Ginger Meggs by Jason Chatfield for July 17, 2010

One always undersleeps at sleepovers! That’s one of the rules of a sleepover!

G’day Jason, JFri, usfellers, ottod and another SPECIAL SHOUTOUT TO JOE!

That’s the rule, Ginger!

Howdy & G’Day, Joe, Jason, Usfellers, Dry, and ALL the Meggsie fans!

I wonder what you would think about it, Joe. I tried!

Morning, Dry, usfellers & Joe!

Only the “shadow” knows, Ginger!

♠Lonewolf♠ Re your objection yesterday to multiple accounts. I occasionally have cookie issues & can’t access my paid account for a little while, but really want to put in my 2¢. For such occasions I use CRL29P for a few days while I straighten it out. It’s just a spare tire.

The Spanish version grafiti said he went to a pajama party and was underdressed. That’s me………

ChukLitl, using it like you do and someone using it to intentionally “mask” who they are is two different things. Also it allows spammers to continually put garbage posts on the strip sites here. Gocomics could put an end to more than one account from the same ‘puter. That would stop a lot of the spammer BS and not allow someone to post hateful comments under one account and act innocent under another. :^)

actually monsters under the bed have been known to chew through the box mattress and devour the sleeping kid in the bed. by the time he wakes up, his entrails are being gobbled up

Jason what is that number for in the first panel lower left hand corner?

Tell me when the sun comes up.

That’s the strip number, Dry.

We’re up to 5136 and counting..

Keep them coming, Jason. :^)

5136? I guess I’ve missed a couple.

The site administrators should remove obvious attack comments. Perhaps they do when they become aware of them. The jackassdroppings appeared on a holiday and it appears that the monitoring of flags was somewhat lax. After I’d been to a couple of sites and saw the same comments, I began flagging as though they were spam, but the comments stayed up.

It did not help that someone decided the best response to the attack was to fire even more outrageous return salvos and spam those responses on several sites. That behavior almost certainly incited additional inflammatory comments from those antagonistic to the victim. Naturally, these comments also elicited angry responses.

I think that it also did not help that many well-meaning readers came to the aid of the victim either by posting encouraging comments or by posting counterattacking comments of their own. This not only escalated the furor, but I’m afraid the show of support encouraged the victim to show less discretion in posting comments in the days following the 4th of July attacks. Ultimately, I believe the comments in that period caused the problem.

If this is happily resolved, I suggest we all mind the dictum, “Friends don’t encourage friends who post attack (or counterattack) comments.”

G’day Jason, Barb, Dry, Ottod, JFri, Lonewolf, Bjorn and all Megssie’s mates. Special greetings to Joe.

Somewhere aound the time I learnt to read I read some completely innocent story about a character called Wee Willie Winkie. The accompanying illustration showed someone in a nightgown and holding a lantern aloft and I must have concluded he was someone to avoid. There was nothing my parents could do to convince me Wee Willie Winkie wouldn’t come looking for me after the I was put to bed.

When I matured a bit and reached the age of maybe 6 someone at school convinced me the character to watch out for was The Bogeyman who was much worse than Wee Willie. This resulted in true fear gripping me day and night until I was maybe 10 years old. Around Ginger’s age I got over all of it so any time now he may get some restful sleep too.

The expression seems to have survived though and I see it used sometimes as a sort of adjective, such as in ‘The Bogeyman of household bills’. How apt and a nightlight doesn’t keep them at bay.

Sometime when I was small, I developed an irrational fear that I would be kidnapped in the night when everyone was asleep. When I confessed this to my mother, in that reassuring way mothers have, she said, “Don’t worry about it. If someone takes you, as soon as they get you in the light and see what they have, they’ll bring you right back.” Somehow this was more reassuring than denying that it might actually happen.

If that had been me I would have been scared they would just dump me.

Heheh. me too, Usfellers.