And each of them actually IS different from panel to panel... so that's cool too. I don't have much to say, except nice mug. Now everyone go out and make a difference, okay? Do something today that Mary would do if she could be there herself. Let's have another Not-A-Real-Contest Contest. Let me know what you do today that Mary would have done, and the Condo Board will choose a winner who will get to nominate a song for the Charterstone Jukebox.
Today's Full Strip
GAAAH! Make it stop! Not just the endless stream of platitudes, but Emily gobbling up the kelkies. It's enough to make me want to pour my coffee into the left side of my face, like Mary.
ReplyDeleteI don't like the way they look at me down at the coffee shop. I think I'll delay them by acting befuddled, counting out change in pennies, until the police arrive!
ReplyDeleteWhat did I do that Mary would have done? Hmmm. WWMD?
ReplyDeleteI made a pot of molten-hot coffee and brought a casserole to a neighbor... Unfortunately, I am disqualified because, alas, there was no salmon, kelk or flak in my casserole.
How about "Proud Mary" for the juke... because, OBVIOUSLY, she is.
Oh, and I want an "I 'heart' Santa Royale" coffee mug!
ReplyDeleteand everyone now: " We are the World! We are the Children, We are the one's who make a brighter day, so let's start giving..."
ReplyDeleteI shoveled my neighbor's sidewalk and then spent three calling firneds and telling them how I. like all of us, can make a difference.
ReplyDeleteI resisted the urge to dig my fingernails into my daughter's head - unlike Emily's mother, in panel two.
ReplyDeleteAnd Mary, remember to open your mouth before you drink.
WV: tingimpl - the feeling I got when I saw the "I 'heart' Santa Royale mug".
I think after I drink my coffee (which is not steaming; I have the heat turned on in the house) I will call all the parents of young children I know and warn them if they take their kids out to eat, they need to watch out for demented old people who read "Mary Worth" and take it seriously. "Take the birth certificate(s) with you, and don't hang around if you're offered a free dessert," I'll say.
ReplyDeleteAnd now I feel all smug and heroic...what a great way to start the day!
What a fun idea, looking at life through Mary's eyes, and I've got the perfect situation for it too. We're expecting a guest today!
ReplyDeleteMy husband's college friend and best man, a former ER doctor, disappeared 10 years ago and has only recently returned to California. What happened over these past 10 years? Where has he been? He no longer practices medicine!! Why not?
Let's see... WWMD? Maybe I'll let the men catch-up at the dinner table, just around the corner from the kitchen. I'll be busy preparing pinkish rice and platitudes.
Questions about today's strip: a. Why wasn't the "I [heart] Santa Royale" slogan on Mr. Smith's mug two days ago? b. Can I buy a Santa Royale mug at the Santa Royale Indoor Soccer Team team shop? c. Did Emily contract head lice during her time with Wayne?
ReplyDeleteI make a point of trying to never do anything that Mary Worth does.
Oh my gosh....our paper printed the wrong strip for today! We must have gotten a preview of a future plot!!! Here I was thinking, "boy, that is the must awkward transition that I have seen from one storyline to the next." In reality, we must be a week ahead!
ReplyDeleteWhile I have no clue what this means, I will give you a preview of what may be a coming attraction.
Nola......food....."rave reviews".
Let the guessing begin.
wv. xyphiti-a previously unknown pasta
jmerni - if it's "food" and "rave reviews" then thankfully we won't be revisiting the diner.
ReplyDeleteToday I shall meddle in the lives of my husband and children, but in vague and ineffective ways. I will give platitudinous advice, urge them to do something, ponder the imponderable, and, at the end of my meddlesome day, prepare a hearty colorless meal of little squares and circles with an overly generous pouring of gravy. I just know I can make a difference!
I will go to New Orleans with Wilbur. According to him, Emeril's new restaurant, NOLA, has wonderful food and has gotten rave reviews. I will order coffee.
ReplyDeleteI will leave my sweater there.
I spent six years working toward an important certification in my industry and received the certification this week. Today I organized a celebratory dinner with my family and some friends so that they could congratulate me on my accomplishment. (True sort of.) I think that is something Mary would do.
ReplyDeleteWWMWD? This morning I woke up extra early, because "Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise." I spent some time making a loaf of Kelk bread sprinkled with Flak seed. As it was aboout 6 am, I woke up my neighbors to give them the loaf and have an hour's conversation with them. Through my rose-colored glasses I could see how happy they were with my gift.
ReplyDeleteIt was snowing on my way to work, so I drove very slowly--for safety, because "You can never be too safe, or careful." I could hear all the other drivers behind me honking in support. And of course, whenever I saw someone waiting to enter traffic from a driveway or side street, I would stop to let each and every one of them in, because "There's always room for one more" and "The more, the merrier."
After spreading happiness to my fellow commuters, I reached my job which is the quintessential Mary Worth occupation: teaching. In one lecture I was able to express my main point in 14 trivially different ways, all the while hiding one of my hands in the folds of my clothes or behind my back, sometimes in the seat of my pants. The course? Platitudes 101: From Aesop to Moy.
Tonight, I will take my mother out to dinner and the conversation I will offer will make that dinner last a good two days, thus extending her life span, or seemingly so.
Yes, Wanders, I take your suggestion to heart and pledge to live every day as Mary Worth would.
I vote for Mike. I am not Worthy enough.
ReplyDeleteMy WV this time is "gerables" which sounds like baby food for the elderly.
I vote for Mike in Cleveland, too, and also CONGRATS to Anon on earning the certification!!
ReplyDeleteLet's see...I actually have done NOTHING to "make a difference" today! This isn't Santa Royale..it's cold and windy here, so I've stayed inside all day. I listened to music and worked on a drawing and played with my two cats.
I can't seem to get it right.
ReplyDeleteI did some gardening today, but it was for herbs, not roses.
I went out to eat, but there were no flying fish in the air at all. It was an Indian restaurant, and there were only tasteful Indian pictures.
I tell my teen-aged son to be careful all the time and I don't get grateful expressions. All I get is eyerolls.
When I tried to use strangely stilted language, people laughed at me.
***sigh***
I guess I'm just not Worthy.
"Do something today that Mary would do if she could be there herself."
ReplyDeleteI had some coffee at a local diner and left my sweater there.
I drove some muddy Boy Scouts home from a campout (true story). While driving home I lectured them about staying safe, keeping warm and dry, and being kind to one and all.
ReplyDeleteOne scout forgot two pairs of shoes at the campsite, so we drove back through the mud to get them. Upon returning to retrieve the shoes, I looked for kidnapped children. Couldn't find any (I am sure if we'd gone back for a sweater we would have had better luck finding a lost child).
I was determined to make it a Mary day anyways so later on, I made a casserole for a friend who had surgery. When I delivered it, I congratulated myself for being such a great person.
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ReplyDeleteI visited my brother to see his new grandbaby. I think that is definitely something Mary would do.
ReplyDeleteI know I am not on the condo board but I am torn between Mike from Cleveland's day and Chester the dog's. I think they are both very MaryWorthy.
Screw it! I'm putting on my mirrored shades, calling up some hep young babe and we're going to rip off the oldies at Perkin's.
ReplyDeletewv:boonitat... is what they say at fancy restaurants!
(Sunday's strip)
ReplyDeleteNaturally, Mary had to mention that she made the cookies herself. She's so wonderful that way.
"Emy's" dad is right - "There aren't enough words!" This conversation has gone on WAY too long...
Also... Once again the layout of the room has changed. The door is gone, there's a window behind the sofa, etc.
ReplyDeleteAnd everyone but Mr. Smith has changed their outfit (which they often do in Sunday's strips).
I tried:
ReplyDeleteI trimmed our rosemary plants, but ended up with chapped hands and a cut on my thumb.
I prepared a pinkish dish (fiesta rice); it was far too colorful.
Our guest shared more than one story
and more than one mistake...
mistakes which he had already learned from.
In the ten years since we had last seen him, I've aged ten years.
This morning, I will go to church and say, "I am not worthy..."
but I tried.
when did emilys mom change into a young hillary clinton?
ReplyDeleteArrrrrrrrgggggghhhhhhhh! Monday HAS to be a ''Meanwhile...'' Right?
ReplyDeleteI know, Mary! I worry about our species' reputation all the time. Just WHAT was Wayne thinking!? Great job on the cookies, by the way!
ReplyDeleteWith today's strip, I have officially reached the point of needing to vomit. Thank you, Mary Worth.
ReplyDeleteMonday's strip finally gives us a pool party! And we get an intro to Nola
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