Over the Hedge by T Lewis and Michael Fry for May 31, 2021

L-O-L-A, Looo-LA! Lo-Lo-Lo-Lo-Looo-LA!

RJ, you’re a FAT RACCOON not a FAT LADY! ;D

OTH Chorus Line !

Thanks for the earworm, folks! That’s going to be in my head for the rest of the day. Of all the earworms I have experienced, “Copacabana” is the stickiest.

She would merengue and do the cha-cha.

All together now…

Don’t fall in love

Of course I sang it!! Copa copacabana!

Then there’s Gwen Verdon’s Lola.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQv2sq6jEhU

I thought Lola was actually a dude.

Eat a bunch of Twinkies and then sing to us, RJ. Maybe that will be enough to consider it over.

We’re really in trouble now. The Fat Lady can’t sing and bring this to an end if she’s dead.

Third panel, first thought, “When did they clone RJ?”

OMG, Fat Shaming! The Woke police will be sending a Cancel Swat team momentarily!

Rico went a bit too far.

I’d rather listen to Layla than Lola.

As awful as covid has been, it has brought us some great humor

This is wonderfully twisted and I love it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Er5TdORrmVg&list=PLRSF783DM1ojDLfqj36rrFUqssuNi25qH&index=7

On the plus side, microbes tend to evolve towards being less lethal over time, or at the very least, to kill very slowly. You can’t spread if you kill your host. My favorite aspect of the pandemic has been the saran wrapped coffins. Not really necessary for someone who’s not breathing, and eventually it might pop from the buildup of gases from decay.

Ok, that went weirdly dark …

Vietnam has detected a new coronavirus variant that is highly transmissible and has features of two other strains.

“Vietnam has uncovered a new COVID-19 variant combining characteristics of the two existing variants first found in India and the U.K.,” Health Minister Nguyen Thanh Long said, according to Reuters. “That the new one is an Indian variant with mutations that originally belong to the U.K. variant is very dangerous.”

The announcement came on Saturday as the country is dealing with a recent spike of infections that started in May.

Japan Just Extended Its 3rd State Of Emergency Weeks Before The Olympics BeginCORONAVIRUS UPDATESJapan Just Extended Its 3rd State Of Emergency Weeks Before The Olympics BeginLong says the new variant might be responsible for the latest surge, according to the AP.

The new variant is more transmissible in the air and Long says scientists observed the variant’s ability to replicate quickly in lab cultures, according to VnExpress.

Seven other coronavirus variants had been detected in the country prior to Saturday’s announcement. The latest variant does not have a name yet, but the ministry of health plans to publish genome data of it.

https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2021/05/29/1001590855/vietnam-detects-new-highly-transmissible-coronavirus-variant

I think Lola got what she didn’t want.

Hey, let’s not be confusing “Lola” the showgirl with the operatic “fat lady”. That’s not fair to either of them.