That is an extremely sweet Garfield tee
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Blondie, 6/20/25
Imagine how much funnier this strip would be if Blondie had spent any of the past 90 years or so developing the characters and backstories of Dagwood’s coworkers. Instead, we’re left staring blankly at the antics of the guy who apparently thinks he’s fat, doesn’t-want-to-be-upside-down guy, and Garfield lady, DithersCo’s #1 Garf superfan. Honestly the most intriguing person to me is the guy Dagwood runs into in the elevator, who is absolutely seething at the idea of an office having “funny t-shirt day,” a proposal that is simply wildly out of step with the current sociopolitical climate. How dare they!
Mother Goose and Grimm, 6/20/25
Look, I get that when you have comics with dogs in them, you’re gonna do some jokes where the punchline is “a fire hydrant or a tree is for them what a toilet is for us!” and that’s fine. But please, I’m begging you to fully think through that metaphor when you do strips like this. Would you draw a person lurking in a room of giant toilets thinking “I’ve died and gone to heaven!”, the message clearly being that they love pissing? Of course you wouldn’t. They’d put you on a list and they’d be right to do it.
Pluggers, 6/20/25
It’s very distressing to me that this plugger is wandering around outside, with no visible houses or any other kind of structures to be seen. If he were in his living room, I would be like, “Ha, pluggers do be losing track of stuff! Relatable!” But as it is, I feel like we need to issue a Silver Alert post-haste.
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RMMD-You can put on some mood music.
Blondie-Dither’s shirt is better than the alternative, “The beatings will continue”.
MW-“I thought there was someone out there whose crazy matched my crazy,” Wilbur laments
FC-The Family Circus Goes Metric
Blondie: For the life of me I cannot come up with a valid reason that justifies Elevator Guy’s hostility toward Funny T-shirt day.
Mother Goose and Grimm:
Oh, I think I get it! — he’s excited because there’s a “trunk” sale, right?
Blondie: “What? Fun things in these times? What’s next? Making fun of the funnies?”
Pluggers: “Yeah, but the light’s better here!”
@Liam: Blondie: “Release the hounds!”
BLONDIE: All those guys look like they are in dire need of knee replacement surgery.
MW:
Dawn’s and Mary’s conversation, full of platitudinous nothings by Mary, truly makes this the longest day of the year.
MG&G: I have a dog and I have had plenty of dogs in the past. Not one of them looked at pissing as a spiritual endeavor. That I know of.
Pluggers: Dogman found his clothes ok or is this his permanent attire? And what made him think the stuff he seeks is outdoors?
Memo to “This End Up” guy: STOP. VALIDATING. DAGWOOD. BUMSTEAD.
Would you draw a person lurking in a room of giant toilets thinking “I’ve died and gone to heaven!”, the message clearly being that they love pissing?
My first instinct would be “I would if it was Marvin.” But Marvin would be thinking “This is Hell!”, because Marvin doesn’t love pissing in toilets.
MW: Finally, we get to the part where Mary is praised! Now, at last, we can be done with this excruciating denouement and can move on to—oh, gad! Mary just said she wants to talk to Wilbur, too…! Now we’ll have to go to Wilbur’s apartment, where Mary will pontificate, and then she’ll have to spend some time admiring Willa while lamenting the loss of Stellan, then respond to Wilbur’s dejected demeanor by gently suggesting to Wilbur that it’s been a long enough time since Stellan passed away that he might now consider getting a second goldfish, then Wilbur will brighten up and need to praise Mary…thisstoryisnevergoingtoendthisstoryisnevergoingtoendthisstoryisnevergoingtoend!
PLUGGERS: His house was there a minute ago. It’s some sort of Rapture-like situation.
MW: Dawn can’t discern between heartbreak and, “omg, how could I be SO STUPID?” To be fair, that’s pretty much Wilbur’s emotional palette and there’s a blur factor.
9CL: If Amos thinks that Edda will take a back seat to culture, he’s as stupid as…well, as we know he is.
The trees don’t seem to be unusually large, so I guess the “Redwood” part is Grimmy pissing with an erection.
That guy is definitely directing his rage at the right person, “guys who like hot dogs” are taking America right to hell. (Storms out of room, pushing past the “I heart money” shirt without noticing.)
MG&G: What’s always been weird to me about the whole dog tree/firehydrant(which we don’t even *have* in Australia)/toilet thing is that it’s always treated like dogs can *only* piss on trees and hydrants. Like dogs are just constantly busting to go but unable to unless they see the two things they can piss on. Like Grimm was having a nightmare existence, unble to piss at all for days on end, until he wandered into acres of trees and could finally relieve himself.
Pluggers: And the “stuff” in this case is an orienteering compass.
MW: Pretty sure that’s the Joker in the first panel.
Blondie – If Julius was honest about the only thing he really lives for, his tee would say, I (Heart) Blondie’s Boobs….
MG&G – The vandals pissed on the stump….
Pluggers – Dementia is funny, funny stuff….
Adios Amigos, DJ.
@Ennui du Jour: Or Melania.
“How dare you have fun with everything happening in the world!” Look! A Twitter/Bluesky poster in real life!
If Grimm can go to Heaven, it proves universal reconciliation, unfortunately
Dithers’ “Greed is good” proves that “Blondie” is finally touching recent pop culture from 1987
Blondie: Sorry, my favorite part of this strip is Random Guy in Hallway who is absolutely pissed that Dithers & Co. is doing a silly theme day. “Really? In this world? Amid global war and famine and disease you pieces of shit are putting on silly t-shirts and yukking it up? Dear god I hate you! I hope you all die!”
MGG: “I’ve died and gone to heaven, but my body is still fully animated and wandering around this forest. I can’t stop smiling. What kind of cruel God would allow this?”
Pluggers I wonder what his ‘stuff’ is. I’m guessing drugs, right? Which might explain why it looks like he’s wandering around a park, looking for someone that’s holding extra perc’s.
Today we get a taste of what it would look like if RMMD characters were on Mt Rushmore.
Blondie: Yes, really, in today’s world, Sir! Do you have any idea how long it takes to draw a proper waistline? Even cartoonists deserve some time off!
@Ettorre: “That’s exactly what they want, to distract you with ‘fun’ while the authoritarian project proceeds. I blame the Democrats.” — The perfect Twitter/Bluesky post
If you had to guess the intended race/nationality of Huge Load guy who was purposely drawn this specific way what would you guess?
Blondie : I like the guy with the yellow shirt’s nervous smile, he realises that he’s the odd one out here and that EVERYONE ELSE picked a white shirt…
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Also Blondie: The more I look at Mr. Oversized Load, the more I worry about him. This isn’t a special occasion for him, he’s like that every day, just frozen, grinning and blank-eyed. Does Mr. Dithers pay him to guard the copier against illicit hoagie xeroxing? It doesn’t seem like much of a life, to be honest.
Oh Josh, you sweet summer child. If a person had a pissing fetish, he wouldn’t be in a room full of toilets, he’d be in a room full of adult diapers.
Blondie – Dagwood has the “perpetual 50s suburbia” vibe, so this man in a suit is seething about how the loosening of work attire rules would never pass if Eisenhower was still president.
MG&G – I hate to inform you that Redwood National Park has been demoted to National Forest status, shifting it from the Department of the Interior to the Department of Agriculture, and making it open for logging. Grimm’s “heaven” is about to be the site of battles, both in the courtroom, and among eco-warrior activists in the trees, to preserve nature against short-sighted arguments about lowering lumber prices caused by tariffs.
Pluggers – Pluggers claim dementia as their primary malady. Younger folks can stick to their depression, anxiety, and shocking rise in colorectal cancers.
@The Rambling Otter: This is why Marvin cosplay is banned at most comics conventions
I’m sure some here are in the know about what some others refer to as golden showers.
JP: If it weren’t for the trademark overwritten snark, I’d have guessed Terry Beatty infiltrated the strip at a key moment to make sure a potentially interesting plot (Sophie and Reena are kidnapped and must use all their feminine wiles and smarts -*snort!*- to escape) peters out into nothing.
RMMD: Speaking of which, I’m trying to figure out how this could still turn out to be a Rene Belluso scam. He takes Truck’s DNA and makes a robot clone, maybe?
Luann: Is that Ox’s dad? Must be, given that he has a comely (*snort!*) young woman begging him for an opportunity to make money and the first thing he can think of is sending her outside to wash windows. Strike the iron while it’s hot, man!
@The Rambling Otter: Is Summer child a euphemism for naive? I’m not familiar with the phrase.
@Veronica:
Dogs will be traumatized when AI hydrants fight back.
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The only thing funny about any of those shirts is the idea of someone buying Garfield™ merch in 2025. Some minion had to bring Jim Davis a few cents from the royalties then listen to him cackle as he tossed the coins into his vault.
@Nobody: Oh no, I always thought of the term as “Innocent minded”
By the way, I don’t think I’ve ever noticed before how many people have stumpy legs in the Blondieverse and how they all stand with those legs crouched and it’s triggering an uncanny valley reaction in me.
The road this Plugger walks on is paved in gold
And it’s always summer
He’ll never get cold
He’ll never get hungry
He’ll never get old and gray
You can see his shadow wandering off somewhere
He won’t make it home
But he really don’t care
He wanted the highway
He’s happier there today, today
There is no respect for the classics! It’s Pogo the comics character running for president, because Walt Kelly was a genius! Garfield overshadowing Pogo is evidence we live in a fallen world!
@I’m Not Cthulhu, But I Play Him On TV: Not a bad Twitter post, but not representative of Bluesky. Over there it would be more like “corporate AmeriKKKa is trying to distract you from the rising fascism of our time!”
@I’m Not Cthulhu, But I Play Him On TV: Exactly. “I blame Democrats” is perfect because it works on either X or Bluesky
Blondie: “This End Up” guy needs to be that way up because otherwise everyone would notice he’s pantless and his hairy legs (and presumably equally hairy genitalia) are just hanging free in the middle of the office.
I shall be telling this with a groan
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I turned around and went home,
Leavin’ the house never made a lick of sense.
– The Roads Not Taken, Robert ‘Plugger’ Frost
My husband is going to a volunteer event this morning for his work – it’s at a local diaper bank – they’ll be sorting for families in need.
He got a t-shirt for the event that features the charity’s tag line: “No Child Wet Behind”, and has several graphics of diapers.
It is not a cool shirt. It is a cringey shirt, but hilariously cringey.
Life imitates art, once again.
Keep an eye on that lady! Sure, she seems nice now that she’s advocating for Garfield for president, but once the cat refuses to appoint her ambassador to France, she will shoot him!
Blondie – We’re getting a look at a new fashion trend here: mini-Elizabethan collars on T-shirts. And a legacy comic strip is just the place to launch it.
@The Rambling Otter: @Nobody: I mean to put it in better terms, I was cheekily saying that Josh is “too pure for this sinful earth” because he didn’t go the darker route.
But when you brought up the question, I started to question if I was actually using term correctly.
Fella, you’re talking to Dagwood Bumstead, a man who knows his postal carrier by name and wears a tuxedo to work. He’s not of today’s world.
Blondie: I think I finally got the joke. Garfield hates Mondays because September 19, 1881 was a Monday.
A&J: The Polaroids are in a special archive? It’s always nice to see a comic married couple who didn’t waste their youth.
H&L: It’s a little young in her life to find out it’s all downhill from here, but ya gotta learn that somehow.
RMMD: Give it a shot? I’m fine with most anything between consenting adults, but shouldn’t you determine that you’re not blood relatives before you put it that way?
Beetle Bailey: This is a good backhand insult to all those self-help “Think yourself thin!” scams.
@Ettorre:
Fun fact — James Garfield died on a Monday.
And now you know….the rest of the story.
FC: What, no “how did Billy discover the foreign, unpatriotic measurements units” snark yet?
H&L: Fun fact – due to the Earth’s motion through its orbit from the start to the end of a day, the “days get shorter” (and “days get longer”) aren’t evenly distributed to before/after noon, and so to sunrise and sunset. The Northern hemisphere is heading to shorter days with sunset times staying steady or even increasing by a minute or so for the next few days, while sunrise times become later. Sunbeam won’t leave early tomorrow kiddo, but it will arrive late!
Blondie: Granted, tee-shirts aren’t as thoughtful and serious about the grim realities of today’s world as a bow tie and one huge central button . . .
Blondie: If the cranky killjoy had said “Funny T-shirt day? In this economy?” it would have been the most relevant joke Blondie has ever made. (NOTE: I don’t know if the “In this economy?” meme is still considered trendy or if it’s now passe and frankly I don’t care; either way my point stands.)
MG&G: People, you’re missing the forest for the trees (pun not intended). It’s not just about pissing on trees; it’s about sniffing the trees to find out about all the other dogs that have pissed on them!
Pluggers forget a lot of things, mainly that they should really talk to their doctor about their short-term memory loss.
MW panel 3: Meanwhile. Wilbur opens the refrigerator….”Oh, here’s some ice cream Belle bought. There can’t be any harm in that. Mmmmmm….[cough gag] arrrrrggghhhhh. Weeeeeekkkkk!!!!!”
Panel 4, Belle in a straight jacket: “You shouldn’t be alive Wilbur…heh heh!”
@Anonymous: Oops this was me.
Answer: Trixie’s thought bubbles emanate from a full grown man trapped inside her body a lá Being John Malkovich.
Question: How can a toddler comprehend the astral implications of the summer solstice?
@Anonymous: Good point. That is the date he died after being murdered by noted incel Chas. Guiteau with assistance by the medical community. However, the day of the shooting was a Saturday. So my mind is blown.
Blondie: Once I zoomed in to identify the white object below elevator guy’s shirt, I cracked the code. He’s not upset about the frivolity, he’s upset because it’s “Big Belt Buckle Day” and the T-Shirters are hiding theirs.
RwO: Another reason to avoid water fountains. How dirty is this water park, anyway?
Phantom: If nothing else, Phantom sneaking up and permanently scarring these guys will generate more customers for that British guy’s Phantom victim bar.
@The Ghost of Jarrod: Fun coincidence, but I don’t think Jim Davis would care enough to do it on purpose
@The Rambling Otter: All good Mr Otter. I was just saying I wasn’t familiar with the phrase and I guessed at it’s meaning or your intent by the context.
@Philip: I (Heart) Ike
@TheDiva:
MG&G: People, you’re missing the forest for the trees (pun not intended). It’s not just about pissing on trees; it’s about sniffing the trees to find out about all the other dogs that have pissed on them
True…Dogs do converse via piss stains so you may be onto something deeper here.
Luann-Wait a minute. What? Luann’s only job in that place is wiping tables and is she paid by the job and not the hour?
Pluggers-Grandpa’s off his meds and his leash again.
9CL: I know it’s my fault for trying to make sense of it all, but why did he bring headphones to the pool/beach/lake? What are the headphones connected to? He must have seen Edda’s breasts by now, and besides, I suspect she wears one of those extra thin swimsuits anyway so he can see them already. He loses attention not by her presence and his love and attraction for her, but because she exposes herself. Thank goodness a daughter is not part of this ridiculous situation.
C’shaft: Nice of the Met to loan Tiffany’s some 19th century busts for its window display.
Luann: Weenie World Franchise Owner/Charlie Brown’s even more depressed uncle is in a bit of a bind. On one hand, he obviously can’t trust Luann to do anything beyond the most basic menial labor, and she’s taking up a position that could be filled by someone with a broader skillset. On the other, she’s such a clueless idiot that she doesn’t bat an eye when he pays her the federal minimum wage, even though the sign out front says “starting at $15/hour.” He can’t even get immigrants that cheap–at least, not since ICE raided his restaurant two weeks ago.
MW: I would have thought “broken heart” was just Wilbur’s default state.
Phantom: You WHAT?…Oh, sit. Sorry, I promise I have a new contacts prescription on order…
RMMD: (They do not move.)
CURTAIN
@Nobody:
Its’
@Phantom Phan:
RWO-The bathrooms don’t have toilets.
Pluggers:
One problem for an artist working in a 2-D medium is when portraying a subject walking, the trailing leg is in the same plane as the leading leg, leading to the visual effect of “tripping over one’s own feet,” which, in the Plugger’s case, may or may not be intentional.
The last time Mr. Weenie let Luann run the “shake” machine it led to a “Sorcerer’s Apprentice” situation involving buckets, washtubs, and garbage dumpsters filled with “shake.” No more “shake” work for you, Luann.
Luann doesn’t like cleaning the glass door? That’s a plum assignment as fast food tasks go! What happens when Luann has to clean the gross crud out of the fryers, or clean the bathroom after a vagrant used it?
MW: “Despite his broken heart”? Where the hell is this coming from? Even if we ignore Belle’s mental illness, Wilbur looking exactly like Belle’s brother, and Belle trying to commit murder twice, this makes no sense. Wilbur barely interacted with Belle. He did nothing when her “brother” showed up and took her out of his life, and Belle did nothing to stay. I joked at the time that was Wilbur’s The Graduate moment, but if he really did love this woman, he could have said… I don’t know, something?
Frazz: Finally they explain what the homework caper was… and now I’m even more confused.
Cranky: these gags—I use the term loosely, they are not funny—could work anywhere. There’s no need for a NYC setting. It’s just standard CS spoonerisms, bad puns, and malaprops.
A&J: As always, Jimmy Johnson is understated and hilarious. It always tickles me that A&J are still horny for each other.
@brendancalling:
On Crankshaft : Well, Monday’s gag required Crankshaft to have taken an airplane trip, and Tuesday’s needed him to visit someone living somewhere expensive. Wednesday thru Friday’s gags could have been made to be about Crankshaft going to the local mall and seeing lots of reno going on, shoddy electronic maps that give wrong directions to shops, and overpriced jewelry.
This strip made a weekly story about Crankshaft visiting relatives in New York that’s neither about his relatives nor New York.
Pluggers – By “stuff,” he means “junk.” And he hasn’t been able to find it ever since that fateful trip to the vet.
@Liam: re-Luann: I think she’s paid by the hour but there are only so many hours needed for table-wiping. Her questions about more to do actually made some sense because anyone already wiping tables ought to be doing the other wiping / mopping already anyhow. Handling money or food = more training and responsibility = more need for such workers who can also wipe table when needed = more hours.
Frazz – I guess the point of this past week is “Caulfield gets to annoy Mrs. Olsen.” This isn’t the laugh riot Mallett thinks it is.
Values and ethics my ass.
JP – Sophie is a genius who has hacked into several drones, including a Pentagon drone. However, getting advance information about living arrangements is beyond her capacity.
Mary Worth – “Broken heart?” Seriously?
Rex Morgan – This is going to be drawn out for at least another week, and I’m praying that it’s swabbing the insides of their mouths and not a sperm sample.
S4th – I’m really tired of Ted. However, I love Sally’s mother’s friends. They’re always entertaining when they show up.
@Bob Tice: Bark! Bark! Bark!
@brendancalling: Re Arlo & Janis – I second that. I love their relationship.
@Ettorre: When I first saw the 1st panel of today’s Blondie, I assumed the “how can you do that in today’s world?” guy was thinking of polaritzation and hyper-sensitivity in these dis-united states: isn’t it likely that someone’s t-shirt will ignite a fearsome firestorm? But…I guess that’s much too sophisticated and contemporary for Blondie.
@CanuckDownSouth: The idea of a table-wiping specialist at a fast food place is absurd. Unless it’s a gigantic location with hundreds of tables, like it’s in Times Square or something. If a fast food place is going to put in the effort of hiring an on-the-record employee, that person will have a range of low-end duties. And most of them are a lot grosser than anything Luann has been asked to do.
But this is what happens when a 77-year-old man and his 50-ish nepo helper try to write ‘realistic’ stories about the lives of young adults.
MW: Oh, please. Wilbur probably boinked Belle the same day that his doppelgänger whisked her off to
kill her for the life insurancetake her back home. The only thing he’s upset about is not being able to have sex when he wants. He’ll be back to trying to score with someone else out of his league and making Dawn buy him condoms and a new bedroom set before kicking her out.Also panel 1 gives us a glimpse at Mary’s true form with shrouded eyes and a smile of smug self satisfaction. Finally she gets her praise for doing nothing, just as she should.
@I speak Jive:
On Frazz : Nah, the point of this week was “Caufield isn’t flunking Mrs Olsen’s class, he TOTALLY handed in all his homework on time even though this strip does a running gag about how he doesn’t!” and “Caufield TOTALLY DOES TOO have friends his actual age, and not just Frazz!”
*and “Caufield TOTALLY helps his friends with their studies and homeworks and tests, he’s not just a smarmy insufferable genius who lords his smartness over everyone!”* Anyone got their names, to see if they’re the same the next time they show up?… Hah, just kidding, Caufield’s non-Frazz friends are not even going to be MENTIONED again.Blondie: Dagwood and company only have so long to enjoy Funny T-Shirt Day before the angry elevator guy busts in with a gun to carry out an anti-funny t-shirt terrorist attack. “Federal Booty Inspector t-shirts and their consequences have been disastrous for the human race,” he reads off from his manifesto as he obliterates Dagwood’s skull with hollowpoints.
@TheDiva: Luann: He might be paying her even less, if he certified her as disabled.
@wesccov: 9CL: This superficial attraction to her body, which he’s seen thousands of times, is the whole basis for their relationship. They’ve never identified a single redeeming quality about each other except that she makes him horny.
Don Abundio, translated:
“Do you like my library?”
“Yes, Abundio! You have the biggest collection I’ve ever seen!”
“Can you recommend a book for me?”
“Of course, Juan!”
“I never read the damn things myself… but she can help you”
[Sign: LIBRARIAN]
“Would you draw a person lurking in a room of giant toilets thinking “I’ve died and gone to heaven!”, the message clearly being that they love pissing?
“I WOULD!” –Tom Armstrong
MW: What I want to know is how Belle’s brother found out where she’s staying. If it was Mary doing some online detective work, as many mudges have suggested, at least she would’ve earned her victory lap.
@Scratchy Scrotum LXIX: #62:
“with assistance by the medical community”
It’s said that if Garfield’s doctors had done absolutely nothing he probably would’ve survived. Their clumsy attempts to find and extract the bullet are what probably killed him. As a veteran of the Union Army during the Civil War Garfield had already survived being wounded several times and was probably carrying pieces of Confederate ordnance in his body to no ill effects.
Fun fact: Garfield was the only US president to be an ordained minister.
@Guillermo el Chiclero: Almost everyone in this comic barely uses their computer outside of emails and no one even knows how to hold a smartphone let alone what anything is beyond Facebook. Mary even tries to act like she’s hip and modern simply because she has a laptop.
Luann-“My lobby could use some buffing.”
@Guillermo el Chiclero: MW: Belle put it on her Facebook page: “Moving to Charterstone! Or as I call it, ‘Slaughterstone’! Even better – ‘Poisonstone’! No, wait – ‘Poison Mushroom’!? Um, anyway, come visit me.”
@Anonymous: I got the impression that Caulfield finally handed in his overdue homework at the very last minute, so he was technically in compliance and allowed to leave early. I don’t get the sudden concern for the other students. You’re right – Caulfield having friends and being helpful is totally out of character. The strip has always been consistent in presenting the little genius’s endearing quirks before this.
I would also think that Frazz’s stunt with changing the grade book crossed a line and would get any other employee fired. It’s another example of how he undermines Mrs. Olsen’s authority without suffering any consequences.
@Tom T.: Belle’s Facebook posts would read like a very tragic version of Flowers for Algernon, a story that wasn’t exactly known for being high spirited.
@I speak Jive: The whole scenario is contrary to Caulfield’s character. If he really was a super genius who’s bored out of his skull with the material, he’d want to get out of there as quickly as possible. He wouldn’t be hanging around to help or annoy anyone.
MW: Given what we know about Wilbur, and given what we know about the perceptiveness of Dawn…There’s like a zero percent chance that Wilbur is actually “doing OK with his broken heart,” right? We’re like one panel away from underwear on the couch again
@LTJpezcore1: Wilbur will do anything for attention and he has morons like Dawn and Mary who will enable him with a pity party (fish funeral/karaoke) rather than tell him that he’s a grown man and needs to have a better way to deal with his issues. This is the guy who spent weeks sulking in squalor over a dead goldfish and tried to kill himself because his shower radio broke. At this point, Wilbur needs counseling and possibly medication instead of being treated like a baby just because Brigman draws him like on.
Luann: This story is so out of touch. When I worked a part-time job at my college cafeteria I had to make food for customers, and slice deli meats, refill the ice in our three soda fountains, take out the trash, restock non-perishables, etc.
And then every day when we shut down to customers everybody was cleaning.
The closest thing I saw to Luanns job was sometimes we has a special needs worker who was only allowed to wash the dishes. But I don’t think that the Evansii were trying to make Luann look like that.
Dagwood really went all out, he’s got some kind of novelty shirt where he can switch between ketchup and mustard on his dog.
Josh re MGG and Marvin — What would heaven look like for poopy Marvin?
Blondie: “Really? In today’s world? It’s the 1950s, right? T-shirts are worn by rebels without a cause and putting funny slogans on them is some unimaginable future trend?”
JP: So,I found a Norwegian property rental site, and the cheapest listing on the first page for Oslo is a studio flat at 7,327 kroner a month. They have exactly two properties in Drøbak, and the cheaper is more than twice that. Finding this out took me about a minute.
S4th: Careful how you answer that one, Ted, they know mobsters.
@Human-eared Dragon:
Let’s also remember that Luann got this job because she applied immediately after hearing the manager and an employee get into a screaming match that ended with the employee quitting on the spot while she was ordering drive-thru, with the implication Weenie World immediately accepted her because they were THAT short-handed… and they don’t trust her with any task more complex than “Spray cleaning fluid on surface, wipe with rag”.
@Anonymous: @Horace Broon: And at a 10:1 ratio, that Oslo flat is ~ USD$750 a month. Glen is a cheap bastard on top of everything else.
@Human-eared Dragon: That’s a good point – “table wiper” is the kind of overly specific role a fast food place might give to a special needs individual.
Thimble Theater (January 17, 1931): Today, Olive continues her distress.
@The Rambling Otter, @Nobody: :As I understand it (and I could be wrong — I read the first few chapters of the first book and couldn’t keep track of who anyone was; watched the first episode of the series and same thing), it’s from A Song of Ice and Fire/Game of Thrones, where the seasons last for arbitrary and very long periods or something. A “sweet summer child” is used to mean someone naive/innocent/idealistic because someone born in the extremely long summer finds it hard to imagine that (as the other phrase I’ve picked up says) “winter is coming”, while the older, more cynical characters have lived through the last extremely long winter.
@Anonymous: I think today’s gag at least requires someone who would even bother asking Crank his opinion of the jewelry. Pam would know better, but Chris has had time to forget what he’s like, which is probably why she agreed to this visit in the first place.
@Banana Jr. 6000: Something I’ve been wondering about — like Luann, I don’t read the strip but I do sometimes follow discussion of it here to confirm that I have made the right decision, and I have to ask, is this kid named after Holden Caulfield? Are the strips’ creators those people who think “Yeah, Catcher in the Rye is right; everyone who isn’t me is terrible!”
@Anonymous: PRO TIP: If you get a job offer because the last guy quit on the spot and stomped out in rage, it’s probably not a job you want.
Fred Basset Spanish to English.
@Horace Broon: #103: re-JP: Lots of people make the assumption that things are cheaper in small towns and cities than in large metropolises. Small towns have much tighter rental markets than large cities, especially if that small town is a tourist trap.
@Horace Broon: Yes, the “about” page on gocomics explicitly says Caulfield is “named after J.D. Salinger’s protagonist.” Which makes me wonder what his parents must be like.
Crock Spanish to English.