Monday, November 19, 2018

Mary Worth 3011

"This is Claudia Jones. We're hoping you can manipulate more of your friends into adopting pets from us."

I'm really curious about why this staffer at the animal shelter is calling Mary at home. In fact, how did she even get her phone number?

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  1. Today's Boldface Haiku is titled

    "Mary Worth: Like Batman, But With A Cellphone".

    [Ring Ring!]
    Hello?
    Hi, Claudia Jones.
    Help...



    *Hi, Mary. Unfortunately, Greta's original owners suddenly showed up to claim her. We'll need your friend to bring her back. Sorry. Hope you can help break it to him gently.*

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  2. Aaaargh, we're still doing this.

    I agree with Nance. This can't be good news for Saul. I wonder if Mary will offer to give Saul and Greta a ride to Pampered Pets only to make another "impulsive" stop at Generic Animal Shelter.

    -- Scottie McW.

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  3. Is there a place on the animal shelter adoption form where you have to enter in an Emergency Meddling Contact?

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  4. Claudia Jones is calling about that donation Mary was going to make when she hijacked Saul.

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  5. And the original owner will just happen to be a sweet, charming, upbeat old lady with a big nose who will immediately fall in love with Saul as he tearfully hands Greta back to her. Both will no doubt end up at Mary's Thanksgiving dinner where I hope we also see Greta sitting on the table eyeballing Toby's plate.

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  6. Well, I was wrong about the shelter's name. I had been calling it Generic Animal Shelter but it's really The Animal Shelter. How about that?

    Claudia: "Mary, I'm calling about those muffins you left for our staff. One of them rolled off the table, landed on my foot, and fractured it. Can you come in every day for the next six weeks to help clean cages?"

    BTW, I think Karen Moy is trying to sabotage my posting on the blog. Over the weekend the reCAPTCHA drove me batty with screen after screen of blurry thumbnail photos of buses, crosswalks, and traffic lights, all of which were well nigh impossible to navigate on my phone screen. AARRGGHH!!!

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  7. Scottie McW, when I read today's strip I immediately sympathized with all those people who screamed at the sky during trumps inauguration.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wDYNVH0U3cs

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  8. Mary, we lost track of one rabid dog, Greta.

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  9. I'll scream to the high heavens if, after Greta was in the shelter for almost a year and was probably abused before that, her old owner wants her back. Maybe they just took a long holiday and didn't want to pay for her boarding at a pet hotel!

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  10. Mary, we're calling about that donation check you wrote. It bounced!

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  11. Argh, indeed! I'm hoping the shelter wants to ask Mary to join their list of people who can foster animals when the shelter gets too full. Up next, a testy pitbull... Let's see what excuse Mary can come up with to say "No"..

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  12. This wouldn’t be the first time that Moy has passed the exit that says “end of story, merge to new story”. Heck we had a fade-to-purple in Sunday’s last panel. We had every expectation that this would be over in time for Thanksgiving!

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  13. This is an outrage! I very conscientiously wrapped up my version of the end of this story yesterday, and now I’ve got to take it down and start over again. Mark Trail is looking better and better to me. “Mark Trail and Meg”- I like the way it sounds.

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