Sherman's Lagoon by Jim Toomey for February 26, 2025

I had a Baroque Buxtehude organ piece in my playlist for a while, but I got tired of it and retired it.

Just say he’s Thor all over (listening for a world-wide groan right now).

I dunno, personally, I’m very fond of mythology!

“My only hobby is spending vast amounts of money on my dates.” (Cue the stampede!)

People that nerdy are likely also quite lonely. Pretend to be not nerdy, say “I don’t know” a lot. That’s what women want. Bump into things. Dumb yourself down. They’ll flock to you like ducks on a June bug.

She’s leading him to ruin. If you want to impress your date, don’t tell, ask. Then listen.

Come on, Megan, what’s not to work with? There are some women that like math and poetry.

Except for the math, I’d like a guy with those interests.

Poetry will work.

On the contrary, Megan. There ought to be quite a few female turtles that would undertake the challenge of changing Fillmore to their specific liking…. Unless that’s not a thing female turtles do…

A turtle doing (and enjoying) differential calculus. Right…

I would date him, but I’m not a turtle.

You’ve known him for years, how do you not know his hobbies?

But I love Baroque music too, Bach, Handel, Vivaldi and many more. Poetry Longfellow, Frost, Plath, Dickinson… Mythology Joseph Campbell. Math – screw Math lol I can do numbers in my head, just don’t mix any letters in there.

Uhm finding this annoying. I like Sherman’s Lagoon but the assumptions….ah it’s just a comic but it fosters the same old inaccurate social tropes. Guess I’m feeling cranky about this kind of stuff today.

Get an eyepatch and a tattoo. Women prefer men who are dangerous.

I find this very annoying.

This is strangely accurate. Some of the most “husband material” guys I’ve seen swooped up into relationships are basically a blank canvas of personality. No real interests or hobbies, no strong personality to speak of. They seem like the NPC of a the family unit. “Hey, how’s them sports? Boy, that weather sure is weathery.” I guess if there’s nothing objectionable, you can lay whatever personality you want to project onto a person. You can’t do that if they already have interests in things like art, history, prose, and/or math.

fillmore just needs to throw caution to the wind and go for baroque…

looks like she has PLENTY to work with