For Better or For Worse

[Ripley]

Oct 10, 2008 0:36:21 GMT -4 eclair said:

Maybe she should try opening a small dress making shop instead of drawing the strip.

eclair for the win.

[tiller]

Nice anachronism in today's strip. Wasn't Shania Twain about 10 or 12 years old when the strip originally ran? I wonder who the original punchline was about.

[azaleaqueen]

It's gone from my daily paper, but ran last Sunday. I think it was a legit one from the early days. The drawing was better than those "oldies" had been and was the kind of thing I used to find so funny.

[Deleted]

Oct 14, 2008 11:09:51 GMT -4 tiller said:

Nice anachronism in today's strip. Wasn't Shania Twain about 10 or 12 years old when the strip originally ran? I wonder who the original punchline was about.

Cheryl Tiegs.

The choice of Shania to replace her does seem out-of-the-blue. It's as if Lynn is trying to prove how out-of-touch she is.

[aibohphobia]

Oct 14, 2008 13:26:35 GMT -4 @calvin said:

Oct 14, 2008 11:09:51 GMT -4 tiller said:

Nice anachronism in today's strip. Wasn't Shania Twain about 10 or 12 years old when the strip originally ran? I wonder who the original punchline was about.

Cheryl Tiegs.

The choice of Shania to replace her does seem out-of-the-blue. It's as if Lynn is trying to prove how out-of-touch she is.

Well that and plus Shania's husband just left her too because as howtheduck suggested at Foobiverse, it would have made more sense if she wanted to honor another Canadian by going with Pamela Anderson or if she wanted to keep the strips timeless as she claimed then go with an icon like Marilyn Monroe.

I can't believe my newspaper still runs this strip now even though many other papers have dropped it or are considering it, and even puts the Sunday version on the front page of the funnies. They won't even do a poll on what readers want to keep.

[Deleted]

This was the first of the "updated" strips I've encountered and I really do not like it. It was pointless, confusing and irritating: the Shania Twain reference ruined the whole strip. I can't think of any age group of readers who would find it preferable to the original or, in fact, to having no strip at all. In what hallucinogenic alternate universe would someone even decide to do this? If Lynn's objective was to drive away masses of readers, she has accomplished it.
I'm through, Lynn. I canna take n'morrrre.

[ivy]

Shania Twain? That's the best Lynn can do for choosing a "hip" female celebrity? It's not 1997, Lynn. "Looks like Jessica Alba" or something would have been better.

[LAX]

If Lynn swapped Sarah Palin for Shania Twain in yesterdays strip, then today's strip might actually have been funny.

[Deleted]

It would have worked time-wise if she used Kim Cattrall for the punchline. Kim is Canadian and was well-known here as a sex symbol in the early 1980s thanks to her appearance in "Porkys". She's still seen as a hot number today. My mind is still reeling for the dumbassery needed to come up with today's punch line.

[Mugsy]

I don't think the average Foob fan (middle-aged and older women) would recognize Kim Cattral's name. I don't see the pearl-clutchers being fans of either Porky's or SATC. Now, I'm actually middle aged and saw both of those and still read Foob, so what do I know? But I'm not the CoffeeTalk type of fan that Lynn seems to pander to.

While these fans would know who Shania Twain is, I think Pamela Anderson would make a much better Canadian reference. Shania is pretty, but considered wholesome; Pam is the kind of woman guys like John Patterson would literally drool over. Ew.

You know what's funny? I read tiller's post (Shania Twain? I wonder who the original strip referenced) before I actually read the strip, so I thought that the strip was about country music and that maybe the original reference was to Anne Murray. Snort.