The Dinette Set by Julie Larson for September 20, 2011

Burl is right on with his comment today. Verl posture makes mine look perfect.

Welcome, ElmoFudpucker. To what do we owe this honor?

To answer the queries, yes, I do ride 27 miles in one day. I have an area around the neighborhood that I ride in, and I do laps. It usually takes me about 2 hours and 45 minutes. Now that the sun is rising later, I may not be able to do as many miles as I could when I was starting at 5:30 AM.

And did you win, perchance?

Speaking of Planet of the Apes, I think she looks like a gorilla, perhaps Aldo.

Morning, All

Dignity?The Penny’s don’t know the meaning of that word.

Next up, Pretty Woman starring Tanya Harding. haha Good jab at Tonya Harding. Nice one, Julie Larson.

Don’t DO that Verl. Your back will stick like that, and you’ll always have to walk hunched over with a book on your head.

Though of course, you will look dignified.

Or at least …stately. As big as Ohio and as wrinkled as West Virginia.

Pretty Woman starring Tonya Harding!

Another great role model.

G’morning Marg, Grog, and all you other Crustwoodians arriving later — oh, and the newly rotated OddBall just arrived. Hello!

And, um…. welcome to Crustwood, Elmo the well-traveled, but……

well, I don’t understand why you’re saying those things to Marg in Spanish.

We LIKE to say silly things here; it’s a comics website…..

And what does that have to do with pregnancy (speaking of silly things to say)?

Am I missing something?

It IS nearly midnight…..

Love the tilt-a-hurl shirt !!

Here in Illiniois……… the “Popes Nose”……. refers to the little tail of a chicken.. At dinner……. you might hear the question….. Who would like the Popes Nose..?…. Also callled the last part of the chicken……. to go over the fence………..

Looks like Verl just joined the “Deportment of Silly Walks”.

@Blue Waves- I remarked on that yesterday when it first happened – All the single panel strips are now this size and multipanel are another – uniformity! ;-(@Susan, I was hoping to mention that Tonya (another example of poor deportment) and if Joy at least had a coach for the first lesson in posture, she might be doing it correctly. Why did Elmo think asking him if he won gambling was foolish and what makes him expect to see you in a jury box?

I survived walking under the “Tilt and Hurl”. (Look out below!)

It did shrink Blue, and someone explained it the other day (maybe Susan?).

Sorry Dazz, forgot who it was. And I guess my computer is being slow to update again, because I didn’t see any comments after BlueWave till just now!

Hi everyone—love the Dinette Set and all tthe funny comments that you all post

Susan,Your avatar is an R. Crumb character, correct? Suzy Sunshine, perhaps? I love it, but I can’t track it down, and my Crumb collection is pretty good. What comic is it from?

I’ve noticed that some people walk with their palms facing backwards rather than inwards. It looks kind of simian to me. Then again, I wonder how I look to them.

ElGuapo — no, not an R.Crumb.

It’s an original Rod Perry “portrait” of ME!!!

A treasured gift from Rod, co-creator and resident artist of Brevity, which is pretty much my favorite strip.

I’ve commented on it almost every day since Comics.com started having free forums in 2008.

When we “moved” to GoComics, someone on that forum asked me what I was going to use for an avatar.

Amazingly, rOdd posted, asking whether I’d like him to draw one for me.

You bet!

It’s (very) loosely based on a photo I e-mailed him, with rays of sunshine in the background.

So…. do you think it’s a good resemblance?

:cD

Susan-So cool, a personalized avatar by a famed artist. I’m jealous. Only been at GoComics for a year or so, and mostly for Dick Tracy, but branching out. Will definitely check out Brevity, especially since I’ll have extra time now that I can stop combing the internet and my Zaps, etc. looking for RC’s “Suzy.” I love the bright eyes and friendly smile and rays of sunshine and hope it is a good likeness—it is a great avatar.

Got called away just as I was about to answer a couple of other posts…. prob too late now, but….

Pipe, yeah, PatH is right.

W VA is covered in mountains, which looks “wrinkled” — especially on a relief map, cos they’re hugely out of scale.

Illinois is smooth and shiny by comparison.

As for comic sizes — some strips did, indeed, just become smaller but not all.

Speed Bump, for one, is still large — hope that lasts.

I don’t like the new size, and plan to write to GoComics about it.

I hope others will too — including the artists.

The magnifier now shows some strips smaller than they were without it before.

Dinette set is hard enough to see without being smaller.

I checked, and today’s hi res version is about 100k.

A couple of old ones I saved are about 250k.

I know times are lean, but would they destroy the showcase for their product to save that little bit of bandwidth?

And last - Elmo -

I went to bed before I saw your next posts.

Nobody was putting you on trial just by taking a joking interest in what you said.

We’re a friendly bunch.

Asking someone of she’s pregnant in a language she might not speak seemed …. well, an odd response, that’s all.

And ElGuapo — thank you!

Yes, I feel honored by having my likeness done by a national cartoonist.

And because it was drawn to the proper scale for its use, it looks very clear…. though as with any avatar, it looks better if you click it and see it on my profile page.

I do tend to smile a lot, though I’m older than the drawing might imply.

Do check out Brevity…. a very skewed sense of humor, which some don’t get, but is somehow in tune with mine.

Some days all of us are scratching our heads – but I enjoy working for the joke.

BTW, Bart hiding behind a Lucha Libre mask seems an odd choice for someone called El “Guapo”.

Welcome, Elmo. Love your user name, too!