Pithy secret message, Wanders. Apparently Eve has a talent for selective understatement. I’d like to see flashbacks of Greta saving Saul multiple times — huh? Has he forgotten about the late Bella? Greta came into his life when he was grieving for Bella, and it’s fair to say she saved him then, but what were the innumerable other times she saved him? Did she divert him from numerous potential accidents on their daily walks, like steering him away from open manholes? Did she pull him away from a tipsy Toby driving in the Charterstone parking lot? Did Saul almost electrocute himself with Mr. Alora’s electric hedge trimmers before Greta woofed to divert him?
@HelenClark, if you are not familiar with the comic strips “Frazz” and “Rhymes with Orange,” check them out! I have a feeling you’d like them. Both are slyly witty and make the reader think (especially “Frazz” — some days I have to ponder for awhile before the light bulb goes off, and I smile).
I’ll add an old joke to @Anonymous’s collection of salmon word plays yesterday at 3:24 p.m.: Did you hear that Ella Fitzgerald and Sammy Davis, Jr., are opening a deli together? They’re calling it Sam & Ella’s.
Yoo-hoo! Karen May! I have a great idea for a new storyline! When Wilbur steps out on Estelle’s veranda, Libby the cat runs by him and disappears into the Great Wood of Charterstone. Then Wilbur and Estelle have to search for her! Whaddaya mean, it’s been done?
Stay tuned for Monday's exciting new storyline, where Greta runs into the woods and Max has to help track her down. Unfortunately, they'll find her in the road with tire tracks running comically over her midsection. Or was that just a dream I had?
@HelenClark: I did have a big stack of comics as a kid, but stopped buying them as an adolescent. With the advent of eBay, however, I reacquired almost every comic (and toy) from my childhood, especially a bunch of Classics Illustrated. I've read the newspaper comic strips all my life. Most of them, anyway. I never had any interest in MW until I discovered Wanders' blog, bless his heart. As for Rex Morgan, consider that the plot consuming the last 3 months has involved his patient, Buck, feeling run down, discovering he had diabetes, having one last fast food fling, and then settling into a decent diet. Oy.
@Baffled in Buffalo; @KitKat - thanks for your suggestions of comics to add to my list - I'll check those out. And thanks to everyone for not suggesting Family Circus!
@Yahoonski - you must have quite a collection! eBay reminds me of how old I am when I see the toys from my childhood listed as antiques! Rex Morgan's patient, Buck, should have gone to see Iris's first doctor. He'd have been told his symptoms were just part of aging.
@Yahoonski, I, too, subject myself to Rex Morgan MD every day. The extended PSA about type II Diabetes (I made the diagnosis well ahead of Rex) was dreary enough, but now we’re facing a storyline featuring the Morgans’ annoying bratty daughter. The artist, unfortunately, cannot draw children.
SATURDAY. Ok, I get it. Dogs are good. Cats are good. I’m in complete agreement. In addition, horses are good, but not adapted to condo living. Ditto to baby goats, although they’re super cute, especially when wearing pajamas. Eve and Saul are emphatically not cute, not even when played by Ed Asher and the late Bea Arthur. So if this damn storyline goes beyond Sunday, I’m just going to go sit in the back yard and feed carrots to the groundhog that lives under the shed. She’s kind of cute.
Saul: “I was veering toward becoming a recluse… until my dog entered my life.” Eve: “Max is such a gift to me with his loyalty and affection.”
Saul: “I was thinking I’d go to the garage tomorrow and get my car tires rotated.” Eve: “I should probably stop by Freda’s tomorrow and pick up some more salmon.”
Saul: “I had to have a hernia repaired a few years ago.” Eve: “I wonder if I should get my hair permed.”
Saul: “I might stop at the pharmacy on my way back to pick up some PreparationH.” Eve: “I was thinking of trying blue eye shadow instead of gray.”
Saul: “Thanks for lunch. Guess I should head home now.” Eve: “What?”
@HelenClark: That is LOL dialogue you have constructed!
Loving the idea f casting for the Mary Worth TV show/movie. As for Tommy, I can see either the "Fast Times at Ridgemont High" era Sean Penn, or maybe Brad Pitt in "Troy." Could Raymond Burr handle Ian's Scottish accent? I think so. I can't at the moment think of anyone dim enough to be Dawn.
Perhaps it's unfair of me to pick on Meghan Markle. I know nothing about the woman, and I certainly did not watch her interview with Oprah. However, in general, how wise is it to piss off the Queen? Anyone care for a "Bloody Mary"?
Is our long Worthiverse nightmare finally over, or are we in for another mind-rotting week of dog worship? At one time I thought we might see Saul and Eve take it to the next level, but they probably don't have enough love left after all the fawning they do over their mutts.
-- S. McW.
P.S. For Iris, maybe Reese Witherspoon instead of Goldie.
I’ve never much cared for salmon, but would eat it if served to me at someone’s house. No more. KM has made me hate salmon, and now she’s working on dogs!
I notice both dogs have their mouths closed today which could mean self-suffocation, a likely result of a week+ cloying tributes to the wonder of dogs.
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Today's Boredface Haiku is titled
"What Centenarians Say At The End Their Visits With One Another".
Literally!
Keep living!
Pithy secret message, Wanders. Apparently Eve has a talent for selective understatement. I’d like to see flashbacks of Greta saving Saul multiple times — huh? Has he forgotten about the late Bella? Greta came into his life when he was grieving for Bella, and it’s fair to say she saved him then, but what were the innumerable other times she saved him? Did she divert him from numerous potential accidents on their daily walks, like steering him away from open manholes? Did she pull him away from a tipsy Toby driving in the Charterstone parking lot? Did Saul almost electrocute himself with Mr. Alora’s electric hedge trimmers before Greta woofed to divert him?
@HelenClark, if you are not familiar with the comic strips “Frazz” and “Rhymes with Orange,” check them out! I have a feeling you’d like them. Both are slyly witty and make the reader think (especially “Frazz” — some days I have to ponder for awhile before the light bulb goes off, and I smile).
I’ll add an old joke to @Anonymous’s collection of salmon word plays yesterday at 3:24 p.m.: Did you hear that Ella Fitzgerald and Sammy Davis, Jr., are opening a deli together? They’re calling it Sam & Ella’s.
Apparently those salmon-flavored pineapple rings were the first thing to be gobbled up. Or chowed down? Yum.
Yoo-hoo! Karen May! I have a great idea for a new storyline! When Wilbur steps out on Estelle’s veranda, Libby the cat runs by him and disappears into the Great Wood of Charterstone. Then Wilbur and Estelle have to search for her! Whaddaya mean, it’s been done?
There is no horse dead enough that Moy won't give it a couple hundred more whacks.
Great BFH title, Nance!
-- Scottie McW.
Stay tuned for Monday's exciting new storyline, where Greta runs into the woods and Max has to help track her down. Unfortunately, they'll find her in the road with tire tracks running comically over her midsection. Or was that just a dream I had?
@HelenClark: I did have a big stack of comics as a kid, but stopped buying them as an adolescent. With the advent of eBay, however, I reacquired almost every comic (and toy) from my childhood, especially a bunch of Classics Illustrated. I've read the newspaper comic strips all my life. Most of them, anyway. I never had any interest in MW until I discovered Wanders' blog, bless his heart. As for Rex Morgan, consider that the plot consuming the last 3 months has involved his patient, Buck, feeling run down, discovering he had diabetes, having one last fast food fling, and then settling into a decent diet. Oy.
@Baffled in Buffalo; @KitKat - thanks for your suggestions of comics to add to my list - I'll check those out. And thanks to everyone for not suggesting Family Circus!
@Yahoonski - you must have quite a collection! eBay reminds me of how old I am when I see the toys from my childhood listed as antiques! Rex Morgan's patient, Buck, should have gone to see Iris's first doctor. He'd have been told his symptoms were just part of aging.
HelenClark
@Yahoonski, I, too, subject myself to Rex Morgan MD every day. The extended PSA about type II Diabetes (I made the diagnosis well ahead of Rex) was dreary enough, but now we’re facing a storyline featuring the Morgans’ annoying bratty daughter. The artist, unfortunately, cannot draw children.
So Eve had a "difficult marriage"....guess it was because of Gary. He was such a character.
SATURDAY. Ok, I get it. Dogs are good. Cats are good. I’m in complete agreement. In addition, horses are good, but not adapted to condo living. Ditto to baby goats, although they’re super cute, especially when wearing pajamas. Eve and Saul are emphatically not cute, not even when played by Ed Asher and the late Bea Arthur. So if this damn storyline goes beyond Sunday, I’m just going to go sit in the back yard and feed carrots to the groundhog that lives under the shed. She’s kind of cute.
Fauxprof: I love your idea of Ed Asher and the late Bea Arthur as Saul and Eve. How about Betty White as Mary and Danny DeVito as Wilbur ?
@fauxprof and @Steve,
You two are onto something. Goldie Hawn as Iris and Ben Stiller as Zak.
-- Scottie McW.
SATURDAY:
Saul: “I was veering toward becoming a recluse… until my dog entered my life.”
Eve: “Max is such a gift to me with his loyalty and affection.”
Saul: “I was thinking I’d go to the garage tomorrow and get my car tires rotated.”
Eve: “I should probably stop by Freda’s tomorrow and pick up some more salmon.”
Saul: “I had to have a hernia repaired a few years ago.”
Eve: “I wonder if I should get my hair permed.”
Saul: “I might stop at the pharmacy on my way back to pick up some PreparationH.”
Eve: “I was thinking of trying blue eye shadow instead of gray.”
Saul: “Thanks for lunch. Guess I should head home now.”
Eve: “What?”
HelenClark
SATURDAY
If there are any bones in that salmon, now would be the right time to lodge themselves in the throats of Saul and Eve.
@HelenClark: That is LOL dialogue you have constructed!
Loving the idea f casting for the Mary Worth TV show/movie. As for Tommy, I can see either the "Fast Times at Ridgemont High" era Sean Penn, or maybe Brad Pitt in "Troy." Could Raymond Burr handle Ian's Scottish accent? I think so. I can't at the moment think of anyone dim enough to be Dawn.
Hmmm, I wonder if KM has a dog, just wondering...
@Yahoonski - Thanks! I try to help KM out whenever I can.
The actress to play Dawn? How about Meghan Markle? She doesn't come across as being the sharpest knife in the drawer.
HelenClark
Perhaps it's unfair of me to pick on Meghan Markle. I know nothing about the woman, and I certainly did not watch her interview with Oprah. However, in general, how wise is it to piss off the Queen? Anyone care for a "Bloody Mary"?
HC
Kirsten Dunst as Toby?
Darryl Hammond doing his Sean Connery impersonation as Ian?
To play Dawn...how about one of those Curie twins? One of them was in Madame's Place back in the day.
SUNDAY
Is our long Worthiverse nightmare finally over, or are we in for another mind-rotting week of dog worship? At one time I thought we might see Saul and Eve take it to the next level, but they probably don't have enough love left after all the fawning they do over their mutts.
-- S. McW.
P.S. For Iris, maybe Reese Witherspoon instead of Goldie.
I’ve never much cared for salmon, but would eat it if served to me at someone’s house. No more. KM has made me hate salmon, and now she’s working on dogs!
I notice both dogs have their mouths closed today which could mean self-suffocation, a likely result of a week+ cloying tributes to the wonder of dogs.
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