I can't tell if that is supposed to be some sort of generic soda can, or a paper cup, but either way, the cardinal rule in New York City is ALWAYS USE A STRAW! Mary is going to pick up some kind of bacteria, and it isn't going to be pretty.
I never asked to read Ken Kensington's mind. I really didn't want to read Ken Kensington's mind. But I have. And there's nothing I can do about it now.
Mary and Ken are made for each other. They both talk with food in their mouths, they have their elbows on the counter, and neither of them are using plates. It's kismet! (Ken was in the chorus of the original Broadway production of "Kismet" in 1953.)
ReplyDeletePure class/ Pizza in one hand, drink in the other. Ken is obviously attracted to Mary's Fine table manners.
ReplyDeleteMaybe it's not KK'ton's thoughts at all that we're getting. Maybe it's the brown-haired guy behind him, perusing the vast pizza menu.
ReplyDeleteBrown-haired guy: pizza, calzones, fried ravioli, and...what's this? Cannelloni, too? I think I'm falling in love!
Is Broadway Legend Ken Kensington falling in love or is he getting a buzzy feeling from that nitrate-laden, meatlovers slice?
ReplyDeleteI love the jaunty white scarf on the middle background character. A white scarf is a telltale sign of a Broadway legend (or perhaps an aviator). This must be the fanciest pizza joint in New York!
Any thoughts on the restorative properties of pepperoni, Mary?
ReplyDeleteMary is so smitten, she's cross-eyed.
ReplyDeleteNow that Ken's finally loosened his scarf I was so afraid we'd be subjected to a mix of white and yellow chest hair. Thank you, Uncle Joe.
ReplyDeleteDear K2: "Dude, you gotta get out more!"
ReplyDeleteAnd what is it with the uniform? If it's not an I HEART NY shirt it's a white scarf?
ReplyDeleteWhere are we?
This is hard evidence that K2 has been living as a recluse... Falling in love with that narcissistic busy-body is, I'm pretty sure, a sign of having lost touch with reality after living in a cave for a few years.
ReplyDeleteAnd after all that build-up of hearing how much she LOVES New York... how Mary-like it will be for her to tell him that she couldn't possibly relocate from Santa Royale. She couldn't do that to her minions, self-sacrificing martyr that she is.
Look at Mary's drunken face in P2 -- it's definitely a can of beer "disguised" in a festive wrapper.
ReplyDeleteAlso, it's great that Chin Napkin has draped itself over Ken's neck in anticipation of spills. It's such a great napkin!!
That's an interesting observation, Wanders. When I moved to NYC from the provinces I noticed that every time I bought a soda in a deli they always gave me a straw. Since I'd been drinking sodas from vending machines all my life I found this charming. I eventually learned that most NY-ers believe that if your mouth touches a soda can lip you will die from horrible, horrible germs.
ReplyDeleteI know it seems like weeks, Ken, it does to all of us, but let me do the real time math. You met her, ummmm...yesterday. If you press a relationship with Mary Worth, you run the risk of going over a cliff somewhere.
ReplyDeleteOh, K2, wise men say only fools rush in.
ReplyDeleteMmmm ... that Ken Kensington sure is dashing!
ReplyDelete@ anonymous 12/17 10:03 AM: LOLOLOL!!!
ReplyDeleteI'm waiting for the next love intervention - Gina, Bobby, John Dill, all the NY folks coming together to help put some space between K2 and Mary. I just don't see how this storyline could possibly end well for K2 . . .
ReplyDeleteWhen I read this strip, I kept wishing that 2K would break out in a song from the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical Cinderella called "Ten Minutes Ago" http://youtu.be/OIe2Y5lgahQ
ReplyDeleteI would love to see them dance to this in the pizzeria/Grand Central waiting room.
Maybe you can add this to the Charterstone Jukebox, Wanders.