Luann by Greg Evans and Karen Evans for December 27, 2019

’tis the thought that counts

”The way to a man’s heart …” ✨

Either way, if he gets too close, his glasses steam up.

well at least she was surprised

Maybe she will regift it to Brad & Toni? ;-)

This is actually a present I would love! I try and get with either my mom or one of my sister and play at “test kitchen” at least once a month. We try out a recipe from one of those cooking shows with varying results. Its lots of fun and usually tasty but not always pretty.

Tis the season for re-gifting … cookbook going to TJ.

You’re a stud, Frank and Nancy knows it.

wonder why she won’t wear lingerie?

Dude, you use the cookbook and I’m betting she will more than think about the linguere.

Frank should have given her a copy of “Cooking In The Nude”. That would cover both bases.

Nancy is not any ordinary person, She is the CEO of the Degroot Enterprises and Frank is the faithful husband and the father of two wonderful kids.

She said “probably”. That gives him hope.

I’ve had those fancy cookbooks as gifts and they are useless. A lot of weird and hard-to-find ingredients. I prefer practical for everyday meals with a few creative easy-to-find AND cheap additions. Cookbooks tend to list expensive ingredients that send people hours in the store looking for them and not even the grocers know what they are, less find it without assistance from their computer inventory. So these cookbooks tend to end up being regifted or tossed in the goodwill bag. I got one for the new Instant Pot that I got for Christmas yesterday and the cookbook listed the usual never-heard-of ingredients so it will go to the goodwill bag – good thing my mother in law never visits. I will just surf the internet for practical and everyday recipes.

Did anybody notice the title “Always Cook Your Best” by Greg 12-27 Maybe this strip is an a advisement for a new cookbook.

Nothing wrong with a good cookbook. You have to eat, right?

Frank, Gets Nancy a cookbook which is a perfect gift.

Never really satisfied.

Seems to me that giving your wife a cookbook is like giving yourself a present. She has to cook it and you get to eat it. Maybe a better present would be a box with a piece of paper inside – confirming reservations for a fancy dinner and maybe a fancy hotel at the beach or the like.

Some people just don’t like to cook. I’m one of them. I’d have zero use for a cookbook. If I can nuke it, cook it in a pan (like my eggwhites) or eat it raw, count me out. My husband knew this 38 yrs ago when he married me. If he didn’t cook, he’d starve. I just never saw the draw to standing in a hot kitchen slicing, dicing, chopping, frying, baking, roasting or anything else.

I sure hope the kids are out of the room for this conversation. They don’t want to hear about their parents sex life.

Nancy; if you and Toni wear the same size, that “racy” lingerie could be “regifted” to her. She and Brad are still at the stage of their marriage when there is no Shannon, or, TJ, around ,it could come in handy. Who knows, it might lead to you finally getting a grandchild.

Maybe there are recipes for edible panties in the cookbook.

This two are the sweetest relationship♡.

We have a shelf full of cookbooks. Several of them have bookmarks for recipes we actually make, but most of our favorites are copied from the Internet and in a binder.

I love cookbooks, and have quite a collection. I even have one that pre-dates WWII. So cool, because it is from a time when people ate seasonally and locally.

A cookbook? After 20+ years of marriage? Must be a gag gift. I wonder what she got him? A screwdriver?

Now just get Nancy an appliance of some type to achieve the trifecta of male gift giving.

Is your lingerie always that heavy? No wonder your never wear it!

Lingerie? Why would he…Oh!

Hey Frank. Find out what Nancy really wants and buy THAT for her next year. It would save a lot of SNARK and Heartache.

And by the way. What did Nancy get Frank this year for Christmas, huh?

A lawnmower? A new rake? A new handyman tool belt? A brand new much larger job jar?

See? It works BOTH ways, people……., ;)

Take a look at HIM. Now you know.

“The woman who thinks the way to a man’s heart is through his stomach is setting her sights too high.”

Frank would do better with a gift card.

Another sexless marriage….

it is NOT Lingerie….. it is only Wrapping Paper! :)

Men and women should watch what they give each other. What they give, they would accept. Women give clothes; they would accept clothes. Men give gadgets; they would accept gadgets.

I’m just happy to see so many comments that aren’t attacks on Luann…

I guess the lingerie gift is the equivalent of the necktie

She probably won’t wear the cookbook?

Since so very many people return/exchange gifts-should have seen UPS today, line out the door and across the parking lot-and at all the stores exchanging said “gifts” I have to ask, whats the point? Since more and more people every year head to stores starting the 26th to exchange whatever gift was purchased for them, I have to ask why people spend so much time and effort in buying gifts that people get rid of, why not just hand everyone prepaid gift cards?

It’s interesting that we start this mini-arc with Brad giving Luann a gift (along with his ‘joke’ about how he overheard her talking to Bernice about whether her life would be better if she had a ‘big chest’), and then head to Frank’s gift to Nancy, which seems to some posters to be more of a gift to himself. Maybe tomorrow we get to see if Shannon gets a gift at all from her Dad, or what Brad gives Toni, or…

Yes, she probably won’t ever wear that cookbook either.

Nancy’s looking pretty cute and sexy here…

Just listen to Y’al. Different strokes … etc. Some women like/need the props to get the old man started. Some still may undress in the dark. Any couple that have kids out of high school should know what the spouse likes and/or dislikes by now. The reference to "more racy " may refer to last year only and he seems to have caught on to that mistake— just in time to make a similar one.

You know she gets all her clothes, jewelry, and personal items online or on her own shopping trips. What’s left for a guy to pick? Typical problem is clearing out that accumulation of Stuff. Decades ago, they had to skimp; and any little gift was appreciated. Today, there’s no Need and so few Wants. Lighten up!

I’d say, if it weren’t that we know that these strips are written two weeks in advance, that perhaps G&K had a pretty fab Christmas…

I think Frank should have gotten Nancy one of those Unicorn T-Shirts to use as a bedtime nighty.

I’d say, if it weren’t that we know that these strips are written two weeks in advance, that perhaps G&K had a pretty drab Christmas…

Dang nab Otto Keurig!

A cookbook that weighs the same as racy lingerie? Or better yet lingerie that weighs as much as a cookbook? Either way, makes no sense.

At least it wasn’t a Peleton…

The presents he purchases for her are really about him, not her interests.

Funny thing happened on the way to see Luann a while back. I met Lola by accident and discovered that she is a feisty and funny old cartoon lady. This is good because I lost Tina’s Groove and Soup to Nutz. Apparently both victims of burn out and other goals. Lola doesn’t have a care about being politically correct and doesn’t worry if you can’t live with that. She doesn’t need our advice.

Ah, he gives the routes to a man’s heart as a gift that will keep on giving (back)…

As Dorpthy Parker famously twisted Shakespeare: “Brevity is the soul of lingerie.” It’s also the soul of this comment.

“It’s the thought that counts” in either case, right, Frank?

Sad to report:

A well-known radio voice has been silenced.

Don Imus has passed away at the age of 79.

R. I. P.

since when does Frank give Nancy ‘racy lingerie’; seems like he’s always giving her appliances and things (like this cookbook) that suggest a task he would like her to do.

She was “Lolita” long before anyone ever heard of Amy Fisher.

Sue Lyon has passed away at the age of 73.

R. I. P.

My wife would not like a cookbook nor would she wear racy lingerie either. Flowers work sometimes but they are not a good Christmas gift. You have to listen and pay attention during the year to get a clue as to what she would like. This year, a 50th anniversary Star Trek tee-shirt and the entire collection of the original Star Trek series seemed to at least get me to 3rd base. Home-runs are difficult.

You want a cook in the kitchen and a hooker in the bedroom. Buy both the cookbook AND the lingerie.

TRIGGER!! Dang!!

if she would do an Amazon wish list, this wouldn’t happen.

What does Frank do?

My wife never uses any of the gifts I get her either even if it’s something she asks for. Haha! Marriage..what fun.