# Are Edda and Amos about to...you know? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 4, 2008, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-edda-and-amos-about-to-you-know/471051 "2008-11-04T14:48:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**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:** [November 4, 2008, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-edda-and-amos-about-to-you-know/471051/1 "2008-11-04T14:48:03Z")
[9 Chickweed Lane](http://www.comics.com/9_chickweed_lane/) They’re in Brussels, Amos has the hiccups, they’ve made up, both have professed their devotion to each other… Are the sisters back at the parochial school about to flip their wimples? ---
**Author:** ![Rocketeer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rocketeer/32/4437_2.png) [@Rocketeer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rocketeer)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2008, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-edda-and-amos-about-to-you-know/471051/2 "2008-11-04T18:17:34Z")
Sure hope so! …but in a family newspaper strip, I think not. ---
**Author:** ![photopat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e95f7d/32.png) [@photopat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/photopat)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2008, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-edda-and-amos-about-to-you-know/471051/3 "2008-11-04T18:29:54Z")
Nah, Sister Attila, or whatever she’s called, will probably call Edda on her cell phone just before it happens for no apparent reason other than to tell her “how proud” she is of Edda, and that’ll cool them off. Then the punchline will be something about her always knowing when her students are up to something, even overseas. ---
**Author:** ![BubbaDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bubbadog/32/333_2.png) [@BubbaDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BubbaDog)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2008, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-edda-and-amos-about-to-you-know/471051/4 "2008-11-04T18:39:43Z")
I think that they are. But it will have to be heavily sanitized to avoid problems. ---
**Author:** ![Kythereia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e8c25b/32.png) [@Kythereia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kythereia)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2008, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-edda-and-amos-about-to-you-know/471051/5 "2008-11-04T18:56:16Z")
Maybe, but I’m kind of leaning more towards awkwardly humorous misunderstanding. Who knows? ---
**Author:** ![Tom\_Tildrum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e95f7d/32.png) [@Tom\_Tildrum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tom_Tildrum)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2008, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-edda-and-amos-about-to-you-know/471051/6 "2008-11-04T19:49:50Z")
The hiccups will cease, but the immediacy of a sexual encounter will cause Amos to start farting. ---
**Author:** ![BubbaDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bubbadog/32/333_2.png) [@BubbaDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BubbaDog)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2008, 1:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-edda-and-amos-about-to-you-know/471051/7 "2008-11-07T13:38:20Z")
> [@BubbaDog](#): > > I think that they are. But it will have to be heavily sanitized to avoid problems. I WIN! Great idea. Brooke succeeded in sanitizing the situation while describing that they tried multiple positions. I wonder if any of the papers blocked at at this harmless level? ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2008, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-edda-and-amos-about-to-you-know/471051/8 "2008-11-07T14:40:25Z")
> [@photopat](#): > > Nah, Sister Attila Heh…you mean the female version of Thorax in a habit? I swear McEldowney used the same model for Thorax and that Mother Superior… ---
**Author:** ![Koxinga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/4af34b/32.png) [@Koxinga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Koxinga)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2008, 2:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-edda-and-amos-about-to-you-know/471051/9 "2008-11-07T14:41:03Z")
Brooke’s other comic, the web-only _Pibgorn_, is considerably racier. The same day that he’s only suggesting what Amos and Edda are up to, over in Pibgorn he’s showing [actual penetration](http://www.gocomics.com/pibgorn/2008/11/07/?campid=0&ssns=9&). ---
**Author:** ![Tom\_Tildrum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e95f7d/32.png) [@Tom\_Tildrum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tom_Tildrum)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2008, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-edda-and-amos-about-to-you-know/471051/10 "2008-11-07T16:15:37Z")
It’s a bit off-puttingly androgynous that one can’t tell whose hands are whose. I assume Edda is on top. ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2008, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-edda-and-amos-about-to-you-know/471051/11 "2008-11-07T16:26:45Z")
> [@Tom\_Tildrum](#): > > I assume Edda is on top. Considering that I don’t think Amos could pull it together enough to top a specially-modified plushie, let alone a woman with Edda’s force of personality, I’d assume that as well. ---
**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:** [November 7, 2008, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-edda-and-amos-about-to-you-know/471051/12 "2008-11-07T17:28:25Z")
> [@jayjay](#): > > Considering that I don’t think Amos could pull it together enough to top a specially-modified plushie, let alone a woman with Edda’s force of personality, I’d assume that as well. None of Brooke McEldowney’s males seem capable of mounting anything. They’re all a bunch of passive dominatrix fodder. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2008, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-edda-and-amos-about-to-you-know/471051/13 "2008-11-07T19:25:38Z")
Burkhardt seemed to be taking the initiative with Isabel a few weeks back… ---
**Author:** ![Jake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f475e1/32.png) [@Jake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jake)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2008, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-edda-and-amos-about-to-you-know/471051/14 "2008-11-07T19:36:26Z")
> [@Koxinga](#): > > Brooke’s other comic, the web-only _Pibgorn_, is considerably racier. The same day that he’s only suggesting what Amos and Edda are up to, over in Pibgorn he’s showing [actual penetration](http://www.gocomics.com/pibgorn/2008/11/07/?campid=0&ssns=9&). Yep! That’s penetration all right! 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2008, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-edda-and-amos-about-to-you-know/471051/15 "2008-11-07T23:17:32Z")
Given the number of hand-pairings in today’s strip, I’m guessing they both had their turns at being on top. ---
**Author:** ![Cuckoorex](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ad7895/32.png) [@Cuckoorex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cuckoorex)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2008, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-edda-and-amos-about-to-you-know/471051/16 "2008-11-07T23:49:48Z")
I thought it was a PalmOlive ad at first. ---
**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:** [November 8, 2008, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-edda-and-amos-about-to-you-know/471051/17 "2008-11-08T00:44:01Z")
> [@BubbaDog](#): > > [QUOTE=BubbaDog] > I think that they are. But it will have to be heavily sanitized to avoid problems. I WIN! Great idea. Brooke succeeded in sanitizing the situation while describing that they tried multiple positions. I wonder if any of the papers blocked at at this harmless level? [/QUOTE] He’s done this before, when (former priest) Francis and (former nun) Diane consummated their marriage. See [here](http://comics.com/9_chickweed_lane/2007-11-10/). (I remember this because I was impressed by the effect. Neither “romantic” nor “erotic” describe it accurately, but it has elements of both.) ---
**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:** [November 8, 2008, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-edda-and-amos-about-to-you-know/471051/18 "2008-11-08T01:30:04Z")
I’m happy for them, on the condition that McEldowney stops writing them as such emo bitches. Otherwise I’ll continue wanting to slap them both silly. Side note: Francis and Diane’s encounters led them into an unplanned pregnancy because they didn’t use birth control and screwed like rabbits for a week or something. I wonder if Edda will find herself in the family way too? ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2008, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-edda-and-amos-about-to-you-know/471051/19 "2008-11-08T01:33:54Z")
> [@Ferret\_Herder](#): > > Side note: Francis and Diane’s encounters led them into an unplanned pregnancy because they didn’t use birth control and screwed like rabbits for a week or something. I wonder if Edda will find herself in the family way too? Frankly, if I were Edda, the thought of telling Juliette that I was pregnant would make my ova literally run away from ANY sperm… ---
**Author:** ![lawoot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/35a633/32.png) [@lawoot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lawoot)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2008, 10:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-edda-and-amos-about-to-you-know/471051/20 "2008-11-08T10:11:50Z")
YEARS ago, there was a _Chickweed_ where Amos wanted to tell Edda something very important about himself, but couldn’t quite remember what it was. The strip then ‘fast-forwarded’ about 15 years to when they were married, and had about ten kids. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-edda-and-amos-about-to-you-know/471051.md?page=2)