Pibgorn by Brooke McEldowney

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fear-ciuil said, 10 months ago

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Margueritem said, 10 months ago

“humanitarian buttock double…”
Where can I find such a creature?
I hope it doesn’t involve demon summoning.
Sisyphos said, 10 months ago

[Reposted from “last night”–especially for margueritem] –Has anyone on Pibforum ever EVER known a little girl who said, “Mommy, when I grow up I want to be a humanitarian buttock double!”?
fear-ciuil said, 10 months ago

ccdesan, did you notice that Grüner gained his umlaut between the sketch and the final? I was trying to decide if it’s really an umlaut or if it’s a quirk of the background.
txmystic said, 10 months ago

A male lap dancer?
The Old Wolf said, 10 months ago

I love this gang. Brooke’s facility with languages cracks me up - the names are hilarious!

Marzipan O’Rourke, with glutes that can crack pistachios… Diesel Stuhlgang… Grüner Ladrone (Greener Thief); What next, I wonder?
Fairportfan said, 10 months ago

Actually, i’m not sure that *is* an “ü”. Almost looks more as if the “u” turned into an “o”.
Fairportfan said, 10 months ago

Wonderfully evil MythTickle:
http://www.gocomics.com/mythtickle/2008/12/29/
txmystic said, 10 months ago

Notice that Marzipan O’Rourke is an humanitarian buttock double, as opposed to those buttock doubles who are just in it for the money or something…selfish bastards…
Fairportfan said, 10 months ago

Someone stole Edda’s black keys!
Fairportfan said, 10 months ago

Tom apparently has fangs in panel 1.
The Old Wolf said, 10 months ago

@Fearc: I had to debate whether the guy’s name was Gruner, Grüner or Groner. I think you’re right and that the umlaut was added in the final copy.

I have to say that Marzipan looks a lot more human in this incarnation. Last time we saw her she was really frightening…
ejcapulet said, 10 months ago

I thought Marzipan’s look before was better - much scarier, she really did look someone from Hell.
Sisyphos said, 10 months ago

fairportfan: I don’t care! –I want some Who-hash! Mmmmmmmm, green meat!
ejcapulet said, 10 months ago

I never thought I’d see “Humanitarian” and “buttock double” in the same paragraph - never mind the same sentence!
Lunatic_fringe1 said, 10 months ago

txmysticPro says:

A male lap dancer?
.
.
Must be from San Fransisco.
ejcapulet said, 10 months ago

I’d hate to be Tom Torquemada’s dentist! Anyone would have to be really brave (or totally crazy) to stick their hand in that!
wndrwrthg said, 10 months ago

Diesel Stuhlgang?
Margueritem said, 10 months ago

Sisyphos says:

[Reposted from “last night”–especially for margueritem] –Has anyone on Pibforum ever EVER known a little girl who said, “Mommy, when I grow up I want to be a humanitarian buttock double!”?

Actually, no. I’m afraid it does involve demon summoning.
Sisyphos said, 10 months ago

Are we sure (is it the consensus) that Grüner
is male?
Fly Guy said, 10 months ago

Male lap dancer?
Why not, ladies have their needs too!
erwins_cat said, 10 months ago

If my memory of German serves me, stuhlgang is the medically correct term for bowel movement. Seems appropriate..
fear-ciuil said, 10 months ago

erwins_cat said:
If my memory of German serves me, stuhlgang is the medically correct term for bowel movement. Seems appropriate.

Which makes his name … um … Diesel S**t?

::ducks behind the couch::
Fairportfan said, 10 months ago

Huh. Just realised that the moiré patterns in all the intermediate tones in the HouChron 9CL’s apparently aren’t an artifact of my monitor, as i thought…

They seem to have been rescreened or downsampled from the extended-tone original format as supplied by the syndicate, while the strips as posted on CdotC are clean.
Sisyphos said, 10 months ago

Curli isn’t so curly anymore, but if he were, the resemblance between him and Tom would be striking, not to mention their professional area-overlap. Wonder if they are/were related?
The Old Wolf said, 10 months ago

@erwins_cat: Your memory of German does not fail you… Perfect name for an indicted Senator! XD
Fairportfan said, 10 months ago

Public Service Announcement

I posted this on the Sketch comments, but i figure that some of the people here might want to know how to use an apostrophe in a tag without breaking the formatting:

Sisyphos says:

“…how does one get an apostrophe into a Tag without ruining it?”

Well, if you’re on Windows, you can use the “Character Map” utility (Programs>Accessories>System Tools>Character Map).

Click on the “Acute Accent” - generally in the sixth row and after the ² & ³ and before the µ & ¶; it will show larger in a box that pops up.

Click “Select”.

Click “Copy”. The character is now on the clipboard.*

Type your tag the usual way, but instead of typing an apostrophe, press Control-V to paste the character-that-looks-like-an-apostrophe-but-isn’t when you come to the places where an apostrophe is needed.

For proof that it works. view the second tag on “Sletches”…

*You can select and copy more than one character at a time, if you want - everything from “²” to “¶” above was composed in Character Map.
baslim_the_begger said, 10 months ago

Really hilarious
Buttock double – I guess we know what her most important asset is.
Male lap dancer – his lap in your face I think (probably popular with some male gays and some hetero women)
Those are Tom’s canines in panel one.
Curli at least manages to get a hand on the border…
Fairportfan said, 10 months ago

inshadowz says:

“8:30am (GMT+1) on Monday morning (equals 2:30am in NYC), and comics.com is still showing the Sunday strips”

It appears that CdotC is on US Pacific time - Zulu minus eight - which means that those of us in the Eastern time zone see updates at 0300 or so.
inshadowz said, 10 months ago

8:30am (GMT+1) on Monday morning (equals 2:30am in NYC), and comics.com is still showing the Sunday strips, which is OK because I missed out on my comics yesterday but I’d like to get today’s strips before the customers start calling in. On the other hand, it’s kinda nice to know that I’m not the only one who has trouble waking up ;)

I don’t drink coffee, I’ll take tea my dear.
Sting - ”An Englishman in New York”
inshadowz said, 10 months ago

fairportfan says: Well, if you’re on Windows, you can use the “Character Map” utility

A quicker version is to hold down the Alt key while you type 0180 on the numeric keypad on the right.

Although this requires that you remember the key sequence every time (or else you’ll take at least as much time as with CharMap looking it up), and that you have a full keyboard with the numeric keypad. If, on the other hand, you have a laptop without the keypad on the right, there usually are workarounds involving the “Fn” key, but by now we’re getting into difficult waters.
Fairportfan said, 10 months ago

Not sure where i got this one, but:

Redneck hunter with one too many DUI convictions: http://electronictiger.net/avail/hunt.jpg
Fairportfan said, 10 months ago

**baslimthebegger says:
“Those are Tom’s canines in panel one.”

Well, yeah. But they’re twice as long as the other teeth in that panel - or even themselves in panel 6.

inshadowz says:

“fairportfan says: Well, if you’re on Windows, you can use the ‘Character Map’ utility

“A quicker version is to hold down the Alt key while you type 0180 on the numeric keypad on the right.”

I can never remember the key sequences, and i tend to use a number of special characters from time to time, so, when i’m not using my DTP (which has an “Insert” menu for special characters), i use Character Map. (I’ve got the shortcut in a desktop folder.)
Joe Minotaur said, 10 months ago
[For those who missed it yesterday]

Pibgorn’s Birth.
- They say it was in the Year of the Horn(+),
  to the Woodland Fairies, a child was born.
  Her birth, ‘tis as they say, had been foresworn,
  on a parchment, soiled, tattered and torn.
  Allow her hair of flames, remain unshorn,
  lest her life, among our folk, be forlorn.
  Let the search for dewdrops be her sojourn,
  for dandelions that be dry and worn.
  Though love of a human, she may not scorn,
  she must remain forever, our Pibgorn.
- +: An imaginary reference to the year 1531.
  One of the years that Halley’s Comet appeared.
Bill Case said, 10 months ago

I would think that Amos, were he to face Edda rather than the blank screen, would play with much greater emotion.
TheSkulker said, 10 months ago

Frida - this one’s for you! As well as the rest of the couchites.

http://assets.comics.com/dyn/str_strip/000000000/00000000/0000000/200000/70000/0000/100/270190/270190.full.gif

Hope you get reconnected soon.
TheSkulker said, 10 months ago

fairportfanPro says:
   inshadowz says:
   A quicker version is to hold down the Alt key while you type 0180
   on the numeric keypad on right.
I can never remember the key sequences, and i tend to use a number of special characters
from time to time, so, when i’m not using my DTP (which has an “Insert” menu for special
characters), i use Character Map. (I’ve got the shortcut in a desktop folder.)

I can’t remember them either. That’s why the frame of my monitor looks like a refrigerator
with all the little post-its.
zaphire said, 10 months ago

Thanks Cobass. and look what I found http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ovHG_e0_PTE
TheSkulker said, 10 months ago

zaphire says:
Thanks Cobass. and look what I found: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ovHG_e0_PTE

Wow! Neat! Blond, trim, superlative girl colors; glasses, black hair, a bit shy. Hard to
find a closer match!
RockHouse said, 10 months ago

For you Pogophiles, Walt Kelley was pretty good with names, too.

In a section called “Open Wide, Sesame”, Beauregard Montreal Bugleboy, scion of the catbait fortune, enlists Pogo to outfit his pet moth with teeth. After the moth gets an old set of dentures tied to his head, ha asks “how’s they look, nurse?”, and Beauregard responds, “you looks like a teevy piano player and his piano”

Sometimes I wonder if Walt has a case of CAPD (Central Auditory Processing Disorder). I have a touch of it, and I have a creative friend wh has it too. It is similar to dyslexia, and is often found in persons who have ADHD.

The late senator reminds me a bit of Thomas P. (Tip) O’Neill.

On an episode of “This American Life” featuring persons that model themselves on superheroes, a self-trained Amazon bounty hunter noted that she liked to go to Las Vegas and pay a Chippendale-like lap dancer.
Saskfan said, 10 months ago

9CWL: Not only did Edda forget the black keys, but she’s reading blank pages.

Perhaps it’s a clever ruse, to ensure the judges don’t recognize the music; to go along with the screen so they don’t recognize the musicians.

Fairportfan: the pattern in the Houston Chronicle’s version comes from the half-tone screen; for some reason they’re showing the cartoon they print, not the one they receive. So we have to pay for our impatience - deal with it. :)
Moe A. said, 10 months ago

Good morning!
This is absolutely hilarious.
FAIRPORT, I noticed the canine thing immediately, I so agree.
Speaking of teeth, TT apparently has had some reconstructive work done since Dru clocked him in Mr. McE’s first book?
Bitingly yours,
MOE
Orgelspieler said, 10 months ago

txmystic, why not a male lap dancer? He probably started out as a Congressional aide.
Prof_Bleen said, 10 months ago

“Super model” with two words? I’ve been reading Pibgorn since the beginning, and that’s the first grammatical error I’ve seen.
CoBass said, 10 months ago

Super Model - leaps tall catwalks in a single bound…
Anyol'tomcat said, 10 months ago

Marzipan was just a standard model before her surgery.

A celebrity panel may smile and smile and smile and smile…and comprise a whole nest of villains. Stacked against Dru?
So where’s Dorothy Killgallon?

Interesting how the base color of the wallpaper modulates.

Perhaps Edda is playing a special Linus memorial model Bosendorfer in today’s CwL. [She has no page-turner so I suppose wee variances from accuracy are poetic license.] That keyboard looks like it could hold 93 keys in any case–so many little black keys might be distracting or–?. Amos has that little questing curl of hair again.
papa smurf said, 10 months ago

What will the prizes be? Things that go with infernal, eternal, etc.?

Any ideas for Spinky’s flaw, besides his obvious penchant for gloating about his evil plan(s) when he should be squashing the aubergines?
Gweedo Murray said, 10 months ago

On fairport’s redneck DUI guy.
Whur’s th’ rahfle ray-ack su-on ?
aerwalt said, 10 months ago

49; “And now for our first contestant! Let’s give a big hand for…”
invisifan said, 10 months ago

For those who were interested… part2: http://s33.photobucket.com/albums/d100/invisifan/IP-colours/?action=view&current=pib011206.jpg