If by "!," Mary means, "Wilbur brought his own muffin, and it's much bigger than mine," then, yes, "!" is the appropriate response!
Speaking of muffins, our blueberry bushes are bursting, so yesterday Mrs. Wanders and little Gamma Wanders made blueberry muffins ripe with ridiculous deliciousness.
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Yum! I'll bet the Wanders family muffins carry not a trace of kelk. BTW, do the Charterstone apartments come fully furnished? That would account for Mary having the exact same couch, complete with throw pillows, that Wilbur has. The mandatory pink curtains don't go well with the orange uphoslstery, though.
I'm gonna go make cinnamon scones with fresh peach compote. No kelk.
Also, it looks like maybe Wilbur gave MW a black eye. Yikes! Things are really epic in SR.
Oy, I shouldn't have left my sunglasses in the car! The discordant colors in today's strip hurt my eyes. Wilbur, what makes you think that a turquoise shirt coordinates with royal blue pants? Mary must have pulled her purple ensemble out of the back of her closet, circa 1952.
In the second panel, Wilbur's muffin-holding left arm is bursting out of his abdomen - just look at that claw-like hand! "! indeed, Mary!"
Speaking of arms, where is the rest of Mary's right forearm in panel two?
I'm still hopeful that this storyline will be about the trip to Italy and not about Mary taking over Wilbur's column for "a few weeks" (which is now down from "two months" on 6/8 and "practically the whole summer" yesterday).
By the way, Wanders - that muffin looks really good! Blueberry is my favorite kind.
Yum yum yum!! Share the recipe? So much more delicious looking than Mary's or Wilbur's!
What if "!" means "hell no" - then who gets to fill in? Dr. Jeff? Gina? Charlie? D-Dan Smithers? Nola? The happy hobo?
Nice to see Mary wearing her cheerleading costume from the Santa Royale Senior Rugby league.
"Rickety rackety russ!
We're not allowed to cuss!
But d--- it to h---,
We feel so well,
We gotta do it or bust!"
@ Anon 11:07 a.m. -- I hear Wayne the kidnapper isn't busy these days...
After Wilbur eats all five muffin thingys, he's not even going to remember sorry Dawn and her problems. Focus, Wilbur, focus!
That muffin looks delicious. If only the internet had Smell-O-Vision!
I think that in the Worthyverse, ''!'' has many meanings, almost like ''Aloha'' in Hawaii. It could mean joy, befuddlement, amusement, anger, shock, disapproval, all sorts of things. In this case, I wonder if it means ''I'd better be getting paid for this!''
At first blush Mary seemed the perfect fit for the 'Ask Wendy' role.
On second blush (think something along the lines of how Mary's reflections usually get drawn), the fit isn't nearly so clear. While Mary loves to give advice, I don't see her interested in offering it to someone who willingly asks for it.
If she can offer advice however without people writing in and requesting it, I'm sure she'd be willing to sit in.
Describing Mary as "experienced at giving advice" is like describing my plotthound as "experienced at digging holes". Talk about understatements!
Must refrain from commenting on Mary's muffins. Will instead refer people to the Betty White SNL sketch.
--Beagle Vet
Maybe Mary is making the exclamation point sound, ala Victor Borges: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6bpIbdZhrzA&feature=related
And why does Mary look so worked over and forlorn? I thought she was in a bliss of possibilities or some such thing.
Mmmmm, wish you could send me some of those blueberries. In return, I could send you lemons from my tree.
He asked her already? By "Mary Worth" standards, this story is moving at blinding speed. No wonder Mary said "!"
Mary's saying "!" because, after 130 years of giving advice, it's just now occurring to her that she could have been making money at it.
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