Pibgorn by Brooke McEldowney

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BikeNBoatN said, 24 days ago

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Today’s 9 Chickweed Lane

Pib: So TT ravishes Dru. And still wants one last game to sudden death. How much more can our favorite succubus take?

9CWL: Don’t worry, Gran’s too ornery to stay there long.
UncaAlby said, 24 days ago

TWO?
Sisyphos said, 24 days ago

If anyone is seeking a new avatar for Halloween, panel 4 is it!
BikeNBoatN said, 24 days ago

Well, now we know the answer of how Satori was involved. And that Dru did help purge the world of demons. So TT = Tentacled Tom. But Dru didn’t use up all of Spinky’s mojo, because she’s still shiny black.
UncaAlby said, 24 days ago

Did I get comment number two? Huh, did I, did I, did I?
♠Lonewolf♠ said, 24 days ago

Whoa!–I’m really lost now.
invisifan said, 24 days ago

Yeah … there’s Nat at the very least (we certainly hope) …
Sisyphos said, 24 days ago

UncaAlby! Take your calmative!
Ladywolf17 said, 24 days ago

I am so tired of seeing Dru get bit in the neck. Even if it is the Halloween month.
UncaAlby said, 24 days ago

I’m still trying to wrap my brain around the concept of a demon that’s “perfectly huggy”.

(good thing I keep that ibuprofen handy!)
The Old Wolf said, 24 days ago

That is just totally creepy.

I keep wondering what relationship Tom Torquemada has to the Big Boss. He seems to be a pretty powerful plenipotentiary potentate, but since Dru can reduce him to smoke and mirrors, with a knee to the demonic cojones, he’s obviously not omnipotent…

Come on, Dru. Get up. Get up, and give this guy what for.
gimmickgenius said, 24 days ago

I said it at the time - DON’T LET TOM GET AWAY! Lots of differences in dialogue from sketch to finish. But - where’s Pib? And Geoff and Oognat? And did Nat survive?
DryGrub Willie said, 24 days ago

Saskfan –

I just posted a long note to you about your announcement.
Go back to the last page from yesterday.

Encouragment from someone who’s been there.
VicTR said, 24 days ago

Um…?…Yeah Unca Alby…
What’s this “two of us” jazz.
One of him is bad enough !
Sisyphos said, 24 days ago

So, somehow Tommyboy has managed to get himself together, at least when Down Below Below, and dares to take on Drusilla one-on-one, mano a mano, –chiefly because she is almost-dead.

“Almost” won’t save The Torquester, however. Dru has restorative powers when needed, herself. It won’t be pretty, but I am confidant that the eventual outcome will be satisfactory.
The Old Wolf said, 24 days ago

Remember, “mostly dead” means “slightly alive”…
The Old Wolf said, 24 days ago

Goodnight, everyone!
Fly Guy said, 24 days ago

Semi Colon ……. GROAN
Nabuquduriuzhur said, 24 days ago

UncaAlby said, 11 minutes ago

“Did I get comment number two? Huh, did I, did I, did I?”

hehe. yes you did. you did. you did. you did. you did…………… you did….. hehe
Ladywolf17 said, 24 days ago

It’s obvious isn’t it. Tom T is the Big Bosses puppet to do with as he pleases. And right now that means punishing Dru, apparently.
DryGrub Willie said, 24 days ago

My take is that “two of us” means “me and you.” I assume TT is no grammarian. Or agrarian. Or Rastafarian.

Yes, Dru is on the mat at the moment, but… (with Friday drawing ever nearer) I’m predicting that Tom will somehow rouse Dru, (not arouse, he hasn’t got the credentials) and have her up enough to be what he would consider a “worthy opponent.” Which is the same mistake he keeps making, over and over…

I hope.
Nabuquduriuzhur said, 24 days ago

Semi? That was Powell’s brother.
Phaze58 said, 24 days ago

Yea I think He’s forgotten about Nat .BIG Mistake on TT’s part methinks .I still think that Dru is going to get rid of TT for good this time , with of course a little help from her friends Thats why she is playing the So helpless card .. wonder what the next card is going to be ?
Nabuquduriuzhur said, 24 days ago

Too bad that Tom was able to regenerate himself. He needs to get drained again. McE must think he’s just too much fun for Dru to smack around, splatter, blast, burn up, fry, mangle, mash, grind up…

Dru needs the services of a 30 story tall faerie housefly to finish dear old Tom.
Fairportfan2 said, 24 days ago

Frst catchups from “yesterday”

Jim said

Pibgorn song o’ the day

“Islands in the Stream”, huh?

Remind me to post Pinkard & Bowden’s “Music Industry” sometime.

wilorg said

A Packard after an Aston Martin? wilorg shakes his head slowly from side to side, wanders away muttering to himself….

Packards and Cadillacs were once high-performance cars - Caddy, in particular built terrifying big roadsters in the Prohibition era, with V12 engines. Lincolns were favoured for police vehicles, because they were fast and reliable.

Anyol’tomcat said

Hmmmm, guess we are all a bunch of narcissists but that Texas compound does not spring instantly to mind–more like a certain jaunt to Canterbury, or an 18th C. Coffee House or, at worst, a South American compound.

Ummm, the Bird and Baby?

Jim, Deloreans have been banned from the hgihways in many states.

They snort the white lines.

bmonk Rasputin said

One of the great reasons for anti-Catholic prejudice, in my experience, is all the misperceptions about Catholic theology.

“They worship Mary!”

”Pete - Didin’t I tell you not to let guys like that in?”
.
“Boss, I tell ‘em they can’t come in, but they keep sneaking ‘round to the side door and your Mom let’s ‘em in!”

The Old Wolf said

From a good associate…

Perhaps we could have a link?

cimmeron said

Many of you will remember that Volkswagen made a car called the RABBIT. I saw one downtown once. It was a white one, and the license plate said I’M LATE.

Sounds as if someone read the brain teaser that asked what colour a car with a plate that said “”“ML8 ML8* was.

Lunatic_fringe1 said

Nash Metropolitan

Wish I still had it.

Wish i still had my MK 2.5 1963 Sprite, which was based on a very similar platform.

Jim said

AUSTIN-HEALEY !

100 of course …

100/6, please.

If i could have raised $2000 in 1971, i could have brought a fully-reatored 100/6 home from Sicily with me whn i got outof the Navy - and the Navy would have paid to ship it! (Guy on the base bought one for $800, spent $1200 restoring it … then got orders to ship out early, and he didn’t qualify to have the USN ship it for him; for three months {that i know of, before i shipped out} it sat there, looking for a buyer that would just pay what he had in it.)
Just plain Steve said, 24 days ago

Why do I hear “Phantom of the Opera” playing loud, inside my head?
ejcapulet said, 24 days ago

I can’t think of a single demon I’d like to hug - that would be like licking a fire goddess.
Saskfan said, 24 days ago

Thanks DryGrub Willie: It was her first mammogram, and there’s uncertainty about how far it has gotten. I know that Things Are Better Then They Use To Be, but it’s still an awful shock at first. And because we don’t know yet what’s going to happen, the fear tends to win for now.

We’ll laugh at it, I know; but for a few days, there’s moments of panic and the laughter is a bit forced.

On the positive side, one coworker threw a going-away party for her charlie, and is still working after the treatment. And my Beloved was joking earlier about knitting a replacement/place-holder.

I had a colonoscopy last July 14 (all clear for me). The worst part was that the nurse recognized me from work. And I STILL think there has to be a better way for a doctor to celebrate the storming of the Bastille.

Flyguy, Sisyphos, BikeNboatN: thank you, all three of you, for the thoughts and the encouragement.
Saskfan said, 24 days ago

It has been a stressful day, and it’s time to climb the wooden hill, but first a comment from my Beloved:

She said that our theatre shouldn’t bother trying to do Sweeney Todd; with so many people buying the DVD version, we’d be cutting our own throats.
Ladywolf17 said, 24 days ago

Steve-the-undead, The movies were good. even the remakes.

And the music that was featured was awesome.
Saskfan said, 24 days ago

AbbieT: HUGS!

I hope nature is taking its proper course.

(Edited for format stupidity)
ARF2 said, 24 days ago

A game of Sudden Death, Tom? Be careful; you may just get what you asked for. Again.
Ladywolf17 said, 24 days ago

I’m going to turn in now because i am tired. So all of you take care.

Abbie T, I just want you to know that I’m thinking about you.
Sisyphos said, 24 days ago

Isn’t it marvelous how the Infernal Place decorates the set for TomT’s game-shows in garish floral wallpaper, every time?!
Joe Minotaur said, 24 days ago

Wednesday’s Waterlogged Wreckage

QUIZ TIME
What will we see when the strip/page updates?
9 Chickweed Lane
.1. Amos and Edda share a private moment.
.2. Cartoon Physics 101.
.3. Letter to the Editor(Thorax) from A)Amos, B)Edda, C)Juliette, D)Gran, E)Elliot, F)Other.
.4. Mary meets her new Pre-Med teacher, A)Juliette, B)Elloit, C)Thorax.
.5. Animal magnetism meets static cling.
.6. Seth/Edda practice, practice, practice.
.7. SR Steven breaks the 4th wall.
.8. Musical interlude.
.9. The details are sketchy.
.10. Negative images.
.11. You call this art? I call it, AMAZING!
.12. Look Ma! No hands!
.13. Watch the fingers!
.14. Toe the line.
.15. None of the above, but I saw it coming!
.16. No, you didn’t!

Pibgorn
.1. Dru?! Dahling, do come down to chat! It’s been ages!
.2. Tom T.’s Game Show. Where everybody loses!
.3. Roger/Satori: A walk into the pixelated sunset.
.4. Lena’s hoe pulls them back. Roger returns alone.
.5. Geoff and Pibgorn gaze in wonder at the world around them.
.6. Oognat sits and chats with Igor. Discuss their purpose as minor characters.
.7. NYC: Same old, same old.
.8. Somewhere under the volcano…
.9. Tom? I’d like to fry a bowel.
.10. Nat’s nutty narrative.
.11. Digory Spitcock is still dead!
.12. None of the above/Didn’t see that coming.
.13. Neither did you.
.14. And now, for something completely different:

What do you mean, we’re not doing a play about Lizzie Borden?
Sisyphos said, 24 days ago

Saskfan, you might want to link to this Breast Cancer Special that I mentioned before (especially the audio links at the bottom of the page).
Fairportfan2 said, 24 days ago

More from “yesterday”

fatuncle said

The Old Wolf said, ”Fiat 500!”

I owned two of those. One was a flat-face, the other the bug-eyed D model. Loved them to death. 2 cyl 16 hp air-cooled engine; you can buy lawnmowers with more horsepower nowadays.

What kind of horsepower? The Renault 4CV that Dr Porsche designed as part of Germany’s war reparations was named that because it had a four horseepower engine, as the Citroen Deux Chevaux had a 2 HP engine … according to the official rating system.

I’m pretty sure that dyno testing of either would have registered a tad higher.

Sisyphos said

MINI!

(That’s my ride.)

EDIT: (a 2009=50th anniversary MINI Cooper hardtop, white over black with white bonnet stripes….)

What did BMW do fifty years ago to celebrate the 50th anniversary of? Certainly it can’t have anything to do with the 50th anniversary of the Mini or of the Mini Cooper… (Not all true Minis were Mini Coopers, BTW - that link goes to a PDF excerpt from an APAzine - sort of like here but a lot slower - that i did for the September mailing of an Amateur Press Alliance named SFPA.)

AmriloJim said

Agent 86:

Sunbeam Tiger (red)

That was Don Adams’ personal car that he drove to the studio every day. (Somewhere i once saw a lovely photo of him arriving at work with the garbage can he forgot to unload at the foot of the drive riding in the tonneau behind the passenger seat…)

Joe Minotaur said

1969 FORD SHELBY MUSTANG GT500KR

Not that … thing … in the totally un-needed “remake” of GOne in 60 Seconds, either.

Can you imagine the quite-possible results of putting a nitrous system on one of those?

My main question would be how big was the crater.

The Old Wolf said

“To try is to risk failure. But risk must be taken, as the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing. The person who risks nothing does nothing, has nothing and is nothing.” Unknown

I believe that it was Commodore Perry who said “It seems to me a rule inviolate that he who will not risk will never gain.” (Or words to that effect.)

The Old Wolf said

I lived in Napoli for 18 months or so in 1970-71. I have seen a cinquecento pull up to a curb and disgorge more Italians than you can fit plebes into a phone booth. Hilarious!

You ought to see a whole Sicilian family (including grandma) riding a Vespa.

My friend Big Mike - at six feet and 20 pounds, i was “Little Mike”, BTW; i think our froends felt that “White Mike” and “BlackMike” might be a tad close to the bone - once speared a 500 through the back window with a long-ferruled umbrella when it splashed us passing by in the red light district; the driver screeched to a halt, staterd to ho pout, and then got a look at us. In those days the average Sicilian was about fivesix or so, and Mike was six-six, very black and not particularly-amicable looking at that point. He drove away quickly, and Mike watched him go, began to calm down, and then said “Hey! I paid three mille for that umbrella!” (About five bucks at the then-current rate of exchange.)

UncaAlby said

( … not a fair comparison … most matchbox cars are worth more than a Yugo … )

…and more durable, i once ripped the door half off a Yugo with my bare hands to get someon trapped by the steering wheel loose after an accident. Sad, too, because the FIAT 128, of which the Yugo was a variant, was a fairly nice car.

LoneWerewolf said

Alright, cars I can relate to……………………………………

PANTERA

You do know that every Pantera sold through Lincoln-Mercury dealers in the 1970s had been through the Holman-Moody shops in North Carolina to make it safe to drive, don’t you?
desertdwlr said, 24 days ago

how I hate that guy
♠Lonewolf♠ said, 24 days ago

Fairportfan2

Yes sir, I was aware of that fact. I had a customer back in the 80’s with 2 Panteras. I was the sole mechanic on both of those until I went back into the Army in 1989. He had me drive them for road testing when i worked on them. Quite an experience for me in my twenties! Nice thing was I have always favored Fords and being Ford powered was a bonus for me.
Sisyphos said, 24 days ago

Fairportfan2, I correctly corrected the link from “…tennytiny” to “…teenytiny” to see why you feel the Mini/MINI name is not being used righteously. Well, companies get sold, merge, transform, and their trademarks and names are part of the package….
Tabicantra said, 24 days ago

I’m sorry Wilorg, Me thought I saw an”r” inthere sommere.
2:16am EST maybe I should go to bed….

C’Ya’ll
jsdy said, 24 days ago

Nabuquduriuzhur, you managed to get transubstantiation 100% backwards last night. There is no transformation of the substance - that is 100% in line with Catholic and other Christian teaching. Instead, Our Lord makes the “essence” of the bread and wine - as distinguished from its “substance” - into His Body and Blood. He did not say, “This is something like My body” or “This is something by which you shall remember My body”. He said, “This IS My body.”

It’s an interesting analogy, but not really true, to think that the “spirit” of the bread and wine becomes the “spirit” of the Body and Blood.

If it were transformation, as you seemed to think, then Christians who believe in that would have to consider themselves cannibals, an abhorrent thought at best.

As far as “worshiping” Mary and other saints, one “prays to” saints only to ask THEM to pray to Our Lord with one, just as you would ask any other person to pray with you, especially if you think [as has been demonstrated to be the case with saints] that their prayers have a bit of an “in” with The Big Guy [or The Big Gal, for those who prefer to think that way]. A couple of years ago, or more, I might have said, “I pray thee, accompany me this night to pray with me”, and nobody would have had this odd perception about me “worshiping” you.

Actually worshiping anyone but God is a violation of the first commandment, of course.
jsdy said, 24 days ago

Back to this reality … it looks like those who thought Tom Unterrific and Dru were going to have one more tussle in this arc were spot on. Tom taps Dru’s mojo and prepares to try again to deceive her into believing that she has to play his little game … to the death!

And where, as Unca “TWO!” Alby and others have been clearly thinking, is our supporting cast / calvary? [No, not Calvary, that was LAST comment.]
Sisyphos said, 24 days ago

The Cinquecento and a friend’s fiancé (BTW, they are getting married this coming weekend)–

Click-and-drag to see the whole picture if you need to….
Fairportfan2 said, 24 days ago

More “yesterday”:

AmriloJim said

mroberts88, someone started a game of Marco Volvo and it devolved from there.

Nolo contendere.

Jim said

Any wrenches , or PBS/NPR fans see this ?

Took a quick look - may watch the whole thing - but i saw them talking about the energy density in lithium-ion batteries.

Yup - high energy density, all right - just ask the people whose laptops with Sony batteries burst into flame.

And those were mild cases - there have been cases of Li-ion batteries literally exploding like a bomb. (Which, oddly enough, generations of Hollywood to the contrary notwithstanding, is almost impossible for a tank of gasoline to do.)

invisifan said, about 3 hours ago

Q: What life changing event happened on a raft of water hyacinth?

A. It’s where Oognat met Pib (certainly changed Oognat’s life!!) — as Oog revealed to Dru right before Dru sedated her & threw her to the men in dark suits to be vivisected …

Ummm, that’s reaching a little - i suspect that most who read the question made the assumption that you meant something actually portrayed rather than simply alluded to.

pibfan868 said

Rambler!

SCRambler!

ladywolf17 A-ta-wa-hya said

Pontiac Trans Am I heard something about the car company deciding not to make those anymore.

Actually, the license to use the Trans Am name (licensed from the Sports Car Club of America; a regiatered trademark of its “Trans-American Challenge” series in the late-60s/early 70s) lapsed a while ago, i believe, but GM is discontuing the entire Pontiac nameplate, as the dit with Oldsmobile a few years ago.

Anyol’tomcat said

Trivia: which cartoon character may have lent his name to Willys most famous vehicle?

He was magical.

Jim said

Did you know Popeye was a spin-off strip ?

Not exactly - Popeye pretty much displaced Olive’s brother Castor and Olive’s original bofriend, Ham Gravy, as the main character in Thimble Theatre, however Castor continued to appear for a long time - the strip’s title reamined Thimble Theatre for a long time (it may still officially be Thimble Theatre), even after everyone began referring to it as Popeye…

(The article from Don Markstein’s Toonopedia i linked to above mentions Bobby London’s run on Thimble Theatre and his being fired, allegedly over a sequence that used areferences to a doll to satirise the abortion controversy - London introduced a new member of the Oyl clan, Olive’s sexy blonde cousin, Sutra…)

liamsmom said

SHERMAN TANK

I mean, Hummers are for wussies. ;-)

Steyr-Daimler-Puch Pinzgauer!

Nabuquduriuzhur said

What was the original question about cars? Brands?

Someone said “Volvo!” and i responded “FIAT!”

How about a nice Moskvitch or the pre-Ford Jaguar (For Winnie the Pooh-lovers, Jagular), with the handy catchnet behind the vehicle for retaining the parts that have come loose…

Pr a Volga?

I sometimes miss my old high school ‘69 Tempest.

At the beginning of My Cousin Vinny, first time i saw it, i was wondering why the guys were driving a ‘63 Buick. By the end of the film, i was remembering my aunt’s ‘63 Tempest. (Let’s say the ‘63 Tempest was … odd … but shared a body with a Buick model - a front-engine/rear-drive car with a transaxle, for starters…)
invisifan said, 24 days ago

Is Tommy saying demonspawn wear Huggies?
Nabuquduriuzhur said, 24 days ago

Sorry, jsdy, but I’m going by what the Catholics themselves have published on the doctrine of Transubstantiation. Argue with them on that. It’s their statement that the material is actually changed.

You’re right about about Mary and the Saints. Paul is quite specific that we have one intercessor between God and man. The basic problem is one of tradition versus what God has said. This isn’t new. Christ had the same problem with the Pharisees, Saducees, Scribes and Rabbis of His day. For at least 800 years, when tradition and Scripture come into conflict, Catholics have usually chosen tradition, rather than Scripture. The Reformation was the most obvious backlash against the teaching of men’s ideas over Gods. Tragically enough, a similar reformation almost came to be in the Catholic church a generation later and died out abruptly- by a mere one vote- resulting in a Counter Reformation, the Inquisition and similar entrenching of those wanting tradition over the Bible.
invisifan said, 24 days ago

Fairportfan said, 3 minutes ago

Ummm, that’s reaching a little - i suspect that most who read the question made the assumption that you meant something actually portrayed rather than simply alluded to.

Au contraire — it was stated quite explicitly & the story is more than just the art, no matter how great … though yes, we are visual creatures first so that’s going to be where we “look” first & most easily.
Fairportfan2 said, 24 days ago

Nabuquduriuzhur said

Ladywolf brings up a really good question. Why did the military insist on the Hummer for use as a troop personnel carrier, rather than the M-2 or older M113, of which we have thousands? It never made any sense at all and still doesn’t.

More capable.

Sisyphos said, about 2 hours ago

Avanti

I would have liked one of those back when they were new.

Up till about 1986 you still could, even though Studebaker production stopped in ‘65.

More recently an “Avanti Motors” company in Villa Rica GA was claiming they’d be going into production with a new Avanti in 2006, but more recently, the owner of the company has been arrested and charged with running a Ponzi scheme… (Apparently not related to the cars, but, then, there was Tucker’s semi-Ponzi sales scheme

And, finally, “today“‘s first copmment:

Sisyphos said

Fairportfan2, I correctly corrected the link from “…tennytiny” to “…teenytiny” to see why you feel the Mini/MINI name is not being used righteously. Well, companies get sold, merge, transform, and their trademarks and names are part of the package….

Arrgh. I may go back and change it. (I did - i uploaded a second copy under the typo’d name…)

I have nothing against the BMW “Mini” - it looks like a good car and everybody i know who owns one is happy. If they called it anything else, i’d probably love it.

But it ain’t a Mini, any more than the new VW is a Beetle, other than in name.

Actually, i think all BMW acquired was the name … not sure.

Meanwhile someone in Germany - VW, i think - has acquired the Bentley name and is/was building a monster with a W16 (yes, i meant to type W16) engine that continues the Bentley tradition of building two-ton screaming high-performance luxury sedans … but i don’t consider that a real Bentley, either.

If i had a quarter-million i moght well buy one, though. (Actually, just to get up some people’s noses {particularly a local BMW dealer for whom i have utmost contempt}, i’d love to buy one of the BMW “Minis” and replace all the “Mini” badges with the BMW roundel and then take it in for warranty service…)
waycyber said, 24 days ago

It’s Extreme Birth Day

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