Pibgorn by Brooke McEldowney

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fear-ciuil said, 6 months ago

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I asked my editor at Gocomics about the purpose of “favoriting” a strip. Her answer was this: “‘Favoriting’ allows people following you to see what comics you like. ‘Favorited’ comics also show up under your profile, and allow us to see what comics people are enjoying.”
Basically, I think it provides a method for spreading the word.
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StradMan37 said, 6 months ago

The lipsticked shirttail protruding through his fly is a nice touch.
Sisyphos said, 6 months ago

Nat Bustard, you look suspiciously like someone who does know something about a dame!
Margueritem said, 6 months ago

Smooooth, like 12 miles of dirt road after being driven on by 1/4 ton pickups towing full horse trailers after a monsoon rain……
Nabuquduriuzhur said, 6 months ago

Must still be a dream. That, or the volcano spat them out.
fear-ciuil said, 6 months ago

Sisyphos said:
Nat Bustard, you look suspiciously like someone who does know something about a dame!

Or, perhaps, someone about whom a dame knows something…?

dives in the pool to get away, thoroughly soaking the squirrels in the process
Sisyphos said, 6 months ago

The young detective looks a lot like a brown-haired Geoff. I think it’s the look of near-perpetual bewilderment….
debra4life50 said, 6 months ago

Risitas - I wonder if that lipsticked shirt tail means that Nat was getting a little oral lovin’.
baslim_the_begger said, 6 months ago

Hmmm, now what murder could that be?
Grizzel reminds me of spinky. A demon, methinks, who probably put Goeff on ice.
The Old Wolf said, 6 months ago

Brooke is having a lot of fun with this episode…
The Old Wolf said, 6 months ago

Good night, everyone. On the side table for tonight, warm pita wedges with baba ghanoush, hummus, dolmas, feta cheese, kalamata olives and dugh.
Sisyphos said, 6 months ago

Hey, fear-ciuil! Those all-wet squirrels are shaking themselves dry all over me while they chatter at you! [By the way, when did you acquire the hyphen?]
StradMan37 said, 6 months ago

@debra4life50:

I believe he was quite THOROUGHLY ravished by a true professional.
Sisyphos said, 6 months ago

Ummm. Thanks, ccdesan! But…I don’t know dugh.
EDIT: ”Doug who?” he thinks to himself.
fear-ciuil said, 6 months ago

@Sisyphos, I added the hyphen a few days ago (it is hyphenated in Scots Gaelic.)

ducks back under the water
BLUB-BLUB

Er–MARCO!
CoBass said, 6 months ago

@fear-ciuil - I was about to ask the same thing, but I see Sisyphos beat me to it.

To his(?) “when”, I will add “why?”

EDIT: I see you answered his question and anticipated mine while I was composing mine. Thanks!
CoBass said, 6 months ago

@Sisyphos: Re: Dugh - http://tinyurl.com/cvffv6 (Summary: A yogurt-based drink)
fatuncle said, 6 months ago

Two new players?
fear-ciuil said, 6 months ago

Compare to
http://picayune.uclick.com/comics/pib/2006/pib060830.gif
http://picayune.uclick.com/comics/pib/2006/pib061002.gif
http://picayune.uclick.com/comics/pib/2007/pib070103.gif
Sisyphos said, 6 months ago

ccdesan: now, ayran I’ve had (it didn’t agree with me, even though I like yogurt)!
Joe Minotaur said, 6 months ago

No Comment!
Saskfan said, 6 months ago

Smooth, Nat, real smooth.

Would the squirrels mind a hair drier?

Thanks, CCDesan, I’ll try everything except the Feta; it’s too salty for my taste. May 23 = 20 years of a low-salt diet for me. But there’s an Italian deli ear me that sells a lovely mild goat cheese that I can eat; there’s some headed to the sideboard now, along with Wensleydale with blueberries in it.
POLO!
GrumpyOldbear said, 6 months ago

☮01:01CDT
Sisyphos said, 6 months ago

–Let me add some tzatziki to the sideboard, too (Cedars brand, from my local grocery)!
Saskfan said, 6 months ago

margueritemPro says: Smooooth, like 12 miles of dirt road after being driven on by 1/4 ton pickups towing full horse trailers after a monsoon rain……

What a charming turn of phrase you have, dear!
Saskfan said, 6 months ago

Forgot to mention: Within Temptation on the stereo by the pool, just to mess up the teens who can’t believe Old Fogeys can like their music.
The Old Wolf said, 6 months ago

@sysyphos: Dugh and ayran are very similar - dugh contains mint and dill, where ayran is plain. I find them both very refreshing.
Joe Minotaur said, 6 months ago

It’s a triple negative! He does know something about no dame!
Joe Minotaur said, 6 months ago

That’s not Lieutenant Grizzel! That’s Detective Joe Minotaur and Sgt. Cliff Hanger!
jml58 said, 6 months ago

That was no dame, It was a succubus,
Joe Minotaur said, 6 months ago

Why does Nat Bustard wear a belt?
To keep his…oh, never mind!
Joe Minotaur said, 6 months ago

http://instantrimshot.com/
ARF2 said, 6 months ago

Methinks this dream is being run by a third-party demon with a bone to pick. Tom Torquemada and Spitcock come to mind, but Dru and Nat have made more than a few enemies…
txmystic said, 6 months ago

Well well well, now that the heat has arrived, we might get some insight as to who’s behind this dream…do you think the “murder” in question refers to the many demons that could have bought it when Dru unleashed an ironic flood of icy water into the pit of Gehenna, or the consignment of demons to said place via accordion by Geoff in the Borgia Cantus arc?

mmm…Mediterranean food…
Adrienne Gormley said, 6 months ago

Ccdesan: What an absolutely stunning lineup of edibles. I lubs that sort of stuff. Now, at my favorite Persian eatery (locally), which is named Chatanoga (which was named after a restaurant in Teheran, which was, in turn, given a remote exotic name by its founders – they tossed a dart at a map of the US, and converted the selected city name over to Farsi. You figure it out :) ) … there’s an appetizer dish they serve that you can’t find on the menu, but if you know it exists, you can order it. I learned of it from the former co-workers (Bahram and Hamid) who introduced me to the place :)

It’s called haleem bademjan (stress on last syllable in each word, as best I can recall). It’s eggplant-based, but it’s delish (eggplant, yoghurt, mint oil, browned onions, and a few seasonings I can’t recall).

Edit: I’ve tried a sip of dugh at that same restaurant (Hamid just loved the stuff), and it’s probably the only thing on your list that I wouldn’t touch again….but, as the late Marion Zimmer Bradley often said, “If we all liked the same thing, oh what a haggis shortage there’d be!”
ejcapulet said, 6 months ago

Looks like she knows a few things about you. Better dust his body for fingerprints!
JonD17 said, 6 months ago

Obviously Nat, obviously.
3Xp4t said, 6 months ago

So. Nat is not in the hospital anymore. He’s back answering his office door. M’thinks split quantum infinitives are involved.

I wander how many Borgia Cantus characters will come wondering through this dream. It is a dream, right ..?

ccdesan says:
Brooke is having a lot of fun with this episode…

I’m having a lot of fun with this episode! The comic effect of scrolling down the image and having Nat revealed as covered in lipstick had me incapacitated. The final ‘flag’ at the bottom is the icing. Thank you, Brooke!
DreamScourge said, 6 months ago

Plausible deniability… Hmmm
Sisyphos said, 6 months ago

Adrienne, a provincial taverna I used to frequent in Greece had an eggplant-based specialty that they called melitzanes [eggplants] Imam baldi [accent on last sylllable]–“the Imam fainted” (i.e., from delight). Seems similar to what you described. –Included eggplant, onions, tomatoes, maybe garlic(?), and I know not what else….
3Xp4t said, 6 months ago

Um … Lieutenant Grizzel’s partner seems to be Geoff(’s brother?) ..??
OldMan Montgomery said, 6 months ago

Ah, yes…

Another carefully crafted and cunningly detailed cover story.

Looks like the cops might have found him by following the seismic disturbance trail. Actually, something like that happened to me in about 1994. I’m close to getting over it; maybe another six or eight years.
ThatCat said, 6 months ago

RisitasPro says:
The lipsticked shirttail protruding through his fly is a nice touch.

(squints eyes) Well! I guess that IS a white shirttail. My natural inclination and poor eyesight told my twittering mind that was a rip in his pants and I was seeing a hint of skin smeared with even more kisses.

You know, the ones from the non-existent dame.
chairump said, 6 months ago

That Nat can sure Obfuscate - pass the saltines
DeathDealer said, 6 months ago

Based on the lipstick on the shirt tail, it appears that Dru has been examining for broken bones again.
I might try the dugh, thanks… just to say that I have eaten it. My tastes this morning lean more toward SOS and eggs over easy (Soldier comfort food).
prasrinivara said, 6 months ago

ejcapulet, Dru only leaves lip-prints when she has lipstick on–never finger, thumb or toe prints.

On the murder, perhaps Dru sucked out the heat of the ice-guy?
macFicheallaigh said, 6 months ago

Wasn’t Dinah Cloverly wanted for murder in the Borgia Cantus? If not wanted for murder, she had killed Harry Inchman …

It’s like both Nat and Dru are back in the Borgia, or, maybe a crude copy of it.

Elsewhere, Pib is wrapped in a whodunnit of her own – who iced Geoff, was it Tom T. with a plasma bolt, The Watcher with a spell, Spinky revived, using a vampiric stare?
pibfan868 said, 6 months ago

If he doesn’t know anything now, it’s time for him to get back to studying!
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I love the running shoe joke (hah, I KILL me!) in 9CL.
kcboomer said, 6 months ago

I wonder what Connie Francis would make of all this??
MermaidStitcher said, 6 months ago

margueritemPro don’t forget the horses are having a disagreement in the trailer.