dreadedcandiru2 ([info]dreadedcandiru2) wrote in [info]binky_betsy,
2008-03-13 00:16:00
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Thursday, March 13, 2008

Let's see how formal, dreary and painful to look at Lynn makes Day 4 of the Settleproposal.

Panel 1: Anthony finally asks if he and Liz should discuss marriage to which Liz responds it would be good idea. He responds to her echo by pointing out they've been friends for so long, they'd be good partners, a proposition to which Liz agrees. Punchline: The fact that they're practically already married has nothing to do with anything to them because they haven't said it out loud.

Panel 2: Anthony actually fucking proposes and the Breath accepts.

Panel 3: Ever a master of the blindlingly obvious, he realizes that they're engaged. Liz echoes her agreement.

Panel 4: They have a moment of silence to let things sink in.

Panel 5: RED ALERT! THIS IS NOT A DRILL! CONDITION [BOXCAR]!! I REPEAT! CONDITION: [BOXCAR]!!! THE SETTLEPOCALYPSE HAS BEEN UNLEASHED!!!

Tune in tomorrow as they break the news. You thought John and Elly were happy when they only thought that relationships they felt threatened by might be destroyed. Let's see their hateful glee when they realize their enemies have been damned to eternal frustration.

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[info]miz_hatbox

March 13 2008, 04:03:08 UTC 4 years ago

Formal: check.

Dreary: check.

Painful: check.

[info]gfrancie

March 13 2008, 05:23:41 UTC 4 years ago

Dry heaves from the audience: check.

[info]tribaleyes

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[info]sonneta

March 13 2008, 04:03:36 UTC 4 years ago

[BOXCAR] This is not a drill! The Settlepocalypse is upon us!

[info]insanitypepper

March 13 2008, 04:05:07 UTC 4 years ago

AGHHHH! Into the shelter, everyone! No pushing- there's room for everyone!

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[info]eeknight

March 13 2008, 04:04:14 UTC 4 years ago

Settleocalypse Now!

I say we take off and nuke the (wedding) site from orbit.

It's the only way to be sure.

[info]bwross

March 13 2008, 04:04:28 UTC 4 years ago

Scariest silent penultimate panel ever!

Oh, and yeah... lame proposal. But we already new that was how it would come out.

[info]miz_hatbox

March 13 2008, 04:30:54 UTC 4 years ago

To be fair, I like the penultimate silent panel with the tears welling up in Liz's eyes. When my now-husband proposed to me, it seemed like time stopped for a moment, and that panel is kinda like that...

But holy mackerel. What kind of super-brief discussion of marriage is that? "We've been friends for so long, I think we'd be good partners?"

Heck, what kind of proposal is that? No "I love you?" Have we heard them say that once?

I want Cher to barge in (as in "Moonstruck") and demand that Anthony produce a ring on the spot.

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Anonymous

March 13 2008, 04:04:45 UTC 4 years ago

Wow. She really did take the word "settle" to heart. While I agree that the conversations about life are far more important than the ceremony, I fully expected Anthony to do something a little, tiny bit, even the REMOTEST BIT romantic. God. What a complete fucking letdown, even for someone who just wanted something to make fun of.

[info]tribaleyes

March 13 2008, 12:11:45 UTC 4 years ago

Worst. Proposal. Ever.

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[info]kerssido

March 13 2008, 04:04:49 UTC 4 years ago

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO--

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/BigNo

--OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
OOOOOOOOoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
ooooooo

[info]jenfullmoon

March 13 2008, 15:10:38 UTC 4 years ago

*applauds use of TV Tropes, some of the biggest time-sucking crack on the Internet*

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[info]jette

March 13 2008, 04:04:52 UTC 4 years ago

That was even worse than I expected. :-(

[info]bwross

March 13 2008, 04:09:50 UTC 4 years ago

It's exactly what I expected from these passive characters. Subject of marriage comes up, and suddenly they come to the conclusion that they "guess" they're engaged. I can't see how it could have been done any differently without going out of character.

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[info]spotts1701

March 13 2008, 04:05:41 UTC 4 years ago

That's it?!?

That's what Lynn has been putting off for months on end? A serpentine bit of stilted dialogue and a "back-door" proposal?

Shoot me. Or shoot her. I don't care anymore.

[info]insanitypepper

March 13 2008, 04:10:27 UTC 4 years ago

Most half-assed proposal ever.

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[info]muzition

March 13 2008, 04:07:05 UTC 4 years ago

oh God I need some alcohol now.

[info]gingersnaps15

March 14 2008, 03:40:33 UTC 4 years ago

It doesn't help

Trust me. Moving on to the black tar heroin...if only my offline friends realized the lame of this, I wouldn't be where I am today: drunk, obsessive and so alone.

Anti-FOOB=the Anti-drug.

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[info]amalthea_foob

March 13 2008, 04:07:58 UTC 4 years ago

Well, I'm pretty sure that in panel 4, that's Liz's "Oh shit Anthony just turned into a flesh-eating zombie!!!!!" face and in panel 5 that's Anthony chomping down on Liz's delicious fleshy arm, and Liz screaming for her life, then catching the horrible zombie disease and opening her mouth into a gaping
maw of souless hunger?

Or am I just trying to block out the really hideous part where they got engaged?

[info]insanitypepper

March 13 2008, 04:09:18 UTC 4 years ago

LOL!

Oh god, the snarkage is going to be good tonight. I'm so glad I found this community.

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[info]insanitypepper

March 13 2008, 04:08:34 UTC 4 years ago

Okay, I officially eat my words from yesterday. NOT. A. HOAX.

At least the last panel makes it clear that Liz is not a mannequin. I was starting to wonder there for a minute.

What's up with that face in panel four? Is that shock or complete, unfiltered horror?

[info]alladinsane

March 13 2008, 04:10:15 UTC 4 years ago Edited:  March 13 2008, 04:10:31 UTC

if only it had been a hoax...

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[info]alladinsane

March 13 2008, 04:09:33 UTC 4 years ago

It has arrived....

And Lynn made it even worse than I dreamed it'd be...

I've seen more passion from side by side customers in a morgue...

And of course Liz has to act like she finally bagged him after years of trying....

We waited months for this???????????

Of course more misery ahead...

[info]mst3k4evr

March 13 2008, 04:11:43 UTC 4 years ago

What the hell kind of engagement is that?!?

How lame, Lynn. How lame.

[info]eeknight

March 13 2008, 04:14:00 UTC 4 years ago

Re: What the hell kind of engagement is that?!?

Captain Wuss, the last survivor of the planet Wussonia who has come to Earth to defend wusses of either gender and any age, would be embarrassed by the the wussitude of that proposal.

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[info]sonetka

March 13 2008, 04:12:40 UTC 4 years ago

"We've been friends for so long, I think we'd be good partners."

Nothing says romance like utilitarian logic! "Hey, we get along. We have our passivity in common. You like my daughter. Getting married would be a practical way to save on housing and food bills." I mean, Jesus, I'm descended from someone who married his housekeeper basically because he needed a mother for his kids and someone to do the cooking, and I'm betting even he came up with a better proposal than this.

At least the last panel makes one thing clear: Liz has been provably full of shit for the last year-plus. She's been out for Anthony ever since she found out he was engaged. Taking it slow? Her return being totally unrelated to Anthony's divorce? Seeing her yowl with joy on finally landing her fish shows all of that as the garbage it was.

[info]alladinsane

March 13 2008, 04:14:48 UTC 4 years ago

Bingo...

all that passitivity and cockteasing with Eric, Warren, Paul, and Mason...were all nothing except to hold her until she got to finally bag Anthony...and now she has...

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[info]alladinsane

March 13 2008, 04:15:49 UTC 4 years ago

Re: FOR THIS, ANTHONY WAITED A DECADE?!?

I've known people who dated less than three nights...and were drunk the entire time...who pulled off a proposal better than that!

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[info]materialgirl850

March 13 2008, 04:13:52 UTC 4 years ago

Taking things slow my ass!

What. The. Fuck!!!!!!!!?????

I knew it would be stupid, but nothing could have prepared me for this. "Then we could say we're engaged." "Yes. I guess we could." fhahulfei;oajfoje.....AHHHHH! She guesses they're engaged? WTF? This is the worst proposal I've ever seen! It's like they're arranging a freaking business deal, not getting married! Their dialog is so incredibly stilted! Who talks like that to someone they want to spend the rest of their life with? More importantly, who the hell thinks this actually is romantic? Oh, wait I know the answer to that one.

[info]sonneta

March 13 2008, 04:16:29 UTC 4 years ago

Re: Taking things slow my ass!

"If this is engagement... I'm engaging in it!"

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[info]floramel

March 13 2008, 04:15:08 UTC 4 years ago

just wow

I can't believe how fucking boring this is. Where's the discussion? Where will they live? How do they feel about having more children? What will Anthony do differently this time around? My gods, there was more emotion when Elly purchased Lilliputs. Does Lynn really think that two people, especially two people who supposedly are "taking it slow" talk like this? Oh gods, wow, just wow, Lynn you have reached a new and craptacular level of fail.

[info]alladinsane

March 13 2008, 04:17:24 UTC 4 years ago

Re: just wow

There was more emotion when Elly scratched her behind when she got out of bed this morning...

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[info]whirlygirly

March 13 2008, 04:16:04 UTC 4 years ago

Not even a kiss? Blah.

Maybe in the last panel, she's actually ripping his head off for giving her such a weak-ass proposal. Or even just for being such a freaking lame-o in general.

::::*SIGH*::::

[info]floramel

March 13 2008, 04:18:26 UTC 4 years ago

She can't kiss him yet! The preacher hasn't declared them man and wife!

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[info]grrlpup

March 13 2008, 04:16:05 UTC 4 years ago

That is so sad. Because there's no chemistry. It's painfully clear that this is a big mistake.

Ouch.

Poor Francie.

[info]spotts1701

March 13 2008, 04:22:05 UTC 4 years ago

Poor us. We have to read it - the author thinks it's poetic and deep, while to the trained eye a 13-year-old hopped up on Pixie Stix could do better.

But, you know the old saying. "You can't make chicken salad out of chicken shit."

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[info]tickysflist

March 13 2008, 04:19:35 UTC 4 years ago

That was the "YEAH!" of "YEAH! My cat's not gonna eat my face (and my butt and my thighs!) for three months after I choke to death! I'm not dying alone!" end of "spinsterhood" yeah.

[info]cookie77

March 13 2008, 04:35:54 UTC 4 years ago

Too true. And also the "I get to make my friends wear gross bridesmaid gowns!" Who wants to bet that Liz will be a total Bridezilla, displaying all the negative behavior she hated when she was a guest or wedding party member.

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[info]avallonia

March 13 2008, 04:20:35 UTC 4 years ago

Urge to kill, rising.

[info]hannah_33

March 13 2008, 04:21:18 UTC 4 years ago

Call Me An Optimist

On the bright side of things, this will give y'all plenty of snark for months to come!

[info]kerssido

March 13 2008, 04:22:29 UTC 4 years ago

I'm declaring this the theme song for today's comic.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TFMzqV3973g

Very NOT safe for work (or innocent children's ears)!

[info]megan_koumori

March 13 2008, 16:09:37 UTC 4 years ago

Maybe we could get them to sing this on Lynn's doorstep. After all, they are touring Canada...

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[info]icewyche

March 13 2008, 04:23:13 UTC 4 years ago

Oh. Dear. GODS.

That was HORRIFIC. O_O It DEMANDS the screaming Snooch icon. And WT blue bleeding F is with that last panel?!? Is Liz having a Howard Dean moment there?

Scene: our young zombieslovers, seated chastely on the Salvation Army-issue couch at Chez Blandthony:

"Well, I guess we should talk about marriage."

"Yes, I guess we should."

"Yep."

"Yep."

*silence*

"So...um...you wanna share my life and stuff and look after my kid?"

"Yeah, sure, I guess so."

"So we're engaged, I guess."

"I guess so."

*silence*

*silence*

"YEAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!"

Seriously, the romance of it all just kills me. Or maybe it's just nausea from the overwhelming fail. Yeah, I think it's nausea.

What do you want to bet the Kool-Aid Nationeers are going to be squealing, "OMG!!11!1! My husband sort-of proposed to me JUST LIKE THAT! On the couch at his house! Without even mentioning the word 'marry'! You MUST have had a camera following me around! KUDOS!!1!1!"

Dear Lynn: You are made of FAIL cubed. Retire NAO, plz, kthnxs.

Anonymous

March 13 2008, 04:27:25 UTC 4 years ago

They'll be saying, "Lynn, you captured the boring inertia that is my lifeless marriage perfectly!"

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Anonymous

March 13 2008, 04:23:56 UTC 4 years ago

Yawn....

Oh, wait... was that it? Was that the proposal? That's actually what these two are calling a proposal? My god, that was so boring and uneventful, and it really feels like there should be paperwork involved. This storyline is in dire need of Warren showing up at the wedding, pounding on the glass and yelling, "Elaaaaai..." uh... "Elizabetttttthhh!!" All I can think of here is the dumbfounded look Dustin Hoffman gave in "The Graduate" when he scoffed: "He actually said, 'We'd make a pretty good team'? Aw, he didn't say THAT, did he?"


[info]commodorejohn

March 13 2008, 15:39:43 UTC 4 years ago

Re: Yawn....

In Foobland, even proposals are boring and "safe." Let's fix that.

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