Luann by Greg Evans and Karen Evans for October 09, 2014

When in Rome…

Bernice, you are going to be in Deep S&#T!!! ;)

Ohhhhhhhhhhh…I am SO impressed…not! ;)

What is that guy doing to Sun that she looks so happy?

I’d say Bernice “let her hair down”, but… I can’t… I would’ve been able to, a couple of months, ago…. – In a way, she’s putting her foot down! To the beat , anyway… but then it’ll probably be stomping on the wrong ceiling….

I’ll say! ;)

It doesn’t look like he is doing Anything…he is in front of her, but not on top of her…there is plenty of space between them… ;)

Well,alright Bernice! Don’t get suspended from college though ;) lol

“Contents Under Peer Pressure”“Caution To The Wind”“Prudes Keep You Regular”“A Bunch Of Screws Get Loose”“Dance Dance Eviction” “Everybody Plays The Fool, Sometimes” (♫)“Rebel With A Pause”“Dorm-y Weather”“One Man’s Ceiling Is Another Person’s Dance Floor” (♫)“Everybody Wang Chung, Tonight” (♫)“You’ve Got To Fight For Your Right To Fit In” (♫)or“When In Alberquerque, Take A Left Turn At Rome”

counselor going to make her go to the office and ask her, why…………………

didn’t you invite me to the party?

Has anyone ascertained that Viper , Sun , and Piro are students at Mooney U or outsiders coming onto campus?

There’s the girl who supported Tiffany when she turned Luann’s study party into a noisy party with boys.

LOL! That’ll getcha to “loosen up”!

“Prude (?) juice + vodka = Pile Driver” Oh, my! I get a headache just thinking about that vodka! Is this a Real drink, Brdshtt? ;)

Oh,oh…not good… ;)

Did anyone else notice that Bern is pointing at the evil mask on the wall? A portent of things to come and they won’t be pretty.

The prunes will always give you the runes…^That language is spoken from the bottom, up….

So far, this recipe and this one shows up…..

LOL!

I’m not a beer drinker, and I don’t drink wine anymore (not that I did much, anyway). When I just turned “legal age”, I used to like Singapore Slings…nice and sweet, but had a Real “kick” to it. Haven’t had one since. So, in the summer I live on cold tea (a glass which I just finished), and in the winter I drink hot tea and hot chocolate… ;)

That one guy has a belly fetish.

I feel they’re going to get in trouble!

Well, IS Katie is bugging me to put her to bed…not such a bad idea as I’ve got a good book I am reading. ’Nite all!-————————————————————————“It was like leading one to talk of a book when the author is concealed behind the door.” (Samuel Johnson, 1709-1784)

Colossal, even.

Life is all about balance—and so is college. Especially college. Have fun, but at least be sober enough to make it to class and take your tests!

Bernice still reminds me of a young Diane Keaton.

Ha ha! These days a… “throwback”.. is anything from last month! – Now there’s “retro”, “old school”, and “vintage”. Aah, those good old days, when we all just called it “old stuff”….

And a stereo shows up? Hmmm…

Don’t start up again already. [Strictly speaking, it would be more accurate to say, responding toBBA’s NON-comment.]

You go Girl!

Woohoo! I’m glad Bernice is relaxing.

The “first” comments always make me laugh because its funny how annoyed people are by one little word… on a comic’s comment section.

Wow! I didn’t see that coming!

If Bernice gets busted, she should blame Dez….

And…. we have corruption!!!

I would venture a guess that they are not rocking out to “Rock The Boat” by Hues Corporation…^^Kids today prefer Brahms, Bethoven and Mozart.

Dunno..Sun looks awfully happy..

Brdshtt GoComics PRO Member said, about 11 hours ago

@Mikeyj

… not to mention the girl dancing behind me all night, who kept bumping into me :p

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LOLOL!.The trick is, you need to get her in front of you… :p^^Not a good idea… her BF was already behind her

PS. I believe she was doing it on purpose, too (But, I can’t discuss what leads me to that conclusion, in mixed company).

I live right next to Michigan State University. I see a lot of good “kids” start the semester. Generally 1 out of 3 can’t cut it because of too much partying or bad grades. So may start the end here, too.

All I can say is, Bernince, “caution.” I have no idea what GE has planned for you, and certainly a little partying is a good thing… but “caution.” Remember why you’re there.

We’d have these kinds of parties in the floor lounge, not in an individual room (or doorms were only singles and doubles… no quads). I must say our floor could host a most excellent “Kegger,” back when they were allowed (in my senior year, they rose the drinking age to 21, so no more “Univ. Housing” sanctioned Keggers. :( Just as well… I hated the taste of beer and all they ever wanted to play was “Thumper.” Although, during the winter qtr, we’d play for shots of your favorite schnaps/cordial/digestif. I still have my two Univ. logo brandy snifters. Collecting dust now.

And what is that gentleman doing with Sun? He must be quite focused on her, given he doesn’t realize his giving the crowd there some serious “plumber’s posterior…” ;-PPPP

“You can DO and BE What YOU Choose,” Eh, Hideous Haircut Girl?

You Hear THAT, Bern? Remember THOSE Words Well so You can Explain to Your Hard Working, Downtrodden, BROKE, Parental Units, Who WERE Paying 14K a Semester for You to Be there, Why the Heck You got Kicked Outta College during the First Friggin’ Week, THANKS to a Bunch of Free-Loading Parasites!

Go Bernice! As to the guy and Sun, his head is clearly above her beltline (so far). And yes that room beats mine in college by a long shot but then again, homes on television shows are also way big.

I am not hearing anything, this must be what it is like when mimes dance.

Bernice gets kicked out of her room and has to move in with Tiffany?

What was the name of this strip again?

Bernice seems to be having fun!I hope see doesn’t have big regrets later….

Maybe she can blame it on Dez… the way things have gone so far, the RA may believe her.

Anyone else noticed that Greg signed the rules

Hazzzzzzzzzzing…. Jedi mind trick, there is no Dez.

Goth next?

I think Bernice would rather choose to study, get good grades, graduate and be an adult. These are not her friends, Dez is not there, the party group should have their party someplace else. I’d like to see Bernice stand up for herself.

Go Bernice!

I swear I’ve seen the long-haired blonde drummer character somewhere else.

“Come to think of it, Viper. I came to school to be a vet or a counselor, not to get arrested. So yes, I do want to be a prude. Thank you for asking. There’s the door.”*I sure hadn’t expected Bern to give up her goals so easily!

This is not your crowd, girl. Move on.

Q: Can Bern be expelled for one party?

Prude or not, rules or not, it is incredibly rude to throw a party in someone else’s dorm room.

OK, the partying is good for Bernice, but guess who’ll be left with the responsibility for all this? Not Dez.

I’ll have what Sun is having.

Greg is doing a great job creating arcs around Bernice. She used to be just a foil for Luann. Now she represents a more dimensional character learning about herself and finding her way in her first year away from home.

Like I mentioned yesterday…. She was going to ‘give in’….lol

blame Dez…

Uh-oh!

There was a shady character over on the Dick Tracy strip named Belinda! ;-)

AWESOME!!!! Bernice is finally having fun!!! and we had loud dorm parties and the RA actually joined in!!! BTW the type of dorm she is living in has one central SHARED living space/bathroom area and then 2 smaller private bedrooms off of opposite sides. They don’t sleep in the same room together. VERY different than traditional dorm rooms. Tiffany on the other hand doesn’t share her living space, that’s why it’s called a ‘suite’

At least Bernice is finally acting like a kid! Hope they don’t get her in trouble, though.

Might as well enjoy it while she can.

Here is my opinion for today:++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++I really like the way Greg has drawn Bernice in the last panel. It is such a different posture for her…. so relaxed and “living in the moment” with her dancing. It was a very happy image. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++Thus far, I have not seen anything “torrid” about any of the visible dorm neighbors. Viper, for all her severity… seems rather typical of a lot of kids trying on “different hats” in life. Sun seems to be a fairly similar personality to Bernice…. but a bit more relaxed… probably because she is (appears to be) a returning student. Piro…. he is a bit more ambiguous, but seems RELATIVELY benign. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++Dez, herself (presumed) is still the ambiguity. When Bernice sees her neighbors more than her room-mate, that is really the only issue. The ferret, the bags of stuff…. all that, to me, will likely be red herrings. Dez is the one worrisome aspect. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++The “heavy metal rocker dude” (HMRD) is interesting in terms of drawing style as well. I wonder if he will become a regular… perhaps supplanting Knute’s prior role if he is gone from the strip? Or, if Knute eventually shows up somewhere, will Knute and HMRD get along? ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++In regards to “breaking the rules” with the loud party. A) It would depend on how LOUD, loud is judged to be by the Resident Assistant (RA), B) even if it is too loud, the first step would be for the RA to talk to Bernice, and C) all would likely be fixed by simply turning it down and having everyone go home. This of course presumes that there will not be an extreme escalation of the story arc to something more illegal/dangerous. I doubt Greg would have an illegal/dangerous turn in mind here…. I suspect he is trying to depict a fairly normal (other than DEZ) college experience in the dorms.

“..and THAT’S why was kicked out of the dorms.”

In the university that my son is attending, you are allowed an individual microwave oven (up to 800 watts max) and a refrigerator up to 4.5 cu. ft. No propane or electric element stoves or hotplates are allowed. As he is a freshman, he is not allowed a car. I guess some students keep cars off campus somewhere, but that is frowned upon also.

Max fridge limit for my niece is 3.0cu ft. I got her a 1.7 cube mini fridge like I had. I don’t think freshman were restricted from having cars on campus, and any one who was living “off campus” could have one. The problem was finding viable parking for students. Most of the parking lots around the dorms areas were for “faculty and staff only.” Student lots were way off the beaten path.

Like I was saying previously, the kicker would be if “the Big Kid’s Kool Aid” (liquor) somehow crept in. When you have people you don’t know in “your” party (and let’s remember that Bern is “letting loose” in someone else’s festivities, and it’s not even their room), it’s a potential problem. – And I think that’s the other aspect to this- the fact that if (if) something happens here that violates the dorm rules (focusing more so on the “more serious” ones), it will be Bern who will “get the blame”…..

Here’s an excerpt of the first part of that arc… –

Yeah, we got him a 4.3 cu. ft fridge with a crisper drawer and top freezer. The microwave actually is a 900 watt unit, but I used my heat gun to take such identifying labels off. If he was living here and commuting to campus, he could have a car, but living on campus, it is not permitted.

I’m amazed it doesn’t pop the circuit breakers for the room with either.

Yeah, 800watts…. why bother??? :)

Not that we needed a bunch of cooking stuff, as both the dorms I stayed in had their own caefeteriae (some smaller dorms did not). My first dorm, however, did not serve breakfast, only lunch and dinner. And there was no food service at all on Sundays. I ended up going on a breakfast contract with the dorm (big enough to serve breakfast) in which I eventually stayed for the remainder of my time there. I did have a Sunbeam “Hot Shot” beverage maker (the pre-historic version of this one . And I think the most illegal thing I had was an electric “hot dog” cooker (i.e. the kind where you plug the frank’s end points on to the spikes on the bar, close the cover, and plug it into the wall, and it acts like the “electric chair” to hot dogs)…. 8-O You had to watch that, as it had no "auto off’ switch… just a pan in the bottom for collecting the grease.

Man, did I ever live on hot dogs and ramen noodle cups at that time… :)

And another… –

And notice the same “Prude” tactic used, and also the “narrow escape”, and a part of the resolution… the rest of this arc is in*_October_* , 1987… –

Thanks to Jay Blue, I see that it’s not the first time that Bernice’s naivete has taken her close to eminent danger.

Man, that dorm room sure got bigger all of a sudden!

But. If you take Ex-Lax. It’ll give you that, Get up and go Feeling!

Go to your room!

Oh….my….

Bernice….watch out..the music will continue to play and you will find yourself by yourself except for the Dorm Queen writing you up…

Yes, we can see by the folks she’s allowing to use her dorm room for a party and storage of questionable bags that she has already, uh, ‘changed’ the ‘quality’ of her friends…-Maybe it will once again be Luann who bails her out when the police get involved…

When my son was at Stanford for the summer session last year between his junior and senior year of high school, he had a very small electronic fridge. It held just 6 cans of soft drinks or whatever he could cram into it. Just off the recreation/lounge/piano area, they had a full kitchen that could be used if they wished. I did send with him a small ‘in cup’ water heater like this one:

Ah, the ol’ “Imersion Heater.” I used one of those in science class. Yeah, those were verboten also. Enough of an “open coil” to raise an issue.

I remember the hot dog cookers. I think I built one when I was about 12 or so. I took a piece of plexiglass, drilled a couple of holes in it for nails, and wired the nails to an AC cord. You just slid the hot dog down on to the nails and plugged it in. The hot dog heated up just like a resistor across the 120 volt AC line. They could be dangerous to use without the presence of common sense. But, then again, hot dogs themselves can be dangerous to eat…

The one I owned had six barbs on each bar., a plastic drip pan, and a cover. It reminds me of one of those “George Foreman” cooker things, but before his “pitch” time.

I think I did Kosher beef franks exclusively. I kinda liked the “snap” in them. Oh, I used to eat a ton of processed stuff. Not anymore. I really do miss “bacon.” :-)

Oddly enough, I used to travel to work on the CTA (Chicago Transit Authority) “El” lines, and one of them (the “Ravenswood”/Evanston Express line – I don’t know which color it is today – Evanston, obviously is “Purple”)… :-) – Right Argy? :-DDDD Anyway, it passed right through the main Oscar Meyer plant in Chicago. They don’t call it “Hog Butcher for the World” for nothing….

Luann is going downhill. The story is tiresome, boring, unfriendly. The characters are grotesque and grossly unattractive. If this strip doesn’t get back to what is was, it will lose the long-time loyal fan.

Hey! This Democrat is in college and has a high GPA. So you can take your “logic” and stuff it!

As he is a freshman, he is not allowed a car. I guess some students keep cars off campus somewhere, but that is frowned upon also.^^What a dumb rule, in Canada, things must be different, my Bro gave my nephew his old car and he drives home on long weekends and holidays.

The last time Quilly showed up, it was just the cardboard cutout Luann has of him. Hard to tell the difference, tho…^^LOL!! The cutout has more personality

Most college kids choose to be idiots these days. Just what the democraps ordered.^^You mean they become Conservatives?

Bern looks like shes getting ready to do the Elaine Benes Little Kicks dance.

That’s the spirit, Benice! Chill out and have some fun! Now if only we can get Delta to do the same…

“A drunken dog.” Huh? I don’t “get” it… ;)

Sometimes I surprise myself, Hahaha! Except… which post of mine you are referring to? ;)

I’ve never seen such a tiny ’fridge! Looks handy, however… ;)

WHOA!Party at BERNICE ’s!Pass it on!

Oh, OK! ;)

It’s really marvelous to watch someone come out of their shell.