Luann by Greg Evans and Karen Evans for November 20, 2013

Ha ha! Now it seems there’s a shout out to Ov- Hey, who here is named “Oval”?….

“Roll Tide "“Home Field Advantage”" Cheer For The Home Team"or “Airing Your Dirty Laundry List”

Hope all of yesterday’s political nut cases have moved on to a different strip or maybe a different planet.

Should’ve kept his mouth shut.

I’ve been doing my own laundry for some years now… mostly because mom had me designated to do the laundry (and a few other things). I bring my laundry home yea, but only to do it myself. I just save some money when I don’t use the pay machine ones where I’m renting ;o

Maybe Frank is speaking from his own college days’ experiences. Also, it is good to see that Frank does his share of the household chores.

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oh oh that means the local community college I think. Which is a good thing. THey have discussed this before.

I can think of six things a person may consider when picking a place…like what courses, entrance standards, how much travel I would have to do, whether it would be cheaper to room there or commute from home, etc….. but out of curiosity, apart from the one Frank gave her, I wonder what Luann’s other criteria would be?….Hmmmm…..

so sparkling clean you can see yourself in them. ^Featuring high quality fashion plates….

We dry clean and press your dishes ^Using “Bouncy” softener.. takes out wrinkles, and really helps just in case you get a break in your day….

Good strip today, continues the theme, and is quite funny :)

As a lonely, pathetic bachelor, I do my own laundry and cook; I’d make someone a wonderful Wife….If I was a woman, that is :P

Nice edit, Luann. Dad is not such a dummy after all. My guess is that you’ll end up in a college very near home, along with most of your high school classmates.

I just saw that Lev got a cameo in Monday’s strip… cools, nice to know that our cartoonist appreciates his fans :)

Hope Luann does stay close to home, I don’t mind if some characters move on, but, I wouldn’t want to see any of the Degroots (present OR future) leave the strip, want to see the wedding, want to watch Shannon’s ongoing transformation into a young lady, etc (OK, technically, Shannon isn’t a Degroot… but, I expect her to be one some time in the near future.)

Frank is trying to make “proximity” number 1 on Luann’s list, since “affordability” is number 1 on his own list. Put those two together, and you get Pitt CC. Frank, and the Evanses, are trying to provide adequate justification for that choice, so that people won’t conclude she’s going there just because she couldn’t get into anyplace else.

Touche, Dad!

I wonder if the “laundry” comment (and, thus, her being near home) is the signal that she will, eventually, pick “Pitts Community College” (or the equivalent) so she can stay near town, etc.?

Still, I knew I wanted to get as far away from home as I could. I could only come home on breaks and summer (and one summer, I stayed in town). They laundry was the least of my worries, having done my own as a kid. It’s still, actually, my most favorite household chore.

Luann, Now that You’ve Decided on 5, No 6 choices of Colleges based, No Doubt, on the Number of “Cute” Guys that attend there, Have You Given ANY Thought as to HOW the Heck You’re Gonna PAY for Your Education??

Student Loans? Nah. You’d be too Busy Paying off those Credit Cards You Stupidly applied for the other Day.

After School Job? On Old Smiley’s “Rolaid Thunder” Truck?Which Just Happens to have Your (GAG) B/F working there?NOT a Chance. Besides Pretty Boy will Probably be Deported as soon as the Health Department Shuts the Place Down.

Well there’s ALWAYS Your Deep Pocketed Dear Old Dad. Remember: He Didn’t Have to Put Brad through College! So there Should be a TON of Dough SAVED Up for the Kid’s College Education, Right?

RIGHT?

Or Did They SPEND it All Buying the Horner House??

And yes, that is a true story… She wasn’t a very nice person, kharma?

… mauve must be today’s color of contemplation …..I had to look back to see what color mauve was – still didn’t know, so went to wickipedia:“Mauve is more grey and more blue than a pale tint of magenta would be. Many pale wildflowers called “blue” are actually mauve. Mauve is also sometimes described as pale violet.".Looks like it can be a variety of color tints/shades. Guess I’ll stick with the ones I learned in school – red, yellow, blue, orange, green & purple.

Ha ha!

Rosa, Delta, and Bernice are the sorts of students who will be going to Stanford, Berkeley, or some eastern colleges. Gunther could, but he needs to stay at home. Maybe Quill will have been deported by this time next year. Tiffany may just get a job in Los Angeles, trying to break into acting. Aaron Hill and mini-Elvis will share a dorm room at the University of Brigadoon.

““It’s A Wonderful Wife”? ;-)Hey! I just found out yesterday that they’re going to make a sequel to that classic film. Don’t know yet what they’ll call it.”-“It’s a Dismal Death”?

MikeyJ,*Realized last night that Team Evans might have been messing with your mind yesterday. Either you could acknowledge the compliment, in which case you would be outed as a commenter, or you could have kept it a secret.*As you decided to acknowledge your last name, this morning I checked and saw MANY hits for “Mike Jolin artist” on Google. Glad your artwork is respectable! ;)*Hope you buy the t-shirt.

Really? I thought mauve was a kind of purple?

We weren’t

Luann, aren’t you responsible for your own laundry yet?

Don’t forget to ask for the Starving Students cookbook for Christmas.

Also, Luann, why is your father doing the dishes? Would you please get up and take over? That is the teenager’s job, not the parents’.

How about if a new pronounciation for “mauve” were discovered…. like, “moove”, or “moo-wah-vee”, or “movie” or “may-oh-vee” "or “ma-you-vee” or “may-you-vay” or something?… -Or better yet, “the Color Formerly Known As Purpley-Greyish-Eggplant”, and it can have a “symbol” like: “?”(unless that is copyrighted by the Riddler)…..

sequel to that classic film. Don’t know yet what they’ll call it.Bailey’s Bountiful Benefits

Actually, I just pulled up Mauve on Wikipedia and it says that it was also called…. “Mallow”…. I know it’s named so from the flower, but “Purpley-Orangey-Greyish Something” has a better ring to it….

Thanks for the history. Can you explain Jay’s comment about the shout-out to you in Monday’s cartoon?

“She will take out a Leviticus Lender Loan.”_____________________________________

Dare I ask WHAT is a “Leviticus Lender Loann”???

Can’t imagine who they’d get for the James Stewart part. Alan Rickman could do the LionelBarrymore part up a treat!

OK folks; raise your hand if you care!

“Can You explain Jay’s Comment about the shout-out to you in Monday’s Cartoon?”____________________________________

Uh, Hold ON, Lemme Check.

Okay I see where it says “Leviticus Lenders” and That WAS a Nice Tribute to YOU, Lev. But I DON’T See what that has to do with M….,WAIT!

There’s a “Moo NY University”???

OK, We found out Quill is a lousy short-order cook. You mean Luann’s not gonna step in and help Quill out?

Puce is a reddish sort of purple-brown…..Interestingly, it came from a word meaning “flea” …. – A reference for it can be made in the original “Monsters, Incorporated”, where Sulley discovers for the first time, looking down at different colored folders: “Ohhh…. so that’s Puce!” (But the color never gets shown on the screen)….

Puce is baby poop brown

Fun facts on puce from Wikipedia: = In the animated comedy television series The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show (1959–1964), Bullwinkle refers to his high school’s colors as pomegranate and puce. (So, basically, almost the same color twice!) – In an episode of the 1960s American TV show, The Man from U.N.C.L.E., the protagonist, superspy Napoleon Solo, enters a fashionable women’s clothing store while chasing an enemy agent. The store clerk, a woman, asks “Can I help you with anything, Sir?” He says “I’d like to see something in … puce.” She went off to check and Solo continued on. (Clever tactic, as she must have been in there looking for a long time!…

Looks remarkably like the other name for the singer formerly known as, and once again, now known as….

And all the money that Luann has earned in all those part-time jobs added together will total less than half a semester’s fees at a private college. Hello, Pitt CC!

Uh, huh. Now here’s an interesting statement that might be familiar to you:

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35 And if thy brother be waxen poor, and his means fail with thee; then thou shalt uphold him: as a stranger and a settler shall he live with thee. . 36 Take thou no interest of him or increase; but fear thy God; that thy brother may live with thee.

. 37 Thou shalt not give him thy money upon interest, nor give him thy victuals for increase.

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The Book of Leviticus 25:35 – 37. In other words, it’s ok to lend money to help someone regain his independence, but you aren’t supposed to charge interest….

Knute, join the Army? Come on….

The consideration of whether a college will pump up your resume as ALWAYS important. But for many of us, community colleges and state schools were the only affordable alternatives. The big diff, back in the day, was that many people just couldn’t afford to go,or ended up in Vietnam, or their income was needed by their family right after high school. So a college degree wasn’t quite as common and made you more desirable to an employer. Even if it was a degree from a community college or state school.

Knute will enroll at Pitt CC and flunk out in his first semester. Grab a mop and make Weenie World shine, Knute!

for no reason whatsoever at this moment, if I could have access to only one comic strip, “LuAnn” would be it…

Oy…

Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition! Cardinal del Mierdas, bring out the comfy chair.

Not the comfy chair, Please — not the comfy chair….

It took me three hours to do it, but I finally was able to maneuver around to see Luann’s lap top screen. Here is her list of “6 Critical Things in Picking a College.”

1: Foxy guys.2: Rich foxy guys.3: Rich foxy guys with nice car.4: Rich foxy guys with nice car has foxy guy friends.5: All these foxy guys must worship me and no other.6: Close enough to bring laundry home for mom to wash

^Luann’s 6b (which is really a continuation of 6): …. in order to have clean, decent clothes for foxy guys to notice….

thanks MayKitten, I’ll remember you.

Ann could be in charge of the campus bookstore/cafeteria and Diane could come back as a senior at the college.^^I would love to see Diane come back… Toni does the jealousy thing SO well ;)

Hey! I just found out yesterday that they’re going to make a sequel to that classic film. Don’t know yet what they’ll call it.^^Clarence Does Dallas

Oh, and another distant relative, Pierre Jollain (1720-1768) was court painter for the King of France:

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Whatta whiner! LULZ, Okay Dad ! Luann can live at home and wash her own clothes for the rest of her life! Anything to make you HAPPY, PAPPY!!!!

My daughter goes to Albany State and they have free laundromats in every quad.^^Albany State? Didn’t you say you were Belgian?

mauve, teal, taupe, ecru, (tan as well, at one time), aubergine<< They are all French words… except teal

1: Foxy guys.2: Rich foxy guys.3: Rich foxy guys with nice car.4: Rich foxy guys with nice car has foxy guy friends.5: All these foxy guys must worship me and no other.6: Close enough to bring laundry home for mom to wash^^Sounds about right, Lev

Ummm I was being serious, Jollain is the original spelling of my family name; and while most of us use Jolin now, there are still branches of Jollain in France^^ Google Pierre Jollain and his son Nicolas

Ox may go to a 4-year college somewhere in southern California on an athletic scholarship. Luann, however, will not win any academic scholarships to a 4-year college, and she certainly won’t win any artistic scholarships for her composing “Hey Boy” and “I’m a Snot”.

You can’t complete the list without Hank Snow’s classic “Mauve-in On”

Isn’t that a plant that grows in a marsh?(Wait for it…wait for it…) ^Welcome back the neighborhood! I guess you’ve decided to ….. “mauve” back in!….

And don’t forget that all time great Carole King Classic, “I Feel The Earth Mauve”….

Something we didn’t notice! Greg says #1 on the list should have been “Don’t look crosseyed!”… Click on the link and see!…

This is loosely related, as the colors being discussed are ‘technically in them, particularly ’mauve’ our local JackFM station caught this comical shop sign, showing just how much Eurythmics fans love their cheese, with some…. ‘twisted’ lyrics…

Oh…let this be a lesson to all… there is such a thing as too much ‘mauve’… it all starts to run together, after a while….

But TV shows also had a period of the color being fashionable… take the Donny Hathaway penned theme to a TV show… see if you can guess from the chorus: “….and then, there’s…..”

A lot of talk about mauve here, but the color in question (center panel) is a brownish red, commonly called rust, brick, or terracotta.

And Special Consideration brought to you by the Movie “The Color Puce” and the sequel, “the Color Purple”…

Am I the only one here who remembers the fiber laundry cases used for mailing laundry home from college?

I went to the University of the West Indies. Big up myself.