Miriam's Employee Discount (Wk of 11/24/08)

[SAGG]

Yeah. It's like having the fox guard the chickens.

[diddledop]

Wed 11/26/08: I appreciate the somewhat subtle and tantalizing innuendo! Note Sherry's expression - what does it mean? (AND - Does Ari really think what she denied she meant?)

BTW, I think only "true" love can save Mir from herself. Perhaps some partners of dysfunctional people would argue this point.

[SAGG]

Thank God someone else posted! I was going mad! Seriously, I think Araceli let her little crush on Sherry show through with that question. (11/26) Or perhaps she was subtly testing Sherry to see something...?

[diddledop]

Yes, it's easy to sometimes feel somewhat "alone in the universe" here - not that I've been madly posting much of late.

I can no longer divine the motives and agendas of the characters in this strip. I think they defy analysis. They're a bit random and flowing. Whatever presents itself, they face or blithely ignore. They seem to be creatures of the moment whose future is neither absolute or even minimally certain. What will they do next - who knows?

I predict that, in the end, the right two people will find each other. Perhaps I've said too much or perhaps not even barely enough ...

[Serge Stiles]

Well I was lettin' other people make 'em... I can swoop in again sometime soon.

I wonder if this will be a buildup of Araceli letting Sherry know that she likes her.

[SAGG]

Whoa! CONFIRMED! (11/27)

[diddledop]

Sagg, you are quite sagacious! Ah hah - another motive stripped, exposed & revealed! Next people puzzle, please!

[diddledop]

RC: I love the dialogue in this morning's strip, Fri 11/28/08. Good stuff! No matter how you cut the mustard, Mir's and Sher's relationship is one to be endlessly deciphered and psychoanalzyed. Could they be more than "just" friends? The question will always loom large no matter whom else they may hook up with.

So just how shrewd is Ari's gay-dar or is she really just joking?

[rcmonroe]

So just how shrewd is Ari's gay-dar or is she really just joking?

According to her, it's not all that good.

[SAGG]

So just how shrewd is Ari's gay-dar or is she really just joking?

According to her, it's not all that good.

I wonder if its because of her by being gay herself, it interferes somehow?

[rcmonroe]

A personal perspective--I don't believe in gaydar. I don't think anyone can "tell" unless the person in question is signaling it somehow in their behavior or appearance, and even then, it can be prone to misinterpretation. I've heard people say, "Oh, I can always tell right away," and I think they're full of balderdash. When the display is particularly demonstrative (i.e., when the individual clearly wants people to know), that's one thing; when the individual is more or less "disguising" it (or simply not announcing it), that's very much something else.

In Ari's case, her difficulty in identifying others' proclivities can also be attributed to:
a) inexperience (she's only been "out" for a short while);
and
c) looking for love in all the wrong places. One would assume there are Lesbian bars in Portstown, but Ari likes hanging out at Sherry's, and as far as we know, she's the only Lesbian in the house.

[Serge Stiles]

My gaydar only works violently when I see an attractive man.

But then it's just hope on my part, so I guess it doesn't really work.