The Dinette Set by Julie Larson for August 02, 2012

Wonder what she’s calling to complain about? She’d better hope that they don’t ask her to come in in person.

How could anyone ever forget seeing “a tall blond in pink spandex shorts” weighing, say 275 pounds, looking ever so much like an enormous knockwurst? Please God, give me the brain bleach.And we se the “Tat” tank top again. “Tit” must be in the guest toilet being rinsed out.

OK…. I’m very tired….and I know my perception and judgement may be affected by fatigue….and I’m having a hard time not choking on the words coming out of my mouth, when it’s something almost nice about Burl…but all things considered…and…credit where cr(choke)edit…uh… yeah credit .. is due…That was actually quite sweet….what Burl said, I mean…They may be … ok, they are despicable in so may ways…but the fact that he thinks she’s a “pretty lady..”coupled with her obvious belief that his stupidity is brilliant….Those sentiments would be heartwarming, coming from anyone else.But even from Burl and Joy, they’re.sweet.And, of course, remarkable.

Of course they’re too dim to realise that the effect of her “beauty” on the store manager’s judgement is completely lost over the phone…which actually works in their favor, except for the fact that they remember her at the store.

How could anybody NOT remember her?

Tall, blonde…. and wearing pink spandex….Yikes!I need some brain bleach!

(Puttin’ another IOU in the register, Marg.)

Yes, she is lying on the phone, and Burl is commenting on the lie.

After all, he cannot describe himself that way in a mans voice.

I know why her shorts aren’t pink. The colorist initially did them in pink (with a few more folds and creases) and then…and then….a.n .d..nthe,,,,,,, rollyfat..stoopidgffhjy…..

Hello. This is Mrs. Finale. I found him at the keyboard, all slack jawed and mumbling (which is not THAT unsual); but without his normal amount of drool. He is saying something like “mustache bee-bees”…no, it’s “mustard bobos”…..no, it’s " must have BB" whatever that means. If he doesn’t snap out of it I’ll use the 2 × 4 again. Here’s his post.

Can’t find the bone…. Might be on BURL’S lap…. ? ! ?

like tat need through dougnuts

“Home Sweat Home”???

the bone is on the side of the donut box.

The Dinette Set was black and white till around mid-2009, as the syndicates gradually started having more strips colored.

Black was used to give contrast, and to give some objects at least a suggestion of color or pattern, so the strip wouldn’t look like an empty coloring book.

Many cartoonists leave more white areas nowadays, knowing a colorist will fill them in….but Julie has said she re-uses old drawings…

My guess would be that this one was done before 2009, and wasn’t about pink shorts, so Julie made them black, as cartoonists did then, to look like red or blue or anything but white.

Once an area is black, a colorist can’t change it.

Color isn’t drawn in with a crayon, it’s “dropped in” with a computer tool that fills the outline…

There’s no outline on a black space — if you try to fill it with pink you’d turn all the drawing lines pink too.

Besides, she may be calling a week after the day she was at the store in all her “glory.” She’s calling about sour milk — as X said, she might have had it for a month.But by gum, they do remember her!

And I think Joy and Burl both actually think she’s a tall blonde beauty who looks good in pink spandex.

Unable to spot bone, but did spot to do list regarding sour milk. I have milk issues and that caught my eye right away!

I don’t really think anyone would look all that well in pink spandex shorts (rather cheap and flashy).

I once saw a A yellow T-shirt on an attractive, bra-less young lady with the words “Tit For Tat” on the front, and on the back “What’s A Tat?”

She could of said she was the lady with the pink shorts and tree trunk legs and cankles! LOL