Luann by Greg Evans and Karen Evans for April 01, 2014

A whole year already and they haven’t made Any plans! =-O

Get to planning ya’ll!

Reminds me of a “Headline” that Jay Leno once read off. It went similar to this:“Our city’s plan to plan it’s next plan is going well… it’s the plan of the planning committee to plan the next plan at our next planning session….” – Hopefully B&T don’t bring up the argument that Rome wasn’t built in an hour….. Cuz… it wasn’t… it was about mmm… 2 1/2 hours.…

I wonder what Brad is afraid of? ;)

“Divide And Concur (part II)”“It’s A Plan In The Neck”" Reservations For Plan-ama"or“Sonic The Hedge Fund”

Fear of Planning. That’s new. Of all the fears I’ve heard of, not exactly the most common.

“Happy Engagement-Versary”???? (GAG)

Well Children, the MEDDLING Begins, and TRUST Me, it Gets WORSE From Here.

FORGET Eloping.

You Two Might Wanna Seriously Consider Living in Sin, or Something….,

For God’s sake, Brad! Drive Toni to Vegas, let a guy that looks like Elvis do the ceremony, play a few nickel slots, and go home married.

LOL ;)

Congrats! ;)

;)

Mine was seven months… I had married her to the year, almost, that we’d met. I knew a month after (we met in September), but waited until January so that my heart and head could plan everything out. She knew the first night after we met (And I’m not joking! Those were her words!)…

I think Frank wants to have some grandchildren to bounce upon his knee.

I met my hub at a Parents Without Partners meeting…when he asked me to dance, I felt like we were two pieces of a puzzle being connected…and, he was so comfortable to slow dance with! That was in the second week of June. Two months after that we got engaged (no-one was surprised), and got married the end of November of that same year…and have been together ever since… ;)

;)

Actually, I need to be taking notes from you and OR….. that’s a lotta many years of happy livin’!…

From the way toni is behaving, you’d think she’s pregnant.

As Samuel Pepys once wrote, “I stayed up till the bell-man came by with his bell just under my window as I was writing of this very line, and cried, ‘Past one of the clock, and a cold, frosty, windy morning.’” (16 Jan. 1659-60)…“‘And so to bed.’” (30 April 1660)… ’Nite all! ;)

My husband proposed two weeks after we met, saying he’d waited long enough. We’re still together 26 years later — and happily!

as I was guessing, (but maybe a lil sooner than I thought, was thinking 2 or 3 more years)……… they going to make Luann graduate, jump up 2 or 3 years by July or august, than have a more variety of themes for the strip…………. College Luann(maybe Quill and Luann becoming the new Brad and Toni), we still have Frank and wife, but now we got the young marriage of Toni and Brad, and they get custody of Shannon, and she gets aged to being 10 or 11 thus becoming the “kid” in the last years of Elementary in storylines

But it does occur to me that it might take that many years for Brad & Toni to finally tie the know (in real time) — in Greg Evans time, that could be what — 5 weeks?

My salad is usually dressed at dinner….

And my pasta is very formal. Always with the “bow ties”!…

“Time will tell.”^So true! Like the song says, “It goes like it goes” (by Jennifer Warnes, and from “Norma Rae”)…

I am currently suffering through the same delimma. Though it has not been a year yet. I am sure I will come to regret my procrastination at some point.

Had already received, before I got here, thanks!…

They aren’t afraid of being married, they’re afraid of getting married.

I know someone who has been engaged for 17 years out of the almost 40 they have known each other. Don’t want to rush into things.

We’re not waiting for anything. We just think it’s fun to watch you get frustrated. Oh wait, maybe we are waiting…for you to crack!

I am a little surprised that the bulk of the badgering is coming from Frank. But I am more struck by Toni’s submissive body-posture in panel 2. What she seems to be most intimidated by at this moment is future mom-and-dad-in-law….

Universal Pictures presents The Twenty-five Year Engagement!

Toni looks scared to death.

Yeah. That makes no sense. A young couple that hasn’t made wedding plans the whole year they’ve been engaged. Have fun explaining how THAT works!

A recent study shows that the average cost of a wedding in America is almost $30,000.You should save if for something even more ridiculous, the divorce.

Toni’s parents might’ve waited that long because they didn’t want to marry till they graduated from college. No reason to assume that’s why Toni is weird; Toni is weird because of bad writing. And Brad is just as weird for the same reason.

This strip has always been about opposites. Toni and Brad are opposites, and what one wants the other doesn’t. I think the Toni and Brad engagement will run about three years. It will take them about that long to figure out how to compromise or not.

-Alas….

-I also miss ‘Headlines’, but I miss ‘Jaywalking’ a lot. Wish Jimmy would go out and do some ‘man in the street’ interviews. They can be hilarious….

Mine’s covered by a Minnie Mouse band-aid!

-Proceed with Caution !-It’s been my experience over 60-some years that action with no planning first can be a lot more destructive than action after planning, but maybe that’s just my personal bias…

-I think Jimmy feels (and definitely NBC feels) that Jay’s comedy bits are dated. Jimmy’s stuff with hashtags is cute. But I’ll always love those ‘man in the street’ interviews from Jaywalking…

Two problems with planning:1) It takes the engagement out of the fantasy realm and drags it into the dirt of reality2) It will mean having, and resolving, conflict.*Why plan, when they can just pretend?

And happy Fools Day to you, too! ;)

“…he won a million dollars.” Was that the time when he was under-age and couldn’t collect the prize money? ;)

It’s good for them to keep putting off the wedding, until they finally realize that they really shouldn’t be married to each other. Toni just wants a baby (as she realized when she saw Dirk’s), and Brad just wants finally to feel like a responsible adult after all these years of schlub-hood. . There are better ways of achieving those goals than entering into a poorly matched marriage.

I’m going to have a cheap wedding, because I’m going to marry a cheap man. :D

Let us all hope that, after the wedding, Brad & Toni will not be afraid to consummate their marriage!

On the big Wedding Day— Frank will say to Brad; “Well, son, are you going to be a man and get her tonight, or are you going to be a mouse and do it tomorrow?” Brad will say; “Gee dad, I guess I’m a rat. I did it last night!”

I suppose some amateur psychoanalyst could draw subtle suggestions from the last panel. If someone wanted to theorize about the connotations of the words, “fear of,” they easily could hypothesize that there is a sexual malfunction between Brad & Toni which might delay marriage…

On more of a basic (crude) level, one could tell Brad & Toni to get married at a county courthouse, before quickly going to a sleazy motel.

Has it ever been established as to who is the older sibling between Jonah and Toni?

“…because 2-3 people start having an off-topic discussion with each other…”^Don’t forget to add yourself. File under “Pixar” and “Ox: Dumb, or Dummber (spelling intentional)”, which you have participated in….

Other “also-rans” include “Dick Tracy”, “Citizen Dog”, sometimes “Nancy”, and a couple of others. But, again, nothing comes close to here in volume…. credit the nature of this strip, and us “Luannalyzers”….

Considering that this is the second (technically third, if you count his not being able to take over “Tonight” sooner) time that NBC has burned Jay, they don’t deserve any of his gems, even though Jimmy is very talented. Jay has it so that if he chose to return to the talk circuit, or host or do some comedy specials or a new series, he can “pick and choose” at this point, and should probably be in no rush, as he made his mark. CBS forgot a demographic when they went south, ABC is doing the same thing (except they have the Mouse to keep them afloat) and when they feel the hurt enough, they’ll return to try to recapture the demo that they missed. But at that point, will it be too late?

Disney is probably enough to be it’s own country. It’s a small world, after all!…

Re: trying for double-or-nothing…with My luck I’d leave the slots and some little old lady would sit down where I had just gotten up and won the jackpot on the first try!!! =-O

JPW…I Know all weddings don’t cost $30,000, but if that is the Average, I can’t even Begin to imagine all of the festivities that any amount over the average $$$ would buy… I am sure that there are some very nice weddings out there for whatever price they are…my small wedding worked for Us (especially since I was between jobs at that time), but, like I said, that was ours and other people have theirs and are happy. I was writing about small weddings because Toni doesn’t Want a big wedding… ;)