Pibgorn by Brooke McEldowney

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StradMan37 said, 4 months ago

Well, Nat has met Rocco & Roscoe, & it looks like a volcanic Tom T-time fer da dames.
Joe Minotaur said, 4 months ago

Once again, it’s our favorite game show with our favorite host, Tom T.!!!
Hou-Chron still has not updated the B&W comics so no 9CWL.
waycyber said, 4 months ago

Pig Prosthetics
Robert was taking his family for a tour of a farm In Dustham. All was well until little Billy ran up to him and yelled. “Daddy, Daddy! That pig has got a wooden leg!” Robert told him not to be silly, but Billy yelled again “Daddy, Daddy! That pig really HAS a wooden leg!” So the whole family went over to the pen and, sure enough, there was a pig with a wooden leg.

Robert called to the farmer and asked him “Prithee, Goodsir, methinks ‘tis odd that yon pig has a leg of wood. Pray, what manner of thing is this?” (Robert had mastered the local dialect).

“Well, mate, it’s like this, innit?” (The farmer was actually from Clorxey Green). “When me and the missus was just starting up here, all we could afford was that pig. Got him when he was just a piglet.”

“Verrily, Goodsir,” (Robert was a bit slow on the uptake). “But why the leg as wooden as any oak?”

“Well, mate, it’s like this, innit? In the first week we got him he starts nuzzling the ground by that tree over there. We starts digging and there’s this huge pile of Roman coins. We got £250,000 for that.”

“Yes, but why the wooden leg?” (By Big George he’s got it!).

“Well, mate, it’s like this, innit? Abaht 6 months ago a burglar broke in tied up me and the missus, took all our money and jewellery and ran off. That pig jumped out of his pen, chased after the burglar, knocked him out, got into the house, chewed off the ropes on me and the missus, went back and sat on the burglar until the police came.”

“But WHY THE WOODEN LEG?”

“Well, mate, it’s like this, innit? Only last month I was working the lower field, when one of the tractor wheels sinks into the grahnd. The whole thing tips over and pins me dahn. I couldn’t move. I thought I was a gonner, and no mistake. That pig jumps out of his pen and starts digging away at the earth around me and drags me out. I owe my life to that pig.”

“Yes, yes, yes. BUT WHY THE WOODEN LEG!!!”

“Well, mate, it’s like this, innit? Last Tuesday our niece went for a paddle in the pond. She slips and hits her head on a rock. That pig jumps out of his pen and drags her out. Then it does CPR on her. It saved her life.”

“Look, if you don’t tell us why that pig has a wooden leg, I’m going to beat you senseless.”

“Well, mate, it’s obvious, innit? You have a pig that good; you don’t eat him all at once!! Streaky bacon anybody? Fresh!”
waycyber said, 4 months ago

The early morning sun is shining brightly on the metropolis of Milton Keynes. Birds are singing. the scent of blossom floats through the air. It is a time of hope. A time of new possibilities. A new clean slate. Now, as long as I don’t make a mistak.
UncaAlby said, 4 months ago

codpiece model, wunnerful wunnerful!
zorchon said, 4 months ago

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Today’s 9 Chickweed Lane can be found at:
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jml58 said, 4 months ago

So Tom is back.
Saskfan said, 4 months ago

Oh dear, the game-show prognosticators were right.

And the 6 comments before me aren’t showing up yet. Where’s the maitre’d? I wanna complain about the service here!!!
VicTR said, 4 months ago

At Last ! !
Now if 9CL is up, I can go to bed.
UncaAlby said, 4 months ago

OH NO!! MORE TEETH!
azrach said, 4 months ago

game show it is …. I’m trying to figure out that big smokey hand was a manifestation of tom torquemada (spelling error?)
zorchon said, 4 months ago

Still no CWL… but the Boilerplate is formatted and ready. Love the cleft chin of studly codpiece model!
Ladywolf17 said, 4 months ago

Wow it went from Wizzard of Oz to a game show. Who’s going to win and what will happen to the loosers,
More importantly How will Nat get him self out of this situation. I can’t wait to find out, but I must .
AliKzam said, 4 months ago

Oh, wait, that guy in the tiny panel isn’t supposed to be Tom, is it? He’s a “hunky codpiece model and rutting sociopath.”
I imagine Tom can’t look like too much. Once Dru was done with him in the last story, he was just a pile of ash with teeth.
ejcapulet said, 4 months ago

Uh oh. Not Tom the Teeth!
mjolnir 9 said, 4 months ago

‘Rocco’ is - as I suspected he would be - shadowed. And the upcoming Game Show is not necessarily to be hosted by Tom Torquemada (who looked distinctly fried when last we saw him, if memory serves). The Big Bad of the piece has yet to be completely unmasked.

‘Rocco’ also looks suspiciously slim and graceful to me - two qualities never exactly associated with Edward G. Robinson, who played him in Key Largo - and written dialogue doesn’t give you the timbre of a voice. Also note the hand. A possible gender surprise in the offing?

Snacks are gonna be tough to choose (the Master has us in two places at once again)…but I’m working on it…
Sisyphos said, 4 months ago

Ahh, nice, fresh Pib….

As I posted needlessly at “last night” just a few minutes ago, it looks to me very much like “Rocco” is a dame, possibly the former Pibsicle (somehow restored to viability and now on the search for Everybody). Meanwhile the brain-drained, tooth-endowed mannikins of Dinah, Nonny, and Teau-Teau are about to compete for a Violation in Gehenna with the Hunky Codpiece Model and Rutting Sociopath; and, yes, the gameshow host will almost certainly be that old pro,Tom Torquemada, the Host You Love to Hate!
Nabuquduriuzhur said, 4 months ago

what is a codpiece?
Sisyphos said, 4 months ago

…I had wandered off to try to get up to speed on Evil Inc.; I’ve made it from day one to last October, so far. Then stopped back here and found that Pibgorn had been posted….

Now, I’m off to Brand X to see 9CWL and the other strips I follow there….Ciao!
Joe Minotaur said, 4 months ago

9CWL is up at CdotC
Joe Minotaur said, 4 months ago

More fresh updates! Get ‘em while they’re hot!
http://www.gunnerkrigg.com/archive_page.php?comicID=584
http://eecomics.net/?
Sisyphos said, 4 months ago

–Okay, I’ve done my “turn” over at Brand X….

I’m back!

mjolnir9, looks like you and I had similar suspicions about “Rocco,” posted about the same time…. Except that I am more inclined to expect ol’ TT as the perpetual hellish gameshow host!
Sisyphos said, 4 months ago

Somewhere (or somewhen) between panel 5, where the girls have one last look as if they had their wits about them (as the side of the Volcano From H.e.l.l. closes up behind them), and panel 6, they have been totally transformed, made-up, and readied by the backstage crew to serve as Witless Gameshow Bunnies. They will be abused and humiliated by TomT, and then rescued–by Geoff and Maurice?

EDIT: At least it’s only a thirty-minute gameshow! –No matter how many days it takes to play out as measured in Pibgorn pages….
ARF2 said, 4 months ago

Dru did a pretty thorough job on Tom last time, and he may or may not be ready for another round. Will he show up for this round, or will he send in some temp? Either way should be entertaining…
waycyber said, 4 months ago

@Nabuquduriuzhur

A codpiece is a fish fillet worn to enhance a male appendage. Popular during middle ages (30-55).
ajlcary said, 4 months ago

@Nabuquduriuzhur

Tongue-in-cheek aside, A codpiece is the flap used to cover the “male appendage” in European garments of the years1200-1500 CE -

It didn’t take long for fashion to pad and modify this flap to enhance the appearance of the appendage. (Presumably a well stuffed codpiece implied a well endowed appendage.)

These ‘fake’ codpieces became pretty absurd- to the point where a man was preceded by his codpiece.

You can search the web to see pictures-
waycyber said, 4 months ago

@Nabuquduriuzhur, @ajlcary

The ultimate was the piece of cod that passes all understanding.

Henry VIII had a codpiece, but he couldn’t fillet.
Gunnr said, 4 months ago

@Captain Smokeblower – You saying you currently live in Lubbock, or did live there but don’t now?

On the subject of mystery novels, I’m a fan of Tony Hillerman’s Navajo tribal police novels.

To me, Sayers reads like a cross between P. G. Wodehouse and Agatha Christie stylewise. I love P.G. Wodehouse. He cracks me up.

Finally found a job. Got hired last week. Spent most of last week getting my old puter in shape to work on. Supposed to start today except I haven’t been trained on their software yet. Filed for unemployment bennies June 1, and was told I was elligible. STILL waiting for said bennies. My bank acount is overdrawn, because of software I had to by for the computer I plan to use for work. I have 45 bucks in cash, and I won’t get paid at my new job until the 20th. Am told by the person I talked to at the unemployment place that it takes anywhere from 4 to 6 weeks to get unemployment $$. I could be out on the street before I get any money from them. (*&^%$#@!
geedub said, 4 months ago

A codpiece is part of a suit of armor. Take a wild guess what it protects!
fatuncle said, 4 months ago

@Nabuquduriuzhur

In this instance, a codpiece would be the jockstrap equivalent of a padded bra.
ravnali said, 4 months ago

I’ve seen some ludicrous codpieces in the royal armouries here, you could probably do more damage to your opponent with your cod than with an edged weapon!
TiggerLeBounce said, 4 months ago

Who’s up for breakfast by the pool this morning?
waycyber said, 4 months ago

Breakfast? I’ve just had my lunch. Thirty degrees here in Daventry. Methinks ‘tis a scorcher.
The Old Wolf said, 4 months ago

By Mogg’s tufted tail, Brooke can make pretty girls look scary. Is it just me, or does Rocco’s silhouette have a soft, feminine look to it?

I can always look forward to a heapin’ helpin’ of Down Maine Confusion around here… to go along with the fresh mango, strawberry and pineapple with hot buttermilk biscuits!

@Gunnr Congratulations on the new job!

@ajlcary I can’t think of stuffed codpieces without thinking of “Black Adder”…

Wishing you all the most pleasant of days!
The Old Wolf said, 4 months ago

OK, so reading the comments after the fact make me look like a dunce, but hey if the shoe fits… blush
CarolinaGirls said, 4 months ago

waycyber — you are a breath of fresh air!! start my day with a good giggle!!!!
Captain Smokeblower said, 4 months ago

@Gunnr,
I’m spending the summer in Lubbock. Didn’t mean to. Won’t ever again if I can help it. (70+ degrees and 66% relative humidity @ Oh-dark-thirty in the morning.) Wife and I are nomads. Summer in Colorado’s mountains; winter in the desert.
We came for a HS graduation in May, but I broke my mouth piece and it’s going to take through July to get a new improved mouth piece (because they have to improve my mouth). My old style permanent mouth piece defined “permanent” as lasting no more than 10 years. I was expecting a longer duration even though I know it’s a throw-away society.
Captain Smokeblower said, 4 months ago

For breakfast this morning, seven pepper bacon and stuffed orange french toast (stuffing is equal parts cream cheese and orange marmalade, though the marmalade is thinned slightly with Grand Marnier). The cook is thinned with a little Grand Marnier too, but h3ck, he’ll do anything to thin himself except slow down at the dinner table. Why am I talking about myself in the third person and why am I now talking about myself to myself? This better not be a long distance call!
BikeNBoatN said, 4 months ago

The game show host sure does not look like TT.
Maybe Rocco is Geoff?
And interesting how Dru and Pibb now have their tops low enough to show as much skin as Oognat.
Wonder why panel 4 in the sketch has the three ladies so much different in height? It didn’t end up that way in the final art.
We’ll all have to wait and see…….
edit..wrong panel mentioned originally.
waycyber said, 4 months ago

I’ve got this tune in my head. It goes dah-di dah-di-dahhh dah dah di dahhh. I know it’s by Nat King Cole, but I can’t remember the name.

By the way, who is responsible for the pastry crumbs on cushion 3.142?
gjbivin said, 4 months ago

The British comedy Blackadder with Rowan Atkinson (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackadder) was rife with codpiece jokes. As I recall, the ultimate model was the “Black Russian”.
BikeNBoatN said, 4 months ago

I love the girl’s “grinning idiot bimbo” look. Not very flattering looking on three beautiful ladies, but nevertheless I love how they’re drawn.
MomGritty said, 4 months ago

All this talk of game shows put the Jeopardy! theme in my head!! Thanks a lot!
Burgundy2 said, 4 months ago

Gunnr - congratulations on the new job. Hope your finances hold out til the first paycheque. I know from personal experience that the red tape involved in getting benefits can be terrible.

Good Morning, everyone!
rotts said, 4 months ago

So, is he really a “butting” sociopath, or did you mean “budding”?
DeathDealer said, 4 months ago

rotts just said

So, is he really a “butting” sociopath, or did you mean “budding”?
I read that as “rutting.”

Maybe Chuck Barris will be the MC considering Tom T’s latest demise.
kcboomer said, 4 months ago

The silhouette of Rocco sure looks a lot like Geoff.
Ahnk_2000 said, 4 months ago

9CL is also availabe on Comics.com and on Yahoo comics, since Chron’s b&w’s are down.
OldMan Montgomery said, 4 months ago

Waycyber, your Nat Cole song sounds “A Blossom Fell”.

‘A falling blossom only touches lips that lie…”

Is that what you seek?

Gunnr, congratulations and best wishes on the new job.

The person on the boat could be female, I don’t know who; or could be Geoff. I too was impressed by the description of the male for whom they are vying. Another great bit of satiric prose.

Rotts, that’s ‘rutting’ sociopath. Look it up.
JosephR4570 said, 4 months ago

Check the sketches - definitely “rutting” sociopath, which coincides with an “all-expense-paid VIOLATION in the pits of Gehenna.” And he looks like he would make a Gehenna out of Paris in springtime for any of our girls.