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| Saturday, May 26th, 2012 | 3:18 am
[dreadedcandiru2]
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Sunday, 27 May 2012
In today's strip, John is mildly annoyed because he has to go down to the hardware store to get a set of shower taps Elly can turn off with her feet. While I do understand what drives her to want this, the whining tone I know that the Lynnsight will take is a turn-off. (Strip Number 10919, Original Publication Date, 29 May 1983) Panel 1: Having noticed that John is putting on his coat to go out, Mike asks him where he's going. Panel 2: John makes the Gorey-eyed glare of rage as he sharls "The hardware store." Panel 3: As he puts parts of what looks like a plumbing fixture into a box, Elly tells him that she's really sorry about this. Panel 4: A mildly irritated John tells her to not to worry about it. Panel 5: As he opens the door, she tells her that she knows that it's only a minor complaint. Panel 6: As he leaves, he says that it's okay. Panel 7: When he gets to the hardware store, John tells the clerk that Elly wants him to return the bathtub faucet and shower set he's holding. Panel 8: The clerk says "Not quite right, eh? Well, what exactly is she looking for?" Panel 9: John face-palms as he astonishes the clerk by telling him that Elly wants something she can turn off with her feet. Summary: This is because John is sort of clueless and doesn't realize that Elly doesn't lock the bathroom door when she takes a bath in case her children need her and she has to rush out. This means that at some point, she dealt with the mortifying commonplace called "children seeing her naked" and wants to minimize the risk. I can understand this but I also know that we're going to watch at least one ex-husband get torn a new one because he "wants" her to be humiliated. | | Friday, May 25th, 2012 | 4:49 am
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Saturday, 26 May 2012
The end of the arc is yet another passing shot at the offsprings; that's because Georgia's admission that she wouldn't mind becoming part of Phil's family leads to her horrified realization that Phil's family includes EVIL children who love CHAOS!!!!! and hate to see adults enjoying themselves. (Strip Number 4333, Original Publication Date, 28 May 1983) Panel 1: As he and Georgia leave, Phil thanks Elly and Georgia says that it's been a nice evening. Panel 2: Georgia tells Phil that she likes the Pattersons and he says that they aren't bad as far as relatives go. Panel 3: She sets up the punchline by saying that she wouldn't mind becoming part of his family. Panel 4: Their kiss is interrupted by Mike yelling "Hey, Uncle Phil! D'you get to breathe while yer kissing?" The realization that Phil's family includes Mike horrifies Georgia. Summary: This, of course, is because Lynn and Elly see him as a destructive, life-satisfaction-consuming force of nature that cannot be controlled. A really objective observer sees him as a small boy who is hazy on what personal space is and comes equipped with a weak-as-water mother who never got around to teaching him because she feared turning into a babbling child if she hung around him too much. | | Thursday, May 24th, 2012 | 3:36 am
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Friday, 25 May 2012
When asked why she told Georgia about all his bad qualities and why he's a bad person to be around, Elly tells Phil that she's more objective than Marian. This, of course, means that Marian is biased in Phil's favor and since he won their childhood, that's a bad thing. (Strip Number 411, Original Publication Date, 27 May 1983) Panel 1: Phil, having walked into the kitchen, asks Elly and Georgia what the two of them have been doing. Panel 2: Georgia explains that Elly has been telling her all sort of stories about his past. When you have to remember that Georgia gets blindsided by the existence of Connie Poirier, I should think that these 'stories' are all about how AWFUL it was that he got more privileges despite being born later and was treated more leniently as a general rule because he has a penis. Panel 3: Phil asks Georgia why she couldn't have talked to Marian about his past. Panel 4: Elly talks fluent Codswallop about how sisters are more objective. Summary: If she's running around with Lynn's idea of what being objective is, I wouldn't trust Elly to tell me the time of day. Most of her conversation tends to whining about how unfair her life is and why other people need to spontaneously combust because they're happier than she is. | | Wednesday, May 23rd, 2012 | 4:24 am
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Thursday, 24 May 2012
In today's strip, we have yet another reminder that most of the reason that John and Elly are married is that they made a questionable decision in a fearful hurry. (Strip Number 410, Original Publication Date, 26 May 1983) Panel 1: Phil tells John that the idea of commitment scares the holy living bejesus out of him. Panel 2: He then asks howcome he can't just up and get married like John and Elly did. Panel 3: He sets up the weak punchline by asking what is the difference between himself and John. Panel 4: A bleary-eyed John tells Phil that unlike him, he's had time to think about it. Summary: The notes will no doubt be all about how men are big chickens about giving single women a last name or some allied sort of nonsense that reminds us how out-of-date Lynn's thought-processes are. What they won't be about is that part of John can't help but wonder if he made a bad bargain when he married Elly. | | Tuesday, May 22nd, 2012 | 3:59 am
[dreadedcandiru2]
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Wednesday, 23 May 2012
Phil tells an astonished John that he and Elly having been using their marriage as an object lesson as to why he needs to get married. That is all. (Strip Number 409, Original Publication Date, 25 May 1983) Panel 1: As he pours Phil a scotch, John tells him that he understands that he and Georgia are fairly serious these days. Phil says "Not really." Panel 2: A confused John tells Phil that Elly said he was discussing marriage. Phil agrees that he is discussing a marriage. Panel 3: His stating that he was discussing John's marriage astonishes his host. Summary: Since this leads into a reminder that John made a hasty decision that part of him still thinks might be a mistake, expect one of Lynn's ex-husbands to get slammed. | | Monday, May 21st, 2012 | 12:46 pm
[megan_koumori]
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[dreadedcandiru2]
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Coffee Talk, the week of 21 May 2012
Let's see how many people laugh at the cake strip. I'd like to think that Lynn's painting would get more attention but my gut tells me that KAN will be all about horrid parenting. | 4:06 am
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Tuesday, 22 May 2012
After having eaten Elly's indigestible cooking, Georgia gets hit with the old "only girl male relative has brought here twice" gag. I'd mind this a lot less if I didn't have to fear a note that likens being exposed to Katie and Aaron like being stuck in a shark cage. (Strip Number 408, Original Publication Date, 24 May 1983) Panel 1: Since he grew up on limp vegetables drowning in heavy sauce, gritty salads slathered in store brand dressing and meat that takes like shoe-leather swimming in crankcase oil, Phil is genuinely satisfied with Elly's horrible cooking and tells her to put away the bromo. Panel 2: Given that she too must have grown up eating Anglo-Canadian cooking, Georgia offers to help Elly wash the dishes instead of burning the evidence. Panel 3: Mike sets up the weak, weak punchline by telling Georgia that Phil must really like her. Panel 4: Why she's astonished his telling her that she's the only girl he's ever brought here twice gag is beyond me. Summary: Like I said, I wouldn't really mind this old stand-by if it weren't for the expectation that most of the reason that Alan had trouble with the ladies was that they feared the unstoppable horror of a small child who's dealing with a distant mother who doesn't actually seem to be able to pay attention to him. | | Sunday, May 20th, 2012 | 2:57 am
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Monday, 21 May 2012
Elly's boasting about the meal she's going to make for Phil and Georgia's visit leads to her being mildly confused by yet another reminder that children and adults don't like the same things. (Strip Number 407, Original Publication Date, 23 May 1983) Panel 1: As Elly smiles to herself in anticipation of wowing Georgia with her culinary prowess, Lizzie asks her what they're getting for supper. Panel 2: Elly is practically half-way to the moon with glee as she lovingly tells Lizzie "Steak, baked potatoes, salad, asparagus in sauce and fruit salad for dessert." Panel 3: Lizzie registers her disgust by cribbing from Sparky. Elly, having noticed her daughter's "Bleah!!", asks her what's wrong. Panel 4: Since Lynn suffers from Bil Keane's annoying delusion that children should come out of the womb speaking perfect English, Lizzie says "You never make anyfing good when we got company" because Mommy thinks that she thinks that the word is actually pronounced 'anyfing'. Summary: Watch the Lynnsight be all about how stupid children are for not loving good grub like this and how irritating it is to be treated like a short order cook by the short ones. No sympathy for their developing palettes is to be considered because that means that they're walking all over her. | | Saturday, May 19th, 2012 | 8:00 pm
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Sunday 20 May 2012
Today's strip has Elly eat a cherry protruding from a slice of cake that she told Mike he couldn't have. As ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif?v=92.1) regnad_kcin says, that is all. (Strip Number 10918, Original Publication Date, 22 May 1983) Panel 1: We start things off with Mike looking longingly at a cherry jutting out of a slice of cake. This attracts Elly's angered attention. Panel 2: Since she's a stand-in for Mrs Ridgway today, she tells him to do his drooling somewhere else. Panel 3: Mike starts to repeat the dialog Lynn remembers herself saying when this happened in real life by pointing out that there's a cherry in the cake and if he could pull it out. Panel 4: Elly/Ursula gets all snippy about how he can't pull out that cherry because he's had two pieces already. Panel 5: Mike/Lynn says that it's just sticking out there. Since most of Elly's foul temper seems to come from Lynn's mother, she bellows "I said NO!!" Panel 6: Lynn/Mike touches the cherry and it falls out with a POIT sound. (At least it wasn't NARF or EGAD.) Panel 7: He then says that the cherry just sort of fell out and can he have it. Panel 8: She says "For the last time... NO!!!" and ushers him from the room. Panel 9: She looks at the cherry. Panel 10: Having made sure that he isn't watching, she eats it. Summary: The notes are all about how Ursula did the same damned thing to her as a child. The problem is that they fail to address the issue I see when I look at this. It's not just the whole being up her ass about a damned cherry in a cake or the need to preserve "credibility" at the expense of morality or even being a hypocrite; it's finding Elly's being a jerkass funny that bothers me. | | Friday, May 18th, 2012 | 4:30 am
[dreadedcandiru2]
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Saturday, 19 May 2012
We end the week with a reminder that Phil is still somewhat ambivalent about this whole marriage concept. Given that his primary example of family life is the Pattersons, I don't have it in me to blame him. (Strip Number 406, Original Publication Date, 21 May 1983) Panel 1: As she and Lizzie get ready to leave, Elly thanks him for the coffee. Phil thanks them for dropping by. Panel 2: He then sets up next week's arc by asking if he can bring Georgia over for dinner some time soon. Elly is okay with that. Panel 3: As they presumably walk to her car, Phil tells Elly that he's seriously serious about popping the question. Panel 4: Given that he's somewhat antsy about all of this 'responsibility' thing, he wonders what a nice bachelor like him is doing in this situation. Summary: The Lynnsight will, I suspect, be about how it took forever for Alan to grow up. The problem is that it will fail to address the problem of the only example Phil has of a friend being married is Elly's non-stop martyrdom and frustration. | | Thursday, May 17th, 2012 | 3:20 am
[dreadedcandiru2]
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Friday, 18 May 2012
Phil complains about the odd habits of his neighbors and compares being inconvenienced by them with being inconvenienced by Elly. (Strip Number 405, Original Publication Date, 20 May 1983) Panel 1: Since Lynn doesn't give a tinker's cuss for continuity, the Vegetable Cultists are the people next door instead of Phil's roommates. Either way, they still tyrannize him by waking him at six thirty in the morning by making fresh carrot juice every single day. Panel 2: His suffering (which, by the way, causes a mildly pissed off man in Saint John to mockingly mutter "Poor baby") is compounded by their chanting while they meditate and playing music he can't stand. Panel 3: Since the wilted flower-child acts like every hippy I've ever met, he whines that a man can't lead a normal life around there. What he means to say is that he can't coerce people into jettisoning their beliefs so as to convenience him. Panel 4: He then seals the deal by angering Elly by saying that he might as well be living at her place. Summary: Having had to deal with people like him and Elly growing up, I kinda picked up quickly on what hippies really meant by 'freedom of expression'. As we see here, it means "Let me do what I want whenever I want to because I have rights. As for you, you have to bend over awkward to accommodate my whims because I have rights and you have none." | | Wednesday, May 16th, 2012 | 9:13 pm
[megan_koumori]
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Take Two
Let's try this again. Here are a handful of unpublished strips from the official website in no particular order. ( Unpublished Palooza ) | 3:55 am
[dreadedcandiru2]
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Thursday, 17 May 2012
Phil decides that because children aren't hip with this "personal property" thing, he wants no part of them. (Strip Number 404, Original Publication Date, 19 May 1983) Panel 1: Now that Lizzie has had her one and only hug, Phil tells Elly that what he needs in his life is stability. He's seeing that Tudor house, a rose garden, a swing set for the kid.... Panel 2: Before he can get to talking about the long lawn and a place for his wheels, Elly shrieks at Lizzie about the fact that she's pouring beer in Phil's trumpet because, ta-da, Elly has stupidly left her unattended again. Panel 3: Phil reminds us that none of the Richards children are good at this whole "linear logic: thing by angrily thought-bubbling "Scratch the kid!!" as he goes to pour the beer out of his trumpet. Summary: I mean, what's his reasoning on this one, eh? "I won't have children because I'd have to pick things up?" That's kinda freaking dumb, right? Also, shouldn't he think "I should have children so I can show that bossy loon Elly how to raise them properly"? I would if I were him!! | | Tuesday, May 15th, 2012 | 4:43 am
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Wednesday, 16 May 2012
Phil gets all pouty because Elly decided to be an attentive parent when he wanted to say something. Lynn must have lifted that from Wright because whoever this is ain't Elly. (Strip Number 403, Original Publication Date, 18 May 1983) Panel 1: Phil starts things off by wanting to talk to Elly about Georgia. Before he can boast about his girl, Elly tells Lizzie to put down the trumpet Phil stupidly left lying around despite knowing that Elly takes her child with her where ever it is she goes. Panel 2: Phil resumes bloviating about how intuitive and how Georgia is someone he can really feel a bond with when Elly tells Lizzie that she can't hug her because Phil is talking. Panel 3: Before he starts talking about how he wants to ask Georgia something, Elly tells Lizzie that she can have one little huggie and that's all. Panel 4: Elly then tells a ticked-off Phil what the matter is. She is, after all, listening. Summary: The Lynnsight will no doubt be about how childless people simply can't understand what it's like to have to care for a new life because they're selfish and evil and wrong. This, of course, is because Lynn is a very conventional "thinker" who has all the imaginative capacity of a briquette and assumes that no one else can ever reason their way into seeing what other people go through. As an example, I can see that Elly has to deal with a three-year old who has a three year old's needs and deal with it despite not having children myself. Since Phil is an idiot, his not being able to do so says something about him: he's a clod without insight or foresight. | | Monday, May 14th, 2012 | 2:34 pm
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Tuesday, 15 May 2012
Elly is rather pointlessly astonished that the over-grown child she calls a kid brother wants a wife to play Mommy for him instead of learning to clean up after himself like an adult. God!! If only there had been a nice, long, brutal war in the seventies to thin the ranks of idiot mama's boys like him and John!!! (Strip Number 402, Original Publication Date, 17 May 1983) Panel 1: Elly looks at the God-awful mess that Phil lives in and asks him if someone came in and ransacked the place. Panel 2: Phil makes a tired excuse about preferring to live in what he calls a natural environment and what a human being with pride in his surroundings would call a mess not fit for a pig. Panel 3: Elly tells the lazy lump that he needs some self-discipline. Panel 4: Since he was raised by Marian to think that women were put on God's Earth to pick up after him, he doesn't get that his declaration that he needs a wife would somehow astonish Elly the way it does. Summary: Like I said, I'm not especially astonished because I know what drives people like Phil to think of women as his servants: being fussed over by a mother who didn't let him life a damned finger growing up. Marian called it 'mother love'. I call it an oar to the stomach of every female contemporary that ever crossed his path. | 12:14 am
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Coffee Talk, the week of 14 May 2012
Well, given that one of the key hidden elements of Sunday's mess is John's schadenfreude at the mess he intends to do nothing about, it would seem that most of the letters this week will be about how all husbands everywhere are slithering vermin who equate being asked to help out around the home to being castrated by a chainsaw. That being said, the men who read this community should probably wear protection. You'll need it. Ouch. |
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