Luann by Greg Evans and Karen Evans for May 09, 2012

This woman has no business acumen whatsoever! She’s chastising TJ for giving the guy a 5 cent promotional item, after he spent over a hundred bucks.

BTW, that guy looks like OX from a few weeks ago.

Yeah, I wondered if that’s Gunther’s new BFF.

Is that Ox?

Ox must stay strong, needs to protect the QB and Gunther

I wonder if Ox knows where to stick the food

The guy just spent $148.00 you think she would be happy.

It’s the first customer TJ hasn’t tried to upsell. If TJ had unleashed the full force of his salesman skills, Ox (assuming that’s Ox) would have ended up buying everything in the restaurant.

Also, the guy said it was his first time at WW. You can see in the last panel that he likes that WW appreciates his business! Most likely, he will become a regular customer.

Yummy

Leviticus, I took your advice, and began reading ‘Luann’ from the start. I’m up to 1996. It’s a delightful comic.

I think that is The Gunth’s big friend.

Look at that safisfied look on his face wearing that thing on his head. LOL

How in the world did Ann ever become the manager of Weenie World? TJ is right; she doesn’t have the business sense that God gave to that one-cent paper crown!

would these two just kiss and get it over with

Ox is bbbbaaacccckkkk. Chanting chanting chanting for him to be casted into Luann crew.

TJ better watch out. He’ll soon find himself manager… area manager… regional manager…

I am pained by the fact that she did not want him to have a crown. I have a business selling customized stuff. I have little non-customized items that I sell for a few dollars, while most of my items sell for $35 or more. Most customers spend around $100 or so. When they say “Oh! I forgot to add that little non-customized item to my order. Can you just charge my card?” I say “Nope! I am throwing that sucker in for free. Heck, maybe even two if I am in a good mood!”

This strip is getting more and more bizarre…. and people are Analyzing it?!?……

PrinceCharmeing….. I don’t think Ox wants to kiss TJ.But you can keep hoping, if you like…

and that was just a snack, wait till dinner and he takes everything on all the boards.

Ox must have a protection racket going to drop that kind of money on fast food.

There’s a lot of misinformation out there about so-called frivolous lawsuits – anyone can sue, that doesn’t mean the court will hear you. Some suits, like ones against Denny’s, McDonalds, and schools that can’t enforce a policy to save their lives, are jsutified – and some aren’t, like the CA father who’s suing his son’s school for kicking him out of his AP classes even though he admitted to cheating..Don’t forget a lot of tort reform lobbying that includes circumventing 7th amendment rights and caps on personal injury damages is being funded by corporations who also want to avoid their share of “personal responsibility”. Try suing a health insurance company that denied you coverage that you actually paid for and should have received, with the result that your health is permanently impaired, if you truly want to see avoidance of responsibility in action. .Better to give Ox his order (if he has the means to pay for it) rather than refuse for no good reason and face a well-deserved arbitrary discrimination suit.

not very realistic or do big eaters normally spend $148 on lunch

By the way, did Shannon got her anti rabies shots? She could catch something nasty biting Ann like that.

This can’t end well……

Even store managers have to go through employee performance appraisals.

More irrational stuff. $148 will buy a lot of weenies & buns at the grocery store.

If Ox bought from ALL boards (because I guess he’s got an APPETITE!), they’d have to close for an “Emergency Restock”, and Annie would complain about THAT !

I’m not sure whether this guy is actually Ox, though he certainly looks like Ox. But, regardless, TJ has converted a very profitable BurgerBox regular to WeenieWorld for life, if Annie Awful doesn’t mess up. Get a clue, Miss Failed Management!

Our they sure they have the right person, managing the weiner world?

Yes that is Ox…

Yo, Moose, Ox, whatever?

“The WHOLE Board”, Dude?

Have You been listening to the news lately about the Nation’s On-going Obesity Problem and the Role that Fast Food Resturants like THIS Joint Play in…..,Excuse me.

Hey, Waiter!

Six Hot Dogs with EVERYTHING, Extra Large Black COFFEE and a LARGE order of Cheddar Fries, While I’m STILL Young, Huh???

TJ has just made (if not) beat Ann in monthly sales . $148.00 in a single sale is alot of money to a fast food place. I am sure TJ will be noticed by upper management now. Bye Bye Ann.

I think Ann’s getting the ax and TJ’s going to run the store…

Shame shame making fun of the mentally challenged.

@Prince Charming:They not gonna kiss and make up. TJ dont want rabies.

sounds like Norpac.Cant over fill bags 1 gram but loose hundreds of pounds from spillage.

I guess the anti-bullying racket pays well.not sure how Ox could afford to eat out very often otherwise.

This person is a witch, spelled with a capital “B”. I hope that somewhere down the line she does not magically become likeable. Keep her bad, like Dirk the Jerk.

I’ll hug him and squeeze him and call him Geor…..TJ

Hey, Earth to Ann, There’s a little kid in all of us.

I know a few businesses who could use a TJ, especially in this economy.

lol

Or, is Ox smiling at the rear view of Ann. “Ox like Ann – Ox and Ann go out.” Who could say no to Ox? Could be a match made in WW.

Ooh! That is our OX

Now, now, let’s keep it current, Ox will have congestive heart failure from the fried food and Ann will try to blame TJ :-)

Whee. Any Eye-full is gonna get her clock cleaned…she needs a strong laxative.

Not sure why, but I have this sense that the saga will end not in vengeance on Ann Effel, but in her coming around. There’s a reason she’s like this, and if TJ and Co. get to the bottom of it she might just change for the better. Call me nuts, but something about the way Greg draws her makes me think she hasn’t entirely lost her humanity.

No she doesn’t, TJ, so keep up the good work.

Just let’s see her try to take the crown away from HIM. She’ll likely lose an arm up to the elbow.

TJ is the OWNER of all WeenieWorlds and is working as an Undercover Boss.

Some how can’t get in to this segment not a real fun one. Where does a high school kid get 142 bucks for one meal. Hmmm even out there a ways for the comics. LOL I think that is OX

OOOPs 148

O lordy. I just love me some Ann Eyefull.

O lordy help me!

Mongo like Sheriff Bart

It’s nice to see the Burger Box get some free advertising. I used to love to eat there when living in Arlington. Those Box Burgers were some of the best around and the fries were good also. Been awhile since I’ve been back but I believe they’re still in business.

Good asessment, moj.

If Ox were posting here, he’d let the trolls have it big time.

And he’d definitely go with the flow. Smart guy, that Ox.

Ox does not intend to eat it all..He is involved in helping (feeding) others.

Yep, that’s Ox, alright… Big as an ox, strong as an ox, can even LIFT an ox, but he can’t spell it ! (old joke)

THIS STRIP ISNT FUNNY ANYMORE.

Yop, that’s Ox. (And there’s so much wrong with AE in this strip, I don’t even know where to begin, as it’s all been said already. Suffice it to say, the woman is a bloody fool)

“Anna” represents nothing of the kind..There were abusive and harassing bosses under the “old” management, which actually used to reward good work and keep its employees to retirement age. There are abusive and harassing bosses under “new” management, which is vested in keeping you at consultant level so it doesn’t have to vest you in the company, give you any benefits and can kick you to the curb when you reach your 40’s..“New” isn’t always “better” – and Eiffel’s abuse isn’t welcome or productive in any well-run business.

I think that’s Toni without her wig

Ann is just a compulsive micromanager – she can’t help jumping in – no matter how trivial. I had a boss like that once (but not nearly as good looking). Now – back to how Ann is going to learn to relax.

FF stores wouldn’t exist if everyone thought that spending less money for a pack of buns & burgers or dogs at the supermarket was a better deal than spending a little more money for the convenience of having a ready to eat plunked on a tray in front of you.

Sure they would. Fast food places exist because there’s a need for them, and they’ve been around since ancient Greece and Rome. .Regardless of how you think everyone should live their lives, people don’t carry their kitchens with them when they travel, so are often away from home at breakfast, lunch or dinner time. Some people don’t have access to a working kitchen where they live. For others, packing a meal is impractical. Because people also work away from home and have a limited lunch break, they need someplace fast (and cheap) to eat, since their bosses take a dim view of setting their desks on fire to grill a burger. Some are such lousy cooks that they burn water, and some never learned. .And I can guarantee that if all the FF franchises vanished from the earth overnight, the supermarket price of buns and burger meat would triple, so that it wouldn’t be so much of a bargain any more.

I think TJ is setting Ms. Tite Butt up for the kill. Soon, he is going to announce that he is leaving, and she will be beside herself to keep him. Next, she will soften and they will become an ‘item’. I mean, look at her? What cartoon character isn’t going to want to tap that? ;)

She’s a dominatrix… all she cares about are rules

so I guess the big guy who saved Gunther from the bully is going to become a regular character now. He must have some job to be able to afford $148. worth of food!

@BeretDude – My idea is one morning Ann gets in late – with her clothes not so neat – and TJ says (smiling) “Welcome to Weenie World.” (probably as far as we can go).

Why assume Ox is only buying it for himself?

Hope all these days of nasty remarks and the parade of customers is just the build up to unleashed passion in the back room. Of course, that never happened with Rosa & Gunther and they, also, went through many days of build up with the bully arc. For some reason, Greg always sticks a pin in the balloon. Cue Mick Jagger…“I can’t get no satisfaction.”

Define your terms. If by “social parasites” you mean people who’ve been injured through a company’s negligence and look to the courts for redress, then that’s bullshit. If you’re talking about the woman who snuck her coworker’s severed finger into a bowl of Wendy’s chili and tried to get $$ for pain and suffering, that’s accurate. And there are far more legitimate claims for liability that go nowhere than there are ripoff artists who succeed. .And it cuts both ways – companies can be just as parasitic when it comes to corporate welfare, and I mean that in both senses of the word. Does yours have a “dead peasant” life insurance policy on you so that it, rather than your family, will collect benefits when you die?

Very interesting twist in this story line! I love it!!

In a coconut [bank] that he keeps on his bureau – an OBVIOUS typo! Why, what did you think I was typing?.Happy birthday to you! And see ya next Thursday! ;D

Do you ever see the Curb Your Enthusiasm episode where Larry sent an obituary for a “favorite aunt” to the paper – and was blamed by everyone because the paper perpetrated a truly unfortunate typo?

It shoulden’t take $148 to feed a man.

Aww, thanks! But you should both know that my favorite movie is Breakfast at Home Depot.

Heh – you actually wouldn’t. Typical British manufacture – looked gorgeous, but the engineering was for sh*t. Dad had an XKE and the sports suspension was horribly stiff – you felt every imperfection on the road, it was impossible to keep the front end in alignment, and Dad realized he was going to need a kidney transplant if he kept on driving it. Also, the wire wheels had a tendency to go out of round – and no, I’m not kidding. Why else do you think Harold sent it over the cliff at the end of the film? ;D.

@Mojitobaby & BrdshttI have been unfaithful to you – Running around and commenting on other strips. I am sorry. Perhaps I will be back to my old silly and inane self by tomorrow and perhaps not. You never know about those perhapses. Please forgive me.

An ex-boyfriend is an A&P/IA aviation mechanic – you should hear what he says about the BAE-146’s electrical. Total nightmare for wiring – basically, it’s the plane that tea-breaks built. .I laughed like hell in I.Q. when the snobby British professor’s (Stephen Fry) MG TF Roadster breaks down at the garage and Tim Robbins (who plays the mechanic), tells him: “You have a Lucas type four generator on a 12-volt system, and you know the British. They’d rather spend time gluing wood on a dashboard than getting the electrical system right.”

Well, he really resembles Ox! But then, he may be Ox’s brother… In any case, he sure looks like a big, happy kid!

Yeah, maybe Ox has a twin— Like Jeff’s brother Julius (Mutt & Jeff).

Or Ox’s twin brother. Those guys must live & love to eat “gut bombs” and “tube steaks!”

Twice as strong as an ox, and almost half as smart!

Weenie World might take away quite a bit of business from BurgerBox, thanks to TJ. Again, with that paper/plastic “crown,” the guy just looks like a “Big Happy Kid!”

I like your comment and think that it is right ON with the exception of a minor, but frequent spelling error. For those few who might not understand:The Peter Principle is a belief that in an organization where promotion is based on achievement, success, and merit, that organization’s members will eventually be promoted beyond their level of ability. The principle is commonly phrased, “employees tend to rise to their level of incompetence.” In more formal parlance, the effect could be stated as: employees tend to be given more authority until they cannot continue to work competently.

I love these more thoughtful strips & stories. Humor can come from life – and strips like this can help us go through our own lives, and challenges, with more smiles and less stress. Not every strip has to be a pun or a pratfall. Thank you Greg!

What you said is that if everyone realized that buying buns and burgers at the supermarket was a better deal and would forego the convenience aspect, there wouldn’t be a need for FF restaurants. The way I read it is analogous to saying that if everyone just realized that walking everywhere was cheaper, we wouldn’t need to buy gas and there’d be no need for the auto industry. Until we’re willing to wear a portable kitchen so we can cook a burger in the middle of Aisle 6, or we’re issued wheels instead of legs, we’ll still need both.

It’s not just “convenience” – the way you presented it made it sound like people are either spendthrifts or too lazy to rustle up their own food, and that’s not always the case. People travel all the time and usually can’t cook in the back of the car or in their motel room – it’s not so much “convenient” as much as it’s “necessary”. .FF franchises, BTW, are primarily clustered around schools, colleges and universities. Then comes bus and train stations, hotels, retail areas/shopping malls, hospitals and office parks/business districts.

Moj, honey… What’s with all these psuedo lovers? Oh, what a wicked game… But is is I who have your cell number.

i suspect any business sense ann has has been overwhelmed by her intense dislike of and equally intense attraction to tj. if all she cared about was enhancing her management profile, she’d let him rake in the bucks without paying much attention. however she can’t manipulate him, bully him and definitely can’t get him to like her which infuriates her to no end. the reason tj gets to her so much is because he can. this is going to get interesting.

Shush …..Anne go to your office and let the guy make the money….