Luann by Greg Evans and Karen Evans for April 02, 2014

Lord! Lol

Nothing like getting a rise out of your future in-laws, Toni! ;)

Oh, Frank… there you go, again! Only hearing what you don’t want to hear!…

“The Plan, Boss! The Plan!”“Can’t Talk, Must Eat”“Give ’Em The Old Razzle Dazzle”“Dinner And Improv”" Smoke -d Ham Screen "or“Your Freudian Slip Is Showing”

FRANK! Get thee to an audiologist!

Now Frank. Levi aside, this couple IS your grandchildren in the near future, so don’t freak out so much about ‘mommy.’

“Are you thinking of a big wedding?”“Hey, we have some really distracting thing to tell you right now. No reason….it just seems like a really smug way to change the subject.”

Outrageous just to the cusp of legal entanglement is what they’re shooting for.

“Brought to you” by.. – Mia Kulpa’s Bistro…. “The service is on us!… The food is on you!…” – and by… – Sigmund’s Music,and Electronics… “Tired of listening to the way other people play their music?… At Sig’s, you can hear the music… the way that you want to hear it!…”

I heard an interview with a comedian once talking about how he knew millions of jokes. but only a few of them were funny. Just enough to fill a show. the key was being honest enough with yourself to know which ones should just stay in your head. Sound advice.

I don’t think it’s so much as being immature, as it is just trying to get through without them discovering that their plans aren’t so… “planny”….– Toni probably would like some help, but hopes that they can go on a bit longer, and get through dinner without feeling like they are in “hot water”…

It’s getting expensive, giving cows tips these days….

I am having one Heck of a time with Go.Comics this evening…keeps bouncing me out! =-O Oh, well, at least Brad and Toni were thinking the same way (notice Brad did Not disagree with Toni’s wanting a “simple, yet memorable” wedding) before they got silly…maybe being silly was a way for them to avoid the stress of planning the wedding…comic relief, ya know?! ;)

Robert Burns once wrote: “Flow gently, sweet Afton, among thy green braes, Flow gently, I’ll sing thee a song in thy praise. My Mary’s asleep by thy murmuring stream, Flow gently, sweet Afton, disturb not her dream.” Can just imagine the sound of a murmuring stream…wouldn’t that be a different place to have a small wedding? Toni would like that, I think…pure and simple. ’Nite all… ;)

Procrastination is the root of the parents gray roots.

April Foo-uh wait a minuteeeeee!

“…Taking so long raises the question of whether the two consider their engagement to be an actual engagement to get married or whether they really want to marry.”^You’re right about that. Going that long, one would get that impression. And, certainly it would be the mindset from Frank and Nancy! But sad to say, there are those these days who are doing that very thing, having an engagement that makes the wedding seem long overdue, with the very same question looming, as you’ve just stated… – But I think that B&T really do want to. My take is that Toni has had a lot on her plate, and the analogy I used yesterday, maybe to her all this planning (after the way her life had been up to this point) is like a great big college paper… looming… huge… intimidating.– She’s had to be both the “brave leader” of her family, and the “nurturer”. She had parents who took a bit of time, she has Jonah for a brother, she has a handful-of-niece… then there was….Dirk. -After weathering all of that in managing those relationships, she probably is ready for someone to come along and provide her with stability (Brad). She probably has more anxiety about planning, than reservations about marriage….

Sadly, also true!

Wow! – Well, yeah, he certainly has stated before that it’s the “jump the shark” phenomenon once they get hitched…. Some TV shows are notorious for doing the same thing.– And yeah, it certainly wouldn’t be “out of the realm” of possibility for a buildup to proceed like this. Especially the part of us all finding out just why they really hadn’t gotten too far along in their plans…. if that’s where he’s going, at least as far as this week…

I think the inability to write a married couple as interesting is the flaw of the writer, not a flaw of the couple. If the writer isn’t creative enough to make marriage interesting, that’s his fault, and he is to blame for it. I happen to know marriage is VERY interesting indeed. Sometimes in that ‘may you live in interesting times’ sort of way.

When Johnny didn’t get the reaction that he expected, he’d reach overhead, grab the mic, and say, “Is this thing working?”

Clean the wax out of your ears, Frank. Then, you and Nancy have a couple more glasses of wine, and stop badgering the kids; they still have time enough to get their wedding act together….

These people have made no wedding plans. That’s a good thing, actually. Their reluctance to make plans just shows that they really shouldn’t marry.

The main thing is that they have rock-solid plans to wed.Acting silly beforehand is fine as long as the commitment is serious.The zombie-bride part is interesting as long as she doesn’t eat Brad’s brains.

Once people decide to marry, any wait after that should just be related to scheduling. Any questions regarding joining should come before any proposals.“Will you marry me unless I change my mind before the wedding?” is just silly..I had a classmate who maintained she could date other fellows right up to the wedding ceremony. She wasn’t really committed and her string of husbands showed it..I consider the ceremony a public declaration of a private decision. But that’s just me.

Now, TELL ’Em the BEST Part, Kids.

The DeGroots are Gonna Have to PAY for It ALL!!!!

It comes out quickly— now we know why Frank wants them to get married NOW. He needs Grands!

Brad and Toni, put on your Levis and hit the road to Reno. You don’t even need a blood test there, just two witnesses who you could get off the street if you promise to buy them a bottle of wine.

My wife and I went to the county clerk and recorder’s office, paid $15 and had the kids sign the certificate of marriage as witnesses. Then I went across the hall to the DMV and registered the new bike. Did this just before the oldest shipped out to Iraq.

-It appears Brad and Toni are too immature to engage in a serious conversation-Don’t be such a grouch! They’re just joking around. Something you say you’re doing yourself, by the way…

You are absolutely right.Why sometimes I do declare, they act like they’re in a comic strip — just there for our amusement, not their own.

-It would have made more sense if Toni said she was dressing as a mummy.-As in Steven Spielberg’s “Mummy, Daddy”, or “Abbot and Costello Meet the Mummy?”

I kind of like ‘simple, yet memorable’ for any ceremony, myself…

I’d understand the mistake more if she’d said she were dressing as a mummy. Zombie doesn’t sound like Mommy.

Best…wedding…ever.

I was a bridesmaid at a wedding like that in the Bahamas. The bride wore a white bikini and the bridesmaids wore one-pieces. The groom and his friends wore small speedos and bow ties. Beach wedding, though.

An uptight one – that Dad…

in others words…mind you own damn business!

They’ve been engaged a year and still haven’t made ANY plans?? They do not want to get married. Any couple who wanted to get married would have made some plans by now.

“Know your reanimates” is a statement that fairly shouts how much fun you might be at parties.

“They WILL be married, eventually. That much we know GReg has pre-ordained”*Dave, gosh, I didn’t know he was not only the creator of the strip but also an ordained member of the clergy! (what does it take to be “pre-ordained”?)

Well, Brad isn’t going to be trying out for “Jeopardy”, and he isn’t going to be offered a gig for putting his “kisser” on a magazine, but if his father is any indication, he should do just fine… – People like Nancy and Toni are rare gems, who see the “buried treasures”….. other people won’t always see it, but the wifey knows and she doesn’t need to advertise it, either- what she’s got, she likes to keep that treasure “safe and sound”…..

Ha ha ha! Another good one!….

Let’s spend many hours inventing reasons Brad and Toni are great togetzzzzzzzzz………zzzzz

A common sense of humor. Looks like a marriage would last.

-Maybe if you send them another 2 bucks, you can become a pre – ordained minister-LOL!! Good one!

Frank’s hearing problems continued.Luann: “I’m so sad! Quill’s going to Yale!”Frank: “Quill’s going to jail?!”

What a ko-winky-dink! I’m with a similarly acronymed organization, P eople E xpecting T asty A nimals….

A long time ago, in the old strips (which of course are now being re-run), they had Frank’s job referred to, casually…specific occupation unknown… I think it was just around the time before Toni was introduced…

“Scuba Duba Doo”^Was so tempted…. But you might want to display it as: “S.C.U.B.A. D.O.O.B.A. D.O.O”… – Or alternatively, without acronymic marks: “SCUBA DOOBA SKI_DOO” (as jet skiing was one of their previous fantasies, too)….

How long are they going to wait to get married? Until the have to?

I guess after having Frank paint the purple dining room green, Nancy decided she preferred purple after all…

> They WILL be married, eventually. That much we know GReg has pre-ordained.>In the “real world”, of course, these two people shouldn’t and wouldn’t get married. However, this is the Luannverse, where logic and realism do not apply.

After considering the comments of other readers, I am becoming more convinced that the marriage of Brad & Toni will probably take place further into the future. It could even get postponed indefinitely, like what was done many years ago with Abner Yokum and Daisy Mae in Dogpatch USA!

If you’ve seen one reanimate, you’ve seen …oops wait, I’ve never met one, so how should I know?

“means Evans is failing in this regard.”.If perfect communication fully understood and agreed upon by all is the pass/fail criterion, then you are correct. This also meansall people everywhere throughout all time have failed.This in turn strongly implies ridiculous criteria.CONTEMPLATE

I’m sorry, it was a rude thing for me to say. My insomnia put me in a bad mood.

Anyway, I bet there are plenty of people who share your interests in sci-fi and horror out there.

Send a photo and I’ll see if Patsy approves THIS TIME.(So far none have met her approval)