Sad lady eats sad muffin
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Barney Google and Snuffy Smith, 11/10/26
There’s a whole social media trend of young people posting images of food service on airlines in the days of yore accompanied by captions like “RETVRN” or “THIS IS WHAT THEY TOOK FROM YOU,” and I hate to point out that these are mostly (1) ads for (2) first class service in an age when (3) even coach class was much more expensive than it is today, accounting for inflation. It seems that this kind of rhetoric has filtered down to the young people of Hootin’ Holler who are (both literally and, in terms of their ability to afford air travel, figuratively) miles away from the nearest airport, so I’m here to tell them: you still get snacks! They’re still handing out little bags of pretzels or whatever. Maybe not on Frontier or Spirit, but Spirit went out of business, so maybe handing out snacks is here to stay. Keep hope alive!
Dick Tracy, 11/10/26
Dick and his partner standing at crazy dutch angles relative to everyone else, somehow, while odd shadows falling from no obvious light source make everything very dramatic? Mysterious femme fatale emerging from an incongruous corner doorway? I do not regret to inform you that Dick Tracy has, to use a technical term, gone “full-on German Expressionist.”
Hi and Lois, 11/10/26
Wow, Thirsty gets a new pillow every year? I’m gonna say it: that seems like it’s pretty often. More often than I get one, for sure. Seems like something you’d only do for someone who’s doing horrible stuff to/on/near his pillows, and now I wanna know what.
Mary Worth, 11/10/26
“It’s because I keep spreading vicious false rumors about people and it alienates everyone! Uh, I mean, about other people, people not in this room, that’s it.”
19 replies to “Sad lady eats sad muffin”
Wary Morth:
Nelly: “I was stupid enough to put my life savings into buying this flat, where I live next to a pompous axx, an alcoholic horsie carver, a mayonnaise guzzling shrubbery crawler, his imbecile daughter, a drug dealer, and, not least, a pathological sociopathic meddler.”
Mary: “My goodness! I wonder whom she’s talking about at the end there?”
Mary Worth:
“Let me tell you why….”
“Um, excuse me while I go defenestrate myself.”
Mary Worth:
“Of course, I was born on February 29 — leap year — so it would make sense that there would be at least a four-year hiatus between acknowledgments!”
Hi and Lois:
It’s easy to put all the blame for the loveless Thurston marriage on Thirsty, but today we learn that Irma doesn’t put much effort into it, either.
Murky Tail:
Murk is about to disappear forever into an FBI black site?
(Well, we can dream.)
BG and SS:
Don’t you just wish that someone from PETA would show up and dump red paint on that ridiculous hat of Jughaid?
Six Chix: Hey! It really is made of cheese! Too bad there’s no air up here for us to breathe, so enjoy that mouthful before you expire! Also we are giants and our heads are in outer space.
Maybe I expect too much from Bianca.
MW:
“Hello? Agent 99?”
“Nelly, quit pretending that you’re Don Adams’ ‘Maxwell Smart’ talking to Barbara Feldon through that muffin!”
H&L: I immediately thought Thirsty must be one of those people who sleep with a pillow between their knees to relieve back pain. Frankly, for Thirsty, a yearly change is not often enough.
MW: Strap in folks, this ought to be *good*…
JP: ‘Since we discovered BDSM, Kat and I have reached an… understanding…’
RMMD: The part of Mindy in panel two will be played by Lady Fingers from that one episode of ‘The Addams Family’.
Luann: In response to the question posed here yesterday, we’re going with Luann unhelpfully needling Bernice! Hooray?
CS: That is the most bereft, decrepit, bone-crushingly depressing depiction of a place of business I have ever seen.
S4th: Well, sorry, Ralph. No wacky timewarp shenanigans for you. Maybe next time you’ll grow a spine when it comes to these little outings to visit the Rubber Room Gang.
DT: Enter Conrad Veidt and Emil Jannings in 3, 2, 1…
RxMD: “Other stores might not think so!”
“So we should change our moral compass to reflect their store policy and culture?”
“But… shoplifting is WRONG! It’s illegal! How hard must I wag my righteous fingers to convince you?”
Josh, you REALLY don’t want to know why Thirsty gets new underwear every year.
Mary Worth:
Someone saying “Joy’s something that’s been lacking in my life. Let me tell you why…” is a enough to put terror in the hearts of most people, but not Mary—she lives for that shit. Tell Mary all about your despair, Nelly! Spare no details!
H&L – Irma can complain all she wants about her lazy sot of a husband, but really, she should stick her face in some Melody Beattie* and her ass in a chair at an Al-Anon meeting.
*Her books, not her crotch. Geez. The things you have to tell some people!
@Hibbleton: My thought is that Thirsty brings home the disposable pillow from the ER where they periodically take him to dry out. They fall apart quickly.
@lynn: Disposable pillows! That’s another thing you get on airplanes!
@lynn:
In fairness, so does he.
MW: “Joy’s something that’s been lacking in my life. Let me tell you why…See, there was this man named Aldo Kelrast…”