Brevity by Dan Thompson for July 11, 2012

She’s a stalker?…..

Lettuce not poke fun at her…

I’ve bean worried about her — there can’t be mush room in a celery house, and it’ll be cole next winter…

She could put up some wall pepper, I guess…. but I yam thinking she really needs to find some peas….doesn’t anybody else carrot all?

Maybe had some poor slob picked-up for stalking, too !!

Plus she being held captive there by the nicest kidnappers.

She was feeding her pet falcon some celery when she realized that she’d fallen in love with her raptor.

You can’t really blame the stalkers when they saw the check she was flashing yesterday. They probably thought she had some left over from paying off her student loans..DAZZ – Did you see my response, yesterday?

So Stephan Pastis must be writing ‘Brevity’ today…..

Let’s ’stalk to her neighbors and see how long this has been going on for.

I bet she takes that badly and stalks out of his office.

Art Frahm’s wife?

It’s too bad the girl wasn’t drawn with better melons……although even if she is single I cantaloupe with her. And her neighbor lives in a rhubarb house, which Benny Hill reminds us is “bloodshot celery”……..

Susan, you speak fluent vegetable beautifully……..

Adapting to Stalk Home Syndrome requires the Coping Haven treatment.

Dan, are you trying to give Pastis a run for his money?

Thanks everybody for all the great puns, including Guy!

And to those who like my brand of corn….. aw, shucks, thanks!Just trying to produce a little something late at night when my brain is a vegetable.Linda Dean… As far as I know, Guy still writes all the “verbals” part, and Dan has taken over for rOdd as the illustrator. I don’t know whether rOdd still does any of it, but I miss his work.And he very kindly drew my avatar about a year ago.

Baldy — good to see you.Please excuse my answering for Dazz, but though it was a good guess, I’m sorry, wrong doll!

The Betsy McCall doll came along after Dazz and I were both too old for dolls.

I remember her as a paper doll in McCall’s magazine, but the vinyl version is from the 1960’s.

The young lady’s name in the strip was Betsy Wetzel, which reminded a lot of us “girls” of “Betsy Wetsy”, one of the most popular and continuously produced dolls in the world.

She was one of the first plastic dolls (hard plastic in Dazz’s childhood, part vinyl in mine, and all vinyl soon after.)

The idea that plastic could handle getting wet, unlike composition, gave somebody the idea to design dolls with a hole in the mouth and … in the….um… diaper region.

First there was, I think, Dydee doll, then Betsy Wetsy, then Tiny Tears, which my sister had.

A baby bottle full of water made them wet their diapers (and too much ruined my hand-me-down baby-doll carriage.)

Betsy:

That’s a common problem with vegetarians. Their houses stalk and everything’s full of beans.

;)

shades of pastis