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I may have taken a good chunk of this week off, but you sure didn’t! In addition to discovering a mutual love of Mystery Science Theater 3000 (a love that is shared by your humble blogger, it will probably not come as a surprise to you to learn), you came up with any number of amusing witticisms, of which following was judged, in our arbitrary way, the wittiest:

“There may be better euphemisms for sodomy than ‘Liz Ritter all but forces Stormy Hicks to go to The Bucket,’ but it’s hard to imagine any.” –Smitty Smedlap

And the as always almost as hilarious runners-up:

“‘As you’ve heard, I give advice.’ The list of Sentences Never Uttered Anywhere But In Mary Worth just keeps getting longer and longer.” –gump worsley

“Given the … unusual … placing of Gunk’s eyes, I’m thinking that Flyspeck Island is so tiny that Gunk’s great-great-great-grandfather is also his brother and his mother is also his sister. Perhaps ‘Take me to the mailbox’ is Gunk-speak for ‘Please put a bullet between my hideous fish eyes before I commit more atrocities against genetics.'” –Wirrrn

“It doesn’t seem like Celeste is actually having much FUN being such a beeotch about this campaign. Perhaps she should have used her money to buy a cruise ticket instead. Or a bar.” –Poteet

“Things to ask when your partner in crime goes to investigate a barking dog, you hear a strange voice yell ‘He’s with me!’, followed by the sound of a jawbone being crushed and the thud of a body crashing to the ground: ‘Did you find the dog?'” –Sharkbait

“Is there any place in the world where Niki’s hair would look cool? Or fashionable? Or even not totally insane? A dark underlayer with pointy little sideburns, topped by a starfish of horizontal spikes. Never mind why you would want to do it: HOW could you do it? Elmer’s glue and a cordless drill?” –Proteus

“Again, let me voice my frustration at the cop out that is FW this week. Sure, I know it’s Thanksgiving, and a gym full of turkeys is a real hoot, but why must depression and tragedy take a week off just because it’s Thanksgiving? In fact, in real life, depression and tragedy are what the holidays are all about.” –Allie Cat

“PS: When did Tommie start dressing like she works at Dunkin’ Donuts? Always? Oh, OK. Thanks.” –Badly_Computer_Animated_Boy

“I liken [Apartment 3-G] to ultra-high-speed footage of car safety tests. For what seems like ages we watch the stage get set for a violent spectacle. In agonizing slowness we bear witness to the 2006 Ford Bronco of the other girls’ lives screech straight into the unyielding brick wall that is Margo. Sure, it may take hours, but when the inevitable fiery crash happens, we’ll get to see every fragment of safety glass scatter as Lu Ann and Tommie’s hopes and dreams are hurled through the windshield.” –Trent

“As for the A3G Thanksgiving, I still think Margo’s going to give, or at least attempt to give, everyone smallpox.” –Mikel

“Having never had a gun pointed at me, I’m not sure how I’d react. Demanding the person holding the gun reveal his identity, however, doesn’t strike me as likely. I imagine pleading with the person not to shoot, and maybe inquiring what I can do to make the not shooting more likely. Once the guy started talking about his friend’s bear, I’d know my fate was in the hands of a madman, and I could only hope his rant went on to encompass Dallas in ’63, or the satanic origins of the UPC symbol. I guess I might consider that someone that crazed might not even think to LOAD a gun, but the snarling attack dog glaring at my genitals would probably just cow me into silence.” –Donald The Anarchist

“Man, Ella sure does bring out the platitudes in Mary Worth. I have feeling these two could carry on a conversation in nothing but droll witticisms. In fact, it’s as if they are occasionally slipping into their native language, sort of the meddling biddy equivalent of Yiddish.” –Bobdog

“And I find the phrase ‘Liz Ritter all but forces Stormy Hicks to go to the Bucket’ profoundly troubling. What is that final straw, I wonder, that final act of depravity that separates ‘all but’ forcing Stormy Hicks to go to the Bucket and actually forcing Stormy Hicks to go to the Bucket? I’m not sure we want our children growing up in such a world.” –Anonymous

“Not to make light of Elizabeth’s serious legal and emotional situation happening in FBOFW, but good lord, what is wrong with her mother’s nose? –CHA5NCE

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Like most Americans, I plan to spend the next four days engaged in family bonding and feasting on turkey flesh. New comics back Sunday or Monday-ish. Enjoy your Thanksgiving, everybody — I hope it’s less awkward than Margo, Lu Ann, Tommie, and Eric’s.

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So, too tired to do post of Sunday’s comics tonight — will do tomorrow at some point, but I did want to do the comments of the week. This week’s winner made me giggle with glee:

“Yeah, beaver, I stole your damned briefcase. You know why? Because I have so much use for tiny little beaver clothes and chewed pieces of wood. You caught me. Is there a little beaver fedora in here? I want one of those like you wouldn’t believe.” –bup

Other giggle inducers:

“I think the point of FOOB’s great love for Granthony is that it’s not what’s outside that counts — good looks, exciting career, etc. — it’s that Granthony’s soul is so well-suited to Liz, it’s as if it’s another part of her. Unfortunately, that part is her ass: pasty, blobby, and nondescript.” –Gadge Cubic, Mole Preener

“What’s with the unsupervised tike tearing underfoot in panel 4? Since when would Mary let that slide? The old Mary would take him aside and offer up some home-spun platitudin’: Young man, there is no ‘I’ in polite. Then she’d slip a hairpin from her well-coiffed bun and gig the kid like a frog.” –SmartPeopleOnIce

“I hope you like tuna casserole, with a side order of spite.” –Miss Alexandra

“It’s easily to criticize Slylock Fox because it’s simplistic, obviously written backward from the conclusion, and frequently uses puzzles that have been around for decades. But it’s written for kids! How better to teach them about the duplicity and rigged competitions they’re going to have to face as adults?” –Mr. O’Malley

“Hey, Slylock, here’s a fun fact you might use as a clue in your next strip: You can’t steal from a beaver because beavers can’t legally own anything!” –Meanwhile

“Hasn’t anyone noticed that in the time it took Raju to come to the U.S., solve Abbey’s rat problem, reinvent his image, network his way into a free ride at a prestigious university, and ride off to a glorious new future, Neddy is still packing for art school? No wonder they’re kicking our ass economically.” –cheech wizard

“Say what you will about the artist’s depiction of casseroles, but they captured Ella’s look of mild disappointment mingled with disgust perfectly.” –Citric

“I feel it my duty to inform the people that TUNA CASSEROLE can be rearranged to spell ONE CAT ASS RULE. Once I saw I could get the words CAT ASS out of it, I didn’t really care about the rest.” –Baby D’oh

“It occurred to me today that the pan of tuna casserole has made an appearance in MW for seven consecutive days. I certainly hope that tuna casserole is symbolic of something other than the fact that reading Mary Worth every day is eating away at my soul.” –DaveyK

“I am a fan of the notion that Ziggy is totally losing his mind and he is walking around his house delivering ultimatums to empty holes (that he probably made himself while randomly blasting away at imaginary foes with a shotgun) while his menagerie of pets cowers in a closet, praying to their pet-gods that Ziggy doesn’t snap and come after them and turn them into hats. Ziggy is much more entertaining if you view it as a short, dumpy, bald, pants-less, earless, shoeless, toeless man’s lonely slide into howling, drooling madness.” –Lyman Returns

“How can [Dr. Octopus] possibly get a job with his tacky wardrobe and shit hanging off of his sides? He’s also overweight and apparently has no reproductive organs. Hell, his superpower should be making people feel sorry for him.” –Concerned Citizen

“I find it moderately charming that the Spider Man daily has ‘downscoped’ from portraying world-conquering supervillains to portraying the day-to-day tribulations of the profoundly socially dysfunctional ones who can barely function as adults and take direction from their appliances.” –Gattamelata

“I am almost violently disturbed by Gina’s hair.” –Poteet

“It’s amazing how all Gina’s taunting has done is induce an episode of self-loathing. Is Tommie really incapable of pointing out that Gina’s being really rude? Is there a barter system I’m unaware of, whereby you can trade favors for insults?” –Donald The Anarchist

“Mark Trail’s Jack Lord/Hawaii 5-0 hair makes sense when you consider the fact that he is an outdoorsman and thus rarely has access to a shower. Dippity-Doo is to the well-groomed outdoorsman as perfume is to the French. All he has to do every night is pick out the pine needles and squirrel poop and throw a hairnet over it.” –Blissful Ignoramus

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