Luann by Greg Evans and Karen Evans for April 11, 2021

when I can’t sleep, I just listen to easy-listening, relaxing, instrumental music (CD or YouTube… if the former is set on “repeat all” mode or if the latter is 24/7 or about eight hours long)

I’m sorry, even Luann’s messy bedroom is funnier than today’s strip.

They’ve switched sides, but are still in bed. Good omen

I thought Nancy was helping him sleep, based on the other night. Now look, he’s bored her to sleep. There’s just no progress.

Frank crank up the music it will put you to sleep.

So we had a Sunday cartoon all week, including this Sunday.

My rosary puts me to sleep every night.

That is a very pretty picture of Mrs. DeGroot though.

Their night clothes are still on, so nothing romantic happened between yesterday’s strip and today’s. Frank started going on and on about stuff and bored Nancy to sleep.

Wake up- Frank! You are Too old to believe in the Bogeyman. So, what is your current excuse?

This gag would have worked better if Luann had been telling it to Bernice through the bedroom wall and Bernice responds with loud snoring. Kind if like a reversion to Luann’s tape recorded diary comments. This strip is supposed to be about Luann and here Greg is passing up a perfectly good gag for Luann.

Now I lay me down to sleep, bag of peanuts at my feet. If I die before I wake, you’ll know I died of tummy ache.

That does not look like Nancy though…and p.s. not a great prayer to teach kids…Frank has a point, don’t know how funny it is but it is a point…

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I love listening to SWR Aktuell, the news station from Baden-Württemberg. The babble in German takes me back to when I lived Europe and when I had a second language…

Sounds like he came from a pretty normal family.

Different night, different pajamas.

Frank, you must empty your mind if you want to sleep. It’s not easy at first but stick with it and soon you can be asleep in minutes. My only problem is 6 hours later I have to wander down the hall to the bathroom. The past week I’ve been averaging 5.5 hours sleep a night.Last night I got 7 hours!

MY parents would make me say this.

“Gentle Jesus, meek and mild. Look upon this little child. Pity my simplicity and suffer me to come to thee. Amen. God bless Insert family members names here And all our friends and family. In Jesus’ name we pray, amen”

This is how I put my wife to sleep.

If I want to fall asleep, I try to read something by William Faulkner. Usually I am out before I get through 4 or 5 pages. Man that dude was long winded.

Alternatively, Frank could also try knocking back a couple stiff doubles of his fave adult beverage about an hour before bedtime but that could become habit forming pretty quickly and would also set a poor example in such a family oriented strip ;)

That prayer used to scare me when I was a little kid….I didn’t want to pray about possibly dying!! I refused to teach it to my own kid.

Looks like Frank grew up with parents who loved to scare him to death. Poor Frank! Let’s hope watching Nancy while she sleeps isn’t a cause of envy for him, but of love ♡.

Don’t understand parents back then. If you want the kid to go to bed and fall asleep fast, it is not a good idea to speak of dying in bed or tell of monsters hiding under the bed. Kind of defeats the purpose of getting peace and quiet for the parents.

Say your prayers like you did when you were a child.

Yes, my parents did the exact same…except for the boogyman.

It’s bad theology and scary! Almost as bad as telling kids an old man that lives far away “sees them when they are sleeping……knows when they are awake”……..more creepy than anything! : )

Yesterday Frank was on the right side of the bed.

First, it’s aggravating how easy people reading this strip for years seem to forget the practice that Sunday strips are independent is confusing? Frank is just making one of his wry observations, mildly funny. Maybe that Nancy and Frank are drawn in bed is confusing? Remember the babe is his, all that really matters.

Wake her up! That’ll certainly help!

We changed the bedtime prayer years ago for our kids. Now its, Now I lay me down to sleep I pray the Lord my soul to keep, send happy dreams and near me stay until another happy day.

This is a pretty old gag but still true. I’m sure many children of Frank’s generation have this same fear!!!!! I was taught this little prayer and I still say it before bed. It actually gives me a lot of comfort. And I remember that old saying as well. None of it ever really bothered me and these days it reminds me of my unique Appalachian family. Today’s strip made me smile. Sweet dreams, Frank!!!!! Don’t worry about a thing.

…yeah, well MY mother ended our day with “Here comes a candle to light you to bed, and here comes a CHOPPER to CHOP OFF YOUR HEAD!”Funny that she would use that one, being Ukrainian she didn’t know it as a child, but learned it from my paternal grandmother after she got married. We also got the Baba Yaga stories, as well as the old style Grimm stories with the all the blood and deaths involved. We grew up fine. Don’t worry so much.

Either that or it was the pie and ice cream (if Frank ever found it) .

Wasn’t Nancy on the other side of the bed in the earlier strip?

And they switched sides of the bed from yesterday’s strip… Hmmm…

Some versions have two more lines:

If I should live for other days,I pray thee, Lord, to guide my ways.

The font size on the “Z” should be at 72. One of the best but funniest Army first sergeants I ever worked with was absolutely convinced his second wife divorced him because of his snoring. Out in the field you could find his position by just the noise.

Frank, you need pie and ice cream to sleep well tonight

Frank and his self-absorbed personality is boring to Nancy. I wonder if he ever considers talking about someone or something other than himself? ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ

it’s funny in it’s own way…… lots of people have trouble getting to sleep for numerous reasons; his is from childhood memories that happen at his bedtime that have lasted into adulthood.

We will probably be back to Gunther and Bets on Monday. He needed a week to sew the pirate costumes for Bets. Frank and Nancy were just to fill the gap.

sounds like a low dose of Melatonin would work wonders for Frank.

Yesterday, they were on opposite sides of the bed. Does this mean they swap sides every night?

Too true and too funny!

Well, you put her asleep…

I put my wife to sleep also when I talk at night…….

Frank dominates both today’s strip and “Luann Againn”.

Or cuz you have conversations with yourself at night. I can relate. After all, I’ve always appreciated intelligent conversation.

Considering how long they’ve been married I suspect this isn’t the first time Frank has told Nancy this story (which may be one reason she fell asleep).

My mother taught us a prayer that was written by her mother. Grandma didn’t like the reference to dying so she wrote her own. I still remember it.

Dear Father in Heaven. Be beside me in the light, close beside me all the night. Keep me gentle, kind and true and do what Mother tells me to. Help and cheer me when I fret and please forgive me when I forget. God bless (insert names here). Amen.

My dad used to say, “Night-night, sleep tight, Merry Christmas, Happy New Year, Cheerio!” It always made me smile.

I always thought Frank as a child would be more scared of hearing “The British Are Coming!”

I have trouble getting to sleep because of all the noise.

And I pray for the bedbugs to bite the bogeyman instead of me!

Yeah. Scare the cr#p out of the kids, then wonder why they keep waking up with Nightmares.

I remember Dad saying, “From ghoulies and ghosties and long-legged beasties, and things that go bump in the night, may the good Lord protect us.”

You talk too much, Frank! Just allow your mind to wander….

When is Gunther going to decide he’s had it with Bets’ Instagram obsession? You’re just a prop, Guns, ‘cause it’s all about Bets, Bets, Bets. And does anyone besides me totally disbelieve this whole story line?

I feel sorry for the paid subscribers. Half the comics are day old.

We have all known this girl:

https://soundcloud.com/jpirard_1999/wasted-ladies

haunting tune about a hard drinking woman, and her choices

WASTED LADIES

GLEN MASSO, GEORGE BARKER ( RIP), JOEL PIRARD

YOU COME TO ME FOR A CHANGE GRAY, WHILE IN THE FAST LANEYOU REASON, YOU’RE YOUNG WITH ENERGY TO BURN BUT’S NOW, IT’S NOW YOU FIND YOUR LIFE AT A CRITICAL TURN

THERE YOU STAND, YOUR HEAD IN YOUR HAND YOUR EYES TELL ME OF YOUR HEARTACHE AND PAIN BOTTLE BY YOUR SIDE, YOU CARRY IT WITH PRIDE DRINK YOUR SIP FROM THE SKIES WASTED, WASTED

YOUR FRIENDS ALL SAY, YOU’RE GOING THE WRONG WAY BUT YOUR TOO BUSY WITH YOUR COUNTRY ATTIRE OH YOU’R ROLLING TIME, SUCH A WASTE, NOT YOUR STYLE

OH WHERE’ YA GOING? OH YOU’RE CRYING

INSTRUMENTAL

YOU DON’T KNOW WHERE YOU STAND, OR WHERE YOU GO ALL YOUR FRIENDS THEY SAY YOU GAVE YOUR ALLAND I DON’T KNOW WHAT YOU WANT, OR UNDERSTAND YOUR HEARTWASTED YEAH YOU’VE NO WHERE ELSE TO GO

OH WHERE’ YA GOING? OH YOU’RE CRYING

(George died in 2000. I did not even know. I recorded this song, ( all me) because he and I did some extensive retooling of it in OUR band, from Glen’s music. We had had a falling out and lost touch, but he and Glen stayed in touch and had played together before, for years. George was an amazing guitarist. But he was hell bent on self destruction, died of liver disease in his 40’s. You loved him and hated him at the same time, but a sweet guy and never mean. In many ways a better man than me) These words are his and mine based on a girl we knew.

They switch sides of the bed? Yesterday she was on the right.