Here we go AGAIN. Only this time, it’s Pru. Luann, you pulled this on Gunther thinking it’d help HIM find dates and you know how that went. Stop Pru, please, for OUR sakes. We don’t wish to see round two of this.
Look, Luann? I like Pru and all. But are you seriously going to take “dating tips” from a young woman that hasn’t had a “lover” herself since she was introduced in the Strip Years Ago?
Pru grabbed your phone. Fine. Tell her she SHOULD find a “lover” for HERSELF on that dating app.
One more thing, Ms. DeGroot. I’d rethink your notion towards Gunther, if I were you. And quit listening to the Negative Nellies on this forum, and evolve your “friendship” with him into something MORE…..,
Go ahead, Luann -have a cup of strong coffee. Leave the dating site open. That way, between the dating site and the coffee, you can do stupid things faster.
It seems that Pru doesn’t have a life right now – and she’s looking for adventure via Luann. Pru is living in a rented room and likely not making much money. I would love to see Luann turn the tables and ask Pru – “what about you?” We are due to see Pru get interested in somebody. I think she was even a little excited with the attention she got from Les – but it’s not going there…
Somebody as clueless as Pru(ne) is the person to guide Luann? Sometimes a grown up is not necessarily the person indicated to teach you something. Case in point.
Yet again the famous friend-land that most guys dread strikes again. And the terrible spiral of random wheel of romance takes her spin of blind dates into the unknown. Sounds like a late night episode of “The Twilight Zone”.
Oh, sure, hook up with a stranger on the internet for a meaningless fling, what could go wrong?
Why is Pru pushing Luann to get into a physical relationship with some guy she doesn’t really know? Doesn’t she have more important things to do, like maybe find a better job so she can move out of the DeGroot’s house?
Here we go again – another rehash of the almost-desperate need to have these characters paired off. It is a deficiency to be unattached. It’s not okay to date around.
Oh, no. Pru can’t be going that route! And here I thought she was going to be a stabilizing influence. Of course she only asked what all of us have asked. “Where’s Luann’s love interest?”
It will probably go thusly: Luann will select someone from Date-Pic . A romance will ensue. She will be conflicted re Jack and Gunther. Maybe get jealous when one or both show interest in another. New-guy will eventually turn to cr@p. She will re-evaluate Jack and Gunther. One or the other may come to her emotional rescue.
A year will go by. She will do it all over yet again.
Pru has, statistically, more limited options than Luann and is also (unless she’s taking off-Fuse-hours college courses we don’t know about) in a position in which her offline social circle is also inherently far more limited. A dating app is ideal for Pru…from her perspective, yes, lover locator.
For Luann, though, it’s just going to be a major time sink with a high probability of locating dozens of people like Les* and his ilk, such as the jerk who wouldn’t let her enjoy the party she went to with Tara. Luann is in too good a real world position to need electronic assistance.
By now, at least one of Luann’s incoming messages is likely from Les himself, seeing as how he’s on that app…
Some keep calling for a return of Quill. I’d hate to have to wade through strip after painful strip of hurt-feelings resolution, smarmy apologies and reconciliation. Yuck!!!
When Luann said out there somewhere in the haxy f , Roger Whittaker’s “Foggy, Foggy, Dew” came to mind immediately. Ah yes. The unhealthy, chill, foggey, dew.
Pru; if you’re talking about a PHYSICAL relationship when talking about a “lover” for Luann, she hasn’t even had a semi serious relationship with any guy yet. Much less being ready for that step.
Perhaps Luann will suggest that BOTH she and Pru try out the dating App and see if Hilarity Ensues. I’m betting some of these dates will be pretty funny. She DID say she liked the guys Gunther picked out for her. Plus he will be all mad and have a hissy fit when he finds out she didn’t delete her App after all. Thus, hilarity times two!
I am liking that Pru (aka Sigmund Freud) now seems to be guiding Luann away from Gunther. (Mordy…. again, not because I am not a fan of Gunther…. but I would rather not have an indecisive Luann get guided by Pru into “testing the waters” so-to-speak and getting Gunther hurt if Luann were to then decide…. “Nah, Pru was not guiding me correctly.”)
While I really like Jack and Luann together… if Greg is also steering us away from that coupling as well…. I think there is a wealth of “hilarity ensues” options with Luann utilizing the dating app…. and I am looking forward to that progressing.
imagine if Pru tries to sent message through Luann’s profile to Les, then again I don’t know if Pru is that type of person, but you wonder if Gunther worked up the courage to send her the date pic
So if Lu goes back to him, she’ll be eating a considerable amount of CROW to do it. Not very “PC,” IMHO. Of course, We COULD be compelled to “forget” Mr. Perfect said that the way some “folks” feel compelled to “forget” the way Les acted in High School, while at the SAME time totally REMEMBERING that Gunther once called Tiffany “dumb” or something. You Know, the “selective memory” thing. But I digress.
Let’s face it. Pru has made a couple of poor decisions in the past, and Lu would do well NOT to Listen to her. One, for that abortive Drama Camp at the Fuse. And Two, for being taken IN by Ann Eiffel’s Con-Job. If she DOES talk Lu into going on this dating app, then it’s yet another in a growing list of BAD IDEAS. A Bad Idea made WORSE by the fact that you have at least two College Campuses FULL of “Eligibles,” that neither Luann, Gunther, or Bernice is taking any advantage of. Tiffany once told Gunther she couldn’t “attract” anyone at college. Looks like She’s not the ONLY one having “problems.” The town of Pitts has become a Bizzaro World where only older adults like Crook Ann and Tom and Fuddy-Duddies like Al and Irma have “fun.”
But there IS Bad News and Good News.
The Bad News is, that Gunther is “Friend Zoned.” (At least for the time being)
Just like yesterday, today’s Luann Againn has a relevant ‘toon that relates to this. She is lamenting her single status to her father, who tries to comfort her by telling her that some young women at age 15 don’t have boyfriends, either. And she tells him that ‘nuns don’t count’. I had been hoping that Luann had passed the ‘if I don’t have a guy my life is meaningless’ stage, but maybe this appearance of similar topics in both ‘toons is the artist’s way of letting us know that the ‘toon will soon end, because he’s about to pull a ‘Cathy’ and just marry Luann off to Gunther. After the main character in ‘Cathy’ married her longtime friend Irving and got married, she got pregnant. And? End of the ‘toon. Just aren’t a whole lot of successful and interesting ‘toons around about changing diapers, waking up at night to feed the baby, and listening to one’s husband lament how his work at his engineering firm will suffer because the baby won’t sleep through the night…
Luckily there is Pru. Luann now has just an abstract, ideal idea about lover. She would never started looking for a real one, even if she miss have intimacy with someone.
I guess that will be the lesson for Luann (after multiple iterations). One can have some ‘pie in the sky’ idea of the perfect lover. But often it turns out to be the friend you know.
Lover shmuver, I don’t know where this is going, but all the definitions of lover that I read (its late so I did read other comments before I post mine, which is really an overall reply) probably don’t come anywhere near where this arc will go but again we see. Hilarity ensues!
Luann was SO much more interesting when she was dating someone, namely Quill. She spent the first decade of so (our time) trying to talk to Aaron Hill, and THAT went nowhere. Now that she and Quill have broken up, she is doing the opposite which is NOTHING. All she does is throw any good potential suitors onto the “friends pile” and go about her humdrum, dull, pointless life. This has become SO boring that I am considering stopping my long-standing reading of this comic strip. It is SERIOUSLY time for Greg and Karen to breathe some new life into this strip NO more new characters please!!! (unless it a decent suitor for Luann that she does not scare away.
Pru may be a little too anxious for Lu to take a lover. As a jaded, big-city lesbian herself, she probably isn’t really in tune with Luann’s small-town values (it’s the Pitts, you know). Still, Luann is of college age now, and maybe she should a bit more adventurous than she is in the romance department….
Templo S.U.D. over 5 years ago
Uh-oh.
ChrisGibson1 over 5 years ago
Where is this going, exactly?
margaretannehill over 5 years ago
No where. Greg is milking the delay until Lu grows up to marry
Namrepus over 5 years ago
Wouldn’t it be lover-ly?
AnyFace over 5 years ago
howtheduck over 5 years ago
Oh, out there in the hazy f….
Fruitcakes
Fraternity brothers
Felons
Forsaken
Feckless
capricorn9th over 5 years ago
Here we go AGAIN. Only this time, it’s Pru. Luann, you pulled this on Gunther thinking it’d help HIM find dates and you know how that went. Stop Pru, please, for OUR sakes. We don’t wish to see round two of this.
Mordock999 Premium Member over 5 years ago
Look, Luann? I like Pru and all. But are you seriously going to take “dating tips” from a young woman that hasn’t had a “lover” herself since she was introduced in the Strip Years Ago?
Pru grabbed your phone. Fine. Tell her she SHOULD find a “lover” for HERSELF on that dating app.
One more thing, Ms. DeGroot. I’d rethink your notion towards Gunther, if I were you. And quit listening to the Negative Nellies on this forum, and evolve your “friendship” with him into something MORE…..,
SJhapamama over 5 years ago
Bad idea, Pru, baaaaad idea! Luann was gonna do the smart thing!
Pointspread over 5 years ago
Luann is capable of doing stupid things on her own, she does not need Pru to help.
SJhapamama over 5 years ago
Well, as a thespian, Pru is committed to creating more drama…
Doneaver over 5 years ago
That hazy future that will never arrive unless you work for it.
Enter.Name.Here over 5 years ago
Didn’t yo know? Luann is planning a career in a convent once she finishes school. Sister DeGroot, at your service!
Brdshtt Premium Member over 5 years ago
Go ahead, Luann -have a cup of strong coffee. Leave the dating site open. That way, between the dating site and the coffee, you can do stupid things faster.
GOGOPOWERANGERS over 5 years ago
I love to see Luann say Mind your own business to her friends … don’t you hate it when your friends invade your private space?
kenhense over 5 years ago
It seems that Pru doesn’t have a life right now – and she’s looking for adventure via Luann. Pru is living in a rented room and likely not making much money. I would love to see Luann turn the tables and ask Pru – “what about you?” We are due to see Pru get interested in somebody. I think she was even a little excited with the attention she got from Les – but it’s not going there…
Pointspread over 5 years ago
Luann does not seem worried about not being with someone, a far cry from today’s “Luann Again”.
blunebottle over 5 years ago
NO.
exarmyofficer over 5 years ago
What could possibly go wrong?
The Pro from Dover over 5 years ago
M2MM over 5 years ago
Friendships can become serious. I ended up marrying my best friend. We’re on our 42nd year. :)
randolini Premium Member over 5 years ago
Maybe it’s Quill, it could happen.
31768 over 5 years ago
Somebody as clueless as Pru(ne) is the person to guide Luann? Sometimes a grown up is not necessarily the person indicated to teach you something. Case in point.
sactiger over 5 years ago
Okay…Pru? Not helping, luv…
asrialfeeple over 5 years ago
Oh buttons!! Here we go.
electricpostcard over 5 years ago
Yet again the famous friend-land that most guys dread strikes again. And the terrible spiral of random wheel of romance takes her spin of blind dates into the unknown. Sounds like a late night episode of “The Twilight Zone”.
sueb1863 over 5 years ago
Oh, sure, hook up with a stranger on the internet for a meaningless fling, what could go wrong?
Why is Pru pushing Luann to get into a physical relationship with some guy she doesn’t really know? Doesn’t she have more important things to do, like maybe find a better job so she can move out of the DeGroot’s house?
R.J.C. over 5 years ago
But didn’t Pru tell Luann that she was spending too much time on her phone almost a month ago?
And Your Point Would Be over 5 years ago
Here we go again – another rehash of the almost-desperate need to have these characters paired off. It is a deficiency to be unattached. It’s not okay to date around.
Tyge over 5 years ago
Oh, no. Pru can’t be going that route! And here I thought she was going to be a stabilizing influence. Of course she only asked what all of us have asked. “Where’s Luann’s love interest?”
It will probably go thusly: Luann will select someone from Date-Pic . A romance will ensue. She will be conflicted re Jack and Gunther. Maybe get jealous when one or both show interest in another. New-guy will eventually turn to cr@p. She will re-evaluate Jack and Gunther. One or the other may come to her emotional rescue.
A year will go by. She will do it all over yet again.
Need coffee over 5 years ago
Pru has, statistically, more limited options than Luann and is also (unless she’s taking off-Fuse-hours college courses we don’t know about) in a position in which her offline social circle is also inherently far more limited. A dating app is ideal for Pru…from her perspective, yes, lover locator.
For Luann, though, it’s just going to be a major time sink with a high probability of locating dozens of people like Les* and his ilk, such as the jerk who wouldn’t let her enjoy the party she went to with Tara. Luann is in too good a real world position to need electronic assistance.
By now, at least one of Luann’s incoming messages is likely from Les himself, seeing as how he’s on that app…Wizard of Ahz-no relation over 5 years ago
should we be talking about a ‘lover’ to a 19 year old who still lives at home, as if it’s a missing element of her life she MUST have?
Tyge over 5 years ago
Some keep calling for a return of Quill. I’d hate to have to wade through strip after painful strip of hurt-feelings resolution, smarmy apologies and reconciliation. Yuck!!!
old_timey_dude over 5 years ago
Wait…. why is Prudence still here?
Tyge over 5 years ago
When Luann said out there somewhere in the haxy f , Roger Whittaker’s “Foggy, Foggy, Dew” came to mind immediately. Ah yes. The unhealthy, chill, foggey, dew.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=htsZ6iolqEQ
WilliamVollmer over 5 years ago
Pru; if you’re talking about a PHYSICAL relationship when talking about a “lover” for Luann, she hasn’t even had a semi serious relationship with any guy yet. Much less being ready for that step.
elliel203 over 5 years ago
A true friend would ask “and are you ok with all the just friends?”, instead of snatching the phone.
6foot6 over 5 years ago
hypothesis, This app brings back a former heart throb for Luann.
Dawn Hall over 5 years ago
Is anyone else still waiting for Quill to come back into the picture???
eladee AKA Wally over 5 years ago
Perhaps Luann will suggest that BOTH she and Pru try out the dating App and see if Hilarity Ensues. I’m betting some of these dates will be pretty funny. She DID say she liked the guys Gunther picked out for her. Plus he will be all mad and have a hissy fit when he finds out she didn’t delete her App after all. Thus, hilarity times two!
JNOLO over 5 years ago
I will admit, the direction the arc took is disappointing. I get why Evans had to do it, but meh…
illuminare over 5 years ago
Luann will be 50 ,alone and still a flake.
Pipe Tobacco Premium Member over 5 years ago
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I am liking that Pru (aka Sigmund Freud) now seems to be guiding Luann away from Gunther. (Mordy…. again, not because I am not a fan of Gunther…. but I would rather not have an indecisive Luann get guided by Pru into “testing the waters” so-to-speak and getting Gunther hurt if Luann were to then decide…. “Nah, Pru was not guiding me correctly.”)
While I really like Jack and Luann together… if Greg is also steering us away from that coupling as well…. I think there is a wealth of “hilarity ensues” options with Luann utilizing the dating app…. and I am looking forward to that progressing.
Code the Enforcer over 5 years ago
All those ‘F’ words earlier! … Will someone get the “Fickle Finger of Fate” award?! :)
lflynn6730 over 5 years ago
imagine if Pru tries to sent message through Luann’s profile to Les, then again I don’t know if Pru is that type of person, but you wonder if Gunther worked up the courage to send her the date pic
Mordock999 Premium Member over 5 years ago
Okay.
For those of you Gentle “Folk” hoping for the return of Q-Ball, you’d do well to remember what he said to her when they broke up three years ago:
https://www.gocomics.com/luann/2016/02/18?ct=v&cti=1289172
So if Lu goes back to him, she’ll be eating a considerable amount of CROW to do it. Not very “PC,” IMHO. Of course, We COULD be compelled to “forget” Mr. Perfect said that the way some “folks” feel compelled to “forget” the way Les acted in High School, while at the SAME time totally REMEMBERING that Gunther once called Tiffany “dumb” or something. You Know, the “selective memory” thing. But I digress.
Let’s face it. Pru has made a couple of poor decisions in the past, and Lu would do well NOT to Listen to her. One, for that abortive Drama Camp at the Fuse. And Two, for being taken IN by Ann Eiffel’s Con-Job. If she DOES talk Lu into going on this dating app, then it’s yet another in a growing list of BAD IDEAS. A Bad Idea made WORSE by the fact that you have at least two College Campuses FULL of “Eligibles,” that neither Luann, Gunther, or Bernice is taking any advantage of. Tiffany once told Gunther she couldn’t “attract” anyone at college. Looks like She’s not the ONLY one having “problems.” The town of Pitts has become a Bizzaro World where only older adults like Crook Ann and Tom and Fuddy-Duddies like Al and Irma have “fun.”
But there IS Bad News and Good News.
The Bad News is, that Gunther is “Friend Zoned.” (At least for the time being)
The GOOD News is, SO is Jack! ;)
ellisc over 5 years ago
Pru may just be the absolute least qualified person to advise Luann regarding potential lovers!
GaryCooper over 5 years ago
Look who’s talking. Pru never has any love interests.
StoicLion1973 over 5 years ago
See why I wrote “Do. Not. Want.” a few days ago?
David Rickard Premium Member over 5 years ago
For all that’s holy, Pru—don’t hook Luann up with a lover! She might breed!
kenhense over 5 years ago
Pru says “Look! I found a real catch! And he’s rich!” They respond to the post – and then Elwood Druitt swaggers in.
locake over 5 years ago
I thought Luann and Gunther both deleted their profiles before she left his place a couple days ago? Why would she still get notifications?
Joe1962 over 5 years ago
I thought Lu wanted to be and old maid.
seismic-2 Premium Member over 5 years ago
Maybe mini-Elvis owns the dating app site.
Argy.Bargy2 over 5 years ago
Just like yesterday, today’s Luann Againn has a relevant ‘toon that relates to this. She is lamenting her single status to her father, who tries to comfort her by telling her that some young women at age 15 don’t have boyfriends, either. And she tells him that ‘nuns don’t count’. I had been hoping that Luann had passed the ‘if I don’t have a guy my life is meaningless’ stage, but maybe this appearance of similar topics in both ‘toons is the artist’s way of letting us know that the ‘toon will soon end, because he’s about to pull a ‘Cathy’ and just marry Luann off to Gunther. After the main character in ‘Cathy’ married her longtime friend Irving and got married, she got pregnant. And? End of the ‘toon. Just aren’t a whole lot of successful and interesting ‘toons around about changing diapers, waking up at night to feed the baby, and listening to one’s husband lament how his work at his engineering firm will suffer because the baby won’t sleep through the night…
bakana over 5 years ago
If you find a Good one, I can Steal him without taking any Risks …
KellyWeblerker over 5 years ago
I hope Pru isn’t going to try and turn Luann.
RSH over 5 years ago
Why is Pru pushing Luann to have a lover? There’s nothing wrong with having lots of friends. What lover does Pru have?
Aladar30 Premium Member over 5 years ago
Luckily there is Pru. Luann now has just an abstract, ideal idea about lover. She would never started looking for a real one, even if she miss have intimacy with someone.
RSH over 5 years ago
I guess that will be the lesson for Luann (after multiple iterations). One can have some ‘pie in the sky’ idea of the perfect lover. But often it turns out to be the friend you know.
luann1212 over 5 years ago
Lover shmuver, I don’t know where this is going, but all the definitions of lover that I read (its late so I did read other comments before I post mine, which is really an overall reply) probably don’t come anywhere near where this arc will go but again we see. Hilarity ensues!
Airman over 5 years ago
All those libidos and no one’s doing anything stupid. I did, and somehow survived. Whooooo doggie!!!
TheLastLawman over 5 years ago
Luann was SO much more interesting when she was dating someone, namely Quill. She spent the first decade of so (our time) trying to talk to Aaron Hill, and THAT went nowhere. Now that she and Quill have broken up, she is doing the opposite which is NOTHING. All she does is throw any good potential suitors onto the “friends pile” and go about her humdrum, dull, pointless life. This has become SO boring that I am considering stopping my long-standing reading of this comic strip. It is SERIOUSLY time for Greg and Karen to breathe some new life into this strip NO more new characters please!!! (unless it a decent suitor for Luann that she does not scare away.
oakie817 over 5 years ago
cue the ominous music
Sisyphos over 5 years ago
Pru may be a little too anxious for Lu to take a lover. As a jaded, big-city lesbian herself, she probably isn’t really in tune with Luann’s small-town values (it’s the Pitts, you know). Still, Luann is of college age now, and maybe she should a bit more adventurous than she is in the romance department….
washatkc Premium Member over 5 years ago
Jack is the one. Open your eyes girl. Oh wait
DevilDog2001 Premium Member about 5 years ago
Give Pru a girlfriend already!