Sunday, June 26, 2022

Mary Worth 3946

Once again, the quote in context is a little deeper than the comic strip really deserves. I was going to paste the poem into a Star Wars scroll because it would have been hilarioius. But I couldn't really do that to such a beautiful poem.

11 comments:

fauxprof said...

Jared tries open honesty and clear communication. Like that’s going to work with the Weston brand of toxic narcissism. Run, Jared, run!

KitKat said...

Thanks for the link to the list of Warsan Shire quotations, Wanders. I particularly noted #13, “I’m not a dog.” I suppose KM didn’t use that one because we all know that DOGS ARE GOOD!

In my newspaper, today’s MW was printed with uncommonly vivid coloration. Dawn and Jared look like they both asleep in tanning beds. It also enhances Dawn’s furious expressions- yikes. She looks like a volcano poised to erupt.

Dawn, ask Mary who Jared’s mystery woman is. Mary hacked into Northview Hospital’s patient database (just tidying things up!) and has the goods on Jess Bender.

Ian Cameron, PhD said...

Mee meow? That’s right, Libby — with the tragic lapse of Wilbur & Estelle storylines it's been a long time since we visited Cantando! Toby, Cal, Helen and I will be there tonight (on a swingingly age-appropriate double date) belting out the classic power ballad by Sir Elton John:

Rock It Man

She baked muffins last night, pre-flight
Zero hour, 9 AM,
And I'm gonna be hiii-igh
As a floating head by then..

I think it's gonna be a long, long time
Til Moy's plot brings us round again to find
Dawnie's on the prowl for someone new
Oh, no, Hugo
She wants a Rock It Man...
A Rock It Man, or whoever's got cute hair at the zoo

I miss Charterstone so much, I miss my life
It's lonely out in negative space
On such a senseless flight

And I think she's gonna need a lot more clarity
She shoulda been the one to break up with Jared, he
is not the Jedi they think he is at home
Oh, no, Hugo
He's not a Rock It Man
A Rock It Man, quoting Star Wars to his cat alone

And every time some guy reminds her of Dave
It'll bring her round again to cave
in to her very own kind of fluster
Oh, no, Hugo
She needs a Rock It Man!
A Rock It Man, who's dimwitted enough to trust her

And I think it won’t be long til we find him in
Inappropriate trysts with battered women
Thinkin he’s the galaxy’s defender
Oh no, Hugo
He wants to be a Rock It Man!
A Rock It Man, such a disaster for Jess Bender

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r_QZe8Z66x8

Anonymous said...


Aw crud, Mary is going to patch up another Weston romantic failure, isn't she? Look out, Jared. Lady Brainwash is headed your way.

-- Scottie McW.

ratswan said...

meanwhile a old man wearing a bowtie walking a weiner dog wonders why these young whippersnappers are hogging his favorite parkbench

KitKat said...

#Ian Cameron, PhD, huzzah, huzzah!

Yahoonski said...

Who said it was a "she," Dawn?

Great job on Rock It Man, Doctor Cameron, and kudos to Scottie for Lady Brainwash!

jp said...

There might have to be a new category in the Worthies for Best Dawn Crazy-Eyes. Panel 5 today (if you count the title and quote as panel 1) is a contender.

Chester the Dog said...

@kitkat: "Mary hacked into Northview Hospital’s patient database (just tidying things up!)"

Love it!

Anonymous said...

Dawn: "Who is she, Jared?"

Jared: "Well, her name is Jess and she... Wait a minute. Hey, look. Here's the card she gave me with her number. Would you mind calling her and telling her what a great guy I am? Maybe even use that thing you said about me being the 'feast'?"

Dawn: "Jared, you idiot. Are you the only person on the planet who doesn't know what the exchange "555" means?"

HelenClark

BTW - Excellent work, Prof. Cameron! You really are wasting your time teaching!

Lord Flatulence said...

Loving you was like going to see Star Wars: I never came back the same.