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

Well, at least they got to eat something! I think this will end up working out for everyone… ;)

Would they have been able to have wine with their dinner? None of them are 21.

This time, The “link” that comes to mind is: “Trapped In The Drive Thru” by Weird Al….. – Looks like yesterday’s look of discouragement, was more about their stomachs having an argument with their feet….looks like the stomachs always win…

Hey, it’s just as well. At least they’ll still get to go to the prom, and years from now, they can tell their spouses/kids/significant others about this night. Let’s also not forget class reunions—still plenty of chances to get gussied up and go to a dance, even though they’ll be 10, 15, 20+ years older.

“Cheeseburger In Pitts”“You Put The Lime In The Coke, You Nut!“♪..I’ll Be Wrapped Around Your Chicken Fingers…♪”“Lifestyles Of The Tired And Famished”“Caviar Wishes And Champagne Dreams”“Yes, Car- Go!”or“Garckon! Do You Have A Dollar Menu?”

Re: wine…they are probably drinking bubbly cider… ;)

“If men could learn from history, what lessons it might teach us! But passion and party blind our eyes, and the light which experience gives is a lantern on the stern, which shines only on the waves behind us!” (Samuel Taylor Coleridge/ 1772 – 1834)And on that note, ’Nite all! ;)

Well, we did get to see Bernice feed the needy “family”, after all.

“We have to get Quill to the ER before gangrene sets in and they have to amputate. But first, let’s chow down at Burger Box!”

Oddly, the waiter with the debonair stache works at that drive thru window, in reality.

Do you think anyone else in there was able to finish the opera they were working on?

This is definitely a prom night to remember, but lets face it, those of us who have the time to get on this blog, may never have gone to the prom, and/or if we did it was the unexpected things that we remember. I still want to see how everyone else is doing at the prom. I assume Crystal and Gunther are there, Delta is fine I think (she is fine for comic character), and I want to see how Tiffany will react to the two couples. Bernice to the rescue.

Bernice is a life saver. :) At least it certainly was a night to remember.

And what was that waiter’s name….?Jean-Luc!!!!

Nope, it’s 21 in California. And with it being prom night, the restaurants are going to be extra careful when two young couples show up at a fancy restaurant.

Of course, this whole arc has been an exercise in “We plan, and God laughs”. Or, the plan was for the limo to take them to Canada.

They are probably being served a non-alcoholic wine (i.e., premium grape juice). Of course, since panel 1 is a pure fantasy, it could just as well be actual wine, followed by a couple of rounds of cocktails, before they all strap on their jet packs and blast over to the Prom.

“I guess the drinking laws for age are different in California, if getting glasses of wine was the plan.”

Maybe they have fake IDs.

My Prom Night was highlighted by carrying out the removable contents of a church that caught on fire. We managed to get most of the stuff out but our tuxes and dresses were all soot-covered and smelled like smoke. Luckily the places which rented them didn’t give us who helped any grief over it since we performed a public service. And of course the ‘plans’ some of us had for after the Prom kind of dissipated………

Alfred Hitchcock?

Nope, you have to be 21 in California. They must be drinking grape juice.

Bernice got a new ride after her disastrous trip with Delta?

…Quill is sitting next to Gunther with the pupils of his eyes pointed toward him.

On my screen it looks like Quill is looking at his sandwich, not Gunther.

In the meantime, the prom ends,,,

I don’t know why people keep saying the prom is going to be over before they get there. Most of their adventure would have happened during the time that was allotted for the fancy dinner. They will be late, sure, but there should still be plenty of prom time left. If it’s over already, it wasn’t worth going to in the first place.

It’s 21 in California. They would have been drinking Martinelli’s Sparkling Apple-Marionberry.

Why is Luann riding shotgun? Quill has a bum knee he should have as much leg room as he can get.

It would probably be sparkling grape juice.

I went to the prom. Dullest night of my life. We split and then went roller skating in our prom clothes. Now THAT was fun!

carded at 65 at the ballpark in Scranton… it was the law, they told me…

About the wine, that is!!

At least they saved a load of money.

Yeah, reality doesn’t seem that bad to me.

Maybe they were headed past San Diego to have dinner in Tijuana, since the legal drinking age in Mexico is 18. However, Luann is still 17, we were recently told. (Quill is certainly over 18, since he’s been though his senior year first at Pitt, then again in Australia, and finally again at Pitt. We don’t know whether Gunther and Rosa are 17 or 18.)

I ended up in a Denny’s in tails. LOL

What has happened to Mordock? I always look for his comment(s) and he seems to have been MIA for a while now. Anyone know?

Re: Wine. That panel was the plan. The alternate reality (had they made it to the restaurant) is that they would have been carded and refused wine. But that doesn’t change the plan.

No, the drinking age has always been 21 in California except during the prohibition years when it was illegal for all.

No matter what happened, it will always be remembered fondly as their best night ever.

-LOL! A medical condition! You’re being very nice and charitable, Dave. I would have suggested it was an obsession…

All’s well that ends well.

are they even allowed to drink wine?

-Oh, of course Luann is only sitting in the front seat because she’s selfish. A truly selfless heroine would have stayed behind at the bus station and died of hunger in order to allow Quill to lie down on the back seat and elevate his leg onto the back of the front seat, where Rosa would be sitting on Gunther’s lap.-But of course all the rest of the readership here is totally naive and doesn’t understand that the only possible explanation for Luann in the front seat is selfishness on her part. It couldn’t be that Bernice might have asked her to sit there to pass the food back to the others, or any other reason. -All of us naive readers who always assume that Luann is just an ordinary teen instead of a selfish shallow person thank your majesty so very much for enlightening us.-NOT-Why not just read a cartoon with a character you admire? Try Pooch Cafe. You’d love Poncho the selfish dog….

LEVI – yesterday you said in reality the guys would be lining up to dance with Bern. Now that I’m older, I realize the reason they won’t (at least didn’t with me) is because they’re afraid she’ll mock them or laugh at them. The teen who is popular with guys is not necessarily the prettiest but the teen who makes them feel coordinated, suave, funny, special.*TORAD – since you’ve now passed all three credentialing exams, what is it again you are certified to do? Are you getting a new job?

Oh yes, looks like Bern got them cleaned up, picked clean, and had their clothing repaired. Just their own little secret, now that the evidence has gone down the drain!

Fair Oaks, California, a suburb of the state capitol, Sacramento, is where MADD was founded by Candy Lightner after her daughter, Carime Anne, was killed by a habitual drunk driver on May 3, 1980. ~Given that, do you really think drinking at age 18 is legal in California? ~The states where it was legal under age 21 had to change their law or get their highway maintenance funds taken away by the United States government.~http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=LIG&GSpartial=1&GSbyrel=all&GSst=6&GScntry=4&GSsr=801&GRid=40253045&

Luann is sitting in front because 1) she & Bern are BFFs and 2) they made the phone call and are now in charge. No ulterior motives. (yet)

Gunther is sitting cheek to cheek with Quill, and there is enough room between G and Rosa for another person to sit. You can tell which one G likes better.

Hoo-Boy. The Gang Being Driven by “Wrong-Way” Bernice.

What’s NEXT?

A FLAT?

Outta GAS?

Car JACKING?

-_But I don’t love selfish characters_-Your definition of ‘selfish’ seems to differ a lot from that of most dictionaries. -A person who picks a career that involves risking his or her life to save the life of another (i.e., a firefighter) is not usually described as ‘selfish’ (Brad). No one expects a firefighter to completely forgo anything that might benefit that firefighter personally in order to be defined as something other than ‘selfish’.-A person who is not trained in life saving and risks his or her life to save another, or who volunteers to read to children, is not usually defined as ‘selfish’ (Luann). Volunteers aren’t expected to forgo all personal benefits in order to avoid, such as being admitted to a drama camp, in order to avoid being called ‘selfish’.- A person who has a history of promoting his or herself above everything and everyone else, who interprets everything in terms of praise for him or herself, and who decides to share nude pics of someone else in order to subject them to ridicule is not regarded as ‘selfless’ (Tiffany). -Yet you define Tiffany as a person not selfish. That’s why I figure you’d love Poncho in Pooch Cafe. There’s not a selfless bone in that pup’s body.

I’m sticking with my “Divine Comedy” theory. Greg has drawn a mock epic. They descended into Hell, were trapped in Purgatory, and now Bernice/Beatrice is leading them to Heaven!

Yikes, she does!

No, I think you’re right.

at the end of the meal, the stomach is filled

You’d think that Quill with the bad knee would be sitting in front….

The money saved by eating at the drive-through rather than at the fancy restaurant can go towards medical care and rehabilitation for poor Quill. Or, his well-to-do parents could foot (ouch) the bill…. Anyway, Bernice has saved the evening!

“So, who said that was wine? Could have been just grape juice, a la Welch’s.”

Right. And Welch’s grape juice is packaged in what looks like a wine bottle? I say they have fake IDs.

“Replace “fake” with “fantasy”.”

Well, that’s a thought, it is a fantasy after all. However, these kids are underage and they’re fantasizing about drinking wine in a restaurant? Do restaurants even serve Martinelli or something like that? I think Greg blew it with this one.

" … is it really necessary to nitpick and read into every minute detail of the strip’s drawing?"

Yes.

If they went to Tijuana, the 18-year-olds in the group could order wine. That leaves Luann out, but remember that this was the plan, not the reality. Luann planned on getting away with it.

-Tune in tomorrow for our next episode-I am hoping that tomorrow’s strip is about graduation and the prom is long over. Too much to hope for, I’m sure…

“(I apologize in advance for the earworms I may have just caused…)” ^Weenie World got some love with the “product placement”. I think they are satisfied with just that, LOL!

In “The Reality,” The best things in life are (almost) free. In “The Plan” it looks like they are getting served wine. If it’s not wine, the ceremony is really fake.

<font color=b lue> “..We still have Friday and Saturday. Time left to have more confusion/escapades, or one more car wreck. This does not bode well for Bernice….” ^Now that you’ve mentioned it, I think someone just threw an empty bottle in the middle of the exit lane of W.W. just outside of the panel. I’ll try to get over there and clean it up. But first, who took that dustpan?

“We’re too tired and too full to get out of the car” ^LOL! -Or “Get gas, then fill up the car”…

Or, “This ride is a real gas !”

Better watch out, Jay – someone will accuse you of being a flat tire… ^And that would be cold busted , with all of the boos and hiss es. That’s a lot of pressure ! But we all have a right to air out our grievances, I guess… but it’s just a bunch of hub bub, anyway.

Yeah, what’s really weird is that commercial is from 1990-something, and I can hear it in my head like it was on TV just yesterday. Sorry about the flashback.

@argy.bargy2

So do you really think ReallyBad is Donny? I suppose it’s possible, but I see huge differences in their styles of writing. While his orthography is quite good, Donny uses long sentences short on punctuation and that tend to ramble, often making no sense at all. On the other hand, ReallyBad has excellent othography, punctuation, and syntax. His sentences are cogent and clear, and while I don’t usually agree with his point of view, his sentences always make sense.

“Actually, they do. It’s known as “Sparkling” Grape Juice, with a little carbonation. You can find it in your local supermarket.”

Well, do restaurants serve this?

No they’re not.

That fancy restaurant would probably make a great place for a graduation party…all they need to do is make reservations…And…make sure there aren’t any limos involved, LOL ;)

“it may all have been an act where he was having the laugh of his life while fomenting outrage on the board…” ^That’s something similar to something I had once postulated. There’s good info out there on the subject, actually….

Wow! Yeah, I didn’t hear from “49” since about Sunday! and ol’ “G” was just last night…

“Do you have dreams of TORAD becoming “The CISCO Kid”? ;-)” ^As long as he doesn’t mix the verses up, going drinking, then “blasting ports for peripherals)” (song reference, quasi-independent of comic and show versions)…

I also saw him on “Ten Cats” L.N./T.M. , I believe. I don’t remember If I saw him on “Nancy”, though….

panel one- the plan…or the dream

“And, Ortho means death for bugs and weeds…”^Heh, heh! In that instance, Ortho means correct invoice….. they branded it that way. That’s so when you look at the invoice, yup… they meant to add an extra zero at the end…..

In some lurid teenage scenarios, Bernice might be the driver who goes down the road with two couples, who tell her to “park.” Then, Bernice will have to go away from the car, in order to allow some privacy for their “double-date.”

“I thought orthography was the study of locations of pesticides and weedkillers by Ortho.”

Lol!

“Very true. Towards the last, Donny could also be very cogent and clear and several posters here remarked about that fact.”

Maybe you could post one of those. I would like to see that because I must have missed it when he originally posted it.

Hmm, in fact, back in the day I wondered a couple of times how Donny could have such excellent orthography, but be so lacking in the other writing skills.

The last one looks better.

“On the other hand, ReallyBad has excellent othography,”

Wow. I just can’t believe I misspelled orthography!!! (I hope no one noticed.) Lol!

“Many a Passover or Shabbat had been consecrated with Welch’s grape juice when I was a kid. Now it’s Kedem kosher grape juice”

Actually, our family holidays were celebrated with Martinelli. It just didn’t occur to me that these beverages would be served in restaurants, but I guess they are according to seismic.

Drinking age in California is 21, but we have many non-alcoholic wines, so this scene could conceivably happen.

“Actually, if you read the second paragraph of the second one I posted, he’s pretty coherent.”

Well, a little bit more than usual I guess , , , but still typically Donny. I’ll wait to see the next one.

Luann should have given up the front seat to Quill. He has an injured leg.

I’ll be on the lookout for them.

No they are not. 21 is the norm for legal drinking age in most, if not all, states.

Thanks for posting these. It does seem that Donny is more lucid than usual in these two posts, but they are still typically Donny. Something else I would like to point out is that Donny would just not stop with his derisive heckling of JayBlue and others. Compare that with two of ReallyBad’s earlier posts today:

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“I think it’s wrong to call argy.bargy a troll just because he disagrees with me. We all have our differentiating opinions on Luann, and that’s what makes this site great. If we all had the exact same opinions that would be boring. Please do not call argy a troll again as it’s mean, thank you. Everyone here should be able to vocalize their opinions on Luann.”

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And:

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“Well that’s very rude to insult people behind their back. You should address those posters to their face like a man if you have something to say them, but I think you should try to be mature. You are an adult and everyone here deserves respect. If you continue to claim that people here are mentally ill I will contact the moderator.”

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In my opinion, if these two posters are the same person, then there must be a major schizophrenic personality disorder involved. But then again, that’s just my opinion, and you could be right. I know you have a lot more experience with Donny than I do. And it is a weird coincidence that Donny disappears and Really Bad shows up. Also, the second post of Donny’s almost seems like a sort of farewell, doesn’t it? When did he post it?

The timing is certainly uncanny and is actually the strongest evidence. I wouldn’t be surprised if Donny is schizoid; he often raved like a madman. It’s just that RB seems so, so, let’s just say . . . competent.

I’ll look forward to seeing some of those doozies!

Ok, if you’re convinced they are one and the same, how do you explain the current rationality? This for me is the dichotomy; was it all just an act?

With this additional information I’m beginning to think you are right. And if it was an act, for what purpose would someone make themselves look like a raving maniac? Just to ruffle some feathers? Think of the time and energy involved to pull it off . . . unless it just all comes naturally! It’s all very strange.

Well, each point is rather weak when taken by itself, but when you add them all up it makes for a pretty strong case. And like I said earlier, the timing, combined with everything else, does seem like more than just a coincidence.

“I could probably sign in under a different avatar and screen name and pull it off very well.”

Lol! See that’s what I mean. In order to create two different personas, or just one crazy one, would take a considerable investment of time and energy . . . unless the raving lunatic part comes naturally to him!

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How did our comments get all mixed up?

I had employed a similar policy, wherein I would not respond, except if he were communicating civilly…-

I carry on this same policy with “the current”, although there are times when I “can’t stand it no mo’” and feel I have to say something, specifically when they go overboard…. – Speaking of which, I find that when he tries to prove a point, he always tries to use the MOST EXTREME example to both reason on things, and to attempt to “persuade” people (which it seems some have ‘fallen in line’ with some of the things he’s said, at times). Sometimes it’s like he’s buying a jackhammer to drive a screw into a wall. And of course, there are elements of a cartoonists’/musicians’/artists’ work we may not particularly enjoy or agree with, but in the case of this strip, it seems his “mission” to always find something wrong.

LOL!!! You’re right! They buy more dishes just to make sure they have something to break, when they wash them!