Too Much Coffee for Merrie

The "Elizabeth needs a lesson" was difficult to snark. I decided to focus on the coffee aspect of it, and lean back on a joke that I had established from the previous week, that little Meredith is a coffee addict. I duplicated most of the lines from the strip and tried to write them with an emphasis toward Meredith and 3-year-old speak, but it wasn't too successful. The words are outside the 3-year-old vocabulary, but I couldn't change them too much or I would lose the recognition for the lines from the strip. It seems I have been doing food obsessions lately, given that I had Grandpa Jim have cookie obsession on Sunday. I wonder if this will be a recurring theme.

The poster for Ardith Narayan (whoever that is) has been asking for someone to link her to grandpa Jim, so I have let Howard take this one by the reins and Ardith will interview and be hired by Jim and Iris without too much trouble, hopefully humorously. The character will then be well-placed for Jim and Iris snark and well as be able to mention her past association with Deanna for Dee and Mike snark. I hope that poster takes advantage of it.

I enjoyed running through the Elly moralizing passages of the strip for "Elly's suggestions for teaching lessons to Moira and Beatrice." I decided to go back through strip chronologically backwards until I got enough items to fill a paragraph. It didn't take long. I went from October back to March and stopped. You know you just don't fully realize how preachy the woman is until you take it all in with one sitting. She did not appear in a single storyline sequence without at least one moral platitude. I have to admit the one in airport where she is denouncing the gum chewers, burpers, show foo'ers, cell phone talkers, and people who spill drinks on themselves is a classic. Lynn Johnston was able to cover all her pet peeves in a single panel. Now if she could have just shown the same streamlining with Mtigwaki.