Methinks Dez’d fit in better in Europe where nudism is acceptable. They’re even nude and sex shown on public TV shows, not just implications as they are on American TV.
As fun and interesting as it would be to see Dez go au natural. You all know this comic won’t allow anything more than a silhouette of Dez naked body. Lil off-topic: what does dez, bernice, luann, tiffany, steph, bets, nancy, toni, and a roller coaster have in common? Lots of curves to give a thrilling ride.
Well, it’s early yet, but I think We got a pretty good idea in what form “boyfriend’s” next embarrassment will come.
It ‘ll either happen when he comes to visit the quad, or when Bets talks him into to “doing something different,” and “live-steaming” for her adoring sheeple.
(SIGH) At least “boyfriend” won’t have to spend a lot of dough on costumes.
Someone who studies ecosystems and the interactions between animals to help deepen the understanding of human connections and relationships is an example of a naturalist.
Dez seems to like the idea of Bets cosplaying and she likes her passion. She already knows Gunther, I’m sure she’ll be happy to hear he’s Bets’ boyfriend♡. But I think she also knows of the great friendship between Gunther and Tiffany and she probably understood that Tiffany like him very, VERY much and deeply… Dez has already said she has done naked yoga in the past, knowing that she’s a fellow naturist fills me with joy ♡ ♡♡. Dez is seriously awesome!
Dez may be about to get a surprise (or give a surprise, if she shows up to the meeting au naturel). A naturalist is a professional who studies and usually also educates the public about nature. So, hiking and stuff, like Bets said. What Dez means is a naturist (one less syllable).
Dez should try a minor in English also because, as many have commented here, she mistakes words for others. But maybe the joke is she did join a group of naturalists and assumes they are naturists.
This is the clearest arc exploring mature-lite themes that young college adults go through in shown through the comedic world of Luannverse. Tomorrow I predict that it will be more applied in some hilarious, but interesting, situation. I applaud the strip’s obvious contribution to this world by Karen. It follow’s and expands Luann’s world greatly, which ironically is why she is less the focus of the strip, so it seems. That’s normal methinks. One’s world grows the older people get.
Dez again shows her stoned out ignorance by using the wrong word to describe her new-found penchant for nudity. I personally would not appreciate a roommate in such a small shared space who was always running around nude, especially if there was furniture we shared in the common area. I guess I would be wondering if they were keeping things clean and tidy down there. The commenters here will call me a prude but honestly, she’s just weird and keeps showing more examples of her superiority complex. Dez thinks anything she does in the name of Zen should be approved of and accepted by all. She has no consideration for other people’s values or privacy. I’ll be glad when this arc with her in it is over. She is way more annoying than Shannon, and that’s saying something!
I don’t really think that Dez would bother joining a Naturist (that’s really what it’s called) group. There are lots of clothing optional places in California – beaches, hot springs, outdoor gatherings, that don’t require you to specifically be part of a nudist group. It’s actually not that big a deal there. I think it was more of a thing in other regions, decades ago.
I have been wondering.. What is Bets’s given name? Is that a nickname or is that on her birth certificate? Bettilda? Bethany? Bettina? Betty? Elizabeth?
Yeah! As Chuck374 just pointed out, a “naturalist” is someone who studies nature. A “naturist” is someone who prefers to go without clothes. Dez is planning to be the latter – good for her! (Although if the gods had intended us to go about naked, we’d have been born that way …)
Well, I don’t get Bets reaction here. As many times they were at camp together they probably saw each other in the buff more than once, and unless dorms have change, the showers are communal ones. The one I stayed in was. All the guys on my floor saw each other in the buff eventually.
Someone tell her (and Greg!) that she has the terminology wrong. A Naturalist is a person who loves and/or studies nature. The word she wants is “Naturist.”
Maybe Bets will be seeing Dez-as-a-Natur[al]ist, but I’m guessing we won’t. Strategic obstructions of view, rear silhouettes, etc., shall be our fare, if any….
I am not really surprised that Dez would join a nudist group. Bets’ reaction is a bit unclear, but seemingly not negative….
HOW MANY people posted about the difference between naturalists and naturists before bothering to read existing comments to see if that had already been said?
lvlax about 3 years ago
DANGER…. DANGER…. Brdshtt may make another post about Arnold The Pig!.. DANGER…. LOL
Namrepus about 3 years ago
She’s a real diamond in the buff!
Templo S.U.D. about 3 years ago
Fun.
lvlax about 3 years ago
Well, now we know why seeing Stef and Kip going at in the buff didn’t faze Dez. LOL
AnyFace about 3 years ago
notbornyesterday about 3 years ago
Well, your birthday suit is kinda of a costume
TheLastLawman about 3 years ago
Tara and Jack will appreciate this nude “streak”.
Chocolate about 3 years ago
It’s odd having Bets ask questions and show an interest in what someone else likes. And waits for an answer.
marilynnbyerly about 3 years ago
Keep America Beautiful. Put your clothes back on.
Joe1962 about 3 years ago
Dez be carful what you say next.
Willow Mt Lyon about 3 years ago
Bets looks like she isn’t looking forward to seeing Dez in the nude. Dez doesn’t look too impressed about the costumes.
capricorn9th about 3 years ago
Methinks Dez’d fit in better in Europe where nudism is acceptable. They’re even nude and sex shown on public TV shows, not just implications as they are on American TV.
Ruth Brown about 3 years ago
Now this is good. Bets thinking going back to Tiff is a good idea?
Brdshtt Premium Member about 3 years ago
In panel 1, Bets has a “Greg In A Box”. I knew it would not be long before she would be running things here. OK, Bets, let poor Greg out of the box…
yoey1957 about 3 years ago
Was it last summer when Dez, Bern, and Luann went on a camping trip and Dez was the one bouncing around in the buff?
R.W.Singer -SF about 3 years ago
That is NOT an image I needed!
gnmnrbl about 3 years ago
As fun and interesting as it would be to see Dez go au natural. You all know this comic won’t allow anything more than a silhouette of Dez naked body. Lil off-topic: what does dez, bernice, luann, tiffany, steph, bets, nancy, toni, and a roller coaster have in common? Lots of curves to give a thrilling ride.
reedkomicks Premium Member about 3 years ago
Good grief!
Caldonia about 3 years ago
At least Dez won’t see Bets’s little outfits; she’ll be too busy smiling serenely with her eyes closed.
J. Scarbrough about 3 years ago
She’ll be seeing her in a birthday suit.
BJShipley1 about 3 years ago
So much for the people yesterday who were all “Bets didn’t mention having a boyfriend so that means she doesn’t care about him at all!!!!”
kenhense about 3 years ago
Why can’t Dez go commando and Tara go nude?
syzygy47 about 3 years ago
So…we’ll be seeing more of Dez?
blunebottle about 3 years ago
Dez never ceases to surprise.
nofixedabode about 3 years ago
I think you meant “naturists”…
Rhetorical_Question about 3 years ago
Naturism is a lifestyle of non-sexual social nudity, and the cultural movement which advocates for and defends that lifestyle.
Baarorso about 3 years ago
I’d love to see Dez do some “cosplay” in her “birthday suit”.;D
Johnny Q Premium Member about 3 years ago
Shouldn’t that be “naturists”?
Airman about 3 years ago
Naturalists? Like joining one of Prof. Zebo’s nude drawing classes as a model?
pontiac59 about 3 years ago
Okay I may stick around just to see how they manage to show that in a family friendly comic
Mordock999 Premium Member about 3 years ago
With apologies in an advance to JPuzzlewiz
“The Naked and the Dread.”
“The Naked Pun.”
“Strangers in the Nude.” – Frank Sinatra
“These boots are made for somebody else.” – Nancy Sinatra
“The Naked and the Dud.”
C about 3 years ago
Why do I see shamelessly censored strips in the future?
Mordock999 Premium Member about 3 years ago
Well, it’s early yet, but I think We got a pretty good idea in what form “boyfriend’s” next embarrassment will come.
It ‘ll either happen when he comes to visit the quad, or when Bets talks him into to “doing something different,” and “live-steaming” for her adoring sheeple.
(SIGH) At least “boyfriend” won’t have to spend a lot of dough on costumes.
“Your fans will Freak, indeed.
Rhetorical_Question about 3 years ago
Someone who studies ecosystems and the interactions between animals to help deepen the understanding of human connections and relationships is an example of a naturalist.
Susan00100 about 3 years ago
Maybe Dez will now model for Luann’s art class.
jdi801 about 3 years ago
The word is NATURIST not naturalist.
ACTIVIST1234 about 3 years ago
But not in the dorm. Right, Dez? Please?!?
Aladar30 Premium Member about 3 years ago
Dez seems to like the idea of Bets cosplaying and she likes her passion. She already knows Gunther, I’m sure she’ll be happy to hear he’s Bets’ boyfriend♡. But I think she also knows of the great friendship between Gunther and Tiffany and she probably understood that Tiffany like him very, VERY much and deeply… Dez has already said she has done naked yoga in the past, knowing that she’s a fellow naturist fills me with joy ♡ ♡♡. Dez is seriously awesome!
basilisk Premium Member about 3 years ago
I would wear my birthday suit more often if it fit better.
imagenesis about 3 years ago
Oh, so I’ll be seing you in… Yup, ________(fill in the blank!) Tee-hee!
Johnnyrico about 3 years ago
What the ever-living heck did I just read??
Decepticomic about 3 years ago
Things could get hairy.
Willywise52 Premium Member about 3 years ago
Jail?
Wizard of Ahz-no relation about 3 years ago
…the all together?
Ellis97 about 3 years ago
How’s that for a metaphysical paradox?
rrsltx about 3 years ago
We had hints about Dez’s aspirations before. Remember her running wild in nature in her birthday suit on the camping trip?
david_42 about 3 years ago
I belonged to a Naturists resort for a year. It really was nothing more than ‘a sunbath until your skin looks like a football’ club.
lisfnord about 3 years ago
I believe the word is “naturist”
Ignatz Premium Member about 3 years ago
Cosplaying Eve.
6foot6 about 3 years ago
Why did I just hear the transition music from Seinfeld?
Call me Ishmael about 3 years ago
I thought nudists were “naturists. Naturalists are a different thing. A “Moony” education at work?
Dkram about 3 years ago
The Buff.
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rick1956 about 3 years ago
It’s ‘naturists’ not ‘naturalists’
WilliamVollmer about 3 years ago
I’m sorry to be a stereotypical MCP here, but of all the young ladies here in Luann I would like to see “au natural,” Des isn’t among them.
bittenbyknittin about 3 years ago
Isn’t that naturist, not naturalist?
rodney about 3 years ago
Interesting dorm dynamics developing
BuckarooDave about 3 years ago
so what’ll happen when Bets relates this possibly intriguing idea to Gunther?
Major Matt Mason Premium Member about 3 years ago
“…all the old familiar places…”
calliarcale about 3 years ago
Dez may be about to get a surprise (or give a surprise, if she shows up to the meeting au naturel). A naturalist is a professional who studies and usually also educates the public about nature. So, hiking and stuff, like Bets said. What Dez means is a naturist (one less syllable).
ctolson about 3 years ago
Seems Dez was frolicking in the woods in an early arc when she, Bern, and LuAnn went camping.
shamest Premium Member about 3 years ago
I am seeing roommates swapping rooms
artegal about 3 years ago
Pleeeeeeaaase don’t do that to us!
oakie817 about 3 years ago
oh this could be quite an interesting story arc if the right cast members are included
Seakanda Premium Member about 3 years ago
It’s “Naturist”, not “Naturalist!”
buer about 3 years ago
Dez should try a minor in English also because, as many have commented here, she mistakes words for others. But maybe the joke is she did join a group of naturalists and assumes they are naturists.
desperado10mm about 3 years ago
Meanwhile back in Luann’s bedroom Puddles just left a puddle.
locake about 3 years ago
Naturist don’t go naked in normal society. Only when they are around other naturists who are accepting of it.
YorkGirl Premium Member about 3 years ago
Things will get interesting in this quad. I think Dez will blow Stef’s mind if she sees the naturalist in her altogether! ;-)
luann1212 about 3 years ago
This is the clearest arc exploring mature-lite themes that young college adults go through in shown through the comedic world of Luannverse. Tomorrow I predict that it will be more applied in some hilarious, but interesting, situation. I applaud the strip’s obvious contribution to this world by Karen. It follow’s and expands Luann’s world greatly, which ironically is why she is less the focus of the strip, so it seems. That’s normal methinks. One’s world grows the older people get.
comic reader 22 about 3 years ago
Dez again shows her stoned out ignorance by using the wrong word to describe her new-found penchant for nudity. I personally would not appreciate a roommate in such a small shared space who was always running around nude, especially if there was furniture we shared in the common area. I guess I would be wondering if they were keeping things clean and tidy down there. The commenters here will call me a prude but honestly, she’s just weird and keeps showing more examples of her superiority complex. Dez thinks anything she does in the name of Zen should be approved of and accepted by all. She has no consideration for other people’s values or privacy. I’ll be glad when this arc with her in it is over. She is way more annoying than Shannon, and that’s saying something!
MuddyUSA Premium Member about 3 years ago
Hiking and stuff……nudism?
kauri44 about 3 years ago
I don’t really think that Dez would bother joining a Naturist (that’s really what it’s called) group. There are lots of clothing optional places in California – beaches, hot springs, outdoor gatherings, that don’t require you to specifically be part of a nudist group. It’s actually not that big a deal there. I think it was more of a thing in other regions, decades ago.
ttuerff about 3 years ago
NATURISTS, you idiot. Naturalists are people concerned with the outdoors in general. Naturists are nudists.
Jogger2 about 3 years ago
Will we?
Will we (the readers be seeing Dez in …) ?
tremaine53 about 3 years ago
I’ll be changing the channel now…
moondog42 Premium Member about 3 years ago
Yeah, actually most naturalists are respectful of other people’s boundaries, as Dez usually is in OTHER situations….
Mayor Snorkum about 3 years ago
Maybe you’ll be seeing Dez in. . . (the nude, presumably), Bets, but G & K will never let us get a look. Probably a good thing.
jojo318 about 3 years ago
Bets will see but none of you will see.
RonnieAThompson Premium Member about 3 years ago
I’ll be seeing you in all the unfamiliar places. No nudes is good nudes.
daddo52 about 3 years ago
She should convince Tiffany to attend the nudism con
David Budd about 3 years ago
A Naturalist is interested in flora and fauna, hiking and all that stuff. A Naturist prefers to be unclothed. They are not the same.
redfield Premium Member about 3 years ago
Nudists are also called ‘naturists’, not ‘naturalists’. Naturalists study plants and animals in nature.
LtPowers about 3 years ago
Bets isn’t wrong about “Naturalists”; Dez is. Dez meant “Naturists”.
dan.mcquiston about 3 years ago
So, what about Bwad and Toni?
SchipLvr about 3 years ago
“So I’ll be seeing you in……….your natural glory?”
CitizenOfTheValley about 3 years ago
I have been wondering.. What is Bets’s given name? Is that a nickname or is that on her birth certificate? Bettilda? Bethany? Bettina? Betty? Elizabeth?
Busrayne about 3 years ago
Any chance Dez can get Tiff, Steff and Bets on board with this? Talk about som interesting comic arcs….
Tyge about 3 years ago
Panel 3: “I’ll be seeing you in … all the old familiar places?” — Old standard covered by a myriad of artists.
Joe1962 about 3 years ago
Greg & Karen must be missing Seinfeld or the Odd Couple.
bob-droid12 about 3 years ago
Are there metaphysics conventions?
Vilyehm about 3 years ago
Will we discover that Dez has a tattoo of Arnold the Pig?
David Huie Green LoveJoyAndPeace about 3 years ago
“…some place other than a briar patch.”
dlaemmerhirt999 about 3 years ago
I like the way this is going . . .
mootmom about 3 years ago
Unfortunately, Greg Evans is using the wrong term. “Naturalists” are indeed outdoors-folks. He wanted the word “Naturists” but got it wrong.
alexius23 about 3 years ago
Mark Twain once observed “man is the only that blushes~or needs to”
mindjob about 3 years ago
I see Dez opening up a health food store
Chuck374 about 3 years ago
There is no “AL” in that word.
LASteve about 3 years ago
Yeah! As Chuck374 just pointed out, a “naturalist” is someone who studies nature. A “naturist” is someone who prefers to go without clothes. Dez is planning to be the latter – good for her! (Although if the gods had intended us to go about naked, we’d have been born that way …)
RSH about 3 years ago
So will WE be seeing Dez in the nude?
Brdshtt Premium Member about 3 years ago
‘Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.’ — Mark Twain
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Just a quote I remembered – don’t kill the messenger…
garyinyard about 3 years ago
Naturism is nudism. Naturalism is a philosophy.
corpcasselbury about 3 years ago
If I were Bets, I would be seriously rethinking having Dez for my roomie right about now.
ggorgar about 3 years ago
How is she going to practice that in the dorm?
montylc2001 about 3 years ago
Well, I don’t get Bets reaction here. As many times they were at camp together they probably saw each other in the buff more than once, and unless dorms have change, the showers are communal ones. The one I stayed in was. All the guys on my floor saw each other in the buff eventually.
lms1231 Premium Member about 3 years ago
Dorm life sucks.
jgleming about 3 years ago
Hmmmm… I think Dez is mistaken. This is from the website, Writingtips:
“A naturalist is someone interested in natural history, especially botany or zoology.
A naturist is a person who practices nudity for reasons of health or religion.”
Maybe, she’s joining a group of nude naturalists.
GreggW Premium Member about 3 years ago
That’s “naturists”.
drewpamon about 3 years ago
I guess she and Stephanie should have stayed roommates since they both share an interest in naked time.
Night-Gaunt49[Bozo is Boffo] about 3 years ago
Nudism, my kind of group.
bakana about 3 years ago
Bets will soon be so Glad she prefers the male of the species..
BradFilippone about 3 years ago
Someone tell her (and Greg!) that she has the terminology wrong. A Naturalist is a person who loves and/or studies nature. The word she wants is “Naturist.”
Otis Rufus Driftwood about 3 years ago
There goes the neighborhood.
john eastman about 3 years ago
you’d think she’d know the difference
w16521 about 3 years ago
Bets is going to be looking for a new roomie now.
Sisyphos about 3 years ago
Maybe Bets will be seeing Dez-as-a-Natur[al]ist, but I’m guessing we won’t. Strategic obstructions of view, rear silhouettes, etc., shall be our fare, if any….
I am not really surprised that Dez would join a nudist group. Bets’ reaction is a bit unclear, but seemingly not negative….
bwsevier Premium Member about 3 years ago
Nice to see mention of a growing trend in the world, even the US…
yoda1234 about 3 years ago
“yup.. ‘All the old familiar places’….”
ronaldspence about 3 years ago
She might be embareassed!
Kymberleigh about 3 years ago
HOW MANY people posted about the difference between naturalists and naturists before bothering to read existing comments to see if that had already been said?
WAY TOO MANY.
kc5qnk about 3 years ago
“Naturist”, not “Naturalist”….
kayentom about 3 years ago
Actually the term is Naturists. Naturism/Nudism.
GaryCooper about 3 years ago
People who like going without clothes are naturists, not naturalists. Dez would never make that mistake, but apparently Greg/Karen Evans would.
profesorquijote about 3 years ago
Nudists call themselves “naturists” not naturalists. Those are people who enjoy flora and fauna.
Michie Z Premium Member over 2 years ago
Ew… Nasty. Please don’t sit on any chairs without at least putting a towel down first, Thanks :)