As opposed to her usual salivating over the chance to meddle, Mary today is wearing the expression of somebody who is sick and tired of dispensing advice to idiots.
Agreeing with Yahoonski, I imagine Mary following Dawn's fretting with "Yada, yada, yada. Stop talking like a romance novel already and love the one you're with."
Ha, I was going to suggest that “Love the One You’re With” be added to the Charterstone Jukebox.
Oh c’mon Dawn, how could you think that being thousands of miles apart from Frenchy wouldn’t present difficulties? You’ve earned the soubriquet “Dopey Dawn” all right. BTW, that’s a French word.
Mary does look to be getting into some sort of rut. We all go on about how she loves to meddle, but when you come to think of it, when was the last plotline where the outcome was materially affected in any way by Mary’s meddling? Lately it seems she’s been downgraded from a meddler to a confidante - all she does is offer Dawn or Estelle or Iris or whomever some inedible food and a bunch of platitudinous, supportive blather, and then they go ahead and do what they probably would have ended up doing anyway if Mary hadn’t been there at all. It’s like she’s no more than a sort of background echo to everybody else’s inane thinky-thoughts. No wonder she seems to be suffering from ennui. Those tulips will have a bad case of bulb rot soon at this rate.
I like that Mary has meddle fatigue (please, no puns on metal fatigue!). She's as exhausted as the readers are. Perhaps, as we proceed, all her word/thought balloons could follow in the footsteps of blogger Charles Lavoie, who had a very apt caption for every New Yorker cartoon ever. https://www.theatlantic.com/notes/2015/09/a-new-universal-new-yorker-cartoon-caption-id-like-to-add-you-to-my-professional-network-linkedin/406783/
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As opposed to her usual salivating over the chance to meddle, Mary today is wearing the expression of somebody who is sick and tired of dispensing advice to idiots.
Agreeing with Yahoonski, I imagine Mary following Dawn's fretting with "Yada, yada, yada. Stop talking like a romance novel already and love the one you're with."
Ha, I was going to suggest that “Love the One You’re With” be added to the Charterstone Jukebox.
Oh c’mon Dawn, how could you think that being thousands of miles apart from Frenchy wouldn’t present difficulties? You’ve earned the soubriquet “Dopey Dawn” all right. BTW, that’s a French word.
Today clears up an important point : There's no hose attached to the watering can.
Leaving yesterday's mystery unsolved.
Key phrase: "I never thought."
Always love it when a character strikes that 1950s frost-free-Frigidaire-magazine-ad-demonstration pose.
You guys are right, Mary is taking this news with uncharacteristic ennui instead of licking her chops. Is she sick?
And now we endure at least a week of Dawn agonizing before the presumed long-distance dump, which is becoming something of a staple in this strip.
-- Scottie McW.
Mary does look to be getting into some sort of rut. We all go on about how she loves to meddle, but when you come to think of it, when was the last plotline where the outcome was materially affected in any way by Mary’s meddling? Lately it seems she’s been downgraded from a meddler to a confidante - all she does is offer Dawn or Estelle or Iris or whomever some inedible food and a bunch of platitudinous, supportive blather, and then they go ahead and do what they probably would have ended up doing anyway if Mary hadn’t been there at all. It’s like she’s no more than a sort of background echo to everybody else’s inane thinky-thoughts. No wonder she seems to be suffering from ennui. Those tulips will have a bad case of bulb rot soon at this rate.
The consensus is in: Mary has meddle fatigue.
-- S. McW.
Shouldn't Mary be cleaning some door knobs about now?
Good one Scottie!
I like that Mary has meddle fatigue (please, no puns on metal fatigue!). She's as exhausted as the readers are. Perhaps, as we proceed, all her word/thought balloons could follow in the footsteps of blogger Charles Lavoie, who had a very apt caption for every New Yorker cartoon ever.
https://www.theatlantic.com/notes/2015/09/a-new-universal-new-yorker-cartoon-caption-id-like-to-add-you-to-my-professional-network-linkedin/406783/
Mary loves Mary at one time.
April 2
nos sobriquets sont meilleurs
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