Luann by Greg Evans and Karen Evans for May 26, 2016

Try more honesty and less deceit. If she’s looking for a one night stand, trickery might work. Not a good way to start any kind of long term friendship.

I think Dez could say that she’s going to have a shiny object in her room, and Tiff would be there.

close shave

Well, I just hope they have the films!

Tiff, queen of the short attention span!

Pink Panther Film Festival, Room 200.“Oooh, so funny! I’m the— hey, wait, that’s my room!”

Tiff knew Bernice was not being truthful. She just doesn’t comment when someone is putting her down.

Actually, Tiffany’s “Zeye” character obviously owes a lot to Barbarella, so she’s probably studied the movie quite carefully for a long time. Maybe Tiff thinks she can now learn more from studying some silent films instead, which she probably has less chance to view.

Dez may have her quirks. But she is a very good person and friend!

This comic used to be great. Now lame.

Bernice’s pants are gray in the first panel and in the second panel her pants are black? I also noticed that in the Luann’s Spanish version Bernice’s pants are black in both panels.

That won’t show in the print papers which are black and white, but since I tend to look at the verbal message I missed it at first. Good catch!

How about a Woody Allen film festival?

I doubt this bird-brain doesn’t even know what that movie is about. And this is coming from someone who’s everyday outfit in school (Grades 7-10) was once a cheerleader uniform.

Coincidence, I decided to find and watch Barbarella just last week.

I wonder if Tiffany watched a silent movie with Piro and that is why is appreciates them now. The movie game is what dropping a handkerchief used to be: an invitation for discussion or introduction.

I realize it’s Luannverse, or Luannville here. And Dez managed to divert Tiffany’s attention away from Bernice’s purpose. But the announcement is still posted on that bulletin board and there will be others who simply have an interest in silent films. Will Dez be around to steer everybody else away? Plus the “fest” is in the Commons Room.

I think it will be hilarious if Piro goes to see Barbarella and Bernice winds up watching the silent move alone—or with Les.

Tiff, running to invite Piro to see Barbarella with HER in 3…,2..,1..,

if Paris goes to the silent movie, Gunther probably will too!but of course, to sulk at Bernice, but maybe “he will see the whole picture” and end up with Paris. the darkness will be a very interesting place that night.

poor gunther :(

no one loves silent movies

Anybody remember this old New Wave (semi-)hit?The Bongos — Barbarella

I am actually kind of surprised that Tiffany would have ever seen Barbarella….

since the postings are inside a college dormitory, one would not expect anyone NOT living on campus to even see them.

This is one of the most convoluted ideas I’ve ever heard of to try and get some time with someone you like.

Aside from sleeping (illegally) in the dorms, do we know whether Piro spends any time there during the day? After all, he doesn’t have a room in the dorms, and for all we know he may not even be a student.

Barbarella funny? Seriously? Those commercials of animal shelters with the Sarah McLachlan song are funnier.

I think it’s ‘Cyrano’

What could possibly go wrong?Item #47. Piro loves, loves Barbarella. Item #48 The featured Silent Film was colorized and crudely dubbed in by Ted Turner.

I’ll watch Barbarella with Tiff; definite guarantee of action there.

I’ll bet more people that Piro will want to see the silents.

We are waving back, Sheriff!

interesting how Bernice’s pants stay black in the Spanish version. Since blacks are usually controlled by G.E., it makes me wonder if this isn’t a case where Sheriff is responsible?

Bet Gunther shows up at the movies…

The first sentence of the fifth paragraph above should read:

“The proposed silent film festival likely would not fall under Title 17 at all.

Implausibility limit crossed. No way is there going to be a bulletin board in a dorm with enough empty space to post a poster of that size!*Heck, that’s as implausible as finding an empty phone booth when you need to change clothes in a rush.

It could indeed well turn out that most of the students have seen “Barbarella” a few times already but are less familiar with silent movies, and they are interested in seeing Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton, Harold Lloyd, etc. Bernice could find that she and Piro are “alone” in a crowded room.

why are so many intent on nitpicking the legality/lawfullness of showing a movie in a college dorm?!!! Just accept it and move on for crying out loud!

Actually, this whole convoluted melodrama sounds like the plot for a silent movie, “The Perils of Bernice”. Let’s cheer for the leading lady to be swept off her feet by the brooding hero Piro, and let’s hiss at the evil villain, Tiffany, who tries to thwart this budding romance. What’s that, you say? Piro turns out to be a psycho, and Bernice winds up getting tied to the railroad tracks? Summon the brave and noble Gunther to dash in and use his Peruvian rope-untying skills to free her from a certain death and win her heart forever!

Look for this story to be staged in a Quill-Pru production at the Fuse, running from now until TJ finally burns the place down.

See what kind of treatment you’ll get if you try to be friends with Bernice….and run, Piro.

Tiffany is the saving grace of any bad situation in this strip. Her presence guarantees humor, male attentiveness, and a solution to the dilemma of the day. The Tiffster is a real trouper!

Tiff can’t be at two movies at the same time. I wonder which one she will choose?

She’s going to choose a double feature of Clueless and Clueless 2 at the Pitts 16 multiplex theater in Squander Mall.

I fear that this whole thing is going to be a disaster, and probably boring.

[a.]Anything unattempted remains impossible..[b.]Know who you are, and be it. Know what you want, and go out and get it.[A.] Sadly, becausse no one has added a 1 million digit number to one with 763,451 digits, that remains impossible. [B.] Assertion [b.] has motivated many a bank robber. [C.] Even a 70 year old like me can be a smart ass.

Wow, Dez has paled considerably. Such believability.

Like he did with Dez’s complexion?

Or as Gretzky said “I miss 100 percent of the shots I don’t take”.

I wouldn’t have figured Tiff for a silent movie fan, seeing as how they involve reading.

" Look for a TARDIS instead. Lots of room inside…"*BS – Who?

Oh, in one of the original Doctor Whos the Tardis was referred to as meaning simething like Time and Relative Dimensions in Space, but in one of the string of more recent Doctor Whos one said that was a spoof. There have been quite a few Doctors from Hartnell on…

Sure wish Levi were here to give us HIS input about Bern’s affairs.

Ohhhhhh. Wow. I was sure slow on the uptake today w that joke, wasn’t i?

Yes, but what was being addressed is that tanning occurs over a broad range of degree of pigmentation, albeit with the ability varying among individuals.

[a.]Anything unattempted remains impossible..Now you are being silly. A researcher has calculated the 2,000,000,000,000,000th digit of the mathematical constant pi – and a few digits either side of it.[ BBC-news]. Therefore 2.8 quadrillion digits is impossible, by your rule. Everyone likes a little [ass], but no one likes a smart [ass] I asked my wife, who said, “That’s not true. I like you even though you are a smart ass.” It might be that only she and my sister share that view, however.

I’d definite by interested in Peruvian Ayahuasca rituals.Quantum Mechanics would be the hardest class of the entire curriculum.Actually I found it to be one of the easier advanced physics courses, as long as you don’t actually try to make sense out of the list of rules. However, I was thinking the ayahuasca would help in that regard.

I realize that almost everyone here hates Tiffany, because they think (perhaps correctly) that the Evanses want them to, but why is everyone so eager to interpret her interest in both silent movies and “Barbarella” as showing that she’s stupid? Remember that (unlike Luann) Tiffany has had a driving ambition in life, namely becoming an actress, and she has worked hard to achieve that goal, so of course she’s deeply interested in lots of different kinds of movies.It is natural that she likes “Barbarella”, since Elwood hired her to play the character “Zeye” in a Barbarella-like video game, and she has gone on to play that same character at comics and gaming conventions to promote sales of the game, and she had a small part as an extra (and as a production assistant) on a movie version. It is also natural that, as an acting student in Mrs. Manzone’s drama program at Moony, she is interested in learning the very visual style of acting that was used in the silent movies. Since the actors couldn’t rely on their voices to use emotions, they had to tell the whole story with their faces, and that’s a valuable lesson for student actors. As former silent-movie star Norma Desmondn said in Sunset Boulevard, “We had FACES then!”

Spoiler: think vampire w rodent-ish incisors.

I ran Nosferatu through an anagram solver and came up with

1) Unsafe Rot

2) Fear Us Not

So much for Anagram Mysticism…..