Paul AKA Constable Wright and the December Monthly Letters

I was pleasantly surprised to see how well the December monthly letters fit with what schmoosie and I had been doing with Paul and Elizabeth. They e-mail daily, he visits when he has time off, they are dating, they have been harassed by the Mtigwakians, they spend time alone in Elizabeth’s apartment to get “privacy.” Paul will have to start writing letters by snail mail. I lifted off of a qnjones Becky statement about “hiking” the English word frequently listed as the translation for mazhiwe, which actually means sexual intercourse. It occurred to me that since we have had Jesse Mukwa post on April’s Real Blog, he would see the Elizabeth and Paul messages and seek a translation, which would then be spread across the whole village of Mtigwaki. Embarrassment about this will cause ARB Paul to start writing steamy snail mail letters instead and leave the ARB posts cleaner and more romantic. Paul also has family in Mtigwaki, to which I will just refer as “family” for the immediate future. It is not likely to be anyone in his immediate family, but I will leave it generic, just in case a strip mentions it more specifically. Also, the Elly monthly letter made a point that Liz was coming home for Christmas after all, since a prior strip had Elly saying she was not. In my mind, this almost assuredly means that Paul is coming to Milborough for Christmas. This is not terribly practical. Most of the police I know, work like dogs over the Christmas holidays. It is a high crime time. But we shall see what happens.

Jeremy did reaction posts today. He was not mentioned at all in any of the monthly letters. I think the most surprising nonmention was Shannon, who has been dominating the last several days of strips, including the one coming up tomorrow. It was so odd to get all this Eva stuff in the letters, and only Shannon in the strips.

Howard Kelpfroth is slowly but surely kissing everyone in the Foobiverse, which was one of my dreams for him. I suggested to qnjones a little snark about John Patterson and Mike’s letter about him being over at Gordon’s garage when Howie comes to visit and she knocked me flat on the ground with a spot-on snark on the John and Mike letters. qnjones is amazing.

Tomorrow’s strip: April and Shannon hold a pity party…again. 3 weeks of misery. When will this “I have zits and / or feel sorry for me”strip story end? Bring on Eva, I say. Bring on Eva. I want to see matchmaker April, nervous Duncan and commitment-phobe Eva.