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Saturday, 11 January 2020: Enter The Lizardbreath

Jan 09, 2020 00:31

The one where we pivot to Liz being a moody jerk to April because she blames her for her idiot mother's habit of seeing her as a free babysitter and not as a child.

(Original Publication Date, 12 January 1991)

Panel 1: History repeats itself when we see Liz angrily stomping on a toy because she's sick of it all. She's sick of hearing about the ( Read more... )

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howtheduck January 12 2020, 01:57:53 UTC

And insisting she was killed by a brain tumor instead of an aneurysm.

aprilp_katje January 12 2020, 02:22:30 UTC

Reminding us that Dr. Elly happened because of Dr. Lynn.

howtheduck January 12 2020, 21:48:05 UTC

Dr. Lynn thinks she knows what she is talking about because she was there. It's sort of the same way that Lynn felt she knew everything about strokes because she was there when Ruth Johnston had a stroke. I would say that Lynn was present in body, but not in mind.

aprilp_katje January 13 2020, 01:03:50 UTC

I even still have the email from Lynn declaring that Aaron was born in 1972, not 1973, and "I was there."

howtheduck January 13 2020, 06:17:27 UTC

Lynn does not understand that physical presence does not equal knowledge, even if it is knowledge about the birth year of your child.

aprilp_katje January 13 2020, 11:44:29 UTC

At least in Lynn's case. I wonder if Lynn tried to convince Aaron to pretend that his birthday was a year earlier than it was. "Just do this small thing for you mother!!!"

dreadedcandiru2 January 13 2020, 11:58:01 UTC

She asks too much. It's one thing for a woman to lie about her own age but quite another for her to ask someone to lie about his own age in order to hide her own inattention to detail. I'm reminded of her being told that she hates math because it makes sense. She prefers to live in a fog of conflicting dates and events.

howtheduck January 13 2020, 23:45:20 UTC

I think the real fun with Lynn was the point where she realized that someone else knew more about the birth year of her son than she did. While she might never have admitted that in public, I expected it hurt Lynn just to think that aprilp_katje was right and she was wrong.

aprilp_katje January 14 2020, 00:33:45 UTC

I agree. There's an evil part of me that imagines Aaron reading that on "Coffee Talk" and giving Mommy a call.

howtheduck January 14 2020, 05:57:38 UTC

There is an even eviller part of me that imagines Kate and Stephanie reading that before it went on "Coffee Talk", putting in on "Coffee Talk" anyway, and then giving Aaron a call.

aprilp_katje January 14 2020, 11:36:54 UTC

Ooh, yours is good, too! Though the message dates back to the Beth days and came to me from Beth's account. Speaking of which, here's a pearl I still have in my "CoffeeTalk" emails:

Me:
Lynn, I know this is another one of my picky questions, but I can't help wondering. You established in the strip that Elly had been an English major who dropped out of university after her second year. How did she complete two years as an English major without having completed her first-year English?

Lynn's reply:
I don't know, Katje...can we just let it go? HUM?! It's a comic strip and stuff happened. Thanks. LJ

Yes, she actually wrote "HUM?!" And can you believe how rude? [Of course you can!]

dreadedcandiru2 January 14 2020, 12:04:06 UTC

I should think that this oldie-but-baddie:

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aprilp_katje January 14 2020, 17:22:35 UTC

Seriously.

"Can we just let it go?"

If I wanted to "just let it go," I wouldn't have asked the question.

Even an honest "I really didn't think this through at the time" would have gone a long way.

dreadedcandiru2 January 14 2020, 19:46:48 UTC

She simply can't process criticism as anything other than an attack on her person because of that being born a wounded animal business I mention from time to time.

howtheduck January 15 2020, 01:08:37 UTC

Lynn's reply:
I don't know, Katje...can we just let it go? HUM?! It's a comic strip and stuff happened. Thanks. LJ

When I consider that the number of years of English for Elly related to the number of years Lynn was in art school (a number that Lynn regularly changed in her biographies), it seems to me that she may have considered your question to be an attack over those varying number of years.

Yes, she actually wrote "HUM?!" And can you believe how rude? [Of course you can!]

Yes, I can. I also received a number of rude responses in the Coffee Talk days. I admire that Lynn was that open with her fans. She didn't have to write a response. I consider those responses to be my own personal proof that Jan Wong was right. The "HUM?!" is just icing on the cake.

aprilp_katje January 15 2020, 15:08:54 UTC

When I consider that the number of years of English for Elly related to the number of years Lynn was in art school (a number that Lynn regularly changed in her biographies), it seems to me that she may have considered your question to be an attack over those varying number of years.

Which would be kind of funny, considering I didn't have the variable lengths of Lynn's art-school enrollment in my head when I asked my question.

I consider those responses to be my own personal proof that Jan Wong was right. The "HUM?!" is just icing on the cake.

"HUM?!" is such a weird, idiosyncratic usage that when it was given to John, I thought it was completely made up. It was interesting to see that it turned out to be a pure Lynn-ism.

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