Luann by Greg Evans and Karen Evans for March 18, 2018

Third!

Watch it, Luann, or the next younger people will tell you of THEIR celebrities and lingo of which you’ll be unaware.

What’s a five-letter word for “About to blow your stack”?

This is the reason I see so many old people playing Sudoku.

Now, that was just plain mean, Luann!

What was that advice on Star Trek…….To resist is futile.

I can relate, Frank!

Even crosswords have evolved! Poor Frank!!!!

Frank you are not alone!!!

Do they really have so many pop culture references in cross word puzzles? I kinda felt like trivial pursuit

Luann just reminded me that the 20th Century was a helluva long time ago.

Eleven letters, “Simpsons Would-Be Bartender”. Trying to make MOESYZLAK fit eleven letters doesn’t work, and he’s not “would-be”.

It’s actually SIDESHOWBOB.

Takes people a while to realize that last word is parsed as “Bart ender”.

crossword is a combination of “new terms and lingo” and “old terms and lingo”, so if anything, is most advantageous to be done by “parent/child team” or even “Grandparent/Grandchild team” and a connection of generations

Since when do young Adults give a Rat’s Patoot about Crossword Puzzles unless it’s about something Hip??

Since when younger people are literate enough to have a go at crosswords? I thought they couldn’t even hand-write anymore? (snark from a crosswords lover who hate those pop culture references)

Say Lu, since you’re now fully aware of what went on at the Fuse the other night thanks to Dez, isn’t it about time you “hipped” your poor parents IN on what REALLY happened at their establishment the other night instead of wasting time doing “Millennial Crossword Puzzles,” something some young person would never DREAM to doing unless they were confined to a hospital bed, and even then…..,

(And Yeah, I know “this is just a stand alone Sunday comic Strip” with no basis in the actual time line……,)

This is bogus. When is someone going ti tell them about Ann and the Fuse?

Early Sunday Morning Rumination #1

Just took a peek at today’s Luann Again Strip. It was in black and white and the story was told in 8 panels. Wouldn’t it be great if the Sunday Luann Strips were in 8 panels?THEN a complete story could be told. Or better still, loose ends from the week’s story line could be tied up in a neat little bow.

Early Sunday Morning Rumination #2

Coming up this week during the much anticipated “Counselling Session” with Ms Phelps, Er I MEAN MRS Fogarty:

Tiffany reveals that she’s now madly in “love” with a guy who fearlessly put her name on a list and stabbed his Sainted Mother, Uh, I mean TAINTED Mother in the back. All on her (giggle) behalf. Tiffany also reveals that all this “poor guy” needed was a little loving attention:

http://www.gocomics.com/luann/2017/06/02?ct=v&cti=1289172

And that He makes her “happy,”

http://www.gocomics.com/luann/2017/06/12?ct=v&cti=1289172

And He’s “fun,”

http://www.gocomics.com/luann/2017/06/13?ct=v&cti=1289172

Hilarity ensues when Tiffany reveals young man’s name is ‘Les Knox’ and an Incredulous MRS Fogarty, fully aware of Mr Knox’s Reign of Terror from High School, Yells: ARE YOU CRAZY?!!? “Fred Sanford Style…….,”

Better off playing Words With Friends/Scrabble. The bigger your vocabulary (and knowledge of those obscure puzzle words), the better you will do.

Maybe we need to see which words fit the rest of the puzzle, that does seem to make a difference.

Just can’t use them cuz she’s right.

I did a cross-word puzzle the other day that no one under fifty would know the answers. Felt pretty good I completed it.

I did a cross-word puzzle the other day that no one under fifty would know the answers. Felt pretty good I completed it.

From the New York Times Sunday Crossword a couple of weeks ago;

Clue – “Baby, Baby, Baby”

Answer – OHMAMA

sometimes I hate seeing “Historical” dramas involving events I lived through and experienced personally.

Don’t do crossword puzzles, but teaching community college more than makes up for any generational language snafus. I am now teaching the post-millennials, and I have to say, not only are they different, in a good way, than millennials, but they have a whole new lingo that is evolving. Just like all the generations before them.

I do all the puzzles in INK, never use a pencil. Sudoku, cryptograms, word searches and crosswords, I love all of them.

JayBluE isn’t here yet — don’t know if he will be — but here’s what I have:

“Kibitz And Pieces”

“Little Miss Know-It-All”

“Get A Clue”

“Correction Flooeyed”

“Grumpy Old Man”

“Frank, Incensed”

What ever happened to “4 letter word, Charlie Chaplin’s wife”?

Today in the Non Sequitur comments, the creator commented.

Do the same sometime, Greg. Do the same.

The only people who buy hardcopy puzzle workbooks (I see folks doing them on the bus and subway) are older than 50. The crossword puzzles in these would never feature millennial pop culture.

tomorrow: The Fogarty/Phelps backstory?

Crossword puzzles are all about wordplay – which I do LOVE about this installment! Nicely done, Team Evans! :)

Good thing I’m hardly insecure about being male, or I might be offended at the Evanses endlessly portraying Frank DeGroot as a clueless dork; as it is, I’m merely amused. “There you go again…”

Frank should recognize that this particular crossword puzzle is aimed at a specific, younger, audience and find one that is more his speed, with a more literary/historical thrust.

Instead of the N.Y. Daily News (or whatever that tabloid is), he should try the Washington Post or the N.Y. Times, or some such source….

Tomorrow:

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Brad and Toni?

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Knute and Crystal?

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Shannon and Jonah?

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Laurel and Hardy?

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Frank and Nancy?

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Al and Irma?

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Latrell Sprewell and Marv Albert?

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Luke and Laura?

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Bert and Ernie?

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Fogarty and Phelps, I mean Fogarty and Fogarty?

Frank just needs to work crosswords every single day – preferably NYTIMES. I don’t know what a Dr. Dre is but I can fill him in correctly.

A Luann, no longer the sweet kid, now the narcissistic, self-involved college kid. If I were Frank I’d probably be entertaining pleasant mental scenarios of Luann having moved out to her own place. (Even with love.)