Luann by Greg Evans and Karen Evans for August 14, 2022

Toes aren’t useless. They help us keep balance, Shannon.

This little piggy had roast beef…. lol

good one, uncle Brad

A stumbling explanation

Walking would be a lot harder on your body without bendable toes.

Standing on tippy toes gives one a little extra height to reach that box of cookies on the top shelf of the grocery store.

we need to be able to count little piggies!

When we walk the do toe the line!

And they do their job very well. Between the tail and the prehensile toes, I’m happy we kept the toes to wiggle in the sand.

You never used your toes to pick up the sock you just took off?

Try walking without using your toes. You’ll see why they evolved.

A surprisingly non-destructive episode with Shannon.

Whaddaya know – the strip actually made me laugh out loud.

Nice to see the kid’s getting an education.

I have heard this joke many times before, except they usually say “little toe” or “the furniture is in the right place.”

Shannon we needs toes to keep our balance.

Second or third grade Jackie Cooper dropped her pencil . I picked it up with my toes and raised it up to her. She took it and went back to schoolwork.

I have a question as a non native speaker: I believe I learned that because did not already is past tense, it is followed by use not used. Is that not the case?

You know why cowboys wear boots right up to the last?

So they do not stub their toes when they kick the bucket.

Toes were evolved so that female h0m0 sapiens could become ballerinas. (see if that spelling avoided the banned word list)

Best joke I’ve read in years.

It is also useful in understanding shoe quality.

Toes were created so that our simian ancestors could grip tree branches (and I don’t care WHAT creationists say!!).

Toes don’t do anything? Try walking without them.

I love the Sunday panels…like a breath of fresh air.

We need toes to wiggle.

And they work well. They also allow others to find you by following the bad words.

Interestingly…. as Sunday strips are usually “less” focused and enjoyable than the dailies…. TODAY (Sunday) seemed far more fun and enjoyable than the current “dailies” arc.

I am happy for the more enjoyable panels today. Although they are nothing earth shattering…. they did help me realize how much I did not enjoy last week.

I do hope…. that when the current arc returns tomorrow, that it improves. Vale is quite unlikable, and Luann’s guilelessness is a bit TOO much even for how she has been portrayed lately.

Wrong answer Brad.

LOL, ain’t that the truth. They also help us with balance and to make little ones giggle when you play “This Little Piggy” with them.

Our feet also evolved to find that one piece of LEGO in the dark too!!!

When I bang my toes against the furniture, then I find out how valuable they are.

I feel like they’ve swapped books.

Speaking from experience, Brad?

I love those Shannon-Brad moments. Brad is a great father figure.

Hilarity ensues, light, sweet variety.

I thought we had shins so we could find furniture in the dark.

Okay. We have big, simple, coloring book style drawings. Shannon looks like she’s 5 years old, and Brad looks like he’s about 16. No conflict, no problem, everyone is happy.

My toes are unerring in their determination to find furniture in the dark…sometimes in the daylight.

And to provide fetishes for old men

This may explain why so many people grow up not knowing facts from lies.

This little piggy went “WEE WEE WEE!” after hitting the end table in the dark.

Got that right Brad

I’m sure that this caused to keep awake at night is thanking Brad for the observation.

Witty. But toes are in fact quite important, and are anything but useless.

I wonder what Bruce Springsteen would say if he read this strip.

Toes are here for foot fetishism.

and the reason we have so many nerves in the bottom of our feet is so we can more easily find Legos in the dark

it’s funny, our toes have a vestigial feature to curl inwards despite not being long or dexterous enough to actually grip or handle anything. This is a leftover trait of our arboreal ancestry.

Brad has a very good point there.

Shannon and Brad being genuinely funny. Cool!

Like his answer…..ouch!

There is a lot of truth in that statement Brad.

Toes are for pointing towards your kneecaps to relieve Charley horses. I’m not kidding. Tell every pregnant woman. I didn’t learn that until my second pregnancy, and I wish I knew that sooner. It works immediately.

I thought toenails were useless. Until I had one on my big toe removed. Getting my balance just isn’t the same.

Does anybody ever hug this little girl?

I know they take care of her, but I don’t think I have seen a single strip where anyone has shown her that level of affection. Not her dad, not her aunt, not Brad, Luann, not anybody.

Has anybody ever seen Shannon barefoot before?

….mmmmmm…. kaaaaaaaaayyy…

It’s not the furniture that’s a danger, it’s pants that are too long so your big toe catches in them and causes you to lurch to one side and break your foot! (just about out of this boot, though, after months of not being able to enjoy summer!) (sorry, toes are just on my mind lately)

That punch line has been around for decades.

Other way around actually. Our toes have DEVOLVED over the millennia. But ya I know…goes against the punchline gag.

Shannon has ginormous man feet. No wonder she’s so nasty all the time. Just goes to show, you walk a mile in someone else’s clodhoppers before you judge the demon child.

Toes are vital for balance and walking. And for teaching us to bear the pain of finding furniture in the dark…

In real life, Toes are what keeps us from banging our Noses into the Floor when we fall on our faces.

For some of us who are extremely unlucky, darkness is not required. :-(

Walking?

And Legos!

I felt Brad’s comment down to my bones. I think I might have even fractured a few finding a few in the dark.

How would my flip-flops stay on

If you lose your pinkie toe, you will fall in that direction. Learned that from Peacemaker.