Luann by Greg Evans and Karen Evans for February 09, 2014

Poor Bern…but then Luann actually Did try to keep from laughing. Bern’s eyesight must be closer to her Dad’s eye prescription… ;)

I used to keep my old glasses while I waited for a new prescription to be filled…but by the time I Did need a new prescription, the old frames were so out-of-date that I didn’t keep them. I never had Bern’s Dad’s frames, however! ;)

Note to teenage girls:Do not wear glasses meant for one’s dad. It won’t end well.

I guess everybody’s had that moment when they laugh at an inappropriate time… or a time that they normally wouldn’t, but got caught very much off guard, when they saw it… we may have tried to keep from doing it, but it was a volcano, and the pressure won out….– Of all the people that I know wear glasses, it usually seems that when they have a problem with their “official” pair, then they go get the substitute… they either own, or have access to a pair that are not their… first choice, in vision assistance fashions…-I guess now, Bern is letting Luann know that for the time, she “doesn’t exist”, to her….she think’s Lu is “out of sight!”… – Will Bern “see” Lu’s lack of pokerface, and “raise her five”, in the form of the “four sisters from thumb street”?…

“Sight Gag”“Making A Spectacle Of Yourself”“Framed”“See Is For Cool Kids”“That’s Good Enough For Me”“I’m So X-Sighted”“Bifocal Point”“Crimes Of Fashion”“Out Of Sight, I Don’t Mind”or “I Can’t See Clearly, Now”

I always had to have two pairs of glasses around before I got LASIK. Thankfully, all of my glasses looked okay on my face. Poor Bernie!

Yes, that’s what I was thinking, too. A little odd as most peoples’ eyes vary so much…even mine do from year to year… ;)

The chances of interchangeable scripts are about zip, and when you add in that her dad would be old enough to have presbyopia correction, too, the scenario just is not one that makes sense except for the teen reaction…

Luann’s such a dork.

Ah yes – true inner beauty.

Sometimes, people wear someone’s lens that isn’t exactly medicated, or “fine-tuned” in the lens, but are just good enough to get the important things, until the time you are able to use your own glasses, again… maybe her dad’s are like that… not very strong, or not “medicated”…. – Could even be his over-the-counter general sight glasses, and not a “prescription”….. possibly…

I like this as I haven’t seen these expressions on LuAnn before… Greg gave himself a chance to draw some new faces here, Bernice’s too.

Could Bernice end up with contacts or Lasik?

These characters have evolved.

Myopia is not funny.

“They’ve had progressive lenses for along time, folks!”

Yes, but some prescriptions can’t tolerate progressive lenses…like mine, for example… ;)

“Promotional pity” considered by the following: – the Iron Chic… “Tough fashions… in a clutch….” – Dr. I.C. Rose… “The brighter side of optometry”… – And by…..Sir Lens-A-Lot…. “Specializing in round-frame perscriptions!”…

They are famous for ironically being dismissive of any contact with people on the outside, as they have a “no phones” in their stores (except for the moneymaker store manager)…. too much of a distraction for employee and customer, alike… their pitch-line: "Don’t call us….we might call you!!!….

Okay, well Bernice still seems to have no sense if humor. Had this been my friend and me we would have laughed together at how silly she looked. Does Bernice always have to be so snarky? It seems she has a cutting comment in just about every panel she appears. Even when she was speaking to her counselor a few months back. She needs to find out why she is always so angry with everyone.

It appears that Bernice’s father is Austin Powers.

’Tain’t funny, Luann! Why would one laugh at Bern’s borrowed glasses? They may not be very attractive on her, but that doesn’t make them funny. I sympathize with Bernice here. Luann is out of line….

Hey Bernie?

Clark Kent Called.

He WANTS His Friggin’ Glasses Back!

I tried “progressive” lenses once. Never again!

Out of sightOut of mind

The human condition is funnyIt would be myopic to see it otherwiseAnd I know even though I am myopicBernice and Luann are best friendsBest friends tolerate little quirksAlthough sometimes it helps to turn a blinded eye

Luann! What’s with the pig snout?

Bernice must have a very wide head — or her dad has a narrow head.

Very good glasses Bernice! I love them!

What Luann doesn’t get is that Bernice just started a new fashion trend.

When I was picking my first frames, while waiting at America’s Best, I had a few picked out from the left side (I had started to review the shelves left to right) and found that I liked some of those best (then was told they were “men’s frames”. I rather liked the more square styles than rounded and was thinking of more coverage for peripheral vision.

At 76, I am finally starting to need help with my vision but have been lucky to manage without any until now by caring well for myself.

Our kids and their cousins guffawed at the slide show at my in-laws’ 50th, 15 years ago—-those clothes their parents wore as kids. Those glasses!!!

And now those same hideous thick plastic glasses are back in style and I know that come the day, their grandchildren are going to guffaw at the pictures of them. Karma!

Yeah, I have two pair(s) of glasses two— bifocals for normal use, and a pair focused at 17" for computer use. If you too have lost muscle tone in your eyeballs, I recommend a pair of “computer” glasses.

This was also part of a then “rising trend” a few years back, labeled “Geek Chic” [sic]… -Even some “Hip Hop Artists” also adopted this trend, wearing the “horn-rimmed glasses”… even some NBA stars joined in this trend, for awhile….

Considering the fact that Bernice loves to tease Luann, I call this Instant Karma

Becareful Luann. Remember, paybacks can be a b—ch. And with brainy Bernice. It can be.

Luann is acting the way Tiffany would. She should be a more supportive.

Bernice should try contacts, like Gunther did. And ditch the middle-school headband.

“Friebds never laugh at friends? What morgue do y’all live in???”^If friends laughing at friends works for you and yours, that’s great! But not everybody wears the same size… – Some friends can laugh at each others’ expense, knowing that they’re open for it, the next time… – Some friends have one that doesn’t like it, and one that does… – Some friends have both of them laughing about everything and everyone, only because they are two people who find humor in every single thing… - It all depends on who those people are, and that’s why some would laugh, and some wouldn’t… – Perspective, Perception, Point of view! …

Honestly, do these glasses look all that much different from the ones that Bernice normally wears? And does Greg Evans really believe that a father and daughter would likely have the same prescription just because they’re related? Or does he not understand that glasses aren’t interchangeable?

Well, at least it has been a peaceful day…. – Maybe a lot of eyes are on the “five ring circus” going on, this week…..

“…..light up my eyes with these frames…”

Too bad…. now he shant have anyone to say: “Roger! Contacts !”…

Friends don’t have to work on a quid pro quo, nor does the artist HAVE to show us every second of their lives to show both benefit from the relationship, some friends you just enjoy hanging out with..Yes, yes I know there are some who are angry with the artist for not doing it THEIR way but some are only happy being unhappy.

Ha ha ha!!! Fitting name for a local celebrity!!!– I would have been way off base, if I’d guessed Lens Corporal Isaac C. Clearleigh!…….

“My observation is that the modern teens seem to consider both glasses and contacts as viable fashion options.”Ahhhhhh! Well…that shows how much I know of teenagers’ eye fashions! Not wanting actual eyeglasses used to be the desired style. Since I don’t have any teenagers, that shows how out of the loop I am… ;)

“I currently wear bi-focals.” I have tri-focals: top for distance, middle for computer, bottom for delicate hand work…my eyes have always given me problems, its genetics… ;)

Re. the old guy with those awful (hehehe) glasses…the joke related to it was funny! ;)

Did you get Robot a valentine?That was sweet of you.

Went through New Mexico a while back out in the countryside. At night one could Actually see the Milky Way! It was so fascinating…and yet so sad in a way as that was really the first time in my life I had Seen the Milky Way… ;)

Wow…I didn’t know Hubble could see that! (she says as she suspends reality). I like the pictures of all the tens of hundreds of galaxies shown in one shot…it is mind-boggling! ;)

You guys are funny! I know I’ve said that before, but you Are! ;)

Too bad Tiff didn’t come along to teach Bernice her trademarked “hair flip”

She’s lucky she and her father both have the same graduation