The Dinette Set by Julie Larson for January 05, 2012

Those boxes certainly aren’t XXL.

Gosh, he can pack a tea cup in the one…Don’t make Joy wait, give those boxes back to her right now.

Good morning Crustwoodians! Rusty is feeling less than peachy tonight, so he’ll join us in the AM.

And here I was going to say don’t help. Your help is of no help to him.

Is that a blue Kotex box on the table? Sure and that’ll be helpful. Dale and Marlene have a son? Would he be Timmy’s father?Marg, sorry about Rusty/Leaky/whomever. A stiff shot of John Jameson sometimes helps me. Tell him the Marcello family still exists, even if old Carlos has died.

Morning all —

Is Timmy’s dad moving into a dollhouse? Timmy looks too tall for that.

Maybe Marlene has another son who’s only a foot tall. I once saw a 5" baby in the palm of a doctor’s hand, on the cover of a very reliable tabloid.

Marg, I think that’s exactly what’ll happen, after a long pause for a few stares of disbelief.

And Mikie — with magnification, I can see it says Timex. Probably the one from Burl’s speedy watch.I’m surprised he’s not keeping it for when he sells the watch as a collectible, after it stops running.

“Mad in America.”Indeed.

GymShoe — I think she’s airing out the blouse today, so she can wear it a few more times before it needs rinsing.

Marg! Is that you on skates in Radish’s avatar???

Oh, look! Marlene’s son will have a box that’ll be perfect to move his matchsticks! Such HELPFUL friends!

Good Morning All

Unless the son is moving in with the Lilliputians we have a problem here.

I tried to read the boxes; best I could make out she has some from Waterford and Mikasa as well as the box Susan mentioned from the fast Timex. As yesterday’s strip mentioned HSN, I guess these are all from the things the Pennys bought there, and she needs the boxes back for when she tries to sell them on Ebay (for more than she paid).

Doesn’t Burl work at a storage facility — loaded with empty boxes?

Someone is leaving Crustwood…..I guess every so often; the meds do work.

Rusty and Mikie, did either of you read All the King’s Men by Robert Penn Warren? A novel, but supposedly based on the life of Hughie Long. Can’t say I’d recommend it.

Favorite line: “Man is conceived in sin and born in corruption and he passeth from the stink of the didie to the stench of the shroud…” That’s Willie Stark’s excuse for the corruption that went on in his fictional state.

Thanks, Crustwoodians, for deciphering most of the boxes for me. Those Fayva shoes appear to be for a lady, and are size 11DD. That’s a pretty large foot, Joy. Has her large foot size been previously established? Or maybe it’s a borrowed box they’ve yet to return.

can they really be that dumb?….oh never mind.

Ray C, If you could see the people coming into the city, its unbelievable. They are expecting 250k visitors for the Saints vs Detroit game Saturday and LSU vs Bama Monday.They still have some lingering over from the Va Tech vs Michigan game last night. I guess they want to see Detroit vs Saints.You know…………If both the Saints and LSU lose, I will have to go on suicide watch!!

250 kilovisitors? And the dome holds how many? Maybe 100 k? Must be a lot of husbands hitting the casinos, telling their wives they’re going to the games. Well, I guess I can believe 250 k for two games, but there’s bound to be a lot of people going to both. They’re gonna be sellin’ a lot of beignets at the Cafe du Monde.

I heard that many came here for the 2 bowl games last week. I don’t even wach games of that sort on TV. I like cooking and designing contests and those are multiplying as the networks realize we like the competitive ones. I watch a lot of Cooking and Food channels, Bravo, HGTV and Lifetime for design and I like crime dramas on ID channel (but my TiVo does suggestions on others).