Luann by Greg Evans and Karen Evans for November 21, 2013

What about Quilly-boy? Lonely Thanksgiving!!!

Mondays recognition of our own Levi is actually a message to get in touch with Greg. He is wondering who you are, as evidenced on his facebook page. Apparently he is very impressed with your love of Bernice.PS, I already knew your last name Mikey, I saw that on FB also when you commented on a luann or greg page. Don’t remember which.

Hmmm… you would think she would want to spent Thanksgiving with Quill

“…Vacation, All I Never Wanted…”“…With No Particular Place (That I Care) To Go..”“Arguments So Clear, You Can See Through Them”or“This Vacation’s Going To Be A Trip!”

Luann intends to major in clubs and malls. Let’s hope she can find a college that offers an “inner beauty” scholarship.

Wow, TG day with Aunt Vicky…. long time readers know about AV, but, for those of you who haven’t read Luann from the beginning, Aunt Vicky is that relative of indeterminate age (from 45-100), who never had kids & who pinches cheeks and comments on how much the kids have grown, all while smearing them with lipstick… we ALL have Aunt Vickys in our past, and we wish they would leave us alone, until they pass away; then, we miss them. (My Aunt Vicky was my Dad’s Aunt Rose, a sweet old woman that I never appreciated, until she was gone)

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A bit of speculation: I’m wondering if Luann would possibly run into someone during the course of this….. someone or something that would be more than just an “incidental occurrence”…

No time for malls when she’s studying away at college!

When my older brother attended the U. of Utah, he visited our aunt, in Springville. Since he’s presently attending the U. of Iowa, he visits our uncle in Mount Pleasant.

I guess Mom just wants Luann to sit in one room for the entire holiday. One hot, stifling, stuffy, badly decorated room.

Since THANKSGIVING is the holiest of holidays in AUSTRALIA I’m sure this will fracture their young love bond

I can remember the discomfort as a teen of having to spend Thanksgiving (and more) with relatives much older than I was because that’s what Mom and/or Dad wanted. It seemed excruciating at the time….

Thanksgiving at Aunt Vicki’s???

Uh-Oh.

Ya’ll MIGHT Wanna Check the Dinner Menu first as Auntie V might be serving Real MEAT and We Don’t wanna get Those ANNOYING, Whiny, Fanatical, Non-Carnivores Among Us in a Bit of a SNIT……,

RE-LAX, Kid!

Old Q-Ball will be having Thanksgiving Dinner at the Berger’s where He’ll be FEASTING on an Unforgettable Meal of ToFu Turkey and Yams with Carrot Cake as Dessert!!!

Pardon me please – as I put a final touch on yesterday’s theme. Today’s middle frame looks closer to mauve (as I understand it now) than yesterday’s. Both are bracketed by the blues. So is mauve the color of conflicting interests?

As far as Quill’s Thanksgiving celebration with Luann’s family is concerned… I’m more interested in whether Brad and Toni will be invited to go to Aunt Vicki’s. Nancy was so cold to Toni several Thanksgivings ago. Would be nice to see a warm Thanksgiving with Toni as prospective daughter-in-law.

Luann does not want to smother Quill.That way she gets more mileage out of him.

Take Ramen brick.Crush with manly grip.Dump in bowl.Scatter soup powder.Cover with water.Nuke for 5 minutes.Clean microwave oven.Eat.Repeat.

And THIS YEAR they’ll go ON Thanksgiving Day!

Today’s strip seemed a bit sexist & condescending, then remembered by 1st year undergrad. My dorm floor was filled with young women from Chicago looking for boys, looking for good sororities, looking for good restaurants…. Many of them got “D” letters at mid-term, so my RA asked me to tell them my secret to being on the Dean’s List.*“Study every night,” I said. “Go to every single class and take good notes. If you have a question, ask the TA after class.” The groaned and walked out.*Many of them left after the first semester.

MikeyJ – you were serious about being related to a real artist? Thought you were pulling my leg. And how do we know your real name isn’t Jones or Johnson or Mouse, and you just want to glom on to 15 minutes of comic fame?*Ah, the internet makes cynics of us all!

While Luann’s away, Tiffany can play…

Maybe for Thanksgiving Quill will try to serve deep-fried turkey from the food truck, resulting in a fireball that shrinks the size of the “Luann” cast by two members. We now need to make room in the strip for Aunt Vicki, after all.

Or, “Hey, Vicki!” (apologies to fans of Toni Basil)^I was actually gonna say: “I’m Sick Of VickI” (From Luann’s Standpoint), but who knows how this will turn out?…. -BTW, you might also want to “apologize” also to fans of Racey (AKA Alive ‘N’ Kicking)… little known fact, their song “Kitty” by band members Mike Chapman (who went on to produce Blondie) and Nicky Chinn was reworked into what we now know as “Mickey”…..

We all loved ramen noodles back then. For those of us who now have high blood pressure, though, ramen noodles are now a no-no. Way too much salt…

I thought she was going to major in anatomical studies at U. of Quill.

Actually, a whole bunch of stores have announced that they will be open on Thanksgiving day, because they are so worried about the weak holiday market. So, instead of ‘Black Friday’ (the day after Thanksgiving,when the sales in stores put them ‘in the black’ for the first time that year), we will be having ‘Turkey Thursday’ this year. It will be interesting to see if the buying public actually does flock like a gaggle (bunch?) of turkeys to the malls on Thanksgiving day…

Probably because Nancy’s the “sentimental type”, and she wants to make the point to Luann that “family should be with family” instead of anywhere else…. – Now, when you have it good like that, and family can be agreeable, it can be good to enjoy their company, and strengthen the bonds… but … I know that there are some family who will “convince” the rest of the family to get together, even though a lot of times, there’s arguments and all kinds of stuff that will be going on…. so that everyone will feel obliged to sit in the same space with others, with the hopes that everyone will somehow “bond” and all, before it’s all said and done…(or some family members try to do it, because they at least would just like the “appearance” of everybody getting along)… -And that’s one good thing about sports on TV, then….it gives some help to the gathering!…. That is, unless it’s Dodgers Vs. Gians, Blackhawks Vs. Redwings, Bulls Vs. Celtics, Ravens Vs. Steelers, Falcons Vs. Saints, Redskins Vs. Cowboys, 49ers Vs. Raiders, Broncos Vs. Patriots….

I have found that Ramen Noodles with duck sauce, sweet and sour sauce, or Thai peanut sauce work just as well, instead of using those salty flavor packets…. actually, to me, the noodles are like a “blank canvas” and can go with quite a few different sauces/dips/condiments….. – My wife likes hers with corn in it, although I don’t, rather much…at least not together, like that…

Ramen Noodles

Brd & Whiz – I didn’t discover these until grad school, at which time I was smart enough to read nutrition info— way too much salt! So I press the packet firmly to break the brick, pour 1/3 into a cup, add 1/3 of the salty flavor packet, and add frozen veggies to the top. Then fill with boiling water. *Still not exactly healthy eating, though 2/3 less lethal.

Dave & Eagle— I don’t know where this mauve discussion came from yesterday or today. The only “mauve” I’ve known has been the sexy “Mauve Salon” of brothels (as described in novels) and the way-cool woman of the wild who married into royalty in Price Valiant, at which point she became a bore. (For her wedding guests, she had her pack of wolves enter the church & sit in the balcony. Now she darns socks.)

Ahhh – the Steel Curtain!

No wonder young girls think their mothers are ancient. Nancy is being sooo snarky when she pretends that malls aren’t important to their daughters. Arthritis of the memory cells, Nanc?

It’s so nice to Nancy and her lipstick is back on!

Poor Luann, I see a young lady with A LOT of growing up to do before leaving for college. And what about Quill? She gets him to come half way round the world, and doesn’t even mention him at thanksgiving.

I was tempted to say a ‘gobble’ of turkeys, but I thought too many people would groan…

Actually, I’m kind of glad. Some things don’t need sequels, and I think that movie is one of them.

Levi – hope you, too, buy a t-shirt!

in the last minute I drop in an egg, break the yolk and pile some noodles on top so it cooks thoroughly ^So, is it almost like “Egg Drop Soup”, or a close approximation?…

Thank you!

I’ll be darned. That magnification works wonders. So there you are, Leviticus Lenders. Yeah, you should have a T-shirt made up!

Your mom should appreciate your enthusiasm for visiting colleges.

I sorta thought Aunt Vicky would be a ‘smoocher’, not a ‘hugger’. Maybe this version will be tamer, since years have passed? I guess we will see…

Usually, I’d probably be “butting heads” with you over the Pats, but this Sunday, it’ll be like trying to decide which is the lesser of two “evils”, Lol! (but this remark is coming from a Ravens fan, of course!)

They are a big rivalry, but apart from Flyers/Pens, and Phillies/Pirates, the other teams don’t meet each other as often (in baseball and hockey, they are both in the same division, and so see each other more often, more than once in the same season, even, whereas “Iggles” and “Stillers” are only once every four years or so)….

Quill would love Aunt Vicki.*Hope NightGaunt gets a shout out too— being the leading poster (even if s/he can’t take a joke).

“I’d of”.I would haveI’d have or I would’veOr finally:I’d’ve.Just a thought because “of” here only makes sense for its sound not for its prepositional properties.

Ha ha!!! – Venus Flytrap: “This man must be stopped, before he promotes again!”

Mr. Carlson: “… I thought turkeys could fly!” He and Les Nessman had the best lines on this episode here, after the 7:18 mark!….

By far!!!!! And there were some good ones!

Les Nesman’s description of the turkey drop is of course closely patterned after the famous radio broadcast of the Hindenberg disaster, using some of the same phrasing. It is funny, in spite of its having its roots in an actual historical incident that was of course tragic.>The turkeys are dropping like sacks of cement…

I’m sure if Luann made advance arrangements, one of the student recruiters would be on hand to take her on a tour over Thanksgiving weekend.

And… A convocation of Eagles.

Just ruminating that Ben Franklin wanted the Turkey to be the national bird. And to think we’d be chowing down on the national bird every Thanksgiving Day. Better that than to feast on Bald Eagles every year..So what is the national bir’day? I’d guess the 4th of July.

I hope they bring Shannon with them… imagine, the fight of the Century… Shannon VS Aunt Vicki!!! ;)

“Shannon, why did you bite Aunt Vicki?” “She tried to pull my face off!!!” “She was just pinching your cheek!”

My wife does ramen noodles. When she tries to foist it off on me, I tell her, "No thanks. I went to an American University. I’m burnt out for ramen.!

It may just turn into a routine “Griswold Family Vacation” type affair next week for the DeGroots, but I think that this could be something else to watch out for, maybe even some “wrinkles” added…

Yes, it will, provided “we” get our act together, in time… I have pinpointed what has caused “us” to stumble and falter, and hopefully, it will be addressed so that “we” can bring “our” share of a meaningful game by then…

but by my way of thinking, that is a little young to be so fixated on a single boy. ^See, this is also what I think, as well. It would be a ripe time for such a scenario to take place, and it would mimic what happens in young relationships… – As much as Luann has been boy crazy, and then all of a sudden she’s in a “steady” relationship, she’s never had any of the “in between”… she’s never had the “growing pains” that happen when you are 17…. some of which are things that Brad and Toni have experienced…

Maybe this year, Aunt Vicki will be Vicki Witt, Playboy Playmate of the Month, August 1878?

Thanks!…learning it, living it… trying to, anyway, ha ha!… (;-) )