Luann by Greg Evans and Karen Evans for August 08, 2016

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A much simpler analogy for a simpleton like Brad.

tj actually has a point. learn to cook, brad. you and toni can take lessons at the community center.

“At Home, On The Range” (♬)“My Chef Concern”“Gourmet, December Romance”“Microwave, And Say Hello”“Feeling A Bit Lagasse”“A Yen For Yan”“Julia Child-ish Behavior”“It’s Justin Time”“A Guilt-ed Caj-un”“What Did She Bake? I Think I’ll Ask ’Er”“See About That Boil”“Don’t It Make My Brown Rice Glue?” (♬)“Oven, Unusual Sort”“Mind Your Peas And Barbecues”“Burnt Orange And Spit Pea Green”“Stepping On A Few Toma-toes”“All We’re Saying, Is Give These Peas A Chance” (♪)or“Broil Of Okay”

Yo Smiley! Has old Brad told you the Good News, yet? That They are going to let YOU stick around after They’re married, AND You will doing ALL the COOKING Cleaning, And “Shannon-Sitting”?

……., They’re only gonna to DOUBLE Your Rent?

More clues that maybe Brad & Toni are meant for each other. "Toni’s favorite recipe is “open here.” Toni is a beautiful woman – but not a princess. I think Brad wouldn’t have what it takes to keep a princess happy. He’s lucky that Toni isn’t one.

about Shannon……………… Toni and what his name are siblings, and were taken care of by their uncle and aunt when their parents died……….Toni’s brother was wild, even more than now and he and a girl made Shannon, but that girl needed the wild life so she left the baby to continue it, . Greg half implied but did not confirm that either that girl’s sister married Mr. Lewis and is also the aunt of Shannon or Mr. Lewis is the brother of Shannon’s mom and thus Mrs Lewis is Aunt of Shannon by marriage, they never ever said “that” Shannon’s last name was Lewis, only that her aunt and her baby had Lewis as their last name

I want to see more of Knute. He’s my favourite Luann character.

I don’t remember an uncle raising Toni and Fishbait. In the strip where Toni tells Brad about her parents being killed, I thought she just said they were raised by “an aunt”. Nor do I remember ever hearing that the aunt is out of the picture, just that T & F “moved here” at some point. That aunt doesn’t necessarily have to be much older than Frank and Nancy.

Who said anything about an uncle? For that matter, do we know that there is only one aunt or uncle in the Daytona family? Might there be cousins around somewhere?

hahahahaha

Why should they be any different from many others of their age group?

My Mom taught me how to cook, by showing me a few basics, then saying “If you want to eat, you’d better figure this out!” Both me and my brother learned, so we wouldn’t starve! :p

Funny, but I can’t reply to Kymberliegh directly. Wonder if she works for Go comics.

@Kymberleigh

ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ.

A lifetime of fast food and/or processed food? Good grief!

I love cooking, baking, canning etc. Today I’m going to can pickles, tomorrow jalapeno poppers. Did ribs over the weekend. Love to eat, learn to cook.

Must be nice Needa.I’m too busy working.

Blue Apron…

Get rid of TJ? Maybe not.

Brad should just tell TJ the truth instead of trying to con him. He wants TJ to live with them and cook for them.

For those wondering about TJ living with the Toni/Brad couple – there was a mention of “saving money” by Brad moving in with Toni (I think Toni was talking). This was while Brad was squeezed into her chair, hence “…but Brad won’t fit”. So, Toni moves in with Brad AND TJ. Toni’s rent is probably significantly less than the rent on the house, and if it’s just Brad and Toni in the house, how will they save money? Couples HAVE been known to make just such “sacrifices”, although I understand it’s not as nice as if they could have both space AND privacy.

some people are not happyt unless they are complaining

Like a deep-fried Twinkie-on-a-stick, without the stick.Like a brown sugar Pop Tart without the toaster.

That is very nice of TJ to offer them cooking lessons, and very lazy of Brad to reject his kind offer. Brad will be a plump lump in a few years if he keeps eating processed food.

I think that we are now in cruise control, no mystery, no crisis, just mild, everyday, low key humor. Wondering if TJ has a job. I know that he financed The Fuse, but does he have any function there?

I don’t eat anything I can’t pronounce.

what happened to Les, the thief?

No time to check right now, so apologies it someone already said this, and in that case take it as a pat on the back.The core of the matter

read the FAQ

-Excerpted from the FAQ, provided 10 hours ago by Kym:

They had first planned on a September 11th wedding to honor the 9/11 firefighters, but the week that the fire department could let them both have off begins on December 11.

See the FAQs on the first page of comments. They were made for people like you.

It appears you’ll have to dumb it down for him TJ.

Brad has stated previously that the cooking duties are rotated amongst the firefighters; ergo, Brad has served a lot of Oreos and Chef Boyardee in his career.

Cross-strip altert! Never thought I’d say this, but if you want to see real action check out Rex Morgan, MD. He’s confronting the doll of a moll with fall-out!

food snobs – almost as bad as winos

How can someone NOT know how to cook? I enjoy it and being the cook you get to flavor things the way YOU like them. Of course I also don’t see how people can have a house and not a garden, but that’s just me.

Is this whole thing a scheme to keep everybody chaste, even after two of them are married to each other? LOL!

Or taking the cookies apart and eating the filling…

Why does anyone care that there are repetitive easily answered questions in the comments? If those folks were interested enough to read FAQ, wouldn’t they already know the answer? Just pass them by like you would a cackling hen.

Sage words from one whose own home life was – from what we know – less than traditional. It is possible to get by with little or no cooking these days, but cooking and all that goes with it can be a delightful way to interact and practice sharing, cooperation, compromise, and a whole host of other important relationship skills. And as a bonus, you get to eat the “lesson!”

Actually, we know that TJ’s father was a non-entity in his life. Was his mother a single mother? Might that have contributed to TJ becoming a good cook?

Sure I do. I love their fries.

If you like raw pie dough…

CaldoniaCaldonia said, about 2 hours agoIs this whole thing a scheme to keep everybody chaste, even after two of them are married to each other? LOL!What? Not being able to cook means not being able to “cook”?

That has to be the worst name for a cookie ever. Seriously, Hydrox? Sounds like something Billy Mays used to annoyingly hawk.

Yeah, there are some funny juxtapositions in the posts today. Stuff to laugh about.

Brad’s old style shirt is back. 8)

I thought firepersons took turns cooking at the firehouse?

(Coma-toast, Edibles….,…Bury Caesar:) Ha, Ha, Ha!)

Yep. “Cook” in the past has had a range of slang meanings, hense my convoluted attempt at a joke.

I agree with TJ. Cooking is a life skill that everyone should have. If you have common sense, can put a pot on the stove and turn on the gas, then you can cook. I have a pot with broth, vegetables and whatever bubbling away gently almost every day, unless it is 95 degrees outside. I think peoples’ expectations of what constitutes a meal are too high and the media, with all these cooking shows (which I never watch) and photos of perfect looking this or that, is partly to blame. If Brad is a fan of eating then he needs to be a fan of cooking. It is part of growing up… the way I see it.

-“Cordon Bleh”

You have a million jokes about food! LOL!

If Brad wants to be a parent to Shannon, then he needs to be able to prepare food…. in the home.

@Night-Gaunt49: Yeah, thanks, knew that already.

Tough crowd :-/

Just a little note to you.This is such a fun community today.THANK YOU!

Don’t call us, TJ; we’ll call you if we want foodie advice.Meanwhile, there are some good restaurants in Pitts, I’m sure….

@Kymberleigh: Thank you for your posts of information!

Oh, good God…

@æ² I can see Brad NEEDING the fire department if he attempted that!There’s likely a reason why he didn’t work the cooking line at Weenie World .

æ, THAT is frightening. BTW, your link did not work right away, but did on the third try. Then again, reply is having some problems now, so…

@ ae2

If you’ll make some of those oreos, I’ll try them! :-)

SPOILER

Many assumptions about living arrangements fall by the wayside. A territorial battle may begin…

No, each of us have an imagination! We all just ‘live in different addressess’, and so just ‘take different routes’ to get there!

Lousy Foodie: Ha, Ha, Ha!

So Brad and Toni are going to shack up? Great story arc for a comic strip.