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4 days ago
on Luann
He probably knows her favorite brand of motor oil.
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7 days ago
on Luann
In the strip of 2017/08/11, Al told, Ann that he was “an investor” in The Fuse, but I don’t think we ever saw when he became one. When Frank and Nancy were originally planning to buy the warehouse that became The Fuse, they partnered with TJ, who kicked in money from the insurance settlement from his food truck[2015/06/18–20].
The writers have never established exact details of how Frank, Nancy, TJ, and Al divide up the responsibilities or the decision-making authority or the profits, though I’ve sometimes seen commenters confidently making assumptions about such things. If they ever did try to flesh out details of The Fuse’s operations, I think it would become apparent that it’s understaffed for the sort of establishment it’s supposed to be.
For example, bands that play at venues the size of The Fuse don’t have truckloads of sound gear and crews of roadies to set it up. Often (in my experience) they have some of their own stuff (microphones, effects boxes, …) and count on the venue to supply house speakers, stage monitors, a mixing board, and someone to run it. But I don’t recall seeing reference to a Fuse sound tech—and we can’t assume it’s Quill or Pru, since they don’t work there anymore. The Fuse also has lighting gear that they got from the Moony drama department when Moony upgraded, but we’ve never seen reference to a lighting tech. And TJ apparently has to take every shift in the kitchen, with nobody available to step in if the gets sick or wants a vacation.
I’m not complaining, just observing. I’m perfectly happy to suspend disbelief and let G&K save themselves the trouble of inventing names and personalities and faces for a bunch more Fuse employees who aren’t important for whatever stories they want to tell.
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7 days ago
on Luann
I think a blood drive at The Fuse may yet happen. And if not, maybe Luann will give Brad and Toni the idea of having one at one of the fire stations.
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8 days ago
on Luann
Nancy opines that organizing a blood drive at The Fuse is too big a task to take on for this year. I think Luann should ask Al Gray for his opinion. Whether or not she does, I’ll go out on a limb and predict that Nancy is going to be proven wrong.
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9 days ago
on Luann
As for the storyline, a “carnival” is not conducive to the process of blood donating, …
FWIW, a little searching turned up an advertisement for a blood drive held in conjunction with this past summer’s Ventura County (California) Fair, from which I quote in part:
Join us at the Ventura County Fairgrounds where Vitalant bloodmobiles will be collecting life-saving blood donations on Thursday, August 1, Friday, August 2, and Saturday, August 3, from 12:00 P.M. to 6:00 P.M. Your donation during these dates earns you a free ticket to the Ventura County Fair, generously donated by the fairgrounds. You will also receive …
The Vitalant bloodmobiles will be outside the fair entrance, …. Your free fair ticket is valid for same-day entry or can be saved for another day, valid throughout the fair until August 11th.
I suppose some people may have felt that they recovered pretty quickly from donating and others may have considered it best to wait for another day before using their fair tickets.
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9 days ago
on Luann
I am not a lawyer, but I did a little searching when the subject came up previously, and if memory serves, the law in California (often conjectured as the state where Luann is set) is that you have to be 21 to be a bartender but that you only have to be 18 to serve alcohol in an establishment (or portion of n establishment) that’s mainly dedicated to food service. So, for example, Tiffany (currently age 19 or possibly 20 in Luanniverse time) can’t be in charge of the bar, but it’s okay for her to bring drinks to customers’ tables.
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9 days ago
on Luann
Check the Peanuts strip from 1973/05/17.
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9 days ago
on Luann
Based on your experience working in blood services at the American Red Cross, do you think they would be averse to running a blood drive in cooperation with an art/event venue and restaurant such as The Fuse?
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9 days ago
on Luann
As I commented in another thread, entering
“restaurant” “blood drive”
or
“restaurant” “blood bank”
into the Google search box will turn up references to some actual instances of restaurants hosting blood drives. Some of those restaurants evidently also have alcoholic beverages among their offerings. That doesn’t have to mean that they were serving alcohol to blood donors too closely before or after they donated.
As I sometimes do when questions of this sort come up, I consulted Professor Google. I was not surprised to see that typing
ravioli t-shirt
into the search box turned up a variety of T-shirt designs including pictures of ravioli, the word “ravioli”, or both. I was a little surprised—but perhaps shouldn’t have been—at the number of different kinds: “Ravioli [picture] makes the world a better place”, “Today’s forecast [picture] 100% chance of ravioli”, “Education is important but ravioli is importanter”, “Ravioli [picture] makes everything better”, “St. Louis [picture of toasted ravioli]”, “I ❤️ Ravioli”, “Keep Calm [picture] And Eat Ravioli”, “ravioli ravioli your opinion is wrongioli”, “Official Ravi◇li Tester”, “This guy makes the best [pictures] raviolis” (Toni could buy that one for TJ), “Nobody Wants To Admit They Ate Nine Cans Of Ravioli”, and many more. I can’t supply sales statistics for such T-shirts, much less demographics of the buyers, but evidently somebody thinks there’s a market.