Luann by Greg Evans and Karen Evans for August 30, 2013

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    JayBluE  over 11 years ago

    “Water We Doing Here?”or" Chick -en Fight"…..

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    Leon Manuel Real  over 11 years ago

    Well, at least they’re in the pool.

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    JayBluE  over 11 years ago

    Lorrie Al’s Mask Scary… “For Ladies who want to discourage a second date, because the best defense is a good pretense”…. From Twisted Minds Products….=Oil of Okay Water Repellent… “Just in case you’re caught in a water balloon fight, or are forced to enter a pool, or the sky decides to ruin your outing”… “Because Oil and water don’t mix”… “Also makes a great salad dressing”…. From Hungry Scientists, LLC…=Fake and Make Chicken Coating Mix, part of the Julia Grown-up Home meals line… “When dinner is the goal, try Pool Top”… “You’ll get chicken, everytime…. Eventually”…

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    JayBluE  over 11 years ago

    As a reminder, everybody be safe this weekend, and all!…

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    overtherainbow  over 11 years ago

    I can not =imagine= why Knute is complaining!! Crystal with her legs around his neck—good golly Miss Molly!

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    thefloyd  over 11 years ago

    Ok, maybe I have just had a long day. Sorry. but this has gone on for a while and your comments are a bit much. I know, I know I don’t HAVE to read them. I’m just tired of trying to sift through all of yours to get to the others.

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    Angelalex242  over 11 years ago

    Quill:Thank almighty God I’m in Australia, or I’d be listening to that too with Luann on my shoulders.

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    Mordock999 Premium Member over 11 years ago

    Hey LADIES?Wanna Have some Fun?

    Well SLAP Your THIGHS Together! Real REAL HARD!!!!

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    thefloyd  over 11 years ago

    Now THAT was an awesome post! Always enjoy reading your posts as well Leviticus.

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    barbarasbrute  over 11 years ago

    So far, you’ve left the ‘resident donkey’ BRAY-less on his retorts towards you. Keep up the good work.

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    overtherainbow  over 11 years ago

    Great post, Lev! I can relate on how sometimes you find an online community that feels so good it’s like coming home. Nice to read that you found one here. Thanks for sharing. :-)

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    overtherainbow  over 11 years ago

    I thought Crystal didn’t plan t o get wet.

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    Yeah, I sense a lot of splashing in the near future.

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    Ron Dunn Premium Member over 11 years ago

    Come on Ox dump TIffany in the water.

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    kfccanada  over 11 years ago

    Nice to see these teenagers happy to just have good clean fun and enjoy each others company. It’s all about friendship…no bullying, no oneupmanship, no elitism….just creating memories. How many teenagers in the world would give anything to be a part of this group?

    Nice strip, Greg!

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    overtherainbow  over 11 years ago

    Time for another beauty contest.

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    Totally Crystal. The other two don’t compare, mainly because Crystal a) is dressed in black and 2) has more bling and other accessories on, so looks more put together.

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    JayBluE  over 11 years ago

    Maybe I can offer “Reminiscing” by the “Little River Band” for you and the Mrs….

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    kfccanada  over 11 years ago

    @Leviticus….

    Our lives have many dimensions and happily, we’re allowed to keep the child in us entertained,too.

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    kfccanada  over 11 years ago

    @Leviticus….

    Our lives have many dimensions and happily, we’re allowed to keep the child in us entertained,too.

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    kenhense  over 11 years ago

    The boys aren’t having much fun here. Kinda like being dragged along while the girl is shopping. However Gunther and Knute have legitimate hope. I don’t see Tiffany &. Ox as an item – ever.

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    gkid  over 11 years ago

    How nice.

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    JayBluE  over 11 years ago

    And I must also say that “Luann” is so much different than the other strips in the lively and varied posters here… other strips, people aren’t allowed to sneeze in the wrong way, much less present things the way that we all do… we’ve got practical, straight shooters…. there’s acerbic wit…. there’s point/counterpoint… there’s many styles of humor and anecdote… the very rational, the zany… yep, a few strips have some really good forums, but none like here….

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    Mikeyj  over 11 years ago

    I thought Crystal didn’t plan t o get wet.^^She isn’t SO far

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    Mikeyj  over 11 years ago

    Geez Donny, never thought of you as the wearing a beard type

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    Mikeyj  over 11 years ago

    Gunther is strong enough to lift someone onto his shoulders? o.0…. I guess we finally see Bernice tomorrow (Not in the shadows, I mean)

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    JayBluE  over 11 years ago

    Do you realize that that goes along with the thing that Tiffany, Rosa and Crystal are talking about?…

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    JayBluE  over 11 years ago

    Y’know, for two week’s worth of pool party, our time, they may be very “pruney” come Tuesday… they will be seriously California Raisins, singing all versions of “Grapevine”…..

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    JayBluE  over 11 years ago

    Actually, the Fonz is also appropriate here, for the “Happy Day” theme (without the “s”) going on today, as well…

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    JayBluE  over 11 years ago

    Okay, no more seeing “Harold and Maude” the same way… ha ha ha!…. No, I didn’t know that they billed themselves as a dead ringer… well, the clues are making more sense, and the colors on the Rublik’s™ is starting to line up a little more now, Lol!…..

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    suzibuy  over 11 years ago

    What is Tiffany grabbing in her bikini bottoms?

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    Mikeyj  over 11 years ago

    And it really is surprisingly close….

    You look like that girl??? o.0

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    Ottodesu  over 11 years ago

    Good post.Easy read, but don’t forget about < br > if you want paragraph breaks.

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    Ottodesu  over 11 years ago

    I once participated in such a pool wrestling match. The photos of the event all have me leering, I couldn’t help it. That was despite my wife photographing it.Anyway, as has been suggested, to provoke a reaction, all the boys have to do is bend their knees slowly …

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    t2edy  over 11 years ago

    Leviticus: You are selfish. You enjoyed the strip yourself but ruined it for us who were reading it behind you. You posted about things that happen later and ruined our surprises. Sometimes, I really enjoy reading the comments of readers along with the strip. But now I’m wary of reading, especially if you have posted somewhere there. You owe us an apology.

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    Sisyphos  over 11 years ago

    Crikey, Knute! Shut your pie hole! Such a total jerk!………………………….I note that Crystal brought a change of outfits to the pool party and is now wearing a black one-piece swimsuit (details of which are obscured, though it seems to have generous side-cutouts, at least). Three fine-looking ladies and their lads, here.

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    PuckerbrushCity  over 11 years ago

    Hi to Leviticus…Thank you very much for the background. It is great to hear someone’s story. I am not new to Luann—I have been a fan since the 1993 or so—but I am new to the online funnies. I signed up a couple years ago and discovered I enjoy reading the comments almost as much as the comic. Hope you and everybody here has a wonderful long Labor Day weekend!

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    timzsixty9  over 11 years ago

    he’s facing thw wrong way!

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    evergrey  over 11 years ago

    I never was very good at being a “girl,” I guess. Hah! I would never act like them if I could be fighting…

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    seismic-2 Premium Member over 11 years ago

    Yesterday many people herein were claiming that Tiffany was being dismissive of Ox and was not interested in his attentions. Today, though, we see that she is in fact willing to ride on his shoulders in the pool. Could the Evanses now be willing for us to consider Ox and Tiff in fact to be a couple, just like the other two in today’s strip? Or have these last two day’s strips been an anomaly, and they will find some way to pull the rug out from under Tiffany by taking away her relationship with Ox? That’s what they did when they tried to take away Tiff’s success as the lead actress in the play this summer, by adding a strip to say that she was at the camp in the first place just because she was “sponsored”?

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    Ken Rubis  over 11 years ago

    The Tiffany I k ow would never get on Ox’s shoulders and secondly would not be having such a cordial conversation with Rosa. I think her moment with Quill, and subsequent loss to Luann, at drama camp maybe made her realize that she was a bit too self centered and she has committed to change. Even yesterday she was polite to Ox and looked him in the eye as he spoke with her. Tiffany often speaks while staring off into the distance.

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    schmid13  over 11 years ago

    Lev, nice reflection, life, and perspective. Having somewhat retired recently, I love my time spent reading posts and especially reading the daily Luann. Followed back a strip reference yesterday and see you left comments in your reading of the archives. Hope to get to more archives, even find where I started reading some six to eight years ago. On the road with my wife and parents on and old fashion road trip from NC to WIS. cheers.

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    Tinyman  over 11 years ago

    I haven’t heard this beautiful song in the longest time. The last part was Dr. Martin Luther King’s dream too.

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    schmid13  over 11 years ago

    Thanks tinyman.

    Now I’m ready for the Ohio to wis leg.

    I have loved this swim arc. Evans saving the reveal of Luann for the end? Would be anticlimactic without quill showing up as a surprise, as some have said. Or maybe the surprise with Luann will be something about bern, as something is brewing there.

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    grammieK  over 11 years ago

    Thank you…..

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    bba3555  over 11 years ago

    I cannot believe Gunther has Rosa on his shoulders! There is no way he would have agreed to that. He’d have fainted at the very idea.

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    milania  over 11 years ago

    Seriously? TMI, dude. No one cares.

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    spiffny  over 11 years ago

    Why does Tiff have her hand inside her bikini bottom (and why is she sitting on Oxes shoulders actually being pleasant)?

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    jmcenanly  over 11 years ago

    They should look into whatever makeup synchronized swimmers wear.

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    Metal maiden  over 11 years ago

    Thanks for the beautiful post. It’s a grounded reminder of what is important and things we shouldn’t take for granted. Here’s to you, dear one…

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    Metal maiden  over 11 years ago

    It’s because you are so offensive and narcissistic – that is how you are remembered.

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    sbchamp  over 11 years ago

    Give ’em another minute, Knute!

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    sbchamp  over 11 years ago

    Over in ONE!

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    Bandera_Ken  over 11 years ago

    They got their feet wet. That counts. Right?

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    MeGoNow Premium Member over 11 years ago

    I’ll wager a small sum that, when they want to get out of the pool, Gunther decides he needs to stay in the water for a while.

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    jay_dallas  over 11 years ago

    Tiffany using Ox’s head as an arm rest – LOL

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    PMark  over 11 years ago

    Hey, all right! Tiffany is up on Ox’s shoulders. This is getting interesting.

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    pumaman  over 11 years ago

    I’m wondering if Crystal took her shoes off.

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    yangeldf  over 11 years ago

    these girls are like 16 or 17, why do they NEED makeup? Especially in a pool?

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    rroush Premium Member over 11 years ago

    They should dunk all three of them. That should get the party started.

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    Argy.Bargy2  over 11 years ago

    Luann was in last Sunday’s strip. She wore mascara into the pool, and it was dripping. All week, posters have been commenting on how the black coloring shown in the water must have been from Luann’s makeup, even though it is probably the colorist’s technique for showing contrast in the water for those papers that run the comic in black and white.

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    MaNoah  over 11 years ago

    neckwarmers

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    Argy.Bargy2  over 11 years ago

    Before this arc, I used to think that Knute was a creative, interesting character. Now, my impression is totally different. He seems to be, at best, stuck in his ways and insistant that his way of having fun is the only way, and at most, a very controlling person. Ox is not someone who is bullied and forced to do something he doesn’t want to do (as shown by his behavior toward Ann Eiffel), and Ox is not upset that the girls are talking instead of pushing and ‘shrieking’. So why is Knute so upset?

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    SideshowStarlet  over 11 years ago

    I love Ox’s expression in this.

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    David Huie Green LoveJoyAndPeace  over 11 years ago

    “Okay, week’s about up, school year about to roll”-We’re finishing up our second week in Escambia County Florida

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    Sheriff Mordecai Premium Member over 11 years ago

    Well, this is certainly watershed day for comments.

    Have seen more than one life cycle of commenters and their posts over recent ears.

    Reminds me of something I read back in the 90s about the birth, ascension, peak, decline and death of mailing lists (remember them? and user groups?).

    We have seen similar fun, rancor, expulsions and renewals here.

    Greg’s a good man, I hope you all appreciate his place in the comic strip business – it is lofty and deservedly so.

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    David Huie Green LoveJoyAndPeace  over 11 years ago

    “Tiff can get along with just about everyone except Luann.”-I remind you when Tiffany sold pictures of herself, her sole sale was to her BFF Luann.

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    David Huie Green LoveJoyAndPeace  over 11 years ago

    “They erased it. I put it back”-I had wondered

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    David Huie Green LoveJoyAndPeace  over 11 years ago

    “@wakeangel2001

    why do they NEED makeup … you obviously never had daughters. It’s a peer thing."-Yep, I’ve explained to girls that age the makeup is what others use to try to look like they already do, but I guess some of them really don’t unless they do use it.Vanity, vanity, thy name is

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    David Huie Green LoveJoyAndPeace  over 11 years ago

    “@milania

    Since the other one got deleted, I’ll repeat the gist of what my response was…"-Be kind. She’s led a miserable life and made the lives of others miserable.WE love you and that’s all that matters.Someday she’ll find love and won’t be hateful.

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    David Huie Green LoveJoyAndPeace  over 11 years ago

    “There is a glitch in the system that randomly deletes some comments. No malice. You may want to tell Gocomics that in a nice way.”-Nah, I just figure they’re mad at me.It happens far more often than one would expect.

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    galadriel_77  over 11 years ago

    Well, I figure I’ve been lurking long enough and decided to say hello.

    Hello!

    That is all. :)

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    notbornyesterday  over 11 years ago

    stiffies anyone ?

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    Popeyesforearm  over 11 years ago

    good thing the water’s cold. these guy ain’t comin’ out for a while.

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    schmid13  over 11 years ago

    @imjbe “happy travels…” Thank you kindly, sir. Now in ill heading toward Oregon. WI that is. This chicken pool game always involved sparring. The fighting is the pretense for the closeness.

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    buccaneer8  over 11 years ago

    Mr Levi, I will find that post, if can remember which day it was and in what context.

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    Angelalex242  over 11 years ago

    If they were fighting, Ox and Tiffany would win handily. Not that Tiffany’s so tough, but Ox weighs about as much as Knute and Gunther combined.

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    WoodEye  over 11 years ago

    Does Tiff have her finger in Ox’s ear?

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    ORMouseworks  over 11 years ago

    Re: Leviticus’ long musing…(which I am glad one of the regulars put up after it was canned…sorry, I don’t remember your name). I fail to understand why anyone would find it offensive! We get to see some one’s (Leviticus) background and life. A rarity on comment boards…and a rather nice thing to do. Thanks… ;)

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    JayBluE  over 11 years ago

    I keep thinking that Bern will get her time in the panel, and that Greg is purposely saving her for last……

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    ORMouseworks  over 11 years ago

    I still have a difficult time picturing Crystal and Knute as an item…she’s just got more class than he. Glad to see that she did put on a bathing suit, however, and got in on thefun… I can’t imagine how this arc will wrap up, haven’t aclue… ;)

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    seismic-2 Premium Member over 11 years ago

    Since Tuesday is back-to-school, Quill had better show up in this strip in the next 3 days if he is in fact going to do a third senior year, taking advantage of Pitt’s world-class educational system. Let’s hope that more reasonable heads prevailed and he stayed in Oz, but since this is “Luann”, I wouldn’t bet on it.

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    Terrywoebegone  over 11 years ago

    Poor Ox. Looks like she got the better of him.

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    overtherainbow  over 11 years ago

    Maybe Knute is upset, and the other guys look glum, because the gals have been yabbering about makeup and such for half an hour now, and Knute is just saying what the other two are thinking.

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    overtherainbow  over 11 years ago

    Can’t help but think that Ox is going to have a crush on Tiff now, if he didn’t before. That’d be a different kind of arc—someone with a crush on Tiff instead of Luann for a change.

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    overtherainbow  over 11 years ago

    Yes, I do remember the ill-fated short (12-minute) nonrelationship Gunther thought he had with Tiff. That was a while ago. Time for a real crush on Tiff, and to see what happens. I like Tiff and Ox, but I can’t see them going together—he’d hate her usual persona, and she clearly doesn’t care about him “that way.” This lovely little interlude with Tiff and Ox is a natural one, and so was the incident when he chased Les away for her. But how they could get together any more, and have it look natural, I don’t know.

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    Mneedle  over 11 years ago

    Wow

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    ChrisV  over 11 years ago

    Almost forgot this was a mainstream comic strip. “Okay, you can have 3 teenage girls in bikinis but they can’t be doing anything the least bit interesting.”

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    overtherainbow  over 11 years ago
    I would love to find her hidden secrets.

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    Me too—she could easily be the most interesting character in the strip if Evans just developed her character a bit. And depending on what he did with it, of course.

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    AZDave  over 11 years ago

    Aren’t the guys facing the wrong direction? ;)

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    overtherainbow  over 11 years ago

    Totally off topic here, but does anyone else think it’s odd that we’ve never seen anyone else in the DeGroot family except Frank, Nancy, Brad and Luann? Oh, and one Christmas long ago there were three strips with (I think) Nancy’s parents, who came to the house for Christmas. That’s it that I’ve noticed. No other grandparent appearance, no uncles, aunts, or cousins. I realize it’s hard to work relatives in, but it just struck me a while ago that there’s (almost) =never= anyone else in the family.

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    skillz2go1  over 11 years ago

    wonderin if anyone thinkin like me. tiff and ox been getting mighty close lately.

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    RonBerg13 Premium Member over 11 years ago

    Boy, Gunther has come a long way since his Luann days…

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    andymeijers  over 11 years ago

    Only downside of that game- which I remember well- is that the guys have to stay in the water for half an hour after.

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    buccaneer8  over 11 years ago

    Why would we want to see any more details about Tiffany? She is your typical cliche of an air-head, lazy, blonde cheerleader type. There are already three main characters to develop further, which are more than nearly all other strips.

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    buccaneer8  over 11 years ago

    Found the reference:

    Teens do not have to make out to prove they are not hopeless or worthy, or is that incomprehensible to you?

    That is incomprehensible. Gunth goes with her, he stands a chance of being normal. If he refuses, he should become a monk.

    So, unless I am misinterpreting, you stated that if a high schooler does not make out (engage in sexual behavior), he should become a monk?

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    imbaldeagle  over 11 years ago

    Greg Evans may have missed a golden opportunity to show the processes whereby 1) Rosa convinced Gunther to let her sit on his shoulders, 2) Knute convinced Crystal to take her sheer garment off and risk getting wet by sitting on his shoulders, and 3) the conversation whereby Tiffany agreed to sit on Ox’s shoulders after having turned him down earlier. Any of these arcs would have been quite interesting.

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    seismic-2 Premium Member over 11 years ago

    Tiffany turned down Ox’s offer to pick her up over his head and toss her into the pool. Probably she said “No” out of safety concerns, not out of a dislike for Ox. On the contrary, when Tiff told him it was “sweet” of him to ask, I believe she was completely sincere. Tiff is unaccustomed to being treated so courteously, since generally her classmates don’t regard her as a serious person.

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    billybobaz  over 11 years ago

    Gunther! About face!

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    chicogrande  over 11 years ago

    Alright Ox! I know you have a crush on Tiffany.

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    seismic-2 Premium Member over 11 years ago

    They had to skip the awkward part where Gunther hems and haws about Rosa’s asking whether she can wrap her legs around his neck, since that probably went on for 2 or 3 hours. School starts Tuesday, so the Evanses needed to speed the party along to wrap it up this weekend.

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    JayBluE  over 11 years ago

    Q: What time is it when you visit the dentist?A: Tooth Hurty…=That’s the number of comments, now…

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    barbarasbrute  over 11 years ago

    Did you just “bray” something?

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    flowergirl19  over 11 years ago

    “This idiot has (Blue) more time on his hands than he has brains. Seems he can’t make enough lengthy, inane comments. Jobless, perhaps?”

    There is no need for these types of ugly, cowardly comments. You must be an ineffective and unhappy person (possibly because you are the one who is jobless) so you feel the need to write nasty, anonymous comments in order to feel better about yourself. You are pathetic. This was a pleasant place to visit till you came along. Please go spew your vitriol someplace else.

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    flowergirl19  over 11 years ago

    Really nice thoughts Levy. I really enjoy your well written commentaries, entertaining point of view, and your droll sense of humor.

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    transylvanian  over 11 years ago

    :)

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    LOWRIDER84  about 11 years ago

    It will be HOURS before he can get out of the water.

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    DevilDog2001 Premium Member over 5 years ago

    Wow. Gunther’s strong!

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