Luann by Greg Evans and Karen Evans for August 18, 2013

“You’re Out Of Touch”Or “Touch And No Go”

……or, you could go knock on their doors……nah, that wouldn’t be cool enough, would it?

Hey, Levi! I made it to #3 today!!!!!!!!!!!!!

i chuckled, but then died a little inside.

its just like when i was driving a bunch of teenagers in my car and i pulled out a map. It was as if i dug a T-rex skull from under the earth at an archaeological dig site…

“whoa dude, what the heck is this?”

Thanks, Dude!

saddest part…they graduate this year and there’s a 8 year difference between us…

Re-heated leftovers:In case you missed it, Brd ,the embedding works!…. great music… and if you know Animusic, or if you don’t, look it up… especially “Future Retro” or “Heavy Light”… songs and generated animation.. great work!… years old, but lots of great original songs!…

This really is significant for me……I generally only get to read these comics once a day, late at night. Then, by the time I get back to Luanniverse the next day, there’s 285,000 comments and I just don’t have time to read them and see who responded.So, thanks again.

It’s almost impossible to enjoy these Gocomics cartoon page anymore As soon as I access the site all the ads start blipping and flashing and sparkling etc. etc. etc. and I lose track of what’s being said. Anyone else have this problem with the site? It never used to do this. May have to quit viewing this page.

Touch Oatmeal..From Hall’s Foods…. “Fast and sorta delicious… and great for on the go!”… “Keep some handy-cos if you’re outta Touch… then you might as well be out of time”….=Easton Coast to Coast dating servces…. ‘Your best choice for a Long Distance Love Affair "….=the all new Panorama… from Orr-Ocasek Cars… "Push button tech, virtual hands free shifting’".. “Fast, Revolutionary… Just Touch…. and Go….”

I love the punchline

Animals – Oh Lord, Please Do Not Let Me Be Misunderstood David Bowie – Space Oddity Pink Floyd – Is There Anybody Out There? ; Wish You Were Here, etc. Cardigans – Communication Kraftwerk – Computer Love, Telephone Call, Zepp Communication Breakdown U2 – Numb Depeche Mode – Enjoy the Silence Coldplay – Talk Genesis-MisunderstandingMissing Persons-WordsDan Fogelberg-Language of LoveRick Springfield Don’t Talk To StrangersGary Numan/Tubeway Army-Me I Disconnect From YouHall And Oates-Out Of TouchSheena Easton-Long Distance Love Affair

Great choice! J.C.‘s cover is good! -Box Tops’ version pretty nice, too…

Insert rimshot

Sorry Luann, I don’t even know where my snail mailbox is.

Cliff Richard “We Don’t Talk Anymore”Lionel Ritchie “Hello”Glen Campbell “Witchita Lineman”Abba “Ring Ring”ELO "Calling America’

To me, it helped that Leon Russell and the associated talent with him backed him up… the sincere, bluesy efforts were his best, to me… the later ballads was nice (someone sang “You Are So Beautiful” at my wedding) but the bite was gone when the bluesy arrangements took a back seat to the ballad direction he seemed to go in… just finished listening to Joe’s version of “Letter”… he “put life into that song!”…..

Also like Joe’s version of “High Time We Went”……

Yeah, that Post Office gag at the end sort of sums it up quite well, as far as our changing outlook…=And another aspect is the lack of handwriting skills since people type so much, now… and the ways that we process and see words, and the fluid nature of the spoken/written language along with proper understanding of grammar and the ability to compose clear, well articulated thoughts, similar to the example shown below:=Like when people type like this with run-on sentence’s and when they go to change to a new thought they don’t use any punctuation at all but they ramble on without thinking about how it looks to rack up a whole bunch of words and ends up looking like a long paragraph and they expect that everyone will be able to read it and spell things with apostrophes like I did above where it shouldn’t be, etc. (this was for example only)…

How soon is the party supposed to be? And if you know all your friends’ communication quirks, Luann, couldn’t you tailor an individual message, via the appropriate medium, to each?That would probably be smarter and much faster than relying on snail mail. —But I’ll leave it to you to work out….

So when is everybody 18?

I work for USPS (The “Postal Service”) as LuAnn calls it. First of all thank you for the plugging that we are still around. It is nice to be talked about in a light that isn’t instantly negative.

for about 3…2…….1……

First, you know there’s a postal service cuz you almost got arrested for tampering a few months ago.

Second, you had a party for Quill just last week and everybody showed up.

Third, I have no third. Psyche!

Why would Tiff be invited to a pool party?? With the sole exception to Crystal, she is not really friends with Luann’s crew.

Anyone doubt Luanne is a Senior now?

@overtherainbowIf you do not like the ads that run under Flash, just uninstall Flash player. Simple to do. But, be aware that many are moving to HTML 5 and you won’t be able to avoid them with any browser.

@IamJayBlueSadly, many schools no longer teach cursive writing and studies have shown that most college students print when not using tech.

Yes, there is a postal service, but I mostly get bills and junk mail from them. So most of the time, I’m rarely interested in what comes in the post

“the nonsensical aspect of the USPS operation is the oft repeated line about it “losing money” , as if it should be operated like any business. Balderdash! The Postal Service is just that, a service that our government supplies for the benefit of the people. Subsidizing it with tax dollars, even if it is not optimal, is as necessary as building roads. It was a big mistake to ever try to privatize it.”>And the Republicans conveniently forget it is in the Constitution. The original Constitution, not the add ons where the gun rights are.

Sorta

I’ve decided to take a tech vacation every Monday and Thursday. I think everyone needs to take a break and clear their mind every so often.

The Beatles, The Marvelettes or The Carpenters: “Please, Mr. Postman^And good call with “Postman”, “Operator”, etc…… a crazy thing, too, DW brought up “Postman”, along with “Return To Sender”, and “Telephone Line”…. and on top of that, the post….made sense!….

Marvelettes did “Beechwood.” (written by Smokey and Marvin). as well as “Mr. Postman”… =The Carpenters did a cover of it on the “Made In America” album…. they stuck with the original arrangement, though with probably a handful of synths to give it a different feel….

In the City by Joe Walsh…^It’s actually an Eagles song, though Joe does sing lead on it…. it was from “The Long Run” album…

There is still a postal service but it’s just for junk mail now.

Donny; are you the Donny on the Bob and Tom show? rattle, rattle, rattle, interrupt, brag and more to say than actually needed about any one CARTOON ! Sheeesh !

Another communication/miscommunication song to add: “Always On My Mind” by Elvis, or the Willie Nelson version…. or the Pet Shop Boys, for that matter….

“Message to Michael” by Dionne Warwick….

Tiffany will be invited?

Firefox and Ad Block Plus, should take care of ads for you everywhere.

Do we know, for a certainty, that when the partiers arrive at Rosa’s house, if they’ll be swimming or playing billiards? ^Now that sounds like a good question, since there was no “direct” context to say one way or the other…. I remember a “Josie and the Pussycats” comic where this was a gag, as Josie and Melody mistook Alexandra’s invitation for a pool party for actual swimming, and they were instead racking up on the felt…. Josie and Mel were in their “pool attire” while everyone else was more… covered up and ready to go elsewhere, in case they had decided to….=If I were to give a guess, though, I’d go with swimming pool on this one, for the last days of summer….

Yeah, Mr. Bacharach has quite the catalogue, there!….

I get my snail mail just fine!…. Bills never get lost!… (although, come to think about it, I haven’t seen my million dollar check… nor my publisher’s clearing house winner’s letter… thought the bill did come on time…

But honestly, there’s a boon and a bane to everything…. in the case of a storm or power goes out from some other reason, though we might have backups and data storage, those things are useless if we can’t plug in, and computers can lose information and there can be security threats to Electronic communications…=Snail mail can accumulate paper (and for those who accumulate everything, can be a potential fire hazard), but it doesn’t require electricity to keep or compose… =The whole key as to everything is balance… how to not overwhelm yourself with things just to ‘keep up appearances", and to keep from “information overload” and “E-fatigue”…. =Actually, some developers have put out apps that’s supposed to cover all of the different media from Pinterest to Instagram, from Facebook to MySpace, GMail to Yahoo…..

if we had snail mail once per week, that would be often enough for me.farm it out to UPS

Welllllllll, I Guess old Leslie Knox WON’T be Invited, heh?

Let’s Join Him Now as He plots His REVENGE….,

So will this be one of those occasions when the Sunday strip coincides with an ongoing arc? Not necessarily consecutive, but integral to the ongoing plots?…..

I noticed the ‘little pencil line’ indicating our little Luann is growing up….and filling out.

that’s way too much knowledge about the Carpenters….^And yet you mistook an Eagles collaboration for a Joe Walsh single? (In The City)…

It really is a case by case basis for those who are “goth” to have friends who are not… there are those who are the “Tiffany” type who are “privileged” in family ties, only… they hang out with different types… =Those who are the “snobs” or who are more the “social butterfly” type will look down on others, but mostly out of ignorance or whatever social environment prevails… but it all depends on the situation… some are rich kids who look to “rebel”, and there are some who are both “rich” and “goth”…

And not all kids who wear “Crystal” type fashion are Goth… =There are different degrees to everything… there’s “Emo”, there’s “industrial”, there’s “Death Metal”, there’s “Alt Rock (the Cure)”…. not all “Goth” kids are the same degree… and it’s not necessarily a “one size fits all” matter, either…=Crystal does not even wear “all black all the time”, an almost prerequisite for being “Goth”… some are a mix of different styles, taking from one area or another.. and they would more so classify themselves as being “individualistic” in their fashion… and that’s another aspect: some look upon themselves as just “fashion rebels”, some are more about music, some are really into “gloom and doom”, and some are not… again, it’s not a “one size fits all” thing with ‘Goth’…. having said all of this, my point is that just because someone seems to be the “Crystal” type, doesn’t mean that they automatically have confined interests, nor confined relationships… that includes people who seem more “preppy” or “rich”….

The funny thing is that “old fashioned” way of using the telephone… the people most likely to stay in touch on a regular basis can be the ones to relay to those people, for instance: get one person to call “x,y,z”, then get another to call “a,b,c”… the perceived drawback would be in having to leaving a message with them, and wait, but who’s to say that they would respond right away with any of the other methods, either?….

Well, even though it’s still time on the “left side of the continent”, it seems that it’s time to say goodnight to this day…

Everybody in that equation texts. Ta da!

they are inviting tiffany?

No.

ugh… people these days. this is pretty funny. gotta add this to my favorites.