Oh what wicked tales do I weave now? Is that the same type hat Robyn is wearing in current times? Oh my… And never, ever mess with guys in jail who are wearing ABBA shirts. They are mean SOBs. And boxer shorts? Holy crap! All types of stuff flying around in this story! Hang on, it’s heating up quickly.
Oh, CLICK HERE to see that comic where Lorraine starts her “kissing fund”.
One of the things I like about telling the 1977 stories from Old Bud’s perspective is this type of interaction I can have. The daughter commenting and being able to zip through some boring story stuff in a nice, fun fashion.
As for today’s song, I don’t often get on my soap box about a rock group, but as a die-hard Fanny fan, I on occasion have to bring them up. Yes, yes, they were the first all female rock band (edit: signed to a major record label) … but that’s not why I like them (though it helped). This band rocked your socks off. They were great musicians, great writers and even nicer people.
$5,000 at $10 a kiss? Not bad at all.
And boy are ABBA fans touchy.
Lorraine was just getting warmed up…
Yes, those ABBA fans are a sensitive bunch…
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SCARY GUY IN SCARIER SHIRT: “Waterloo lookin’ at, Fern?”
BUD: o_O “… Fern?”
SGiSS: “I decided I’m gonna call you ‘Fern.’ ”
BUD: “Why?”
SGiSS: “As in ‘Fern, ‘and over your your stash an’ your cash.”
BUD: “But the cops took all that!”
SGiSS: “Then I guess I’m gonna have to collect yer rent some other way…”
21st CENTURY BUD: “Looking back on it, the beat-down wasn’t as painful as the ABBA puns.”
(edited to add in stage directions — first attempt mistook them for meaningless HTML)
CARY GUY IN SCARIER SHIRT: “Waterloo lookin’ at, Fern?”
BUD: o_O “… Fern?”
SGiSS: “I decided I’m gonna call you ‘Fern.’ ”
BUD: *gulp* “Why?”
SGiSS: “As in ‘Fern, ‘and over your your stash an’ your cash.”
BUD: “But the cops took all that!”
SGiSS: “Then I guess I’m gonna have to collect yer rent some other way…” *smacks fist into palm*
21st CENTURY BUD: “Looking back on it, the beat-down wasn’t as painful as the ABBA puns.”
Okay, I’m tired this morning… but what’s “Fern”? I’m sure it’s obvsious…
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A girl’s name, making Bud think he was gonna be made a prison bitch, a fate arguably even worse than getting caught in a reference to a song where Scandinavians sing about the Southwest.
Since the joke had to be explained, I’m clearly not nearly as clever as I think I am early in the morning.
OH! …. ~coughs~ … oh… 🙂
No, I didn’t get that, sorry. I got the Waterloo and Fernando references but didn’t get that. Hey, I’m a redneck, what can I say?
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Oh, and is it very wrong of me to hope the sexy cop scores?
After all, just because Bud says they never found out why doesn’t mean that Robin didn’t. She just might have decided she didn’t want the guys pestering her for details, pictures, repeat performances…
Hey, a man can dream.
You’ll have to wait and see, now won’t you? 😛
While probably not as huge a Fanny fan (the group, the group!) as you are Byron, I too, really liked them after having discovered them very early, on the Sonny & Cher show (I relayed that story as a comment to one of the strips back in the archives somewhere…), so I have been a fan as long, if not longer, than you… BUT, I have to comment on the “Yes, yes, they were the first all female rock band…”.
While they were ONE of the first, there were several before them, & I’m talking all female bands who wrote, played instruments, performed their own music, were signed to labels, & relaesed albums or singles – not the “girl groups” who featured female singers backed by studio musicians, like the Supremes or the Shirelles.
The first true “rock” female band that I know of was Goldie & the Gingerbreads from 1962, fronted by Goldie Zelkowitz – later to become Genya Raven, who fronted a largely unknown, excellent 70’s horn band called Ten Wheel Drive, and later made a splash in the punk scene, pretty much infuencing all the ensuing rocker gals like the Runaways, Debra Harry, Cristie Hynde, etc.
The Brits also clocked in early – 1963, with The Liverbirds. They never acheived much success outside of England except for Germany, where they went & performed like alot of their male Brit invasion contemporaries did, but they were there early, too. Another notable of the “firsts” was The Pleasure Seekers from 1964, who included Patti & Suzi Quatro, Suzi latter to have a successful solo carrer, & Patti went on to join Fanny breifly. There were others who didn’t get major label deals like The Heatbeats, The Moppets, and The Shaggs, but were playing & recording before Fanny. Just sayin’…
Well, you are right sir, and in my tired stupor of when I write my comic posts, I forgot to add the caveat of the “first female rock band signed to a major label” and even then folks argue about that. But, as a Fanny fan, I go with they were the first signed and doing their own stuff, etc., etc.
I’m sure many examples can be given to the contrary, but hey, it’s my site…
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To add to your musicology notes: the producer Richard Perry had been er um Involved With Goldie?Genya back in the very-long-ago and that was what inspired him in the very late ’60s to seek out and find a good young all-female band called Wild Honey, who eventually became Fanny. And the wheel goes round and around…
The 6 Degrees of Richard Perry… the list goes on and on… And everyone here is going “Who the hell is Richard Perry?” The guy who put horns on Fanny songs and messed them up, that’s who…
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THIS.
~winks~
It’s now stuck in my head, so I give it to you now as well! [smirk]
Come and knock on our door….. We’ve been waiting for you…… Where the kisses are hers and hers and his, Three’s company too. Come and dance on on our floor…… Take a step that is new…..
Another “great” TV show from 1977. A good friend of mine was hooked on that show. I was not a fan myself. We’d spend Friday nights watching “Love Boat” and “Fantasy Island” while getting drunk and eating deep dish pizza from Sorento’s in Lombard. I couldn’t argue as I didn’t own a TV set until I got married, and even then it was my wife that had one PLUS a VHS recorder! Married her the moment I found that out…
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I saw an episode of that recently. Imagine my surprise when the central conflict turned out to be just a wacky misunderstanding.
SHOCK! A misunderstanding? On that show? Man…
To think that show caused a stir as it featured a (gasp) single man pretending to be gay (double gasp!) so he can live with two single women to save on rent.
It would have made a great Porno though… 😛
Far too much going on all at once for me to comment on it all. 😀 Comments today are just as rich … I’m having a hard time typing because I’m laughing so hard.
But, Jeff looks really worried about who was filling out those boxer shorts there must be some residual images flashing through his sub-conscious. Who knew Robyn would pick up a police chick as part of her fan club? 😉
And, ABBA …. scary scary cult following …
Fan club”? Now there’s a euphemism for yez… 😉
Remember Rodney, her vibrator? He may be coming baaaacccckkk….
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Bringing Rodney Back, eh? Just like Justin Thimblecock…not 😛
Oh maannnnnn! Rodney was filling out those boxers??!! Good Vibrations for some could well be disturbing and nightmarish not-quite-residual-memories for others. I begin to see that’s a look of fear and horror on Jeff’s face. 😯
And, yah, TAFKAN, I did spend more than a couple years on the Continent. Well aware that the vernacular for “fanny,” Brit-side, is … somewhat reversed from the Yank-side meaning. Was in a coffee house in Maastricht one night when an American girl walked in asking if anyone had “seen her fanny pack?” Half the place was blowing bong water out their noses at the mental image. I think the half that wasn’t laughing just didn’t have good enough English to understand what she was asking for. 😀 😛
So … Robyn with a “cosmopolitan” “fanny club” … wait.what. We’re back to talking about Rodney again ..? Y’know what they say about a hot, dyke police chick with a billy club? Well hung. 😉
Oh dearie dearie me, ‘fanny pack’?! I had no idea. ‘Bum bag’ is eww-y enough, but that…just…I mean,,, ~falls over laughing~
Thank you! Truly appreciated!
I hit it on the mark every once in a while, and this one was a ton of fun to write and draw! I know I’m digging the comic when I’ll stay up to 1:30am to finish it up and get it published.
oh oh oh! The ABBA t-shirt! Bud’s HUGE eyes in that panel! And the Boxers of Mystery! (Thanks be feck that neither of the Plan 9 boys were graceless and fashion-impaired enough to wear ~retches~ boxers, whew.)
This strip is mega. Looking forward to the reveals…
Thanks! And you can thank me for the boxer-less look of our guys… holy crap, who wears boxers? Old men, and I’m not that old yet gang…
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Sadly, boxers became a fashion item a few years ago. Gross. Gross gross gross!
You know ABBA was used in some countries as torture thought they used homemade knives must be one cleaver immate. Bud should have turned to Buddet and have bigger guy save him/her. But you can count on Robyn the Irish lesbian toy for horny cops to save the day so Rocky pays the bail. I know those boxers aren’t mine my shorts are shorter and not off white yeck.