Luann by Greg Evans and Karen Evans for March 06, 2016

Wow.

-The reality is, many of us make the same resolutions, year after year. And many of us fail to stick with them. That’s why, since I’m now in my mid 60s, I quit making resolutions…

I guess this strip implies that Luann is still supposed to be 18. She turned 18 in September 2014, but perhaps we’re back on comic strip time, so that she doesn’t age one year every year.

Your goals were good.

Besides, when perfect, why Change?

For being a RA, Bernice sure does spend a lot of her free time off campus at Luann’s house.

Sunday is her day off :p

My experience is that change is seldom good. New Year’s Resolutions are therefore a waste of time. Stick with what’s been good so far.

I don’t recall ever playing that game…..

-Surely you jest. (Yeah, I know, ’don’t call me Shirley’…)

-LOL!

I suppose she was just sitting with those two lists in her hands – with no other papers or books anywhere – just waiting for the opportunity to suddenly start talking about them?.I have a feeling the original illustrations were meant to go with different dialogue and this was a last moment substitution.

The only resolution I made this year was to eat chocolate every day. So far I’m in total compliance.

That’s explains why I keep finding hockey stick turds on my front lawn.

I never made any resolutions in my 70 years on this planet.

“Goin’ Through The Motions”“That’s All She Rote”“The Same Ol’, Same Ol’ "“A Stale Of Execution”“Her Six Year Mission…”“Terms Of En-nearly The Same”“Your Results May Not Vary”“Before And…Before”“Promises, Promises, Promises…” (♪)“Still The Same” (♫)

or“An Air Of Conditioning”

Instead of making annual vows that will go unheededRather, try to make changes whenever change is needed.

Hey, Lu? Was “Cleaning up My Room,” one of the Vows? Because it looks like THAT One may have finally STUCK.

Unless You all are currently in Bernice’s room…..,

eventually they would be forced to make her 19, as Bern is the dorm regulator and they usually have to be at least sophs , not freshmen

Lots of milt

Bernice has been failing at improving, too. She just doesn’t have Luann’s self awareness.

I don’t make resolutions on the New Year either. I just try to live each day remembering its a gift that keeps being given until its my time to no longer be given the life gift. I try to do the best I can each gift day I can, and that is it’s own resolution. Our girl is basically doing the same thing, which gets to what she really is, and wants to continue to be.

That was Luann’s room. We never see them do the girlfriend thing in Bernice’s room, even in college. My theory is that Greg, who clearly has at least one daughter, is like so many parents of daughters, knows about the daughter’s room thing. They need the privacy, particularly with a treasured girlfriend, and this is what the Luann/Bernice arc so brilliantly portrays. These are lifelong friends so I think this arc is well drawn. They are growing. Know how you can sure? Puddles. Puddles is happily where he is comfortable in, the room of his master (mistress, but I don’t want the misogynists here to get the wrong idea -:)

I always resolve to drink more, work less, eat more, sleep more, and do what I please. Resolutions I can keep.

Goals have to be specific to work. Walk for 30 minutes 3 times a week, eat 5 servings of fruits and vegetables each day. Luann’s are too vague.

That list will morph into a bucket list……with the same results.

SO LUANN IS HOLDING AT EIGHTEEN.JUST AS WELL.

SHE WAS THIRTEEN FOR DECADESSIXTEEN FOR A LONG TIME.

Both were okay by me

WE CAN HAVE HER EIGHTEEN FOR A DECADE.BRAD HAS NOT BEEN AGING. SO THIS WILL KEEP IT UNIFORM.

@LDoverBrad’s actually been getting younger. He’s grown a lot of hair.

You just have to adopt this policy:

funny, my Dr. said I actually had to increase my beer consumption, to aid in kidney stone prevention ( something about the hops content apparently).

Somewhat related: I love rummaging for info from old college textbooks only to happen across my “to-do” lists from college days— meeting with people, making plans I’d entirely forgotten about. How different my life is now, but that I still make lists. Lu should put that list back where she found it so she can rediscover it in another ten years.

I, personally, think the whole age-discrepancy thing has to do with a combination of counting only Sunday strips, eliminating weeks where Luann herself does not appear, and Dr. Sam Becket’s Project Quantum Leap.

This is the most disappointing strip today. Yesterday it held promise that Luann was growing up and moving on. Now we are told she is still 18, and there they are in her room sitting on the floor like a couple of high school girls. Please Evans! Take them back into their sophomore year of college. This is ridiculous!

Resolutions? We don’t need no stinking resolutions!

Mine is always: “Get through the next year.” So far I’ve been successful more than 60 times.

Call it “slow and steady Progress”: at least now you’re aware of the consistency….

I have started making just one resolution each year for the last few years now. Sometimes I am able to keep it the entire year through, sometimes I mess up a few times, but I still keep trying.Mt resolution? To write the correct year whenever I have to write the date on anything.

Love that Evans, through shifts in characters, plot lines, and drawing styles, still uses running gags with which he began.

“All I can do every day is count my blessings and try to be agreeable, helpful, and go ahead and treat myself to little things before the rapidly approaching sell-by date is here…”.“Sell By” is better than “Discard by”.By even trying to be pleasant, you have beat many who seem to try to be unpleasant.(a point in their favor is how well they succeed, though.)..Korean BBQ potato chips sound interesting.My daughter-in-law noticed some wasabi and ginger potato chips for sale and said, “Oh, I bet your father would love those.”.My son mentioned it and I agreed they sounded interesting and worthy of trying but wondered how she knew..“Daddy, you’re the only person either of us has ever seen who eats the two as a snack.”.“Hmmm, good point, Son.”.Life is good that has such experiences in it.

Somebody better call Jim!!! (X^D)

“You Say You Want A Resolution…”♪♫^Ha ha! Or you could call it “Resolution # 99”!

“The Path Of List Resistance”^Very good, Sir!!!

@沓“Instead of making annual vows that will go unheededRather, try to make changes whenever change is needed.”…Resolutions are great as far as ideas go.But in a few days out the window they blow.”.The muses are working overtime today.

@ LDover: “BRAD HAS NOT BEEN AGING. SO THIS WILL KEEP IT UNIFORM.”^I think still being employed by the municipal fire department would also keep it (him in) uniform……

BTW, Jay, since seeing Neverwhere i have hopes of seeing Paterson Joseph as a Doctor. He coukd bring some of the Tom Baker flair, i think. Definitely not a botox face manakin like Quill is! LOL!

Oh, gosh! Now i know Quill’s perfect role: cyberman!

if there is any jump of age(2 or 3 probably, whether gradually or suddenly) it would be after the Brad marriage

On a language blog Steve read that students who plagiarize sometimes use an online thesaurus to make a stolen document their “own”. At times their own vocabularies are deficient enough that the alterations are hilarious. An example was given in which the phrase “left behind” became “sinister buttock”. This was too good to not share. Couldn’t you just see such substitutions arising in the school settings the characters are in?

Yeah, and true, seeing as how many shows out there are titled with “Something- wood”…

I try to make resolutions frequently, all year long, New Year and Lent included. It is a time of self reflection where I try to figure out how to try to be a better person. I usually fail (quitting pipe smoking for instance) but have had some successes as well (losing a lot of weight and exercising). Resolutions are to me helpful to try to identify where I would like or should be.

SPOILER ALERT

Another opportunity for ‘miscommunication’ arises…

-Noticing the wearing apparel, I am assuming that the topic of communication on her mind is still the same…

I have yet to hear anyone outside of England refer to it as a “cuppa”.