The Dinette Set by Julie Larson for March 25, 2012

It’s the Sunday Comic Crustwoodians…. And it’s the PENNYs being the PENNYs…… ! ! !

Do any of these people have a neck??

Just for the record…………I hate I Hop

Well now….JOY came up with a great way of breaking the news to BURL….. ! ! !

Boulder jumped right out, and scratched that car!

Marg, we had some of the biggest and tastiest crawfish today…………..MMMMMMMMMMMMMM

They cleared up any sinus probs I was having. lol

Hmmm…….This Dazz woman keeps hammering home the point that she is staying with her BF.I wonder if they will share the same boudoir??Fess up dazz

We don’t have a driveway.

An earthquake caused the boulder to move, no doubt. Burl can be counted on to: (1) believe the story, and (2) not have felt the EQ. The tracks in the grass notwithstanding.Leaky, I thought you didn’t like mudbugs. Did I dream that? Here in Houston we are at the peak of crawfish season and even Walgreen’s is serving them! (Slight exaggeration. They do serve two essential ingredients, being Mylanta and Prep H.)

Good morning all.

Could Julie’s reference to “depends” be aimed at me??I would be devastated if anyone thought I was incompetent…………..I mean incontinent.Tell me I’m imagining this.

I’ll bet Burl’s wishing he was wearing those depends now.

Love the antimacassars changing to “Uh Oh.”Joy has magic powers. Everywhere she drives, boulders walk, red lights turn green, straight roads curve, and parking places shrink.Oh — and parking meters give you 47 minutes for an hour (like psychiatrists.).Puzzling out CHCC… we’ve seen that before. OH, right… stolen from Crustwood Heights Country Club, I bet. IHOP is almost amusing for breakfast…or would be if it were still cheap.I went there afew months ago, and I’ve never seen another restaurant with miniature food like that.Three eggs, three pancakes and four slices of bacon sounds like too much food, but….the eggs are banty size, the pancakes small, and you can almost read through the bacon.However the friend who dragged me there likes it cos they have 2 for one dinners for seniors on Wednesdays. Not breakfast items, not great, but not horrible. And Leaky… it depends,

Good morning all! My eye is just about cleared up and the citrus blooms are practically done. I LOVE the scent but do have allergies. I had a little “trouble” reading Joy’s shirt (one of the 3 things that changed between the panels)..Leaky, I won’t be staying in a guest room (my clothes will and I can change in there- not enough closet space in his room).Have not been to an I Hop since I moved in 98. The only Cracker Barrel I ever went to was for an event planning meeting w SCA friends. We all agreed to order something as we were occupying a table, so I had apple pie- OK. I prefer home cooking except for really good restaurants (but don’t mind Outback for some prime rib as long as it’s rare).

Every show they’ve ever been to was on ice ;-D and I suppose that refers to her careless driving. And as none of them could ever have taken an exercise class, much less done olympic training, I guess Jerry bought that shirt in a garage sale, in another town (Crustwood Heights?)

Is Leaky’s avatar the mug shot of what’s his name? (some actor) I know I’ve seen that on TMZ. I haven’t decided whether to change mine from Big Red (name of the 9 year old hawk at Cornell). I may keep it until eggs hatch in mid April.

I’m not sure I like the name “Cracker Barrel”

@leaky, that all “depends” on your imagination. lol

Marg is a high ranking member in the heirarchy of Go Comics.You have to petition her with your request, and if she approves it, she will program your name and send you instructions on how to do it yourself.

I’ll bet your BF’s name is Guido, and you want to change your name to “Guido’s broad” or “Guido’s sugar mama”……….or something like that!!

I kinda fits BURL’S personality to put boulders at the end of the driveway…. to punish anyone that drives across his lawn…. looks like he shot himself in the foot this time…. ! ! !

Don’t pay any attention to leaky. He sounds extremely jealous to me.

DAZZ, we have a mourning dove nesting in a planter box on the the top rack of a bakers rack that is standing on our patio. My husband discovered her yesterday, and we’re keeping an eye on her. Pictures were posted on that social media if you’d like to see them. What is you name over there again, please?

Dazz, go to your home page, click on ‘profile’. Click on ‘edit profile’. In information, where it says ‘first name’, you can type in whatever you want. :-)

I would suggest you do the same thing Gym ShoeI have never said anything discourteous to you, yet you seem to have a problem.Now, we can continue this till one of us gets banned (bring it on)… or you can get a book and see if you can “Find Waldo”

Done :-))

But then it wouldn’t be the “Big Easy” would it ;-))

I guess I learned that my name can’t have an apostophe in it, so I could not post more than once with “BF’s girl” (after my test) I no longer saw any comments when I hit “all”. For the moment I’ll just use DAZZ.

Counting the number of comments is rather “creepy”…………but seems to fit in with your m.o..

Shame on you Dazz……………..no one over 47 years old should be having sex.

(This is gonna be like shooting fish in a barrel)

Dazz, I tease and cut up with ya……….but make NO mistake about it……I GOT YOUR BACK!!

Well, I’ve enjoyed watching Kentucky vs Baylor and sparring on the comment section.

See you good people later…………..Gym Shoe, try not to miss me too much.

Leaky and GymShoe — stand down!I like you both and I hate to see squabbling here.Leaky, I took Mona’s comment as joking… same way you and I dish it out.I could be wrong but why not take it that way.GymShoe, I understand your concern,and I really like talking to you…. but I’ve said before that I believe ALL comments here, no matter to whom they’re nominally directed, are for EVERYONE to read, even all the forum readers who never post.People banter here partially to amuse those not involved.it’s like an old Bob Hope movie. We’d never know his funny quips and insults if they weren’t filmed for an audience.Anyway, most of us don’t have each other’s e-mail addresses, or time to write to everybody who reads this page, and we’re not all on Facebook (I’m not, are you?)And how would we know each other’s names or ID’s (well, except for Dazz who tells everything?)People are having fun here.The site owners haven’t seen fit to restrict comments to the topic of the strip, and no one else can make rules or allocate percentages of the forum.For instance, I enjoyed your off-topic comments about Hawaii and your link to the mechanical museum. And various people’s musical links, and Dazz’s bird cam and discussions (ahem) with Leaky.I’d hate to disallow them or to go back and figure out what percentage of the day they took up, or tabulate the various enjoyable conversations you and I have had.How could we have had them by e-mail?In fact I’m the most verbose poster here — most of my stuff is about the strip characters…. I’m sure some people think my word count is too high!!Please just enjoy what you like here and skip the rest…It’s useless to try to patrol the site.There are some forums here where people talk WAY more about their personal business, or live whole fantasy lives far beyond anything in the comic…some are far less welcoming than Crustwood, where even strangers are met with hospitality…and BTW, Marg, can I borrow a cup of sugar?

And Dazz – that’s so funny — I used to worry that you didn’t like it when I started calling you “Dazz.”

I’m not sure why you are so upset at a fellow commenter. DAZZ enjoys his teasing, I can tell by her responses. I think that Susan did a good job of putting this into perspective. I suggest that you read her message again, she gave some good advice.

DAZZ can’t find you on the social network. Are you one of the Virginias that has no info listed?

@Susan, I have never minded nicknames and (as a very bad typist) often appreviate names and whatever (like BF). Back at Zeniith when I had big work crews, the guys called me boss lady or just “Virg”. The only one I hated was my aunts calling me “Ginny Lou”

I’ve had other nicknames too, but I even put Virg on my white bedazzled hard hat

Thank you, Marg!Um…. white sugar will do for now, thanks.LOL!

Dazz — we won’t even talk about some of the nicknames I’ve had…I will say that when I was a retail manager for awhile, my fairly small staff called me “Mom”.It started as a joke.A few were quite young, but most were 10 to 30 years older than me.Susan Sunshine" is the nickname by which a lot of old acquaintances actually call me. In fact I’m sure some think it IS my real name.Others think I made it up as some kind of cute hippie name, which makes me cringe.As if!I had a boyfriend a LOT of years ago who couldn’t spell, so he started it, and introduced me that way… and it grew….and I hated it.But by now, a generation of children back in that community call me “SusanSunshine” as though it’s one word…

Then along came the internet, and a need for anonymity…and I embraced my inner Susan Sunshine….LOL.But not Susie.Never never never Susie.Why is it always uncles and aunts who do that?

@Susan, Only now (since I’ve outlived them all) have I gotten totally away from my aunties name. In HS, many kids called me “Teach” because the good clothes I found in the resale shops my parents took me were more like what most teachers wore than other kids)

So good to share old memories (even if some were rather painful). I did not enjoy my last HS reunion (except for time spent with my BF) and at that time we were still platonic.

In today’s strip I did wonder why Burl was not with the rest on an outing. Is it possible he actually had WORK to do?

As to choosing v-dazzle, I always hoped to work at my paintings and jewelry design when I retired (at 65 I had envisioned) but with all my 401K and IRA stuff I just wanted to keep working and only used that name after my last layoff when I registered it as a company name and had already adopted it for email.My business card had a side view of a faceted stone in the V

Conversing at night I feel is safe because very few are here

Aaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhh, I love you guys………

Give it up Dazz, she doesnt want you to know who she is!!

G-night

The woman is wanted by police dazz, she can’t afford to go public.

I found a Virginia Davis in Phoenix….

Susan, I thought for sure you had my e-mail addy when we were all trying to get dogsniff reinstated.

No, Leaky, nor do I have Marg’s, though I’d love to have both. I do have Dazz’s, and if you have hers or Dogsniff’s, as they have both posted them online, I’d hope one of them would be willing to give you mine, or give me yours, if you tell them it’s OK.You too, GymShoe…. would you like to e-mail?I do have to say I hope you read my post. Meanwhile, Please … I’ve always thought we were friends….it shocks me that you want to keep squabbling over someone’s else’s posts, which are not yours to control….. especially as Dazz, Marg and I have all said we enjoy them, and yours too!

@Gymshoe, we were really trying to “take it to FB”

hah! at least it’s not impotence. you wanna make love? depends….