my understanding of him, he has a worn, dog-eared copy of Oleanna that he keeps in his breast pocket at all times.
MW: First he meets Sunny and now Ian has to tell Toby they’re moving to the Glengarry Highlands, Fla.
“Stop crying!” He yells “Stocks, bonds, objects of art, real estate. What are they? An opportunity. To what? To make money? Perhaps. To lose money? Perhaps. To ‘indulge’ and to ‘learn’ about ourselves? Perhaps. So fucking what? What isn’t? They’re an opportunity. That’s all they are. Now, get rid of that effing bird!!!”
MW: It’s been seven or eight years since Brigman took over artistic duties on Mary Worth, but she’s never had a chance to draw a proper Ian meltdown until now. All I can say is it was worth the wait.
Mary Worth:
It’s always a winning strategy to get on a wild animal’s good side by shouting at it.
AhabIan has found his greatwhite whalegreen parrot.Wrecks Moregone:
Unfortunately, Auuuuughie has already called his agent to withdraw the book and destroyed all other copies.
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Flylock Socks:
Naked Weirdly!!!!!! My eyes!!!!!!!!!!!!
I’m looking forward to Sunny plucking hairs out of Ian’s beard while he sleeps in order to build a nest. Sure, parrots for the most part don’t build nests, but it’ll be a good way to fuck with him.
Pluggers: He gets the pie, but his wife kicked him out of the house (probably for sneaking too much pie) so he’s slowly freezing to death.
@Bob Tice: The diabetes he’ll get from the pie can only add to the portrayal.
Mary Worth:
While Toby would like a paesano
Irked Ian shouts, “Mano a mano!”
But Toby prevails
While Cameron flails –
He’ll douse the Perfesser with guano!
I honestly thought that was gonna be a joke about how you can’t eat pie with a full beard without getting it ALL OVER YOUR WHISKERS and grossing everyone out.
Sunny, told by Toby to “Down, boy!” will content himself by barking at Ian.
Dogs are good!
MW: “If you warned me that there was a bird in the house, I would have cleaned all the seedy crumbs out of beard.”
MW: Ian looks like he was about to launch into ‘O What a Beautiful Morning’ from ‘Oklahoma!’ as he made his entrance.
MW2: Wilbur’s about to get a new drinking buddy…
RMMD: Augie Doggy Ding Dong Daddy, this situation just resolved itself with no real effort required on your part! You’re about to get the sex you allegedly want! Lose the expression that says ‘Wimmen! Can’t live wit’em, can’t live widdout ’em!’
DT: Ah, this must be the Yelrah Nniuq to this guy’s Rekoj! Where’s HER costume?
JP: Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaand so…
MW – Just a reminder, Toby. A parrot is not a dog. If you say “down boy” to a parrot, the best you’ll get in return is “Squawk! Down boy! Squawk!”
MW: That bird seems suspiciously aggressive. Maybe Toby’s been training it to attack Ian, and her “Down, boy” is a clever way of diverting suspicion? No, putting “Toby” and “clever” together doesn’t work.
Maybe the leader of the gang of criminal parrot smugglers looks like Ian? We already had Belle’s brother and his “vomit a little in your mouth” resemblance to Wilbur.
A&J Bumping asses today.
MW – Hey – if it comes down to it, keep the bird, dump the chin-beard. That’s the smart move. The other option is chin-beard loses a leg to type 2 diabetes, and Sunny pecks out one of his eyes….
Pluggers – No Pants November landed Santa on the Sex Offender Registry….
Adios Amigos, DJ.
MW: Just his luck, Ian ate a sesame seed bagel for breakfast. [Squawk!] “Get out of my beard, birdbrain!”
Luann: today’s installment is far too wordy for me but did Luann just kick Bernice out?
RMMD Odds this is going to end with *Summer* apologizing for ever having been upset about Augie barely disguising her as a character and showing enough of her trauma in the early storyline to get through even her thick skull – because he did change a few details in the ending, and that somehow makes it all better?
“Feathered menace” is also the name of the unholy crossover between “Dennis” and “Shoe”
MW: Well, it wasn’t the Birds-inspired fever dream that I hoped for, but it did have Ian getting attacked by a parrot so I’m good. Get his blustering, patriarchal ass, Sunny!
Sunday. JUNGLE JIM! Dig it.
Dead men tell tales but is it the truth?
Hagar – The first panel is a little too Pete Hegsethy to me.
@TK: Even better, cages that they’ll never use because Sunny flies around the apartment freely anyway.
Toby: Is five enough? I couldn’t decide so I bought eight.
@Dennis Jimenez: He’ll have no choice but to embrace the image and become a pirate. Yaarrr!!
@Sequitur: I’m somewhat bemused that the dead man is literate in broken English.
C’shaft: Eventually, all Crankshaft running gags will cancel each other out. A mom will catch up with Crankshaft’s bus when he gets hung up on Keesterman’s mailbox, Lena will win the league championship by bowling with a ball made from her own brownie batter, and Crankshaft will launch a grill into the chimney, causing an explosion that obliterates everyone in the strip forever.
DT: Claudia’s comfy sweater and mom jeans ensemble is completely at odds with her presumed role as Ozob’s accomplice/moll/whatever. Poor guy was probably hoping for some leotard-clad Harley Quinn clone, and all he got was an early-middle-aged divorcee who dresses like Chris Evans’ character in Knives Out.
JP: Do you suppose Sophie and Emil challenge themselves by trying to have a conversation entirely comprised of movie quotes, or do they just text memetic dialogue back and forth in lieu of actual human connection.
Phantom: Well, Diana, what did you expect when you told them “My colonialist vigilante husband is flying a ghost World War II bomber loaded with stolen Nazi loot and needs to make an emergency landing”?
RMMD: Come on, Summer, couldn’t this have waited until Monday afternoon? He has the problem class tomorrow!
“Why didn’t you warn me?”
I’m going to assume Ian has told Toby not to contact him when he’s away unless it’s an emergency and never asks how things are going for her if he deigns to initiate a conversation.
Happy to see Ian isn’t as meek as last time we saw him, but today’s post title leaves me disappointed by the absence of Hagar and Mud Mountain Murphy.
BG&SS: We all know the doctor, but in a century we’ve yet to see Hootin’ Holler’s mortician. “The Lord watches over the foolish”, indeed.
Gasoline Alley: “Trip the light fanatic”? The Molehill Highlanders announced their mid-career change to ELO tribute band in a rather cryptic manner.
H&L: Nothing says “true couch potatoes” like ten seconds of chatter over the most mundane of football plays, an opening kickoff TD return.
Beetle Bailey: In order, Mort Walker served in WWII, created Beetle Bailey, and wrote “The Lexicon of Comicana”. I hope today’s strip is not true to life.
Shoe: this is what you get when you use the president’s doctor.
Slylock Fox – Snake notwithstanding, I have seen Count Weirdly naked and I’m praying his invisibility formula works fast… VERY fast.
Pluggers: Is that a pumpkin pie with a top crust? Is he standing outside in the actual snow with no coat on to eat it? Depressing enough for me, on both counts.
Mary Worth: That panel of Sunny attacking Ian might just be my favorite Mary Worth panel ever.
Pluggers: Pluggers love to wander off into the wilderness during blizzards to eat pie alone without regard for their own safety.
Mary Worth quote confirmed. It’s from the De Palma film The Untouchables, which Mamet wrote. The brainyquoters have not always been scrupulous about giving credit to the wordsmiths (crediting George Gershwin with lyrics his brother Ira wrote to his music after George died, crediting Miep Gies with a line put in her mouth with a movie, crediting Lucy Maud Montgomery with a line from a TV adaptation of Anne of Green Gables, yes I did all those from memory), so good on them this time!
Also Elliot Ness proceeds to mock the Mountie captain who says this,* saying “Losing is half the battle” and rejecting the Mountie’s surprise plan. Which, I guess, is a subtle signal that Toby might have been better off giving Ian a heads up.
*As an extreme pedant I have to add–the exact wording may something Ness repeats as part of his mockery.
“How about the ruler of the roost? Master of my domain?” is great, by the way. More Ian and the grandstanding oddballs!
Pluggers spelled out that it’s a Santa gig, figuring that the snowy landscape, red suspenders, rotund belly, and “Ho Ho Ho” might be too subtle for someone who reads Pluggers. They’re not wrong. Here I am, reading Pluggers.
MW: No one who truly loves their spouse calls them “dear.” “Dear” is for bullshit marriages built on lies.
P.S. At first glance, I thought it was Ian squawking in the last panel. Like the English language had failed to convey how angry he was at Toby, so he resorted to sound effects.
Pluggers: There’s one detail of this I find unrealistic. If you’re resigned to eating pie outdoors during a snowstorm, you’re no longer bother with forks. We’re past the silverware stage.
@Classic David:
That’s an excellent point. Since pumpkin pie traditionally has no top crust, and the caption only identifies it as “Thanksgiving pie,” I’m going to assume that the filling in this pie is a puree of all the Thanksgiving leftovers: turkey, cranberry sauce, stuffing, mashed potatoes, sweet potatoes with marshmallows, green bean casserole, mac & cheese, pumpkin pie, apple pie, and the wicker cornucopia and dried flowers from the centerpiece. Pluggers let nothing go to waste!
“I’m the king of my own castle,” said Ian as he sat down, shaken, on the Acorn stairlift in his single floor condo.
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Pluggers’ childen, tired of their drunken diatribes at the Thanksgiving table, kick them of their houses to eat dessert in the snow and decide next year to just go to visit their in-laws.
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Seriously, Ian’s return was better than I ever hoped, and I dislike him more than ever! I wasn’t expecting his dialogue to remind me of a line from an Acorn stairlift commercial that I have loathed from the first moment I heard it.
Don Abundio, translated:
“Pola thinks she’s a soul singer?”
“Yeah, she’s doing Sam Cooke impressions”
“You expect me to believe that?”
“Come and see”
“That’s the sound of the birds / Working on the chain gang…”
“Ruler of the roost” gets to the nub of the issue, I think. Who *is* to rule the roost going forward – Sunny or Ian? Will Sunny take tips from Libby’s conflict with Wilbur, and let Ian know what he/she thinks as only an animal can?
Mary Worth: I think Ian has a point, Toby should have warned him about the feathermonster in his condo. That said, this isn’t a time for actual, literal aggression, Ian. Passive aggression can make Toby feel bad about turning her home into a bird sanctuary without really understanding why!
Also, get some protective goggles. Parrots like to go for the eyes.
MW: Will this be a rehash of the “Wilbur is jealous of Estelle’s cat” story?
@Banana Jr. 6000: I’m expecting that Sunny will immediately become Wilbur’s best friend, making Ian not only angry, but also jealous.
I think it’s somewhat weird that on GoComics when you navigate to Funky Winkerbean, you see his picture as a high schooler, but then when you go to the comic page itself, he’s at least half a century older on the banner. I understand that everyone aged in almost real time over the strip’s run (at least they started to in the early ’90s), but I wonder how a newbie to the comic would react to that?
MW: Yesss! Pauley (as “Sunny”) has dreamed of the day he’d get an action shot like this!! The intensity, the characterization, the bravado – all coming together in a glorious performance for the ages!! I think we just saw a Star being launched to new heights. No more Dagwood pet store gigs for him!
Now some of you may be wondering if this is *actually* happening, or is this a dream sequence as suggested by yesterday’s panels. But it doesn’t really matter! It’s all great ACTING in any case.
And I must give some credit to the two-legger actor who plays Ian. That six-month stay in rehab has done wonders for his depression and self-esteem issues. The old boy’s got his mojo back! Even if it IS only a dream…
Pluggers: What kind of madman puts a top crust on a pumpkin pie?
Ye Olde Calvin and Hobbes: No comment about the content of the strip just noticing the creative way they put the title of the strip in the middle of the strip.
Mary Worth – It turns out Sunny is a trained assassin targeting Ian. Did you really think the “teachers conference” was that long? No, Ian is involved in some CIA activities.
Granted, it’s mostly dull academic stuff, writing papers about the best way to influence enemies using clandestine soft power. But years ago he pissed off the more Jame Bond wing of the CIA, telling an ornithologist his plans to use parrots to shit on foreign leaders during big speeches was “childish and unworkable”. Now, years later, that shunned scientist is getting his revenge!
Pluggers – The Plugger isn’t depressed, he’s diabetic, and the sugar coma is hitting him.
MW-It’s a shame Toby didn’t bring home a chicken because then we could see Ian choke the chicken.
Pearls Before Swine-
DT: Honestly, yesterday, when I said Ozob would instantly realise Dick was on his trail because he arrested a drug runner Ozob built a car for, I was kind of half-kidding. Deep down, I thought it made more sense if Ozob was just mad he’d lost a customer, possibly one who hadn’t paid yet. Well, Mike Curtis wants to make it clear that he’s never worried about what “makes more sense” before, and he’s not going to start now!
Phantom: This is the most confusing and hand-wavy time travel story I’ve read in a while. And I read that Dick Tracy story with the magic painting!
Sigh … St Patrick’s Day gets celebrated in the comics every year, but not a single mention of St Andrew’s Day? The Duncan family in Zits don’t want to celebrate their heritage?
Parrots are notoriously gender biased, liking men and despising women for example. Sunny appears to be the opposite: accepting Toby and Mary but reacting defensively towards Ian’s intrusion. My advice to Ian would be to shave the neck beard. That might make him more tolerable to the bird, and definitely to readers as well
MW: Wait until Ian finds out that Sunny has chewed half of the buttons off the TV remote.
Also, Toby did buy a cage, didn’t she? Free range pet birds are annoying as shit.
@Sequitur: Oh, he actually wrote it in the sand? That’s cheating! Sherlock Holmes woulda figured it all out just from the footprints!
Slylock: If the Alice strip ever needs a new artist, they need look no further than today’s terrific artist Elisha, age 9. That is one seriously disturbing picture.
MW:
There was an Old Man with a beard,
Who said, ‘It is just as I feared!
Two Owls and a Hen,
Four Larks and a Wren,
Have all built their nests in my beard!’
SO THERE’S NO ROOM FOR A F***ING PARROT AS WELL!!!
LUANN: Luann should have gone from “here” to “anywhere” when she started college. Not sure hat she’ll leave with Puddles now
RMMD: will she or won’t? Only her OB/GYN knows for sure.
JP: distance makes the heart grow fonder– for other people. The comics need more MF friendship arcs.
MW: Just to recap the action because it gives me pause:
First, Sunny appears to leap up into the air, towards Ian, with a undoubtedly piercing ‘SCREEEECH!’
Next, Toby appears to counter Sunny’s forward momentum by drawing him back by the tail feathers pinched between her thumb and forefinger.
Whereupon, Sunny spontaneously and silently composes himself while perched upon Toby’s bare index finger.
Finally, between panels, Sunny has hopped onto Toby’s should to resume hostilities with an emphatic ‘SQUAWK!’
I apologize for not making a joke so much as merely noting my bafflement at the series of events depicted here.
Oh, also Toby is wearing short sleeved turtleneck top that is one shade lighter purple than Ian’s purple dress shirt with dark purple polka-dot tie, which also gives me pause.
Pluggers: Imagine this, an old dog chained up in the backyard, in the middle of winter. The old dog fantasizes of another life, maybe being like his masters, eating the foods that they eat. But still cannot shake off the bitter cold that surrounds him which invades his fantasy. Also even while in a more human persona, he still yells at the neighbours for no reason, because Dog.
Ian Cameron IS Ralph Kramden in “The Honeymoaners”!
@matt w: So what you’re saying is there’s hope that one day the Sunday quote will be, “They pull a knife; you pull a gun! He sends one of yours to the hospital; you send one of his to the morgue! THAT’S the Chicago way!”
The last panel of today’s Bizarro made me laugh out loud. Can’t remember when that last happened while reading the comics page.
The Familliar Mucus: Billy(Age 7) did something popular? Unpossible!
@Liam: MW-“Master of my domain.” Are you really? I propose a contest.
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“I’m out!!!”- Wilber Weston
@TheDiva: Mary Worth has done crossovers with other comics, most notably Phantom, but I’m not aware of one with Dick Tracy. This is something which needs to happen.
@Die Rosenkavalieren: The last panel of today’s Bizarro made me laugh out loud. Can’t remember when that last happened while reading the comics page.
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I cant remember the last time I read an actual “comics page”
Late Thread Cuisine: Find the mashed potatoes.
Family Circus: “Why are the seats in church called ‘pews’?” Because of all the residual farts left by previous churchgoers. Ask Jeffy–he’s probably sniffed a pew already, if not already licked one.
@Baja Gaijin: Looks like “Country Christmas Bread” in the sense Hamlet meant when he said “Do you think I meant country matters?”
@Gerry Quinn: Will Sunny take tips from Libby’s conflict with Wilbur, and let Ian know what he/she thinks as only an animal can?
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Please don’t taunt “Marvin” into proving he can do that too.
Pluggers: As far as I know, the event for growing facial hair in November is “Movember.” “No-Shave November” sounds like they’ve confused it with a different “No-X November.”
@Baja Gaijin: Find the mashed potatoes.
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Cool!That game is a Thanksgiving tradition with your family, too?
@Dmsilev: @TheDiva: Mary Worth has done crossovers with other comics, most notably Phantom, but I’m not aware of one with Dick Tracy.
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Back in the day, Dick proved that Mumbles was stealing apples from Mary’s cart and balancing them on Flat top’s head.
@Y36 Sequitur: Lois was doing some quality final-panel jutting.
@Die Rosenkavalieren: Usually the Sunday Bizarro is all about hunting for the hidden items but today it was sheer joy.
@88 Baja Gaijin:
The mashed potatoes have been disguised as pine cones by those clever cuisine decorators.
Sunny clearly hates men with beards. Next, he attacks Dr Jeff
@Baja Gaijin: Potato bread? with… a lot of whole fennel seeds? Not sure what would make that a “Christmas” bread though.
@Baja Gaijin:
#88. It’s mashed potatoes all the way down ! Mashed potatoes keep the life saver moist. I’ve also made serviceable mashed potato forts, castles, dams.
@Liam: FC-“Ask to see God’s bathroom.”
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Does He use White Cloud?
@Activist: . I’ve also made serviceable mashed potato forts, castles, dams.
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“Oh, the tuber-manity!”-Mr Potato head.
MW: Karen and June probably won’t be able to print David Mamet’s reaction to his being quoted out of context in Mary Worth because they will use up their year’s supply of grawlixes.
@Baja Gaijin:
Is this like the afikomen at Passover where someone hides that mash potatoes and the Christmas dinner isn’t over until someone finds them?
@matt w: Toby might have been better off giving Ian a heads up.
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Why should they start having sex NOW?!?
@Liam: Holy Shit!!
@CanuckDownSouth: @Baja Gaijin: Potato bread?
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That was Don Rickels’ original part in Pixar’s “Deli Story” before they changed him to play Rye Bread.
@The Rambling Otter: I see what you did there! :)
@Banana Jr. 6000:
Yeah, that’s what I was thinking as well.
@The Quiet Man: ‘Wimmen! Can’t live wit’em, can’t live widdout ’em!’
Sledge Hammer: Women! Can’t live WITH ’em…Can’t LIVE with ’em!
@Activist: Did you ever make a mashed potato Devil’s Tower?
As for the cuisine, I’ve had potato bread and it’s not bad.
Poor Mr. Plugger has been thrown out into the cold, dreary night with only a slice of pie to sustain him. He’s freezing up right now, and has been standing there for an hour, his limbs frozen solid. See his eyes? And the freshly fallen snow on his pie. This plugger will not be plugging by morning.
MW: Hey, you know that Far Side where the duck is going, “So, Professor Jenkins! My old nemesis!” while he and the guy in the white coat are on a tiny island? Well apparently with a few changes (setting, bird species) it’s soap opera material. Although really it needs some grawlixes at least if you’re going to quote David Mamet.
Just a note: Nathan Rabin, who many of you will know from his takedown of 9CL if nothing else, is in hospital after a serious car accident. There’s a GoFundMe to help him out, and I see Josh has already made a generous donation. If you have a couple bucks to help out a good writer and a good guy, you might consider donating.
MW: There’s a Robert Crumb “Eggs Ackley” cartoon where a pair of blackbirds, drawn to look like Heckyl and Jeckyl, are buzzing about town pecking out people’s eyes, Maybe June Brigman can channel that with the Charterstone residents stagging about blindly with empty eye sockets. The final panel can have Sunny, with a bloated, engorged belly saying, “Squawk! I think I’ve pecked out enough eyes for today. Squawk!”
@Rube: McEldowney hired Rojo Ozob to sabotage his brake lines?
(Incidentally, Claudia is WAY out of balding red-nose Rojo’s league. She might be a salaried member of his troupe — “Roachette.” Check out those six shapely legs!)
MW – That bird is a miracle! Hw has returned ou beloved blowhard Ian back to us
@Guillermo el chiclero: As long as they’re not furry gang ra*ists. -cough-F
ritz the Cat-cough- I’m fine with that.C-Shaft: In theory, product placement should be more tolerable if the company is nonexistent, but come on now.
DT: Ozob is itching to leave Neo-Chicago and Claudia doesn’t need much convincing. Good chance their next evil lair will be trading up.
Dustin: I’m pretty sure I’ve done that. Don’t judge me too harshly.
H&L: Thirsty is once more drinking something that looks a hell of a lot like PBR. Hi has a smile on his face sitting next to his teenage son and the neighbor whom the teenage son resembles to a suspicious degree, so he might be on something stronger.
RMMD: Augie must be getting jaded. His girlfriend comes over to talk about his book and he already looks like a crazed fan has tracked him to his Taos getaway.
SFx: Whatever Max has got going on there, at least he doesn’t have to struggle to avoid looking at Count Weirdly’s weird green dick, lucky bastard.
@104 Anonymous: Um, no. You’re thinking about moo goo gai pan.
@111 Ken: The bread looks good. The inclusion of mashed potatoes, not potato flakes, makes it seem odd.
@Horace Broon: As far as Scottish heritage goes, I’m afraid you’ll have to be satisfied with Professor Ian Cameron’s glorious (read: attacked by a parrot) return to Charterstone.
Sunday’s Sally Forth was pretty good.
Ian will melt into a puddle of liquid beard particles when he hears Sunny and Air head sing, “Bird…I’ve got you, bird…” and all will be forgiven.