Luann by Greg Evans and Karen Evans for May 10, 2012

Okay, Ox has plenty of bucks and mommy and daddy are loaded.

Ox is obviously a lousy judge of character. Wait’ll he sees that “nice” lady in action.

Just remember Ox, you don’t marry Ho’s, ya rent ’em

Wait until she ticks him off, probably in tomorrow’s strip. I don’t think he is going to be very nice when he’s angry.

Maybe he’s innocent and trusting. So, a lot of what people SAY will go over his head. But if Ox catches Ann trying to take one of the chintzy paper crowns from another little girl… LOOK OUT!

Word to the wise: give the gentle giant whatever he wants.

What a great dad!

BTW -- WHY is she asking him about his credit card? Hmmmm!

Ah,“mystery meat” – that brings back memories! We noticed the same day that we were served hamburgers, all the doormats had mysteriously disappeared. .And they never did find the school nurse’s cocker spaniel.

Here we go again…by tomorrow morning there’ll be 2,765 posts by the humorless and doggedly literal-minded informing you that it’s really “Sodom and Gomorrah”. .At least you gave Porgy and Bass the night off.

I think they are perfect for each other. They cancel each other out. They balance each other. She too manipulative and calculating…he too naive and trusting. He doesn’t know he is being insulted and handled…and Ann couldn’t handle or manipulate him the way she does with others so she ‘plays nice’ for a change and IF they develop a relationship, she will fall into this pattern, so they might get along just fine.

i know that OX hates Bullys and miss eiffel may get an eye full of OX knuck sandwich… new item at weenie world

I doubt Eiffel can string him along for very long without putting her foot in it. I think Ox is sharper than he appears.

Watch out, folks, Ann has finally found someone she can “upsell”.

Maybe she’ll get in a huff since minors aren’t supposed to have credit cards and she’ll blow the sale.

Do I get to see the bunnies?

Is anyone else getting Avengers references off the incredible Hulk?

“Don’t make him angry. You wouldn’t like him when he’s angry.”

Ox, Ann, and Elwood.

This is going to end with Ann dead and Gunther forced to shoot Ox.

If she pulls her shoulders any further back she will fall over.

Mongo get MAD when Mongo sees Bully!OK, who would win if Ox encountered Dirk?

Maybe Effiel learned some manners, who knows.

Ooh! What if Ox jumps to Ann’s defense down the line? She is nice to him, and if he perceives that someone is being mean to her, he just may…

Watch – she’s going to try and swindle poor Ox. She figures she has an easy mark…

Be sure to TUNE in tommorrow when Ox reveals to “Miss Eiffel” that his Father is a Ga-Zillionaire and SINGLE, and just looking for a NEW Mom for His Son.

On a different note: Sure Ox is big and because of his size, rather intimidating. To Some. But he’s also apparently Non-Violent, which IMHO makes him a bit of a “Paper Tiger”.My question: What if one day, one of these “Bullies” calls Ox’s Bluff???

Mr. Evans ability to suggest nefarious intent on Ms. Eiffel’s part is brilliant work

She tried to take the crown away from one customer and got bit. I sure hope she has the sense to not try that again. Im sure that lovable Ox has been taught not to hurt a female but there might be a twist of the knife there somewhere. Maybe Oxfords dad is something like the CEO of Weenie World. Hey we all speculate…LOL

I’m thinking attempted credit card fraud/bill padding.

@Dayofthedead – if Ox’s dad was the CEO of Weenie World, wouldn’t he have eaten there befor?

@flowerladytoo:Most fanous line in TV History:Dont make me angry MrMagee, You wont like me when I’m angry. Dont make Ox mad You wont like him when he is angry.

Wouldn’t it be interesting if Ox turned out to be a revelation for Anne? Wouldn’t it be interesting if she actually came to like him and learn from him the way she can’t learn from anyone else? What am I saying, this is Anne Eiffel.

Hey, Otto! What you wrote yesterday. I agree. Ox is most definitely a big-hearted and highly principled fella who does “go with the flow” — because normal ordinary folks DO stick up for the underdog and take a stand against bullying, at least in belief if they cannot do it physically. Luckily, Oxford has the girth to “walk the walk” — he carries a big stick.Remember that froggy guy who used to go on and on about wanting to be honored for not “going with the flow”? Where’s he been? Maybe he got flushed away, flow-wise. That’s what happens when you drink from the sewer line instead of the regular tap. You start seeing gay moose and other hallucinogenic oddities.

It’ll be great if Ox ends up defending TJ. I really like the last panel, when all you can see of Ann is her head. It cracks me up.

Looks like Ox has a stalker!

Please, oh please let Ann make even just one friend. TJ is messing with her just because it amuses him. Toni let’s her niece go out of control at Ann just cause she hates her. A word to the author, those of us who didn’t see the strips where Ann was so evil that she now deserves anything and everything the other characters will stoop to inflicting on her, might start thinking the rest of the cast really are no better than she is…

condescending b****

I’m worried for Ox. I don’t think he’s prepared to recognize or handle Ann’s kind of bullying.

Ox is the guy I would want to have with me walking in the bad side of town – no worries dude! Why would I be there in the first place? Not a clue.

Thanks for the nice things said about big guys standing up for little folks. Like the Lone Ranger. Like Robin Hood. Like that bastion of attempted idealism, high school…NOT LIKE GOLDMAN SAKS and NOT LIKE CURRENT REPUBLICANS, either. Bullies are bullies, and maybe we’ll just organize and get even.

and I’M hungry…

WHAT?!?!? Do you mean to sit there and tell me that trophy wives don’t have a real feeling for the targets loves of their lives who just…uh… happen to be twice their own age? .Well, I, for one, am totally shocked to hear that. Just wait’ll I tell High Hefner.

I think so. Really, that’s just too oozingly ridiculous. Right up there with Ann finding happiness with Ox.

Ox and Ann, an unlikely friendship. Jonas and Tiffany on the other hand….

Mz. Eyeful is obviously concerned about the validity of the method of payment.

Remember, he’s doing this for pay her back for what she did to Brad and Toni. Granted, it’s about as nebulous as you can get in the “good” department, but Greg has sort of retooled TJ. Frank and Nancy were the ones who paid the price (literally) last time – not the firefighters – and they’ve forgiven him. This time the upsold customers are the collateral damage, and we’re not supposed to care about them because they’re a means to an end – namely, putting chocks to Ann. Also, they could say “no”.

Dave – and a wink-wink-nudge-nudge to you old chap ;-)

My lunch time always included the garbage pick up. Or, as we used to say, tomorrows lunc is here.

Ann may have found the man of her dreams.

So Ox can’t use his platinum card for anything but lunches? How restrictive of Dear Ol’ Dad. Of course! If Ox used it for anything else he would max it out. That should be good news to Ann. Buh-bye TJ – Momma’s got her meal ticket.

Okay…does anyone ELSE find themsleves thinking of John Entwhistle when they hear Ox’s name?

Now, if Ox sees TJ bully poor little Ann . . . !

Gee Whiz guys!! Ox is an honest character, who comes out as someone who is altruistic, doing things to help others, because its right. How that will work with Ms. Eiffel I don’t know. But its right up your alley Greg. Very Interesting. Evil meets good. hmmmm

I suspect he is not quite as dumb as he appears.

Why do I keep having this “Of Mice and Men” moment?

isn’t this the kid that helped Gunther when the Leslie guy was going to beat him up? I see some type of story-line crossing coming up.

Maybe she will try to take advantage of Ox, Gunther and his crew find out (Bernice especially) and they help bring her down.

I think she’ll take daddy’s card for everything she can…

When Ox falls upon the goodies and consumes them, he will be happy. The only other happy character in this strip is Knute. Rosa has the potential, but Gunther frustrates her. Maybe Knute & Rosa should get together.

“Yup. TJ CAN take care of himself, and also fire fighters until he`s outed…”

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LOL! I knew I can’t have been the only one. You, sir or madam, have a very talented brain just made for Luannalyzing.

Miles Hoffmann said, about 10 hours ago

Yea..none of her biz on what he used to pay for the meals..rather NOSY … and totally unprofessional. Ox could go back and tell his dad that the “nice lady” at “WW” asked him about his payment arrangement for the meals…I wouldn’t want to be in the store when the “defecation hits the rotary oscillator” ! rofl

Or, when the excremental effluvia come into suddenand violent contact with the motorized air circul-ation device

Yep – females like Ox, that is. That was what I was talking about. Some of those men become just a little better persons around those women, have you noticed?

You misread. I did not say Ann is naive or trusting – far from it. That was Ox I was talking about.

Ann is not a physical abuser nor a sociopath. She is just manipulative and cunning – not very admirable personality traits – of which TJ possesses as well. Both like to play people.

Sociopaths play their preys from afar and then go in for the kill. That is not Ann.

Ann is a verbal abuser – she belittles people and pushes them around. This is the maximum I am willing to label Ann. And I believe she couldn’t verbally abuse Ox even if she tried because Ox is too dense as Ann is an intellectual verbal abuser – she is not unrefined like high school kids.. Ox could not tell she is manipulative and cunning. He is a simple person. Like I said, they cancel each other out.

he’s going to pet the bunny, George. I think I killed her George, can I have another bunny George?

Ok, here’s the bumper sticker for loving the big guy:

“HONK IF YOU XO OX”

I think you’re thinking of serial killers – sorry, but what you don’t know about sociopaths could fill a book. Sociopathology is a subset of antisocial personality disorder (ASPD), which is defined as a pervasive pattern of disregard for, and violation of, the rights of others that begins in childhood or early adolescence and continues into adulthood. .Some classic hallmarks of sociopathology are: 1) Manipulative and conning behavior: never recognizing others have rights, they see their self-serving behaviors as permissible. Appearing to be charming, they are covertly hostile and domineering, seeing their victim as merely an instrument to be used. They may dominate and humiliate their victims..2) Grandiose sense of self: they feel they are entitled to things as their right. .3) Pathological lying: they have no problem lying easily; it is almost impossible for them to be truthful with any consistency. Can get caught up in a complex belief about their own powers and abilities. .4) Lack of remorse, shame or guilt: repressed rage is usually at their core; it prevents them as seeing others as people, but only as targets and opportunities. Instead of friends, they have victims and accomplices who end up as victims. .5) Shallow emotions: they are not genuine, and when they seem to display emotions, they are more feigned than experienced and usually have an ulterior motive. Outraged by insignificant matters, they remaining unmoved and cold at what would upset a normal person. .6) Incapacity for love .7) Callousness and lack of empathy: they feel their own pain, but are unable to empathize with the pain of their victims. Contemptuous for others’ feelings of distress, they readily take advantage of them. .8) Poor behavioral and impulse controls: rage and abuse, alternating with small expressions of love and approval. produce an addictive cycle for abuser and abused, as well as creating hopelessness in the victim. They feel they are all-powerful, all-knowing, entitled to every desire, no sense of personal boundaries, no concern for their impact on others. .9) Irresponsibility: Oblivious or indifferent to the devastation they cause, they don’t accept blame, but blame others, even for acts they obviously committed. .Sound familiar? TJ has some of these traits, but since he is capable of genuine emotion they really apply to Ann. You’re sadly misinformed oif you think Ann’s emotional abuse is somehow less harmful because it isn’t physical or violent. She and Ox don’t “cancel” each other out, any more than a bunny in the middle of the highway “cancels” out a car. Because she doesn’t care about anyone but herself, there’s nothing in him as a person to interest her. If people like Ann get married, I can assure you it’s not because they’ve “fallen in love” with someone like Ox.

AH!, Someone Ann can look up to.

@Mojitobaby Ooh thanks! I will hug her and hold her and call her Georgette..

Uh… filler strip today…

(get it? FILLER…!)

Actually, sexually abusing children is included in the category of inappropriate sexual conduct – it’s a classic sociopathic behavior. But “pedophilia” technically means targeting prepubescent children (so young that aside from genitalia you can’t tell their bodies apart).

Borderline “hebephilia” (pubescents of 11 to 14) might be more accurate, but IMO Bernice was well past that stage. Ann could only have been charged with statutory rape if things had progressed further; what the law considers a child (minor under the age of consent, 17 or 18) and what psychology considers a child aren’t always the same..Where did Greg hint about something illicit in Tokyo? There was a lot of joking in the forum that Ann would never leave because of the buru-sera vending machines in Tokyo where you can buy panties that have supposedly been worn by schoolgirls, but aside from that speculation I don’t recall his saying why she left.

Do not be deceived by facile misdiagnoses. Oxford is not stupid, dumb, or slow. He has a child-like innocence, but also a sense of right and wrong. Little Annie Awful has initially appealed to his protectiveness, but she is not immune to his wise and potent judgment. Not that he would strike a woman; but Truth has a way of tripping up those not familiar with it.

The schoolgirl/youth cult seems less likely for Ann – as I mentioned before, she seems to get her jollies from making her victim endanger their relationship in order to make her happy, then when there’s discord in the relationship, move in for the kill when the victim is at their weakest. To me, it doesn’t look like she has a thing for demure sailor suited schoolgirls with teddy bears flashing their undies.

Ox – or is is Lenny from Mice and Men…. Can I pet the nice lady’s hair?

Now that’s funny!

Who are you, Big Brother? Remember, just because everyone believes it, doesn’t make it true..The difference between a neurotic and a psychotic is that the psychotic truly believes that 2 + 2 = 5. .The neurotic knows that it’s 4 – but can’t stand it.

Rember who his friend is.

If you put a dash/minus sign too close at the beginning/end of something, you get strikethrough..You mean:(4 – 9/2)2 = (5 – 9/2)24 – 9/2 = 5 – 9/2 4 = 5

If you take the square root of a square, you get the absolute value of the original number. If you take the squared numbers, then (4-9/2)2 = (5-9/2)2, since each side equals 0.5.

But the numbers inside of the parentheses – the absolute values – are not equal, since 4-9/2 = -0.5, and 5-9/2 = 0.5. So the absolute values are unequal, and therefore 4 =/= 5.

Really! What is she up to???

Moj – Playmates were once described as women who were shot in the back with a couple of rockets. Dem tings looks sharp!

I’ll agree with the borderline pedophilia, Dave. I will also ascertain to that for many guys as well. Many older guys have a thing for barely legal girls and/or jailbaits.

Ohh, is that good! I’ll lift a glass to George Orwell!

The reason those traits are on the psychopath list is that they’re both anti-social personality disorders – the difference between them is in their outward behavior. .Sociopaths can control their behavior to some extent – psychopaths can’t. They also can’t maintain normal social relationships, sociopaths appear relatively normal. When it comes to crimes, psychopaths tend to be disorganized and erratic, sociopaths are better planners..Since both have ASPD both are capable of extreme violence. The current thought is that psychopaths are born that way, with an heredity/genetic predisposition, Sociopaths are made – in other words, primarily a product of their environment.

About your so-called “friend” – see #4. Since sociopaths don’t know how to be friends with anyone, you either become a victim or an accomplice, Either way, they use you for their needs. .Good for you for kicking him to the curb!