Friday, August 24, 2018

Mary Worth 2958

Each in his or her own way, is a village idiot.

16 comments:

Anonymous said...


Do any of you know if The Village People recorded anything appropriate for the Charterstone juke?

-- Scottie McW.

Downpuppy said...

This victory lap is getting crowded. What if Mary takes a second to celebrate her magnaminity?
The scream you hear will be mine.

Nance said...

Today's Boldface Haiku is titled

"Every Rose Has Its Thorn And Is Stronger At Its Mended Places, So I Hope You Dance".

Long-term promising!
Grateful!
You!
Does village.
Together.

fauxprof said...

Let’s see...one more day of Mary’s victory lap, then a Sunday Summary recapping said victory lap, then...something actually new on Monday? I’ve given up all hope of a pool party, but perhaps the next storyline will involve neither Beedies nor Westons. Oh, a procedural point comes to mind. Can we surmise that Tommy and Brandy will now disappear forever, or do we have to have an actual legal marriage for that to occur? As I recall, Gina and her soccer player had to turn back up and participate in a Mary-sanctioned wedding before they went into the Worthiverse’s netherworld.

KitKat said...

I can’t improve on Wanders’s post and his secret message.

@Nance, once again your haiku title is a zinger!

@fauxprof, if there IS a wedding (I doubt that), picture Fr. Feelgood as the celebrant and Mary as Matron of Meddling.

Mary and Iris must have gotten a BOGO deal at the House of Ugly Shoes.

Chester the Dog said...

This is getting out of control. Santa Royale is turning into a dangerous place. Platitudes and trite cliches behind every tree, around every corner.

If there is a wedding, Zak better be there!

Delilah said...

"It takes a village" - Hillary Clinton
"We're all in this together" - Red Green

Regina Wolfe-Parks said...

Scottie McW, I took up the challenge and looked at every Village People song recorded. Most of them aren't family friendly. However, Maybe Tommy could join the navy and we could request "In the Navy" (but that won't happen because he's such a slacker) or he could leave Mommy's house and live in the YMCA. (But why leave somewhere where you live rent free?)

Are we going to have Mary and Iris doing a week of banal quotations? Can we put this story to rest and have a story that doesn't include Westons or Beedies? I'll even take a story with Chinbeard and his bromance with Hilton Berkes again.

Anonymous said...

I would like to point out that the full proverb is "it takes a village to raise a child," which means that Iris is talking about how she's still raising her child, Tommy, and that Brandy is helping to raise that child, which is kind of weird and gross.

That said, I'll just reflect on the fact that the rifle-toting prison guard who forced Tommy to mop at gunpoint was just one of the villagers helping to raise the child.

Raphael

Anonymous said...


SATURDAY

Baby and Lover Boy -- they're the ginchiest!

-- S. McW.

Anonymous said...

SUNDAY

Am I seeing things? Over at Comics Curmudgeon, Josh has pinned up not only the Sunday beach scene with Brandy and Tommy, but if you scroll down, he ALSO has up a two-panel showing a.. I can hardly believe it.. a long overdue Charterstone POOL PARTY!! What is going on??

Anonymous said...


SUNDAY

"Tommy, My Love, if you call me 'Baby' one more time, I'll shove this bottle of suntan lotion right down your gullet."

And speaking of baby, that toddler playing in the sand has the face of a 70-year-old.

MONDAY (presumably)

Again with the damn muffins? Again? Enough already!

-- S. McW.

KitKat said...

SUNDAY
@Anonymous, what a find! The pool party strip is dated 8:27/18 (tomorrow). No spoilers from me, but check it out, people!

Today’s strip; Holy moly, these two dunderheads deserve each other, and they deserve banishment from the Worthiverse forever. Tommy’s “baby” reminds me of The Honeymooners and Ralph Kramden calling his wife, Alice, “baby” after threateningl to send her “to the moon!” (This was an old TV show, kids - search YouTube.)

That toddler on the beach is the scariest creature June has ever drawn. Looks like an adult woman’s head stuck on a doll - yikes!!!!!! Maybe June is rebelling.

Anonymous said...

I think we should all pray that June didn't use a real kid as a model for that toddler. I don't think even a dingo would take that baby.

fauxprof said...

Uncle Joe also drew some pretty scary children. Hannah Dingdon’s creepy little grandson comes to mind, his size and age seeming to fluctuate with each appearance. And Olive tummy-brain, while not frightening to look at, was as unsettling as anything Stephen King ever invented.

Garnet said...

Oh no...seeing the horror that is Tommy and Brandy's codependent relationship has aged that poor kid's face about 75 years!