Luann by Greg Evans and Karen Evans for April 09, 2012
Transcript:
Crystal: "Knute! There's a line at the ladies' room and I gotta go. Is anyone in the men's?" Knute: "Nope. Immediate seating" Crystal: "Watch the door while I - OHMYGAW!" Knute: "What?" Crystal: "This is WAY cleaner than ours" Knute: "Thanks. I clean it twice a day"
FatTonyBalducci over 12 years ago
what??……the guys is supposed waaaaaay dirtier than the girls
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
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.
imbaldeagle over 12 years ago
Now this couple is comfortable with their relationship – why can’t the others be this way?
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
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.
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.
lance96816 over 12 years ago
Something wrong with this strip.
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.
ComicLaff over 12 years ago
I’ve always knew that men’s rooms were (are) cleaner than women’s. Knute, you the man!
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.
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.
Ottodesu over 12 years ago
But good to see the lovely Crystal’s “cool” being razzed.
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.
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.
mojitobaby over 12 years ago
Don’t assume everyone shares your own hobby.
Namrepus over 12 years ago
Blessedly, Knute doesn’t have to clean out that silver box next to the toilet.
Ottodesu over 12 years ago
OK son, keep your hands on top of the table where we can see them.
mojitobaby over 12 years ago
Yeah, we just can’t get the caterers to clean up after themselves.
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…
pdking77 over 12 years ago
Where I work, there are three ladies’ rooms to every men’s room.
Ottodesu over 12 years ago
It could also be Vocational Training for Knute …
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?
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?
luvmone over 12 years ago
women’s restrooms are worse, because we have both hands free. heeheeheeheeheeheeheeheeheehee
Tinyman over 12 years ago
OK Hope everyone enjoyed the holidays
Airman over 12 years ago
I like these two happy clowns.
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!
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”.
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.
Chuck373 over 12 years ago
Doors on the stalls? Not when I was in school.
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.
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…
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”.
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.
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!!!!
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!
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.
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.
wicky over 12 years ago
They just want us to believe that guys are dirtier than girls.
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…
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!
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.
BudLyte over 12 years ago
True dat.
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.
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.
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.
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.
tigre1 over 12 years ago
Butttt there will NOW begin a campaign to upgrade the downtrodden women (and their facilities)…fight the power!
DayoftheDead over 12 years ago
Are we sure Knute is smart enough to know what they are. LOL
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.
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.
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.
ayespin over 12 years ago
The old adage “opposites attract” seems to hold true in comic strips as well as in life.
doverdan over 12 years ago
No ‘boys room’ in any school I went to had doors on the stalls.
mojitobaby over 12 years ago
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.
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.”
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.
Mitchtheone over 12 years ago
As a former janitor.. Yes the ladys were always the worse to clean..
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.)
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.
doverdan over 12 years ago
The concept, I believe, was that boys would “abuse” privacy.
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.
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.
Gokie5 over 12 years ago
“Greg, do less Knute. . .”Well, I like Knute. Different strokes and all that -
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.
Dr Lou Premium Member over 12 years ago
And another stereotype bites the dust…..
QuietStorm27 over 12 years ago
The Ladies’ Restroom has way more traffic.
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.
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.
dfowensby over 12 years ago
wtf is a jupiter 2? surely not that lame flying saucer show cbs picked over Star Trek?
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???
Cofyjunky over 12 years ago
Knute, man, you are a keeper! How many guys WILLINGLY clean a bathroom TWICE a day???
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.
JimT8 over 12 years ago
That’s true about the treatment of Bernice. She needs to be made more real.
JimT8 over 12 years ago
Knute is a clown, not a moron. If he can date Crystal, he is not such a loser.
JimT8 over 12 years ago
Crystal is clearly in line for success in life.
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!
DayoftheDead over 12 years ago
agreed but you wouldn’t find her kicking him in the strip. But good premiss
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.