# Pibgorn Readers - Is he palming some bun? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 8, 2006, 1:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pibgorn-readers-is-he-palming-some-bun/347533 "2006-03-08T13:29:42Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**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:** [March 8, 2006, 1:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pibgorn-readers-is-he-palming-some-bun/347533/1 "2006-03-08T13:29:42Z")
In today’s [Pibgorn](http://www.comics.com/comics/pibgorn/) (3/08/06) is he grabbing her ass? It’s hard to tell if he’s just standing behind the woman and gesturing with his hand or if he’e checking out the young fanny. The look on her face could either be surprise from the fondle or contemplation of his statements. In the next frame she’s very angry but that could be the result of his advice, not his hands. Can’t really tell. ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2006, 1:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pibgorn-readers-is-he-palming-some-bun/347533/2 "2006-03-08T13:34:23Z")
Can’t tell for certain. I certainly do wish there was a _Pibgorn_ book, though. ---
**Author:** ![LonesomePolecat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/a88e57/32.png) [@LonesomePolecat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LonesomePolecat)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2006, 1:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pibgorn-readers-is-he-palming-some-bun/347533/3 "2006-03-08T13:36:21Z")
Can’t say as I care for the current story arc, though. ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2006, 1:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pibgorn-readers-is-he-palming-some-bun/347533/4 "2006-03-08T13:42:13Z")
> [@LonesomePolecat](#): > > Can’t say as I care for the current story arc, though. What’s wrong with Shakespeare’s comedies? 😕 ---
**Author:** ![LonesomePolecat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/a88e57/32.png) [@LonesomePolecat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LonesomePolecat)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2006, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pibgorn-readers-is-he-palming-some-bun/347533/5 "2006-03-08T14:16:16Z")
> [@Bosda Di'Chi of Tricor](#): > > What’s wrong with Shakespeare’s comedies? 😕 Nothing. It’s like this. A long time ago the Harvard Lampoon did a book length parody of Tolkien called _Bored of the Rings_. My sides were splitting for about the first third or first half of the book, but it became tiresome after that. I don’t think I’ve ever actually made it all the way to the end. Well, it’s the same thing with Pibgorn here. Sure, it’s an amusing conceit to cast the characters of his strip in a Shakespeare comedy with a modern setting and even to preserve most or all of the original dialogue. But the novelty of the concept quickly wore thin, and I got tired of it some time ago. Of course, this is probably just a question of taste. YMMV. ---
**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2006, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pibgorn-readers-is-he-palming-some-bun/347533/6 "2006-03-08T14:21:38Z")
I kinda got the impression that she was tossing him out and assumed it was because he crossed a lone. ---
**Author:** ![Ponder\_Stibbons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponder_stibbons/32/343_2.png) [@Ponder\_Stibbons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponder_Stibbons)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2006, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pibgorn-readers-is-he-palming-some-bun/347533/7 "2006-03-08T14:24:54Z")
> [@LonesomePolecat](#): > > Nothing. > > It’s like this. A long time ago the Harvard Lampoon did a book length parody of Tolkien called _Bored of the Rings_. My sides were splitting for about the first third or first half of the book, but it became tiresome after that. I don’t think I’ve ever actually made it all the way to the end. Really? You have _got_ to read the end. Just the last few pages, really. The ending is, IMHO, quite funny. ---
**Author:** ![Trunk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/87869e/32.png) [@Trunk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trunk)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2006, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pibgorn-readers-is-he-palming-some-bun/347533/8 "2006-03-08T14:42:05Z")
> [@BubbaDog](#): > > In today’s [Pibgorn](http://www.comics.com/comics/pibgorn/) (3/08/06) is he grabbing her ass? > > It’s hard to tell if he’s just standing behind the woman and gesturing with his hand or if he’e checking out the young fanny. > > The look on her face could either be surprise from the fondle or contemplation of his statements. In the next frame she’s very angry but that could be the result of his advice, not his hands. Can’t really tell. In the grab-ass frame, it sounds like he’s saying, “you gotta get laid”. Whether he’s talking about Demetrius or himself, I’m not sure because I don’t know if he’s there campaigning for her to marry Demetrius or if he’s there hitting on her. But, if he is “his lordship” referenced in the last frame, then I definitely think he grabbed her ass. Or by “his lordship” does she mean Demetrius? ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2006, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pibgorn-readers-is-he-palming-some-bun/347533/9 "2006-03-08T14:55:05Z")
“Is he grabbing her ass?” Well, it’s Brooke McEldowney, so, duh. ---
**Author:** ![ddgryphon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/8c91f0/32.png) [@ddgryphon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ddgryphon)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2006, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pibgorn-readers-is-he-palming-some-bun/347533/10 "2006-03-08T16:18:38Z")
I vote grab – and I actually like this arc. Not as much as I enjoy his regular stories about Pib, Dru, Geoff, et al, but at three strips a week, he probably will take two years to tell this story, minimum. And that might wear a bit thin. BTW: You’ve got to read the ending of BOTR – dear lord that book got funnier and funnier as I read it and the ending was drop dead perfect! Really, you should be more tolerant of slow periods in a work. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![LonesomePolecat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/a88e57/32.png) [@LonesomePolecat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LonesomePolecat)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2006, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pibgorn-readers-is-he-palming-some-bun/347533/11 "2006-03-08T16:43:09Z")
> [@ddgryphon](#): > > BTW: You’ve got to read the ending of BOTR – dear lord that book got funnier and funnier as I read it and the ending was drop dead perfect! > > Really, you should be more tolerant of slow periods in a work. 😉 Okay, okay, okay! I’ll dig it out of that big pile of old books in my junk room and give it another shot! Everybody happy now? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2006, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pibgorn-readers-is-he-palming-some-bun/347533/12 "2006-03-08T16:45:54Z")
> [@LonesomePolecat](#): > > Everybody happy now? 😃 NO! Get a _haircut_! Clean your room! Wear your rubbers! (In a _nice way_, I mean.) 😃 ---
**Author:** ![LonesomePolecat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/a88e57/32.png) [@LonesomePolecat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LonesomePolecat)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2006, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pibgorn-readers-is-he-palming-some-bun/347533/13 "2006-03-08T17:24:00Z")
> [@Bosda Di'Chi of Tricor](#): > > NO! Get a _haircut_! > Clean your room! > Wear your rubbers! (In a _nice way_, I mean.) > 😃 Hey! I didn’t ask to be born!!! And it wasn’t MY generation that screwed up the world!!! Can I have the car Saturday night? ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2006, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pibgorn-readers-is-he-palming-some-bun/347533/14 "2006-03-08T18:01:59Z")
> [@LonesomePolecat](#): > > Hey! I didn’t ask to be born!!! And it wasn’t MY generation that screwed up the world!!! > > Can I have the car Saturday night? Take out the papers and the trash! Or you don’t get no spendin’ cash! If you don’t scrub that kitchen floor You ain’t gonna rock and roll no more! Yakety-yak! (don’t talk back) ---
**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:** [March 8, 2006, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pibgorn-readers-is-he-palming-some-bun/347533/15 "2006-03-08T20:36:45Z")
Yeah, I think he’s patting her butt. I love Shakespeare, so I like this format. I just sent the artist an e-mail telling him so, which I also did a few years ago when he did a Shakespearean Sunday _9 Chickweed Lane_. He wrote back for that earlier e-mail and thanked me for the feedback. I wonder how Dru and Pib and Geoff are going to fit into this story? ---
**Author:** ![ddgryphon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/8c91f0/32.png) [@ddgryphon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ddgryphon)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2006, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pibgorn-readers-is-he-palming-some-bun/347533/16 "2006-03-08T22:02:18Z")
> [@teela brown](#): > > Yeah, I think he’s patting her butt. > > I love Shakespeare, so I like this format. I just sent the artist an e-mail telling him so, which I also did a few years ago when he did a Shakespearean Sunday _9 Chickweed Lane_. He wrote back for that earlier e-mail and thanked me for the feedback. > > I wonder how Dru and Pib and Geoff are going to fit into this story? My guess is Pib is Puck. Geoff is probably Lysander – unless I’ve missed something – and I’m pretty sure he’s going to pull everyone form 9 Chickweed into it at some point. Edda will be the other girl, I’m sure (Hermia is it?) I’m so bad with names. ---
**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:** [March 8, 2006, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pibgorn-readers-is-he-palming-some-bun/347533/17 "2006-03-08T22:35:52Z")
If it were Thorax!Normal, I’d say no way. Just because it doesn’t seem like a Thorax thing to do. But it’s Thorax!MidsummerNight’sDream, so I can’t really say. Looks it, though. And considering that _SETH_ is Lysander, it’s obvious he’s playing the whole thing straight, just using the characters as “actors” rather than trying to draw parallels between the 1920s-style Shakespearean [del]death ray[/del] world and normal Pibgorn/Chickweed reality. ---
**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:** [March 8, 2006, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pibgorn-readers-is-he-palming-some-bun/347533/18 "2006-03-08T22:37:00Z")
> [@ddgryphon](#): > > Geoff is probably Lysander – unless I’ve missed something [Lysander](http://www.comics.com/comics/pibgorn/archive/pibgorn-20060301.html) is Seth from Chickweed, isn’t he? ---
**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:** [March 8, 2006, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pibgorn-readers-is-he-palming-some-bun/347533/19 "2006-03-08T22:45:50Z")
> [@jayjay](#): > > If it were Thorax!Normal, I’d say no way. Just because it doesn’t seem like a Thorax thing to do. But it’s Thorax!MidsummerNight’sDream, so I can’t really say. Looks it, though. And considering that _SETH_ is Lysander, it’s obvious he’s playing the whole thing straight, just using the characters as “actors” rather than trying to draw parallels between the 1920s-style Shakespearean [del]death ray[/del] world and normal Pibgorn/Chickweed reality. I thought the characters looked familiar, but since his new people sometimes are drawn alike, I wasn’t quite sure. Is the girl playing the daughter anyone we know? ---
**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:** [March 8, 2006, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pibgorn-readers-is-he-palming-some-bun/347533/20 "2006-03-08T22:55:47Z")
> [@teela brown](#): > > I thought the characters looked familiar, but since his new people sometimes are drawn alike, I wasn’t quite sure. Is the girl playing the daughter anyone we know? She is, I believe, [Isabel](http://www.comics.com/comics/chickweed//html/cast_Chickweedlane.html), Edda’s _bete noir_ and rival for Amos’s affections. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pibgorn-readers-is-he-palming-some-bun/347533.md?page=2)