Mark Trail, 5/29/11
Mark Trail is always willing to take time off from his busy bad-guy punching schedule to teach you about the ocean, and all the ways it can kill you. Riptides may not be as sexy as tsunami or terrifying gangs of flying squid, but you are more likely to encounter them on your Memorial Day beach weekend. Plus, demonstrating how you can survive a riptide gives Mark the excuse he needs to strip off his shirt and display some sexy shoulder for your ogling pleasure. Rowr!
Family Circus, 5/29/11
While semi-naked Mark Trail is probably only of prurient interest to those of you who are into dudes, I think all of us can enjoy this Family Circus, in which the Keane Kids weep inconsolably while their parents ignore them.
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A3G – “Don’t worry, Tommie. You and I have a special bond. You know, since I’m actually you from the future.” [*]
Crankshaft – Ah, Memorial Day in the Funkiverse! Maybe tomorrow everybody can go visit Wally’s grave – you know, since they’re all basically acting like he’s dead anyway.
DT – So, y’know…maybe it would have been better to just talk to the cops? Oh wait, “the cops” in this instance include Dick Tracy. Never mind, this was pretty much inevitable.
FW – oh jesus STOP IT ALREADY
HTH – I was going to get all snarky, but I looked it up and it turns out that shoelaces are a whole hell of a lot older than I would have thought. (Actually, I’m not sure I would have, but I have a knee-jerk reaction to “modern thing in pre-modern setting, ha ha” jokes where I instinctively assume that it’s anachronistic.) Not that I think the people at the Walker-Browne Industrial Complex knew.
JP – You know, I’m no expert, but that doesn’t look like a very long fall – forty, fifty feet? Of course, that kind of a drop isn’t going to be good for you, but if you were looking to off yourself you might want to go for a significantly taller building.
Phantom – I’m sure there’s important plotsy stuff afoot, but for the life of me I can’t tear my attention from the adorable and inexplicable ridiculous little hut-table-thing in Chatu’s enclosure. Just…huh?
PV – What is this, a magical Spy vs. Spy?
RMMD – Berna seems to be collapsing into a singularity of mock-grin.
SM – “Somehow I still feel I failed?” Well no shit, Sherlock.
EllieMay 29th, 2011 at 9:39 am [Reply]
Remember, don’t try to help someone if you suspect they may be drowning. If you have something that may float, you can try hucking it at them but otherwise, just yell for the lifeguard, cuz really it’s not your problem.
BryanMay 29th, 2011 at 9:42 am [Reply]
Thel is looking fine today.
HankMay 29th, 2011 at 9:44 am [Reply]
RE: Spider-man. Peter doesn’t realize that falls don’t kill vampires because, for all the TV he watches, he skips scary movies. They give him bad dreams and interfere with his all important daytime naps.
RE: FW . Two women are mourning the loss of a relationship with creepy, unattractive, and self-centered Les and men are hard to figure out?
[Old Man] MuffarooMay 29th, 2011 at 9:53 am [Reply]
Rx – “The numbers match, Ms. Holt … congratulations!” “Great! Now what happens?”
“All your friends and neighbors throw rocks at you until you’re dead, and we’ll have good crops for another season, same as always. Please come with me!”
AD – Did you know that there’s a collection of religious BC strips out now? It’s called I Did It HIS Way. I saw it at the creators.com BC page. I pass it along without editorializing, because there are times when snark just doesn’t do it.
[Old Man] MuffarooMay 29th, 2011 at 9:54 am [Reply]
Garfield – A steak place called “The Hungry Heifer.” Was “The Mad Cow” already taken?
(For a while, the Steak & Ale nearest us in Virginia had to be called “The Jolly Ox” because blue laws forbade naming an establishment for an alcoholic beverage. True story! Also Bruce Hornsby used to play there, but it was before my time.)
Dick – Still admiring the great artwork here. I saw the other day that Staton has illustrated a comic version of Ayn Rand’s most concentratedly boring fictional tract, Anthem. For money, I hope.
RustyMay 29th, 2011 at 10:00 am [Reply]
FC: The parents have just informed the kids that they are leaving in the Rapture, dooming the children to a fiery hell for a few months.
LorneMay 29th, 2011 at 10:10 am [Reply]
Isn’t today’s Family Circus a scene from “The King’s Speech”?
The parents actually look a lot like Colin Firth and Helena Bonham Carter, especially the detached haughty expression in Mom’s reflection.
May 29th, 2011 at 10:16 am [Reply]
When tears prove ineffective, the Keane children moved on to using other bodily fluids to ruin their parents evening out. Of course the local dry cleaner gave them their usual 10% cut of the action.
SamECircleMay 29th, 2011 at 10:21 am [Reply]
The family circus is a metaphor for how all of us are crying on the inside, and only childre…
You know what? No. No, it’s probably just a malapropism.
May 29th, 2011 at 10:21 am [Reply]
@ElkMeadow (#y102): Yeah, that’s where I read Retail. Back at the previous thread I had started a rather long-winded explanation of what I meant to say involving much self deprecating “humor” and bashing of that popular rock & roll combo Kansas, along with references to lavender camel toe pants and Crankshaft just to keep it topical (separate references, rest assured) but the long and short of it is that I’m not always very good at using the English language to make myself understood by other human beings. And since English is my only language and human is my only being, I’m kind of screwed. But hey, at least I’m not dead yet, which is more than Generalissimo Francisco Franco can say. So screw you, Franco! USA! USA!
And even though the context no longer exists, I’m still including this Steve Goodman link because I really like Steve Goodman. Miss ya, buddy!
SFx – Why would Betsy Beaver live in a house with windows so high that she can’t see out of them? And why is Stanley Stork, the only one here tall enough to look through that window, just hanging around outside Betsy’s house leaning against his car? Could he have been trying to sneak a peak at that sweet, sweet beaver? Also, that pelican in the “How To Draw” panel looks disturbingly like Glen Quagmire. Giggity, giggity, gone!
SamECircleMay 29th, 2011 at 10:23 am [Reply]
Also, what is that near yellow-shirt-child’s mouth? If it’s tears, how did they get there? If it’s something else, well…
queek, source of Cuteness, Kawaii CommandoMay 29th, 2011 at 10:23 am [Reply]
no comment, but here’s the real story. (HEE!)
for Sequitur.
this does sum up the respective fandoms.
meanwhile, in downtown Westview.
Hello Kitty win. (one for the ladys and Dingos.)
EPIC ISOPOD WIN!!!
more cephalopod inspired win.
for True Fable.
Memorial Day otter stands at attention.
happy pupsqui
incoming hovercorgi.
how to make Fred Basset relevant.
Mark BMay 29th, 2011 at 10:31 am [Reply]
I really love the artwork in the new Dick Tracy, but the Picasso perspective in the way that Hot Rize’s mouth is drawn in today’s strip is a little weird looking in a couple of the panels. I need confirmation that Staton is doing a cubist style. Maybe she should take her clothes off and descend a staircase.
Damn, too late. She’s dead already.
bunivasalMay 29th, 2011 at 10:37 am [Reply]
Driven insane by what feels like decades of melonheaded malapropisms, the Keanes have finally begun preparations for their ritual suicide.
MarieMay 29th, 2011 at 10:39 am [Reply]
MT: Mark is flashing bare shoulder to distract us from that tumor growing out of his chin.
FC: I actually giggled at this one because it’s so true to life. Children will attempt all kinds of irritating behavior in an attempt at emotional manipulation. “Ooooh, noo, you’re going to have fun without meeeee!!!1! Watch while I throw myself on the floor and turn purple!!!!” And here the parents are not falling for it. “Too bad about the histrionics – we’ll be enjoying our adult selves without you – Booyah!”
Mark BMay 29th, 2011 at 10:41 am [Reply]
JP: I have to say that the Edward Scissorhands hairstyle is really working well for Emma, the suicidal CEO. She might bring back the 80s all by herself.
WeaselboyMay 29th, 2011 at 10:46 am [Reply]
How do you know the Keane kids are inconsolable if no one is even trying to console them?
Alan's AddictionMay 29th, 2011 at 10:54 am [Reply]
I’m amazed at the shininess of Mark’s hair in today’s “Mark Trail.” At least, I’m assuming that the weird white lines and marks are supposed to indicate a metallic sheen on Mark’s android head and not some sort of weird hair-related disease. Also, I’m partial to the thought of Mark either being a nature-lovin’ robot or wearing wigs made of metal.
I think the real reason the Keane Kids are krying in today’s “Family Circus” is because Mommy and Daddy still have some nice clothes that they (the kids) haven’t completely ruined, which is embarrassing for them.
May 29th, 2011 at 10:56 am [Reply]
I’m confused by the corsage in Family Circus. Is this some kind of senior Senior Prom. Do adults ever wear corsages when they go out? I’m unfamiliar with this tradition.
TheDivaMay 29th, 2011 at 11:13 am [Reply]
C’shaft: This Memorial Day, Crankshaft spends some time with the only people who can bear to be around him, and vice versa.
FW: What’s to figure out? He’s an asshole. You’ll be happier without him. The supposed punchline is not funny. It’s not that difficult!
MW: So, Drew’s next move will be to tell Liza that she repulses him, and give her the name of a good psychiatrist. This will end well.
SM: “Oh, well that’s okay then. Like I always say: with great power comes great excuses.”
Mark BMay 29th, 2011 at 11:22 am [Reply]
Mary Worth one year from now: Liza seems happy and well adjusted, having gotten over her distractions of a year ago. She now never forgets a patient’s medication, although there are some missing drugs from the hospital. Drew’s unexpected dissappearance is still unexplained.
tb4000May 29th, 2011 at 11:33 am [Reply]
FC: I would go out on a limb and say today’s strip is somewhat satirizing all the past decades of Bill and Thiel catering to their hellspawns, but that would be giving way too much credit.
Shermy GlamrockerMay 29th, 2011 at 11:41 am [Reply]
(Apologies to Pearl Jam)
Daddy didn’t give affection
And the boy was something that Mommy wouldn’t wear
King Billy Keane the Wicked
Ruled his world
Billy Keane spoke in class today
Billy Keane spoke in class today
May 29th, 2011 at 11:46 am [Reply]
Non Sequitur: Looks like someone doesn’t like Award ceremonies anymore than the rest of us peons..
And to continue on the subject:
Dilbert: Is there an award for most idiotic displays of ignorance for PHBs everywhere?
Finally, on a Memorial Day-related note:
Doonesbury: Once again, Zipper shows off his abysmal ignorance whilst thinking he’s making a compliment. Hopefully, someone gives him a sorely needed kick-in-the-rear, but given who’s he related to, I’m not holding my breath.
Have a nice Memorial Day..
Jim NorthMay 29th, 2011 at 11:48 am [Reply]
A3G: Yes, Tommie, all you zombies have a special bond . . .
Crank: “Well, I was doing pretty good until some asshole came along and sat right on top of me.”
FC: I’d say that getting dressed up just so you can ditch the brats for good is kind of an unnecessary step, but these are the melonheads we’re talking about. Celebration is definitely in order!
H&L: I stopped reading halfway through because I’m pretty sure “my sexual partner” is going to be in there somewhere.
JP: The lady didn’t mention word one about her ruthless ambition having anything to do with the fact that she’s a lady, and yet the judge has to go and play the sex card anyway. Because obviously a woman can’t just be ruthlessly ambitious . . . she’s gotta be fighting against the MAN because it’s the only way to be respected! Women are soft, cuddly creatures that would never, ever do anything mean or cutthroat of their own volition! MEN drove her to it!
Fuck you, Ex-Judge Parker. At least she has the decency to say that’s merely how she justified it.
greghousesgfMay 29th, 2011 at 11:52 am [Reply]
maybe they wised up and finally spanked all four of the little bastards?
Lily SincereMay 29th, 2011 at 12:02 pm [Reply]
@Bryan (#3):
Damn straight! I looked up the Keanes on Wikipedia, Real Life Thel has her own entry…she was Australian, and went to the mat with King Features to help Bil and Jeffy regain the copyrights to the strip.
Ever since I read that, I’ve tried to imagine what little dialogue Cartoon Thel has in an Australian accent…it really doesn’t help. Also, I now kind of imagine her as having a little Margo in her. Maybe the next fundraiser should have “What Would Thel Do?” bracelets. Deprive Jeffy of his pants, and then play hardball with King Features, that’s what!
Esther BlodgettMay 29th, 2011 at 12:03 pm [Reply]
Sunday Comics Awards:
Prince Valiant: Best Use of Rats (Non-Granary Division)
Non-Sequitur: Most Realistic Rendering of Characters from Life (I Assume)
Family Circus: Most Glamorous Depiction of Child Neglect
Mark Trail: Best Depiction of a Silhouetted Crab Pincer in a Title Panel (uncontested category)
FW: Best Use of Plot, Character, Dialogue, and Artwork to Simulate Being Tortured with a Red-Hot Poker in Hell for All Eternity as Punishment for Unimaginably Horrendous Sins
HaroldMay 29th, 2011 at 12:11 pm [Reply]
Looks like the Keanes are following through on their threat of what they would do if the little melonheads didn’t clean up Barfy’s messes. Most elective dog euthanizations aren’t really formal ceremonies, but they wanted to make this a memorable occasion.
Black DrazonMay 29th, 2011 at 12:15 pm [Reply]
How interesting! I just killed a character in a story with a rip tide! If only, I say as the first human being to do so, [i]Mark Trail[/i] had been there! *sniff* You tell the world, Mark!
CalicoMay 29th, 2011 at 12:36 pm [Reply]
Looks like another night of Barfy babysitting, while Mommy and Daddy Keane go to crash a White House event.
Don’t worry, PJ, the dog food dish is at floor level, so you won’t starve.
May 29th, 2011 at 12:39 pm [Reply]
That’s not Mark Trail swimming. That person’s hair has gotten wet and changed its shape. Thus, it cannot be Mark Trail.
CalicoMay 29th, 2011 at 12:41 pm [Reply]
@Calico (#32):
And yes, I just laughed out loud looking at the smarmy crying brood again.
Does that make me totally evil?
I think PJ upset him self so much he actually puked (and yes, I’ve seen kids do that, and it’s gross).
May 29th, 2011 at 1:05 pm [Reply]
I’m into dudes, but what does that have to do with Mark Trail?
HankMay 29th, 2011 at 1:11 pm [Reply]
@Tagged (#25): Once again, Zipper shows off his abysmal ignorance whilst thinking he’s making a compliment. Hopefully, someone gives him a sorely needed kick-in-the-rear, but given who’s he related to, I’m not holding my breath.
You do realize the whole point of the character is to be the comic relief stupid guy, don’t you?
Wishing Zipper and Zonker would mature is a little like wishing the same of Bart and Homer Simpson.
PoteetMay 29th, 2011 at 1:13 pm [Reply]
S-M — One of the things I like about this strip is that it always gives us such useful life lessons. I now know, for example, that if I ever fall in love with an ugly partial vampire, the thing NOT to do, in my efforts to help him, is fly off to some weird country that is supposedly Transylvania but is vegetated like Mexico and seek out the chief vampire, all by myself with no weapons or strategy, so he can regard me as a handy delivered meal and bite me and turn me into a total vampire, because then my fiance won’t be able to relate to my strong new desire to have him join me in total vampirehood and I’ll probably fall off a building and inexplicably die. Being able to suddenly and magically change my outfit into that of a vampiric slut just wouldn’t be worth it.
TaggedMay 29th, 2011 at 1:22 pm [Reply]
@Hank (#36): But it’s become more annoying every time they make an appearance. At least Duke is involved in a hilarious storyline. But then, when has he not been?
PoteetMay 29th, 2011 at 2:12 pm [Reply]
FC — Where are they going, Buckingham Palace?
KadzarMay 29th, 2011 at 2:20 pm [Reply]
Slylock Fox- Betsy Beaver looks not so much upset as disappointed in Shady. It’s like she’s thinking, “Really Shady? You’re really trying to frame someone for stealing a pie?”
dull_old_manMay 29th, 2011 at 2:29 pm [Reply]
@commodorejohn (#1):
The National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health keeps a list of fatal falls at work–there are fatal falls from a flat roof of a one-story building, which is 8 feet. Heck, if you crack your head on pavement, you can slip and fall and die. Don’t underestimate the danger in a 40 or 50 foot drop. If a jumper plants his/her face on the street from that height, he/she will die.
Uncle LumpyMay 29th, 2011 at 2:36 pm [Reply]
@Poteet (#37):
Being able to suddenly and magically change my outfit into that of a vampiric slut just wouldn’t be worth it.
Well not to you, maybe.
commodorejohnMay 29th, 2011 at 2:43 pm [Reply]
@dull_old_man (#41): Oh, certainly – you can die falling from standing height. It’s just that the criteria are a lot more specific. I’m just saying, if she was really all that serious about doing herself in, she might want to pick a height from which she was significantly more likely to wind up dead than lying embarrassed in traction.
cjMay 29th, 2011 at 3:12 pm [Reply]
Trail:
Oh, I see: Mark isn’t actually an asexual autistic superhero, he just plays one on the comics page.
May 29th, 2011 at 3:26 pm [Reply]
MT: In an effort to out-futile King Canute, Trail confronts a riptide and tries to punch it out. Canute wanted to show his lackeys that his royal authority had limits, but Trail only proves that stupidity has no limits.
Feeble Failey: Much is now explained: The dog not only wears a two-piece uniform, but has opposable thumbs and normally walks upright. Nobody at Camp Swampy mentions this due to security restrictions, although their only duty is to keep the Beast in custody and unable to reproduce. The animal is clearly the result of some misbegotten experiment, but unlike Marmaduke it is safely under military control.
The Amusing Spiderman: “The Mourning Sun.” Who can blame it? If Spiderman was the first thing you saw in the morning, you’d mourn too.
Joe BlevinsMay 29th, 2011 at 3:44 pm [Reply]
Today’s very violent Zomby/Ziggy confrontation.
PsychidMay 29th, 2011 at 3:44 pm [Reply]
Dad: The children are starving, they’re dehydrating, and they absolutely feel we have absolutely no affection for them. Ready for our date, honey?
Mom: I most certainly am, dear!
bats :[May 29th, 2011 at 4:11 pm [Reply]
So many people to thank for the inspiration… Either that, or we’re just parts of a single, sick soul.
Lily SincereMay 29th, 2011 at 4:18 pm [Reply]
@Joe Blevins (#46):
Cool! I like the implication that Ziggy exists in some kind of no man’s land between living and undead, especially since zombies already are in a no man’s land between dead and undead. There is no state of being that will accept Ziggy.
May 29th, 2011 at 4:39 pm [Reply]
And just in case Mark’s warnings this year weren’t strongly-worded enough…
popamaticMay 29th, 2011 at 5:16 pm [Reply]
MW: Orange! We want still more orange. Oh yeah, good plan to talk to Liza yet again, just what you should do to someone you are trying to not see anymore. Perhaps you should just leave her alone for a while?
RMMD: And Berna next gets ushered into a room with the seven other lucky people with winning lottery tickets. Time to split the jackpot eight ways! That’s $600,000 for you, pre-tax, and if you take the lump sum intstead of annuity, it will be down to $200,000. Yay!
DairyStateDadMay 29th, 2011 at 5:40 pm [Reply]
@[Old Man] Muffaroo (#6): Holy Cow (did I really just say that?) — I recall eating at the Jolly Ox when I was in my early teens, visiting my aunt in Alexandria! It was the first time I ever encountered a salad bar…
DairyStateDadMay 29th, 2011 at 5:42 pm [Reply]
All snarking aside, I really don’t get the Family Circus. I’m absolutely convinced it was erroneously distributed without a caption or something.
queek, source of Cuteness, Kawaii CommandoMay 29th, 2011 at 5:49 pm [Reply]
well, that was a doozy of a “squall line” blowing through.
sadly, it didn’t take down the peach tree in the back yard. *crosses fingers for the next storm*
Fashion PoliceMay 29th, 2011 at 5:58 pm [Reply]
It may be Memorial Day but we have our doubts about Mrs. Keane’s white shoes with the peach dress. We are, however impressed that Mr. Keane’s appears to tie his own bow tie, and stunned by the children’s daring array of pastel pajamas.
AustriaMay 29th, 2011 at 6:06 pm [Reply]
A3G: I haven’t known for a week what’s been going on in this strip
BB&H&L: Oh boy, a day of characters I hate!! Maybe if they both ran away, met up and made their own strip, we’d finally have something worse than Crock to snark on.
FW: Anyone else ever notice that as soon as fictional people have sex, everything starts going downhill? Heck, they could make an abstinence campaign out of that. “Don’t have sex, because once you do, you’ll realize you’ve been dating a Specialest Snowflake who thinks the world revolves around them, and everything will be ruined forever.”
GF: Holy schmoly, is this a rape joke?
Luann: I know this is supposed to be funny, but geez, I really need to do this.
PBS: WALUIGI LIKES THIS.
CloudbusterMay 29th, 2011 at 6:14 pm [Reply]
MW: What kind of awful relationship do Drew and Jeff have that Drew can’t just say, “No, Dad, I’m not talking about a patient, I’m talking about this psycho stalker nurse who refuses to acknowledge that I dumped her.”
Rocky StoneaxeMay 29th, 2011 at 6:20 pm [Reply]
@[Old Man] Muffaroo (#6):
Garfield – A steak place called “The Hungry Heifer.” Was “The Mad Cow” already taken?
There’s a restaurant called “The Rib Crib” in various locations around the country, including Lakeland, Florida:
http://www.ribcrib.com/index.php
@greghousesgf (#27):
maybe they wised up and finally spanked all four of the little bastards?
“Corporal Punishment Meets the Rear Admiral”… I like it!
SequiturMay 29th, 2011 at 6:33 pm [Reply]
MT: I’m waiting for the spin off. RIP TIDE OF THE SURFER PATROL!
It could happen.
queek, source of Cuteness, Kawaii CommandoMay 29th, 2011 at 7:02 pm [Reply]
@Sequitur (#59): if it features lady squid and waitresses I’m game.
SequiturMay 29th, 2011 at 7:13 pm [Reply]
@queek, source of Cuteness, Kawaii Commando (#60): Hey, why not. I’m easy.
LiamMay 29th, 2011 at 7:15 pm [Reply]
MW-I love the pause between “to” and “this” in the fourth panel it’s almost like Drew doesn’t even consider Liza a person at this point. If that is the case then telling her off will be so much easier since he shouldn’t consider her feelings.
ElkMeadowMay 29th, 2011 at 7:22 pm [Reply]
@Uncle Lumpy (#42):
I remember when I used to look like a vampire slut, except for the teeth. Didn’t have the clothes or the books though.
Keep physically threatening your witch, Draco, and Mudhen is going to find a replacement for you.
Berna, if there was anyone in comicdom on whom an anvil is about to fall, that person is you. You didn’t learn from your parents the importance of self-education and being responsible for yourself, and now you’re going to find yourself in the same trap; Rex and June will spend the rest of your life shrugging whenever your name comes up.
Maybe Jeff could pass Liza off on the psychiatrist, whatizname, Lonnie’s son. That would really drive Jenna to drink, and Drew could save her life when she has a “walking while intoxicated” accident.
I do appreciate Crankshaft, for having a true Memorial Day strip.
Happy Memorial Day, people. And for the B.D.s and Randy Newman’s family and those of you who know who you are and what you gave and lost, thank you. And Chris in Iraq, and Benjamin, in Afghanistan, I hope all the best for you. Be safe, be well.
May 29th, 2011 at 7:24 pm [Reply]
Boots. I didn’t have the vampire slut boots; I had plenty of vampire books.
Gah, no wonder I never make the float, let alone COTW.
queek, source of Cuteness, Kawaii CommandoMay 29th, 2011 at 7:28 pm [Reply]
ok, the following is comics related, tangentially, if you follow the logic. (sorta, kinda, maybe?)
Today’s USAWeekend insert (which comes with many a Sunday paper and also used to feature Howard Huge as a regular feature) has a cover feature and interview with Brad Pitt, where he’s musing quite a bit about his family.
which leads to this.
queek, source of Cuteness, Kawaii CommandoMay 29th, 2011 at 7:29 pm [Reply]
@Sequitur (#61): and I’m cheap. . . .
ElkMeadowMay 29th, 2011 at 7:32 pm [Reply]
Sunday’s Cul de Sac has a cameo appearance of Les Moore, playing the devil.
http://news.yahoo.com/comics/cul-de-sac;_ylt=AlcMF55ycKZfxqsPX5nbiMTH.sgF;_ylu=X3oDMTE3cHR0cWZjBHBvcwMzMARzZWMDeW5fYWxwaGFfbGlzdARzbGsDY3VsLWRlLXNhYw–
LiamMay 29th, 2011 at 7:37 pm [Reply]
FC-Those kids are crying because the parents made it quite clear that they are not coming back. It is nice to see the parents dress up for child abandonment.
SequiturMay 29th, 2011 at 7:38 pm [Reply]
@queek, source of Cuteness, Kawaii Commando (#66): The comedy stylings of Cheap and Easy!
agonyMay 29th, 2011 at 7:38 pm [Reply]
NAoQV today led to finding this http://tomheroes.com/Comic%20Ads/hostess%20ads/batgirl.htm Remember the Hostess Fruit Pies comics?
ElkMeadowMay 29th, 2011 at 7:38 pm [Reply]
@ElkMeadow (#67):
Meanwhile, Elk Lake and the rest of the Cascades Highway Lakes are still frozen, and I’m on a borrowed notebook that’s not very responsive.
ElkMeadowMay 29th, 2011 at 7:40 pm [Reply]
@ElkMeadow (#71):
Crap. I was trying to link to this Stone Souphttp://news.yahoo.com/comics/stone-soup
I think Mudhen is out to get me. Rats.
queek, source of Cuteness, Kawaii CommandoMay 29th, 2011 at 7:49 pm [Reply]
@Sequitur (#69): “I’m Cheap, and he’s Easy!”
*in chorus*
“but we’re not Cheap and Easy!”
queek, source of Cuteness, Kawaii CommandoMay 29th, 2011 at 7:50 pm [Reply]
(for the record, I’m easy, but I’m not cheap. . . . .)
[Old Man] MuffarooMay 29th, 2011 at 7:57 pm [Reply]
@DairyStateDad (#52): This was in Hampton. I guess the blue laws were statewide. Before my time, as I say. The group we ate with would have been having their Friday thing there when he was playing, and probably were wishing he’d turn his volume down so they could hear each other better.
bourbon babe, unbuckledMay 29th, 2011 at 8:14 pm [Reply]
@Rusty (#7): Are you saying that those two people who spawned the melonheads would be raptured? Is this some kind of bizarro-world rapture, in which only the truly irritating get sucked up, and the rest of us can enjoy the world without them? So the source of all melonheads is gone (and the spawn can wither away without them), along with Donna Lewis, and who else? Because that’s a rapture I could get behind.
@bats :[ (#50): One can’t have too many warnings about that sort of thing, I think. Especially if one has the IQ of a Rusty.
CalicoMay 29th, 2011 at 8:18 pm [Reply]
@bats :[ (#50):
Ha, be careful all you beachgoers!
May 29th, 2011 at 8:20 pm [Reply]
This is the Family Circus in it’s purest form. It’s not pretending there’s some kind of joke about how kids are just the darnedest. It’s just the Keane Kids suffering for reasons that are at best implied.
CalicoMay 29th, 2011 at 8:28 pm [Reply]
@Poteet (#39):
Four weeks too late! And they got the wrong address for the Wedding!
May 29th, 2011 at 9:03 pm [Reply]
How I love Mark Trail’s Sunday nature safety lectures. “Do you like the great outdoors? IT’S A DEADLY KILLER!”
PoteetMay 29th, 2011 at 9:18 pm [Reply]
@Uncle Lumpy (#42): You are giving me an entire new perspective on Mister Green Jeans:-).
Peanut GalleryMay 29th, 2011 at 9:41 pm [Reply]
MT – “There are several ocean-related problems that I talk about each year hoping that what you learn may help save your life. And each year, some of you boneheads drown anyway! Why do I bother?”
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