Lay Lines by Carol Lay for August 12, 2024

I’m assuming panel 3 are his positive traits.

Mom: “Would it kill you to settle down for once?”

2×4s and nails afterward? Sounds … exciting.

If he smokes pot half of the time, how much can he contribute to rent? Nothing.

Her: “What? I didn’t see any red flags”

I don’t think I quite get the “power of 273” line

If she actually married him, it would be “mariticide” as well as “homicide,” but I don’t know that the law makes a distinction.

(“Mariticide” technically means “killing one’s spouse,” but there seems to be no husband-specific equivalent of “uxoricide,” wife-killing (there was no single Latin equivalent of “husband”). Interestingly, if you kill someone with the intention of marrying the surviving spouse, the Catholic Church considers that “conjugicide.” You can add that to Claudius’s crimes in Hamlet, along with regicide, fratricide, negligent uxoricide (the poison which kills Gertrude was meant for Hamlet), and conspiracy to commit nepoticide.)

How childless cat ladies are made

I just hope you don’t use personal experiences for your cartoons.

The seer is dressed as a maid, and has appeared in other cartoons of Carol’s. But I can’t remember which ones. Anyone else remember her in other cartoons?

Madame Asgar is one of my favorite characters. There’s a great story that starts 04/11/2015. If you have time, I promise you’ll enjoy the story.

That’s as fair a warning as anyone ever gets. Changing some people just cannot happen.

Why do intelligent, accomplished, competent women make utter fools of themselves over losers that even other losers don’t want to be around?