Luann by Greg Evans and Karen Evans for December 08, 2015

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    ILuvLu  almost 9 years ago

    Piro who?

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    seismic-2 Premium Member almost 9 years ago

    “Infraction report”? Does this strip want us to find all its cast despicable? (I thought that was Funky Winkerbean’s turf.)

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    Argythree  almost 9 years ago

    I know it’s been a long, long time since I was in college, so maybe things are very different now. I just can’t remember any of the RAs writing up ‘infraction reports’. And I’m not sure what good it would do to ‘write up’ Gunther anyway, since he’s not a dorm resident.

    Bernice’s face in the second panel looks like one of my bosses who loves to ‘write everyone up’ in time for their annual evaluations. Very ‘dislikable’…

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    seismic-2 Premium Member almost 9 years ago

    How many scarves does this homeless guy have? Does he leave them all over the place, in all his crash pads?

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    38lowell  almost 9 years ago

    GUILTY!

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    gromit82  almost 9 years ago

    This just gets more and more annoying. Who would want to attend a college where, if you have a guest in your room after 10 PM, both you and your guest get written up by the RA? -I mean, at a strict religious college, that could be understandable. But Moony U. isn’t like that. For one thing, strict religious colleges don’t tend to have men and women living on the same floor:-I realize that this is part of a setup to reveal Bernice’s hypocrisy in allowing Piro to sleep in her room, but it’s not a good thing for readers’ reactions to the strip to be “College does not work that way!” day in and day out.

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    William Loster  almost 9 years ago

    Oh, Bernice.

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    Elmer Gantry Fudd  almost 9 years ago

    No visitors after 10, and violators get written up? What is this, Oral Roberts U?

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    kenhense  almost 9 years ago

    Dez – Help Berneice with a little soul searching. Bern can be rigid – but not usually a hyppocrite. Bern – Your dreams are telling you something…

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    Kymberleigh  almost 9 years ago

    This is not a comment, just a question to be answered later: Will Bernice’s power trip behavior eventually come to Luann’s attention, and if so (given that we already had Luann seeing a little of this side of Bernice with the “I got an A on my final, so I’m right” business in the Prudence story arc) will it cause a rift between them?Because if so, we may be seeing the beginning of a process to write Bernice out of the strip just as Delta, Rosa, and for all practical purposes Crystal and Knute were.

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    montylc2001  almost 9 years ago

    If Bernice and Gunth do get together, one wonders that after they set rules if they will ever have kids……

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    Make Mine Marvel  almost 9 years ago

    We seem to have moved from a completely pointless and illogical arc about Pru, Quill and Luann to an equally pointless and illogical arc involving Bernice, Gunther, Piro and Tiffany. I realize this is only a comic strip, but the Luanniverse is becoming more and more surreal, and not in a good way.

    Suspension of disbelief is all very well, but this is disbelief being hung by the neck until dead.

    I’ve taken to leaving the strip alone for a stretch of days, then reading a bunch of them at once, rather than checking each day. I don’t expect I’ll stay with it much longer. Too much “sawdust in the oatmeal”, as my great-uncle Frank used to say.

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    Scott Stevenson  almost 9 years ago

    Many, many years ago, my first job featured a boss who had some of the same qualities as Bernice, include demanding strict obedience to rules that she ignored whenever she wanted. She was also a big fan of “writing up” people for the most piddly BS. In my case, I got it one time when she trotted out one of her pat phrases, “I’m not here to be liked”, and without thinking, I said “Because if you were here to be liked, you’re not doing a good job of it”.

    I know Dez isn’t written this way, but a more manipulative roommate would hold that scarf over Bernice like the Sword of Damocles

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    JayBluE  almost 9 years ago

    They always say: Point a finger at someone, and three (on your own hand) always point back at you…. – But Bernice must be pointing with both hands… and her feet… – Perhaps she also feels that if one standard is good enough…that a double standard is even better?

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    Masterdrail  almost 9 years ago

    One thing about rules is you have to know them if you’re going to be breaking them. Since Gunther doesn’t board there, he might be unaware of the ‘curfew’ that Bern is trying to reinforce (props to argythree for pointing that out).

    But by the same token, Tiffany doesn’t care about rules much, so I can see her not telling Gunther about them.

    However I think she cares just enough about him (plausible) to not get him in trouble by association. She seems like an attention-starved drama queen who demands the center of attention; I think that’s been pretty obvious in recent panels.

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    blunebottle  almost 9 years ago

    Bernice is thinking…."what really happened that night??“Out Of My Dreams And Into Your Arms I long to fly……”

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    JayBluE  almost 9 years ago

    “The Telltale Scarf”“Right, Miranda?”“Silent On The Muffler….” “Tippet…Tippet Good” (♪)“Evidence And Hardheaded”“A Muffler, A Millstone”“Accuse And Deny”“Ascot, What You Can Do For Your Dorm…”“Rotten To The Corroboration”“A Rule…And Unusual Punishment”“A Prisoner Of Your Own Advice”“A Yield, Slow And Stop On Every Corner…”“Her Cheatin’ Heart” (♫)“She Doth Protest Too Much”or“See You Later, Allegat-or”

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    BobCu  almost 9 years ago

    Does anyone at this college ever study?

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    Sisyphos  almost 9 years ago

    Is Dez aware that she has caught out the very Busy Bee in her own hypocrisy? Perhaps; though it really doesn’t matter as long as we know it.

    Bernice is going to have to repent her overly strict and self-righteous handling of RA duties, or else!

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    Masterdrail  almost 9 years ago

    Back in Aug/Sept, Bern also said she’d try not to control everything and to relax. I guess she forgot that lesson.

    Besides (and on the topic of rules): "They’re more like guidelines anyway. -Elizabeth Swann; Pirates of the Caribbean

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    Caldonia  almost 9 years ago

    Congratulations, Team Evans, Tiffany is the most likable of all the old crew. Clearly what you wanted to happen! Hee hee!

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    Alan Smithee  almost 9 years ago

    Cheese & Rice Bernice. Unclench your buttocks already.

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    Barry1941  almost 9 years ago

    What a drag Bernice is. In real life she would have very, very few friends, unless of course they were back stabbing hypocrites like her.

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    Cronkers McGee  Premium Member almost 9 years ago

    Caught. We all are no perfect. How is Bernice going to explain this?

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    Ruth Brown  almost 9 years ago

    Is seems that team Evans could effect pretty much the same end without the curfew and write up. Isn’t the end for Bernice to be embarrassed by her hypocrisy (and latent desires)? The first time Gunther was in Tiff’s room late wasn’t it about midnight or so? Didn’t seem to be any rule then—just embarrassment at the (false) implication of romance and the (real) implication of attraction—“a moment”.

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    sarazan7  almost 9 years ago

    Gotcha Bernie you hypocrite!

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    sbischof  almost 9 years ago

    If you want to know how to write a college strip, go read Dumbing of Age. Seriously.

    Infraction reports are real, but they’re usually for something like 20 18yos in a room full of alcohol bottles. They also tend to have massive negative consequences. You might get them for playing music that can be heard two floors away after 10pm/11pm and point blank refusing to turn it off, but that’s still about it.

    Usually on a campus guests are only even an issue if they stay the entire night, more than a certain number of times, not some magic 10pm rule. Maybe in the 40’s?

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    maverick1usa  almost 9 years ago

    OH GOOD GRIEF! Now Bernice do an Infaction Report on you & Piro.

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    Pointspread  almost 9 years ago

    BUSTED!

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    Pointspread  almost 9 years ago

    If she takes her job that seriously she should be inquiring if Piro is a student or just a bum. That might be a better use of her time.

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    Mordock999 Premium Member almost 9 years ago

    Busted. Now be SURE to Turn YOURSELF In for Punishment and Self-Criticism. After All, Its the “Hip Neo-Communist Thing” to do.

    And Speaking of Gunther, WHAT did YOU do with Him?

    He was LAST Seen Darkening YOUR Door….,

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    IhateWinter  almost 9 years ago

    OHHHHH Caught…time to come clean.

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    CaitlynB  almost 9 years ago

    This is getting a bit ridiculous. As someone in college, currently living in the dorms, very few colleges (mostly some religious colleges) have a curfew time for guests. Also, Bernice is turning into the RA that everyone hates that just tries finding the littlest thing wrong to write you up for it. It seems Bernice is having a power trip right now. Sad to see.

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    SisterMaryCharlesBronson  almost 9 years ago

    As long as the dorm was not visibly on fire, for the most part my RA gave a rat’s you-know-what about what we were up to.

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    Pipe Tobacco Premium Member almost 9 years ago

    5For me, this arc is quite interesting, but I feel a bit like I am a ball in a pinball machine. I feel a bit battered around, and it does not feel as linear as is usual for each week’s arc. To me, Bernice is becoming more and more like the sort of character portrayed by Cindy Williams in “Laverne & Shirley”. Her Shirley character was always a know-it-all, busy body sort. And, if that is the way Bernice is becoming, it fits in well with historically successful comedic characters. I still hope that when we get to learn more about Piro, that he ends up being simply a quirky fellow who is not burdened down with a lot of emotional baggage.

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    seismic-2 Premium Member almost 9 years ago

    So at Moony, RA’s regularly patrol the dorms to enforce thick books of rules prohibiting open windows etc, and any students who have guests in their rooms after 10:00 PM will be written up in an “infraction report”. Seriously, does Team Evans really think this is a believable depiction of a college? Or have they deliberately created a fantasy depiction of college life, because they believe their aging readership would be more nearly comfortable about the collegiate setting if it is portrayed as an environment of rigid (and petty) discipline? Or have they simply thrown out all pretense of plausibility, so that they can set up a contrived plot?

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    Willow Mt Lyon  almost 9 years ago

    Get a life Bernice!!!!

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    JimT8  almost 9 years ago

    I assume this was meant for laughs, but clearly nobody finds it funny. I don’t know why the authors would want to do this to Bernice, who had been one of my favorite characters.

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    comicboyz  almost 9 years ago

    what kind of dorm has a no visitors after 10 rule? Its not like this is the 50s !!

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    Nicole ♫ ⊱✿ ◕‿◕✿⊰♫ Premium Member almost 9 years ago

    Her hypocrisy is becoming super annoying. Now she’s going to give them official infractions for doing something she did? Wow.

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    Luanaphile  almost 9 years ago

    To me, it’s not important how realistic (in today’s world) it is to have a 10pm cutoff for visitors or “write-ups” for infractions. That is just the “suspension of disbelief” necessary for most drama. (Think Macbeth?) More serious is to be short on psychological realism, like Bernice’s over-the-top attacks on Pru. I like it when the Evans follow the rule of Heraclitus: “Your character is your fate.”

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    Vorticia  almost 9 years ago

    Bern + Piro!!!! <3

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    locake  almost 9 years ago

    Bernice will grow up to be on the HOA board and go through the neighborhood looking for minor violations. Everyone hates that person.

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    dliley  almost 9 years ago

    Busted!

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    kenhense  almost 9 years ago

    Meanwhile the plot is lurking in Tiffany’s room. Maybe just another night’s sleep for Piro. However it’s going to be a major trauma for Bern if she sees Piro leaving in the morning. Bern can’t report that – and both jealousy and desire will be gnawing on her. And if Tiffany seems kinda quiet and shy – not her usual self – the plot thickens…

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    Caldonia  almost 9 years ago

    I have seen comments that say Luann should pay rent to her parents—-though I don’t know why, since she’s probably not even 21, and she’s their daughter. The readership must really be aging if that’s what they think is appropriate. Do they resent young people or what? Anyway, it looks like Bernice is being unlikable for most everyone.

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    whiteaj  almost 9 years ago

    Remember, underneath those clothes, they’re all naked.

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    Squoop  almost 9 years ago

    Oh what a tangled web we weave. Fess up Bernice, it’s bad karma to lie especially to your spiritual roommate.

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    The Nameless Wonder  almost 9 years ago

    B.U.S.T.E.D. B!

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    Argy.Bargy2  almost 9 years ago

    -The Christmas list was in bad taste

    Not that I am interested in getting into the whole Christmas list thing (since this isn’t my holy day), but I do feel I want to point one thing out. We don’t know what was on that list, or what it cost.

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    Airman  almost 9 years ago

    These story lines have changed tracks more times than a railroad roundhouse. Emerging from the confusion is what could be a fascinating romance between Tiffany and Gunther……the cheerleader air head and the nervous nerd. Both characters need someone, so why not each other? Friends, confidants, and warm, fuzzy security blankets.

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    Luanaphile  almost 9 years ago

    Anyone who has taught college in the last 10 years knows that loan debt is a terrible albatross around students’ necks. The last thing students like Luann need is to pay rent to mom and dad.

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    seismic-2 Premium Member almost 9 years ago

    Bernice’s smug look of self-satisfaction as she types up her “infraction report” to invoke punishment on her fellow students, including two who supposedly have been her friends for many years, shows why “snitches get stitches”.

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    RSH  almost 9 years ago

    This turned out differently from what I thought. I look forward to Bernice getting an attitude adjustment. But I also like that Piro left something behind suggesting that Bernice will have more interactions with him…. or she’ll be secretly happy to have something of his and will have cause to see him again. I don’t want to see this arc turn into a Tiff-Piro thing.

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    TCoT  almost 9 years ago

    I can’t help thinking that Dez was already aware that Piro stayed the night, and that he left his scarf there…

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    Kymberleigh  almost 9 years ago

    … and somehow Piro’s scarf stayed wedged in the sofa cushions for a month and a half before anyone noticed?

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    Pointspread  almost 9 years ago

    Uncle Al!

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    seismic-2 Premium Member almost 9 years ago

    Yes, quite likely Des and Piro passed each other as he was leaving Bernice’s room and Des was returning from her overnight “rave”. Des didn’t say anything about it at the time (or since then) because she felt it wasn’t her business, but this contemptible “infraction report” has inspired Des to take action by “discovering” some evidence of an as-yet unreported infraction committed by the report writer herself.

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    gromit82  almost 9 years ago

    I am not in college now (I graduated a while back), but I wonder if you would tell us what college you are attending where that curfew applies, because that might help us judge how realistic this storyline is.

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    seismic-2 Premium Member almost 9 years ago

    She can say that, but Des likely saw Piro on the couch when she came into the room the next morning, so she knows the truth.

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    Argythree  almost 9 years ago

    SPOILER ALERT

    Increasingly looks like a new character will be added to this ’toon. A shrink. One is apparently needed stat…

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    ACTIVIST1234  almost 9 years ago

    “Don’t mistake my kindness for weakness.”*BS – THANKS! I heard a judge say that in court one day after granting a stay to a defendant. I had to idea he was quoting a mobster!

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