Pibgorn by Brooke McEldowney

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Margueritem said, 2 months ago

At least Geoff got some benefit from it.
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Today’s 9 Chickweed Lane

Pib: Wow! Pretty heady stuff. Not nearly as inconsequential as I thought it would be! So that’s what all those little black buggers were. And she doesn’t look the least bit pregnant now. Doesn’t bode well for us humans, does it…

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Sisyphos said, 2 months ago

So, Geoff is the mother of the new generation of demons, and Dru merely the midwife?
The Old Wolf said, 2 months ago

We need a dose of demonic Acyclovir…
Sisyphos said, 2 months ago

I’ll never look upon “minor sinus congestion” in quite the same way again!
KalahariNight said, 2 months ago

Weren’t cold symptoms once referred to as “evil humours” or some such?
Cashew Jim said, 2 months ago

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Urquell said, 2 months ago

I wonder if my wife is part of all this?
Nabuquduriuzhur said, 2 months ago

re: KalahariNight: “Oh my… classic unexpected twisty turn. Mr. McE must really, really, really hate the common cold!”

I H8 the common cold.

here’s why:
http://tinyurl.com/my5hjn

It’s never a good thing when you are in the news because of a rare disease…

What is funny about the mention of measles in the article is that they never asked me about the measles. I had both kinds- rubella and rubeola- plus scarlatina as a kid…
Nabuquduriuzhur said, 2 months ago

I like McE’s humor.
Cashew Jim said, 2 months ago

Great drawing and some(?) questions answered? Who is narrating? Nat?
Nabuquduriuzhur said, 2 months ago

Tom Torquemada, the diabolic game show host
MurphyHerself said, 2 months ago

So yesterday she wasn’t laughing. Morning sickness?? Birth looks painful.

“minor sinus congestion” indeed.
Fairportfan said, 2 months ago

Cashew Jim said

Great drawing and some(?) questions answered? Who is narrating? Nat?

Nah - still Tom T in his latest incarnation, channeline Ralph Edwards.

From “yesterday”:

The Old Wolf said

@AmriloJim Congratulations - excellent website.

Indeed.

Have you seen the pink ribbon that says “Save the Ta Tas”?

(For Those Who Do Not Completely Get The Joke, i provide this link.

Afternoonhandyman said

If you have a recurrance of the same or a similar problem, I would suggest re-booting into “Safe Mode” (hold down F8 while booting until options screen comes up, select “safe Mode”) and running scans in both Norton and SMart Security. (1 at a time, please)

Fer Shure.

And do not run two active anti-virus programs (i.e., Norton and AVG, or Symantec and Avira or …) at the same time.

eschmenk said

This isn’t nearly as gross as “Aliens”, but when Buster Keaton filmed his classic silent movie, “The General”, he didn’t warn the actors playing pursuing Union cavalry that they were going to pull down a bridge that a locomotive was crossing.

Speaking of bridge demolitions in movies - so far as i know, the bridge demolition sequence in Sergio Leone’s Duck You Sucker was at the time (and may still be) the largest full-scale explosive demolition sequence ever filmed.

Afternoonhandyman said

“As we have some computer programmers here - does anyone know a simple-minded version of BASIC that works in XP?”

I have not seen any versions of BASIC that are designed to work in any windows-based system, they all work in DOS, as far as I know. Interesting question tho, I’m off to research

Quite a few, actually.

Check this site which also lists free Pascal and C++ compilers. (I think some of the BASIC implemantations for Windows are compilers, producing executable code, rather than interpreters doing line-by-line parsing.)
Nabuquduriuzhur said, 2 months ago

This should frost most readers:

http://tinyurl.com/ljcqoh
Nabuquduriuzhur said, 2 months ago

Will dru snort them out, then?

If there is a flotilla of demons ready, that would be a lot of sneezing.
Cashew Jim said, 2 months ago

Adam forgot Mary? With Edda there, none would remember Mary. Sorry Mary, but being just a youthful memory you didn’t stand a chance.
Afternoonhandyman said, 2 months ago

@Cashew Jim said, 2 minutes ago

“Great drawing and some(?) questions answered? Who is narrating? Nat?”

Or Tommy T… yes it is a great drawing.

But why are the “black spikey things” now bright sparkly things? - unless the reveal behind the curtain was a negative image.

On a positive note: no IE hang-ups for 12 hours!
AmriloJim said, 2 months ago

Fairportfan said, ”Have you seen the pink ribbon that says “Save the Ta Tas”?”

Yes, indeed!
Nabuquduriuzhur said, 2 months ago

Coffee with whipped cream, anyone?

http://tinyurl.com/ljjajv
Afternoonhandyman said, 2 months ago

@Fairportfan:

Thanks for helping clarify my 2 posts. I did find some links to BASIC for Windows, and I’ll re-list them here:

Basic for XP users group;
www.daniweb.com/forums/thread13053.html

BASIC Programming Programs;
BBC BASIC - Write your own Windows programs
www.bb4w.com/
Afternoonhandyman said, 2 months ago

@Nabuquduriuzhur said, 3 minutes ago

“Coffee with whipped cream, anyone?”

No thanks, have to get up early tomorrow.

Good night everyone, have a great day!
Cashew Jim said, 2 months ago

Night all. Behind in ZZZZZs.
CoBass said, 2 months ago

@fairportfan, @AmriloJim Re: “Save the Ta Tas”

I like the Save 2nd Base t-shirts.

(Although to tell a joke on my self…

The first time I saw the “Save Second Base” t-shirt, it just had the slogan, no illustration. Took me about 30 minutes to get it - I thought they were talking about a baseball field or something…)
debra4life50 said, 2 months ago

No more snoring for Geoff!
Sisyphos said, 2 months ago

And who was this earlier, “unfortunately idiotic” she-demon who planted the demon-seed in human skulls?
waycyber said, 2 months ago

International Rickshaw Day

At a pinch, a wheelbarrow will do
Sisyphos said, 2 months ago

If ever there were a time for the accordion, surely it is needed now! Hurry, Geoff (maybe Maurice, ace associate detective, can help locate an instrument for you)!
Nabuquduriuzhur said, 2 months ago

Thankfully, scientists and docs are close to the exact mechanism for why cancer cells go nuts and divide in 3s, 5s, 7s, etc., without normal restraints. Give cancer less than 15 years if things keep progressing as they have been.

2nd base? I thought that was 3rd. (‘course, I’m not exactly what you’d call an expert in such matters- VTID).
mjolnir 9 said, 2 months ago

We’re still watching - and listening to caustic comments upon - the events leading up to the beginning of the story-arc, Dru’s death-dive. This is still Tom’s narration.

What I don’t get - and I really don’t get it - is the third panel. If Dru ‘cured’ Geoff’s cold, and he got all happy and congestion-free…how did he end up in a glacier in Antarctica? Why was she in that pose of grief yeaterday? Why did she end up in New York City, doing a kamikaze into the sidewalk near Lenox Hill Hospital? And who was this other female demon, who was just introduced by narrative - not a visual - from deep left field? A female demon who just happened to plant demon spawn in human nasal passages a few hundred years ago?

There is much left to be explained here…and with a cliffhanger approaching, too…
The Old Wolf said, 2 months ago

@Nab Re: Article… Wow. Speechless.

Good night, everyone.
Nabuquduriuzhur said, 2 months ago

G’nite Old Wolf
Joe Minotaur said, 2 months ago

Thursday’s Thrilling Tremmors!

QUIZ TIME

What did we see when the strip/page updated tonight?

9 Chickweed Lane:
.1. Edda’s girl friend from Highschool(Not this week).
.2. Edda’s friend arrives. She’s dressed as A)Novice, B)Punk Rocker, C)Goth Girl, D)Casual, E)Mime.
.3. Amos forgets about Mary.
.4. The kiss keeps going and going and going and etc…
.5. SQUIRREL!!
.6. Amos is not diverted by the kiss and asks about Mary.
.7. Mark becomes jealous and kisses Seth.
.8. And then along comes Mary.
.9. Number 9, Number 9, Number IX.

Pibgorn:
.1. Drucilla protests that a pregnancy is impossible.
.2. The Volcano A)Blows up B)Goes quiet, C)Shrinks, D)Turns to sparklies, E)Vanishes.
.3. Tom T. offers up even more evidence of Dru’s folly.
.4. Both Drus’ experience labor pains!
.5. Lena interrupts, so does the volcano.
.6. More dirty talk about A) Merging files, B) Defragging a hard drive, C) Ctrl+Alt+Del.
.7. Drucilla will give birth A)Thursday, B)Friday, C)Monday, D)Tuesday, E)Two weeks from now.
.8. Igor has something to say.
.9. Mrs. Egg, poached and boilling mad!
.10. “Follow. BUT! Follow only if ye be men of valor!”
.11. “For the entrance of this cave is guarded by a creature so foul that no man yet has fought with it and lived!”
.12. “Bones of full fifty men lie strewn about it’s lair! So, brave knights, if you do doubt your courage or your strength, come nae further!”
.13. “For Death awaits you all with nasty big pointy teeth!”
.14. None of the above.
waycyber said, 2 months ago

For Star Trek Fans

It is “Yugon-Tu-Fa”, the Day of Practical Jokes on Vulcan
Sisyphos said, 2 months ago

As usual, I struck out completely on Joe’s Quiz: official, 3&4; 3&7&13. Me, 8; 10.

Zilch.
Gweedo Murray said, 2 months ago

Best wishes for Gabe thevenbede.
Adrienne Gormley said, 2 months ago

And Dru’s hair keeps getting longer and longer.

I remember when it came barely to her hips, then below hips and above knees, then below knees, but the last few days it’s been so long she can STAND on it.
Gweedo Murray said, 2 months ago

Except in Dinah Cloverly mode. Then, a fine example of a great short hair clip. I usually like it long.
UncaAlby said, 2 months ago

@Adrienne Gormley said, 12 follicles ago

And Dru’s hair keeps getting longer and longer.

Well I think it would rather peculiar if her her was getting shorter don’t you? Hair does tend to grow y’know.

I mean of course, unless she went to a hair stylist –

It reminds of what I like to say to people when it’s raining. Inevitably, somebody will say, quote, “Look at it coming down!”

To which I will respond, quote, “Yah, wow, and look! There’s a batch going back up!”
Nabuquduriuzhur said, 2 months ago

Assuming that it is hair. The stuff is very tough. Could a pair of scissors cut it?
Fairportfan said, 2 months ago

CoBass said

I like the “Save 2nd Base” t-shirts.

Oh, that’s evil.

For our fifth (or was it the tenth), my first wife got me a shirt that simply said “Let go of my ears - I know what I’m doing.”

There’s a greeat story about someone who “got” it immediately, and someone who didn’t … but i don’t have the energy to tell it right now.

(snrk)

Nabuquduriuzhur said

2nd base? I thought that was 3rd. (‘course, I’m not exactly what you’d call an expert in such matters- VTID).

No - third is without the shirt.

UncaAlby said, 4 minutes ago

It reminds of what I like to say to people when it’s raining. Inevitably, somebody will say, quote, “Look at it coming down!”

To which I will respond, quote, “Yah, wow, and look! There’s a batch going back up!”

”Smith & Jones’, the *Dr Who epsiode that introduced Martha, features a very localised thunderstorm that does, indeed, rain up.
Nabuquduriuzhur said, 2 months ago

“No - third is without the shirt.”

Hmm, well, for the 20% or so of guys in high school and college that most of the girls were all chasing, I think that was first base. For the rest of us, it would be more like 9th inning plus 3 or 4 overtime innings.
Gweedo Murray said, 2 months ago

Sad but true Nabuqu.
pschearer said, 2 months ago

The narration sounds like Scientology.
MasterDiver said, 2 months ago

9CWL: As a Jaeger would say: “Dot Amos is vun Schmott Guuy. All he needs is ein HAT!!”
Fairportfan said, 2 months ago

Amos may not have actually gotten smarter.

But he has definitely upgraded his survival instinct since his own personal Hilarygate…
UncaAlby said, 2 months ago

@Fairportfan said, about 2 hours ago, commenting about my comment about localized weather patterns –

Actually, I should tell the rest of that gag – the funny part is, after I remark about rain going back up, the other person will inevitably do a double-take and say something like, ”Where??”

About half a second later, they come back to their senses –
geedub said, 2 months ago

Evil humours??? That’d be Don Rickles.
ejcapulet said, 2 months ago

Heh, so Dru has haplessly become the cure for the common cold by turning it into a horde of demons. Yep, that was pretty stupid.
IamMac said, 2 months ago

So, do baby demons look like small black spikey things, or small white spikey things? What is the care and feeding of baby demons? Where’s Pib & Oog? What’s up with Geoff? I’m thinking tomorrow’s Friday cliff-hanger is going to be a doozey!