Luann by Greg Evans and Karen Evans for September 12, 2014

So, we haven’t met the mysterious Dez, yet… And, who the heck is Piro?…did I miss something along the way?! ;)

I think we never got to meet Piro. As for Dez, she’s still a mystery.

Well, since Quill’s last name is “!”, I figure that Dez’ last name is probably “?”…. – And I guess we should call Greg “Mr. E”…. – Or maybe it’s Dez Sill-Houtette…

And, isn’t there a law in Calif. that says people can’t own pet ferrets? ;)

“Iced Tease”“Every Good Roomate Deserves Favour” (♫)“At Tension”“Static Build Up”“Inquiring Minds Want to Know”“Who Are You? Who, Who? Who, Who?” (♫)“You Keep Me Hangin’ On” (♫)“A Riddle About A Mystery, Wrapped In An Enigma, And A Side Of Intrigue”or“Is She Bigger Than A Breadbox?”

Thought so…so I am wondering why Greg has a student owning a ferret in a university in Calif.? If Bernice is discovered with that ferret in her room without her so-called roomie in sight, won’t she get into BIG trouble?! ;)

And that’s probalby how the driver’s license looks, 2….

Hey! You’re Right! ;)

LOL! – No, but if Bern’s roomate’s friend went by the name “52 inch biceps and TV hunk eyes”, I’m sure Lu would definitely remember, then!

No, I didn’t! Do you have a picture of it? ;)

Oh, OK…I’ll check it out… ;)

Oh, OKKKKKKKKKKK! I just didn’t see it when I checked back last night! Cool pic of Hawking! I will have to show it to my hub. (he’s already sleeping, not used to late nights…)! ;)

":Like Charlie in “Charlie’s Angels” or Dr. Claw in “Inspector Gadget” or Ernst Stavro Blofeld in “James Bond”. " ^Or the manager of a store when you ask to see him/her….

Who could forget ol’ Joe Btfsplk?

It has been Very Windy here today with low humidity. I hope I still have a house left Friday morning! (No kidding!) Our back yard faces a wetlands that a road cuts through…with teens going up and down it smoking_. I am hoping no-one sparks a fire! Anyway, if I’m not on later, it is because my house is a pile of ashes….not really, but one never knows… =-O And on that note, ’Nite all! ;)-————————————————————————————-“The husband was a teetotaller, there was no other woman, and the conduct complained of was that he had drifted into the habit of winding up every meal by “taking out his false teeth and hurling them at his wife.”(_A Case of Identity, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1859-1930

Cretin City!!!

I’m beginning to wonder if Bernice is being set up by Dez to be the patsy who will take the blame for a crime ring.

1. When Viper brought the bag for Dez, the first thing we suspected was that the bag contained drugs.2. Sun’s ferret is illegal in California, and even in the rest of the country where ferrets are legal, it’s unlikely that they would be allowed in a college dorm. Colleges tend to be very restrictive about pets in the dorm — rarely would anything beyond a fish be allowed.3. Now we find that Bernice is “passing messages” for Viper. To whom and why? Surely Viper would have a cell phone of her own and can send messages herself.4. Bernice is also “storing stuff” for Piro. Again, why? Is she Public Storage Inc.? Granted, if her roommate never moved in, she might have more available space in her room than usual, but on the other hand Dez must have shown up at least to hang the mask on the wall.

Bernice might be on track to get A’s in her classes but she’s going to have a hard time passing things like “common sense,” “self-protection,” and “not being a sucker.”

Dez is obviously one of “The Silents” from Dr. Who. It’s why Bernice is doing all that odd stuff, and since she’s not looking at Dez, she can’t remember anything about her.

“What’s (Dez) Like” Luann? GEEZ.As You can SEE from Bernie’s “thought balloon” Dez is a Bald Headed Dark Silhouette with a Large White Question Mark superimposed over Her Face.

Neeeeeeext Question…..,

Hopefully Piro’s last name is not Maniac!

So, Dez apparently has not shown up in her dorm for the day before or the first day of classes? Hmm. Seems like she (presuming Dez is a “she”) is either a) not particularly concerned about her courses, b) may be on some sort of Moony Uni extracurricular experience (Perhaps she signed up for a mini-study abroad experience that overlapped slightly with the start of the semester?), or c) there is some sort of weird scam afoot and there is no Dez, or d) maybe Sun, or Viper (or the mysterious Piro) is actually Dez, and this is some sort of weird game Dez is playing on Bernice. Of course there are other options, but the above four are my suggestions.

Aha! Perhaps “Dez” is part of a hazing ritual— to get favors out of 1st years!

“and Viper’s name are too ordinary and bland for her to remember. Now, if Bern’s friend was named Joe Btfsplk, "*HtD: Oh my gosh, Brdshtt’s anti-vowel campaign is spreading! Better see a doctor ASAP and then be quarantined to home.

according to the outline of the roommate…could the school be doing co ed rooms….I know that in some places co ed bathrooms are in and floors and dorms but rooms too..?

Only Dez knows the secrets of that dorm room! Bernice is too meek to press the issues. Who, and what, is Dez?

Get out there Bern and enjoy your college years!!

I’ve been saying all along that we might never get to meet Dez. Guess I’ve been right…

@Howtheduck-(Still can’t get the reply function to work all the time, for some reason…)-I think anyone followed around by a black cloud would be memorable, whether named Joe Btfsplk or Joe Smith…

Oh, please don’t ask readers to vote on Dez, Evanses.

BTW, in reference to Sun, I assume that this strip might have already been "in the pipe’ and that Greg may not yet have had the chance for his “revisions.” The smile is still a bit too long in re: the whole face.

We’ll see.

“Dez” doesn’t exist. Every been “snipe” hunting?

“Dez” doesn’t exist. Every been “snipe” hunting?

That does explain “Dez”— couldn’t figure it out by myself!

Today’s rendering of Sun looks like the alien character that Missi Pyle played in “Galaxy Quest”:

Sun?

I’m sorry, but that nearly ear-to-ear grin is still too much of a stereotypical caricature for a satisfactory depiction of an Asian American.

-Snipes do exist-Yes, a marsh bird called a snipe does exist. But the term ‘snipe hunting’ also exists as a term that describes a type of activity, where newcomers are given impossible tasks to accomplish as a way of hazing them. And sometimes the term is applied to tricks that are pulled on one worker by another.-An apprentic painter is told to go to the storeroom for blue and red striped paint, for example.

@howtheduck-I guess I missed the arc showing Joe Btfsplk as charming…

I wonder if today’s Luann Again was deliberately picked to parallel Luann’s first day at Pitts State School. (It was dated 1986, but also signed ‘Greg 9-12’)-Luann is responding to questions (probably from Nancy) about what she learned in school; she says ‘nothin’. Nancy protests that you can’t spend that much time in lectures and so on and not learn anything, and Luann has a funny response…

The locus of the strip has never been said to be California. .This is just an assumption by some readers here. There as been a long air flight to Hollywood, long car trip to Las Vegas, etc. These don’t all fit California. .It is an imaginary place.Yes, it’s in the US, but it could be anywhere without snow. Probably in the Western States. .Time zone detail might limit that..But best imagine it in “Anyplace, USA”

Yeah, we still haven’t met the roommate yet.

Something is up with Dez because Bern hasn’t met her yet. Mmm.

“Snipes do exist.”_____________________________________

Yeah but isn’t He serving “Time” for Income Tax Evasion or something?

Where are T.J., Brad, Toni, Gunther and Rosa? What is Quill up to. What is with all the goofy room mates? Making a game out of college? What is Luann’s major? Get on with it.

I smell a … Well, something.

You are right, the ‘snipe hunting’ referred to in this instance is the hunt for something imaginary, such as a left – handed screwdriver, skyhook, wood – grained paint, etc…

Or, in my high school days, the “brass magnet.” :-PPP

Frank and Nancy were of course trying to get Luann to think a bit more realistically about colleges – the chances of her getting into Julliard are about the same as the odds of Knute getting into the Sorbonne. If Luann had really felt a compelling desire to attend Moony, they might have been willing to make the financial sacrifice to help send her there, but given her lack of commitment to academics and her uncertainty of what to do for a major or a career, their urging her instead to attend the JC seems like sound advice in any case, quite apart from the cost savings.

Why is Bern living in a dorm, if MU is in her home town?

Well, I’m here, which means the house is here, soooooo! Although it was sort of hot (84 degrees) today, the winds are just about stopped! ;)

"No, because Daniel’s was the voice of the car KITT. No this is a character referred to and seldom, if ever, heard. " ^Yes , because Daniel’s voice work there is the same as John Forsythe’s work (as How referred to) in Charlie’s Angels, and the point was on “the air of mystery”. No, in the technical sense, but yes in the sense that we were referring to, the general sense of “shadowy Macguffin”….

“…hunt for something imaginary..”^I’m still searching for that bucket of steam, myself.

Well, we’re almost going to be 90-92 this weekend…even though I once lived in Arizona, I am really tired of all this heat! =-O

You’re missing what I’m saying. I know that (what you’re saying). What you’re missing is the correlation that was discussed to “mystery”. Just talking about the mystery. We know that already, what you were saying. We were just comparing the mystery part. Not the actual, technical differences (right as though they may be)…..

Hence Bern’s “hesitation” when she says: “Weeelllllll……”

You know, GC is being really squirelly…had an entire paragraph all typed out as a reply to your post, and then, zapppp! it’s gone! Geez! Anyway, the gist of what I was typing was that our house temp is usually 73 as we have two industrial-size air-conditioners in our house. The electric company Really loves us both in the summer and in the winter (we have electric heat)! So, I’d say my favourite time of year is Autumn! (not too, too hot, and not too, too chilly, and not too much rain…yet! ;)

Is that the Le Petit Chateau in Sherman Oaks (a suburb in the San Fernando Valley, LA County)? I grew up in Sherman Oaks and used to go to that restaurant all the time.

“They live near a beach. So at the very least it’s a coastal state.”

I’ve wondered about that. How do you know it’s a coastal state? If so, why aren’t they ever shown going to the beach? That would be awfully strange if they actually do live in SoCal. They are always shown at a pool, which is fine; kids do that here too, but they also go to the beach a lot.

Heh, heh!!!!! Either nothing compares to Lu, or nothing compares to the mug she has to see every day in her dorm….

Oh wow, it must have moved since 30 years ago when I used to go. It used to be on Ventura Blvd, just down the street a few miles, really. That’s where I lived when I was single, in North Hollywood, on Cahuenga Blvd, the street next to Lankershim.

Yes, I know what you mean! One day when I was living in Tucson, the temp hit 117! IIRC, the temp in Phoenix that same day was 122-3. It was so hot that the tarmac was getting too sticky to land planes in the Phoenix airport, so they have to be re-routed to the Tucson airport… =-O

Nice!!! We have problems with the insulation in the attic. Have to fix that! ;)

Okay, I just looked it up and I see the restaurant I’m referring to is Le Petit, without the “chateau,” and it’s still there on Ventura Blvd.