Luann by Greg Evans and Karen Evans for November 03, 2013

“Perfect Recall”“Product Misplacement”or “What? Did You Say Something?”

Frank will be available as long as he can get ED tabs.

Fantastic strip!

You got that one right! All the good stuff that my family and I love has been discontinued. I guess we’re no longer relevant.

@simpsonfan2

Lolol

The one precious thing is still available.

“Sponsored” by…Aqua Threat Hairspray and Monkey Do Hair Gel… from Vital Us…. – Miss Direction Mascara and Cosmetics… from Cover-It-Up-Girl!… – Sccop dental rinse… “Your story may be intriguing, but No one will be left wondering….Because you just gave them the ’Scoop!” – Snow Shampoo… “For that soft-as-the-first-flakes feeling!…” – Tollgate Toothbrushes… and by…McGruber Banquet Hall and Catering…"Your next party is sure to be a blast, with McGruber!"

Touche’

She sure sounded like Luann there. All complaints. Hmm. I wonder if this strip would benefit from a “Luann without Luann” approach like the “Garfield without Garfield” did. Might have to look into this one. Imagine today’s strip without any comment at all from Nancy. Just Frank’s comment and nothing else. She’s seems as self-absorbed as her daughter. Frank is just That Guy Who Sleeps with the Mom.

Somewhat similarly, this Fred Meyer near my new apartment doesn’t have this miso soup mix that this Albertson’s near my old apartment does have. It takes me about two buses to get to that Albertson’s!

No, more like what many of us experience. Sometimes you have to find said products at another store but it is an extra hassle to do so. (bold for emphasis by Jay)^Ahem! I did say Product Mis-placement !!!!

I find that snack cakes like the kind made by Hostess, Tastycake and the like have changed their recipe, and instead of them being fresh and stuff, now it’s all “processed” tasting, and “preservative” flavored…. – And I miss the brick sized phones… these ones now? They’re just not the same….. there’s just no comparison!…with those ones, people would know that you’re on the phone…. – They stopped making music, too… can’t find a music CD, anywhere!…. – No more Yugos, either.. so many changes!….

I can’t even fit my records into those tiny music players….

Signals.

Wegman’s grocery carries it, you can look up your nearest one, here: http://www.wegmans.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/ProductDisplay?productId=397624&storeId=10052&langId=-1 – Here’s WalMart;http://www.walmart.com/ip/Wheatena-Toasted-Wheat-Cereal-20-oz-Pack-of-12/17196456

I was noticing that trend happening, too… the “renaissance” of larger…. maybe people are missing the devices where they can actually see their screen, and the number “keys”…. of course, I guess people also would like the fact that the newer screens are larger, as “Angry Birds” have no room to be flung into the air on the smaller screen…

Funny.

Personally, I’d love them so long as they’d hold more memory, even without an extra card…. that “Note” is also nice, since you can use stylus or touch….

This actually, in a way, goes right along with today’s “Speed Bump”… where Superman experiences the disadvantages of a phone that has “Kryptonite mode”….and the phone could end up “crashing”… along with Superman and the damsel….

Wow! And it was just like yesterday that flip-phones were the thing, and now they’ve pretty much placed them in a museum!… I remember, too, when all of a sudden, everybody had pagers… – For a while, we had held onto some Nokia phones where the screen had the monochrome screen (like the digi-pets), and looked like mini walkie-talkies… we were thinking of taking them to a store, and asking the clerk if we could “get service for them!” (XD) … they probably would be functional, but just thinking of the looks that would generate on some clerk’s face…

Even when they continue to produce something, the quality seems to go down every 5 years or so

“And you are…?”

They did the same to me with those hot dogs that had bits of cheese in the meat

I miss Contac.

Fortunately, Frank, she said “everything,” not “everyone.” :-)

So… too bad you can’t set the clock back to yesteryear. Wait, that would mean slow dentist drills and no anesthesia for operations. Maybe they weren’t the good ol’ days!

I had a brand of moisturizer that I loved and when I found out they were going to stop making it, I went and bought up all my local store had. Still have one jar left. lol

But I know what she means and sometime it is not that they stop making the product but they change the way it is made, example:: My toothpaste, they stopped making the paste and went to all Gel types and I have a heck of a time finding the regular paste type and it is not the same formula as before. Why can’t they just leave well enough alone.

And my old VCRs automatically change the time from standard to dst & back, but NOT on the right weekends..Yeah, I know. Now I’ll have to explain what a VCR is.

Okay Mama DeGroot, We GOT It.

You LIKE the Old Stuff and WON’T get RID of It, huh?

And Lemme Guess: You got a Garage So FULL of YOUR Stuff that You CAN’T get a Car in there, Right?

Geeeeeeeez, You ‘HOARDERS’.

Wait a Minute. Do You two Even OWN a Car????

I have the same problem. It’s like the take note of something I like so they can quit selling it. It’s very annoying!

Oh thanks Greg. Finally a beautiful pic of Nancy, the luv of my life! So beautiful!

If you find a pair of shoes you like, better buy four pair, because in six months it won’t be out there any longer.

I hadn’t noticed before just how much Luann favors her mom, nice job by artist to use such similar features.

So nice to see her without the outlined lips. That’s a device I rarely ever use in my comics.

We take things for granted that are easily available, that we don’t have to work for. For a woman, sex is always available.

@temple, Fred Meyer (I believe) is part of the Kroger chain and Albertson’s is the same as Jewel when I go back east. You might look for one of the latter group nearer you. I have Alb in my nearest strip mall, but I drive 7 miles to Sprouts for all the good healthy organic stuff (and best produce prices because I make most from scratch)

Things that I really miss are a shade of lipstick and the type of eyebrow pencil (I have very sparse brows so I LOVED the pencils with replaceable leads of 0.7mm) I still have the pencils but no leads. My solution is to try Latisse on my brows (hopefully it will work as mine are not plucked, just sparse) too early to tell. Otherwise I use the taupe eyeliner pencils but they rub off (and I’d prefer just to fill in some hair).

That was rather my thought too, before the comments. Last thing I’d be discussing in bed is products!

Nancy’s pink lips are gone.

Oh, dear, no! Distressing how few seem to have understood this strip today.

He is just reminding her what is available.

Another thing that they don’t make anymore: A great pickup line! ….. I mean, I can’t understand why people have abandoned these classics: – “Girl, you must be a Dorito… cos you probably have great taste!”….– “Do you work for the power company? Cos I’m definitely feelin’ the electricity!”..– " No wonder your feet are all sore and sweaty and full of callouses! Cos you’ve been running all through my mind ever since you came through that door!“… – Are you an Aphid’s joint? Cos you seem like the ‘bees knees’ to me! Ah-chubbba -wubbba-wow! Merow!…” – You have a face that can stop a clock, because when I see you, time is all disappearing, not happening, and whatnot!… – You must have taken a lot of showers, to smell as good as you do! - Or the timeless classic that they used to teach in the old school, “I lost my phone number… can I have yours?”

I was thinking scoop, as in journalism…. “the news around town is your breath is making front page news!” (the whole Mad products parodying thing…that that mouthwash needs to be recalled…) Although mouthwash that smells like pistachio may be newsworthy, I guess…

MP3s and IPods made that happen. ^ No, I mean… real music, period… I didn’t say the MP3s MP4s and stuff, only because you don’t need a ‘brick and mortar’ for that… mine was going on the premise of buying music from the actual physical record shop… you can’t find any real music on the cds, there, even when it’s stocked full of them….

The moon belongs to everyone. The best things in life are free.

Good one! Lazy Disc!…. ha ha! – Interestingly, When I go to thrift stores and some record shops and flea markets, I find some have laserdiscs indiscriminately thrown into their records bins and piles…

Another song: “Makin’ Thunderbirds” by Bob Seeger…

See my response to JPW….. trust me… It wasn’t a literal crying out of inavailability… it was a statement on the music scene of today… with the exception of a few great talents out there now on the airwaves…. if you read my comments, you’d know that I am an audiophile….

There’s always more than one topic/gag to disseminate from a comic strip… we were going where the “conversation” was flowing… happens all the time in the art world, music and on stage comedians…. what the creator thought was going to be the central thing sometimes is not what the crowd reacts to… it’s what makes art and creating so wonderful! – Even when you think it’s going to go one way, you can get surprised with people liking your stuff in ways you didn’t anticipate…. and just when you think you know a creator’s work, you get surprised by how there’s other levels in their work, too… it cuts both ways…

Good thing he didn’t agree…

Oh! I see what I did! I didn’t put certain words in bold! No wonder people thought I was saying something different… I can’t believe I missed “bolding” those words! Thanks for the kind suggestions, too, people! But I really was joking about these two things:– (It should read like this: )They stopped making music, too… can’t find a real music CD, anywhere!….– I can’t find any more Yugos , either!.. so many changes!….

While you guys wallow in nostalgia, Frank and Nancy are on their third uh..“go around.” Or are you like Levi and in denial???

Translation:“Hi” (I’m available!).(even though he may not be the old-Frank that you once had, Nancy)

" Consider: You can get VD for free…"

Does anybody know any more what VD is? I mean, when the radiologist got so mad at me he stabbed himself with his own biopsy needle, he didn’t order a ‘VD panel’ (for me), he ordered an STD panel … which must have been clear, or I hope they would have notified me, which they didn’t. They didn’t charge us for it, though.

We don’t have any VD any more in this country. VD has been superceded by STDs.

Oh, I think there’s something still available that you love, and he’s right next to you.

Lots & lots of my old faves are gone. I always say that the designers have to make a living, so after they’ve designed something perfect, they have to mess it up some to keep those paychecks rollin; in.

It’s obvious Luann takes after her mother physically (Oct 20, Sunday’s strip confirmed that!). But pschycologically as well!This is Luann 25 years from now!

Now I see where Luann got it from.

Interestingly, I have seen some well kept players here and there, but I feel I get along without them, just fine… Lol! – But the reason I was saying it was just to state the fact that when Phillips introduced LaserDiscs, I don’t think they anticipated what would happen if the medium failed: that most of them would end up mistakenly chucked into piles with records… although you’d be able to tell the difference once you examine the packaging and all…. but some record stores that don’t really know their inventory so well (like Goodwill for example) will put them there, not really recognizing them….

And the reply is usually “Do Not Enter”! ^I have heard some say “Stop!” as a response, as well…..

Frank will let her kvetch, get it out of her system,then show her that at least ONE thing she lovesis still very much available.

They changed the formula for 7-Up on me, and MS decided that Picture Manager was a better program than PhotoEditor. sigh

Boy… Luann looks so much like her mother.

Boy if that ain’t the truth — “new and improved” is usually just cheapened, but not cheaper.

Would you have even considered making this comment if it had been Frank who was commenting on products he liked that weren’t available anymore? Thought not.

LOL!

Mom is so hot.