Climatic drama
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Hi and Lois, 11/11/26
As I like to occasionally remind my readers, thanks to comic strip time you have been reading Hi and Lois and following the non-adventures of Trixie Flagston for decades, and all the running bits involving her seem like old hat to you, but Trixie is literally a baby, less than a year old, and from her perspective she’s experiencing many of the things you see happening to her for the very first time. That’s probably why she looks so gobsmacked here. Maybe this is the first time in her entire life (i.e., the last several months) that it’s ever rained two days in a row! Where’s her friend Sunbeam? Is he dead?
Pluggers, 11/11/26
Happy Veterans Day! Do you carry a metal water bottle with you, so you can stay hydrated while saving money and cutting down on unnecessary litter? Well, I hope you enjoy stealing valor, asshole.
12 replies to “Climatic drama”
Pluggers: My dad, who’d be 111 today if he was still around, still called Veterans Day Armistice Day because that’s what it was when he grew up.
Pluggers:
You’re a plugger when you look as if you’re the result of a recombinant canine-and-human DNA experiment gone awry, done by Jeff Goldblum’s mad scientist from The Fly.
RMMD:
“By the way, sir — why the impossibly loud red vest, anyway?”
“Oh, those are my undergrad colors. I’m an old Maryland Terrapin. But you can call me ‘Turtle Carl‘ !”
Dustin: Ed Kudlick is a selfish fat pig # 6,389.
MW: My other daughter Pippin was no help at all.
JP: While you were away I had Kat lobotimized.
FC: It smells like Mommy’s cooter! Where else has that sub been diving?
Hi and Lois:
Here’s the thing, Trixie. There is no “why.” That’s the ultimate point of Waiting for Godot, L’Etranger, Being and Nothingness and just about any other existentialist offering you can get your hands on.
H&L Hey, its another episode of Twilight Zone for Babies “Oh no, I wished away the rain without realizing it would come back to me at an inopportune tome! My hubris!”
Pluggers remember when the only reason to drink water was that you were in an active war zone. Otherwise, it’s coke, booze, or some combination of the two!
Bizarro : “*from the back of the crowd* PLAY MUDDY BOOTS YOU BIRDBRAIN”
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Dustin : …DustinDad is just this horrible ogre with no redeeming qualities, and continuing to portray him as the “only sane man” and the “always correct viewpoint character” is just vice-signalling at this point.
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Frazz : “You know, when I gave you ‘The Vandals’ by Alice Munro, I thought you’d at least agree with the whole ‘rebelling against an elderly authority figure’ part.” “NEVER, Mrs Olsen! That girl was an INGRATE! I would never do such a thing! I mean, her relationship with that old man is the exact same as my relationship with Frazz!”
…Too far?… What if I say the implication is that the “little genius” only did a surface reading of the work, and couldn’t figure out why the main character was so angry?…***********
Hi & Lois : Trixie learns a precious lesson about procrastination… Hah, just kidding, NO ONE ever learns the “I made this situation a problem for Future Me, but now *I* am Future Me!” lesson.
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Pluggers : …that doesn’t look like a canteen or a water bottle, it looks like a medecine bottle (the cap, mostly. it’d have to be colored brown instead of blue, though). I dunno, maybe it’s me who’s not familiar with what those things look like.
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Six Chix : “Yes, I’ll always remember this day… Our anniversary, right?”
Pluggers: What does it say on the label? “Spunk Water”? No wonder the veteran plugger is so wary of it.
Ph: And Stripeypants immediately gets pegged because he forgot that military members never wear sunglasses indoors and remove their covers when they step inside a building…
JP: Uh, Neddy? She didn’t hug you. She put her arms around your neck like she was either about to strangle you or start making out with you. Either option works for me.
S4th: So, what, the newly reintegrated Aunt is loaded or something? Is this story now all about how Sally is going to miss out on a million dollar inheritance?
Luann: This actually reminds me of a Garfield strip from back when Jim Davis was still drawing it (and it was actually creative and funny):
[Garfield standing on table next to an ugly lamp shaped like a pig dancing ballet] What is an heirloom? An heirloom is something that’s been passed down from generation to generation… that no one’s had the guts to throw out [shoves lamp off the table with an offscreen CRASH!]
Juggs Parker is back!
Pluggers: I believe actor Robby Benson played the Beast character in the 1991 Disney animated movie. Has his career gone so far downhill since then that he is now playing the role of dog person in Pluggers?
Pluggers-Pluggers remember how they failed to get out of the draft.
MW-“I’m sorry, Nelly. I don’t have a Merry but would you accept a Dawn as a substitute daughter.”
RMMD-What do you do with the clothes she leaves behind? Resell them?