Luann by Greg Evans and Karen Evans for September 28, 2013

“Two For The Price Of One”-“Can’t Break The Set” – “Double Vision” – Or“Sowing The Seeds Of Shove”

you mean I actually called it 2 days ago??????? gasp!!!!!!!!!!!!

Wait, I haven’t posted my daily attempts at humor yet.

Twenty-three previously enrolled students. Wow.

Love Luann’s sly inclusion of Tiff as just another student to be counselled.

The public library has no funds, but the school can hire 2 “afternoon assistants” (whatever those are) for just 48 students. It must be a private school, with steep tuition. Is Luann sure she’ll fit in?

The public library has no funds, but the school can hire 2 “afternoon assistants” (whatever those are) for just 48 students. It must be a private school, with steep tuition. Is Luann sure she’ll fit in?

Luann!… B2YB:Jeers For Years… “Sowing the Seeds Of Shove…. In stores now…” – Underwood and Underwood… “Department stores with the twin in mind”.. “You’ll not only like our twin inventory, but you’ll also like our specialty ‘Clone Clothes’!… This week, buy one, get one for the same price!..” – Double U Stores… “Your one-stop shop for those with ‘dual zygotte’’ needs!”… “Our selection and styles will make you do a double-take, including the newest in Doppelganger Dress”… “Look for this week’s buy one, buy one sale!..” – Plotz Devices…. A Product of Twisted Minds… – And by:Win-When? Sporting Goods…. “Win-when, dedicated to giving everyone a sporting chance, at the right price- Because there’s no I in team, nor in disappointment!” …“Uh….Okay, there is?… well….there’s no ‘u’ in disappointment!”…

Maybe will get to see them actually work TOGETHER on this. I have to say that Tiff looks really cute.

After school programs need staffing. High School Students are cheep and can be wonderfully mature. Kids respond to them well. A licensed day care would need 12 to 1 ratio. 24 to one is a bit skimpy.

So despite the fact she dresses like a hooker and is a blatant liar, Tiff still gets the job?Yeah, now THERE’S a great role model for kids!

Yes, but the previous understanding (at least for us) was that there would only be one hired…

Tiffany is being awfully cute there, but I can’t trust the principal who would put her in charge of children after yesterday’s stunt.

And it’s not a guarantee to have to split them… for various reasons, they could keep them in the same room…. two groups in one, even using a “partition”. My old middle school had partitions that were like “moving walls”, stronger and more sturdy than a curtain, and retractable…

That’s how I wonder what got her to the position of applying there, in the first place? Daddy doing some plastic surgery on her card? Or as a means to repay for “Taking it to the limit”? Or something else?….

I could see that, but when she got her camp acceptance letter, she had it in her hand, and seemed to have read it… – If this would be a thing about Tiffany, then maybe she has trouble with a specific area… if not the reading, maybe the writing, or perhaps a form of dyslexia… a combination somewhere can be possible….

Well, this should be interesting.

Remember that this is an after-school care program, not a classroom… whatever activities they have, it may be possible to have both groups together… it could be split up, but there are reasons to have the classes as close as possible to each other, such as for safety reasons- such as the need for emergency exiting of the school, and also so that all heads can be accounted for, and as close to each other as possible, as there are sure to not be as many people there at that time of day… and also for any activity, such as playing games indoors or out, it can be efficient to have one larger group…

And that way, Tiff can focus on making sure that all of her accessories and supplies are safely out…

Well, that was disappointing, I was looking forward to a classic “Tiff screws over Luann” dust-up, instead we get them working together? (Maybe this is the beginning of the “Why is Tiff such a B-witch” arc, that we’ve been promised)

And this gives Luann more time to grab her “Quill-o-phone”….

When did Luann interview? I thought she was waiting for that when Tiff announced that there was no one there.

most after school programs I have seen are a fee based program. Meaning for parents who cannot pick their children up immediately after school they will pay extra money for them to be watched by the school. So the money will increase as the number of students increase. No wait on government or school board funding.

Or the Borg are using this method to assimilate, and allowing Luann to utilize their trans-warp hub….

“Q” up Al Stewart’s “Time Passages” ^And "Time In A Bottle, Jim Croce

Why is Tiff happy?^Could be because this is one more time that she didn’t have to lose to Luann…

OK, I’m not pretending to be realistic here, just trying to make peace within myself with Tiffany getting hired. Perhaps Luann interviewed first and was told to wait outside, so Tiffany was being honest about there being no third person waiting, but it still makes sense that Luann was still sitting there.

Not 47 students; 47 children. Big difference. As one of my high school teachers once pointed out, “I call you pupils because calling you students would imply that you study.”

Ohh! They both got hired! Super Duper! Now the real test begins. Can Luann handle 47 children, one of whom is the jealous, insecure, conniving Tiffster?

Seems like we skipped a day here, but it keeps the story moving I guess…

I would suspect he already knew Luann was there and figured Tiffany was joking. OR he recognized that the girl needs some learning and growing.

After schoool program = babysitter. They will other staff. It is daycare at school. So homework, activities, etc. Exhausting. We have already seen Luann demonstrate skills for taking care of children. Tiffany is going to need help or the kids will run roughshod all over her.

It’s a comic, dear. Try not to worry.

Wait, Wait, WAIT. The “Job” was for ONE Teaching Assistant, and they end up Hiring TWO??

What about the OTHER Applicants for the Job? Are They S.O.L?

And WHY is That Bunny Rabbit in the lower left side of panel One, PURPLE???

Boy, THIS “Human Resources” Guy is gonna have a LOT of Questions to ANSWER at the NEXT City Council Meeting.

Well that’s annoying. Tiff said no one was out there and now Lu has had her interview and been hired. Or did she have no interview? Or did Tiff sit in on her intevuew?

I’m also surprised that the principal would hire Tiffany after she lied to him about Luann not being there. Maybe the school’s standards aren’t all that high? Or he’s planning to make a pass at her later.

A “Deus ex Machina” moment quickly fixes that. We don’t know how long Tiff was staring at Lu or when, in the events, she (Tiff) came back in to Big Chin’s office to say, “no one was there.” She (Lu) might not have been there, at that moment. She could have been using the “facilities.”

This should be interesting!!

Awwwww yeeaaaahh! The cat fight is on!!! Not so much about “getting the job,” but “keeping it.” To quote “Flounder,” “This… is gonna be GREAT!”

Some “pre-arc” issues"

1) If Big Chin has, indeed, hired Tiff for “nefarious” purposes, will it be Lu that discovers them? Will she “bust” them, only to have Tiff try to scheme and turn the tables around on Lu to get Lu in trouble? Given their performance in those strips Levi shared with us yesterday, and the current flap over “Drama Camp,” I wouldn’t put it past Tiff to try and eek out some kind of revenge.

2) Is Lincoln where “Shannon” goes to school, and will that be a complicating factor? Hopefully, Shannon will be on Lu’s side.

3) Will they have to work in the same room with the same group of kids? If so, will Tiff (primarily) try to pit the kids against Lu in front of them all, and/or vice versa?

To reiterate my earlier thought, “MEEEOOOOW!”

Tiff will last all of next week’s story.

I think Luann realizes she will be taking care of all 46 (47) and Tiffany will be as useful as a tree stump.

> Tiff is going to be in for a major shock when she gets her first pay check.>Tiffany has held at least two “real” jobs, that pay wages in the usual way: working as a go-fer (excuse me, “production assistant”) on the straight-to-video “Zeye” movie, and then posing as a model for the picture-frame photo. It is possible she didn’t have income tax or Social Security withheld from those if she was considered an independent contractor rather than an employee, but in any case neither one of those was a $1k-per-day job, so she has some idea about the “real” world. Surely the job posting must have explained what the hourly wages would be at Lincoln Elementary, so I doubt that she is in for a shock there.

> So, that is why Luann isn’t on her phone or laptop – she’s meeting Q in the continuum…>I think you’ve nailed it. Consider the whole scenario here – there’s this “perfect” part-time job that hundreds of students and retirees would kill for, but they get exactly two applicants. It was supposed to be for one position, but the number of kids doubled overnight(!) and so they now hire both candidates. The timeline of Tiffany’s leaning the office (which has its name on the wrong side of the door), Luann’s being interviewed, and their both being hired, has a temporal discontinuity. Clearly the only explanation for this whole ridiculous “plot” (to use the term loosely) line is that it is one of those change-reality games that Q used to play on Jean-Luc, or maybe some game that Greg and Karen cooked up in the Holodeck.

“It’s just a show, we should really just relax…”

This can’t be good. Given Luann and Tiffany’s history of fighting over everything, they’ll end up behaving even worse than the kids they’re supposed to be role models for. I mean, they’ll end up trying to outsmart the other in an effort to see who’s “better” with kids.

TIffany won’t last long with all of these kids.

Who’s gonna sit Tiffy?

Bernice would say that there are 48 children who need help, two of them more so than the others.

Why exactly does Tiffany want this job? Did Daddy forget to pay his taxes and get his assets frozen by the IRS?

If anyone wants to see how Tiffany’s last attempt to interact with children went, check out the archives here for January 11-20, 2007

A) Well, this will be interesting.B) I guess they have decided to drop Quill.

@Mikeyj: Well, that was disappointing, I was looking forward to a classic “Tiff screws over Luann” dust-up…

Yes, that was in the back of my mind, too.

That might still happen! Tiff could be playing a very long game, here. ;-) Bigger consequences for Lu if Tiff can finagle some scenario whereby Lu is “compromised” and involving “children…” Just as Tiff was so compromised on Lu’s account in the locker room.

I bet Tiffany will quit after the first five minutes when one of the kids accidentally spills paint on her outfit.

@howietheduck : if the children are under a certain age, the ratio of teacher to student has to be a certain percentage. Schools normally have that built into the budget, if they think that far ahead, that is.

I’m calling it Shannon is going to be in the program.

I blame Bernice for this. Bernice pretends to be Luann’s friend but really has it in for her — that’s why she sent Tiff on the interview too.

Thus begins the friendship that will eventually see Lu and Tiff become college roomates.

It may be that this is just what Tiffany needs, to work with children. She may find that this is her niche. She responds positively to innocent people, as with Ox, and I think she could actually bloom around children.

I’m guessing that Tiff is under pressure from her parents to get a job, since they are fed up with her overspending.The time has finally come for her to understand the importance of working for a living.Besides, can anyone possibly imagine Tiffany, of all people, working at WeenieWorld?

Look at yesterday’s second panel again. Tiff is looking into the outer office where Luann is sitting. How does she not see her? It’s illogical.

I know Tiff sees Lu in the outer office, “at that moment.” But how many other “moments” pass between the 2nd & 3rd panels, when Tiff sees Lu, and when Tiff is back in Big Chin’s office saying, “no one is there”? For all we know, Tiff could have waited for Lu to get up and go “hit the head,” and then go back to Big chin. Of course, that scenario does have a shelf-life (i.e. it couldn’t take “hours,” etc.), but with “Deus Ex Machina,” much is possible.

I believe Tiffany is relieved that a third person didn’t apply for the job.

Uh, maybe you’ve heard of a wonderful device called an “off” switch? And if that doesn’t work, there’s this thing called “the plug”?

I’m sure that on/off switch works quite well when their parents desire it to. It’s just that whenever I’m over to their house, it’s the only place I ever see them, except at the dinner table. But I also know that their parents get them very involved in sports, music, band, as well as their studies. Maybe it’s just timing, as in whenever I happen to be over there, that’s where I find them. But when they’re on it, nothing can pry them away from that controller. Something about Charlton Heston and “cold, dead hands.”

But if Tiffany did ask Bernice to find her a job, and Bernice withheld the information about this opening in order to “save” it for Luann, then Bernice ought to be kicked out of the office and never allowed to become a guidance counselor. There are rules against favoritism, and rightly so.

Tiff likely won’t have the job for long. She’ll do the same thing she did to a little girl at Luann’s library; she start asking the other kid’s ‘Okay, now what’s wrong with (Jane)?’ And the kid will start crying because she just got publicly put-down.

C’mon, this ain’t the real world! It’s like we get a continuous close-up focus on a few Pitts kids. We don’t see all the others, except background shadows. Others were interviewed, but they weren’t selected because Greg would have to introduce a bunch of new characters. And we don’t see all the action, because there’d be the online complaint: “Isn’t this ever gonna end.” You cn gss wht hppnd wtht seng it all.

“My next concern is, can Tiffany read?”-I know you are being semi serious, but really, that is funny.

Misdeeds will ensue— but Principal Chin deserves it. He hired an assistant who he knows lies, is inexperienced, and is immature.*At the end of the term, will the kids in each “class” be tested to see who has improved the most? Must have assistant accountability!

Luann was good with the kids at the library and enjoyed it. Bet she excels at the school. Do we see her start considering the adult employment of elementary ed? If she wants to “perform”, a teacher has a daily gig!

Don’t assume facts that aren’t in evidence. Oh I didn’t know we were prohibited from having a little fun and making some speculations here. I won’t do it again.PS Hey anyone wonder if Brad has a baby before Luann graduates?

I think the job was for an assistant so the girls will have a boss over them. At least 3 people watching the 46 children. Tiff will hate this kind of work.

“Look at yesterday’s second panel again. Tiff is looking into the outer office where Luann is sitting. How does she not see her? It’s illogical.”It makes sense if Tiffany is perfectly aware that Luann was the first interview and all candidates were told to wait until interviewing is complete. Then there actually is no one else out there and the writer was having a little fun with our expectations.

Generally not at a public school. The families may pay something, but not enough to cover the cost of employees and insurance. But this program could be covered by a grant that allows enough money for hiring more workers. Also, there is probably an adult/student ratio state law that would mean they would have to hire a second person or turn away kids.

Maybe I missed it, but how did the interviewer discover Luann outside when Tiffany said there was no one there?

Kind of a dumb one today. Left a big gap between today and yesterday. What a deal. Maybe Monday will be better.

If, by some chance, Shannon does go to that school and is placed in Luann’s group, things will probably be fine. On the other hand, if Shannon winds up in Tiff’s group, perhaps Tiff will retire within a day or two.

One can only hope. ;-PPP

“It Takes Two” is a good one for today!

Sponsor for Dick Tracy? Yeah…. and “Moon Maid” would be featured in the ads, for sure!

I feel sure that if Bernice had payed the slightest attention to Luann’s ridiculous list, she would not have come to this job.

Right! I for one cannot imagine Tiff consultingBernice, or any counsellor about ANYTHING….

How did we get from yesterday, when Tiff is trying to defraud the hiring system in the school and Luann is unwittingly sitting in the hall, to today, when they are all standing in the same room together as if nothing happened??

So what if Bernice told Luann about the job and not Tiffany? Luann mentioned she liked working with children. The job is ideal for her interests.If Tiffany came in and asked Bernice about a job, Bernice could have looked to see if there was a high-priced boutique or cosmetics store looking for a salesgirl. That would be right up Tiffany’s alley. Especially if she got an employee discount on the merchandise.

You know you’re not supposed to leak out his secret info!……. Unless he has it on his Facebook and Instagram pages….

If I were the principal, I wouldn’t hire someone who blatantly lied to me. It would make me question the rest of their ethics.

And also the Cars: “Double Trouble” – they got a line on you little bit of trouble too you got some jets inside cherry lips and delirious eyes you get in trouble and it keeps you down double trouble you get in trouble when you come to town double trouble – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rZexNNaZw90

??? This development makes so little sense it’s hard to comment.

“…in case Tiffany gets removed from the position for whatever reason.” I think this will eventually happen, but not for a long time; this is just too good to be true. Like someone wrote, Meow, Meow (with claws extended… ;)

Bernice, Luann, Tiffany…each in “new” career positions…Will Greg let this one simmer awhile while he shifts to Delta’s new career??

Here I am at the end of the line (and then again, maybe not)…’nite… ;)

(crickets chirping)

Tiffany is happy and enthisiastic about getting a job. This shows that she’s a horrible person, and Luann, with such inner beauty, cuts her down. Well done, heroine of the strip!

dud – So he just ignored the fact that Tiffany said no one was out there?

Luann is just realistic here.