Luann by Greg Evans and Karen Evans for October 17, 2021

Hope Mr Degroot will be Okay!

Fun times

Isn’t skate boarding off the roof of a house suicidal? lol

2cnd

Frank it could be worse.

Young Frank was a little dare devil, growing older stinks!

¿Ese petardo le habrá causado problemas de salud a Frank al crecer?

Holding a firecracker in your hand is definitely dangerous

Not a good idea holding a firecracker as it goes off. A few years ago, the news here in Sacramento was interviewing a guy from his hospital bed. He evidently was driving around in his car and tossing lighted M – 80’s and M – 500’s out the window. Well, as he explained it, one of the M – 500’s that was lit fell into his lap, and went off before he could retrieve it. According to him, he was no longer complete.

.

The Beatles had a song for that (Yesterday): ♫Suddenly, I’m not half the man I used to be… ♪

Practicing a polo shot with a watermelon?

Time makes mortals of us all!

“I hate my life.” ~ Ed Bighead

LIFE is fine. AGING is stupid.

And judging by the height of the nail he was driving in, standing on the very top of that small ladder was even dumber. Get a bigger ladder.

Ooo- he played rugby! A ruffian’s game played by gentlemen.

Good old Nancy – offering some pain pills to the defective unit.

It’s a stupid place to hang a picture, Debbie Downer. The pictures behind you are much well-centered.

G&K are having an “off” day today.

Approaching 60, still doing stupid things and getting in trouble. I could use a refresher course of some sort.

That is a time – traveling skateboard. He went right off the roof and straight into the next panel, knocking his future self off the ladder. I always hate it when that happens.

Yep. Life is stupid and sad. Great strip. Nice to see little Frank and how he was a troublemaker.

I don’t really get Frank’s comment – unless he means himself? And why is he using a heating pad instead of ice first if he just now fell?

Frank, falling off a ladder is no joke. I did while cutting a tree down, i still have a scar on my right hand from it. You’re lucky you just bruised your shoulder.

It takes a gift for a healthy man of 50-ish to fall off a stepstool and hurt himself. Now if it were a man in his seventies ladders can be dangerous. Get your lazy-assed kids to do the climbing.

What stupid things get away with as a kid, as with Frank, does not translate to middle-age well might be fatal. If Frank is ironically nostalgic he should knock it off

Frank looks a bit like Brad

Yep. Think about Schumacher. He ran as hell in his car for years, but ruined his life while skiing. Sad. :(

So that’s where Brad gets it.

Life isn’t stupid. People are.

Youth is wasted on the young.

Yes.

Honestly don’t know what the heck this week was all about. Is THIS what’s called “Phoning it in”?

In the “old days” we had firecrackers called Lady Fingers. They could be held in the fingertips if you were showing off for the “little kids.” Ah, the “goo ole days.” 8^ )

Today’s strip is the eighth “Sunday Style” strip in a row. I wonder how long they can keep this up.

The biggest cause of accidents for senior men is falling off letters. Nevever buy a cheap latter, if you fall it will be o very expensive purchase

Yes, I know the feeling!

“What a drag it is getting old” – The Rolling Stones in Mother’s Little Helper, 1966.

Better than the alternative…

Thought at first it was Greg in the first panel group. Looks like Frank had a normal childhood of life lessons.

Safety FIRST, Frank.

Always get someone to steady the ladder before climbing.

Or, get someone else to climb the ladder while you steady it. Nancy for instance since it was probably her idea for you to be on the ladder in the first darn place.

Or better yet, hire somebody to do the ladder work. Oh that’s right. You’re a cheapskate.

Characters in this Strip seem to have a “problem” with ladders.

They are either constantly falling off them (Frank and TJ) or have no idea what a ladder is for (Mr. Gray, Les and Gunther). ;-)

This strip is today.

So is getting old!

Sometimes “life is stupid” says it all….

in my experience “stupid” has usually been more applicable to the speaker than the thing

Whenever one of us gets on a ladder our spouse is right there to hold it.

Frank’s not real good at learning certain life lessons.

Oooohh….kaaaaaayyy..

to bad we have to age, It is such a surprise when we find we can’t do the things we did when little and stupid.

life is stupid (then we die)

so the implication is that he emerged from ALL of that other stuff without getting injured, including holding a firecracker as it EXPLODED in his fingers?!

And that’s not even including the college stuff….

Must have been a real skinny picture he was hanging LOL! Frank is correct though, getting older is just plain inconvenient!

Holding a firecracker when it goes off is a great way to lose several fingers, Frank, you freaking idiot.

Yeah, life is the stupid thing…..

I don’t remember any other time when G Evans showed the young Frank.

One winter, when I was a young pup, some friends and I had found a supply of firecrackers and were lighting and tossing them. One decided to go off while I was still holding it in my thumb and forefinger, blowing holes in the knit glove I was wearing- and leaving my skin untouched.

.

I was young and stupid then. I’m much older now.

Historical note: Hanging a picture proved fatal to Jesse James—but not from clumsiness on his part. Moral: Don’t hang pictures. Stay in that La-Z-Boy.

Now we know which parent Brad favors

We can clearly see where early Brad got his genes :-)

Huh?

In summation; “Gravity Rules !”

And it just keeps on getting stupider.

Getting older is not for sissies, but it beats the alternative.

In my experience, as the body ages, the mind regresses. So the mind says, “You’re 25 you can do this.” The body says, “If you try, this is really going to hurt.”

Tackle football, barefoot in the mud in ripped cargo pants…did it.

I’m coming to believe it too. Never thought I’d get old.

Geez, I thought that was Brad at first.

Good thing this is taking place in the past. Getting your fingers blown off will not get you any medical aid due to the unvaccinated taking up all the hospital beds.

Strong genetics! When Frank was a teenager, he looked just like Brad!

All the times growing up when an adult would say to me “You’ll pay for that later”, I would say or think “yeah yeah whatever”. Sense my late 40s, I now see how right they were!

The only thing worse than being young and stupid is being old and stupid!

Why women live longer than men

Thankfully he didn’t break any bones. “Youth is invulnerable.”

Did Frank fall off the ladder while trying to hang a picture? Sure looks like it.

If so, don’t blame the inanimate object! You own the fall yourself, Frank….

Interesting that the hammer ended up sitting pointing straight up with the claw of the hammer straight down. Most of the time if a hammer falls, it will end up lying on one side or another. But nothing is impossible in Luanniverse…

For those of you wondering whether a certain character moved on to Utah, well, head on over to Arcamax. . .

CURLY—“I only climbed up seven steps!”

MOE:“The ladder had six!”

MONKEY BUSINESSMEN—-1946