Julie Larson began writing The Dinette Set comic in 1990, then called Suburban Torture, offering a satire on middle class culture. The Dinette Set became syndicated in 1997. When asked where Julie gets all of her ideas, she admits there is only one way to write a daily comic: write about what you know. "I make no bones about who’s really talking in The Dinette Set," says Julie, who is writer, director and cast of The Dinette Set. "If we can’t make fun of ourselves, who will?"
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leakysqueaky712 said, about 1 year ago
Doesn’t he stay hungry??
leakysqueaky712 said, about 1 year ago
Was his legs sawed off that he cannot fix his own lunch??
Good Morning All
SusanSunshine
said, about 1 year ago
You know, if I wanted to, I could post the first comment here this morning!
But I think I’ll wait for someone else to do it.
Leaky?
Marg?
Mikie?
???
Harryfan said, about 1 year ago
Is that a Christmas wreath hanging on the door?
margueritem
said, about 1 year ago
@SusanSunshine
leaky answered the call. Bless you, Leaky, for saving us from the onus of posting first.
margueritem
said, about 1 year ago
@Harryfan
Yes, sure is!
margueritem
said, about 1 year ago
@leakysqueaky712
He was born helpless, and nothing has changed. He is Joy’s first child, Patty is the second.
mikie2
said, about 1 year ago
Helpless. Clueless. Useless. Plain old less.
I wonder if Burl would actually starve to death with food just out of his reach, expecting Joy to bring it to him. I don’t have $10,000 to bet on it, but I’d bet a dime.
Actually, Joy is trying to starve him to death by eating half the food she brings to him. It’s a long-term strategy, so don’t expect him to look peaked real quick like.
SusanSunshine
said, about 1 year ago
UH OH, Crustwoodians.
We have a very strange leak in the space-time continuum right here in Crustwood.
When I got here half an hour ago, here was NO ONE on the street in the whole town…. no one in the cafe, no one at Crust Foods ….OK you get the picture.
So I typed a comment, but before I hit “submit,”
I refreshed the comments, and then the whole page, cos I don’t trust the “refresh comments” button.
I didn’t want to say I was first if I wasn’t.
Where was Leaky’s comment hiding than???
Or maybe….
Leaky somehow sneaked in later and slipped his comment into the queue ahead of mine.
Sheesh Leaky, it’s OK!
If you want to be first just get here ahead of me….
but don’t scare me by hiding!
SusanSunshine
said, about 1 year ago
And yep… terminally lazy.
“As the World Sits..”
Waiting for Godot…
a head so empty it rattles…
carefully chosen artifacts.
I truly hope “Pooh Wear” doesn’t mean anything at all.
Anyhow…. I wouldn’t take that bet, Mikie, not only cos I’d lose if I bet on Burl ever getting out of his seat…
but cos you set the stakes so high.
A whole dime?
Do I look like I’m made out of money???
HarryFan, Julie admittedly re-uses drawings, changing some bits and leaving others, and adding new dialogue.
Sometimes she pays no attention to small details like the season,
the direction the word balloons point,
the color of Ma’s hair….
leakysqueaky712 said, about 1 year ago
@SusanSunshine
I have nuttin to hide.
Whats the big deal about not wanting to be first……………….who really cares
If ya’ll weren’t so damn inebriated when you post, you would’nt care whose first.
SusanSunshine
said, about 1 year ago
Yes, Marg — that’s why I like to call him Baby Burl.
I remember when he had a cold and she was spoon feeding him!
She probably started that when Patty was an infant and he got jealous,
just like pre-school siblings do…. only they grow out of it.
The only thing Burl ever grows out of is his most recent pants size.
SusanSunshine
said, about 1 year ago
Well, Leaky, I don’t really mind being first…. but we just enjoy your firstitude so much more.
What startled me was more the idea
that I refreshed the page so many times and there were no comments but mine after I posted.
And yeah, since the Crustwood morning actually sneaks up on me in the wee hours of the previous day,
before I go to bed,
I do rather prefer not to post till I sober up a little…
obviously it doesn’t always happen.
Citizen GROG!
said, about 1 year ago
You do have hands of your own, you lazy lump of lard.
Dave Hussell
said, about 1 year ago
About ten years ago, my wife went somewhere with a friend of hers, at this time I can’t remember just where. She told me before she left they probably would be gone for a while and that they wouldn’t be back in time for supper.
Later as I was cooking my supper, the phone rang. It was my wife’s freind’s (now ex) husband on the phone.
He asked me if I had heard from the women, I told him no, but they said they would be out kinda late. He made some kind of disgruntled sound, almost a whine. I asked if something was wrong.
He said, “I’m waiting for her to come home and fix my pizza.”
I had already thought the guy was a jerk, which is why we weren’t hanging out toghether while our wives were out. However, I thought it was pathetic he couldn’t just throw a frozen pizza in the oven. He spent at least that much time and energy trying to track her down.
I hate to say it, but his social tactics would have made the Pennys pause with awkward silence.
Good Morning Crustwood