Luann by Greg Evans and Karen Evans for April 11, 2024

Once Tiff has dug her hole deep enough I’ll come around to fill her, er — it in.

Bathtub CAQing , they are going to be the butt of many jokes.

First of all these are the wrong type of questions, you be asking, ladies you are going at this the wrong way.

Can this arc please end.

Tiffany’s last two suggestions are pretty entertaining.

According to ‘Indeed Career Guide", ’Personal branding is the process of marketing yourself the way brands do. Building a personal brand is an ongoing process that involves creating and maintaining a reputation so clients have a specific opinion of you and the services you provide…individuals who want to create a personal brand need to showcase a certain set of qualities that…differentiate them from (those who are) similarly skilled…’ Do those questions help?

‘Dab cologne downstairs?’

I wonder if Febreeze’d work. Asking for a friend..

It’s funny questions? Regular people like Gunther will not reveal themselves?

If this got any more boring, they’d be law students.

Is Tiff profiling Bets? BTW, she seems less than enthusiastic about this whole charade!

Forget the rebranding service, I’d be tempted to pay to be able to watch perspective clients react to that questionnaire.

Know yourself, Take some time to think about your skills and your strengths.

Hmmm. I’m beginning to think this has less to do with them starting a business together and more about them revealing themselves and knowing each other better.

They could always use the Colbert Questionnaire.

Well, well.

With those questions, seems like We’re learning a little bit about Tiffany’s private life. ;-)

I see Tiffany still has Stef on the brain.

So is Tiff making fun of this now? I’m legitimately not sure if she’s being serious with these questions or if she’s realized what a stupid idea this is and is just taking the pi$$

“Dab cologne downstairs…” ???? BWAHAHAHAHA !!!!

Well… I guess it’s been revealed that Tiff dabs cologne “downstairs”… CAQ CAQ CAQ!!

No building is called dorm building b.

The stupid leading the blind.

People get “branded” by their peers who observe actions and listen to what they say. It’s called a reputation.

A person can try to “brand” theirself but if their actions don’t match, it won’t work, but it does look like a cover up

I don’t think Cheez Whiz even comes in a tube.

I feel one of them has a much better grasp of this age group than the other.

This may be the most boring plotline yet.

Going down in flames!

It’s easy to have ideas, it’s not easy to make them work.

When brainstorming, just let all the ideas (no matter how crazy) come out and write or type them all down. You don’t know for sure what you may be able to use (even if it sounds ridiculous at first).

I’ve been known to squirt whipped cream straight into my mouth

I remember Luann. I think she was a blond.

Dab cologne down there? That could tend to sting if you dab too much. Lume Whole Body is safer and that ’s what it was designed for.

Tiffany is asking the right questions. They need to ask about the more questionable aspects if they really want to change a person. Questions that make them uncomfortable because they are about things seen as negative by everyone, but that people do anyway. I’m more and more sure that Bets will organize everything, but Tiffany will be the one who could bring this company to success thanks to her skills in evaluate others.

“Dab cologne downstairs”, eh?

wheres luann ?

Ok, what is the point of all of this? So. Boring.

Move on! Please.

This arc is stunningly painful.

Like I said, Tiff is in charge of creativity. Betts takes care of the logistics.

“Dan cologne downstairs”? You got a problem!

They missed the obvious brand for their site. They ruled out Biff, being the combo of Bets & Tiff. They’d get tons of hits by doing the short form of (Ti) ff & Be (ts).

When I read “do you squirt” I thought, Lord this is a family strip but reading a bit more put it in context. whew.

I hate the acronyms over the past few days. I’m a member of AAAAA. American Association Against Acronym Abuse.

The clock is broken. It is the same time it was on Monday a few weeks ago. Either that, or they’ve been talking for 12 hours. This does seem like it has been going on for 12 hours.

I wouldn’t be the least bit surprised if some analysts and psychiatrists have created or borrowed some brand names or slogans to describe their patients’ personalities. Examples: "Cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs, “Fruit juicy, Hawaiian Punch”, etc.

This has got to be the absolute WORST arc I have ever seen in this strip. And I have been following this strip for a very long time. Please make it away.

Is Bets really going to ask people if they have friends? Even if they don’t have a single friend, they would surely lie about that, so Bets doesn’t think they are a loser. Bets has bad questions, Tiffany has dumb ones.

It’s rare to see a university with Brutalist architecture. Makes the place look like a prison.

DAB that Cologne Downstairs should be a top 5 question!!!

NEW STORY LINE! PLEASE!!! This is SO boring!

Is it me or is this one of the most boring storylines in the history of this strip?

Many of us squirt whipped cream straight into our mouths

Wow, this is fun, again the “In Crowd” here on the LuAnn comment section is always really struggling with these 2. This is kinda what brainstorming looks like in the here and now. They are both having good ideas! Nothing ever starts out fully formed.

The strip should’ve let Bets go after she & Gunther split over the van trip, and Tiffany is not interesting enough to carry a one-week story line, much less two (or has it been almost three already?).

I’m skipping Luann until Sunday.

“Dab cologne downstairs” definitely will tell you something about a person (or perhaps their expectations)…..

This is getting more and more cringe worthy.

“Do I have to do everything around here?”

“No but doing something would be kind of nice.”

Those are telling questions……

Potential CAQ Question: “In the future, do you see yourself as willing to be exploited by BATUBS for (a) a three month contract, (b) a one year contract, or © a five year contract?” (Because, you know, predatory hustlers like us have bills to pay too!)

It’s dark out and one thirty in the morning. They’ve been at this all night.

You can make more money with You Tube videos of people who squirt Cheez Whiz into their mouths.

Well I suppose that’s a start. How far it gets you is another question.

My answers to Tiff’s questions:

1. No.

2. You couldn’t pay me to watch that disgusting pile of excrement!

3. Yuck!

4. No.

5. Real, if the joke is that funny.

After ruminating for far too long on the BATUBS acronym, it occurred to me that G&K (and Andrews McMeel) would never mention in the strip a website that they did not have the rights to. So G&K are likely the owners of the domain . But 6-letter domain names should be pretty scarce by now. What I suppose happened:

1) G&K decide to write an arc where Bets and Tiff start an online business together. They want to mention a URL in the strip but they need to own it so there is no liability issue. Also, they could possibly build on it.

2) GoDaddy has a list (somewhere, I’m sure) of domain names for sale-slash-resale. G&K peruse the list for those that are available at a reasonable cost, that are easily pronounced, and that they can make into a business acronym, particularly those starting with BAT and TAB. There aren’t many to choose from. They choose and buy BATUBS dot COM.

3) They find a web developer (or standard GoDaddy resources) to put up a basic webpage and host BATUBS dot COM as we see it today. They copyright the website. The JPEG of cheerleaders may hint at their first customer.

4) Karen decides the UBS part of the domain name will stand for Unique Branding Service. So the business they start will have something to do with branding. She then writes the arc so the ladies will start a personal Branding service and invent the (unreasonable) acronym BATUBS.

Sounds like she is trying to rebrand herself.

If it smells like cologne, leave it alone!!!

I like Tiffany’s questions, but first they need to ask “why do you want to change?

Time for a music break? Mikaela Davis doing ‘Far From You’? If I’m out of bounds, I’m gone from here, but it’s getting stale.

Wow, this arc is bad.

Is Tiffany looking for a client, or a date?

Does Tiffany need to go see her gynocolgist?

How about dabbing a bit of vanilla downstairs?