Luann by Greg Evans and Karen Evans for March 06, 2014

Well, there ya go!… Some excitement under way n the “Murphy’s Delight” neighborhood, in Pitts….. – Will Shannon need to “save” them? Will they have to have Tom Hanks play their part in the “made for TV” movie version?… – And how many people will use the term “Oh, Snap!” today?……

I’ll say she goes outside, too….

“Shake, Rattle And D’Oh!”“Lock And Roll”“A Fine Mess”“Stuck In The Riddle With You”“Firefighters Need Help, Too”or “One Good Turn Deserves A Blunder”

Notice in the first panel that when Shannon is serious. She says Brad.

…Only in comic land are locks so breakable.

Oh, oh…now Brad’s gone and done it! It’s a shame that they had to hide in a closet to have a few minutes of “we” time…but now the handle’s gone and Shannon’s going to be Very Unhappy! ;)

Shannon isn’t stupid. For those types of locks, you can use a slender piece of steel to unlock them, such as an ice pick or knitting needle.

This should get interesting.

Toni now has grounds for divorce, before the marriage. Time to call it off and move on with your life, Toni.

Closet door jambs are pretty weak and you can kick the door open pretty easily…

Brad’s and Toni are fire-fighters, kick down the door. D’oh.

Shannon’s heading for the laundry basket, as we speak….

Re: Brad knocking the door down…if he does that, all the fun of being locked up won’t happen (for us posters). Additionally, If he does, they’re going to owe little Shannon Big-Time… ;)

PSA time: It’s (look at your timepiece) O’clock… Do you know it’s a comic strip? …..

I just thought of something…I hope Toni has her cellphone in her purse…otherwise Shannon won’t be able to call 911 (who has land-lines these days?)… And, if Brad doesn’t have his cellphone with him, They won’t be able to call 911either… ;)

LOL at the “Alice in Wonderland” reference! ;)

“Brought to you” by… – Smith’s Locks and Bagels… “Whether you’re into a jam, or out of one, we’ve got you covered!”… – the “Jamb- alaya”… "A revolutionary new jamb designed to be a safety latch and escape mechanism!… sold wherever you find the “Key-Board!…. from ‘Twisted Locks, Inc’…” – and by…Francis Scott’s Keys, Stationery and Pleasure Cruise Charters…..

Hopefully, there are no “White Rabbits” from a kid’s homeroom class running around….

And I also agree with “ORMouseworks”!….

We had a land line, but we were able to drop it and save money on our FIOS; so now we just have internet and TV. The only bad thing with cellphones is that I am Always misplacing mine! =-O

Oh, oh…time to turn back to a pumpkin! ’Nite all… ;)

“Oh Snap!”^“Oh, no you did-int!”…..

And probably has a “grandfather clock-closet ‘escape clause’ ” with built in ‘secret passageway’ that leads to the closet or some other room, like in the house on the TV show “Webster”…..

LOL!!!! – Everyone needs a little irony in their diet… – And when he gets home, Lorenzo will realize that it was laying underneath his sedentary dog, named "Mat’, the whole time……

Curses! Foiled again!

Ha ha ha!!

Saw this coming miles away.

I hope they have their Cellphones on them. Even Toni isn’t that dumb not to have it on her.

Hoo-Boy.

Now HERE’S Two “Candidates” That are ABOUT Eliminated from Consideration for the New Fire Chief’s Job.

Especially When Boys at the Firehouse Finish RIDICULING Them for Being Firemen but NOT Being able to get Themselves Out of a Locked Closet!

The better question who the hell ever heard of a closet door with a lock on the inside???

Well who didn’t see that coming? Go run for help Lassie!

Shannon can use the phone and call Luann.Once Brad gives her the number.

Time to bust out US bobsled team style.

They have plenty of wire hangers to use.

I guess about half of us called this yesterday. Now if Shannon sets the house on fire, I’ll be at 100%.

10:1 they get Shannon to call the “fire dept.” and it’s Capt. Newman to the resuce… They won’t hear the end of it for days… :-)))

Who didn’t see that coming?

That’s why the PSA… to let people know that we know that they should know that it’s already known… you know?…

I knew something like this was going to happen. I remember Shannon wandered off before, so I hope they extricate themselves from the closet before she does it again.

It would be impossible to break off a lock that way.

It’s only a comic strip… it’s only a comic strip…

that is what you get for getting cheap doorknobs and locks.

Wow, didn’t see THAT one coming… ;)

Stupid move in the first place. Being firefighters they should know better.

How embarrassing it will be for them when their fellow firefighters have to rescue them.

OH Snap!!!

“I guess about half of us called this yesterday.”*Levi – though I could have called it yesterday, I didn’t to glad everyone else did! C’mon, these two are firefighters— surely they can break a door down if not with an ax, with their bare fists; if not with their bare fists, then by unscrewing the hinges with fingernail clippers; if not with their fingernail clippers, then by calling their buds using the cell phones in their pocket.

Are those Miss Horner’s jackets? I hope so.~Shannon, you have a whole house minus a closet to do what you want in. Take advantage of this free time.~Go see if Bwad has any cookies. Don’t worry about that spilled milk. It will dry up by itself.~It is about time you learned how to use a fire extinguisher, and the bed makes a good trampoline. So does the couch. ~All the windows need washing. Zest soap will get them nice and clean. Bwad will be pleased. ~That dirty laundry? That needs at least half the box of detergent to get it clean. ~Don’t you think that black wall is a little drab? Miss Horner left some acrylic paint in the other closet. ~Have fun Shannon!

“maybe someone should calculate the loss to productivity of posting multiple comments here.”*Dave – you’re assuming that were we not posting here, we’d be doing something productive. *There’s an equal chance that were we not posting, we’d be doing something DEstructive. I wonder how many burned casseroles, sewing disasters, mis-wired cars these posts have prevented

@EVERYONEWHOTHINKSTHEYCANKNOCKDOWNTHEDOOR

It was a deadbolt. Deadbolts go deep into the door frame and can not be opened by pushing on the end, as with an ice pick etc.

I really doubt that even two average sized firefighters can get up enough energy within the confines of a closet to break the door down. They would need a substantial run at the door to do that.

Therefore, help will have to come from the outside.

uh..O

- Lorenzo’s Lock and Key -Ha! We see stuff like this all too often! Usually, it’s a tow truck waiting by the side of the road for another tow truck to rescue it….

Anyone who didn’t see that coming hasn’t been noticing the obvious turns the stories in this strip have been taking lately..

-a nice glass of home-made elderberry wine laced with a few extras -That was a different movie!

Schmuck

That woman has the most racist lips I’ve ever seen.

Ruh-Roh!

Looks like Shannon will be calling 911 to get them out!

At least Shannon will be safe now. B and T will tell her to call TJ or someone else. Shannon will stay close by and B and T will get a few more minutes of alone time while someone comes to rescue them. Not a big problem at all. They can tell Shannon they were hiding in the closet and she will never know that wasn’t part of the game. Shannon will feel loved and like a hero.

There were no hinges on the other side of the door in yesterday’s strip so they must be on the inside of the door. Just pull the pins out of the hinges.

They can hear Shannon, so she would be able to hear them if they call out to her. She’s right out side the door when Brad reaches for the lock.

Who didn’t see that coming… raise your hand.

I just asked my daughter to see if there was a continuity error about Brad’s left/right hand reaching for the lock. She spotted it immediately without me telling her what the error was. She said it was glaringly obvious.

regardless, they can knock on the door and call out to let Shannon know where they areAll will be well despite the desires of some that they all die in fiery holocaust

Bwad, you bwoke it!They would have had fewer problems if they’d let Shannon hide first (she’s not in here! ::: smack, kiss :::), but then Evans would have had to work for his drama.

OH SNAP!!!!

“(Brad) reaches for the door with his left arm…and look at his fingers in Panel 3.”-———————————-Evans is notorious for changing backgrounds, etc. from strip-to-strip, if not panel-to-panel.Sometimes it’s like those old Benny Hill sketches where glasses fill and empty of their own, clocks back up, and cigarettes are consumed, then reconstitute themselves.

I have never seen a closet door that locks from the inside. Why would this even exist?

And…the little brat will NEVER keep her mouth shut about this one!

I sure hope this story arc doesn’t involve two firefighters who can’t break through a closet door.

-Really lather on the immaturity and incompetence of the caretakers-I think you must mean ‘caregiver’, not ‘caretaker’. Most often the term ‘caretaker’ is applied to those who are in charge of buildings, or temporary governments. Someone is supposed to be providing services to a person is ‘giving’ care.

Well, duh!!

Oh, “snap”! Someone’s in trouble now. :)

-two piece warranty-Best laugh I’ve had today! Thanks!!!

An ante-diluvian after me own heart – I collect 78’s.

The kind of lock found on a closet door usually is extremely simple to pick. It shouldn’t take Brad or Toni more than a minute to pop the lock—if they want to get out! But, then again, this is a comic strip (as someone has already noticed), and maybe the dramatic requirement is for them to be trapped in the closet until somehow rescued by someone….

Uh oh!

As my wife tells me when I protest the unbelievable act of any trained police officer throwing down his gun in a hostage situation, “It’s in the script!”.

-they already have the skills to get out and can’t, then they are incompetent at their job-So you are saying that the firefighters who were trapped at Ground Zero on 9/11 were incompetent at their jobs, since they couldn’t get out of those buildings?

The comments are especially entertaining today. Thanks to Leviticus, howtheduck, JayBlue, and ReallyBad for making me laugh out loud!

“Exactly. I enlarged the strip and digitally enhanced the brasstone ring around the shaft where the knob broke off. It says . . . "

Meant to include you too in my list of funny commentators. Lol!

Do you have an old reel to reel? Haven’t seen one of those in years…

I’m one of those people who revel in the days of vinyl, with all the artwork, etc. that gets lost these days. – The purpose I use the cassette tapes for,is to selectively “shield out” the sounds I don’t wish to hear in public. It’s allowed at work (helps to keep me moving when filing), and it’s very handy on public transit, Lol!… – Because of that, I don’t mind the sound, though I use various bias tapes. At home, I’ll just pop on my digital media (including the music stored on my Xbox and connected to my computer via wireless), or my music apps, so I don’t always have to always reach for a tape or cd….

On the subject of music media:

Right now, I have about 1200 LPs and a few hundred 45s.(but the volumes from people I run into while collecting put mine to shame, though!). I don’t record whole albums, though. Instead, I break it down by “ambience” (e.g., ‘songs that sound “best” at a certain time of day’, or that are similar in style). My album collection is broken down by genre (4 groups consisting of Rock, Pop, Jazz, R&B), and “sub-ordered” by style, within each genre. So, for instance, I have the Cars, Greg Kihn, Crack The Sky, etc. in a crate in the “Rock” section of crates, and Bob James, Herbie Hancock, Patrice Rushen and other piano/keyboard performers in a crate in the “Jazz” group… and that’s sort of how I have my original and blank cassettes (in tape drawers) and cds (in tower racks) arranged, as well… I’ve had this system for years, since I got my first album and tape…. – the Mrs. and I have named it the "(our last name) Music Room and Entertainment Wing… it’s right across from the “Writer’s Corner”, where I’m also usually found, when in my residence…

“… the sound quality was just so lousy. "-———————————I wasn’t an audio-phile, per se.But I bought imports versions of vinyl whenever I could.I also have a large collection of hard to find 45s.Owning a high-end Pioneer turntable and a media PC with RCA inputs helps a lot.Now, if I could make a true transfer of my Quadrophonic copy of “Dark Side of the Moon”, I’d be happy.

I remember how fascinated I was with my family’s reel-to-reel when I was little. It would have been nice to keep the reels. We also had a “Royal” brand typewriter, that comes in a case. I tried to speak into it, until I learned later in school, what the alphabet was….

I don’t even know how we had managed to hold on to the ribbons for ours for so long. -I loved it, even though the keys would always get stuck after a while. I think the typewriter did that on purpose, to catch a break, since it was around for so long.

“I have knitting needles, but I don’t have ice picks.”

I have an ice pick in the junk drawer and also some knitting needles. Alas, it has been So Long since I knitted that I have forgotten how to do it! I must find a knitting shop where they give lessons. Our local one just went out of business… ;)

“Some of us still have turntables and albums…”

Well, I did at one point in time… About land-lines, it was a misuse of "our"money. About the only thing it was good for was for faxing. And since we do zero faxing, we didn’t need an extra bill… ;)

Actually, I’m kind of hoping the wood is old & strong, they have no screwdriver nor fingernail clippers, and that their cell phones are in their coat pockets. *Then maybe theyl’’ call for the help of Underdog or his apprentice, Shannon!

Time to begin to think about dinner! Today’s posts were really fun to read…besides the usual snarky ones… ;)

Comic strip guys

A call to 911, their captain shows up…

The Diatone D-160So called due to its 160cm (63") diameter.Found here:http://lafinlarry.net/faas/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=20&start=260#p2866

Yes, Percy Faith. Just not that one. Hugo Winterhaller, the Ray Charles Singers, Nat, Brook Benton, Della Reese, Carmen McRae, The Lettermen, Connie Francis, and a local favorite and “hometown hero”, Ronnie Dove. And a healthy, hearty “et cetera, et cetera.(33 and 45)”. Also have a Perry Coma Como 45 that’s smooth and clean, with the original picture sleeve.

Yup, that is the feeling, alright! – And I’m surprised the Richter Scale doesn’t go off, when those cars shake with bass….

I’m surprised you can’t time travel, with speakers that big! That’d be a lot of thrust and momentum built up!….

Oh, yeah- how could I forget my Nino Tempo/April Stevens LP of “Deep Purple”?…

Face them forward for snow removal (East Coast)….

Thus, all sides are covered!

Dun dun dun