Luann by Greg Evans and Karen Evans for June 05, 2012

I wonder how much she charges, I could use her over here.

She ought start charging her mom for picking up dog poop….

Hehe, and look at their cute dog peeking out from the corner in panel #3.

why pick it up? Its in your own yard. Turn the hose on it, and viola! Fertilizer! AND its a ‘green’ job!

I smell a dog “theme,” too! Has Luann been reading Sunday Pearls Before Swine strips, or is she just naturally as bad as Pastis (panel 3)?

I actually chuckled at this one.

Another reason I like cats better.

Poopy back yards smell so nice.

Poop Patrol, good for the soul!

Piled High & Poopy

Please note: Puddles is supervising. It’s his yard and he wants it clean.

Piled Hip Deep!

Hey, Luann?

I’ve got Career for You.

Become a CARTOONIST!

There was this Gentleman once named George Schultz that was Secretary of State but found time to draw a comic strip about “Peanuts”.

It featured a pup named “Snoop-Dog” that flew around on his doghouse shooting at German Barons that violated US Airspace. Snoop also made a LOT of money in the music industry.

….and I HEAR there’s this Guy named “Greg” that has made very a very GOOD living drawing stuff too…..,

So does this mean Luann is moving out of High School and into College? YEAH!!!!!!!!!!!

You could always try Tarzan, Liberty Meadows or half a dozen other strips if you find Luann boring.

Little did they know that tomorrow Luann would be in the hospital from inhaling a feces-borne pathogen, and the lung damage would render her unable to ever sing again.

I love Puddles!!!

As a Grounds Keeper, I’ll tell you; Dog Poop does NOT make for fertilizer!!! It burns the grass. If you walk your mutt, carry a baggie! Clean it up!

Actually, Luann could well be on her way for a lucrative career. I was working a seasonal job a few winters ago and there was a woman there that worked in the summer for a business that picked up Doggy-doo. They would go to a customer’s house once a week, or maybe every other week. I understand they made a pretty good buck doing it.

Greg draws these three girls better than he does Crystal and Ann. They are very stiff, Luann and pals look more natural. I like them, and they are NOT boring.

hope you never find yourself in a mess where you need one

‘Business is picking up’? Isn’t it the other way around?

I thought the same thing. We have a lawyer in Seattle named John Henry Browne who’s very choosy about the “underdogs” he helps, like Ted Bundy, the Barefoot Bandit, Robert Bales…where there’s a camera, there’s John Henry Browne. And do we even need to mention class-action lawyers like John Edwards?

There are lawyers who do try to help clients in need (I know one personally and he’s the real deal), but they’re not in the majority.

At least we know Luann is getting her s—t together!

“benjo ditch”…wow, I haven’t heard that term since I was 12 yrs old – my military brat friend had lived in Taiwan and filled me in on the meaning :)

I have grandkids running all over my yard, so poop must be scooped and I have the exact same scooper that Luann is using – works great!

Kopi Luwak isn’t exactly a new thing – you can now get a 50 gm sack at Dean & DeLuca for $60. Mom’s getting some for the holidays this year – of course, if she bails I’ll be forced to drink it just so it won’t go to waste. .It has to be harvested from civets in the wild, which is why it’s so expensive – caged civets stress out, which changes their digestive tract acids and enzymes, so they don’t produce good coffee..If you can get feral cats to eat spuds and then pass them whole, maybe you’ll have something, but until then…

LOL! Here, have some Almond Roca instead. It only looks like the cat got there first!

Maybe you should change your name to Civitshtt.

Be sure to pass your critique on to Aristophanes, Shakespeare, Jonathan Swift, Lenny Bruce, George Carlin and Dave Chappelle, to name a few. I’m sure they’ll all be crushed to know they didn’t/don’t have a “functioning humor skill set”.

Be offended, be very offended. That’s your privilege. When you’ve been on the site a little longer, you’ll realize that there are more offensive comments that show up. We may not appreciate some of the comments, but that’s how the ball bounces.

Now you have upset Mojitobaby – you are in big trouble.

And you don’t have to BUY any fertilizer.

Name the company: Doodoo be gone.

Since the comment was about the strip, not the comments, you weren’t appreciated at the outset!

I hate to tell you, but Greg doesn’t think his strip is “reaching kids”. Greg has known from the get-go that his prime demographic isn’t teenage girls, as he thought it would be, but a much older audience. .If, at this point, they still don’t know what they want to be when they grow up, it’s sorta too late for them to do anything about it when they finally do get that revelation.

“I cannot see any future for Luann. I have looked thru past strips and have not seen where she has taken any possible future seriously.”.How about, “I love you madly, ♪ madly Madam Librarian ♪♫…Marian”♫♫

Yer welcome – I knew you’d want to know.

I see what you mean – by “get go” I don’t mean when he conceived the strip, I meant when it first was published and he began getting mail. I should have said that he knew very early on that teenagers weren’t the ones reading the strip, it was a much older audience. So trying to reach kids in terms of career counseling would be pretty futile – which is exactly why he isn’t focused on that.

Except that death dosn’t get worse every time Congress meets.

I disagree – relativism is actually a slippery slope to recognizing that nothing is life is absolute, not to anarchy. You can’t have a “societal norm” unless you have a single unchanging society, and that’s never been the case. What you mean is a “norm” for the society you happen to be in at the time – and by definition that means there’s no absolute to be had. The ethical values or truths held by, say, the Egyptians (or any other early civilization) have not been passed on in an unchanging and unbroken line to Western society today, and yet we’re still not disciples of Kropotkin. .The vulgarities that were appreciated in Swift’s time are often seen as incredibly crass today because of the change in societal attitudes – which does indeed make it relative. What probably hasn’t changed is that he used them deliberately, for shock value, and that response is still there – at least among most Western readers.

@EverybodyDon’t argue with Mojitobaby unless you are a masochist – If you are one …. enjoy.

How can you have missed all the times she has read to children in the library where she works or volunteers?

She has also recorded her own songs.

The 3M Co. (Meadow Muffin Movers of America).

“If aliens are watching earth through a giant telescope and they see two of the life forms walking together…one of them stops and takes a dump and the other gets out a little bag and scoops it up…which one are they going to think is the more intelligent life form?”…Jerry Seinfeld

I am reminded of a cartoon I saw recently (can’t remember where):A woman is picking up after her dog, and the dog is thinking: “No need to pick it up – just sniff it and leave it”.

Few sixteen year old kids have any realistic ideas of what they want to be. Exceptions are dancers and musicians, which require very early training. Hilary Hahn recorded Bach at sixteen, is now over thirty and one of the finest living violinists. And the daughter of friends left home at fifteen—with parental blessings—to ballet school and is now ballet mistress of a company.

Luann to Puddles: “You poop, I’ll scoop”. BTW I know a couple that have a Chihuahua (dog) that is litter trained like a cat. He still likes to go outside, but can be left home alone, inside. He announces all visitors, even before they ring the doorbell. He’s a good burglar alarm.

I didn’t say that they don’t exist or aren’t useful, but thinking that just because your society has a norm, that it is therefore an absolute truth or moral standard, and has always been in place, unchanging, throughout time, and exists (or should exist) in all other societies, is an extremely flawed belief. .A social law or social control is defined by what your segment of society recognizes as “right”- whether it is recognized as that by anyone else in another, different society is the question. .“Right” and “wrong” are extremely loaded terms, and since every society determines what they are, there’s no way they can ever be considered absolutes. You have a “belief” that what’s right and wrong exists by itself – what you’re actually referring to is called ethical intuitionism – it’s an early 20th century notion that we can somehow intuit what’s morally true or false all by itself, regardless of our upbringing. It’s a comforting thought, but given what we know about other societies through the ages, evidence of that inherent intuition seems to be sadly lacking. .The Mayans also had a sense of “right” – and what they deemed “right” in terms of extreme body modifications, slavery and human sacrifice would probably appear “wrong” to you – so based on that, how are values NOT purely relative?

“Tell us why you want to be a thermodynamics astrophysicist.”.Some things are just obvious, who wouldn’t?or a hydrodynamics astrophysicist?or better yet, a plasma dynamics astrophysicist!anything but just a plain old ordinary astrophysicist.

I added “ethical inuitionalism” to my answer becauser I think that’s what you;re referencing, so we’re out of order a bit, but if one society defines “right” one way, and another defines it as something else, what’s the absolute? .Because I guarantee you that both societies will claim “their” version of right is the correct, unwavering, absolute one. Yours is a circular argument – if people are “wrong”, they’re just interpreting the absolute in an incorrect way, therefore there must be an absolute for them to misinterpret. . It’s not the changing tangent that’s the issue, it’s the fact that you can’t show that the fixed line exists in the first place, so there is no absolute value of the asymptote.

Belief is right, but not every belief is a universal or absolute one just by dint of your holding it. And beliefs are just that, beliefs. Unlike mathemathical theorems, they can’t be proven or disproved, so I think using that as an analogy is the wrong direction here – if they could be proved, they’d be facts, not beliefs. .“Belief” is what every society uses to arrive at their norms – which differ widely from society to society. So if there’s a moral “absolute” that’s so easily discernible, why is it that societies throughout history and around the world have been so markedly different?

First, train your dog to use the benjo ditch.

Luann may not be all that academically inclined, but I’m impressed how cheerfully she is cleaning up the dog doo, without complaint. (Wouldn’t see that among my crowd.) If she’s willing to go in and do things (like read to kids, visit old Mrs. Horner, and what not), she’ll probably wind up ok. Of course, much of her personality depends on what Greg cooks up as a gag.

As a dog lover, I really appreciated this one

Luann has only been 16 for about 16 years (give or take) give her some time to decide on a career, she has to finish tenth grade first.

Luann should devote herself to be a singer.

But your belief is what defines “right” and “wrong” as an absolute in the first place – and therein lies the problem, because not everyone believes as you do. .The fact that what’s “right” and “wrong” varies so greatly among cultures and throughout time means that by defintion it must be subjective – it cannot be absolute, because absolutes never vary. They are unalterable – and obviously concepts of right and wrong have varied, and will continue to vary, thoughout time. .Your explanation is that this absolute somehow exists, but not everyone is successful in knowing it is an attempt to redefine different subjective moral outlooks to prove that an absolute must exist, and it won’t work. If one society’s absolute right is another’s absolute wrong or half-truth, then there can be no absolute right and wrong. There is no half-assed perception of an absolute “right” or “wrong” – it either is, or it isn’t.

This strip is going to the dogs! Okay, maybe that was a piddly joke, right? Fur instance…

No, it’s not – it means the “absolute” that one society defined as an absolute, actually isn’t, and never was one, in the first place. That’s what subjectivity looks like..Have a good night, vaquero – thanks for the discussion!

That’s SWEET Polly Purebread. And she was a television reporter.

Hold on to that pooper scooper, Luann………you can use it on most of the comments I’ve seen here today. Then, if you ever graduate, go to a community college, study Theater Arts, and hook up with a childrens’ theater group. Next, off, off Broadway, and someday, “big time” and the Tony Awards.