Luann by Greg Evans and Karen Evans for November 07, 2013

’snot all you thought it would be, is it?

“Kids Sneeze The Darndest Things”“Hear No Headache, Feel No Headache”“Miss Understanding”“Worst Case Scenario”“Snot What You Think”or “You Probably Think This Song Is About Me”

DON’T give her any ideas!!!

Goodee…….Blunebottle gets here early enough to be on Front Page! Yippeee!

See if Tiffany ever becomes a mother.

At least she didn’t just SCREAM at them.

earplugs and aspirin? she can’t give small children aspirin.OH I get it!! Those are for her. You know if that is the way she is around children lets wish for her to marry that little short rich guy who likes her, although he plays her all the time. They would have short, weird little kids who would drive her up the wall, if she paid attention to them. I know its mean, and I usually am nice, but I could not resist.

“Brought to you”, by….Sufferin’ brand multi-symptom aspirin… “Now made with 35% more Calgon!…” ….from Sucher-Tash Parmaceuticals… – and by…Snot A Problem all purpose plugs…

…..I wonder how Quill is making out doing the cooking…….

Possible responses from Tiffany (who may not realize her poor choices of words):(1) I asked for the aspirin because Little Benny’s making me sick!(2) But there’s a lot of headaches in that room!

Seems Greg is favoring the old “vague information” gag, where this could go down in multiple ways…. – He could assume that she really does want them for her, and it’s a slight possibility that he may show her where he keeps his supply of headache medicine… (even Principals have those kind of days!..) – Or he could really think that she’s asking for a kid, and has to give an impromptu class in the hallway about a friend of his, named Sue…. who’s a lawyer….

And the tagline from Yawnson and Yawnson: “You may not get rid of the headaches, but at least you can get rid of the symptoms”….

IamJayBluE, you are hilarious. You said it all!

I thought she was going to quit

It’s also funny to see that ‘mysterious hand’ coming out of ‘nowhere’ pinching that girl in the green… so calmly… and mysteriously…

Tiff is the epitome, the zenith (or perhaps the nadir) of worthlessness.

Tiff is always full of surprises—I’m surprised to see her still on the job with the snotty little ones and only now feeling the need to shut them out and nurse her headache and/or paidogenic cold….

Tiff wants the meds for herself, she never does anything for anyone else.

Tiffany is young and pretty and assertive… What a great villain.

Left over from yesterday, dept.:

@JPuzzleWhiz

Wonder how many Americans will dump (or will have dumped) their Volkswagens after learning that Adolf Hitler helped found the company?^^While it’s true that Hitler had a hand in the company, he looked at it as a gift to the German people. Porsche was chosen to run the company because he had a dream to build a “people’s car” since the 1920s and Hitler had the clout to get it done; not because they were “buddies” Coincidentally, both men admired the work of Henry Ford and the VW was a new take on the Model-T. (While Porsche was apolitical, Hitler also admired something else that Ford was known for, his blatant anti-Semitism!).

Their Porsches, too. Dr. Ferdinand Porsche was a personal friend of Adolf Hitler, and was also instrumental in the creation of Volkswagen.^^Porsche and Hitler were acquaintances, at best, they did get along, however, as both were Austrians of German ethnicity, and spoke the same language… literally! Hitler WAS instrumental in getting the VW built, but, just cause Hitler was involved, doesn’t mean the cars were a bad idea. Besides, Hitler was sponsoring the car and built the factory (and workers city) , but, the idea and engineering were all from Porsche and Co., who had been working on and off on a people’s car since the 1920s.

1932 Zundapp-Porsche “Volks-Auto”; the first true VW prototype, built a year before Porsche and Hitler first met.VVV

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STOP! STOP! STOP!

Two DIFFERENT Story Lines in the SAME Week???

What about Old Smiley taking Advantage of the Foreigner?

I Wanted to See BOTH of THEM Going to JAIL for POISONING Customers, and a DISTRAUGHT Luann FINALLY Coming to Her Senses and FLINGING Herself at Gunther with Her Head BURIED In His Mighty Chest!!!

ARGGGGGGGGGGGGGGH, I So Confused!!!

DURN YOU, Greg Evans!

DURN You Straight to HECK!!!!

Mikeyj Re: Your Volkswagen essay. Sources of info would be nice.

Hmmm. Looks like TJ’s brilliant exploitation of immigrant labor stepped on someone’s toes, so it’s different arc time, with worst caregiver in the universe Tiffany story arc.

I predict Tiff will quit and Quill will come work with Luann

When I first read the bubble with the kid saying he felt sick, I immediately thought he had eaten from TJ’s truck.

btw, pediatricians tell parents not to give aspirin before age 21!

I recall the second verse as: The worms go in,The worms go out,They grind your guts Into sauerkraut.

Regardless of Tiffany’s intentions for the earplugs & aspirin, you gotta give her credit on 2 counts. 1)She maintains a calm demeanor when many people would go into panic or stress out. 2)She isn’t fussing with her makeup..Also, if you’re not supposed to give children aspirin before 21, why do they make baby/children’s aspirin? And many doctors do not recommend aspirin because of Reye syndrome, a potentially serious or deadly disorder in children.

I was surprised she didn’t go get Luann.

Fast forward to the news article about her teenage son:“Teen goes on shooting rampage-Mother says, ‘I don’t understand’”

Hmmm

What happened to Quill & TJ? Or Brad & Toni & Shannon? My head is spinning with these arc shifts.

Any inclination on the part of Jewish folks to boycott Germany and German products really has more to do with the direct experience of the person doing the boycotting, rather than a particular decision by a whole group of people sharing the Jewish religion. My parents were the WW II generation,and my late mother always boycotted anything German, because our father’s father had tried to bring relatives out of Germany before the concentration camps became general knowledge, but the family members in Germany suddenly ‘vanished’. The local newspaper in our hometown, the Pittsburgh Press, even reported on it. When my brother started college to study science, the foreign language he had to take was German. Mom was upset, but my brother pointed out that most of the research he had to read would be in German (at that time). And years later, when my brother’s kids started at Princeton, they took the option of a year study abroad that Princeton offers and it is in Germany. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> While I was studying archaeology in college, I had a German Masters degree candidate as a teaching assistant. When he found out I was Jewish, he went out of his way to help me with my research (to the point of embarassement), because HE felt guilty about what had been done by previous generations. The following generations have felt a sense of resentment that anyone thinks they bear a collective guilt. And, as long as they don’t act to bring back the Nazi Party, they are right; they don’t bear a collective guilt. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> All of this is much more complicated, but the important thing to remember is, trying to punish subsequent generations for the crimes of their elders is contrary both to common sense and to the general orientation of the Jewish religion…

..not snot,spew..

HI. Glad to be back after a short bout of not feeling to well. Now this:On Facebook I have made friends with this one young Lady from Germany that has been going through some trials. Now we are best friends that we are more therapy for each other than trained professionals. After we talk we feel so much better after a hard day of headaches and dealing with pains in the butt. One time I asked her for the same thing. Earplugs and aspirins. The last thing we do is give each other a virtual hug and we both feel better when we sign off for the night.

Ok, but not so ‘ancient’ yet. The WW II generation is still here…

At least none of the kids are beating up on somebody that’s lying on the floor… yet. But the kid being pinched may be getting ready to take it to a new level..Should Tiff really leave the kids alone in this situation? Ah, since she’s merely an assistant, the lead adult is still there. Maybe that’s the reason she can keep calm in a stressful conflict..You mean she doesn’t have her own aspirin in that gigantic makeup bag she always has with her?!?!

Maybe Tiff and Quill will switch jobs. Why would Tiff want this job in the first place? She is not nurturing at all.

You guys do realize this is a comic strip. Right?

Especially since the aspirin is probably meant for Tiffany herself…

Sad. An example of parents who weren’t thinking at all, probably….

We’re not pathetic. We’re creative!!

I thought that was Sheraton St. Louis….or something like that….

I was a camp counsellor for years for the military, working as a civilian…there is no way it is legal to have 2 adults with 46 children!!! The law states 1 adult for every 10 children!! This would be complete chaos!

Since Quill doesn’t like his job on the Lunch Wagon (which leads me to wonder just what he thought a job on a lunch wagon would actually involve, if not cooking food!!!), he will quit it. Tiffany hates the kids, so she quits that job, too. Quill replaces Tiffany. (Of course the principal will ignore all the hundreds of other applicants who applied for the job the first time, and he’ll just hire illegally the first visa-violator who shows up. That’s the way the Luannverse works.) Then Quill and Luann will be working side-by-side, surrounded by dozens of precious children who adore them both, and millions of readers will be on Cloud 9. Maybe TJ will hire Tiffany to replace Quill on the Lunch Wagon, just so that he can thoroughly ridicule every aspect of her life on a daily basis, and Greg Evans too will then be on Cloud 9. Win-win.

It definitely varies by state.

I hope not.

Yes, you’re right, that is how it usually ends. I’m trying to figure out how this particular one started. Guess I’m really dumb, but is this supposed to be about TIff’s teenage son, in the far distant future, going on a shooting rampage because his mother was never ‘there’ for him and was always just about herself? Because I can’t begin to imagine Tiffany HAVING a teenage son….

Alanada – we learned“The worms crawl inThe worms crawl outThe worms play pinchle Upon your snout.*The puss puffs out Like whipping creamAnd me, without my spoon! :(*A classic

Lucky it’s snot and not vomit!

she will not make a good mother at all

You guys do realize this is a comic strip. Right?Surely you carry a running tally of this comment on a spread sheet, Levi…

…and btw, my guess is 156 times over the last 3 years…3x/wk

“but TJ cooks regulaly …”--I had it in my mind that it was the inexperienced Quill who was cooking.

You people are pathetic. ^I guess I’m too late to give you the “point a finger at me, three point back at you (not including the thumb) speech”.., – There are alternatives, though… the “walk up to someone unrehearsed and unprepared, call them pathetic and see what they respond to you with” demonstration… uh… nah… – Let’s go with the: “I like superheroes, too…I’m a fan of many of them, even… but people that wear them on their profile pic and then tell others how pathetic they are have no room to talk, even though their profile pic is kinda cool” speech, instead. So, here goes… wait- I just said it, didn’t I? Well, there it is…

Puzzle -It was Lou Barra who said it. Lev was merely responding to the post.I realized that Levi was responding, but since he seems part archivist, part bean counter, I thought I’d check to see if he was keeping a tally of the “It’s only a comic strip” comments.

Wow! My daughter’s 5th grade class has 34 students and only 1 teacher… ^For my 5th grade, we had a homeroom teacher, but they started preparing us for “big boy/girl school” by having two teachers “partner up”, so that for each two teachers, there would be two “partner classes”, where we’d get the one teacher teaching us stuff in the morning, then we’d switch off and have the other in the afternoon… they would both teach and grade us, (e.g., one taught math, music, science and the other reading, language social studies), but only one would be our “homeroom teacher”… – So imagine having 34 students doubled to 68… 3 hours each with both classes…. and one of those classes had me in it! Lol!

I also concur with Argy and JPW… it definitely is a state to state thing… especially when you have schools in cities like we do in the Northeast… more kids and not enough good teachers to go around…

Don’t give aspirin to kids… causes Reye’s syndrome!

It’s probably not for the kids.