Luann by Greg Evans and Karen Evans for July 28, 2017

nothing like vocalizing and articulation Fay is doing… like in anime “Clannad” (see clip) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FFI5YG05Jeo

Ted threw Fred three free throws. The sick sixth sheik’s sixth sheep’s sick.

And once again we see why Luann will end up teaching as a profession.

(Hi to anyone who still misses me.)

As Ron Burgundy would say:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MGlXO5u9jUE

Unique New York.

A tarantula enjoys a fine chewing gum.

The Human Torch was denied a bank loan.

The arsonist has oddly-shaped feet.

“Pad kid poured curd pulled cod.” A team of researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have dubbed this tongue twister the world’s most difficult.

“The seething sea ceaseth and thus the seething sea sufficeth us"

I just hope this ends happily. Fay is introduced as a very nice, very needy character, now this happens. Come, come up with a solution.

She stood on the balcony, inexplicably mimicking him hiccuping, and amicably welcoming him in.

Aluminum, linoleum, molybdenum, aluminum, linoleum, molybdenum, aluminum, linoleum, molybdenum

Just have Fay take 15 lessons per day, and it will break even.

So, whatever happened to Delta?

And the strip goes stupid.

Here’s a few:

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A big bug bit a bold bald bear and the bold bald bear bled blood badly.

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Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager managing an imaginary menagerie.

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You know New York, you need New York, you know you need unique New York

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And a Polish tongue twister:

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W Szczebrzeszynie chrząszcz brzmi w trzcinie

Oh, what the hell:

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Two all – beef patties, special sauce, lettuce, cheese, pickles, onions on a sesame seed bun.

Hear the one about the agnostic, dyslexic insomniac?

He lay awake nights, trying to figure out if there is a Dog.

Love Luann’s best Peanuts imitation!

Luann is very encouraging. She’s a good kid.

She sits in her slip as she sips Schlitz.

With the theater camp down – I’m visualizing Fay as a sitter for Shannon – thereby becoming part of the family. Shannon already knows plenty about acting – lately, it’s “I want to direct.”

A star is born!

♫ It’s up to you, unique New York. ♫

Unique New York: probably a “Ron Burgundy” thing.

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“And The Crowd Goes Wild”: Lots of sports references….song references, too. Perhaps Joe Garagiola or the country song by Mark Wills?

Also, vocal warm-ups utilizing multi-syllabic cominations of words and/or silly phrases are a way to get one comfortable with a microphone or with a stage.

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Radio station and TV station personalities learn (some through broadcast or communications school/training) how to speak clearly and crisply and how to handle effective communication in this way, as well.

Ok, Fay’s Mom, you need to bankroll the camp for the summer.

“Like A Tongue Of Bricks”

“Every Extra Exercise Excises”

“Most Of Are Missed, But Not Mixed Like This”

“A Tumble, In A China Shop”

“Gym Bandy, To The Rescue” (♬)

“Contortion Of Duty”

“The Cat’s Got Your Tongue- Check In The Cradle” (♩)

“The Beginning Of An Ending, Or The End To The Beginning?”

“Goodbye, Yellow Brick Glow” (♬)

“Intelligent Potential, Potently Intelligible”

“The Prominently Precious Premise Of Promise”

“Award Of The Stated”

“A Gwanny , An ‘Aww!’ Score, And A Tone ‘Hee!’ "

“Finding Emma Webster ’s Voice”

“A June Foray ,And July At Sunset”

“Natasha Climbs A Rocky Nell”

“Vox? You Managed!”

“She’s Seized The Scenes, And Is No Sneeze”

“Seize The Fay”

or

“She Fells Teen Shells, By The Scene Score”

Pru did you advertise it?

sadly the camp flopped! I remember somebody predicted it here. but they can still bring Fay home and train her there.

My prediction: Fay’s mother goes to a support group for kids with food allergies. She gets the other parents to send their kids to the camp.

Are Pru and Lu the only “instructors” at this camp? It’s good that it flopped, since there’s no way that the two of them could have controlled 100 campers!

That’s GREAT, Fay! You’re Making Wonderful Progress! Now, Try THIS One:

“By the Shores of Gitche Gumee,”

“Of the shining Big-Sea-Water,”

“Stood Nokomis, the Old Woman,”

“Pointing with Her Finger,”

“At No-Good, Low-Life, Leslie,”

“That Thieving Abberration,”

“That Destroyed Our Scared Nation!”

“But We WAIT with Anticipation,”

“And Luann, with Constipation,”

“As Mighty Warrior, GUNTHER,”

“Sends Les, On a One-Way, VACATION!”

Try It Fay! It’s from someone named “Longfellow” or something……,

Luann continues to do well I the role of teacher.

RINGO ABOUT 11 HOURS AGO@TrilogyELP: Did you go to any sporting events?

I went to a few PEP rallies just for the fun of it and the girls…I went to football games for the fun of it and because I had a couple of friends on the team and who were also budding musicians, and the girls….

We had a school that launched the career of Carol Zeman, who has been on General Hospital for decades, Al DiMeola who was a member of Chic Correa’s Return to Forever jazz fusion group , with Lenny White, Chic, and Stanley Clarke, Bob Gaudio, founding member of The Four Seasons, and a couple of the Goldigger dancers from way back on the Dean Martin show, as well as the infamous Bob Guccione, founder of Penthouse magazine.

Looks like Fay needed a “big sister”. Glad Luann could fill that role.

Before I knew how to write it. I remember I was pronouncing New York like one word, Neyork.

Overhead speaker voice: “Doe X. MacHina! Paging Doe X. MacHina! A summer theater camp in PItts needs saving. Please respond!” :)

Luann – Throw on a little rock music – something with a good beat – a little girl on girl dancing might be fun for Fay.

Fay’s finding her voice.

“Unique New York” doesn’t seem like a difficult thing to say. Is it just that Fay mumbles in front of an audience?

Fay helping out with Shannon is a win-win. Shannon will run up and hug her – which is what the doctor ordered. However Fay must be coached in not giving Shannon too much control. Luann understands that.

In interacting with the Luann people – timid Fay could be a powerhouse when she comes up with the occasional great line. Next time Tiffany paints herself into a corner, Fay could say something like, “Tiffany – you’re beautiful and you’re smart. You don’t have to prove anything to anybody.” Fay should have a pair of clunky boots to wear sometimes. It might make her feel a little more empowered.

Luann showing a lot of teeth lately …..

Mom looks astonished at what her little girl has accomplished in so short a time.

will the camp be saved? I’m still suspicious over Les’s role.

Unique New York: The city so nice, they named it twice.

Some science fiction years ago called it something like, "Nuu Yawk (By God!) Sitty!

My favorite N.Y. word is “Diploma” (dat’s who you cawl when da faucet leaks).

Red baby buggy bumpers.

I’m starting to think that this arc is about Luann’s journey toward becoming a teacher (e.g. in art and drama). She’s a confidence builder and is able to draw a student out (of his or herself). She connects. It might turn out that Luann takes Fay on for the summer for one-on-one coaching and instruction at the request of Fay’s mother. As Schrodinger’s dog said, something good will come of this convoluted set of events.

Vocal exercises combined wit developing stage presence! Fay is making huge progress, to her Mom’s everlasting gratitude for the Pru-Lu Method!

One wonders what Frank and Nancy will have planned for The Fuse next, since this adventure didn’t work out as planned.

I wish this comic would become entertaining again.

I just want to thank everyone who posted the tongue twisters. I had a lot of fun reading them to my husband. He went looking for one he remembered hearing thirty years ago.

It’s from the movie musical comedy The Court Jester. “The pellet with the poison’s in the vessel with the pestle; the chalice from the palace has the brew that is true!”

This later gets changed to: “The pellet with the poison’s in the flagon with the dragon; the vessel with the pestle has the brew that is true!”

I still find “Luann” entertaining after all these years.