Luann by Greg Evans and Karen Evans for October 06, 2011

this means Rosa has “Great Expectations”?

My ex used to call me stuff I can’t repeat here.

They’ve got the ball rooooollllliinnggggggggggggggg……good start here.

greg has dumped gunther, after all these years of devoted puppy love with luanne.

are we going to stand for it

we need is a massive outcry, hundreds of us with stage a sit in on greg’s lawn, we will funds for bill board ads and tv commercials

ps. i will treasurer of said funds

Right. Remind me to send a Christmas card out to Amoret and Pip. :/

Luann and Gunther are still more. They are friends always were. Gunther has a problem with Rosa he go to Luann. Don’t know if Luann would go to Gunther if she had a problem with Quil. It’s up to a pen Greg.

Hmmm… Rosa is as well-read, yet it hasn’t stopped her from acquiring some social poise.

GOD BLESS STEVE JOBS. He changed the Computer World.

Speak for yourself, kemosabe – I was a silver tongued devil with smooth moves all through school. ;)

There’s hope yet! I only see 1 “um” from Gunther today.

oh Gosh, tomorrow is the “other couple”, will they “kind of insult each other” or surprise us tomorrow with very sweet words to each other?

Unlike some of the pessimistic visitors here, I see encouraging signs in today’s episode. Gunther is a known bookworm (snerk); now, we see that lovely Rosa can keep up with him, or even surpass him, in matters literary. It becomes a common ground for them on which to build….

This might be a ploy Gunther is using. As long as Rosa is not Rosa, but some fictional character from some play, he might be able to get through this assignment without going into his usual brain lock.

Very nicely done, Gunther. Thank god for a babe of substance like Rosa. Now don’t screw up!

Very smooth, I approve. Now we see he’s got the moves.

Luann is still awaiting the return of Aaron Hill.

Edmund Spenser, not Spencer, wrote The Fairie Queene

Was not Pip’s love interest raised as a weapon to destroy men? Yikes, Rosa, the boy is enough on edge.

Ach! Gunther is so blah. I’ve never thought he and Luann were good together. She needs someone who isn’t wishy washy. He has the personality of a wet dish rag. Gee, can you tell I don’t like him?

I think Gunther said “Amoret” because his bookish nature linked up the character with the exercise they are doing, and not because of anything he sees in, or feels about, Rosa. I’m a little skeptical that Rosa has read both “The Faerie Queen” and “Great Expectations”— but if she has, it might explain why she’s tolerant of the one guy in the school who might also have read them.

I have not read “Great Expectations”— but I have seen South Park’s send-up. Isn’t Pip unlucky in love?

I know the reference… sorta… but why the heck did he start out with nicknames?

You would think though that a bookworm like Gunther would have known that “The Faerie Queene” was written by Edmund SpenSer.

Is Pip a reference to the character Pip in “Great Expectations” or the character Pip in “Moby-Dick”? Both could apply.

“Spencer” should be spelled “Spenser”. Emund Spenser wrote The Faerie Queene".

I think Rosa and Gunther are GREAT for each other. Luann didn’t truly appreciate how smart Gunther really is, but Rosa seems to appreciate it, and even be on level ground with him.

pip from dickens. that aint no romance name to be calling gunther for then would rosa be cold hearted Estella

I also never read “Moby Dick”- story idea never appealed to me so I was thinking of Dicken’s Pip and that did not promise much for Gunther- glad there is another!

Whether Estella was a bitch or not (and she was raised to be that way, remember) is immaterial, it’s Pip’s steadfast character Rosa’s referring to. Melville’s Pip abandoned his whaleboat twice and has permanent break with reality after that. Sure you want to hang on to that reference?

And next time I see all the complaints about “too many posts” I’ll know that a lot of youse guys don’t bother reading any of them anyway before you start typing, so spare us all the beefs about word trauma.

Say, did you know it’s Spenser with two "s"s, not Spencer, who wrote The Fairie Queene? >P

Wow… and she’s smart, too! That’s a perfect fit for Gunther… except that she’s so pretty that he’ll just stumble over himself all the time he’s around her. Could you imagine if they got married? “Do you, Gunther, take this woman?” “Well… um… gosh, I… uh…” ;-) LOL!

On days like this, it is like being stuck in a railroad siding with nothing to read.

Whoever wrote “Spencer” obviously was never taught by Prof. Sheila Cavanagh (“horrible things will happen to anyone who spells ‘Spenser’ with a ‘c’”). On the other hand, how nice to see Faerie (not ‘fairy’, all due respect to Gordon Braden). As for ‘Pip’, I assume that this is Sir Philip Sidney (‘Sir Pip’ in Astrophel and Stella), not Pip of Great Expectations, even though Dickens got that title from Astrophel and Stella. If you think I am an English Major, someone has to be.

Spencer is spelled with a second S, Spenser, like the fictional Boston based detective.

I think it’s Spenser with an “S”

“but Pip from Moby Dick could also be applicable.”

Not unless you’re calling Luann or Rosa a whale.

I was guilty of not reading all the comments first. I’ve learned a lot here today inasmuch as I’m only semi-literate. BTW, we can’t blame Gunther for misspelling Spenser. Greg or maybe some anonymous person ?

Well, Rosa must have had her head in a book to know about Spencer’s “Faerie Queene.” Maybe that suggest why she likes him. hmmm

Gunther did not misspell anything ! ! He did not spell anything out at all. He spoke.

Except that it’s Spenser, not “Spencer”…

Omgoodness! If my BF would quote books to me i would be the happiest! <3

Rosa is such a sweet person! And in her presence, Gunther becomes sweet too.

wow, greg is very literate. great expectations we can understand, but wow, faerie queen?

i’m just glad gunther didn’t call roas “dulcinea”

Gunth, me thinks ye expects too much.

who the heck is Pip?

The fairy queen? Did they both read the whole thing??