Luann by Greg Evans and Karen Evans for April 06, 2023

If she’s made $1000.. looks like more people pay for the tea than don’t pay for it.

I don’t think college age kids really have to worry about their libido. I think she would do better selling the tea to middle age people.

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I wonder what scheme Tiff is thinking up to make some big money from the tea? Will it be better than the Waremansion?? LOL

I guess because she doesn’t care much for money (like it can’t buy the Beatles’ love), Dez never opened a bank account?

Bottom line, she probably can’t sell on campus without being in conflict with some pesky rule.

Okay, Tiff.

If you going to finagle your way into being Dez’s business manager, you might as well also reopen “Tiff as Nails,” on campus.

After all, there’s no longer a meddling R.A. Bernice to stop you.

Get business manager Bets to help you.

Speaking of Bets………,

I’m hearing Earth Mother saying the tea is great for heart health, blood sugar, menopause in a robotic monotone

Don’t worry if there are, Tiff. Her tea is great at fixing that, too.

time to make a business plan Tiffany?

Presenting: DEZZLING TEA

CEO: TiffCFO: KippProduction manager and majority shareholder: Dez

I think if you sold it at something similar to a farmers market you could get away with it. I think a college campus wouldn’t have too many issues allowing something of the sort on the weekends with a small permitting fee. Could even be incorporated into a business class.

Bow-chicka-wow-wow!

and she’s steeping a pot right now…. and Steffie has disappeared, thankfully.

Surely she ought to know how much she is earning because of taxes? She doesn’t want to get hit one day in the future with a ginormous outstanding tax bill.

Shhh, Dez, there are IRS agents lurking everywhere.

Mommy, what’s LIBIDO?

Tiff, college kids eat a lot of junk food and are good candidates to becoming diabetic. And a lot of them sit around and play video games during their downtime so their heart health aren’t that great compounded by junk food habit – cholesterol city in there. I remember. I lived on Ramen noodles and electrical water heater, snacks, cafeteria soft ice cream machine, Coke, MM candy from the vending machine, delivered pizzas…. we all thought we were indestructible. Silly and ignorant college kids we were. Dez is educating college kids about healthy eating.

Tiff is definitely her father’s child—always in pursuit of the Almighty Dollar!!

BTW, I fervently hope Stef will LOSE that cheerleading contest, and Kip will dump her for good!!

Kip and Tiffany are about to partake some of this libido-enhancing liquid. Is this strip getting ready to change the dynamics of the relationships?

Supply + Demand = $$$$ (With a pinch of greed – It’s so capitalistic).

Libido? Wasn’t he that piano player in Las Vegas with all the white furs an candelabras?

Tiffany is having a Scrooge McDuck moment. Dunno if she’ll try to start a tea-selling business in the campus. Maybe she’ll talk to TJ and they’ll try to sell Dez’s blend at The Fuse? Kafè Kablooie could become the meeting point for all herbal tea lovers of the city and I can see Frank, Nancy and Luann drinking a few cups in harmony. Tiffany just has to convince Dez. I don’t think it will be easy, but she may be interested in helping people of all ages feel relaxed and happy, making new kinds of blends for them and talking with them. Changing subject, kudos to the colorist for finally doing Kip’s skin colour right after a week and half. Better later than never.

…… As if college kids need any help with libido…

Speculations and predictions from the commentors for this arc are coming true. Keen foresight.

Dez leaves Tiff in a daze.

Like college kids need something to increase libido?

What if the Dean finds out about this?

Is there a new Luann strip product line about to drop?

The fact that college kids need help with their libido is a terrifying reflection of the state of modern health.

Kip and Tiffany simpatico? Tea selling scheme should be hilarious, another Summer business adventure.

do college kids really need a libido booster?

College kids have enough horromons raging, they don’t need no tea to help that.

Off topic, but recently a regular commenter was incommunicado for a bit. The name escapes me, but I do wonder if he returned.

I don’t recall lack of libido being a problem when I was in college. More like the opposite.

Dez: “Here, would you two like to try some?”

Maybe you can mix it in a brownie mix. Anyone remember that Barney Miller episode when they ate those brownies? Jack Soo was great.

Since when do collage kids need help with their libido?

How long have they shared a room…? How does Tiff not know anything about Dez’s tea?

College age men and women need help with their libidos? Stereotypically, I thought the problem was curbing it.

You sure you want to say the libido thing with Kip in the room? He and Stef already go at it like rabbits and are notoriously inconsiderate about cleaning up afterwards…

How to spin this so Dez is on board and maximize profits. . . .

Yeah, Kip gets it. I hope Dez shuts down the commercialization of love.

What Tiff has already forgotten is that Dez doesn’t actually sell the tea, but offers it to whoever asks for it. She does accept donations. Tea brewing and potpourri mixing is her hobby from which she is glad to share. Sharing is not Tiff’s market strategy.

DEZtiny Tea Shop!

Guess we will never find out what was in Piro’s letter to Bernice!

Start featuring her tea at the Fuse…

Dez is not selling the tea. She gives it away and some people give her a donation. Not sure how the IRS feels about that.

What the hell kind of college kid needs a libido boost?

Great eyebrow raise on Kip!

Yeah…. like college kids need help with their libido.

So she made a thousand this year… and just gave six hundred (AKA more than half of it) away to an awful human being with very little prompting, knowing full well that she’ll probably never get it repaid. Yeah, the logic here doesn’t really add up. Of course after yesterday’s reveal that her tea growing is apparently a perpetual motion machine that doesn’t require any money for upkeep, bad logic seems to be somewhat of a pattern.

And a new partnership is forming.

♫ Love potion number nine ♫

She said “LIBIDO!!” Here come the narrow minded authorities!!

Is this where Kip gets together with Tiff leaving Steff to compete in more ways than one? What is his major? Never disclosed? Dez May be ok under the radar, but anything more businesslike would put the kibosh on this tea venture.

Dez rocks!

Dez you better check School policy before you start selling.

Those aren’t dollar signs, just floaters in your eyes Tiff

Maybe… just maybe… this storyline will have Tiffany actually learn from mistakes and figure out how to create a legal business. Maybe ask her dad… maybe ask a business teach… or get an assignment or such. This could be a growth arc for her and not “another get rich quick scheme”.

You know, even though she’s a stereotype, her apparent idiocy gets on my nerves. She shouldn’t run a business. And this tea is for older people, not young students. Duh. Evans wants us to believe Tiff is selfish, because she wants to make money rather than throw it away on Steffo. All hail Evans’ Earth Mother, too saintly to care about money, she lives on air.

Thanks for the info Greg, although I needed it 10 years ago. I would not be surprised if fenugreek sales have gone up significantly since this morning.

I like seeing Dez get involved in a story line at last.

Tiff, college kids spend money on much worse things than tea.

Out of curiosity I added some fenugreek to my rooibus tea this morning – it was quite nice, there was an interesting additional layer of flavour. Not sure I’d make a habit of it, but pleasant.

Either dollar signs…or Spanish flies.

How does Tiff get her eyebrows out in front of her hair?

Menopause? So, teachers have been buying her tea, too.

Oh, Tiff. College kids can be concerned about blood sugar and heart health. Some older folks take college classes, and no doubt some of the professors are old enough for menopause.

What a selfish leach that idiot Tiffany is. She can’t think up any business ideas on her own so she has to covet and take over someone else’s property to make money.

Slow down, Tiffster! You don’t want to infringe on Dez’s territory, no matter how lucrative it may be seeming to you! Dez is the Tea Lady of Mooney U!

When did Kip develop a personality?

College students don’t generally need help with their libido.

She said in yesterday’s panel that she DIDN’T sell it, but screw continuity. Meanwhile, those supposed medicinal benefits? Nope.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fenugreek#Research