Monday, December 14, 2020

Mary Worth 3520

"Thank you, Tommy. And it's so beautifully wrapped. But just like you, it's what's on the inside that matters."

18 comments:

Anonymous said...

Tommy: "Hi Mary. I got you a gift."

Mary: "No, Tommy. You "bought" me a gift. There's no such word as "got."

HelenClark

Yahoonski said...
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Yahoonski said...

Fruit of the cleanup on Aisle 7.

KitKat said...

Good one, HelenClark!

How thoughtful of Tommy to throw all the single overripe, banged-up, blackened bananas into a bag and bring them to Mary. It’s truly the gift that keeps on giving.

Anonymous said...


Groan, some of you guys called it -- it's victory lap week. So let's all settle in for heaping helpings of Marypraise and platters of platitudes.

-- Scottie McW.

Nance said...

Today's (Are We There Yet?) Boldface Haiku is titled

"The Murder Hornets Are Scamming The Elderly".

[BUZZ! BUZZ!]
(Who?)
Hello! See!
Hi! Gift!

KitKat said...

Nance, I’m amazed at your continuing ability to be both topical and hilarious. Brilliant!

Scottie McW., “Marypraise” should be added to the MW & Me lexicon. Does that meet with your approval, Wanders? (I confess, when I first glanced at it, I read it as “Mayonnaise.”)

Chester the Dog said...

A bag of broken glass? Lets make muffins!

Carlye said...

Mary's thinking, and just when I'd gotten rid of the Tommy stench from the last time he was here. He brought you some banana bread from the store. Got to be better than the cardboard you passed off on me the last time I was here.

LouiseF said...

Happy to see a nod to the season with Mary's Christmas tree. I imagine the story conference between KM and JB. "C'mon. You shut out any ideas of addressing life under COVID. You got to at least give me a Christmas tree or a Menorah or something for Kwanza to draw into the strip." KM: "Oh, OK. But no sneaking any Santa ornaments with masks into the illustration. I really hate those."

meg said...

NOOOOOO!!! Mary! For the love of Moy, don’t open the bag! That doesn’t say FredA’s. It says FredO’s. And we all know FredO sleeps with the fishes....The question is: FredO’s WHAT? (It ain’t banana bread. I’m just sayin’.)

Anonymous said...

he changed his shirt finally .also its from his work the gift he probably stole it

Downpuppy said...

Congrats, meg!
Fish it is.

fauxprof said...

You might want to check the expiration date on that salmon, Mary.

KitKat said...

Fauxprof, I figure the “Use by” date on that salmon is from the second Clinton administration. What a memorable New Year’s Eve it’ll be when Mary serves her classic salmon squares!

Vince said...

I am completely open to being wrong on this, but isn't a package of lunch meat an unusual thing to give as a present?

Carlye said...

I distinctly remember that Mary used canned salmon for her salmon squares. Nothing as good as smoked salmon.

Anonymous said...


I will be bigly disillusioned if Mary doesn't chuck that thing right in the garbage the second Tommy leaves. I prefer to believe that she prepares her salmon squares from fresh salmon flown in daily from Alaska to her boutique grocer.

-- Scottie McW.