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Wellā¦ (ahem) itās possible that Agnesā mother knew āUncleā Dee-Dee when she was very smallā¦and then for a while, Uncle Joeyā¦(causing a big rift in the band)..and there was Uncle Geneā¦. andā¦umā¦ā¦ OK, I think weāll drop that subjectā¦.
And we know Agnes has a great aunt Arthenaā¦. her motherās actual auntā¦. sheās Grandmaās somewhat remote sister,whom I believe she described as mean spirited and rude.
Sheās the one they were on the way to visit a few years ago when they got stuck in the snowā¦ Predictably, she had no sympathy for their plight, and I donāt think Grandma would care to seek her company again.
2Oldā¦ no, I was saying maybe Grandma was pretty wild, and Agnesā mom had āUnclesā when she was a little girl.
Sheād be about the age of Troutās motherā¦ but they probably didnāt know each other back thenā¦ or maybe ever.
Then she had a baby of her own, when she was presumably a bit young and wild herself, whom she ended up leaving with her mother.
Her mother, whom we know as Grandma, saw what she had wrought, in my version of the storyā¦. and settled down, to raise and protect her granddaughter, whom she re-named Agnes, and try to keep her from following in the footsteps she had inadvertently taught her own daughter.
And Agnes knows nothing about it.
Of course, I could have it all wrong, and all that rock nā roll stuff could have belonged to Agnesā mother and not Grandmaā¦ but Agnes still wouldnāt know cos she was only a baby, and doesnāt remember her at all.
It could be that the uncles/aunts Granāma isnāt talking about are on the other side of the family, the parent who isnāt Grannieās kid. Granāma doesnāt want to mix Agnes with āthose peopleā. Having said that, Iām willing to bet Agnesā Dad is in jail.
Iām wondering whether Tony is just playing with us, given the flexibility of comic strip time. For Agnes and Trout, 1977 is ancient history. If Granny is the age she looks to be, that makes her born in the early 1950s. Which sort of meshes with both her having a child when she was young and wild and the rock & roll hidden stuff. What we really donāt know is how Agnes came to be with Granny. Maybe Agnesā parents just left one day when she was young and never came back. Stranger things have happened. That might explain about how Granny knows something of Agnesā background. Granny has never made any complaints about having Agnes either; or comments of any kind.
When Uncle Bud made some cryptic comments about someone else looking like his Uncle Joe or Randal Keen, Daddy asked their sister, Grandma Green about it.She set the record straight with, āWellll, when Maw died, Paw got kinda sorry. Randal Keen is your uncle.ā.She didnāt address the gentleman of mixed race who was also referenced, but Iām reasonably certain I have many more cousins than have been acknowledged in the census.
rshiveā¦ "" If Granny is the age she looks to be, that makes her born in the early 1950s??" Well, excuuuse meā¦. but those born in the early 50ās are only barely 60!!
I donāt even look as old as Grandma (I HOPE!!) and I was born before that!LOLā¦.I know comics time is very elasticā¦. but Agnes is about 9 or 10ā¦. Almost nobody born before 1960 has a 10-year-old, cos sheād have been over 55 when she gave birth!
Sheās āGrandmaā cos Agnes is her grandddaughterā¦. and I thought I remembered hearing that Agnes was left with her as a babyā¦ I know she has said she doesnāt remember her mother.
I think Grandma is 75-ish, though she looks even olderā¦born around 1940ā¦. though with the elasticity of comics time was still young enough to be a groupie in ā77ā¦.and some were in their 30ās anyway.
_Her possibly _ illicit child would be one of Agnesā parents, probably mother, born in the 70ās or 80ās ā¦who had a baby herself 10 years agoā¦maybe no father even sticking around, or she ran off with himā¦in any case leaving that baby with her mother, whom Agnes knows as āGrandma.ā
If Grandmaās daughter was the rocker chick back in the 70ās, sheād still have to have had Agnes very late in life, though here weād have to count on ācomics timeā even moreā¦cos this strip has been around since 2002 and Agnes was 10 then, too.
Granny is still working āat the plantā. I may be leaning too much on personal experience; but even in the bad old days, women were made to retire from industrial jobs like weaving pretty much on the age of 65. The exception being if you were a maid or domestic, which Granny isnāt. She may look old; but physical labor has never been kind to how women look.
SusanSunshine Premium Member almost 10 years ago
Wellā¦ (ahem) itās possible that Agnesā mother knew āUncleā Dee-Dee when she was very smallā¦and then for a while, Uncle Joeyā¦(causing a big rift in the band)..and there was Uncle Geneā¦. andā¦umā¦ā¦ OK, I think weāll drop that subjectā¦.
And we know Agnes has a great aunt Arthenaā¦. her motherās actual auntā¦. sheās Grandmaās somewhat remote sister,whom I believe she described as mean spirited and rude.
Sheās the one they were on the way to visit a few years ago when they got stuck in the snowā¦ Predictably, she had no sympathy for their plight, and I donāt think Grandma would care to seek her company again.
J Short almost 10 years ago
The long term memory made her have a short term memory loss.
SusanSunshine Premium Member almost 10 years ago
2Oldā¦ no, I was saying maybe Grandma was pretty wild, and Agnesā mom had āUnclesā when she was a little girl.
Sheād be about the age of Troutās motherā¦ but they probably didnāt know each other back thenā¦ or maybe ever.
Then she had a baby of her own, when she was presumably a bit young and wild herself, whom she ended up leaving with her mother.
Her mother, whom we know as Grandma, saw what she had wrought, in my version of the storyā¦. and settled down, to raise and protect her granddaughter, whom she re-named Agnes, and try to keep her from following in the footsteps she had inadvertently taught her own daughter.
And Agnes knows nothing about it.
Of course, I could have it all wrong, and all that rock nā roll stuff could have belonged to Agnesā mother and not Grandmaā¦ but Agnes still wouldnāt know cos she was only a baby, and doesnāt remember her at all.
jadoo823 almost 10 years ago
ā¦or grandma had several children out of wedlock (as that old-fashioned saying goes) and gave them up for adoptionā¦
warjoski Premium Member almost 10 years ago
It could be that the uncles/aunts Granāma isnāt talking about are on the other side of the family, the parent who isnāt Grannieās kid. Granāma doesnāt want to mix Agnes with āthose peopleā. Having said that, Iām willing to bet Agnesā Dad is in jail.
rshive almost 10 years ago
Iām wondering whether Tony is just playing with us, given the flexibility of comic strip time. For Agnes and Trout, 1977 is ancient history. If Granny is the age she looks to be, that makes her born in the early 1950s. Which sort of meshes with both her having a child when she was young and wild and the rock & roll hidden stuff. What we really donāt know is how Agnes came to be with Granny. Maybe Agnesā parents just left one day when she was young and never came back. Stranger things have happened. That might explain about how Granny knows something of Agnesā background. Granny has never made any complaints about having Agnes either; or comments of any kind.
David Huie Green LikeNobody'sEverSeen almost 10 years ago
When Uncle Bud made some cryptic comments about someone else looking like his Uncle Joe or Randal Keen, Daddy asked their sister, Grandma Green about it.She set the record straight with, āWellll, when Maw died, Paw got kinda sorry. Randal Keen is your uncle.ā.She didnāt address the gentleman of mixed race who was also referenced, but Iām reasonably certain I have many more cousins than have been acknowledged in the census.
SusanSunshine Premium Member almost 10 years ago
rshiveā¦ "" If Granny is the age she looks to be, that makes her born in the early 1950s??" Well, excuuuse meā¦. but those born in the early 50ās are only barely 60!!
I donāt even look as old as Grandma (I HOPE!!) and I was born before that!LOLā¦.I know comics time is very elasticā¦. but Agnes is about 9 or 10ā¦. Almost nobody born before 1960 has a 10-year-old, cos sheād have been over 55 when she gave birth!
Sheās āGrandmaā cos Agnes is her grandddaughterā¦. and I thought I remembered hearing that Agnes was left with her as a babyā¦ I know she has said she doesnāt remember her mother.
I think Grandma is 75-ish, though she looks even olderā¦born around 1940ā¦. though with the elasticity of comics time was still young enough to be a groupie in ā77ā¦.and some were in their 30ās anyway.
_Her possibly _ illicit child would be one of Agnesā parents, probably mother, born in the 70ās or 80ās ā¦who had a baby herself 10 years agoā¦maybe no father even sticking around, or she ran off with himā¦in any case leaving that baby with her mother, whom Agnes knows as āGrandma.ā
If Grandmaās daughter was the rocker chick back in the 70ās, sheād still have to have had Agnes very late in life, though here weād have to count on ācomics timeā even moreā¦cos this strip has been around since 2002 and Agnes was 10 then, too.
rshive almost 10 years ago
Granny is still working āat the plantā. I may be leaning too much on personal experience; but even in the bad old days, women were made to retire from industrial jobs like weaving pretty much on the age of 65. The exception being if you were a maid or domestic, which Granny isnāt. She may look old; but physical labor has never been kind to how women look.