If the woman you’re dating answers her apartment door wearing only a towel, more than likely she’s inviting you in for a night of frolic. Or, she’s just extremely late at getting dressed. I’ve been the victim of both scenarios.
But you can bet the roommate has been kicked out for the night. I was on the receiving end of the “tie on the doorknob” signal many a time. Once my roommate put one out as a joke and I spent the night on the couch for no reason whatsoever. From that day forward, I would walk in to his room and fart on that guy’s pillow every time I had to cut one.
A little Eric Clapton to get your week started. Yeah, the lyrics are about a chic waiting for a NEW lover to replace the old idiot, but the title does fit today’s comic very well. I picked up a big CD anthology of Clapton’s about 20 years ago and it had more than enough for me. A little Cream, some Derek and the Dominos and of course a lot of his solo works. Eric always seems to shine the most when he’s playing with other folks and not as the headliner. His appearance in George Harrison’s “Concert for Bangladesh” was spot on and I’ve seen him on a number of specials with other artists where he just knocks your socks off. Anyway, enjoy some Clapton today.
Ahh man I laughed pretty hard readin the story underneath, good stuff.
Thanks! That guy never did figure out I was farting on his pillow…
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Looks like another lonely night for Robyn. 🙁
Robyn has had her share of fun and will again someday. I think she was just hungry for some good Italian food…
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Never let your friends get in the way of you getting a little “Chic-a-bow-wow”. 😉
Or share your spaghetti and meatball dinner too…
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You realize Byron, your reply there could be both literal and figurative [wink-wink] [grin]
Byron,
Its as if you reached into my head and found the Forum letter I’ve always wanted to write then made it come true (or as true as web comics can be). You are, as always, brilliant!
Grazie millie!!!
Well, you will either love me or hate me after Thursday’s follow up to this…
We shall see….
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I’ll buy you a beer either way. 🙂
Now *that’s* an interesting teaser.
She should at least get to watch. 😀
LOL! Nice…
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Translation…George wants to watch.
I believe that George speaks fore all of us.
Maybe I’ll get a “window seat” or somesuch when it’s Robyn’s turn.
Good choice of song today! We used to play that one over and over on early-’80s surfing hols in Cornwall. The rest of the album is pretty fine as well. In fact, it’s probably the only good album that overrated git ever gave us o_0
Love Robyn’s shit-eating grin in panel 2!
LOL! “Git” Great term.
I can’t understand why all your comments end up in the “waiting for approval” bin. Stupid website.
Heh, I’d forgot that ‘git’ isn’t in use on your side of the pond. Now I shall have to see if I can track down its origins! I suspect it’s related to/a variant of ‘get’, which was an old way of saying, er, ‘yo mama warn’t nothin but a mammal and prob’ly not married to your pa’ 😀
No idea why I keep getting tagged for moderation. I’m a nice person, I tell you! Or at least a never-been-found-out person… ~whistles and looks innocently at ceiling~
Well, for those of us old enough to be around in the ’60s, and who admit to listening to the Monkees, knew about how the title of their song, “Randy Scouse Git,” which meant little, if anything, on this side of the Atlantic. However, it was not going to get air-play in England with that title. So, when the Monkees were told they had to have an alternate title for it, Micky Dolenz is supposed to have said just call it “Alternate Title.”
Love trivia like this!
A hearty +1 for Robyn’s expression in panel #2! Absolutely love it.
I “was” a Clapton fan for a long long while, most especially the early stuff. While I enjoyed the Journeyman album (and work after that) immensely, my greater fondness lies with previous stuff. In many cases it can be argued that it’s technically not as good as his later work, but there is a wonderful, raw energy that always draws me (The Core off of Slowhand or Can’t Find My Way Home, especially Blind Faith-era live performances, being quintessential examples I would point to).
And I say “was” in that I haven’t listened to much Clapton for the past decade. But, that’s more an accident of losing my large collection of CDs that had a very substantial section dedicated to him. I’d still queue up some work or another of his at least every week if I still had ’em on hand.
I always enjoyed Mr Clapton as an *acoustic* guitarist, especially from personal experience in the long lost days of Ago. But his electric work IMO has always been lazily derivative (mostly nicked from various bluesmen called King). And I shall never, ever forgive him for the aural train wreck that was Layla. Took me years to realised that a fine song was lurking under all that mosquito-on-methedrine guitar caterwauling and pointless, poorly executed key changes. Gah.
(BTW Nicky thelategreat Hopkins, who was ever a gentleman and a fine player, gets HUGE credit for the beautiful outro. But it had no business consorting with the mess that preceded it!)
Great stuff as always. 😀
I was exposed to lots of Brit slang – including “git”, at an early age. When I was a kid in the 60’s, I used to do yard work for an older (mid-sixtyish) British widower gent (Harold – Hal) who lived down the street. He’d ended up in our neck of the woods cause he’d married an American woman just ater the war – she’d been one of the group of women transport pilots who ferried new aircraft from the US to Britain where he’d been an RAF mechanic, during the war. Anyways, he had an equally-aged next door neighbor, also a mechanic, who’d come over & they’d putter around in Hal’s garage usually working on cars, drinking beer, & hurling insults at eachother – Hal being the “Limey bastard” & the neighbor always a “bleedin’ git”.
I’m with you on Clapton Tafkan; while I really liked Clapton-era Yardbirds, Cream, & Blind Faith for the most part, I’ve never gotten into much of his solo stuff, & have NEVER heard anyone else who feels the same way as I do about “Layla”! Pure, caterwauling dreck!! Derick & the Domino’s drummer, Jim Gordon, co-wrote the song, went bonkers in the 80’s & ended up killing his mother… I’ve always suspected it was due to listening to the song too many times!!
Yes, the Yardbirds rocked because they were *raw*. Cream not so much IMO, though they certainly had their moments (now my mental iPod is giving me White Room…nice). Blind Faith…I think Douglas Adams had the term for that: Mostly Harmless. I’d rather listen to old Traffic tracks and later Winwood ones 🙂
I’d half expected Lorraine to say “you can stay for a threesome, but get your own damn dinner.”