1) Nobody could get it through Mrs I Have A Flipbook's thick skull that a floppy disk isn't a note pad. She still thinks the words vanish when the screen turns off.
2) Her toy lacks the lens that makes the projector work.
2) Her toy lacks the lens that makes the projector work.
I would say this was a surprising drawing, given her regular access to the equipment. Then again, this is a woman who could not draw a door connection with the way a door opens last week for the door prank story, and she has never drawn a proper toilet. Her inability to take advantage of real life to model her drawings is astounding.
I remember when Liz tripped over Farley when her glasses fogged up. The take-away from that is that at some point, you expect John to be approached by a man wearing a track suit and a war bonnet asking him if he could use the Pattermanse to film a trippy video about how clones and robots are going to kill everyone.
Lynn didn't even have the guts to have Michael get seriously hurt and maybe re-evaluate his priorities, or Deanna consider separation unless Michael got his act together and began to behave like a father and husband instead of just a guy who lived in the attic with his work. No, all we get out of this supposedly dramatic event is this family moving permanently into little sister's bedroom.
"I just spent at least twelve hours on a complicated marketing project..."
Correct reply: "Mom, let's be honest. You've never spent twelve hours on anything. If the amount of time you spent on this project amounts to twelve hours, that means it was an hour's worth of work that you couldn't figure out and stretched into twelve through repeat effort and incompetence. Nobody gave you a project that would require twelve actual hours of work expecting it to be done this century."
"Let's also admit that the 'complicated marketing project' translates to 'posting an ad to Facebook Marketplace.' Which, again, should have taken a few minutes, not twelve hours."
"Let's also remind ourselves that unhinging our jaw and screaming has never accomplished anything. Then again, neither have you, so I guess this fits."
There was a stage in Lynn Johnston's life where she imagined retiring and turning her Toon Team that did her inking and coloring and managing her merchandise into an ad agency, where Lynn would occasionally stroll in and do some drawing for something, like Charles Schulz did with Peanuts for MetLIfe. This story was from about that time period and so it reflected Lynn's desire.
In real life what happened was that Lynn's husband had an affair with one of her Toon Team and so she fired the whole lot of them in revenge. Later on in her biography, The Comic Art of Lynn Johnston, she blamed them for not taking the initiative to start up an ad agency. Of course, it should be mentioned that none of the Toon Team had ad agency experience, so it was a ridiculous expectation.
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Another opportunity to compare the colouring of 2025:
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1) Nobody could get it through Mrs I Have A Flipbook's thick skull that a floppy disk isn't a note pad. She still thinks the words vanish when the screen turns off.
2) Her toy lacks the lens that makes the projector work.
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2) Her toy lacks the lens that makes the projector work.
I would say this was a surprising drawing, given her regular access to the equipment. Then again, this is a woman who could not draw a door connection with the way a door opens last week for the door prank story, and she has never drawn a proper toilet. Her inability to take advantage of real life to model her drawings is astounding.
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I remember when Liz tripped over Farley when her glasses fogged up. The take-away from that is that at some point, you expect John to be approached by a man wearing a track suit and a war bonnet asking him if he could use the Pattermanse to film a trippy video about how clones and robots are going to kill everyone.
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This sort of stupidity reminds me of something that happened just before I joined the community:
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Fireman, out loud: "Some things just aren't worth dying for."
Deanna: "Oh, so you've read it?"
Fireman: "No, I meant I'm not going in there to get your husband."
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It's like how a horse will try to run back into its paddock when the barn catches fire.
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Lynn didn't even have the guts to have Michael get seriously hurt and maybe re-evaluate his priorities, or Deanna consider separation unless Michael got his act together and began to behave like a father and husband instead of just a guy who lived in the attic with his work. No, all we get out of this supposedly dramatic event is this family moving permanently into little sister's bedroom.
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He can't count on help from Suzy Hobbyjob because she has a bad habit of refusing to listen when concepts like e-mail
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"I just spent at least twelve hours on a complicated marketing project..."
Correct reply: "Mom, let's be honest. You've never spent twelve hours on anything. If the amount of time you spent on this project amounts to twelve hours, that means it was an hour's worth of work that you couldn't figure out and stretched into twelve through repeat effort and incompetence. Nobody gave you a project that would require twelve actual hours of work expecting it to be done this century."
"Let's also admit that the 'complicated marketing project' translates to 'posting an ad to Facebook Marketplace.' Which, again, should have taken a few minutes, not twelve hours."
"Let's also remind ourselves that unhinging our jaw and screaming has never accomplished anything. Then again, neither have you, so I guess this fits."
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Elly likes to inflate how important the tasks she pretends to do are. It helps her to avoid admitting how no one is really counting on her.
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There was a stage in Lynn Johnston's life where she imagined retiring and turning her Toon Team that did her inking and coloring and managing her merchandise into an ad agency, where Lynn would occasionally stroll in and do some drawing for something, like Charles Schulz did with Peanuts for MetLIfe. This story was from about that time period and so it reflected Lynn's desire.
In real life what happened was that Lynn's husband had an affair with one of her Toon Team and so she fired the whole lot of them in revenge. Later on in her biography, The Comic Art of Lynn Johnston, she blamed them for not taking the initiative to start up an ad agency. Of course, it should be mentioned that none of the Toon Team had ad agency experience, so it was a ridiculous expectation.
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What's up with the carton of milk is that Lynn doesn't know how to draw one.
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I was secretly hoping there was some sort of secret milk lore in BC that Lynn was adapting.
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No doubt she drew the carton from memory, and as usual, her memory sucked.
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Stupid strip doesn't know what that funny flat thing people take out of the machine and handle in a funny way is for.
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