Luann by Greg Evans and Karen Evans for April 09, 2012

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    FatTonyBalducci  over 12 years ago

    what??……the guys is supposed waaaaaay dirtier than the girls

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    whayle  over 12 years ago

    Whoa! Haven’t seen these two in a while. But I thought men were supposed to be the yucckier, grimier sex. This comic should be the other way around! The ladies room should not only be cleaner, but bigger. With a seating area. And a personal attendant handing out paper towels and mints and hand lotion. :D

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    mojitobaby  over 12 years ago

    How can this be true? We all know there’s only about 7 female students at Pitts, not includng Crystal.

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    imbaldeagle  over 12 years ago

    Now this couple is comfortable with their relationship – why can’t the others be this way?

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    Orion-13  over 12 years ago

    Having cleaned public restrooms and having taught in a public school let me just say gender doesn’t matter.

    Humans are NASTY.

    Orion

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    paulproteus48640  over 12 years ago

    I work maintenance in a parks department and women and public rest rooms do not mix. I think they take out all their built up frustration on public restrooms.

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    YatInExile  over 12 years ago

    At LSU, they open certain campus buildings for tailgaters to use the restrooms. To see women venturing into the men’s restrooms is quite common.

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    lance96816  over 12 years ago

    Something wrong with this strip.

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    Mysterychick118  over 12 years ago

    The reason the bathroom is so much cleaner than the girls is that Knute uses his bathroom breaks during class, and then gets bored while skipping class and cleans the restroom.

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    ComicLaff  over 12 years ago

    I’ve always knew that men’s rooms were (are) cleaner than women’s. Knute, you the man!

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    James Hopkins  over 12 years ago

    I clean businesses after they close, including the restrooms, and while the men’s rooms are usually cleaner, it’s not that big of a difference. I’m just glad I don’t clean them alone or else I’d go insane.

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    Ottodesu  over 12 years ago

    The female restroom issue may be a USA thing. I asked a young female friend if the ones she visits are any different, and she said no. (I will not go into how she knows about the Men’s.) I have also asked our office cleaners, and they also say no real difference.

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    Ottodesu  over 12 years ago

    But good to see the lovely Crystal’s “cool” being razzed.

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    Ottodesu  over 12 years ago

    I gotta say that I find myself wiping down the sink area, and giving the taps a quick polish whenever I visit our shared office facilities. I always feel that if we have clients going in they’re while visiting us they should only have a positive experience.

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    Sisyphos  over 12 years ago

    I am not surprised at Crystal’s surprise, but I also accept the premise of the strip, with one proviso: based on limited insight into women’s restrooms, I believe that men’s rooms have more, and grosser, graffiti.

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    mojitobaby  over 12 years ago

    Don’t assume everyone shares your own hobby.

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    Namrepus  over 12 years ago

    Blessedly, Knute doesn’t have to clean out that silver box next to the toilet.

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    Ottodesu  over 12 years ago

    OK son, keep your hands on top of the table where we can see them.

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    mojitobaby  over 12 years ago

    Yeah, we just can’t get the caterers to clean up after themselves.

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    Purple Morpho 2015  over 12 years ago

    I am just wondering why Knute got stuck with the job seeing that he has almost NO responsibility doing anything else…

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    pdking77  over 12 years ago

    Where I work, there are three ladies’ rooms to every men’s room.

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    Ottodesu  over 12 years ago

    It could also be Vocational Training for Knute …

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    jebjayman  over 12 years ago

    I had to use the bathroom of a woman I once dated. It was absolutely filthy and there were stockings and undies all over the place. When she visited my place, which was often, she saw how neat and clean my bathrooms were. Couldn’t she have at least followed my example?

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    tomshelly1990  over 12 years ago

    A sort of uncomfortable return to Knute and Crystal’s subplot….where the heck is Luann these days? Late Spring Break that no one knows about?

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    luvmone  over 12 years ago

    women’s restrooms are worse, because we have both hands free. heeheeheeheeheeheeheeheeheehee

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    Tinyman  over 12 years ago

    OK Hope everyone enjoyed the holidays

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    Airman  over 12 years ago

    I like these two happy clowns.

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    gordmary  over 12 years ago

    I hate to crush a misconception but I worked as a caretaker in a highschool. The boys’ washroom was always cleaner than the girls’. Junior man got to do the female washroom because no one else wanted it. This wasn’t inner city either. Wealthy suberb!

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    LisaGRH  over 12 years ago

    I’ve cleaned both restrooms at my church. The men’s room is much filthier than the women’s — esp. if you notice the floor. I think lots of the little boys “miss”.

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    Chuck373  over 12 years ago

    I used to wonder why urban areas are always dirtier than the suburbs. Then one day I’m waiting at a light in a downtown area and I see a teen on the sidewake next to a trashcan eating some snack cake. She was just dropping the wrapper where she stood. The trash can was within arms reach. Urban blight is due to the quality of the residents.

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    Chuck373  over 12 years ago

    Doors on the stalls? Not when I was in school.

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    DayoftheDead  over 12 years ago

    I used to be a Grounds Keeper at our Municipal Stadium. I can attest that the women’s room was a pig sty after an event compared to the mens room. I can’t tell you how many times I had to shut down a rest room because it was flooded. But it only took a few bad apples….. not all women are pigs about public restrooms.

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    RandomK9  over 12 years ago

    My ex works maintenance at a Costco…and yes she complains way more about the woman’s room than the men’s…woman try and “hover”….yes that’s right…get the mental image…

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    pakigreenl  over 12 years ago

    Yeah, well that is just about how it always is. Guys may not always have good “aim”, but there is nothing worse than a womans “hover”.

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    cdemattos  over 12 years ago

    sweet. there are some good characters in this strip to flesh out. great we’re not seeing Gunther any more.

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    gammot12  over 12 years ago

    Many years ago, I worked on equipment in the dorm rooms at a large university in the states. Since I grew up with a brother, and no sisters, I assumed girls were as neat as my mother.Shocked at how filthy the girls rooms were compared to the boys!! No need for coat hangers, all clothes were in the floor!Real eye opener for a young man!!!!

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    Radical-Knight  over 12 years ago

    In helping raise three different families from tots to teens, while the boys rooms weren’t necessarily clean, the girl’s rooms were total disasters!

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    King_Shark  over 12 years ago

    Wow. Just the day before yesterday I said these are the only couple on this strip who don’t irritate anyone. Good, at least I can read this week’s strips. I think.

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    ACTIVIST1234  over 12 years ago

    Yes, men’s restrooms are often cleaner because they use them less! We put a new bottle of soap in each, by the end of the day the women’s bottle was gone but the men’s was untouched, as were the paper towels.How much hair and makeup do you find in a men’s restroom? But it all depends on the individuals and, to a certain extent, their age.

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    wicky  over 12 years ago

    They just want us to believe that guys are dirtier than girls.

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    Dr Sheriff MB esq PhD DML   over 12 years ago

    So… um…. Crystal…..let me show you the quality of the chrome piping in stall # 3…

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    Crandlemire  over 12 years ago

    Truth is stranger than fiction — I had a job years ago where I also had to clean the restrooms at a business. The girls’ bathroom was always dirtier!

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    mojitobaby  over 12 years ago

    Amen to everything you wrote. I actually like Bernice circa about decade ago, when she had an actual personality and was freaking out over wanting to marry Zane and jealous over Luann’s being attracted to her brother – she was pretty damn human and vulnerable and probably the closest Greg’s ever gotten to depicting a real live human female adolescent. .I’m convinced the reason Knute’s keeping the boy’s room so clean is that he probably lives there and is eating off the floor.

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    BudLyte  over 12 years ago

    True dat.

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    bigal666  over 12 years ago

    I tended bar for ,many years, and I’m here to tell you the Women’s room is always dirtier.

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    Vilyehm  over 12 years ago

    Knute’s job?

    Oh no. I think Crystal is the only person he’s ever told about his secret clean freak fetish.

    No, he hasn’t even told Gunth.

    Careful now, we are almost getting to the point where we have three dimensional characters.

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    Airman  over 12 years ago

    Don’t knock the Knute……I like him. And, I like my favorite Goth, too, but Greg could draw her with more feminine, curvy hips. Her figure is too boyish. But, on the subject of rest rooms, my biggest surprise was when I was stationed on Taiwan. Back in those days, when you went into town, everyone, male and female used the same john, at the same time. Of course, I didn’t hang out at the classiest places.

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    mojitobaby  over 12 years ago

    You may be right about both those notions – Valentine’s and facetiousness. I find Knute so blank that it’s hard to tell – or care, really – if there’s a joke there or not..Now, just to be shocking and bring up a topic that no one’s discussed yet – do you know that ladies’ rooms are much dirtier than men’s rooms? Seriously, I’m surprised no one’s mentioned it before.

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    tigre1  over 12 years ago

    Butttt there will NOW begin a campaign to upgrade the downtrodden women (and their facilities)…fight the power!

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    DayoftheDead  over 12 years ago

    Are we sure Knute is smart enough to know what they are. LOL

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    DayoftheDead  over 12 years ago

    And your point is? I know I wouldn’t like to date someone exactly like me. God forbid that such a person exists. Opposites do attract. But I happen to believe that Crystal and Knute are not an item but two people who agree to disagree.

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    Vilyehm  over 12 years ago

    1. This is not a job. Knute is a secrect clean freak. .2. He’s never told anyone before, not even Gunth..3. Crystal, after finishing up, asks Knute to come inside for a second..4. Crystal kisses Knute just as Fogarty walks in..5. Knute gets expelled for three days. “Hey man, Crystal. Kiss. Totally worth it, dude.”.6. Crystal gets no punishment..7. Crystal pickets the school for sexual discrimination.

    If any of these predictions come true—I’m working the wrong day job.

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    puboxer  over 12 years ago

    I also worked at a State Park and had to clean bathrooms and can confirm as well that the women’s restroom was always worse to clean.

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    ayespin  over 12 years ago

    The old adage “opposites attract” seems to hold true in comic strips as well as in life.

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    doverdan  over 12 years ago

    No ‘boys room’ in any school I went to had doors on the stalls.

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    mojitobaby  over 12 years ago
    While opposites do attact, there has to be some commonality to build upon.

    You nailed it – except that they don’t really even have that one commonality, since Knute likes L & H for the yuks, Crystal for the “existentialism” of it all. Sheesh. .What we have here is a totally improbable pairing that works solely because Greg needs it to work – except that it doesn’t. It’s the ponderousness of the “ha ha – they have nothing in common but they work, tee hee – isn’t that yuks?” factor that I find incredibly grating.

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    Airman  over 12 years ago

    You guys are still messing with my man, Knute. Oh well, it’s like they say, “no one likes a redneck, until they need their car fixed.”

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    genghis.shaman  over 12 years ago

    Possibly because guys use the bathroom less than girls? But in high school biology, we tested some bathroom floors for bacteria, and the boy’s was worse.

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    Mitchtheone  over 12 years ago

    As a former janitor.. Yes the ladys were always the worse to clean..

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    Vilyehm  over 12 years ago

    Knute actually has a cleaning fetish.Crystal is so surprised she kisses Knute just as Fogarty walks in.Knute gets a three day suspension.Crystal pickets the school for sexual discrimination because she wasn’t.

    (..and pigs can fly.)

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    doverdan  over 12 years ago

    No it was an average mid-class asp school, no minorities of any size. ..No doors on stalls anyplace. No graffiti.Elementary, mid-school, or high.

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    doverdan  over 12 years ago

    The concept, I believe, was that boys would “abuse” privacy.

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    reedkomicks Premium Member over 12 years ago

    Crystal is intelligent.Knute is dexterous.Crystal has class.Knute is relaxed.Crystal is a winner.Knute is low maintenance.Crystal has style.Knute has balance.Crystal is hot.Knute is endowed.

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    Airman  over 12 years ago

    You’re right, he’s not a redneck, but I wanted to put him in one of those outcast categories who occasionally come to your rescue. Knute is either a latrine queen or the colonel of the urinal.

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    Gokie5  over 12 years ago

    “Greg, do less Knute. . .”Well, I like Knute. Different strokes and all that -

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    Gokie5  over 12 years ago

    “I’m thinking his comment was just him trying to be funny, and that he doesn’t actually clean the restroom.”I was kind of thinking that, too.

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    Dr Lou Premium Member over 12 years ago

    And another stereotype bites the dust…..

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    QuietStorm27  over 12 years ago

    The Ladies’ Restroom has way more traffic.

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    merrihart  over 12 years ago

    In my experience, ladies rooms are usually much dirtier than the mens, but the mens is in poorer repair than the ladies.

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    dfowensby  over 12 years ago

    having managed a restaurant, i concur. the women always left their restroom a disgusting mess. noone (not even the female employees) wanted that cleanup job.

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    dfowensby  over 12 years ago

    wtf is a jupiter 2? surely not that lame flying saucer show cbs picked over Star Trek?

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    Chocoloop  over 12 years ago

    When’s the last time we had a Luann storyline? You know Luann, the one whose name is on the strip???

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    Cofyjunky  over 12 years ago

    Knute, man, you are a keeper! How many guys WILLINGLY clean a bathroom TWICE a day???

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    JimT8  over 12 years ago

    Knute is scruffy but cool. Crystal is nice, smart and sensible but is usually seen with Miss Center of the Universe. Bernice is really nice and not seen nearly often enough.

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    JimT8  over 12 years ago

    That’s true about the treatment of Bernice. She needs to be made more real.

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    JimT8  over 12 years ago

    Knute is a clown, not a moron. If he can date Crystal, he is not such a loser.

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    JimT8  over 12 years ago

    Crystal is clearly in line for success in life.

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    Purple Me  over 12 years ago

    I Love Knute! I think he is fun! I love Crystal too! I don’t know if they belong together…. but I do love me some opposites! attract! for myself!

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    DayoftheDead  over 12 years ago

    agreed but you wouldn’t find her kicking him in the strip. But good premiss

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    CaseyOrourke  over 12 years ago

    while in college I also did janitor work at the local Walmart. The women’s bathroom always looked like a bomb went off in it.

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