Happy Birthday Grandpa Jim Part V (Final)
Today’s strip was like a massive monthly letter strip, which was good since the April monthly letters did not appear. John introduced the car he plans to purchase, so there is an opportunity for another Jeremy / John test drive, although I will wait until the monthly letters arrive, just in case there are important snarkable details there. The other item of Meredith’s newly discovered musical talent, Howard handled with a reported conversation with his aunt Winnie Kelpfroth. I opted for Bobby Curtola again, because I found the idea of Meredith singing a Curtola song somewhat amusing.
Constable Paul Wright didn't really snark the strip so much as snarked aprilp_katje's writing of April being able to read her grandpa's thoughts. Ojibway shamanism doesn't really have much to do with reading people's thoughts, but the trance is a huge part of those beliefs and actually fit in very well with the bizarre artwork in today's strip.
Jeremy in his daily Eva and Shannon lunch conversation snarked every single April birthday celebration available in the on-line archive of strips. His confusion over last year’s celebration of April turning 14 was due to the strip completely ignoring it and leaving it to the monthly letters. The 2 prior years, April had a party and each strip was snarked. I suspect April will have her birthday celebration on Sunday, but it is possible she will not. One of the reasons April did not have a party last year, was because the strip was going through the paces of telling the “April hates Becky” story, and having a happy celebration with Becky there would not fit. As this week has shown, April is still going on with that nonsense, so a party may not be in the works for the same reason as last year.
Jeremy’s date with Dirne Aufkleber was the last bit. Her name translates to Label Whore, as I hope was evident in the post.
A note to my fellow ARB posters about April's party. I will be at a chess tournament with my boy all day tomorrow: 8:15 am to 5:30 pm Arizona time, so I will not be around for the beginning of April's party. Jeremy should be there with Dirne Aufkleber, and her character should be fairly well fleshed out from the post today. Please drop as many designer label names as you know if you post anything about her. Howard will only drop in briefly to give April a present.
Tomorrow’s strip: Grandpa says goodbye and good riddance to the family who has just come to celebrate his birth. He is such a foul and bad-tempered character, no matter how much the Lynnions try to “cute” him up.
Constable Paul Wright didn't really snark the strip so much as snarked aprilp_katje's writing of April being able to read her grandpa's thoughts. Ojibway shamanism doesn't really have much to do with reading people's thoughts, but the trance is a huge part of those beliefs and actually fit in very well with the bizarre artwork in today's strip.
Jeremy in his daily Eva and Shannon lunch conversation snarked every single April birthday celebration available in the on-line archive of strips. His confusion over last year’s celebration of April turning 14 was due to the strip completely ignoring it and leaving it to the monthly letters. The 2 prior years, April had a party and each strip was snarked. I suspect April will have her birthday celebration on Sunday, but it is possible she will not. One of the reasons April did not have a party last year, was because the strip was going through the paces of telling the “April hates Becky” story, and having a happy celebration with Becky there would not fit. As this week has shown, April is still going on with that nonsense, so a party may not be in the works for the same reason as last year.
Jeremy’s date with Dirne Aufkleber was the last bit. Her name translates to Label Whore, as I hope was evident in the post.
A note to my fellow ARB posters about April's party. I will be at a chess tournament with my boy all day tomorrow: 8:15 am to 5:30 pm Arizona time, so I will not be around for the beginning of April's party. Jeremy should be there with Dirne Aufkleber, and her character should be fairly well fleshed out from the post today. Please drop as many designer label names as you know if you post anything about her. Howard will only drop in briefly to give April a present.
Tomorrow’s strip: Grandpa says goodbye and good riddance to the family who has just come to celebrate his birth. He is such a foul and bad-tempered character, no matter how much the Lynnions try to “cute” him up.
posted by howard at 11:18 PM
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I'm glad you mentioned your "Howard" post about Meredith singing Bobby Curtola, because the post slipped by me yesterday. I went back and found it just now. Poor Winnie! :)
Who are you? You must be a pretender to the continuity goddess throne. "A post slipped by you yesterday." Not my continuity goddess!
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