Luann by Greg Evans and Karen Evans for September 15, 2015

They don’t respond to those? Aww cartoons lied to me lol

It’s quite easy to get a cat out of a tree with a firehose!

In Pleasantville, cat calls are all the fire department gets.

I see what you did there, Toni. I wonder if anyone else will?

This does seem yet again a totally new arc.???I wish we could move ahead on some of the existing ones.

Hmmm, double entrendre anyone?

I’m relieved, I guess, that they aren’t being sent off to fight wildfires (although a story line like that would have been really interesting). But it’s disappointing to hear that they don’t rescue cats from trees. We have fire companies here in Florida that even rescue ducks that fall into manholes…

Good thing Brad doesn’t meow.

A cat call is not a wolf call.

We had Frank up in a tree once, chasing a cat as I recall. BUT . . . Maybe that’s not exactly a “cat call.”

But does the fire department come to the rescue when the cat’s owner falls down the ladder and injures himself? Fire fighters are also paramedics after all.

“Not Cool For Cats” (♫)“10th Ave. Station Freeze Out” (♫)“Felines…No, No,No Felines” (♪)“Selective Hearing”“Cat Calls Land You In The Doghouse”“A Finicky Finish”“No Pause For The Claws”“Construc-shunned”“Le Pew, Good Men”“No Pepe In Her Step”“Not Purr Se”or“Meow, That Stings”

Aw gee—we’ve got firefighters coming all the way from New Zealand and Australia to help us out, but Pittsville firefighters have nothing better to do than turn down cat calls?

Whenever I call my cat she never responds either.

…..or, borrow a scene from ‘Roxanne’- open a can of tuna at the base of the tree.

“Oh, I ALMOST Forgot! One MORE New Policy That Goes Into Effect at Midnight: Firefighters Cannot be Married to each other. Any Firefighter found to married to another Firefighter, will be Terminated IMMEDIATELY! Okay, That’s It for the Cheap Plot Twists. Now Get Out There and ANSWER Some False Alarms, People!!” – The Fire Chief

Anyone know what Operation Snowball is and “Guys! Take the truck!”

Let’s not get catty, guys!

My brother is a fire fighter and that is the response they give people.

A naked roof-sitter? Hope that’s a comp or metal roof…inadvertently sliding down shingles can cause the Mother of All Splinters.

Stephan Pastis (Pearls before Swine) would be proud of that pun set up.

And that’s three other people who got Toni’s rather subtle play on words! :)

Quick thinking, Toni. Some men issue them just to harrass women and others do it for the same reason they play the lottery— all they need is one success.*Men, if you want a girlfriend or wife it’s better to be kind than to be rude. And yes, catcalls are rude.

Great play on words!

Oh, I know what cat calls are. For about a year two hookers lived across the street from me, and I would get the cat calls when I would be in our front yard from guys driving by. They would be especially gross when I would be out there talking to my husband. I never reacted to them because I didn’t want to give them the impression they were right. I lived in a nice neighborhood where one would never think there would be people like that. My husband would only say to me, “Don’t look at them.”

Too bad some people think a comic strip is for real and no imagination.

I would have liked a pet Ankylosaurus. A most underrated fellow.

I think someone saw the same kind of cat over here, too! It was rather lazy, though. Wouldn’t move, for nothing! Reminded me of a sloth. Maybe it’s mixed with one, or one of those kinds of numbers. You know, one of them “petty grees” for like those cat shows, or something…

Toni does not have a problem with her self image, she know’s that she is attractive. Why would she allow someone like Dirk to abuse her?

Ah, so that explains why Greg and Karen don’t respond to “cat calls” in the comments here.

In what universe do firefighters wear dress uniforms to pull their shifts? Are we to believe these people combat raging infernos while wearing neckties? And about the captain: If he’s a captain, why does he wear a lieutenant’s bar on his collar?

The cat will come down, when was the last time you saw a cat skeleton in a tree?

“(…) the Mountain Lion Foundation (….) [endangered] there are not many mountain lions left. Killing them because they’re in a tree is at the least morally wrong. "I

I suspect that it is not a disinterested judgement for “The Mountain Lion Foundation” to make that call. Predatory animals in urban areas indicate a lack of fear of people. Those capable of attacking people — especially those species with a history of attacking small children, like the cougar, or mountain lion, are usually destroyed. Moving them typically results in their return to the same, or another, populated area.

@Implausible: you’re decades behind on your updates. Mountain lions are plentiful in California. Remember when the potbellied pig pet fad was happening? (You’re probably too young to.) Those pigs didn’t stay cute and little after all and too many people let theirs go in the mountains. They can produce more than a dozen young twice a year. Lots of prey, lots of lions, there you go.

what’s wrong with getting a cat out off a tree? Pike Poles work wonders like a straight stream from a hose.

And now we know why there are so many cat skeletons in trees.

If a cat can get up the tree, it can get back down by itself.

(missing “cat”, not housebroken:) I don’t know. My house seemed pretty broken once that “kitty” finally left…

2This is unfortunately, not a very exciting arc for me, because I find it being a “wedding tease” arc… especially since the “solo Sunday” arc seems to have been designed this time as a segue into the “Brad-Toni” arc. To me, I am very much “over” Brad and Toni getting married, and again for my tastes, I will probably not find their arc interesting again until after all the nonsense about the wedding, where it is held, etc….. is OVER with and we resume the two of them (and Shannon) developing into some sort of normal life sort of story arc. Now, all you folks who just love and adore weddings, love and adore chit-chat about weddings, and and love and adore other wedding related themes (like what specific buildings to host the wedding events in)…. please do not get riled up. You can and should love and relish this arc. To me, a wedding is a day… hell, really a few hours. To me, day-to-day living, loving, and interpersonal interactions are a whole lot more interesting than all the hoopla a lot of folks devote to “the wedding”.

and hot women wonder why they’re not taken seriously in the work place

Implausible…. I would also be ok with Brad and Toni staying engaged…. if the talk would stop being about the wedding, its venue, its whatever. I still think the wedding is meaningless. It is a symbol of love. Day-to-day living with your spouse IS the real love. Why devote so much time and energy to the symbol and then so many give no time or energy to the real love? With the extravagance of weddings (either in price/gaudiness…. or in terms of time/energy) compared to the minimalist (near starvation) approach to day-to-day living a lot of folks do…… it is not a surprise that 50+% of married couples end up divorcing.

Bada Boom! Thank you ladies and gentlemen. And now for my next comedy joke… :-)

Wh-wowwww, all the way around!!!

And I guess you said it, the way it had to be said…

I guess I’m a hoarder (three family members died and I’ve got their stuff, plus mine, in boxes all over my small condo. Just no time to sort things; too busy running to doctors or going to work.) So I say, have a little pity on those of us who just can’t keep up with the litter of daily life. Half of the ‘junk’ that’s mine is a bunch of ’don’t throw this away’ material from the brokers who are supposed to be managing the IRAs I inherited…)

Dave…. you are of course correct…. I may very well be making some (potentially incorrect) assumptions about this arc. My assumptions stemmed from the Sunday comic featuring “wedding/marriage” talk by the parents concerning Brand and Toni and then was fueled further by this week featuring Brad and Toni in the main arc. I hope you are right and I am mistaken. I hope the arc does not become “wedding-y”.

It’s just as well the fire department doesn’t respond to cat calls. I’d hate to think of a lunatic like Tackleberry getting a cat from a tree.

Happy to see that Toni “changed”, and maybe Brad was a factor in that. Actually, I guess Brad changed, too, from a goofy, sloppy guy to someone who began to recognize responsibilities. I’m relatively new to Luann (probably 3 or 4 years, now) so I not seen some of the earlier characters.

Haha Bdshtt!!

“Re Cat Found!!!”

That is hilarious! I had one of those creatures die in my kitty’s bed that I keep in the courtyard in case she gets caught outdoors at night. I didn’t know about it for a couple of days until I was walking through and smelled something horrible. I live next to the countryside and I get so many critters in my courtyard to eat Lucy’s food such as skunks, possums and baby possums, feral cats, raccoons, and wild birds. There’s lots of coyotes and rabbits and road runners too, but they don’t come in my courtyard.

Good one, Toni!

Have you ever seen a cat skeleton in a tree??

I’m pretty sure that they don’t get into the courtyard because there’s only about a four inch gap at the bottom of the door. Also the big sliding glass door opens into the courtyard, so I can often see what is scurrying around out there.

One morning, I walked out on my patio to “drink in the morning”. When I did, I spotted an Orb Weaver’s web, and was about to investigate… that is, until I happened to notice the snake that my foot had just stepped within inches of… ’t’was momentary, as I quickly had to step back, and the snake had the same idea as me! So I gathered that I had startled it too, but more importantly , it wasn’t grumpy (we have different species in the area, but they are usually good at staying away from people, and “vice versa”)! – Good thing I had went out there before my wife did. I waited a long while to tell her what she just missed out on, moments before I did.

I lived in TJ for twenty years, 1987 to 2007. I married a Mexican orthopedic surgeon in 87 and for the first ten years hardly spoke any Spanish at all. Then we moved to a new home and I learned to speak Spanish from our housekeeper since I was forced to communicate with him everyday. Not that I speak Spanish that great, but I can get by. We moved to east Chula Vista in 2007 at the height of violence in the city from the drug cartels; basically when I realized that my 18 yo son was at a huge risk of getting kidnapped. It was like a slap in the face and I couldn’t get out of there fast enough. My husband was at risk too but not nearly as high a risk as sons are, they are the choice of the kidnappers. They also have a nasty way of cutting off fingers to encourage payment. I personally know several people from Mexico who’ve had loved ones kidnapped, some never to be returned and others where the ransom was paid on time and they were returned. One guy was a very sweet man whose family owned a pharmacy. It was him and his brother and the family had to sell the pharmacy to pay the ransom. They were thankfully returned, but the one brother had to have emergency surgery. It turns out the only thing they had to eat during their ordeal was some top ramen kind of thing, plus the stress, and he got all stopped up and couldn’t go to the bathroom. Anyways, that was a frightening time, but it seems to be better now. I may go back and live there someday; we still have our lovely home that we built there. I loved living in Tijuana, those were the good old days. And the help, don’t get me started on the help. I barely lifted a finger to do housework when I lived there, lol. That truly was the best thing about living there. Whenever anyone asked why I lived there though, I would always answer, the food! That was the next best thing, if not the best! I had the most wonderful cook, how I miss her. Her mom was a fabulous cook too, and one time she brought us homemade mole that her mom had made, and it was one of the most delicious things I’ve ever had. Our family and even my kids went nuts over it. And her rajas, omg, like heaven. If you don’t know what rajas are, they are strips of poblano chiles cooked with corn and cheese and cream, out of this world! And her chiles rellenos . . . such good memories!

I know, right? I bet you’re gonna whip up a yummy lunch!

Mmmmm :)

I haven’t seen a dead cat in a tree yet.

Meeting adjournment…off to Dunkin Doghnuts..

JPuzzleWhiz said,@luannfan1212Catcall: generally speaking, a derogatory comment. . . . . -—————————Yes, that’s why I said a ‘cat call’ is not a ‘wolf call.’ They can be opposite..The latter is intended to compliment (though perhaps in an unwanted way).

-maybe cats don’t have skeletons… They might be held together by sheer orneriness!

LOL!!!

We had Frank up in a tree once, chasing a cat as I recall. Brad was called to rescue him.

SPOILER ALERT

Sheriff said earlier that this arc is a continuation of old business, but it looks like a week of cat jokes…

what happened to todays strip should have been released 1 hr ago

so the guy on the end yesterday was African American… today he is caucasian… wonder how that happens :-)

Cats don’t get stuck in trees. They knew how to get up there, they can figure out how to get down again…especially when they get hungry.