Luann by Greg Evans and Karen Evans for September 03, 2013

“Big Fish, Little School”~“Little Fish, Big School”or “The Boss Level”…..

Tiff’s just clueless….

I asked an upperclassman what subjects he was taking. He said “Algebra.” I said, “What’s that?”He said, “Oh, that’s where you spend all year finding out what X is.”I wanted extra help, so I said, “Tell me, what IS X?”I can relate to those little guys.

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Those ninth graders sure don’t look like 14 year olds to me.

I like the shirt Knute is wearing today.

Why do all her classmates regard Tiffany as clueless? Tiffany has definite ambitions in life, and she actively pursues them. That’s the opposite of “clueless”. Luann is more nearly adrift, coming up with unrealistic goals out of the blue like attending Julliard and then abandoning them the next day. That’s more nearly “clueless”.

The boys, MAYBE 14…that girl looks about 10…but as howtheduck says, I guess they have to start ’em young…

I don’t know about the rest of you folks but I was 5’2" when I went into high school at age 13 and I am still 5’2" and I graduated 52 years ago! EGAD I’m old and I spend my days reading cartoons about teens…I have no life! LOL! Help!

I think the 9th graders in panel 1 appear like they look to the seniors, not necessarily their actual appearance.

Just noticed that my height and the years since my graduation are the same numbers…5 2. I must be tired as I am now talking about nonsense. Goodnight all.

I agree with AtomivDog, they look more like little kids.

Sad but true!… And you know what I say about irony…

And each of the freshmen seem to display a quality both similar to, and the opposite of, the three seniors (Gunth, Tiff and Knute)..

Hey I have trouble telling the ages. *th and 9th graders can be 5 ft 6 to 8 or better, and these are the girlsWe have two in my church as alter servers and I embarrassed myself by asking one what high school grade she was, and she said not high school, 8th grade. Young people are getting taller all over the 1st economic world, except perhaps in Russia.

Exchange students from Middle Earth.

As I recall by the time I was a senior, the younger kids seemed really small on the grounds that they seemed outrageously young.

The freshmen look about right to me. I can empathize with their cluelessness, too. Entering high school from eighth grade was such a big deal back in the days before the educationistas invented “middle school”….

Brdshtt, guess I should have mentioned that I am female. HIt my full height between 11 and 12 years of age.

Why is Gunther looking scared? He’s like, Straight A student man

I agree. Reminds me of Henry, the size-shifting dragon from the Wizard of Id.

Why do you all expect the Luann Timeline to follow Real Life time? I don’t get it. So what if her “senior” year takes another 10 to finish. I personally enjoy this comic and don’t want it to end, which it would probably do once there is no more childish antics and teenage angst to play with. College just isn’t all that funny. Why must you all compare and analyze every little bit? Just enjoy. Laugh. Remember your own “stupid years”. Sheesh.

Good LORD!

WHO in The WORLD Cut that Poor Kid’s Hair on the far Left?!?

and, for some seniors, they can register to vote, if their state allows them.

I was 5’ 9’ in high school. Mom was 5’ 10 and dad was 6’1. I was the shorty in the family. Lots of boys were my height or shorter. I had long hair and weighed 125. Wish I was still that thin…

So how many years will it take for these kids to complete their senior year?

Nice how scared, clueless and dazed are lined up in order

So, will Luann and company FINALLY graduate HS? Greg has made a point of stating its their senior year. ’Course, in “Luann Mean Time”, it could take another 3-years of real-time for them to graduate.

Yeah, I wondered the same thing.

Scared, clueless and dazed. Gunther is scared.

Knute is both clueless and dazed.

I gather that “intellectual property” issues prevented Greg from adding “confuzed.” ;-)

Only student that even comes close to him in school is Bernice.

And Rosa (or, at least so “implied”. Ivy League, etc. etc. …).

There’s a mini Luann in the front row

Nah, Tiffy always looks like that…

“….Gunther is scared. Have no idea why…. "^

I can explain Gunther’s fears… Either he has a schedule that will kick his butt, a locker on the “wrong side of town”, or he has the teacher that they warned him of …. (cue “dun dun duuuunnnn”)

I had a chance to revisit my Grade and Middle Schools, and was taken aback…. when I was there, it felt pretty standard, the desk sizes, the hallways, the whole thing… but now? I realize how tiny that stuff really was!… – Also got a chance to go back and see my old HS… but it still seemed pretty big.. in fact, it boasted one of the largest sized campuses on the east coast, and they turned a third or so of it into area school administrative offices, and had absorbed a nearby HS student body when their building closed down, with room to spare for both schools….

Gunther will still look “scared, confused and dazed” when he’s 50! LOL

Mmmm. I remember being all 5’s. That was 50 years ago, however, and things have definitely changed a bit. Funny but I’ve shrunk an inch and my shoes have grown one size. I figure I’m slowly sliding downhill. Eventually I’ll be 1’ tall and have 4’ long feet. lol

Guess there are a lot of old timers on here.I’m male and graduation was 1964 (that makes me 67).I was 6’3" and 171# my senior year and now am 6’3" and 300# :o(.

Guess there are a lot of old timers on here.I’m male and graduation was 1964 (that makes me 67).I was 6’3" and 171# my senior year and now am 6’3" and 300# :o(.

Did you SEE that ad to the right???? 28 YEARS ago! Yikes!

“. Since it is a different trail, they regard her as lost or ‘clueless’.”That was both insightful and polite. Are you OK? Usually you only do one of those at a time. ;)

“but I know she looks at her schedule every year with fear”My son is a senior this year. He got exactly the classes he wanted, but he has two English classes at once, which he definitely can’t handle. He is afraid to go get it fixed because he doesn’t want to lose any of the art classes he was looking forward to.

1) I think LuvLu got it right— the 9th graders just seem that small to the almighty seniors!*2) I am, so, like, totally, like relieved that Bernice remembered to wear BLUE today, so she would not be matchy, matchy with Luann’s PINK. Let’s just hope that Delta has a purple or green top on!*3) But the question remains— did any of the girls get their hair wet at Rosa’s party? Or did they just spend the event modeling their swimsuits?*4) Will Quill appear?

And I reached 5’10" in 8th grade, but am now shrinkiing! It would make it easier to find a guy taller than myself, but they’re shrinking too! Aargh!

I thought this too and I was only(and still am) 5’ 1"! But I’m telling you those freshman were tiny! I was like what the heck, are those kids even going on 14??

Yep, they are known as ‘legacies’. I don’t think that will apply to anyone in this comic, though….

Seems to be a universal problem now.

The little kids look more like 5th graders, not ninth graders.

Maybe Gunther is scared because he has Sex Ed on his schedule. He’s terrified of the homework.

Speaking from West Virginia, the comments are just so funny today. “Hobbit forming!” Ho ho!

Gunther couldn’t get into fourth-year home economics, so he was given a gym class instead.

I would guess that this was how Nadia spent her summer vacations on her uncle’s farm to get away from her office in Москва (Moscow)…

His teacher is Mrs. Godfrey? LOL!^Either that, or Miss Crabtree…. then Rosa would have some… “competition”… ha ha!… Then he’d also have to stock up on his favorite cologne and order a bolt of the shiny material to make the “checkerboard” patterns…

LOL, wouldn’t that be car -tune? ^Wow! Don’t you know this is a comic strip?….. (XD)

LOL!…..

While intelligence is generally implied by Ivy League, there is always a place in the Ivy League schools for the children of rich alumni.

Very true. But in this case, I think I’ll give Rosa the benefit of the doubt. :-)

I remember back in high school it looked like the new 9th graders were getting smaller each year, especially during my senior year.

Still come next year Luann will still be in the 12th grade.

or on rare occaisions, it could equal 4… wished more kids would learn to realize the value of this math…..

Smart kid, cutting his hair short, It’ll no fun for the seniors to give him a swirlie with no hair.

Fashion Merchandising?? Is the school on a vocational slant or is this an off shute of Home Ecconomics?

The barber at “Receiving,” MCRD, San Diego? ;-)

He gave me a haircut once.

Just to be clear, I’m not saying that’s a bad thing…

Both my parents were Air Force, during the Korean Conflict. My Uncle graduated from Kings Point (merchant marine) as an Ensign in the Naval Reserve. My sister is currently Army Natl. Guard (O-6) and came home from a tour at (then) FOB Speicher with a bronze star. ;-)

True – but I figured I’d just put it there in it’s simplest form… :) ^I wouldn’t change what you said, at all!…. was just adding the twins part, because one on the way is scary enough , like you said.. but for the times that unwed teen parents are hit with a double dose at once, it’s an anvil falling on your head right after the ton of bricks….

When I went to school it was the same. The junior high had 7th, 8th, and 9th(they still referred to us as ‘freshmen’), and at the senior high, we had sophomores, juniors, and seniors.

Japan has the same, IIRC, (K-6, 7-9, 10-12).

In the town of my “Wonder Bread” years, it was K-6 and 7-12. There were three elementary schools (Believe it or not, kids still actually “walked” to school then) and one high school. As the population of school kids grew, the town knew they had to build a new HS building. After several budget battles with the town “seniors” (who felt no need to use their tax payer dollars to build a new building), we got it built. The old HS building would serve as a “Middle School” (5-8), and the HS 9-12. Sadly, I moved out of town before I got to attend the new HS building.

At the new town, the middle school was 6-8 and the HS 9-12. I think the trend of the day was for HS to emulate college as much as possible.

they look WAAY too young

“They also have a culinary option, a web design option, etc.” Maybe Gunther should enroll in the web class…after all, his shirts all look like square spider webs… ;)

Wonder if Quill will get the Chuck Cunningham Scholarship?…

Quill couldn’t afford the air fare all the way from Australia to California. He made it only as far as Hawaii, where he met and fell in love with Aaron Hill. Expect Luann to receive a very interesting wedding invitation in a year or so.

Whatever happened to Quill? I know he went back to Australia, but he didn’t even call/vidchat/txt luann…

WOW NO 9/4?

that’s what I mean… if you usually get em at 10, worst case would be midnight for you… if it’s just a matter of late start, that’s the times they have done it before…

unless it’s a glitch like last time….

or syndication….

working on a project on Excel here….-the last time it happened, a Saturday, 12:40 your time… they may be going for a new world record….

F5 F5 F5 F5 F5

F5!

Still no response with F5 for me…

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Science Cosmetics…. “Make up your mind to look good,then you can blind them… with Science!” – Perfect Combination Locker Organizers freom Chic Chick… “Why have a boring old academic locker?…Impress everyone with lockers that hold the important stuff… looking good is the least you can do!”… – Klump Away… “If you can’t untangle that unsightly word problem, it just may be because your hair knows what you need more… straighten out your folicles, and feel distraction free”

Lol! Contrary to what that person thought, I just happened to be first for a while… I’m habitually on time and early for just about everything… if only I could time it to be the millionth customer, I’d be set!…-But I always believe that he who laughs last, last best… I just happen to get here early…

Enditall… from Placebo Pharmacutecals…

Actually, I’m ashamed to say that I saw the strip somewhere else… that and another strip … that strip’s author put it up on their website already, so I was just waiting for everybody…

Its up on my yahoo email, so, maybe that’s it…

Carole Hersee and Bubbles – Test Card “F”

Tiff parents must have made a “significant” contribution to the school funds

Senior year has started and nothing has been mentioned about LuAnn’s boyfriend going to school in the states.

THIS IS A RE-RUN. WHERE’S TODAY’S????

So, what is the big deal about the pink shirt anyway?

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Wow. Senior year, in my experience, it was nothing but AWESOME!!!! Hope you guys have a good year. Make the good times last!

9th grade? They look about Shannon’s age!