# 9 Chickweed Lane **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 5, 2012, 1:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/9-chickweed-lane/617910 "2012-04-05T13:55:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![OttoDaFe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ottodafe/32/356_2.png) [@OttoDaFe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OttoDaFe)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2012, 5:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/9-chickweed-lane/617910/81 "2012-05-17T05:01:28Z")
Scrotumton, ME — accent on the “tum” — is Brooke McEldowney’s (professed) home town. Since neither Google Maps nor my handy dandy road atlas list such a place, it may be visible and/or accessible via the quantum anomaly in Thorax’s shed. ---
**Author:** ![Tamex](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ccd318/32.png) [@Tamex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tamex)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2012, 5:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/9-chickweed-lane/617910/82 "2012-05-17T05:12:31Z")
> [@OttoDaFe](#): > > Scrotumton, ME — accent on the “tum” — is Brooke McEldowney’s (professed) home town. Since neither Google Maps nor my handy dandy road atlas list such a place, it may be visible and/or accessible via the quantum anomaly in Thorax’s shed. [Balltown, ME?](http://www.mainething.com/balltown/index.html) ---
**Author:** ![photopat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e95f7d/32.png) [@photopat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/photopat)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2012, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/9-chickweed-lane/617910/83 "2012-05-18T17:40:46Z")
Right. I’m not surprised. It’s Friday, but the strip runs Saturday too, so we still don’t have a definite answer. I’ve had it with the geological pacing of this strip. I’ll read tomorrows and then I’m done. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2012, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/9-chickweed-lane/617910/84 "2012-05-19T02:15:44Z")
> [@photopat](#): > > Right. I’m not surprised. It’s Friday, but the strip runs Saturday too, so we still don’t have a definite answer. I’ve had it with the geological pacing of this strip. I’ll read tomorrows and then I’m done. I’m sure McEldowney is quaking in his boots. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![salinqmind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3ec8ea/32.png) [@salinqmind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/salinqmind)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2012, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/9-chickweed-lane/617910/85 "2012-05-19T02:34:08Z")
There won’t be a ‘definite answer’ for, oh, maybe another week. Certainly it won’t be revealed tomorrow! On a Saturday, are you kidding??? ---
**Author:** ![Yookeroo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yookeroo/32/323_2.png) [@Yookeroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yookeroo)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2012, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/9-chickweed-lane/617910/86 "2012-05-19T02:54:38Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > I’m sure McEldowney is quaking in his boots. Most comic strip artists would probably be unhappy to lose readers. But since Brooke considers many of his readers beefwits, he may not mind so much. ---
**Author:** ![ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chockfullofheadygoodness/32/511_2.png) [@ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2012, 7:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/9-chickweed-lane/617910/87 "2012-05-19T07:19:14Z")
Well, I was half right about no reveal Wednesday, but I underestimated the glacial pacing. Reveal (given Seth’s reaction today, I’m pretty sure it’ll be “false alarm” then a week or two of “you know what \*other \*choice you have available that we didn’t have in my day.. birth control, you morons”) is at least a week away. > [@N9IWP](#): > > There is a nonzero possibility that it it is ovarian cancer or something Nah, this isn’t Funky Winkerbean. Of course, if it were, it would be a 99.9999% possibility of cancer. ---
**Author:** ![salinqmind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3ec8ea/32.png) [@salinqmind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/salinqmind)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2012, 11:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/9-chickweed-lane/617910/88 "2012-05-19T11:51:29Z")
Huh. I guess I was wrong, there IS sort of a reveal…on a Saturday, yet. I am surprised. ---
**Author:** ![teela\_brown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d9b06d/32.png) [@teela\_brown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/teela_brown)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2012, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/9-chickweed-lane/617910/89 "2012-05-20T21:37:15Z")
I’m damned if I can figure out today’s Sunday strip. Is it connected to the ongoing storyline? If not, WTH? ---
**Author:** ![Kimstu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecd19e/32.png) [@Kimstu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimstu)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2012, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/9-chickweed-lane/617910/90 "2012-05-20T22:03:07Z")
> [@teela\_brown](#): > > I’m damned if I can figure out today’s Sunday strip. Is it connected to the ongoing storyline? If not, WTH? Not connected: random Siamese-cat thing what’s all artistic-like. (The panels of the cartoon are supposed to represent the small attic windowpanes the cat is looking out of.) ---
**Author:** ![salinqmind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3ec8ea/32.png) [@salinqmind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/salinqmind)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2012, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/9-chickweed-lane/617910/91 "2012-05-21T00:10:39Z")
The cat is Solange. I think he draws the best Siamese cat in the history of drawing :D. ---
**Author:** ![Telemark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/telemark/32/372_2.png) [@Telemark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telemark)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2012, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/9-chickweed-lane/617910/92 "2012-05-21T01:20:14Z")
> [@teela\_brown](#): > > I’m damned if I can figure out today’s Sunday strip. Is it connected to the ongoing storyline? If not, WTH? Sunday strips rarely have anything to do with the regular storyline. ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2012, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/9-chickweed-lane/617910/93 "2012-05-21T01:28:21Z")
Which is not a feature unique to 9CL - it’s…very rare (if not unheard of) for Sundays to be connected to the weekly plots (sometimes even having ongoing plots of their own). This is how Foxtrot can be reruns Mon-Sat and a new strip on Sunday, right now, for instance. ---
**Author:** ![salinqmind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3ec8ea/32.png) [@salinqmind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/salinqmind)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2012, 8:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/9-chickweed-lane/617910/94 "2012-05-21T08:57:54Z")
Wouldn’t the Foxtrot Sunday strip be a re-run, also? Are new Sunday strips actually being drawn??? Oh, OK\< I checked and they ARE new strips on Sunday! Huh. ---
**Author:** ![Ferret\_Herder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e47774/32.png) [@Ferret\_Herder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferret_Herder)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2012, 12:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/9-chickweed-lane/617910/95 "2012-05-21T12:22:19Z")
And finally the words are actually said - she’s not pregnant, and she kind of wanted to be. Taking bets now on whether Amos will return the ring (only wanting to make an honest woman of her or some nonsense) or pop the question anyway, and how much faffing around will go on first. I’m putting longshot money on Edda finding the ring and assuming he intends to ask her. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2012, 1:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/9-chickweed-lane/617910/96 "2012-05-21T13:04:25Z")
Word of God is that “Amos will **always** do the right thing.” ---
**Author:** ![Ferret\_Herder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e47774/32.png) [@Ferret\_Herder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferret_Herder)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2012, 1:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/9-chickweed-lane/617910/97 "2012-05-21T13:48:40Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > Word of God is that “Amos will **always** do the right thing.” Yeah, but the question is, is the right thing marrying a gal who’s too immature to take a drugstore pee test before leaping to the conclusion that she must be pregnant, telling lots of people that she is, and creating tons of drama in the process? Since she’s the protagonist, the answer is probably “yes.” I wish it was instead, “I love you but we’re both young and have a lot of maturing to do first; marriage can wait.” ---
**Author:** ![OttoDaFe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ottodafe/32/356_2.png) [@OttoDaFe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OttoDaFe)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2012, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/9-chickweed-lane/617910/98 "2012-05-21T18:25:39Z")
> [@Ferret\_Herder](#): > > Yeah, but the question is, is the right thing marrying a gal who’s too immature to take a drugstore pee test before leaping to the conclusion that she must be pregnant, telling lots of people that she is, and creating tons of drama in the process? > > Since she’s the protagonist, the answer is probably “yes.” I wish it was instead, “I love you but we’re both young and have a lot of maturing to do first; marriage can wait.” Actually, that’s been the principle both Amos and Edda have (mostly) lived by for quite a while. If there’s a theme to this latest incident\*, it’s probably that (perceived) crisis makes people behave erratically. \*I’m reminded of a remark by Johnny Carson when asked by a PETA type whether he thought Charlie the Tuna was suicidal. Carson responded that he didn’t know about Charlie, but anybody who went around psychoanalyzing a fictional fish was a bit odd. ---
**Author:** ![Kimstu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecd19e/32.png) [@Kimstu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimstu)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2012, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/9-chickweed-lane/617910/99 "2012-05-30T02:53:21Z")
> **[9 Chickweed Lane by Brooke McEldowney for May 27, 2012 | GoComics.com](https://www.gocomics.com/9chickweedlane/2012/05/27)** > > Woman: who...can that be? Man: This is a little like dinner theatre...only less nutritious. Man: Pool guy. woman: oh, yes. right on time, this way. Man: This won't take long, ma'am. I'll be done in a trice. Woman: I've never had a man do it in a... Just when I think McEldowney has completely jumped the shark of pretentious twattitude, he comes back with something I get a genuine giggle out of. Stay of execution granted. ---
**Author:** ![Horatio\_Hellpop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Horatio\_Hellpop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatio_Hellpop)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2012, 4:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/9-chickweed-lane/617910/100 "2012-05-30T04:21:14Z")
Amos dragged his feet on proposing from the time she announced her non-pregnancy to the time he sweated up the sheets with her again. Edda dragged her feet on informing him of the possible pregnancy for the better part of two months. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/9-chickweed-lane/617910.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/9-chickweed-lane/617910.md?page=6)