Luann by Greg Evans and Karen Evans for December 03, 2013

That’s a good point… many people get caught up in who does what… but a good system, most importantly, having two people who both go into it with the supportive teamwork approach seems to go a long way!….

“Chore Choices”“Smooth Operator”“I’ll Never Be Your Beast Of Burden”“You Really Got Me”or “I Am Iron Man”

I feel the same, Brad. You can do all the chores.

Maybe the stimulus isn’t good any more.

Funny, it seems that the shorter the word, the more machines are involved with it….

Don’t take it literally, Toni!

“Brought to you” by….Flop and Glow floor polish… “You’ll fall for our clean shine, and the low low price will knock you out!”… – Whendex Glass Cleaner….“Millions of househod windows cleaned….we’re on a streak!”… – and by…Gawn dishwashing liquid…. “No more fret over cleaning a sink full of mess!….Takes dirt and dishes out of the way….”

These things manage to work themselves out usually; whoever is best at a chore and likes to do it does it. And man, does this strip have the fans !!! Look how many commented so early.

They’re smoothing out the wrinkles! And it’s a good thing.:)

Nothing can replace faith. It is a relationshipwith God. Without Him, nothing. Just a void in your soul. Protect your relationship with God. Don’t let nothing take it. It is your relationship that Satan is after. He is working. To separate you from God, so he can destroy you.

Ka-Snap! Meow!

Just want to say, sorry to hear that, Levi. Hope yours is as strong as ever. And don’t even bother to respond to the trolls that think it’s OK to dis you and your faith.Cheers,Blune

Toni: whenever you get disappointed or grouchy about Brad & his quirks- remember how you saw how good he is with kids.

Ironing or Irony…

He loves you always and will neverleave you.

OK, it’s time. For a wedding. Thanks~! :)

Nice that they can…iron out the wrinkles in their relationship.

It seems good that Brad and Toni got that ironed out. One may hope that it doesn’t wrinkle up again too quickly. Just one little hint, Brad: don’t be too eager to make promises that you might not be able or willing to keep….

Toni.

I THINK that as long as YOU Wear Spike Heels, Cleavage Revealing Tight Leather Outfits and Affectionately Call Brad “Daddy” While Nagging, He will be GLAD to Do All the Chores.

Excuse Me.

I HAVE to Take a Shower…..,

@ KennyVon….must be tough going through life with no hope…..wait he does have hope, hope that there is no God, because if there is…………….

Surprisingly (or maybe not) Greg has made Brad out to be an overcompensating wuss pining for the approval of his mate. Toni is filling the confident, assertive role. Have ’em cross dress Greg, and mission complete. Sheeesh…..

O.K., cancel First Fight alert…

naive.

Toni is realizing that they’ve never really talked about their life together at all. I think she may have a lot of reconsidering to do about this engagement, especially whether her marriage proposal was in fact due more nearly to seeing Dirk and Mrs. Dirk than it was to any good reasons for believing that she would have a happy life together with Brad.

Ceremony

Okay, that’s resolved, now, can we move on to something interesting?

Gag.

OK, let’s flash-forward 25 years, and see how THIS all worked for the kids… If it’s anything like my marriage, Brad will be doing almost all the chores AND will receive all the blame for not doing them “right!” :-)

I thought the whole point was for them to have sex while Brad’s parents were out of town.

Brad needs to learn Toni’s sense of humor a bit better – he would have picked up on it as her (work) partner, but as a (life) partner it’s a bit different.

Toni needs to learn that while the house may be hers, it’s not just her taste in decorating. I don’t think she’s too ‘girly’ but they need to do things like furniture shopping and deciding what color to paint the walls together.

They need to set up some sort of division of labor, not to mention the household finances – joint checking account to pay the mortgage, the water, the gas and other bills?

If Brad’s serious about doing all the chores (something women have been doing (by necessity) for millennium) that also gives him the right to NOT do them. If she complains (seriously) about how he does something (like the laundry – especially pleats) that means that SHE gets to do them ‘properly’ or they don’t get done. It worked that way in my marriage – my husband didn’t like it? He got to do it. Now my ‘wife’ doesn’t like the way I iron her skirts? She does ALL the ironing – I’ll still do the laundry as part of my ‘wifely duties’, but she irons both my skirts and hers!

I’d never do all the chores. I don’t care who I’m with.

Again I ask, who is Range Dry and why does he need to be freed? ^Dry is a fellow commenter in “poster prison”….in “exile for a while” ….

Toni and Brad are so very sweet!! Just makes me happy to see them together!!

If you believe THAT one’s going to last Toni, boy, have I got a bridge to sell YOU!

Brad, you feel that way now. Give it, oh 10 years and see how you feel.

Why would a comic strip have anything to do with “GOD”? People are nuts, and I’m with your wife on that one.

not going to work…..

The guy can’t close the refrigerator door without being reminded and he’s going to do all the chores? Good luck with that.

they all say those mushy things when there’re first engaged then when they get married it all changes… I can tell you for sure that I run things in my family…. the washing machine..the lawnmower…the vacuum…the dishwasher…the chainsaw…and other things like that.

hahah ‘crawler man’, sounds like a nice smooth running relationship!

The future: Toni irons her own shirts. Brad irons his own shirts. Toni does the laundry because Brad always forgets to add the fabric softener sheet to the dryer. Toni washes the dishes because Brad doesn’t. Toni and Brad take care of their owns cars because I can’t imagine Toni not taking care of her own car. Toni takes care of the front yard. Brad takes care of the back yard except when Toni sees that Brad leaves twigs on the ground after pruning. Then she picks up the sticks. Brad thinks shopping at Sams and Costco is relaxing, so he buys two huge bags of carrots, two huge flats of eggs and enough fruit to feed an army. He pushes the older stuff into the back of the refridgerator and piles the fruit on top of the older fruit. Toni keeps the bathrooms clean because Brad doesn’t. Toni takes care of the floors because Brad doesn’t. Toni dusts and washes the walls inside and out because Brad doesn’t. Toni finally refuses to take out the trash, so Brad is forced to do it or live in a smelly house. However, Brad and Toni stay together because somewhere along the line they have created a family of 1.7 children who they love and enjoy raising together, and they love each other.

“Some of the smartest people around were into BDSM. It is NOT a Gools game.”

Uhhhhhh, ACTUALLY I had This Image of Toni Dressed as Catwoman. But whatever “Cracks Your Whip,” Nighty.

It looks like I missed an interesting discussion yesterday.

It always amuses me somewhat to hear people claim that there is no God. They insist that it is neither rational, nor logical to believe in God. Yet what evidence do they have that He does not exist? None, none whatsoever.

It usually boils down to the fact that they have never seen Him, so therefore He cannot exist. Tell that to the astrophysicists who are trying to come to grips with the fact that the majority of matter in the universe is matter that we cannot see or detect and can pass right through all the matter that we can see, yet they know for a certainty that it is there.

What evidence is there of a God? The whole of creation speaks to a God. Life itself speaks to a God. And if that is not enough, we have eye-witness accounts of people who have seen and/or talked with God.

The evidence is almost completely on the side of the existence of God. However, the non-believers chose to ignore it and rationalize it away. That is their privilege — their “God-given right”, to be sure. I am not about to try to take it away from them.

isn’t there something else we should be practicing?

That’s what love’s about! I hated doing chores growing up, but once I married the girl of my dreams, I was happy to do a lot of my fair share.

Rubbed off on my kids, they all help their spouses! Get compliments for it!

Permanent press wrinkles anyway.

Brad may try to do the chores, but they won’t be up to Toni’s standards. He will think he did some chore and Toni will not be satisfied with his lower, dirtier standards. The person with less tolerance for dirt and clutter ends up doing the cleaning and chores, usually the woman.

And here I thought you were serious….

LOL!!

Cthulhu works for me.

I actually tried to find this out from the monitor of this site, and was told that their policy is not to discuss ‘site users’. Apparently, someone who uses the name ‘Dry’ posted something on the Pooch Cafe site that the monitor objected to, and ‘Dry’ has been banned. A lot of those who post to that site have been trying to get ‘Dry’ reinstated. This message may also be yanked, but, if not, this is the most info I have been able to get.

OW! MY EYES AND EARS ARE BOTH EXPLODING!!!!

Please stop before this goes any further…

Good one! I hope that ends this discussion, but hope never seems to work all that well for me…

Bail out Brad! Your plane is on fire. Punch out while you’re still able!

@Sheriff Mordecai, Those must be some scary prayers…

And how do you think the believers feel when those who don’t believe try to put it as FACT that there is no God?

Thanks for trying to steer the conversation. Hope it works!

Yup. This is a nice try at turning things around, too. On the other hand, at least most of the posters didn’t follow Night-G’s lead…

You have to work for the Census Bureau to achieve this particular miracle…

First wife…gave her the option of working IF she wanted to…or being a housespouse. If she worked, housework would be 50-50; if I worked, all I asked for was a clean house and meals…she took the latter…and I gained 30+ pounds in little over a year and a half…in a spotless house.

Isn’t it cynical and negative to assume that someone saying ’ I feel the same’ is not professing love for a person who just said he didn’t care who did chores, as long as they were together? Just askin’….

I’m sure you know this, but there are a lot of Moms who call their husband ‘Daddy’ when the kids are around, so the kids won’t get the idea that they can call their father by his first name, or ‘honey’ or whatever. And then the name ‘Daddy’ just seems easier and easier, even after the kids have grown. Not meant as anything creepy….

LOL!!!

Aww … preliminary negotiations are such fun! lol!

LOL! Me, too.

Um, Brad? Me and you gotta talk, bro. :-P

“We Can Work It Out,” by The Beatles^Also, Language Of Love by Dan Fogelberg. About the differences between two people and how it’s par for the course, and how they can build a bridge….even if it’s a loooong bridge to build…..

I think Brad and Toni just agreed Brad would do all the chores. How do we spell f-u-t-u-re r-e-s-e-n-t-m-e-n-t ?

Brad is starting to find out that in a “normal” marriage, the “average” couple will spend more time arguing than copulating— proven fact.

My wife calls me “Daddy” all the time… what?

So you believe replies and responses in the comics should not include what we believe?. There is a logical inconsistency there somewhere unless only YOUR beliefs are allowed..No comment from me since it would be silly of me to only say what I don’t believe.

The optimistic approach is Toni’s words meaning ‘I would do all the chores so long as I got to be with you.’ That is, she’s offering the same “I’d do everything for you” he just offered.

There is an ancient analogy. Relationships are like a bowl full of candy. In a one night stand scenario, both partners take, nobody fills, so the bowl empties and they get gone.

In a taken advantage of scenario, one partner fills, one partner takes, and eventually the filler gets tired of getting nothing return, and leaves.

In a marriage that actually works, both partners fill. Hence, the bowl is always overflowing, and the candy lasts till death do us part.

As such, in the optimistic idea (Toni is also offering to do everything) we have two fillers, which is what works.

I think I’m gonna puke.

Judaism, Christianity and Islam each worship one God, but reading their scriptures it suredoesn’t sound to me like the SAME one!