Luann by Greg Evans and Karen Evans for June 06, 2021

good work, Frank, making Nancy feel a whole lot better… but not the bills’ companies

First time Covid / Quarantines mentioned in this comic?

I thought the artists here were not going to mention anything about COVID-19 at all. So why is Frank talking about a ‘quarantined’ house in Frame 2? Just wondering…

The answer, my friend, is blowin’ in the wind.

A shredder will be even better.

You always need a paper trail because you could lose your computer with all the files you have stored.

As a Dad I hate Dad Jokes. As a former pencil-pusher I despise dumb pencil-pusher jokes. (And they are all dumb).

Frank is consistently written as a complete boob and utter moron. Poor Frank. Poor Nancy.

And why is Frank letting Nancy do all the paperwork. Since we learned a long time ago during that “take your daughter to work” episode, Frank is a pencil-pusher, Organizing records and data-entry would be right down Frank’s ally. Why is he making Nancy do the work he’s trained to do?

One more panel would show Frank and Nancy playing strip budgeting. That is where Brad and Toni learned it.

Yes that moment is so nice when your table is clear and you haven’t yet contemplated picking everything up and figuring out where to put it.

You “blew it” Frank!

Most bills can be sent as paperless these days. Many you must request.

Because as of now, this officially becomes Frank’s problem not hers.

That room looks as bare as Bernice’s goldfish bowl. And they call Nil a minimalist.

Funny how that works isn’t it?

its a comic/cartoon that is supposed to take you away from the real world and just….AHHHHHHHH!

Cue the music: I can feel it calling in the air tonight,…

Wouldn’t it be easier if it all just blew away?

Frank is lucky Nancy has sense of humor.

That summer wind came blowing in from across the sea.

I don’t get why she should say Young Urban Professional for the punchline. Is it how American yuppies handle paperwork?

I keep my paper trail for one year and then it is shredded. Sometimes papers work needs to stay on my desk for a couple of days spread out.

You skewed the statistics by buying an old theater and starting a business

Well they phoned that in.

And Frank proves once again how inept he is. Instead of sitting down with his wife and helping he opens a window. It also looks like the comic is about six months behind actual time, so as things get back to normal we will probably start seeing a lot of covid references.

Finally solved it. PDFs and a printer. Save files on computer and email or print when needed. It took a while but technology finally caught up. Even my book manuscripts are e-files unless I decide to print out a paper copy for editing.

An overhead fan could have done just as well.

Paperless want you to forget all that you have bought so you buy more more more…they don’t want you to keep track and compare prices on your utilities and credit cards

Blows away stuff other than stress too.

If this happened to me, I’d go INSANE!!! (Additional work added to figuring out the bills)

I think the need to have paper obviated by digital files was offset by the extreme ease of producing hard copies with printers driven by computers. (CVS has taken this to an extreme)

No that made it worse.

Exactly!! Now I have to go prepare Sunday dinner… tonight it will be pork tenderloin in the crock-pot..

All my cards bug me to go to paperless statements, but I refuse, just to give the Postal Service some business! I pay online. I never even open the statements.

I worked with a guy (a boomer like myself) who wore a path in the carpeting between his cubicle and the office shared printer. He printed everything!

So true!

Computers have made it more efficient to generate more paper.

My bills are either automatically paid or arrive via email. And, I back up my computer files frequently … mostly.

A brisk wind from an open window does solve……………….nothing?

She needs to get a little more tech-savvy. Routine monthly bills and statements should all be available and payable online. Order something online? Pdf-print the receipt and save it to your computer, instead of wasting paper. Someone mails you a bill? Scan it, pay it and shred the paper original. And I put my checkbook register on a spreadsheet a decade ago, and haven’t used a paper register since.

I had a teacher in high school who had the goal of having a paperless class room. I doubt he achieved it before he retired.

I wonder whether this scene rings a bell with any M*A*S*H fans out there.

“Fi-Nancy”

“The In-Voice Of Experience”

“Quaran-Peace”

“Paperless-on Learned”

“Breeze Frame”

“A Damsel In This Stress”

“It’s All Off The Table, Now”

“You Blew It!”

Frank’s theme song for today:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u9lXniMsvGo

Hopefully we are at the end of this Bernice-Nils story (or do we need to buy Bernice some chapstik because of all her kissing.

The Saturday strip is a little disturbing because it implies that Bernice will kiss anyone who uses a $5 word in ordinary conversation. (That is such a 9 Chickweed Lane kind of thing). Kissing so indiscriminately seems to make her the kind of floozie she called herself during that interminable rant she made last week. “Inveigling” is obscure word meaning to scam or con. Most modern art amounts to profound inveigling. Especially Nils’ art. So Bernice has fallen in love with a scam-artist because he knows big words. In the words of Pseudolous, “There’s no way to make that an achievement.”

Maybe “better” for the moment. But poor Nancy will have to clean up that mess, Frank, and will still have to complete all the paperwork. Your “solution” is only a delusion….

“It is well known that any drive to reduce paperwork only results in extra paperwork.” — Terry Pratchett

Why did I just get a vision of Major Winchester (M*A*S*H), sitting and sweating in the mess hall, as Igor turns on a giant fan?

I am old fashioned. In a clear plastic shoe box, I have labelled 12 envelopes for each year. Each year, I start with #1 January and end the year with #12 December. I put the receipts in each corresponding envelope as the months progress. Less guess work. It is well organized clutter.