Luann by Greg Evans and Karen Evans for August 28, 2016

Bernice, no one is forcing you to stay there. If you feel like you’re wasting your time, go elsewhere…

you’re that bored out of your mind, aren’t you, Luann?

I thought Luann’s singing ability had been retconned out of the series. Why go to college, audition for America Got Talent!

Even Puddles is bored.

Given what the arc is between Toni and Brad this bit of boring is good. Monday we get back to not boring.

“On That Note….”“Bar Hopping”“Staff Meeting”“This- Staff Has Plenty Of Counterparts”“A Summer Full Of Rests "“Up For A Bored Review”

“No Place Particular To Go” (♪♬)“I Know Why The Caged Bird Stopped Singing”“A Loooong Summer”“Tune O’Melted”“Sam-pled, I Am”"“Something Borrowed….”“Caught In The Thicke Of It”“Is This Pha-rell Or For Play?”“Diddy…Or Didn’t He?”“Somebody Done Stole The Covers”or “It’s The Same…Old Song….” (♪♬)

and I googled it, and is TRUE!!!!!!!!!!!!!! as Louis Armstrong would say “what a wonderful world” ehhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh wait a minute……………… what a wonderful world also has same tune!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! http://www.telegraph.co.uk/expat/expatlife/8877033/Twinkle-twinkle-little-rip-off-the-dark-secrets-of-the-worlds-most-recognisable-tune.html

“Songs With The Same Tune For $600, Alex…”

I wonder how long it has been since Luann has changed her pillowcases. Pink one for Luann, blue one for Quilly…

A person can get real bored, not doing too much, killing time all day, like that…..yep…..just take Forest and Bubba! They sat around and talked about shrimp all day, and for what?? ….Where did it get them? (Cue cash register effects)-Actually…now I think I should wonder, myself …

Hmm….I sense another copyright / royalties lawsuit in the works.

And for the Christmas edition, are they playing “What Child Is This?” or “Greensleeves”?.Wrong..It’s “Where the Lilac Grows”.

And pretty much the entire corpus of Emily Dickinson’s work can be sung to the tune of “The Yellow Rose of Texas.” This is especially hilarious when performing some of her “mortality” poems such as “Because I Could Not Stop for Death.” There are individual performances and even sing along parties of this stuff on YouTube.

All those answers are wrong! It’s “Ah! vous dirai-je, Maman.”

That song is a-driving me crazy….I gotta hear it again ##

English has such twists too. If you said the book was read! You could also say it was RED!

Twinkle, twinkle, little bat!How I wonder what you’re at!Up above the world you fly,Like a tea tray in the sky……

Ah ! Vous dirai-je mamanCe qui cause mon tourment?Papa veut que je raisonneComme une grande personneMoi je dis que les bonbonsValent mieux que la raison.

Oh! Shall I tell you, MommyWhat is tormenting me?Daddy wants me to reasonLike a grown-up person,Me, I say that sweetsAre worth more than reasoning.

Simply terrifying.

OMG why did you have to make me think this morning!

Actually, it’s Mozart.

Well at LEAST Lu’s Not Singing the BLUES over Pretty-Boy, who will no doubt SOON, make an Unwelcomed ‘Reappearance’…..,

She’s a preschool teacher. It actually is time well spent.

On a separate but “related note”, I hate when I go to look at an interesting CD of songs, only to flip it over and find in small letters: “As Sung By The Mock-Up Band”….-Also the subject of a parody on SNL, where “Joey Lawrence” sells “Duran Duran’s Greatest Hits….as Sung by Klymaxx! (80s R&B/funk/pop group)”.

“O Sole Mio” and Elvis’ “It’s Now Or Never” both have the same melody; so do the songs “He’s So Fine” (The Chiffons and Carole King, who wrote it) and “My Sweet Lord” (George Harrison).It is interesting to note that Carole King sued George Harrison over the sound-alike issue (she won).

It wasn’t Baa Baa Black Sheep. If it was, the 2 quarter notes in the 3rd measure would have been 4 eigth notes.

Ah, I am quite envious of those two. I remember being their age and being. “Bored”. All the cool creative things I came up with and all the time to just “be”. At the time, you don’t realize it, you’re just bored. When you’re older, your realize it for sure. ; )

As I am sure most people know, the tune in this Sunday’s strip is originally an old French folk song called, “Ah! Vous dirai-je, Maman” Mozart wrote twelve variations on it.

I learned “Twinkle, twinkle” had the same melody as “A,B,C” when I heard a six-year-old combining the two on a city bus.*Only today did I learn about “Baa, baa”. Thanks, Team Evans! That makes my week! yeah, it’s been an exciting summer :(

*No wonder kindergarden teachers grow selectively deaf.

sallymargaret said, about 2 hours ago@SukieCrandallYou can sing “The Night Before Christmas” to the tune of the Pachelbel Canon in D. It fits perfectly.If you heard my singing voice you would reword that. Unlit candles melt in their holders, pots and pans warp, windows shiver without wind, mosquitos acquire a queen without even realizing that they had such a potentially divergent future.

A fine way to pass time on a Sunday afternoon, humming three separate identical songs, Luann.Bernice, you will be excused if you choose to retaliate….

The rest of my day will be consumed with finding poems that go with pieces of music that have nothing to do with the contents of the poem—the weirder the better!!! What fun!!!

sallymargaret said, 5 minutes ago@BrdshttAnytime I try to leave a “pregnant pause” in a sentence, I get interrupted!What is James Tiberius Kirk’s secret???Inability to conceive?

Luann is studying to be a teacher. This is something she should know.

It’s hard to believe that there are so many ignorant people who don’t know that the "twinkle twinkle " tune is from Haydn’s “Surprise” symphony.

I hope this doesn’t leave the Brad/Toni thing hanging for a month. I don’t get why on earth Brad does NOT see what an ordeal this thing is for Toni. She is SO out of his league anyway and hates this kind of thing and he is just relentless. If she is rethinking HIM, I don’t blame her. How do you make a life with someone who has so little respect for how you feel, who you are? He improved some for a while, but has really regressed.

I was reading this news story on risk factors vs. perceived risk factors influenced by social morality concepts and ran into a portion which i think reflects how some commenters react to aspects of some situations w Jonah. http://www.npr.org/sections/13.7/2016/08/22/490847797/why-do-we-judge-parents-for-putting-kids-at-perceived-but-unreal-risk?utm_source=npr_newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_content=20160828&utm_campaign=bestofnpr&utm_term=nprnewsThat portion begins with:“In most of your studies, participants are evaluating a mother who leaves her child unattended. But in one study you instead consider fathers, and you find an interesting difference. For mothers, leaving a child unattended to go to work is about as bad as doing so to relax or to volunteer. But for fathers, leaving a child to go to work is comparable to leaving a child alone unintentionally — the case that was judged least morally bad and least dangerous. What do you think might explain this difference for mothers versus fathers?”

Spoiler: just pause, please.

Spoiler 3:A huge amount of info gotten across with very few words and some body language!

Spoiler Alert Numero Tres: STOP = Spin Tires On Pavement

it’s “Ah! vous dirais-je maman”, in fact