Pibgorn by Brooke McEldowney

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  1. Margueritem

    MargueritemGenius_badge said, about 1 month ago

    It covers the earth, just like Sherwin-Williams paint.

  2. fear-ciuil

    fear-ciuil said, about 1 month ago

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  3. BikeNBoatN

    BikeNBoatNGenius_badge said, about 1 month ago

    Pib: Hey, we’re back in NYC. And it looks like whatever it is is going to encircle the globe. Hopefully clean up all the spare demons.

    9CL: Hmmm…flags vs f_ags…..

    edit: oops, removed boilerplate….

  4. waycyber

    waycyberGenius_badge said, about 1 month ago

    Morning

    It’s Board Game Day!

  5. MurphyHerself

    MurphyHerself said, about 1 month ago

    CoOOl. Everybody’s safe now, right???

  6. UncaAlby

    UncaAlby said, about 1 month ago

    *OK* – panels 1, 2, 3, I suppose, is cleaning up the Volcano issue.

    Panels 4 and 5 – ?? ??

    Were we in need of sub-orbital demon cleansing?

    Is this going to knock Dru’s little collection of stuff out of orbit?

  7. Fly Guy

    Fly GuyGenius_badge said, about 1 month ago

    Will the nannybot bleep fags?

  8. Sisyphos

    Sisyphos said, about 1 month ago

    Clean-up is under way! Could we possibly be nearing the end of this arc (bearing in mind the remarks attributed to Honorable Master a few days ago about a forthcoming respite for some of the principal characters)?

  9. UncaAlby

    UncaAlby said, about 1 month ago

    @Fly Guy said, less than a minute ago


    Will the nannybot bleep fags?


    Nah, everybody knows a “fag” is a “cigarette” in the UK.

  10. BikeNBoatN

    BikeNBoatNGenius_badge said, about 1 month ago

    Nah, everybody knows a “fag” is a “cigarette” in the UK.

    Course, that’s assuming the nannybot is UK-centric.

  11. UncaAlby

    UncaAlby said, about 1 month ago

    9CL

    “Cigarettes of Many Nations”

  12. wolfbyte36

    wolfbyte36 said, about 1 month ago

    A cleaner New York !

  13. BikeNBoatN

    BikeNBoatNGenius_badge said, about 1 month ago

    9CL: So, I suppose this means we’re done with Mary for a while.

  14. UncaAlby

    UncaAlby said, about 1 month ago

    @wolfbyte36 said, 1 minute ago


    A cleaner New York !


    “Yah, Ah’m the new sheriff, and Ah’ma gonna clean up this here town.” (grabs a broom and a mop)

  15. UncaAlby

    UncaAlby said, about 1 month ago

    ( oldest joke in the book! )

  16. Sisyphos

    Sisyphos said, about 1 month ago

    A clean-up after not one but two story-arcs, I think. I expect resolution of the Frozen Tsunami, and some sort of stabilizing of the relationships Roger has established with Satori, Lena with Drusilla, and Igor with Ma and Pa Egg!

  17. TennesseeD

    TennesseeD said, about 1 month ago

    Which movie was it that had Harvey Korman playing a guy who said, “Toss another fagot on the fire.”?

  18. VicTR

    VicTRGenius_badge said, about 1 month ago

    Good ! New York is safe…or as safe as it ever gets.

  19. UncaAlby

    UncaAlby said, about 1 month ago

    @BikeNBoatN said, 2 minutes ago


    9CL: So, I suppose this means we’re done with Mary for a while.


    I wouldn’t bet on that proposition – she can always attend the gallery show with Edda.

  20. BikeNBoatN

    BikeNBoatNGenius_badge said, about 1 month ago

    So, can anyone make out the letters in panel 3 of the sketch? V.S.W.? Very Sexy Women?

  21. waycyber

    waycyberGenius_badge said, about 1 month ago

    Ah, I get it. We’ve had The Search for Spock, now we will have The Search for Dru

  22. desertdwlr

    desertdwlr said, about 1 month ago

    reset

  23. UncaAlby

    UncaAlby said, about 1 month ago

    TennesseeD are you sure that was Harvey Korman?

  24. Radical-Knight

    Radical-KnightGenius_badge said, about 1 month ago

    THAT’S definately a Dru trademark and I bet she’ll have new plumage! (I think)

  25. TennesseeD

    TennesseeD said, about 1 month ago

    Right. It wasn’t. It was Dabney Coleman!

  26. Fairportfan2

    Fairportfan2Genius_badge said, about 1 month ago

    UncaAlby said

    @Fly Guy said, less than a minute ago

    ”Will the nannybot bleep fags?”

    Nah, everybody knows a “fag” is a “cigarette” in the UK.

    Nah - that’s a harry rag.

    A “fag” is a lower-form student who has to act as a servant to the upperclassmen.

    BikeNBoatN said, 3 minutes ago

    So, can anyone make out the letters in panel 3 of the sketch? V.S.W.? Very Sexy Women?

    I think it’s “USW” - “und so weiter”.

  27. AmriloJim

    AmriloJim said, about 1 month ago

    Vanishing Smoke Waves?

  28. Fairportfan2

    Fairportfan2Genius_badge said, about 1 month ago

    Ooo.

    Satori the White, the Eggs and Igor - The Fellowship of the Bemused, on a quest to find the One True Succubus!

  29. MissNaomi385

    MissNaomi385 said, about 1 month ago

    I am totally mesmerized by Brooke’s amazing artwork.

  30. Nabuquduriuzhur

    Nabuquduriuzhur said, about 1 month ago

    Tolkien used a very similar term in Fellowship of the Ring, which for most of its etymological history meant a large stick of wood. Can’t use the word today, though. Lot of words one can’t use today because they have a radically different meaning than they used to. One doesn’t use one of the synonyms for parsimonious because of its similarity to an insult. A word for happy is off limits now, because an anacronym with the same letters ruined it.

    I don’t use the word “yuck” in spoken conversation (used to accentuate something distasteful, such as ice cream and mayonnaise or a cesspool) any more because so many peoples’ hearing is completely shot from listening to loud music while drunk or stoned and they wonder for a second or two just what you’ve just said, knowing you’re not the type to say profanities without a pretty good reason..

  31. Fairportfan2

    Fairportfan2Genius_badge said, about 1 month ago

    Apropos of nothing in particular, but the last two panels tripped an Association in the jackdaw’s nest i call my memory - has anyone here ever heard of “morning glory clouds”?

  32. BikeNBoatN

    BikeNBoatNGenius_badge said, about 1 month ago

    “und so weiter’….and so on…..
    I think I like my TLA better. :-)

  33. Nabuquduriuzhur

    Nabuquduriuzhur said, about 1 month ago

    Und so weiter is et cetera in German. Of course, USW may mean something radically different in this case. Only Mr. McEldowney knows.

    They never did teach us in Deutschklassen what the equivalent of “ad nauseum” was, as in “etc…etc…ad nauseum”

  34. TennesseeD

    TennesseeD said, about 1 month ago

    There’s one on the back of a dime – it’s spelled with one g. The derogatory term is spelled with two. And I’m not afraid to say niggardly. If the less-educated have a problem with that, it’s just that – THEIR problem. I simply refuse to apologize for my erudition. I worked hard for it.

  35. Nabuquduriuzhur

    Nabuquduriuzhur said, about 1 month ago

    Veterans of Subteranean Wars?

  36. Sisyphos

    Sisyphos said, about 1 month ago

    A fag is also the term for a chore that junior boys had to do for senior boys in English boarding schools, especially in the 19th century, in the “fagging” system….

  37. Nabuquduriuzhur

    Nabuquduriuzhur said, about 1 month ago

    re:”Fairportfan2Genius_badge said, 3 minutes ago

    Apropos of nothing in particular, but the last two panels tripped an Association in the jackdaw’s nest i call my memory - has anyone here ever heard of “morning glory clouds”?”

    That’s incredible. I’ve never seen or heard of anything like that. What could cause that?

  38. TennesseeD

    TennesseeD said, about 1 month ago

    The Morning Glory cloud is a rare meteorological phenomenon observed in Northern Australia’s Gulf of Carpentaria. – Wikipedia, via Google

  39. mroberts88

    mroberts88 said, about 1 month ago

    Man, what is this, the most popular strip on gocomics?

  40. Nabuquduriuzhur

    Nabuquduriuzhur said, about 1 month ago

    Speaking of forbidden words and such, while the activist nuts decided that the word that for generations simply meant “indian woman” in some dialects was somehow a slur of late and changed some names because of it, somehow the Teton Range in Idaho was missed by the forces of political corectness. It was named by French trappers for… you can guess from the name “Teton”. If the PC crowd renamed it, I wonder what they’d call it?

  41. TennesseeD

    TennesseeD said, about 1 month ago

    What about all the breastworks on various battlefields?

  42. Nabuquduriuzhur

    Nabuquduriuzhur said, about 1 month ago

    hehe. Or breastplates?

    They still teach the term mammillary for certain rock and mineral textures in geology, but they usually use botryoidal now, even though it’s not quite the same thing.

  43. Nabuquduriuzhur

    Nabuquduriuzhur said, about 1 month ago

    I love the class the Seminoles have. When the PC jerks wanted to force the team to drop the name, the Tribe basically told them to back off, it’s our team.

  44. TennesseeD

    TennesseeD said, about 1 month ago

    My grammar checker once objected to the term French Broad. (It’s a river in North Carolina.) I was writing about the French Broad Electric Membership Cooperative…

  45. BikeNBoatN

    BikeNBoatNGenius_badge said, about 1 month ago

    mroberts88 said,

    Man, what is this, the most popular strip on gocomics?

    If it isn’t, it’s gotta be close. The weekend of 9/18/09, we posted 1313 comments on 27 pages. I think that’s the record for the number of Pibgorn comments, and who knows, it might be the record for all of gocomics.

  46. Nabuquduriuzhur

    Nabuquduriuzhur said, about 1 month ago

    Broad is a little silly for a machine (or person, for that matter) object to as a word, because there are so many non-slang uses for it. Everything from broadcloth to broad vowels.

  47. Nabuquduriuzhur

    Nabuquduriuzhur said, about 1 month ago

    (whistles) 1313? Wow.

  48. TennesseeD

    TennesseeD said, about 1 month ago

    PIBGORN RULES!!!

    G’night all!

  49. Willhelm

    Willhelm said, about 1 month ago

    Looks like Drusilla is curing the common cold, since the demon seeds are viruses.

  50. fear-ciuil

    fear-ciuil said, about 1 month ago

    “Ni … peng … and neee-wom!”

    Sorry … I finally finished writing (well, sort of finished) the advanced learning plans I need for parent-teacher conferences. New system this year that has a stupid degree of redundancy in it.