Luann by Greg Evans and Karen Evans for May 04, 2023

Go away Stef!

Well, when the disgruntled customers’ lawyers get a whiff of this, it’ll be Liabili-Tea.

Dez brings some sensibility (along with the honesty).

Wow! Stef got Dez angry.

I don’t think Dez likes liars. I wonder if she’ll now put pressure on her to repay the $600.

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Who knew Greg had a booth at the Spring Fair?? lol

Stef puts in a lot of effort! I’m not seeing any nee customers, though.

how about idiocy?

Responsibility

Mediocri—

StupidiTEA! InaneiTEA! JjejuneTEA!

Even lvlax is speechless! 8^ )

Oh dear. None of those words rhyme with “tea”, Evans.

It’s past time to switch to Luann and Piro’s story reading and any development in their relationship. And I’d like to see Bets and Gunther fronting a cosplay booth. Heck I’d even watch Ms Phelps give horribly inadequate career counseling. T’d Teas has run out of gas

Looking for motivational rhymes Stef? How about striptease?

What do you suppose those silhouetted guys in panel 2 are looking at?

Whooo that girl irritates me.

Vanity?

Stephanie is Tiffany on steriods.

Well, looks like there will be a fight, after all. Just not the fight I expected – between Tiffany and Steffi about Kip. Instead, it’s a fight between Steffi and Dez — who I never thought would get angry about anything. Maybe this is what gets Steffi kicked out of the dorm…

Humility?

she’s having fun and seems to have forgotten about the losing the cheer tournament. Dez claimed that the tea enhanced libido…. is that really true?

She’s got enthusiasm, I’ll say that…

Words that rhyme with Tea: Be,bee,cree,fee,flea,,gee,glee,he,key.knee

Stef has become tea-dious.

She couldn’t raise money for a trip!

panel 2: stef may not be selling any tea with her impromptu routine, but she’s probably giving any guys a show…especially if she’s going commando. And stef definitely seems like the type to go commando.

Why is Kip trying to look so innocent? It was his idea.

T’s Tea even cures the mange. Better drink some Stef

When do we get to say goodbye to this character?

Here you go, Stef, courtesy of Tom Lehrer:

An awful debilitea

A lessened utilitea

A loss of mobilitea

Is a strong possibilitea

In all probabilitea

I’ll lose my virilitea

And you your fertilitea

And desirabilitea

And this liabilitea

Of total sterilitea

Will lead to hostilitea

And a sense of…(gasp)…futilitea

So let’s act with agilitea

While we still have facilitea

For we’ll soon reach senilitea

And lose the abilitea

Where did Tiffany go?

EgocentriciTEA—which Stef has in abundance!!

Wow! New byline addition: Karen Evans

Tea’s trying Steph is; no? Well, I tried. Hard to come up with anything here. Karen un on the byline! Congratulations!

Stef has managed the difficult task of doing something that displeases Dez. Maybe if she continues telling lies, she’ll even be able to make her angry. Honesty is important to Dez, if Stef wants to pay her back, she’ll have to find rhymes based on the truth. Kip seems happy to see Dez’s protest. Does he admire her integrity or is he simply happy when someone tries to reason with Stef? Their relationship is looking more and more like a disaster.

Right now, there SHOULD be a massive meltdown by Stef because she thinks that Kip is cheating on her with Tiffany.…

THAT – $600.00 is GONZO !

The on lookers seem to have stepped closer. They’re not buying tea.

It takes a lot to make Dez upset. And Steph has done it!

Could be the Tea does help in fitness, seems like Dez has been appearing thinner. Of course, there is no fat in tea.

Off-camera, Mike Lindell is yelling to Stef, Girl, forget it!

You’re gonna have to define it, Des.

Dignity.

Um, Stef? They can see your panties!

Oh, Dez, pipe down. I’m really enjoying the show. Stef’s just went up in my estimation.

Dez is just upset that Stef is getting the marketing wrong.

“We’re not lying about it helping with weight loss. We’re lying about it being an aphrodisiac. You’re gonna screw up my brand!”

Dez is actually capable of getting mad at Steff? I’d be mad myself if I wasn’t so proud.

Check Kip’s side look to Dez.

Here’s one, Stef. “Stupidity.” The depth of your shallowness knows no boundary.

The Spring Fair will probably last all of May & June.

The positive benefits of the tea may lead to the attributes that Stef is cheering about! Just Sayin’

Kip STARTED the whole thing by saying “you can help with sales, after all, you owe Dez $600”. That implies she could work off some of what she owes and she went after it with a vengeance. Do you honestly think Stef would be knocking herself out if she didn’t think she would profit from it somehow?? Get real.

Ah, the week stands on a precipice. I going to wait to see what misdirection happens before I even try to convict.

DEZ: “ONLY say factual stuff about my aphrodisiac tea, Stef!”

STEF: “This tea will increase your Virila-tea!

Lus-tea Promiscui-tea!

If you have Stupida-tea,

and don’t practice safe Sexuali-tea

You will get an S-tea-D!

Just like Kippy and ME!”

TIFF: ⚆ ᗝ ⚆ “Gasp!”

KIP: “HEY!” (´･_･`)

Modesty.

Dez might be wise, but “Honesty” doesn’t rhyme with “tea.” However, “pea,” and “flee” do.

“Sorry. I don’t know that word.”

“I suspected as much.”

Stef is so useless & clueless!

I can’t stand liars and thieves.

Dez is witnessing commercialism destroying innocence. Her perfectly nice little tea blend has been turned into a money making venture and now the chickens have come home to roost. Who knows? Maybe the power of suggestion will convince people they feel more fit and sexy after drinking it. Stranger things have happened.

If she keeps showing off her “agili tea” she’ll be able to pay off the $600 in no time (plus some)

Now we know how Stef kept Kip interested for so long.

People out frame on the left in window 2

It will be funny when Show Off Steffanie tells Dez she was killing herself cheering to help pay back the $600 and Dez tells her she never expected her to pay it back at all.

Interesting….. Dez is upset by Steph’s “hyping” up the product.

1. But, come on now….. Dez’s little “wiggling her finger over the tea” routine also DID NOT make the tea leaves into a true “love potion”, “aphrodisiac” or “libido energizer” either. So, Steph’s enthusiastic promotion of the tea as an “invigorator” of fitness is not any less supported in reality.

2. Even though I normally do not like Steph…. today I am looking kindly upon her because this is the first time I have seen her be helpful and wanting to do something for others and not just for herself. That should be applauded, IMO.

3. All the hyperbole about the whole range of “benefits” of the tea….. just snake oil nonsense and placebo effect.

So…. while Dez has a right to be upset about how her tea is being promoted…. IMO the way Dez (and Tiff and Kip) are promoting the tea is really no more honest and real. So the “honesty” line by Dez….. blech.

Okay . . . Stef is FINALLY starting to grow on me. It helps that she is no longer the antagonist. A LOT.

Stef and honesty don’t go together.

Pretty rare where Dez shows her disapproval face. But that’s what happens when good meets wicked.

Drinking that tea instead of soda probably does promote fitness, Dez. Don’t be so quick to dismiss it; I don’t remember that chick saying it’s magic tea.

Who, once they’re beyond the sixth grade, wears a bow in their hair and on top of their head?

Here comes Steffi Cottontail…hoppin’ down t he carnival trail….

Give her a “T” word that at least implies increased libido.

Hope she’s wearing undies

This strip has jumped the shark when it comes to how annoying it has come to be. Bye, bye.

Congratulations Karen!!

Sex sells!

To look at the other side of the coin, so to speak – anybody who believes that a tea can produce those kinds of results just because a cheerleader is shouting them out, deserves what they get. (Caveat emptor – let the buyer beware!) Though of course most people buy their health products at fairs, lol.

SLUT-tea!

Is it just me or does Kip look like a tanned Brad?

Gad! Steffi is putting on quite a show. Gotta give her credit for that, although I am not so sure she’s selling any tea; maybe something else….

Judging by current and long-standing advertising policies, I think it would be safe to say that drinking tea contributes to all of those. So does drinking water, which tea is mostly made of.

Panel Two has me thinking about a movie I haven’t seen in decades: Hollywood Knights (I think that’s the title). It’s about a gang of teenagers who prank the town in response to their favourite hangout, Tubby’s Drive-In, about to be shut down.

I don’t know if this was an intended prank or not, but one scene has a high school celebration with cheerleaders doing a routine, and one of them forgot something rather important… her underwear.