Pibgorn by Brooke McEldowney

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fear-ciuil said, 4 months ago

If you are new to Pibgorn, start with The Old Wolf’s Pibgorn Tribute Page, which gives story and character info:
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Today’s 9 Chickweed Lane can be found at:
http://www.chron.com/apps/comics/showComic.mpl?date=2009%2F7%2F7&name=9_Chickweed_Lane

Links to the strips that comprise the Borgia Cantus arc can be found here:
http://tinyurl.com/borgia
StradMan37 said, 4 months ago

9CWL:

The Al-Monty’s All-Wet!!!
Margueritem said, 4 months ago

That, Nat, is the question…
Sisyphos said, 4 months ago

What fine “Bogie” art and quotations!
Joe Minotaur said, 4 months ago

Pibgorn:
Distractions, distractions.

9CWL:
Monty appears to be suffering from a lack of faith.

fear-ciuil
Once again I offer my condolences on your loss.

Lisa
Here’s hope for a swift and safe recovery. May the pains of motherhood be balanced by the joys.
debra4life50 said, 4 months ago

Did any of us predict this strip??
Sisyphos said, 4 months ago

I’ll venture to guess that the “Burden of Bogie” is being used by the as-yet-unidentified Evil Force against Nat for just the very reason that Nat perceives: as a distraction; but possibly also in some way a clue?
TennesseeD said, 4 months ago

Somebody fill me in on the 9CW thing. Did Mac poke a hornet’s nest and not expect to get stung? Am I misreading this?
mjolnir 9 said, 4 months ago

Quotations are from, in order, (Clockwise):
A, To Have and Have Not
B. To Have and Have Not
C. The Maltese Falcon
D. Casablanca
E. Casablanca

Bogartian distractions indeed…
debra4life50 said, 4 months ago

Joe, I guess no one wanted to play.
fear-ciuil said, 4 months ago

Thanks, Joe (dare I say … et al.?)

As I have a dentist appointment tomorrow morning, it behooves me to go to bed before 5 AM, so … god natt.
ejcapulet said, 4 months ago

I think Sisyphos is right. Someone/something is trying to keep him from figuring out what’s going on,
StradMan37 said, 4 months ago

@ejcapulet:

It’s working on US, too……….
Mattimeomeg said, 4 months ago

@Mjolnir9

I thought: “You know how to whistle don’t you? You just put your lips together and…blow.” was from The Big Sleep. I may be wrong, but that is the one Bogie/Bacall movie I have seen enough times to remember lines.
tallwoman41 said, 4 months ago

Nat may be outside Tom T’s control, and Nat is the only one who can stop his little game. Soooooo, what is Nat? More than just a demon?
Sisyphos said, 4 months ago

AmriloJim, you’re off to a good start! What wonderful industriousness you’re blessed with!
Adrienne Gormley said, 4 months ago

TennesseeD said, 15 minutes ago
Somebody fill me in on the 9CW thing. Did Mac poke a hornet’s nest and not expect to get stung? Am I misreading this?

The nun that Monty is facing off is Sister Stephen, who is headmistress of the prep school that Edda and Amos attended before graduating and moving on to NYC.

Diane, the ex-nun, as Sister Aramus, taught English at the selfsame school.

Sister Stephen’s nickname amongst the students and most of the staff is – with reason – Sister Caligula.

‘Nuff said. ;)
ejcapulet said, 4 months ago

TennesseeD said, 14 minutes ago

Somebody fill me in on the 9CW thing. Did Mac poke a hornet’s nest and not expect to get stung? Am I misreading this?

A little bit. The post-board at 9CWL got invaded by trolls who took perverse pleasure in insulting the artist and the other commentors, but that wasn’t the worst of it. I think that HM would have let that slide because trolls usually go away on their own.

One of these trolls started taking HM’s strips and the Luann strips and changing the dialogue. I found where he’d posted the link to both 9CWL and Luann on the 9CWL board and followed it out of morbid curiosity (please forgive me! I had no idea what I would find). His changes were - to say the very least - hideously offensive and insulting and if I continue with what I think of this guy and his “changes”, I’ll have to flag myself out of principle. That was the day the post board was shut down and I don’t blame Mr. McE one bit.
Sisyphos said, 4 months ago

“Whistle…” is from To Have and Have Not (1944):
http://tinyurl.com/4nezpc

EDIT: and here’s “…dead bee?”:
http://tinyurl.com/l5tpuj
Saskfan said, 4 months ago

I’m not really much of a Bogart fan (and I’m hiding from the various and sundry objects now flying in my direction), but my first reaction was “How does she keep the curl in her hair in that rain?”

I don’t read the comments on The Other Site, so I didn’t miss them. This place is better! Honourable Master has the right to shut down anything he pleases, since they’re his creations. I salute you, Mr. Mc E!

Edit: There’s an R in first, idiot, he said to himself.
Saskfan said, 4 months ago

Re: 9CL: Wonderful! maybe even Twoderful!!

But what sort of lecture will Diane and Francis get for skinny dipping? And how will Thorax justify his joining them?
ejcapulet said, 4 months ago

tallwoman41 said, 14 minutes ago

Nat may be outside Tom T’s control, and Nat is the only one who can stop his little game. Soooooo, what is Nat? More than just a demon?

Oh, I’m sure you’re right about Nat being outside Tom the Toast’s control. But no one really knows what kind of demon he is, neither does he, he picked up being Nat to define himself. I think Tom only has control over those who have an alter-ego, but Nat’s normal incarnation and his alter-ego are the same.
Sisyphos said, 4 months ago

A clip from The Maltese Falcon, with Sidney Greenstreet uttering “…character” at about 4:04:
http://tinyurl.com/ln6uhw
Ladywolf17 said, 4 months ago

So much distractions Nat needs to focus on the task at hand. Hopefully a deep plan is forming in that head of his.
Sisyphos said, 4 months ago

This Casablanca clip includes the “Mjr. Strasser” quote:
http://tinyurl.com/dnxee6
Nabuquduriuzhur said, 4 months ago

Lotsa beekeepers were bit by dead bees a winter before last- all those hybrid colonies got frosted out by those 2 weeks of 20s. Brrrrrrr.
Sisyphos said, 4 months ago

Unfortunately, I have not been able to find a Casablanca clip with the “you have to think for both of us” line….
BikeNBoatN said, 4 months ago

AmriloJim The 9CL archive looks great! My thoughts: If space permits, go ahead and put the Sunday strip at the bottom of the page. Even though they’re not really following the same arc as the weekday strips, I think it makes it easier if the entire week was in one page, like your Pib archive is. Again, that’s just my 2 cents, because what you’ve done so far is outstanding as it is.

Pibgorn: Interesting how Nat went from walking on a clear day in either sunlight or moonlight, to being in a downpour in the middle of the night.

9CL: Looks like it’s been a while since Monty had been in Sister Steven’s flock, as he clearly forgot her ability to instill fear and fright into her students.
pittfall said, 4 months ago

@Saskfan: that sounded a little like inflationary language.

Ah, Nat. You’ll figure it out. At least I hope, for our sake, ‘cause I know I haven’t yet.
BikeNBoatN said, 4 months ago

In the immortal words of Thumper, from the Bambi movie:

”If you can’t say somethin’ nice, don’t say nothin’ at all”.

http://tinyurl.com/mda8ln

edit: added link to Thumper
edit 2: oops, the first one is “somethin’”, not “nothin”.
ejcapulet said, 4 months ago

I don’t know how Lauren Bacall got whistling if she put her lips together and blew - all I get is a raspberry.
ejcapulet said, 4 months ago

9CWL: Monty, you should be afraid… very afraid.
Sisyphos said, 4 months ago

Thanks for adding the link, BikeNBoatN!
ejcapulet said, 4 months ago

Hey, AmriloJim, love the site! It loads nice and fast (a huge plus for my impatient little brain) and it’s easy to navigate. I’ll have to look around in it more, but it looks great so far.
wolfbyte36 said, 4 months ago

No alcohol drinking now for six days I am using meditation to clear my mind of any temptations or distractions.And in the darkest part of my mind I saw a light. And in that light I saw faces of those who have cared about me. It has given me renewed strength to carry on in my battle to remain sober.
BikeNBoatN said, 4 months ago

wolfbyte Congratulations on making it this far. You’ve got the strength to continue.
ejcapulet said, 4 months ago

Good job, wolfbyte, you can make it!
Nabuquduriuzhur said, 4 months ago

Well, monty’s just a delusional cuss like Thorax. Wonder if htey are from the same planet…
zorchon said, 4 months ago

Amrilo Jim … Are you online right now, and was there irony dripping from your fingers about the “fun part” being fishing out the urls?
I truly DO like tinkering with html, javascript, and c programming… so I might be able to find a fast way to make a list of the url dates…
And then a Macro which would write the whole page for you…
(As the best case scenario.)
DaveGlass said, 4 months ago

“In all the dreams in all the world, they had to walk into mine….”

With apologise to the “Humph”
Phoenix_Ascendant said, 4 months ago

AmriloJim: I have to agree with Sisyphos, you’ve really done a bang-up job on the Pibby archive! Well done!

Pibgorn: It makes me wonder what the distractions are about as well…. I can’t wait until the answer is unveiled.

9CWL: Yeah, I’d be soaked too. She’s scary! ^_^
Ma'at said, 4 months ago

Okay, someone has to say it -

Adam… AGAIN??

Can you and Brooke just hook up on a bridge somewhere and see whose dingle dangles in the water the most, and leave the rest of us alone?

Thank you.
mojitobaby said, 4 months ago

Adam, you mentioned “fairness” You “parodied” someone else’s work. They didn’t appreciate it, as is their right. You posted the link to another link on a private site that also didn’t appreciate it, as is their right. Now it seems as though you not only expect them to tolerate it, but approve as well. If you loved the board, congratulations, you helped kill what you loved. You might not have anticpated it. Sometimes we don’t expect things to play out as they did, we didn’t mean to, but there it is, we accept the part we had in the outcome. I think it was extreme and unnecessary given that your account was closed, but that’s not the point. Your petulant attitude is that you still expect the author of the original source to not only tolerate but be flattered by your efforts. That seems to me to be the height of immaturity. Calling him names like “insecure” because he spoiled your fun is childish. Pull up your big boy pants and move on.
pibfanbrux said, 4 months ago

Oh, THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU Amrilo Jim for all your work in getting all the Pib archives up for all of us to enjoy. We are not worthy….
waycyber said, 4 months ago

Is this an opportunity for each of us to pick our own favourite Bogie quote?

One of mine is “Things are never so bad they can’t be made worse.”
Anyol'tomcat said, 4 months ago

“Chaucer’s words to Adam, his own scribe

O Adam–Scribe– if ever it thee befall
My Boethius or Troilus to write out new
Under thy long locks thou must have scall
If after my making thou write not more true
*So* oft aday thy work must I renew
And correct it with weary rub and scrape
And all is from thy negligence & rape”

[my trans.]

To qualify as parody a work should probably evince a certain level of originality. Aspirant practitioners thereof might wish to peruse the definitions of “Projection” as well.
SirMirom said, 4 months ago

@wolfbyte#, best of luck to you, and God’s blessings in your endeavor.
Anyol'tomcat said, 4 months ago

Was Monty just redacted? Deconstructed? Baptized?

The oldest bible in the world in now online, by the bye. The rub is you have to know Koine Greek. Guardian article is here: http://tinyurl.com/pj62km

And is Nat being deconstructed by his personal mythology?
The Old Wolf said, 4 months ago

You know the drill, folks. Just use the “flag” button.

@wolfbyte congratulations on two more days behind you.
cloudnine09 said, 4 months ago

Who is adamhosk?
I am one who is guilty of troll feeding. I promised myself that I would post no more but now just one more. This page may have some clues. http://comics.com/luann/2009-06-15/.