Wednesday, November 28, 2012

Mary Worth 1,466

Okay, now she is just toying with us.

Poor Jim.

Does Local University offer a class in Basic Human Interaction?

Dawn. When a guy tells a woman that he wants to be more than friends, it means he doesn't want to be just friends! Get it? It's pretty simple.

When a woman tells that guy she just wants to be friends, and then sends him text messages, emails, and voice messages to the same point, it means that the guy dodged a bullet.

Today's Full Strip

20 comments:

fauxprof said...

Note Dawn's comment in panel two: "What a loss." Given Dawn's self-centered style, she is probably referring to Jim's loss of her incomparable presence. We, the readers, are more than ready to suffer that exact loss ourselves. Moving on, please, Ms. Moy?

Dave in Parma said...

How utterly rude if Jim to not respond to Dawn's texts, e-mail's, voice messages, sky written messages, snail mail, etc. professing her friendship after she spurned his advances!

Wait! Here comes a text from Jim now: "Can see from your incessant messaging you've changed your mind! I Love you! I love you! I love you!"

Jim's "Hands-Free" Mobile Device said...

OF COURSE Jim isn't responding! Dawn keeps trying to call and text him on her Kindle!

Nance said...

ZZZZZZZZZZZZzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz...What? Oh.

Dawn "wants to be friends." How classic.

And tomorrow, she will still want to be friends. And the next day, same thing. And the next. By the time we get to Sunday, she will be back at Mary's for pie and Plato quotes, and we will be rummaging through the liquor cabinets and eschewing both ice and a glass.

Now where's my swizzle stick?


Alrighty then.

meg said...

Candygram.

birdie said...

Does Dawn still get college credit if the guy she's trying to "help" flees?

KitKat said...

Hey Dawn, why don't you roll yourself up in a rug and have yourself delivered to Jim? If worked for Cleopatra when she wanted to cozy up to Julius Caesar.

Not Moy said...

Kurt Vonngut's Creative Writing 101:

1) Use the time of a total stranger in such a way that he or she will not feel the time is wasted.
2)Give the reader at least one character he or she can root for.
3)Every sentence must do one of two things—reveal character or advance the action.
4)Start as close to the end as possible.
5)Be a sadist. No matter sweet and innocent your leading characters, make awful things happen to them—in order that the reader may see what they are made of.
6)Give your readers as much information as possible as soon as possible.

Sure sounds like Moy to me.

Dave in Parma said...

Jim has been having a bear of a time trying to both hold his cell phone and trying to type a text back. Use 'speak to type' Jim!

heydave said...

That cell phone has become a tablet, if I'm not mistaken.

I ca't wait for Dawn to be seen wielding a laptop with accessory keyboard, punching away her little no/yes missives.

Anonymous said...

Why doesn't Dawn go to the hospital where she supposedly is volunteering? Jim hangs out there all the time, especially in the cafeteria. Just ask around if anyone has seen the dude with one arm, should be easy to track down.

Mike in Cleveland said...

@Anon, 11:19am

Going to the hospital would be too obvious. Moy is trying to illustrate all the ways we can not get in touch with each other.

Here's a link talking about what I have been experiencing just in my family for the last five years:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/01/opinion/sorry-wrong-in-box.html?_r=0

Anonymous said...

@Mike - so is this going to be another technology and the internets are evil story line? Wonderful . . .

ethel mertz said...

@meg - HAHAHAHAHAHA!!

heydave said...

OK, let's liven this drab dumbitude up...

How long will this "friends only" nonsense with Dawn limp along?

My guess is no new story line (hahahahaha... oh, I make myself laugh) until Dec. 17.

Wager is adult beverages on Wanders' front lawn, assuming he has a sense of humor about such things...

Anonymous said...

With all the mixed messages, when do you think Jim is going to finally understand that Dawn just wants to be friends?

Anonymous said...

What an ingrate! There are girls that would give their right arm, for a guy like Jim.

Anonymous said...

heydave - you're on. I say New Year's Eve....

kathyo said...

Seriously? Well Dawn, I'd say let it go for a few weeks and see if he comes around. In the meantime, send him a Chistmas card with a handwritten, sincere, heartfelt letter folded inside (it should be about HIM, not you BTW). Oh who am I kidding--you're not capable of heartfelt prose. Nor is Moy.

Anonymous said...

Meg FTW! "I'm only a dolphin, ma'am."

--Beagle Vet