Saturday, December 29, 2012

Mary Worth 1,494

While John Dill is distracted by the legal mumbo-jumbo of his three page entry form, his mustache slowly creeps past his nasolabial fold in a desperate effort to escape. Mustache has seen what happens when John let's his cake dream get the best of him. Two words: frosting rake.

Today's Full Strip

11 comments:

Joolz said...

Mary had better stop her obsessive exercising and start working on her paperwork. She is entering the cake contest as Mr. Dill's assistant (per her announcement to Toby on Thursday), and the forms for the cake contest assistant are not going to fill out, notarize, and timely file in triplicate themselves.

Nance said...

Panel Two is the most ridiculously melodramatic and Unintentionally Sinister panel ever written/drawn about cake decorating EVER.

If only John Dill would use his powers for Evil instead of Good, this plot would be fantastic.

fauxprof said...

@Nance: I've gotta agree. John Dill is beginning to creep me out, too.

On a side note. I love books. Our house is overflowing with books, hardback, paperback, even E-books. But, while I have been known to read at the kitchen table while alone, I have never had even cookbooks neatly shelved on the table, along with the salt and pepper shakers and the sugarbowl/ashes urn.

heydave said...

Why do I get the feeling that seeing John Dilly's cake will come complete with soundtrack: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8Kyi0WNg40

Anonymous said...

it must takeover a week i guess to fill out a form for cupcake wars tv show . because john dill started reading his local cake contest in the light and hes still reading it in the dark

TeacherPatti said...

@Nance, you crack me up! :)

Okay friends--when is the last time you have actually hand written a form for anything? Other than my passport application, I don't think I've handwritten more than a handful (hahahahahaha ha!) of forms in the past few years. But good ol' Santa Royale looks at the computer machine and waves dismissively at it as it prints out page after page after page of cake forms.

Anonymous said...

Maybe Eleanor died from frosting overdose since John's obsessive habit of cake-making resulted in only one food source in the Dill's house. Breakfast - carrot cake. Lunch - sheet cake. Dinner - pink unicorn cake. Day after day, only cake to eat.

KitKat said...

I'm hoping for an Eleanor flashback. I picture her as a battle-ax who made life hell for her milquetoast husband: "John, your cake dream is a pipe dream! Now take your whisk and beat it!"

katyb said...

@Teacher Patti
Cake forms! AKA Cake dummies!
http://www.countrykitchensa.com/shop/cake-decorating-supplies/cake-forms-styrofoam-dummies/38/598/75/
Maybe Santa Royale is more advanced than we think and actually has a newfangled 3D printer or two floating around. And John Dill has one. In that case, be afraid. Be very afraid!

Spode said...

I say this without irony: as I type on my computer in the basement, I am wearing an official Mary Worth T-shirt, and next to me is a Mary Worth mug, which I drank tea out of this morning, the one with the panel in which Mary says, "You didn't need to get liquored up!"

Such is life. I don't want to come across as a "concern troll." But I find I have an urgent need to regard Karen Moy and Joe Giella as great geniuses. They may even be smarter than the great and silly minds that make up this awesome blog.

TeacherPatti said...

@katyb I would be so proud of our Santa Royaliens if they had something so advanced. And that Dill could turn it on all by himself :)