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Without further ado (or any ado, really), let’s go to your comment of the week!

“‘This is money. You’ll start makin’ it when you start losin’ teeth.’ Uh, things a pimp might say! Things you didn’t want to know about your grandparents! Pass!” –bartcow

And your runners up! Very hilarious!

“Oh, and speaking of wild and cagey, ignore the hobo with the dildo camera who’s camped on the hill overlooking the fenced area. Say, who needs a refill of blue liquor?” –Dood

“You know, it’s bad that the best dressed guy we have seen in weeks is Dr. Jeff. My initial thought was ‘Hey, I think I have a shirt just like that.’ I then proceeded to sob for hours, burn the shirt, and turn in my gay membership card. I may possibly be the only man Mary Worth has ever turned straight.” –Jeremiah

“I’m just really enjoying the whole idea of the Federal Health Care Blue Book. It must have each body part listed, but are they separated by ‘person’? Or by ‘level of hideous depression’? Because there has to be some way to differentiate Ziggy from the rest.” –mgm

“‘Guide him to where that big buck deer hangs out.’ ‘You mean, 18 inches from where we hobbled him and tied him to a tree?'” –Tom Allen

“Seeing Loweezy pronounce the word ‘groceries’ in its entirety comes as quite a shock when portrayed in the same panel with a sign with the words ‘GEN’RAL STO.'” –Red Greenback

“I see something far more sinister in the Family Circus panel for today. PJ’s old enough to learn that there’s only one way out of the compound, and that’s in the ring. You can make a little money by winning, but you can make a lot of money by taking a dive. Dolly’s not too proud to fall.” –Sarahindie

“Because when you adore someone, and want him to succeed, and want to spend time with him, and be best friends with him, that’s not a good foundation for a relationship. No, in the world of Judge Parker, what is absolutely necessary for a successful relationship is a shared love of luxury, a shared contempt of the lower classes, and a shared unity of purpose in getting by based on zero real world effort.” –Peripheral Visionary

“I think Margo’s eyebrow might be stuck.” –AndyL

“Bridesmaids? That should not even be a question. Aphrodite, Goddess of Love, is in attendance at all legitimate weddings.” –cj

“I always liked Irving, and now I know why. He’s obviously a loathsome sociopath, but classy enough to weave his excitement over his new iPhone into Cathy’s pregnancy announcement.” –B.B.

“Cathy + ‘Belly Laffs’? Out of all the possible futures, this ranks just above the one where apes take over.” –UnclGhost

“That ‘ack’ isn’t from Cathy’s baby; it’s her vagina, and it’s ack-ing in response to both the horrors it witnessed at the conception of the baby, and also the guilt it feels at the part it will play at bringing another Cathy into the world.” –Etters

“Don’t you love it when ‘anything is possible’ but the results are the same as always?” –Ktrout

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Dennis the Menace, 10/4/10

The Mitchells’ pastor ought to be concerned about young Dennis’ decision to turn away from the Christian God and instead offer his worship to Skynet, the superintelligent computer network that will soon destroy us all.

Jumble, 10/4/10

As usual, I’m too dumb to actually solve the Jumble, but I do want to point out that “vomiting” would fit into the solution blanks nicely.

Luann, 10/4/10

After setting this foolproof plan in motion, TJ will head off to his job as a master cat burglar/puppeteer.

Mary Worth, 10/4/10

Let’s hope Jill Black at the hospital has some knife fighting experience, if that oh no nobody’s horning in on MY meddle expression on Mary’s face in panel two foreshadows things to come (and please, please, let it foreshadow things to come).

Slylock Fox, 10/4/10

Shady’s new membership in the Bloods is about to be revoked with extreme prejudice after the other gang members find out he obsessively hoards golden kitty-kat figurines.

Crankshaft, 10/4/10

“Also, we might occasionally be allowed to experience joy!”

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Cathy, 10/3/10

Being America’s #1 Newspaper Comics Blogger is in fact a pretty sweet gig, but sometimes there are heavy responsibilities that go along with it. For instance, you are expected to have opinions about things that you don’t really want to have opinions about, like the end of Cathy! Readers of this blog know that my feelings about the strip range, depending on the day and the punchline, from disinterest to irritation to occasional mild but shameful amusement. In Cathy’s very first mention on this blog, I openly rooted for the Cathy-Irving marriage to herald the demise of the strip; probably if it had wrapped up back then, in the summer of 2004, I wouldn’t have felt a need to weigh in.

It is important to remember that when Cathy launched in 1976, it was actively new and exciting and, in the grand scheme of things, good for a newspaper comic to focus on a lady who was unmarried and had a job. Sally Forth mined some of the same novelty (minus the unmarried part) when it launched a few years later; but Sally was always a more or less fully functional human being, whereas Cathy is a nightmare bundle of neuroses. The fact that the character always seemed to take every negative stereotype about women and extend them to cringe-inducing extremes made it hard to celebrate it as a feminist achievement.

But still, there is one thing we can really thank the strip for, and that is only revealing Cathy’s successful insemination in the final strip, rather than subjecting us to God knows how many months of strips about morning sickness. And maternity clothes! Good lord, can you imagine all the strips with Cathy trying on maternity clothes? Sparing all of us this was a true act of mercy.

Apartment 3-G, 10/3/10

Meanwhile, in happier news, the predicted Tommie-ignoring is proceeding apace! “I had always dreamed of having a huge wedding party, but really, other than the two of you, who else is there?”