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| Saturday, July 11th, 2009 | 2:37 am
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Sunday, 12 July 2009
Let's see what sort of mess we have to deal with today; my guess is that, since Lynn has decided to promote Farley some more, we'll have lots of fun watching Elly yell at poop. | | Friday, July 10th, 2009 | 3:18 pm
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Saturday, 11 July 2009
Now that Annie has given Elly stooooooooopid and useless advice as to how she can cure her boredom, let's see how she reacts. My guess is that we're in for a hateful statement about how she can't stand the offsprings she has and wishes to prevent a third ooooooops. John will, of course, be a smirking obstacle. My guess is wrong: Elly is messing with John's head to watch him squirm and yelp. Panel 1: We start off with John, having been told of Annie's cleaver plan to alleviate Elly's boredom, tell Elly, who's carrying Lizzie in her arms, "Another kid?! We're not having another baby, Elly." Panel 2: She asks if he's positive; he replies that he's absolutely positive. Panel 3: Her relief that he actually doesn't want to be intentionally invaded by Mars inspires her to smile and tell him to take permanent precautions. Panel 4: This causes him to yelp that he's not THAT positive. Summary: John is evil and cruel because he doesn't want to be oopsed at some later point; he's also evil and cruel because at that later point, he doesn't mind being oopsed. | | Thursday, July 9th, 2009 | 11:00 am
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Friday, 10 July 2009
Knowing that this week's story relates to Elly as a cook and how her fellings of inadequacy in that department fill her with despair, it's fairly obvious that someone will say or do something to make things worse. My guess is that it'll be John. It doesn't matter to Lynn how out-of-continuity today's strip is with the ones we've just seen as long as she vilifies the louse who forced her to live in Lynn Lake. And I'm wrong; it's Elly whining about being unfulfilled. Panel 1: We start off with the Queen of Pointless Busywork tell Annie, who's doing some needlework to stave off the suburban ennui that's consumed the shrieking loon she hangs out with, that sometimes she feels so bored with her life. Panel 2: As we pan out to see Christopher notice the dolly Lizzie is playing with, we see Mrs I-don't-have-enough-time-to-read-the-pap er saying that she can't see getting a job but she has to have something to keep her brain from atrophying. Panel 3: As Annie reaches for a pair of scissors, she tells Elly that there's always one thing you can do when life seems dull. Panel 4: The "thing" in question is to have a picky-face Martian princess; as she mentions having to deal with a third child as the sovereign cure for Elly's boredom, we see Lizzie howl as Christopher tries taking her doll away. Summary: Elly can't deal with the kids she has; bringing a third child into the mix now will just add to her misery and despair. It would be best if she waited a decade or so like she did in the real strip. | | Wednesday, July 8th, 2009 | 7:12 am
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Thursday, 9 July 2009
Having established that John is evil, selfish, ungrateful and has no more taste than a dog, it's likely that Lynn might decide to find some other way to show us how bad Elly has it. Then again, we might be in for a Franken-arc that makes a hash of continuity to 'prove' a weak point. I'm close; Annie's lectures about the need to watch what you eat make Elly feel inferior. Panel 1: We start off with Elly hovering over Christopher while handing him a ball; Elly's telling Annie's ankles that he's growing like a weed make me feel uncomfortable owing to the fact that Lizzie's head is attached to her left ear like a gigantic goiter. Panel 2: As she blends up some baby food, Annie says that's because she doesn't give him store-bought foods; she makes sure to make everything herself so she knows what he eats. Panel 3: As she says that mothers who don't are ignoring some important factor, she's distracted by trying to figure out what Lizzie is looking for in Elly's purse. Panel 4: Upon discovering that she found a cookie in there, Elly sheepishly states that it's from a reputable bakery. Summary: Annie touched the whole thing off Monday by making Elly feel inferior because she could only manage to cook the slop John 'forced' her to; she's making matters worse by treating Elly like a peon because she can't be a supermom like her. This is why I've said that Elly needs to widen her family of friends; she could start by seeking out people who don't make her feel inferior. | | Tuesday, July 7th, 2009 | 7:44 am
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Wednesday, 8 July 2009
It's pretty likely that today's recipe will feature the following three unpalatable ingredients: - Elly being filled with despair because her family only likes the simplest of foods.
- John making his smug remark about how if you give a girl enough time, she'll finally come around and cook good food.
- Elly being filled with even MORE despair.
This dish will be to the liking of people who have Kool-Aid flowing through their veins but be spat out by everyone else. Actually, Ingredient Two is John defensively admitting that he's a simple man who loves the simple things. Everything else holds true, though. Panel 1: We start off with John, whose eyes are bulged out, explain to Elly, who's holding a dish full of fruit, that it's not that he doesn't appreciate fancy dishes. It should be noted that Farley is in the background heading toward his food dish; this is significant as his need to eat helps prove the point Lynn wants to make. Panel 2: As she sets the tray down, he says that he likes simple food. Panel 3: As she pours food into Farley's dish, he says that he could probably eat the same meal every night. Panel 4: He then says "Surely there are others who agree with me." This leaves her staggered because she can only think of one other family member who could make that claim: Farley. Summary: That's because housepets are the only 'people' Lynn can think of who would love to have a monotonously-regular diet; the hallmark of the human being is the need for variety. Or, to put it more succinctly, Rod ain't nothing but a hound dog. ETA: We have a new banner on the homepage: Mike or Liz enjoying him/herself in a cute way. Too bad that we know that Elly is about to show up and start bellowing like the peevish, ignorant fool she is. | | Monday, July 6th, 2009 | 2:30 am
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Tuesday, 7 July 2009
Let's see how Lynn's feelings of inferiority and self-loathing manifest themselves today; perhaps she will twist Rod/John's attempts to console her into a vile insult. It doesn't, after all, take too much thinking to realize that she twisted his complimenting her cooking into a smug put-down, does it? Panel 1: The place: the Pattermanse's kitchen. The time: a few hours before dinner. The players: John and Elly. We start with Elly-the-perennially-martyred looking in the freezer section of the fridge and telling John that they could have coq au vin or Beef Stroganoff. Panel 2: She whimsically declares in a ridiculously hammy French accent that ze chef will make ze delicacy of his choice. Panel 3: He replies that he'll eat anything just so long as it's something he can recognize. Panel 4: Her response to that is to sit and mope that mac-and-cheese has lost its challenge somehow. It should be noted that her face is forzen in the Bug-Eyed Glare of Existential Horror. Summary: In the real world, it would have been obvious that Rod is a firm believer in the trinity that English Canadians really worship: meat and two veg. That means that on special occasions, he'll gladly eat the best food but on a day-to-day basis, he prefers the simpler things. This is not, of course, to say that he'll eat the same damned thing night after night; that's just how Lynn misinterpreted his refusal to play along with her fantasy that she was Julia Child. | 2:27 am
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Coffee Talk, the week of 6 July 2009
I'm guessing that besides all the people who have clever theories about missing socks, we'll see train loads of people who marvel at Lynn's clever theories about pre-Columbian Mexico. | | Sunday, July 5th, 2009 | 1:14 pm
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Monday, 6 July 2009
I wonder what sort of thing will make Elly feel bad this week; last week, it was Lizzie's use of the word No and Mike and Farley acting like a little boy and a dog. Perhaps this week, she'll freak out because John doesn't take her ambitions seriously. ETA: Thanks to ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) spotts1701, we know that the week will lead off with Elly's face frozen in the Bug-Eyed Glare of Existential Horror because she has to prepare lowest-common denominator cuisine in a fancy kitchen because John is an evil bonehead dork who wouldn't know good food if it bit him; perhaps later in the week we'll see the strip that has him prepare to wolf down the horrible slop he loves while commenting on how, after years of trying to force him to eat gore-may cookin' instead of good, honest grub, Elly finally clued in and started to cook things that bridge trolls, mutants and zoo animalsregular people would want to eat. Panel 1: We start off our look at Pattersnarfing as Annie compliments Elly because she has such a beautiful kitchen. Said kitchen has a microwave and conventional over, a mixer and other standard appliances. Panel 2: Her silhouette says that with all this stuff, she could make a different gourmet meal every night. Panel 3: As she sits down to drink her coffee and talk smack about Connie, Annie asks her which appliance she figures she uses the most. Panel 4: She's taken aback as Elly says "the can opener." Summary: Annie is Lynn's mouthpiece for her odd hatred of everyday foodstuffs; it's sort of obvious that she feels inferior because she can't turn her home into a four-star restaurant and thus conflates the unspectacular-but-still-delicious food we eat every day with garbage like Cheapie Weenie Casserole. | | Saturday, July 4th, 2009 | 9:16 am
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Sunday, 5 July 2009
If things run true to form, we're probably in for a strip that has Elly acting all huffy because Mike is hot and under-stimulated. This means that she'll explode in rage as he cools himself off and gets dirty. And I'm wrong; what we do have is Elly being martyred because John quietly laughs at a crack-pot theory of hers. Panel 1: We start off with Elly reaching into the dryer. Panel 2: As she holds a sock in her hand, she thought-bubbles "It's happened again"; whatever's happened has made her react by staring the Bug-Eyed Glare of Existential Horror. Panel 3: She continues to be goggle-eyed as she tells John that every time she does the laundry, she winds up with unmatched socks. Panel 4: She's decided there can only be one explanation for this phenomenon. Panel 5: Elly's decided that the speed of the dryer and the forced, heated air send them into another time dimension. Panel 6: John stares at Elly as if she had a third eye as she declares that in the year 2050, whoever's living in the Pattermanse is suddenly going to acquire a bunch of odd socks. I don't blame him for being freaked; rather than admit that there are simpler explanations (like people not actually putting both socks in the hamper, the sock in question falling between or behind the washer and dryer or actually ending up inside a garment), Elly has turned into Agent Mulder. Panel 7: Suddenly remembering the simpler explanations, John laughs politely as he walks away from Elly as she yells that he has to admit that it's possible. Actually, Elly, he doesn't HAVE to admit sweet dick-all. Panel 8: The end result of John's disturbing lack of faith is that Elly thought-bubbles that the trouble with most brilliant theories is that nobody believes them. Summary: The conclusion that Lynn wants us to draw is that John is an evil, bone-head dork who's incapable of taking Elly seriously; too bad for her that Elly isn't actually capable of being taken seriously. She's instead depicted as the Very Model of The Modern Blithering Idiot. | | Friday, July 3rd, 2009 | 7:31 pm
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Liz's letter, July 2009
( Liz, July 2009 )ETA: As aprilp_katje noted, Liz has no immediate prospects in the event of a break-up with Anthony. Bev and Laura have offered to get her back on her feet but she feels no real bond with them so things might get tricky in the next few months. Good thing for her that Lynn left the door open for Warren to return. | 6:11 pm
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Saturday, 4 July 2009
Having ruined Canada Day by showing us Farley rolling around in old dog crap because he was inadequately supervised tells me that she's about to blight Independence Day by having John put a period on the week's activity by saying something 'thoughtless', 'patronizing' and (worst of all) one hundred percent accurate. Well, I'm close; Elly is about to totally lose her religion because John can't read her mind. Panel 1: Remember when Elly angrily declared that she was sick of cleaning up after Farley? She obviously doesn't because she's just bathed him. As she hands him off to Mike, she gets into full-on rant mode and tells him that she's just bathed, dried and brushed him for the second time that day. Panel 2: She then decrees that he is not to leave the yard and is to stay on the lawn or driveway. Panel 3: Her silhouette tells Mike's silhouette that he is not to get wet or dirty. Mike promises that all he's going to do is stay in the yard. Panel 4: Mike and Farley are not the only ones in the yard, though; John is in the yard washing the hovercar. As Mike playfully sprays Farley and an unsupervised Lizzie with the hose, Elly is in the background ready to explode. Summary: A regular person would assume that John didn't know what had happened earlier and just has lousy timing. Lynn and Elly are not regular people; both assume that John's inability to read Elly's mind is a sign that he's evil. If he were good, he'd know what Elly wants him to do without his annoying, selfish and evil habit of asking her beforehand. | | Thursday, July 2nd, 2009 | 4:49 pm
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Friday, 3 July 2009
Sadly, I think I know what might happen: Mike takes Farley home to show Elly what's wrong, Farley's bowels release all over the carpet and Elly unhinges her jaw and shrieks. This might happen today or blight our Saturday. I'm half-right. Elly is shrieking but it isn't about Farley crapping on the carpet. Panel 1: We start off with Elly on the font porch talking to Mike. He tells her that Farley did what dogs do and rolled in something smelly and now HE stinks. Elly whines 'NOT AGAIN?!!' Panel 2: She's upset because she'd just given him a bath that morning and angrily declares that if it's not one of them getting dirty, it's the other. Panel 3: She then starts into a rant about how he tramps it in the house for her to clean up and how sick she is that she does all the work. Mike thought-bubbles "COOL!!!" Panel 4: He then adopts conciliatory body language and thought-bubbles "If you look at'em an'don't say anything, they think you're listening" as his mother stands there ranting in public like the doughhead she is. Summary: We've 'learned' that Elly hasn't reconciled herself to the fact that kids and pets get messy; we've learned that she does nothing at all to encourage the assistance she claims to want and we've learned that the people around her tune out her ranting. Lynn would have us believe that that happens because they're selfish and want to ruin her life; too bad that she publishes strip after strip that depicts an Elly who, like her creator, doesn't know what she's talking about. |
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