Luann by Greg Evans and Karen Evans for April 16, 2016

Shades of “The Camera Eye” (♫) by Rush….

they’re a steal, Luann… not kidding

I guess Luann choose the theater district to be close to quills heart, too bad she broke it.

“two guys do zip for two hours” is “waiting for godot”http://www.broadway.com/shows/waiting-godot/

A: You never want to stand out in NYC. You’ll get pegged as a tourist and get mugged. B: Is it too late to get your money back?

“Earring Of Truth”“One In A Million…Or Two…”“Space Invaders”“Feeling A Bit Congested”“Cram Session”“An Angular Mass Of New Yorkers” (♪)“Like A Rhinestone Piercing…” (♪)“They Say The Neon Lights Are Bright..” (♪)“Rubbing Elbows…And Fists…”“Tourists Of Duty”“Patron As You Go”“A Sign Of The Times”or“Square Feet”

♪A Face in the Crowd♪ – Tom Petty

Excuse Me, but You could set Your hair on FIRE and You WOULDN’T “stand out” little Ms “Its ALL About Me.”

When do they meet a mugger?

@Gordon Long (from Tuesday 12 April)Did your dad’s 1947 Roadmaster have a Dynaflo transmission? Back in 1976 I had a lesser 1952 Buick with straight 8 & Dynaflo. I don’t remember if it was a Special or another model.

SONY money, right?

I read Waiting for Godot in HS, what a strange play!

A lot of work creating today’s strip. Nice drawing.

Boy the trolls are out today. Can’t people, even in Luannverse, just have fun without all kinds of negative comments like “its all about me”? I think the point of that is really to show Times Square in all its glory and crowding. And another rather silly comment was that no one goes there anymore. Man are you on the wrong planet!! Young people go explore and expand themselves all the time, as they should. Maybe next year Luann and maybe Bernice might go to Europe, which in spite of all the issues with ISIS has tons and tons of tourists, as does Asia, Africa, and Australia. Oh and lets not forget South America. American college age students are all over the place from cities to mountains to deserts, and this does not include young people in the military or working for multinational companies. Lets not be so parochial. Now that I had my rant I am going to hit the old sack. (lol)

-LOL

-LOL!

I wonder how many remember that song?

LOL!

Yeah, I noticed! – One would think that someone wouldn’t actually assume that “no one goes there”… I mean, after all, there’s a lot of shining lights in the whole vicinity, not to mention the very bright and iconic Sony reference that you even mentioned!

Come to think of it, maybe he should yell at Mr. Evans some, too.. after all, GE must be silly for making Luann give self-effacing comments about the shape of her own nose, or the fact that she can never keep her room tidy, or even “the strange feeling that she’s trapped within the confines of a paneled work”…

it ain’t over to it’s over huh? I could see Yogi saying something like that, so if the intent was based on a Yogism forgive me.

This story has been too negative. Might as well wrap it up.

You are a nice troll though so please I hope no offense. I am such a positivist I guess.

Hey I don’t find stuff wrong all the time, although stuff that is intolerant, or just plain wrong I comment on. Everyone should say what they feel, and your comments are always quite good. Don’t you get to offended or uptight when I do delve in please And Avatar profiling, have neither a clue, nor do I care. Any avatar will do as long as, in this family strip, its not obscene or racist or sexist. I don’t even know how to put up an avatar anyway. So basically please chill.

Not to set the wrong tone for the day, but this reminds me about the “storm” of judgments that a piece of satire at a High School has received, that has made the news rounds….among some other stories. – It’s telling how reactive society can be, these days, even just “on the turn of a few words”, where if one doesn’t say things “exactly in the right way”, there is “a speedy trial, conviction and execution”, right on the spot….

That final panel is reason enough for me to never go to NYC

It’s a heck of a town! (It’s even better on EarthCam®)

Since when does Inner Beauty need to stand out? Doesn’t everyone automatically recognise the glow of all that inner beauty?

Oh! Wrinkles, the new old musical is great. Highly recommended!

Actually, Luann, you do stand out; along with the million or so people around you!

To see Phantom Of The Grand Old Opera is still playing . I

Notice that most of the people in the background are on their cell phones. Too occupied to even see nor care about their surroundings, let alone some girl’s earrings.Man, I wouldn’t last a week in NYC if I had to move there. Can’t get out and freely drive, can’t escape the concrete jungle, surrounded by noise and congestion and busy people all the time, big tall buildings with garish lights…arrrrgggh! For me, it was interesting to see just once, but that was more than enough. Got to have green, open spaces, fresh air, natural bodies of water…the great outdoors has to be close by.Still, Luann and Bern look like they’re having a blast so far. Exciting trip for two young women, so I’m happy for them.

Not much controversy in this week’s arc, unless you count Prudence’s strict itinerary, so G&K should extend this trip into next week to find out if there will be any mischief, or mishaps.

I wonder how much Sony paid Greg to get their name placement there? Too much, considering the size of it. How do you people find these things? Note to self: schedule eye exam!

I hope that this doesn’t drag into next week. I hate New York.

Good job Lu-yank: you stand out here as much as you stand out at home.

Speaking of NYC shows and Yogi Berra, I remember hearing about Yogi’s wife coming home one night and saying, “I just saw Dr. Zhivago.” Yogi replied, “What’s wrong with you now?”Another fun quote: “Never answer an anonymous letter.” It was funny back then, because it was impossible. Snail mail, no Internet. Now, as we’re doing here, people essentially answer anonymous “letters” all the time, daily. Hmm.The future ain’t what it used to be.

♫ “I want to be a (very small insignificant) part of it., New York, New York!” ♫

Where’s the “Hershey” sign?

There is a reason I have always hated NY and the last frame says it all. Pittsville is paradise by comparison.

Just my observations in life.

Unfortunately, it’s all too common for the ones who really had no or didn’t develop their own identity growing up to have this kind of attitude at this age in life. Luann also wants attention because she never really had parents that involved her in their life. Way too common with kids these days. Luann is the one who will have some serious “daddy” issues and go tramp for guy’s attention.Bernice is one of those girls who thought she knew what she wanted, knew a lot about specific stuff, but was too chicken to experience much with life it’s self. She is going to fall to the first guy that gives her attention, gets hurt bad and becomes a man hater…

I think that’s the point.You think it is?

Is it just me, or did Luann seem to get over Quill really quickly?

Funny thing is, the blonde and the guy behind the girls are talking on their phones to each other!

“Most”? I only see two people doing that. The other 8 people in the background are just walking.Oh. So now you DON’T think that’s the point?

I think if she just walks around without a cell phone plastered to her ear she will stand out.

Hmmmm, i think some tax time mood is perhaps bubbling forth here. (Maybe that is one reason Denmark for multiple years tops the chart for happiness, with education amd good medical care covered there is no reason to have tax exemptions so no need to file for most people since taxes for most come out beforehand. We have a self-employed friend whose work is often outside Denmark who files there but she says it is much more straight-forward than when she lived in the U.S.). Everyplace has its good and its bad, and i guess we might encounter overflowing tax time tension for a couple of more days in the U.S.

Meanwhile, what is with the naive silliness of people who expect muggers behind every corner, and interested in stealing costume jewelry? A number of things in the cartoon are exaggerations, but the comments section… Oh, my, how naive some are!

Here is someone using reds to try to stand out in NYC, but i personally hope he figures out in the future how to better meld components.

http://www.thesartorialist.com/men/on-the-street-west-broadway-new-york-4/#comments

NYC is somewhere where there are so many variations that even those who typically stand out usually blend in. The obvious exception is very bad behavior and people give those troubled people wide berth.

That said, the color pops for Luann with her strawberry blond hair.

Wow you must use some good glasses and study the pictures to see that.

(♪)“I gotta be me…” (♪)

““When do they meet a mugger?”.Muggers don’t do crowds—but pickpockets do.

“that was a quote from the inimitable Yogi Berra about it being so crowded, no one goes there anymore.”.I also heard it said about Cape Cod once—from a Bostonian.

“with an avatar name like mine here, I surely can be up to no good ever, right?”.Well, you do leave yourself wide open…

She should have worn a striped shirt and hat.

INTERESTING Crime rate stats and comparisons (same year for each location since reporting often lags):

http://www.areaconnect.com/crime/compare.htm

The above also gives the national figures for further comparison. Notice how safe NYC is even in comparison to national figures in the year for which they have data for all. Most U.S. crime increases and decreases follow national trends like economic changes, and numbers of young men in certain age groups, and locations all over the country tend to go up and down in tandem for changes in crime rates. So, each place has its own rates but the direction and general amount of changes in those rates are often rather consistent unless the area has major changes happen.

Since NYC follows numbers in real time and has disclosure you can go to the NYPD Crime Prevention site for those but then the numbers are meaningless unless you also do the math to get per capita figures, so you absolutely have to look up relevant population numbers first.

Anyway, NYC — PER INDIVIDUAL — is much safer crime-wise than a very large number of other U.S. locations.

For NYC and for the nation in general crime rates very slightly increased in the last couple of years, but to get back to very high rates for most locations you have to look at the figures from the 1990s and 1980s.

Not looking much at others is a way of giving people theur privacy in crowded conditions — just a form of consideration when jammed in together.

“The future ain’t what it used to be” is another Yogi quote. But you’re right. Where’s my robot maid? (And don’t tell me a Roomba is it.)

I had heard it was that way before the proliferation of cell phones. You don’t look at me, I don’t look at you and so on.Good point; I think you’re right. That was the protocol even before cell phones. Now smartphones just gave people easier excuses to do it. And even if you don’t have anyone to talk to or text, there’s an app for that.

The funny thing in the strip today is the “mesmerizing” puff for Two guys dong Zip.

I used 5 online refs for the crime comment info, but find myself — now that my eye is worn out — wondering how much assault and battery rates might change while people are tense from putting together their taxes, and how one woukd separate that from the increases that go along with more outside access in warming weather.

In almost every public group i have been in i have noticed that many get more argumentative around tax time.

The art in the second panel is beautifully done. But Kymberleigh is right. The story line is being sacrificed for the art. It’s cool for 2 or 3 days but could start to get old if persists as is using up a lot of the panel real estate.

Yep. I keep checking in on what Japan is doing with robotics. So far, the stuff I’ve seen is either somewhat fascinating but goofy and rather impractical (think Asimo and his offshoots), or creepy (ChihiraAico). But it’s in its infancy.Would I really want a robot maid? One that looks, thinks and acts like a human? Not really. I just want an efficient machine that cleans my house for me. It doesn’t even have to look close to human, as long as it does the job. And for pete’s sake, don’t give it emotions or lifelike expressions. I don’t want to come home one night to see it angrily complaining about its lot in life and throwing dishes at me.

standing out in Time Square just means some amateur rap artist will try to sell you a CD of their new single.

I have minimal experience of New York. The only time I was technically there, I got off a plane at the airport (JFK, IIRC), walked to a bus stop, took a bus to the train station, and took a train to Baltimore.

My overwhelming memory of that passage through New York, in about 1978 or ‘79, was the pervasive reek of dog doo. I could not wait to get on the train, I felt as if I were trapped inside a dumpster filled with dog poop, in July heat and humidity far beyond this California boy’s experience.

I don’t want to spend five minutes around people with so little consideration that they won’t pick up after their dogs. I only saw a small part of the city, but it horrified me. A city full of people who haven’t got that much common decency would be hard for me to imagine if I hadn’t seen it with my own nose.

I realize that smells become common very quickly. I have no doubt that in two or three days I would stop noticing it, but those first couple of days are not something I want to contemplate. I never want to go back. Someone else can enjoy it all they want, but not me!

“So far, so good.”

@Kymberleigh left you one late yesterday.

Nice rendition of Times Square.

Thank you! – I would go with “Forecast—Mostly Crowdy”!

“I had heard it was that way before the proliferation of cell phones. You don’t look at me, I don’t look at you and so on.”^That is pretty much the “unwritten rule”, in some places… cell phones just became a “convenient tool” for many, in the process of this….

Ann Marie is in that crowd somewhere…

Great scenic view but Luann and Bernice are (regardless of gaudy earrings) visually mere specks in the crowd….

I’m waiting. We’re waiting.For whom? For what?Why?I must waitWe must wait.For whom?For what?

For the troll.

I was in NYC this week and found a nice on 34th street near the river & the north end of the High Line that was quite nice. A little noisey from some major buildings going up, but a good place to sit, relax, and eat lunch.

@SukieCrandall“I stopped putting anything in my back pockets when I lost a wallet, and kept sitting on it.”.I stopped keeping my wallet in my back pocket after some ladies on Aveneda Atlantica in Rio lifted it while distracting me. (It was nearly worth it.).

Now I use it to keep any trash I may have if there is no waste receptacle nearby.

My opinion is that they will never make an android that is completely indistinguishable from a human, so that no one will pick up on the fact that it is an android. Never. Human intuition and our fundamental interconnectedness will take care of that. To somebody, the energy just won’t feel right. The vibes won’t be there. The “soul” won’t be there. Or even discounting that and looking at only the physical aspects, a movement won’t be quite right; a response will sound even the slightest bit “off,” and so on. People’s senses will automatically adjust, probably more quickly than you might think, to be more acutely aware of the tiniest minutiae that says “this isn’t a person.”

Dave, better than rumors — much, much better and exceedingly more accurate — is actual data. For example, see NYC vs L.A. rates for crimes AND vs national rates in 2006 in

http://www.areaconnect.com/crime/compare.htm?c1=New+York&s1=NY&c2=Los+Angeles&s2=CA

NYC keeps up on following data, so i do not know which locations force them to use data that old, but proportions often stay pretty much the same unless something hugely significant alters at a location. Notice that NYC was substantially safer than many other cities as well.

Yes, i know the rumors differ from this, but actual data is much more valuable.

plus a dog is too smart to just sit in a box. That’s why he had to use that darn cat!

maybe we can delete 1212 instead

BTW, for those who may not have noticed, “Wrinkles : The New Old Musical” ( as shown on the billboard) is a real musical play written by Greg Evans.

“To paraphrase someone who said it before me, “Whoever seeks to steak my purse, steals trash,” correct? ;o)”.‘Steals my purse,’ but yes, that is the hope.It would clean my pocket for me.

Reply function disfunctional:

“north end of the High Line”.That thing is since my time. What is the best place to get onto it?

“A certain set of criminals seek out and assault or just rob visitors who stand out. So maybe standing out isn’t a strategic idea.”.Absolutely right.

And here I thought a dozen people would be wearing the same ones…

@BrdShttWhat? Someone here thinks my Yogi – isms make me a troll? Well, it ain’t over till it’s over! Oops, I just double – trolled myself, didn’t I?.Its De Ja Vu all over again!

Luannfan, the application of statistics and probability has a similarity to tool use. Tools are sometimes misused but usually not. Just because on a vanishingly rare occasion a screw driver has been misused like a skewer does not make the many well thoughtout applications of that tool invalid. There is so much which simply can not be described as well in words as in mathematics, and so much that coukd never be sufficiently investigated without it. Do methodology, study design, elimination of alternative explanations, etc. have to be included? Of course. Do not throw the baby out with the bathwater, though.

My apologies! Luannfan did NOT make the statistics comment to which i referred. That was Argy who did. Mea culpa!

Stupid eyes! I miss hit and deleted my post when i only wanted to reply w a correction. Anyway, i prefer researched treatments rather than treatments based on blind hope. Not every one works for every person but then alternatives can be tried. Anyway, due to the push for comparative performance studies of two glaucoma meds i was able to locate a recent study by using PubMed, then discuss and try a med different from one i had used for some time. As in the study, the cheaper (by $2,500 per year) med lowered my IOP far better than the med i had been using, plus i have fewer side effects with it. Comparative performance studies had been underfunded in the past, i think. They are at times very unpopular w pharma and medical equipment producers, especially when cheaper options work better for most. In the last few years there have been multiple studies in which the less costly, and at times also safer meds or procedures turned out to work better for most people. Will there be special cases or exceptions? Of course, but the majority are still very well served by what such studies learn, just as i have been.

Comrade de blubberbutt has turned the city to a pos.