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Luann by Greg Evans and Karen Evans for January 13, 2014
Transcript:
Gunther: "You and Luann must have had fun" Quill: "Oh, sorry, Gunth. Didn't mean to wake you" Gunther: "I've been awake. Thinking. Rosa had a lousy time with me" Quill: "She did? Why?" Gunther: "Who knows? How could she not have a blast with a boring, nerdy, uptight downer of a date?" Quill: "Did you say you've been thinking or drinking?"
JayBluE about 11 years ago
Friom the ācarved inscriptionā on the footrest, it looks like Gunther bought his bed at store called Gregāsā¦. Crafted and delivered just in time for todayā¦ no wonder he had to get home earlyā¦.
JayBluE about 11 years ago
āDonāt Cry For Me, AustraliaāāWrestling With A Heavyweight BluesāāUptight Has Got Me Up, TonightāāWelcome To The After-Pity PartyāāDonāt Cry Over Spilt Milk Of MagnesiaāāIn Vino, Veri-Terrible DateāorāYou Know, I Thought The Bowl Packed More Punch Than Usual!āā¦
JayBluE about 11 years ago
He must be the leader of a group of cartoonists that like to mess up their own stuff with graffitiā¦. he seems really drawn to itā¦no judge can pencil him in for a date in the pen , mark my words, this will color his record greatlyā¦
Swalb%515 about 11 years ago
He better hurry it up.
JayBluE about 11 years ago
Heās only pegging what he felt he heard from Rosaās own wordsā¦ he may be so to her, but maybe someone else will appreciate those qualities in him.. he just has to take stock in not only if heās right for her, but if sheās right for him ā¦..
JayBluE about 11 years ago
Or Gunther is pulling double dutyā¦ heās ārappingā with Quill, getting stuff off of his chest, and at the same time heās trying out his ārappingā skillsā¦ so far the ladies find his ability to rap (Up) tightā¦.
ILuvLu about 11 years ago
Now if G-man will only listen to himself.
jemgirl81 about 11 years ago
Dating advice from Quill ASAP.
seismic-2 Premium Member about 11 years ago
āYou and Luann must have had fun.āāWHOO!!! WHOO!!!ā
Caldonia about 11 years ago
Wow, my Magic 8 Ball actually guessed that Quill would be Guntherās luv therapist. As for milk and cookies, who knows. As for why I picture Bert and Ernie as I look at these two, Iāll never know for sureā¦
JayBluE about 11 years ago
Heh hehā¦. trueā¦ with Barney running the showā¦.
seismic-2 Premium Member about 11 years ago
Itās New Yearās A.M. The cookies are OK, but tonight the milk gets replaced with single-malt Scotch. Should Auld Acquaintance Be Forgot!
Meh~tdology, fka Pepelaputr about 11 years ago
Soooooā¦What did Gunther and Rosa do during that āfive minutes moreā Gunth exacted from his mom?(Are those button-to-the-neck jammies?)
JayBluE about 11 years ago
Actulally, this might be Quillās one episode talk show, mentioned earlierā¦ featuring Guntherā¦.
watmiwori about 11 years ago
Is the penny about to drop? Watch this space.
JayBluE about 11 years ago
ā¦a song by Julio Iglesias:ā¦^From the album, ā1100 Bl-and Placeāā¦..
JayBluE about 11 years ago
āYeah, they do kind of clash with those purple sheets and bedspreadā¦ā^Thatās how you know Gunther is distracted by this problemā¦
JayBluE about 11 years ago
āBrought to youā byā¦Penn/Needelle Mattressesā¦ ā and byā¦.Guntherās Greatest Hits And Misses, Volume 2ā¦ āDirect from K Donāt Tell Recordsāā¦
MJPK6269 about 11 years ago
ā¦ā¦BWAD!!!!
talewinds about 11 years ago
Same problem at http://sinfest.net/
atomicdog about 11 years ago
Well, Gunther, you know what the problem is, and thatās half the battle.
G.I. Joooe!
Sisyphos about 11 years ago
I know that John 3:16 is a popular message, but I donāt know the text of Greg 1:13ā¦.If you know youāre such a loser, Gunny, do something about it!
David Huie Green LikeNobody'sEverSeen about 11 years ago
Know thyself
David Huie Green LikeNobody'sEverSeen about 11 years ago
Good dialogue
Mordock999 Premium Member about 11 years ago
Enough!
Hereās Your PROBLEM, Gunth.
1) You STILL Wear Pajamas to Bed.
2) The GIRL You REALLY CARE About Just Went Snogging with That Pretty Boy Up-Start There,
NOW, What Are You WAITING For?LUNGE for His THROAT!!!
imbaldeagle about 11 years ago
Gunther. I think we need to switch girlfriends.Seems like Iāve heard that refrain somewhereā¦
TORAD_07 about 11 years ago
Finallyā¦FINALLY! The āCome to Jesus meetingā arc this week.. Gunthā¦ pay close attention to what Quill has to say. You can do this Gunth. You can re-light this fire with Rosa and keep it going!
Well, thatās the first alternativeā¦ the second is that you both realize you need to āGF swap.ā Just do it carefully and tactfully, to both yourselves and the ladies.
Contessa Carrington about 11 years ago
Is it my imagination, or does Quill look like Aaron Hill, but with a different hair style?
milania about 11 years ago
Thatās not really āGuntherā ā itās the childhood story of NORMAN BATES!! LOL
Greg Johnston about 11 years ago
Well, at least self-awareness brings the possibility of changeā¦
seanyj about 11 years ago
What did you do with the extra 5 minutes you told your mom you needed Gunth? Didnāt you make out with Rosa?
OldTimer62 about 11 years ago
Wel the first step (of the 12-step process) is to admit that you have a problem. Maybe Gunther is finally on his way!
Argy.Bargy2 about 11 years ago
-Gunther says as he observes Quillās untucked shirt.-If you look more closely, youāll see that Quillās jacket, which is what is facing Gunther, is longer than his untucked shirt. So Gunther probably canāt see the shirt. What he is probably commenting on is how much later Quill is getting in from the dance than he himself didā¦.
Argy.Bargy2 about 11 years ago
Yes, what OldTimer62 said, too
Argy.Bargy2 about 11 years ago
-Except he has admitted to the wrong problem.-But part of being āuptightā is being afraid of failure, and part of that is hesitating to ask someone out, or trying to kiss someone. Fear of rejection is part of shynessā¦
David Rickard Premium Member about 11 years ago
Ah, yesā¦ the long dark tea-time of the teenage soul.Still less horrifying then the thought of Luann & Quill knocking boots.
tubgrape about 11 years ago
Hmmmmm. Gunther, whatever Mommy put in those cookiesā¦.maybe itās starting to work!
sbchamp about 11 years ago
First step in solving a problem is realizing there IS oneā¦
Photobug12 about 11 years ago
Nothing like self-awareness. Time for Gunth to take some plays out of Quillās playbook and use them with Rosa.
notbornyesterday about 11 years ago
Acknowledging a problem is the first step.
Argy.Bargy2 about 11 years ago
-I really donāt see why you keep on beating this drum that all the male main characters of this strip are sex-averse-He does this because he knows heās going to get a lot of people responding to him. Maybe our friend L was a debator in college,and learned to start a discussion by proposing something that others would passionately oppose?
genorino about 11 years ago
Question: can Quill advise the G-man about mutual nether region exploration with Rosa without outing Luann?
Argy.Bargy2 about 11 years ago
Boo!!
Argy.Bargy2 about 11 years ago
- My wife keeps ripping them to shreds. Just donāt tell anyone else-LOL! You should go to a comedy club on open mike nightā¦.
Argy.Bargy2 about 11 years ago
- maybe itās the viewer not the viewed- A very wise statementā¦.
Tim Pickard Premium Member about 11 years ago
I think Quill living at Guntherās is just what Gunther needs. Having shared a room with my older brother, it was always good to have that other point of view. The best advice he ever gave me in 1963 was to enlist in the navy and avoid the draft. I did and it was a great learning and growing experience.
Argy.Bargy2 about 11 years ago
-There should be no fear of rejection here-But this is the true hallmark of shyness and fear of failure: you donāt believe you are āentitledā to the attention of the loved one, so you can never quite believe that you and your attentions are welcome. I remember high school days when (VERY briefly) some of the āinā crowd were willing to let me spend time with them. Of course, I had this skill at copying their Momās signatures so I could write them absence excuses. As soon as that novelty wore off, so did the attention.
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I can see that same resigned disbelief in self in Guntherā¦.
Ghinghe about 11 years ago
Actually, page one of Quillās instruction booklet:
āBe blandly attractive to girls, because theyāll literally bend over or lie down for you despite the fact that you have no discernible personality whatsoever.ā
Willow Mt Lyon about 11 years ago
The quilt matches Gunthās shirts very well, and his headboard and footboard are so mauve. The pillowcase is white, so it isnāt part of a sheet set or bed in a bag. And those jammies. Starry, starry night. Loosen up, Gunth. Iām not so sure you should listen to Quill though. He didnāt even unbutton his jacket at Makeout Ridge.
Willow Mt Lyon about 11 years ago
Luann isnāt giving Quill much of a chase, but Rosa will.
dblbaraje about 11 years ago
I think tonight may have been the straw that broke the camelās back with Rosa. She is too vital a person and needs a person who can enjoy life with extreme passion for all of what life has to offer.
genorino about 11 years ago
Mr. L, we donāt see Frank and Nancy having sex, so why should we see Brad and Toni? However, one only has to view the Dec. 7th single panel to know that they do. Are we to assume that having finished there tea or whatever, Brad sends Toni home?
Meh~tdology, fka Pepelaputr about 11 years ago
āThe Toad is asexual."Annnd, loving it!"
Argy.Bargy2 about 11 years ago
-āDisbeliefā is an accurate term. Of course, it is practically the same thing as Gunther thinking that Rosa is lying to him.-Not to split hairs, but the term I used was ādisbelief in selfā. The meaning was not that a person saying āI love youā is lying; the meaning is that the recipient of those words is not deserving of themā¦.
Argy.Bargy2 about 11 years ago
- I guess I must be more of a āsit downā comedian ā or at least thatās what the crowd kept telling me, anyway-ROTFL!
Mikeyj about 11 years ago
Quill: Gunther. I think we need to switch girlfriends.^^I agree
Argy.Bargy2 about 11 years ago
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I insist I am right because no one can show otherwise-what ā¦. said:-Since Nancy (nor Frank) are often shown in the strip as brushing their teeth and other preparations for bed, but have NEVER been shown having a bath or shower (nor other private bodily functions) then we can only assume that Nancy (and Frank) really stinks.-Sometimes, you just have to take a certain amount for granted because thereās no way it could be shown in a family comicā¦.
Mikeyj about 11 years ago
^^Well said, Gunther should stay Gunther.I guess we can assume that Rosa didnāt dump him, but, he is feeling very insecure about the relationship, since Rosa āput her cards on the tableā.
Kediset about 11 years ago
Though I hate to admit it, seems like Luannās best bet with Gunther since he seems more at ease with her than with Rosa. Think thatās why this relationship failedā¦
Argy.Bargy2 about 11 years ago
-That would solve a multitude of problems.-But it would leave you with so little left to write about, here at least. Just the same olā stuff about Brad and Toni and Nancy the cougar. Donāt you ever get bored with the same stuff, over and over?- You said you write novels, and itās too bad we couldnāt figure a way of getting them somewhere that we could read them. Maybe you just need to start a blog and bring bits of your writing to post on this board each day. A refreshing change of paceā¦.
Argy.Bargy2 about 11 years ago
-Not optimistic the bible guy will get it.-He gets it, but doesnāt agreeā¦.and I think he laughs each time someone calls him the ābible guyā. He uses the name of the book thatās supposed to spell out rules to live by, yet advocates no-nos according to that book. Interesting contrastsā¦.
David Huie Green LikeNobody'sEverSeen about 11 years ago
YER ALL WRONG...I lost track of all the claims, just felt like saying that..TJ is currently a semi-wunnerful personBrad and Toni give all evidence of up close and personal, but until it is spelled out, we can pretend/assume there is only unquinchhed desire.Characters can show development, even Dirk and Shannon and Brad.Nancy is not a cougar, just a hottie attractive lady.Next year Lev will be on the best seller list.Gunther is being reasonable to doubt he is worthy of Rosa, but he WILL be..And no matter how certain I might pretend to be, I am cluelessly enjoying the comic and comments.
seismic-2 Premium Member about 11 years ago
Gunther would be just as big a Dweeb with Luann as he is with Rosa. Rosa is practically throwing herself at him, and he is not confident enough to do anything about it. Guntherās problems have nothing to do with his feelings about his girlfriend; they have to do with his feelings about himself, sex, and life in general.
JayBluE about 11 years ago
Pleaseā¦donāt turn this into another āMark Trailā. The snarkies there keep making comments about the āJackelrod Ballā. ^]It wasnāt my intention to āsnark onā about Gregās tagā¦ just funny when you think about itā¦ and that stuff about the graffiti was an excuse to use artist punsā¦ ā Besidesā¦ Mark Trail has other reasons that people āsnark onā about itā¦. DGMW, I do like strips that feature wildlife and stuff, thoughā¦
JayBluE about 11 years ago
Iām trying to figure out why Milania is telling everybody that weāre commenting on a comic strip ā¦. ā I wonder if she meant to watch a show online, but ended up reading āHuluā, and watching āShoeā ā¦.
imbaldeagle about 11 years ago
I have no idea what Lev. is referring to. I thought JayBluE was referring to ātwo dimensionalā Am I right Jay, or is there some esoteric meaning to 2D that is so new-tech and so far over my head that Iāve never heard of it? Anyway, I was making a play on the double D in your call to arms on āThis is just a comic stripā.
ORMouseworks about 11 years ago
Gunther hasnāt been thinking or drinkingā¦heās too busy Sinking!!! ;)
JayBluE about 11 years ago
Trueā¦..
Editman about 11 years ago
When I first glanced at the strip, I thought Gunther was talking to his mother, who had just tucked him in bed, and I thought he was protesting, saying that he wants to be treated like a man.
Editman about 11 years ago
Yes he should!
Editman about 11 years ago
Forget Gunther loosing his virginity, his first unprompted kiss would be a step in the right direction.
3pibgorn9 about 11 years ago
Been there, Gunth.