Luann by Greg Evans and Karen Evans for September 25, 2013

“There’s No Place Like Chrome” – “2 Clicks To The Right”or“Saved By The Click”

Googol Technologies… “How can you describe What Googol can do for you? Ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooh, endlessly impressive…” – Click Shoe and Heel Repair… “It’s alright, when you’re saved by the Click!”… – and by….Plotz’ Convenience stores, featuring Like Lee Gas and Vehicle Repair… “Car broke down? Need stuff fast? Well, it’s a good thing we’re so close!”…

Yeah, before she comes up with the follow-up to “Hey Boy”, etc….

We’ll see how good this job turns out to be… Who will Luann work for? Will Greg create another bizarre character like the teacher at drama camp?

And who else wants to bet that that’s the school Shannon goes to?

At least Gunther won’t be running around there naked, like at the last place Luann worked. Or then again…

Like Lev said, Bern really IS on Lu’s side!

Ps, I answered several of yesterday’s post just before the turnover

Well , I am with the rest. Great for the job, but what about QUILL???

Maybe Luann may decide on some child-rearing/Teaching degree while in college, w/a Minor in Drama/Acting.Or go to school in Australia, Marry Quill, have babies, and become Famous ‘Down-Under’.

Hey That’s GREAT Luann.

Now, GO to E-Harmony! They’ll find the “PERFECT” Guy for YOU!

Oh, WAIT! Some :Folks" around HERE, Say You ALREADY Have!

(Rolls Eyes)

Or if not Shannon, what older characters might turn up? Like what happened to Ann Eiffel after TJ worked his mojo on her? Or what’s the new and improved Dirk doing when he’s not at home or church?

I didn’t want to say this yesterdy and believe me I’m so glad I was wrong. After yesterday’s strip I had this feeling that the only thing that would be available would be “Wienie World” and the possibility of reuniting us with Ann Eiful (who now works there on the line instead of as a manager which could set up some revenge plots)

All hail the Great Counselor Bernice! WOOHOO! Lincoln Elementary sounds ideal for the further adventures of Luann! Now all she needs is for Quill to show up.

Even with her greatness, her sign must have fallen off. Get fresh tape.

Bernice, you’d better watch that skin showing in the last panel!

Seek and ye shall find

She doesn’t have the job yet, folks.

What’s going on with Bwad’s Wed?

PMark:So far it appears that Karen will give it to her…

Z-z-z-z-z-z-z-z-z-z-z-z-z-z-z-z-z-z-zAll out of ideas, Greg?

I agree

Actually, there’s no PLATE like chrome… ^I used “Chrome” in the sense of the “Google Chrome” app, a play on maybe how Bern was able to locate a place for Luann to check out… and a play on “the Wizard of Oz”, where once Everybody “Got their want filled”, Dorothy’s now famous line: “There’s no place like home…”

What are the odds Shannon will be a student at that school?^Well, calculating the relative size of Pitts, factoring in the actual, mean population, then the projected population growth figures, and assuming this is California, the Per Capita per person of State, and unless Pitts is an independent city, the county’s PC (but of course Ind. Cities are treated as an individual county, too…) and finally Pitts’ PC, then the tax revenue, then the local budget with surplus and deficit, throw in a couple of numbers because they look shiny, add a dash of pepper, bake for about, I’d say… 350 for 20 min., carry the four….. – Well, by my calculations, it’s be good! JK! No, really, I’d say that from our standpoint as readers, it’d make a lot of sense, but the one factor that we can’t calculate, would be what direction Greg and his “brainstorm team” (his daughter and wife) ultimately decide…..

Or, “The Google Dolls”^Funny! With a guest appearance by John Rzeznik!

Shannon and Luann together at an after school program will give us some great story lines. Bring them on!!!

Actually, Bernice, all you did was search an on-line job listing for about 30 seconds. That’s not exactly rocket science. In fact, Luann could have done it herself without even consulting you, and the fact that she didn’t leads one to wonder just how successful Luann will actually be once she enters the real-world labor force. Better pick up a job application at Weenie World on the way home just in case, is what I’m saying.

As long as it’s not another Stuart! Of course, she probably knows now how to be more aware of that situation… – When I stated during the camp that it could be a time for Lu and Quill to go through a “rocky period”, I thought about the possibility of her meeting someone… perhaps this could be a time where if she’d find herself attracted to a teacher or staff member there, that she’d end up developing feelings for someone new, and having to deal with the crossroads of her and Quill, and the “new person”…

HIGH SCHOOL COUNSELING DOES NOT WORK THAT WAY!

Bernice is lookin’ hot in the last frame.

Look at Bernice go! Nice belly by the way!

There’s no conclusive evidence to say that she definitely failed with the other students… she might have found that finding a lead for Lu wasn’t so daunting a task for her… and she possibly could have been celebrating that it continued her streak!…

Based on that last panel, I’m not sure why Bernice was having so much trouble in the bikini department.

Bernice is ecstatic because she actually helped someone — which is why she wants to be a counselor in the first place. Offering career and academic advice is all well and good, but that is somewhat esoteric and intangible. Here she is providing concrete help somebody. It justifies her career choice.

I’d be excited, too.

Better apply before it’s too late, Luann.

And only in the fantasy world of the comics are there not 300 other people applying for this one position.

Why would you need a Masters in Liberal Arts to be an assistant in an after school program?

Maybe Lincoln Elementary has the money because it’s a private school. (For rich kids, whose parents all drive Lincolns.)

At first I thought it a bit unrealistic that Bernice hit pay dirt on the first try. Then I recalled that when I was working for Florida State Employment Service in Clearwater and got laid off after Pres. Reagan was elected, I finally thought to visit the F. S. E. S. in St. Petersburg, the city where I lived (but a former colleague was there), and bingo! – she found my life’s work on the first try, with the Office of Vocational Rehabilitation. (Agency names have since undergone a couple of name changes.)

One eof my most favourite strips

Only In The Comics:1) a teen who has never looked for a job, let alone held a job, finds a good opening in 5 minutes.2) her best friend loves the description, applies for it, and gets the job— all on the first try.*Ah, if only life worked that way! (But then, we were indeed golden when we were teens!)

Bernice may not have believed she failed with the freshmen, but she has no way of knowing if she succeded. ^That’s true , but the statement can be also true that she has no way of knowing that she failed , either. We may not be given a specific result for each case. It may not even be necessary. It may just well be up to each of us to fill in the details. The important thing is that when she had each session, whether or not she could gage their reaction. These things weren’t documented all the way through, only what was shown in the strip. From these, it’s back to a chance of either happening. If it’s going to be left up to our minds to chew on, I again would like to think that it wasn’t so bad, and that Lu’s was a continuation of her success…… – To also use a video game vernacular to compare how she may feel, this situation for her could have been like a “mini-boss”, since she has just started in the GC “game” ….

What I am curious about, is if the library she worked for earlier does not have the funds to pay her, how is it Lincoln Elementary does have the money.^Scenario 1: It could be that the funds were sought after and approved before, and when cutbacks happened, this school’s funding was able to survive, in comparison with a much larger funding need as a library. In turn, if the library had cutbacks, perhaps they had to decide between dedicated, full time staff and temps and part-timers. Or whatever decision the library was forced to make. – Scenario 2: The Pitts School Board/System is independent of the larger Township/Municipality/County area budgets, so it would not be affected by the library’s cutbacks…

Luann has shown in the past that she is not against being with older (5 – 6) years men. ^I said that about Stewart as proof, already….

The key phrase is “after-school programs assistant”. As an assistant, her library experience should be adequately qualify her for the job. Also, there is a real need to provide supervision for students who would otherwise return to an empty home where both parents are still at work. Community employers are more willing to fund these programs than they are to fund library assistants.

See Luann’s Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/luanncomic – There may be reason to believe that though he brainstorms with his wife and daughter, that it is being overstated that she is co-author. This is Greg’s words to this effect, in the link above .

I also forgot Scenario 3: Some school programs, etc. may be funded by public or private donations….. Sure has seemed to work for PBS….

Googolplexus! Ha ha!

Alternatively, companies can simply promote from within.^Yes, you are correct! And they also use, along with he “internal promotion” process, the thing that I was describing above, ideally to get new “entry level” people in, and move up the internals… but of course, it varies with each public/private entity…. – But the main thing I was stating this for, was as a way to show how Bernice could have possibly been able to find a lead for Luann, through an inter-school database.

Let’s not forget “Glee”. My teenaged kids are regularly irritated by that show’s depiction of high school life.^Yeah, that’s another one of those! And now that you remind me of it, there are also all of those Disney Channel Movies, where it also happens like that…

it also applies to cop shows, crisis dramas, etc.^Not if it’s NCIS…. Some of those characters cant seem to catch a break!… interestingly, my wife and I joke about how Barnaby Jones keeps being able to “duck the shots” when the perps fire at him…

If it seems too good to be true…..stay tuned

Let’s see; possible story line; Toni’s ex Dirk is doing court ordered community service at Lincoln Elementary.?…….Maybe Dirk’s wife teaches at Lincoln Elementary?

All is well in Luannville…Yay! ;)

“And of course, Bernice came through. I had no doubts.” That’s right…and you seemed to be the only one to call it, too… ;)

Luann blows the job interview when it becomes clear that she isn’t certain who Abraham Lincoln was.

Many schools offer before and after school care. It can be paid for by charging the parents a fee. (The care givers aren’t the teachers, so there is no conflict of interest,) Too many parents go to work before school starts, and don’t come home again until late. The parents are frequently glad to pay rather than hire someone to get them to school, pick them up afterwards, and have them unsupervised until 6 or 7. The children are in a familiar environment, with facilities that can be used for homework, physical, and creative activities.

“….more money in the “replace” fund than there is in the “repair” fund. Jokingly, I offered to “refurbish” the unit and sell it back to them, but if they don’t use up their entire budget, then the next year, it might be cut. Typical…”^Yeah, the whole “use it or lose it” aspect of budgets is a wonder in itself to consider, to say the least… if only families got to operate that way…. and the whole thing can be so funny, that it’s really sad!….

DON’T TAKE THE JOB LUANN! IT’LL ONLY GUARANTEE THAT YOU’LL BE STUCK IN PITTSVILLE FOR 20 MORE YEARS!

Also forgot: A play on all them "O"s in Google’s page clicking system….

And I’ll bet that Ann Eiffel (alias Ann Awful) is the principal!^^Ann is a strict disciplinarian who hates kids, the perfect VICE Principle

Luann has shown in the past that she is not against being with older (5 – 6) years men. There was Stewart and also Ben. If her new job has someone in the same age range as the two mentioned, and most important, they are handsome, then that may come about.^^Anyone would be better than MPQ., and we’s avoid those boring/annoying Skype “dates”

Couldn’t Nancy do that?^^I doubt it, have you ever seen Nancy with a job outside the house?

Here he is in a 1936 movie, tap dancing with Shirley Temple:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zpqt3zgdYUw

> Maybe some shady character from Dirk’s past could show up to make trouble for him?>Brad?

In decades of reading this script, I’ve never seen Bernice so excited.

Early in his career, he was a dancer.^Don’t get me wrong, I don’t doubt that about him, at all! And it’s the same with Morgan Freeman… It’s just the way some scenes play out. you have to see… Forgot to mention, too, it’s funny especially in relation to how the perp fires off a couple of shots and they both miss, but Barnaby can almost get them in one!…

Dang!! Bernice should raise her arms more often!

Where does Toni’s niece go to school?

Man… I’m Telling YOU… Bernice is H O T!

GO BERNICE!

Odd coincidence, in the most recent strip (28 Oct 2021) she loses this job.