Friday, September 11, 2020

Mary Worth 3459

Wonderful, a story about dogs complaining that they have to dress like their owners. This should be a beautiful thing.

I never created a tag for Greta; I never figured she'd have her own story. I may have to go back and update her tags.

 

19 comments:

Regina Wolfe-Parks said...

Dang, I was hoping that someone would find Myster Wynter dead on the bench and we would have a Saul Wynter Memorial Worthy Award. Looks like Myster Wynter will find love, move away from Charterstone and never be seen again, like Hannah Dingdong and others that I'm too lazy to look up.

Either that or Greta and the labrador will find love and Myster Wynter will have to deal with a set of Labroweenies.

Nance said...

Today's Boldface Haiku is titled

"We Rejoin The Westminster Dog Show, Already In Progress".

Labrador retriever!
Non-threatening.
Don't worry!
Rest!

Anonymous said...


Saul, you sly devil! You know that chicks dig small dogs! You are indeed a young stud.

Good point about owners dressing their dogs like them, Wanders. I hadn't noticed the red scarf on the woman until you pointed it out. That's why you make the big money.

-- Scottie McW.

Vince said...

I can only wonder what this moment of suspense and uncertainty will lead to.

Anonymous said...

If this was Mark trail, we'd see an animal attack. Greta plays the part of Andy and the lab the cougar! No wait, the lab's owner is a cougar...Man, this is going to be a great fight! It could last a whole week with a recap every first panel!

KitKat said...

Thanks for the Friday laughs, all! I hadn’t noticed the woman’s scarf either, Wanders. Your eagle eye is impressive.

Saul’s acting like one of the Hounds of the Baskervilles is approaching. “He’s a BIG one. Maybe he’ll try to eat you, though he seems non-threatening....”

Saul, blond woman looks like she could handle you easily. Maybe she’ll kick you off “her” bench and tell you to move to the other one (the one that Mary’s doves of love have recently “decorated”).

Anonymous said...

Blond woman must be feeding her Lab a balanced diet. How else could stay upright with both left feet off the ground?

HelenClark

Yahoonski said...

How the heck are they "like us... taking a rest from their walk" when they're STILL WALKING?

r u ok? said...

I thought Charterstone was in the city of Santa Royale but it looks like Charterstone walkway is in 100 acres (or more) of a nature preserve.

MissScarlet said...

Looks like Saul is gonna get a different kind of 'heart attack'. I looked up the significance of a red bandana and both explanations are kinda iffy. I mean, do you think there are gangs in Santa Royale? Is she a member of the Crips? I don't see Moy giving us a plot with a trans woman, do you?

@Nance. Great haiku!

Nance said...

@Miss Scarlett--Thank you. And I don't see KM giving us a plot with anything even remotely interesting, let alone a gang banger. No heart attack, either. This might be a simple Romance, since the only thing anyone ever needs in the Worthiverse is an opposite sex marriage partner.

@Yahoonski--Observation Of The Day! Well done.

Anonymous said...


I think Helen Clark deserves Co-Observation of the Day honors for noticing that red-scarf dog had two left feet up and two right feet down. That's not possible.

-- S. McW.

BLSD said...

The lab is using a gait called pacing, in which the legs on one side move forward at the same time. I suspect it is far more common among horses than any other animal. And isn’t common among horses. Thank you for making my memory function, tho I also looked it up to make sure.

Sue said...

I didn't see a "free message" today. Am I just missing it?

fauxprof said...

Here we were all primed for a heart attack and making adoption plans for poor Greta (who would probably be glad to be relieved of the bow ties). Instead, we have the Worthiverse version of the “meet cute”—the “meet dull”.

meg said...

I predict a strange turn of events: The woman Saul is about to encounter is his beloved cousin. He doesn’t recognize her because he hasn’t seen her in more than a decade; in fact, he can’t even remember her name. “Gram” didn’t die; she just walked out on Lyle (“For the love of
G-d, Lyle, I’m raising your hellcat daughter, and you never even call me by name! Say my name! Say my name!”) “Okay, Gram...er..what is it again?”

With that, Gram stormed out and left home with her small wardrobe tied up in a red bandanna hobo pack. At first, Lyle told Madi that Gram was visiting some nice folks in the country. As the months went on, he finally told her that Gram had died. In the meantime, Gram has adopted a yellow lab and is ‘riding the dog’ (Greyhound, not the yellow lab, silly) all over the US of A. She’s been ever’where, wherever you look. Wherever they’s a fight so hungry people can eat, she’s been there. Wherever they’s a cop beatin’ up a guy, she’s been there. ...Wherever they’s... Oops, never mind, that’s the Grapes of Wrath, not the Gram of Wrath.

Anyway, she’s been hanging out at senior centers, eating tuna casserole and tapioca puddin’, lining up for government cheese the first Friday of every month, calling her stockbroker to check up on her portfolio, using a borrowed Jitterbug phone, marching with BLM, taking naps in a carrel at the Goleta library and spending nights at a crude wooded campsite. Oh, and became a blonde, coloring her hair in a sylvan pool.

Well, actually, she’s sleeping at the Santa Royals Hilton, using her Diners Club titanium card. She has to smuggle Leo the Lab in and out of the hotel each night, but Gram is a sneaky one. And now she’s tracked Madi down and is lying in wait for a resident of Charterstone to pump him for information.

How do I know this? There was a clue (MW3427. 7/30).

And Gram’s actual name is Doris Mildred Ledbetter.

KitKat said...

@meg, I just fell off my chair laughing six times (one for every paragraph)! I bow to your greatness!

@fauxprof, “the meet dull” is spot on! You’ve captured KM’s style (using that term exceptionally loosely) perfectly.

@Sue, there was no secret message yesterday, but a tip of the bandanna AND the bow tie to Wanders to notice the scarf on blondie. That subtlety of June’s went right past me.

Jana C.H. said...

I remember the Hanky Code from the long-ago days when I was active in the gay community. (Initials were just coming into use back then; "gay" covered everybody.) Since this is a family blog, I won't specify what red stood for, but I'll assume the knot on the right side means the same as a hanky in the right pocket. I trust Saul is the active type.

Jana C.H. said...

Except, of course, the woman and her dog are wearing their knots on the left. That will make things easier for Greta, and probably suit Saul better as well. You can see why I gave up on the Hanky Code fairly early.