This looks like a job for Chin Napkin! Fortunately, Chin Napkin has not been so bored by this conversation ("I've installed the latest security software. It was an automatic upgrade. I clicked on Approve.") that he missed the two suspicious lowlifes passing unusually close to Mary Worth's purse on their way out of the restaurant. He also observed that they left only a 10 percent tip. Scum bags.Today's Full Strip
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What in heaven's name did Mary order for dinner?
Waiter--"And how would you like your fish, madam? Grilled, fried, or poached?"
Mary--"Oh just toss it in the blender with my potato and broccoli. But serve it on a plate tonight."
So you've become super-vigilant about security, eh? As you blithely ignored the guy fumbling through Mary's purse.
Nice going, Toby! Thanks for watching my back, pal.
Yes, Mary, I know more about security now than you do. You and your pathetic, sandwich eating, kite flying, evil smirking Wilbur could ever hope to know.
I bet he doesn't know that a James Dean/Janis Joplin wannabee duo just ripped you off. does he? DOES HE??
Love the look on Mary's face as she says, "Oh?" The look of sheer disappointment that Toby has introduced a topic that is not Mary-is-great related...Or, with all due respect to Mary, could Toby have uttered a less interesting sentence? I would have said Oh, also, followed by some sort of imprecation or swear word.
I think this may be what passes for IRONY in the Worthiverse. Mary lecturing Toby on how "you can never be too safe" as the thieves make their getaway. And actually it IS ironic that Toby's eyes were closed and she was saying "what about me"? just when the robbers struck.
What is that horrible appendage that Mary is using to shovel in her gruel?
wv: excrabl - how fitting.
And hasn't Mary bulked up a bit? Not only does she wield that tiny spork with man hands, but her head looks too small for those broad and beefy shoulders. Are they salting the meals on wheels lunches at the Santa Royale Senior
Center?
Who says "I installed software IN my computer"? Who besides Toby, that is. She looks positively gleeful in the second panel, which makes me wonder if she set up Mary for the theft. Perhaps Toby is peeved that Mary devoted three months to Gina and left her to her own devices (and Professor Chinbeard).
I see that Mary is wearing purple scrubs. Mountainview Hospital must have had an overstocks sale.
Aerial views of Mary are not very flattering, Mr. Giella.
And yes, Wanders, now would be a perfect time for another cameo from Chin Napkin!
Panel 1: Mary's napkin is not in her lap nor has it been used; Pink artifical carcinogenic sweetner offered to patrons.
Panel 2: More stunning wall art on loan from the Metropolitan Museum of Art; Gentleman diner observing curtains inspected recently by SR Curtain Inspection Squad; Mary's upward pointing finger indicating hidden camera in ceiling light fixture as she cautions Toby about "being safe."
@meg 8:40 - I think that's Popeye's arm that Mary has borrowed. Huh, didn't know they were on speaking terms - she must have meddled with Olive Oyl...
Well there it is, our public service message for 2011, brought to you by a strong dose of tough love. How was Mary to know that her Better Homes and Gardens Simple-to-Sew purse would put her at risk for identity theft? Toby knew. Toby has traveled. She knows that bag snatchers and pickpockets strike in Las Ramblas, Rome, Amsterdam and yes, Santa Royale. And Toby has shopped at Enormoushop. She knows all about the pacSAFE travel purse with Smart zipper security. And when obligated to pay for today's lunch, she'll reach for her Zip It Pocket Sock. Because, yes Mary, a lady can never be too safe and... no, her eyes were not all-the-way closed.
Allright! CN is back! Go Chin Nap! Go Chin Nap!
When Mary finds out that the thief is acting out because love is not for him, she will offer advice that will reform him. After all, we know that interweb security and failed love are the only things Moy writes about.
Elaine @10:40- Of course Mary knows Popeye-she met him by saying, "Hello, sailor" at a USO dance during the Spanish-American
War.
Platitude of the day: A fool and his money are soon parted.
Mary's looking suspiciously buffed in that first panel, in her purple scrubs. And pearls. Did she just come from her mugshot or something?
More evidence of the time warp! Restaurant is employing the SUPer Bass-O-Matic '76 to prepare their entrees. After five or ten fish, it gets to be quite a rush!
--Beagle Vet
I'm eagerly waiting Mary's inability to pay for her lunch (and Toby's), thanks to Bonnie & Clyde. Will she have to wash dishes?
Today the part of Mary's body will be played by the body of a linebacker. Mary's head will appear as planned.
Wasn't Chin Napkin from last year? Or 2009? Since I haven't seen it in a long while, Giella must have read this blog, recognised his mistake, and hasn't done it again.
More likely Toby installed malware claiming to be security software - the link embedded in an email sent from Romania.
Q: How do you know you've been reading too much Mary Worth?
A: When you pick up the Wall Street Journal and see the front-page photo of Angela Merkel and Nicolas Sarkozy, and all you can think of is "Hand gestures! Finger pointing! What, no face-touching?"
http://online.wsj.com/itp
Hands up, who thinks that Chin Napkin should get it's own spin-off strip?
(Or better yet, President Chin Napkin? I might just write it in!)
@meg -- "could Toby have uttered a less interesting sentence?"
This is Toby we're talking about. The possibilities are endless.
Toby could have told Mary; ''I recently split the atom and accidentally discovered a substitute for uranium, but it only works on Mars!'' and she would have gotten the same ''Oh?'' response. Mary has NO clue what Toby is talking about. Wait till she tries canceling all her credit cards by snail mail. This is going to be one heck of a story.
i think giella was a big fan of`the addams family beause he always likes to sneak family plant cleopatra into to the strip every other day .resterant scenes only of course
Mary has discovered that her wallet is missing, and she seems only mildly alarmed.
Of course, in the Worthiverse, where things appear and disappear at random, it doesn't do to get too alarmed over misplaced objects. One assumes they will reappear when they're good and ready, just as the table that was missing in panel 1 has reappeared in panel 2.
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