Darndest Things

Finding the source material

The Purloined Tote Bag

Sometimes, visual details bother me more than they have any right to. Tuesday of last week, Connie has a tote bag. Elly and Connie are sitting side-by-side on a park bench, and the tote bag is positioned on the side of Connie that's facing away from Elly. Doesn't that suggest to you that the tote bag belongs to Connie? I might have missed that visual detail altogether had I not used that strip as a reference for the 7/22/09 FOOBAR. By Friday, Elly has apparently taken possession of the bag, and implausibly impresses the heck out of Lawrence and Mike with all the supplies she extracts from it. Saturday, Connie is seen holding that bag while Elly pushes Nizzie on the swings, but Elly reswipes it immediately afterward and takes it home. Either they have a tote-bag time-share arrangement, or Elly is a tote bag thief AND a credit thief. Hence, today's FOOBAR. :)

Emmy Yammerson Hates Again!

Since they're being all self-referential

Self-Preservation Ploy

It occurred to me that if Elly were to discover her decoy journal missing, she'd have a hissy, probably unleashing her unhinged-jaw fury at John. So I thought of April scanning it and having Mike return it before its absence could be noted. I felt this should be touched on, but wasn't able to think of a way to do so without some clunky exposition, so I decided to just go with it and have April comment on it as we might. :)

Pre-emptive Mockery

If Lynn does what I'm expecting her to do, the Friday, July 17 strip will be a reprint featuring Lawrence shoving Lizzie and Lizzie screaming that "him hit Lizzie." Then Saturday, I expect her to re-repeat the one she repeated on February 16, 2008--with Mike telling Lawrence that he (Mike) is the only one allowed to pick on his baby sister.

So I'm mocking Lynn pre-emptively by recycling a FOOBAR I posted on February 6, 2009 (though, unlike Lynn, I've given mine new dialogue). If it turns out that Lynn is not going to re-repeat that strip after all, I guess it will be like those times when you have an umbrella and that makes it not rain. But even so, the "stutter" point will hold, I think. :)

Why no one's watching Lizzie...

Years later, she'd achieve the same sensation by getting blotto.

Anne and Connie, with duelling bad hair

Elly and Emmy both have a friend named Annie...

Elly's Fraught Kitchen

Decoy Journal

Shout out to insertmonikerhere/canuckdownsouth for the whole "two journals" concept. :)

Dear Blogger: Please straighten out your "scheduled posting is currently unreliable for some users" known issue! Since I'm apparently part of the "some users" cohort and have been for at least a couple of weeks. >:-(

The unintended consequences of sheet shaving

Why Lizzie's doing what she's doing this week