Jill makes an excellent point. I mean, look at Mary. She's been rejecting Jeff's proposals for years. Of course, she's been married before, so she may not be as desperate as Adrian who has been trying to get married for as long as anyone can remember, and is perfectly willing to settle beneath her station.Today's Full Strip
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Oh, it is SO on!
I just figured out who Jill reminds me of -- Jennifer Petkov.
http://www.indyposted.com/117625/jennifer-petkov-fox-news-interview/
I think this latest comment from Jill more or less invalidates the theory that Jill represents Karen Moy's version of us snarking, sneering, HAHAHAHAing bloggers/commentators.
Jill is just a disagreeable person. It's one thing to have a differing opinion about a dress and express it in a socially inept way. It's another thing altogether to whip out a "marrying below yourself" comment at lunch while out shopping for wedding dresses.
Please Mary launch an attack and shame Jill into revealing her backstory which involves cracked plaster and torn curtains. After all, butting in to peoples' lives requires a gentle touch and careful plan of attack. Jill is strictly amateur.
By the way, I love this restaurant and its convenient stone arch time portal. The man with the briefcase is going to go try and kill Hitler.
I have to say I admire Jill's physical stamina! She has NO CHAIR (not that she deserves one)and yet is SUCCESSFULLY scrunching down into a semi-sitting position at the table.
(This is no easy feat as any woman who has ever sugattempted to avoid a yucky toilet seat in a public restroom can attest!)
typo = "attempted"
WHY is Adrian friends with someone like Jill, anyway? And where was she with her beeyotchy comments & observations, when Ted Confrey was around?
Not only that, Vicki, but Adrian and Jill are being forced to share a plate for their milk and cookies. This might be an attempt on the part of some motherly waitress to teach them to get along, but I don't think it's going to work.
I wonder if Adrian's going to fold as quickly on the coice of fiance as she did on the choice of dress. "Well, I don't want to look silly walking down the aisle to marry below me...Maybe I should just call the whole thing off."
I think when she called Jill a type A, she meant type A**.
Always good when a hospital administrator observes social class distinctions, so that medical care isn't wasted on the underclass.
Ohhhh, this is realllly warming up now! At any moment, Mary will have to say "let me tell you a story". And we get Jill's back story as well, including an unloving and deprived childhood.
Meanwhile, poor Jill has to levitate at the table while knocking back milk and cookies.
To quote Julie Brown: Girl Fight Tonight!
I love the background change between panel one and two. I think they are even now being transported back in time to Jill's back story, to a time when Lunch Restaurant was merely Brunch Restaurant.
Awww HAIILLLLL no! While shopping for wedding dresses is a LEEETLE late to be voicing your disapproval of your "friend's" fiance! Mary, do something!!!
also, I'm amazed they can eat at a rotating table without becoming ill. I'm getting motion sickness just reading it...
I like Scott. But it's funny to imagine him on all fours below the lunch table today and that Jill is sitting on him.
I'm hoping that the guy who's leaving in the first panel is an ex-KGB man who was given instructions to lace Jill's glass with cyanide.
Then once she's joined Aldo, we can have a nice backstory on her sad ex-Soviet spy career and why she ended up the way she did.
After all, she could speak with an accent for all we know, and Jill Black is a little too much of an all-purpose name.
I guess the interior of the restaurant rotates for the pleasure of the diners rather than then entire building.
Jill's saying these things on purpose to get Mary's goat! She's goading her into causing a scene in public, something Mary knows is bad form. I can't wait to see Waiter McSnooty's shocked face and Chin Napkin make a hasty retreat.
@birdie:
"I think when she called Jill a type A, she meant type A**."
hahahahahha! Loved it!
@duckdg:
What a great image! That would make Scott below Jill as well as Adrian!
I'd agree that Mary and Adrian are polishing off some frosty milk, but I will wager that Jill is into her 2nd gin and tonic.
Mary sure does sloch in her seat. Terrible posture...
Why did Adrian ever think Jill was her friend to begin with?
Jill: "You call THAT surgery?"
If she wanted someone from the hospital to be friends with, she should have chosen one of the 4th graders for the admission desk.
I think I've got this figured out. Scott and Jill have gotten together to punk Adrian. How about those little scamps? When Mary blows up Scott will step out from under the table and a laugh riot will ensue
I think Mary is just one more snarky comment away from taking off her earrings, rolling up her sleeves, and going medieval on Jill.
''In this corner, wearing the lemon yellow sensible suit, weighing in at 125 pounds, we have Mary ''The Meddler'' Worth! And in this corner, wearing the purple suit and stylish knee high black boots, weighing in a a svelte 115, we have Jill ''The Pill'' Black!''
Maybe anonymous is right and this is all a joke on Adrian... only
instead of Jill and Scott working together, Jill could BE Scott in a wig!
Hey all, it was Chester's big one today! (no not that, Chester does that outside) The big 50! I celebrated with a friend and a magnum of Mumm's(sp) and watched Golden Girls. I am a little buzzy, but I thank you all for making me laugh every day. With you all about, life is a fun trip down New Country Road!
To Wanders, Vicki and Toots...we have been here for years laughing (or decades in MW time) a special thanks!
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Hope you had a good one Chester. Did you engage in that great birthday party game "Salmon Square or Chew Toy"? It's my favorite!
Here's my cards on the table; all in.
Jill wanted Adrian's fiancée once upon a time. She threw herself at him, ignoring all her uber-A instincts; yet, he dumped her.
She swore (!) that no little whiner like Adrian would get him, and now sets out to slowly dissemble the grand wedding plans, one mocking stroke at a time.
I'm with heydave. It now appears that the wedding dress scene was only the opening salvo in what might well become known as the story titled, "Because Jill couldn't have Jeff, no one could." I'm also still on the edge of my seat with regard to Mary and her non-participation in the developments at The Rotating Restaurant. WHEN is she going to DO something already?
Mary IS doing something. She'll settle this problem as she settles all problems, by setting Jill up with a nice young man. In Mary's world, people (except for interweb scammers) are only mean because they are frustrated in love.
Mary's problem is that she's running low on nice young men, so she's taking extra time to wrack her brain for a likely candidate. Maybe Charley Smith is still available?
Happy Birthday Chester! May your skin grow smoother and your posture more erect as you march through the next 50 years.
I know there's a plot development here that deserves attention, but I can't get past Adrian's rank "highly reputed doctor"... ha ha ha ha ...coming from Jill, the most severe and uncompromising critic ever to appear on this strip! Again I say ha ha ha ha!
I just love Adrian's collagen injected lips.
LOL, again with Moy's odd phrasings--I don't think "highly reputed" is the same as "highly reputable"! (Many of us suspect Adrian got her "M.D." from a correspondence course off the interwebs!)
Remember when her dad was so sick in Vietnam? Did it even cross Adrian's little pea-brain to recommend "a broader spectrum of antibiotics?" NOOoooo. That would be "DR" Mary, of course. Who knows WHAT would have happened to poor Dr. Jeff if not for Mary!
p.s. I see waiter McSnooty back there trying to listen in! Love the apron.
Happy belated Birthday to Chester the Dog! The big 5-0!!! Many happy returns, and don't forget to wipe yer paws!
Jill looks remarkably composed as she spews her venom while Mary's giant head gnaws at her elbow.
@birdie: Charley Smith is ALWAYS available, and thinks he could take Jill down a notch or two. If you know what I mean.
I KNOW I KNOW!!! It's not that Jill was in love with Scott; rather, he busted someone she was close to and is responsible for that person being in prison. Jill is out for revenge!
Vicki got it right. Proper use of the word "repute" would have been something like "You are reputed to be a excellent doctor." Of course, we all know that statement would be inaccurate just as it would be inaccurate to say that "Mary Worth" is reputed to be a well written comic strip.
As I read this, a big storm is beginning to move in (literally), with very high winds. My potted mum just flew into the neighbor's yard. This storm is as fierce as ... Mary will be when she finally gets going on Jill!
I'm with heydave, too. Only rejection could drive a woman to such lows as actually LAUGHING at how a friend looks in a wedding gown and seriously DISSING her groom-to-be.
Birdie: Don't forget me! Single and Looking!
Count down Jill's backstory of parental abandonment leading to her unfortunate "Type A" malfunction in 3... 2... 1...
Loving how disgruntled Mary is looking in this arc. Maybe she's feeling threatened by a newer, younger model whose meddling is much more efficient and direct?
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