The Dinette Set by Julie Larson for December 07, 2014

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    Last Rose Of Summer Premium Member over 9 years ago

    I think I’ve eaten there!They are on a vacation? Does this mean Verla and Jerry are sharing a room?Good thing my Candy Cane Brain Bleach is handy. Actually I ordered the Assortment Pack. Besides Candy Cane, I’ve got Rum Ball, Pumpkin Pie, Christmas Cookie and Choc Cake. The Choc Cake comes in every Assortment.You can order direct from xTech Industries@Inquira.com

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    mikie2  over 9 years ago

    OK, a little extreme perhaps. But. It is almost impossible to get the smell of tobacco out of upholstery and umbrella materials. I’m with Burl sort of. I wouldn’t wait, I’d go somewhere else.Where are they? Sun sets into water. West coast? Great Lakes? Canada? Michigan?

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    emjaycee  over 9 years ago

    The podium is more likely the name of the restaurant, but in the larger picture, the only Sag Harbor I can find is the upscale community in Suffolk County, New York. There is some water between it and the rest of Long Island, but more likely you’d see the sun setting behind the land. Also, I really do not think these folk would be vacationing there (no Motel 6s here)….

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    Say What Now‽ Premium Member over 9 years ago

    But, but, both tables are non smoking…. This reminds me of the time before this province banned smoking in all public areas. The idea of a non-smoking area for some was just to remove the ashtray.

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    SusanSunshine Premium Member over 9 years ago

    They’re outdoors!And the smoking and non-smoking tables are in alternate positions…

    There’s no way any table gets less smoke than any other…and none get much cos there’s an ocean breeze….though the same breeze would carry the smoke to adjacent tables…

    That’s why in the real world, restaurants have non smoking sections, not tables…and here in CA and many states, no smoking at all, like Ryan’s province.

    As for their location… they’re NOT in the real world.

    Cartoon geography is like the timeline in this strip…infinitely flexible.

    This is fiction! All resemblance to real people, places, dogs, products is meant to provide humor only, and may or may not have any counterpart outside any particular strip.

    Julie likes having them visit “Sag Harbor” cos then she has another excuse to put it on the ladies’ t-shirts…. though it’s also a brand of women’s sportswear.

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    SusanSunshine Premium Member over 9 years ago

    Oh… and a note to 2Old…

    Sorry… but while I do appreciate the commercial, you can’t order Brain Bleach directly from x_Tech, as he is a wholesale supplier.

    Marg and Susan’s Extra Strength Ultra Brain Bleach was invented on this very forum by me and Margueritem, in 2011…. she’s pretty much on hiatus, so I’m mostly running it myself, for now… but she still keeps her hand in.

    The laboratory in x_Tech’s company, X_tech Industries, or XTI, formulates it to our exacting specifications, and delivers it to me and to our other retail outlets…They also set up the pipelines and taps through which some of of our customers have Marg and Susan’s Ultra SS BB delivered directly to their homes.Previously, Marg did a lot of our marketing…. I have always been in charge of new orders, and also design packaging and flavors …

    I’ve spent a LOT of time over the last few years developing products, which are then produced by XTI, under our brand.

    X himself has invented many containers, nozzles, taps and other enhancements to our products, for which we are grateful…. and which he sells to the wholesale trade.

    All this reminds me…To all our customers….

    Just in time… it’s baaack….

    Get your orders in while it lasts!

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    SusanSunshine Premium Member over 9 years ago

    Gosh that’s an old sign… I ought to redo it.

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    Dani Rice  over 9 years ago

    A thousand years ago, before smoking indoors was banned completely, there was a line at on of the local eateries. The hostess announced here was a table in the non-smoking section. Hubby and I waved our hands, but a couple nearer the front got chosen.

    On the way through the smoking section, the man grabbed an ash tray off a smoking table and carried it into the non-smoking room. When the waitress told him “you can’t bring that in here” he got quite indignant and told her not to give him a hard time. “All I want is a place to sit down. I don’t give a * about smoking or non-smoking”.

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    btgen  over 9 years ago

    Julie Larson is from the Chicagoland area. A sign in one of the recent strips was from a Northwest Indiana fireworks seller “Krazy Kaplan’s”. In all likelihood, this cafe overlooks Lake Michigan and could be a harbor up the coast from Northwest Indiana into Southwest Michigan

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    MeGoNow Premium Member over 9 years ago

    I see the Brain Trust can’t figure out that:.If both of the two non-smoking tables are taken, .They are occupied by non-smokers, and.Therefore, there are no smokers there at all, and.It hardly matters,.Since the two non-smoking tables are situated next to smoking tables, anyway, and.By waiting, they chance smokers arriving. .The existing diners are the true beneficiaries of their state of aggravated dumb**s. They don’t have to watch them eat, a spectacle that would appear on a National Geographic special, if it weren’t so disgusting. .“…the feeding frenzy is savage and brief, leaving little of the victim, and the evidence of their attack will not soon be washed away, from the table nor their coats..”

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    shamest Premium Member over 9 years ago

    this may be a tactic to avoid having to serve them. on the other hand why do our gang care about smoking or not ? They don’t care about their health and they don’t care how the food tastes as long as there is a lot of it

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    orbenjawell Premium Member over 9 years ago

    ……sun’s almost down…..they’d just as soon eat in the dark, too.

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