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Having to remind ourselves that Lynn has a severe distaste for public gatherings in which she is not the center of attention leads to reminding myself that the closest thing we get to seeing what she was like as a child would have to be Elizabeth. While her mythos is that of a colorful figure who was the terror of the neighborhood, the reality is probably closer to what we see when we see Liz: a shy young child who didn't really know how to approach people and was kind of suspicious of them anyway because she had to get to know them as people. Lindy appears to have only really trusted those around her when she didn't have to remember a time before she knew them.

The reason that I mention this is that a lot of Liz's problems with people appear to be caused by her blurry vision. The reason Mike was such a problem was not just that he was and is a vain nitwit with a poor grasp on cause and effect, it had a lot to do with the fact that to her, he always seemed to come out of nowhere. Since he did that and he's a threat, everyone else who emerged from the fog must also have been a threat. This leads her to being a timid child who has to stand around far too long wondering if it's safe to talk to someone. Since Elly is kind of out of it, she never made the connection between Liz's needing glasses and Liz's fear of strangers. Must be what John means by calling her "one of them."

Crossposts: https://dreadedcandiru2.livejournal.com/1088174.html

As we are about to see next Saturday, John is about the only person in the Patterson household who is capable of seeing the new addition to their family as a good thing. Liz is worried that not only will she be lost in the shuffle because of a projected (but ultimately fictional) obsessive need to pay attention to the new child to the exclusion of all else, whatever social life she has now will be sacrificed so that Mommy can run away from what is her responsibility whilst claiming that Children Owe Us Help. Meanwhile, Mike is worried about the twin evils of having to share even more spotlight and derision from boys who ain't really his friends. That being said, the champeen natural-born martyr is, of course, Elly herself. As near as I can see, she gets to enjoy all of the things that she claims that a child will make impossible but still resents April for stealing something she actually didn't. This leaves us with four scenarios in which Elly finally reconciles herself to the existence of a third child:

April Moves Out: As we know, Elly likes to spend a lot of her time insisting that if she didn't have people racing around underfoot, her life would be a lot sweeter than it is now. The problem with that is that when her kids do leave the nest, she's able to step back far enough to realize how empty her life is without her family around to keep her on her toes. This tells me that when April splits for the wilds of Calgary, Alberta, Elly's response might be to wish that she had what she wanted to throw away.
April's Kids Drive HER Nuts Too: One of the things that Elly likes about her adult children is that having modelled her bad behaviour, watching them make the same mistakes she does makes her feel right. If April asks 'Did I ever thank you?'. Elly might start to finally feel good about having more kids ~~than her folks did~~she was supposed to.
The Rest Is Silence: Elly appears to have wasted a lot of time the same way Lynn did by expecting an apology from her mother about the way she was treated. Given her being the same sort of person, she might die never having admitted that she was wrong to treat April like a threat because not even the approach of death will coax an apology out of her. The only sign that she wasn't totally against the idea of a third kid is an self-serving almost-apology in her will in which April is forced to accept something stupid in order for everyone to agree that old feuds die with old idiots.
Not Even Death Will Stop Me!: Elly leaves April with nothing because she takes being humiliated about the Kortney situation personally.

Crossposts: https://dreadedcandiru2.livejournal.com/1082558.html

Of course, there are other possible explanations for Mike's behaviour that do not stem from John and Elly's misuse of brain-warping chemicals. Said explanation has a lot to do with Lynn's trademark refusal to actually tell people to their faces what they're doing to irritate her. Y'see, this is about when Aaron was using 'her' money to buy weed and she really, really hated the idea. She couldn't actually tell him to keep off the grass like someone who could say things face to face because that's scary and junk.

What she could do is take what used to be a Mirror Universe Linus and simply amp up the bizarre antics we already saw beyond all reason so she could 'tell' Aaron that this is what he looked like when he was using. Since the boy appeared to be kinda clueless even when he was lucid, it seems to me that her Partnership For A Drug-Free Foobiverse thing sailed clean over his head. All he knew is that his mom was once again messing up his life by stealing from someone to make him look like a tool and he didn't understand what he'd done this time.

Crossposts: https://dreadedcandiru2.livejournal.com/1075140.html

As you know, Mike cannot handle adversity remotely like a normal person does. If the person that makes the mistake of pushing one of his many triggers is someone he can overpower physically or mentally (like Liz or Elly), he goes from "slug-like oik" to "Exploding Horror Freak Boy" in about a millisecond. If the person who crossed the broken-headed freak isn't, we get whining nonsense about gumballs splattered on windshields and being a rung on someone's ladder and whining about the cruelty of the statement "How is it fair that you get to do what you want while I sit on folded hands like someone who doesn't have needs?"

This tells me that there is perhaps something organically wrong with Mike's brain that cannot be corrected by pleading, threatening, lecturing or violence. Knowing Elly the way I do, it might well be that the only time that her fear of sex and hatred of intimacy goes away is when her blood alcohol level is dangerously elevated. A lot of people might make the 'joke' that if Mike, Liz and April were named after how Elly felt when they were conceived, they'd all be named "Drunken Stupor" but, well, it ain't so funny when you start to think that maybe that's both a distressing fact and a horrible problem. If Mike is a sufferer of foetal alcohol syndrome, that's something that has to be answered for. I would start by punching John in the face just on general principle.

Crossposts: https://dreadedcandiru2.livejournal.com/1074836.html

As you know, I'm in agreement with everyone who assumes that Liz and Anthony's married life is one of unquiet desperation owing to her being a spoiled brat who fears being held accountable for her own bad actions and his refusal to quite understand the mistake he made by falling in love with an illusion. Mike and Gordon have a lesser Hell to face at home because the people they married are damned good at pretending to be the freaks they think they're married to. (It should be noted that what really disqualified Rod is that he never actually was John and never actually pretended he was.)

The reason that I mention this is that I don't think that Martha or Allyson were that good at acting like someone they ain't. I'm sitting here trying to picture what Mike's marriage to Martha would look like based on the fact that what really unites them is that they hate all the same meaningless things and I come up with a picture of the same sort of sniping idiots Martha calls a mom and dad. At least it's not the sort of Hell Gordon would have faced by marrying a love-lorn nutcase who married too damned early because she didn't think that she'd get another chance. The end result of that sort of Hell spends her days sitting across a table from Connie Poirier telling her that she loves her children but she cannot like them.

Crossposts: https://dreadedcandiru2.livejournal.com/1070618.html

As you all know, Dawn and Candace had to tell Liz that Anthony was clearly sending out signals that he fancied her only for her to still be not quite sold. The interesting thing about Liz's seeming failure to notice the obvious is that when one examines the historical record, one finds that while she was off convincing herself that there wasn't a boy who cared two cents for her, she was also convincing herself that the pretty face in the mirror was that of a homely dweeb no boy actually should care two cents for. His omnipresence was thus an interesting coincidence because of course she'd have noticed something she didn't think was going to happen anyway.

The reason that I mention this is that once again, it occurs to me that since Liz has inherited her mother's self-defeating tendency to look in the mirror and see someone too hidea to really love (as well as the accompanying need to actively reject reassurance because being told that she's pretty 'means' that she and her feelings are horseshit), it seems to me that while she was pissing away her time on Colin, she'd totally ignored a boy who did actually like her. Given that Liz is a more placid neurotic who's really timid and Elly is a screaming loon who foams at the mouth when provoked, we could possibly be dealing with a situation akin to Ray Billingsley's Curtis in which Elly actively rejected the advances of a swell boy who liked her because he wasn't model handsome.

Crossposts: https://dreadedcandiru2.livejournal.com/1069707.html

The interesting thing about Gordon's half of the Valentine's Dance arc is that he's not really doing right by the person he's trying to help because he's living out a stupid rescue fantasy that gets in the way of thinking clearly or acting properly. He doesn't ever learn to see the girl he's trying to impress as a person because that would tend to put a damper on thinking of himself as a white knight on a steed saving a fair maiden. Just as Mike wants to tune out the buzzing noises Martha makes lest he have to face the indignity of admitting that he's a jackass who doesn't especially want to learn anything about the pretty object dangling off his arm, Gordon is all wounded and junk when it becomes clear (at least to us) that Allyson is a girl with low enough self-esteem to take a rotter like Peter back but not low enough self-esteem to see Gordon as anything other than a stupid, churlish dolt.

The reason that I mention this is that when he and Tracey become Sourballs Versus The World, he hands the baton off to Anthony so that he might spend the rest of the strip hoping to rescue Elizabeth from whatever dangers the Pattersons tell him she faces. If we were to look in on him today, we could well expect to see him try to rescue her from discontent by suggesting that maybe she should just accept that certain people are simply going to go off to their birth mothers and it's nothing personal.

The reason that I mention this is that (as

aprilp_katje recently suggested) Lynn might herself have rescue fantasies given that they're not depicted as a ridiculous and irrational hindrance that most people have no time for. In the real world, people would see Gordon not as this great guy whose generosity Allyson pissed all over but as a pea-brained meddler in a trucker cap who got Allyson into all kinds of trouble playing hero but since Lynn doesn't live in the real world if she can avoid it, we're expected to feel sorry for him when reality kicks him in the teeth again.

Crossposts: https://dreadedcandiru2.livejournal.com/1067009.html

As we know, Gordon's response to seeing Allyson puking her guts out because she can't handle her MD 20/20 or whatever is not to do the sensible thing Mike talked him out of doing back when they were at the bleachers and quietly tell an authority figure about the problem and let him or her handle the situation discreetly. What our boy does is act like a sitcom moron and call her a cab like a dumb kid is going to because he saw it on TV so he can go right on fantasizing about her like so much Assthony expecting that saving Liz from drowning means that she's obliged to him.

The reason that I mention this is not to talk about how the people in this strip all regard getting to know who the Hell the person they're fixated on as a last resort imposed on them by evil people. What I want to talk about is that Gordon was so busy imagining her being Harriet to his Ozzie that he didn't understand what the Hell what was going to happen to Allyson when she came home reeking of cheap plonk. His media-generated fantasy of what her home life is probably like blinds him to the fact that she's an eighth-grader who got talked into making a fool of herself over That Boy and that her parents see That Other Boy as That Boy's stooge meant to clean his messes. I mean, that's what I'd think if I saw a scruffy loser drop my kid off home being a big-shot. I'd think that he's Peter's clean-up crew and say so......thus her coolness towards him.....

Crossposts: https://dreadedcandiru2.livejournal.com/1067000.html

Every so often, it occurs to me that it's probably for the best that Lynn doesn't want to speculate as to what's been happening to her characters in the ten and a half years since we last saw them. This is because it seems highly likely that Elly is dealing with a rather tragic dramatic irony that no doubt is perceived as a cruel trick played upon her by an unkind fate. Said irony is that after seventy years of complaining that she wanted her own space and her own apartment to follow her own pursuits, she's probably a widow living in the complex Jim lived in before his stroke trying to figure out what happened to her.

It probably baffles her where the time went and why she can't seem to remember any of the magic events her children keep talking about when they discuss the good old days...especially since none of their stories ever seem to include her as a participant. All she seems to be cast as is a noisy, unreasonable and unjust hindrance who lurks in the background only to spring out at random in order to destroy their happiness because she hates being disturbed by happy family life. It never seems to occur to the Elly in the stories to ask what the stakes are or who's in the right because the real crime is prying her off her chair. The reason it baffles her is that not only does she not remember the events in question or what she was doing, her life appears to have passed by her in a sort of blur of moving bodies and children and husbands who age in a heartbeat. She wonders if she might have the memory problems that plagued Mira Sobinski but the fact is that you have to do something memorable to remember things. Elly didn't so it's like she left her parents' home and WHAM!!!, she's an old lady looking back at a past that is starting to solidify into something that almost looks like her throwing a fifty year long tantrum.

Crossposts: https://dreadedcandiru2.livejournal.com/1064385.html

As we all know, we're about six months away from John taking a really keen interest in model trains. The way this habit was introduced is that we have the man standing around moping as if the Sun were about to die because (cue horror music sting), he'd turned forty that year and was too young to be that old. That pissed me off no end because six months beforehand, my mother had passed on after dying gruesomely of liver cancer and having him wail about perhaps eventually being the fifty-five she never got to see just got on my nerves. In any event, he'd talked himself into buying a model train set to feel like the kid he's really always going to be.

The reason that I mention this display of immaturity is that it seems to me that he's subconsciously trying to find a really neat toy that his wife really won't like so that he doesn't have to share and thus risk having it get broken. He'd learned from the Pervrett incident that she might just see herself as being comfortable behind the wheel of a fancy car but he might think that she wants to see herself as being too old to play with real toys and this means that his passion will be safe from harm. He should know better but since he's an idiot, he kind of deserves to have his train set vandalized ten years from now.

Crossposts: https://dreadedcandiru2.livejournal.com/1058732.html

It would seem that Lynn has an ex to grind and bury in the backs of the hotel industry owing to how she makes John look as if he's going to be a threat to Elly's person. Next Wednesday's strip just flat out says that Elly half-way expects to get her ass kicked for getting his car smashed and we have to make him angry at something to make that valid. What makes John angry is that somehow or other, the hotel doesn't have his name on file and they treat him rather shabbily and this gets him pissed.

My guess is that what we're looking at is her being a poor sport about being called "Mrs JOHNSON" instead of Mrs Johnston all the time. It's an easy mistake to make especially given a nasty and stupid habit people have gotten into of late: blindly trusting whatever the computer tells them. It's more than likely that some data entry clerk typed his name in wrong and the clerk is too naive to perhaps think that "Paterson" and "Patterson" are the same man. Eventually, someone would compare notes and John would get a form letter asking for his understanding and also to please accept a voucher of some sort to make up for their mistake. Also, this would mean that Michael is going to spend the rest of his life reminding people how his name is spelled.

Crossposts: https://dreadedcandiru2.livejournal.com/1057588.html

One of the more irritating parts of the stupid, stupid hormone attack arc is that Gordon wants very much to break out in zits like normal people instead of having an epileptic seizure every time he gets an erection because his nitwit creator is too damned shy to ask people what one feels like and also thinks that since she has the best brain, her belief that it must be like perimenstrual cramping has to be right.

This is because Patterson acne always proceeds in much the same way. First off, the person has to have a zit show up in the most visible place ever at the worst possible time. This leads to the sufferer panicking like an idiot and making things worse for him or herself by scrubbing his or her face as if he or she were buffing a floor. When this happens, we have an inept attempt to disguise the condition followed by mockery by the clear-skinned which leads to the emotional pay-off: Elly standing around like a shivering pillar of shit mouthing platitudes while a distraught child reverts to infancy wailing about the unfairness of it all.

The fact that every single teenager has had this happen makes me think that Lynn was strip-mining her own adolescence. This is why we had them all go mad with overwrought grief because they wanted clear skin NOW!!!! and why they all wanted to visit mayhem on the clear-skinned who lorded their perfection over the eternal victim of all victims surpassing all others and so on into the hot water.

Crossposts: https://dreadedcandiru2.livejournal.com/1054430.html

The very odd thing about Mike's entry into the teenaged years is that the older he gets, the more docile he becomes. When you contrast the violent hellion of the Early Years with the boorish couch potato telling himself that Martha sure will be sorry that she put some space between her and a pliable dolt who doesn't realize that Elly threw a monkey wrench in their relationship out of jealousy she won't admit to, you'd wonder why his parents were screeching about his bad attitude.

This is because the older he got and the tamer he got, the less tolerant they became. It's damned hard to relate to John and Elly as parents to teenagers because they seem almost twitchingly eager to misinterpret every little thing he and all other teenagers in the worst possible light. It's as if they want to live in a world that's worse than it actually is and twist the facts so that despite not actually conforming to a punitive stereotype, Mike, Liz and April actually are the monsters Social Message Films such as "Rock and Roll: Kremlin Plot" depict them as being in order to make sense of the world because that beats taking the time to get to know them.

What also may be happening is that they exaggerate how wild they were as children and, having witnessed their own kids being the bland non-entities they were as kids, wish to suppress horrific excesses like wondering what the big deal about opposite side of the street parking is.

Crossposts: https://dreadedcandiru2.livejournal.com/1043612.html

Another part of John's problem is that he doesn't understand for the life of him that what people intend to do when they do something doesn't matter in the least. This blindness to the reality of what the effects of an action are and how they're being perceived as being the only things that can count is why his belief that Elly needs to be somehow protected from the harsh world she wants to be a part of is why he makes noise about hormones and the like because he'd rather not face the fact that if you do something that makes someone feel like crap, you're a bad guy with good intentions....especially if you don't take the time to understand what the person you think you're helping wants.

What Elly clearly wants is to be seen to matter in this world. The idea of doing useful work that goes unknown and unacknowledged makes her feel as if her life has been lived in vain; in the Early Years, this took the form of her complaining about how unfair it was that everyone but her got to leave the house to do useful things and have an identity of her own not dependent on the oafish meal ticket with the train fixation or the ungrateful whelps who only notice what she does when she cannot do it. This leads me to suspect that her forgetting to leave the gate closed and latched isn't a bug, it's a feature. Subconsciously, she wants the ability to flee the property if things become too oppressive and if that means that Farley is able to roam around and get into mischief, that's a small price to pay for the chance for freedom.

Crossposts: https://dreadedcandiru2.livejournal.com/1023291.html

The interesting thing about Martha is that when we finally get to see her family, they're presented as being an unpalatable horde of freaks. Mr McRae is a fool-hardy and chauvinistic jerk who doesn't listen to his wife, Mrs McRae is a shrew, older brother Stan is a snotty and boorish jerk who insults Mike and Martha herself is a passive little thing who likes to pretend that she's more forceful a person than she actually is. As I sit here reading what I just wrote and asking myself "How are they not the Patterswine?", I remind myself of the one thing that really and truly makes Martha unfit to be Michael's significant other: her love and respect for HER family. This seems to be a running theme in the strip: for a love interest to be worthy of a Patterscion, he or she must loathe his or her family and love John and Elly.

This tendency to reject people who respect their own families when they should bow down and worship their Patteroverlords is also why Rhetta is really the windshield Mike got splatted on. After all, she is voluntarily working for her own parents instead of rebelling against their cruel tyranny of denying John and Elly their every little whim so she's the same sort of bad news Constable Paul "No, calling him the beau who left too many arrows isn't racist" Wright is. If they were good people who are worth love and affection, they'd reject their families and want to love John and Elly like DeeDoormat does.

The apex of this occurred nine years ago when Elly blurted out that Anthony's never to be seen step-mother is a great one because she defers to Elly on every damned thing. Had the strip continued, we'd have to endure Elly wringing her hands at the misery April was bringing on herself by chasing a country boy who couldn't possibly make her happy because, you guessed it, he thought of his mom and dad as being positive influences in his life.

Crossposts: http://dreadedcandiru2.livejournal.com/1004343.html

Of course, the same sort of noise and blame evasion that would have to take place if Elly were to, say, chaperone Mike for a pee-wee hockey tournament would also take place if she were, as

howtheduck and

aprilp_katje proposed, to be forced to accompany Mike and Lizzie to Kamp Kawkawa. In fact, I should think that we'd be getting a little more noise out of her.

First off, I don't think that she'd react all that well to the means by which she'd be forced away from the Pattermanse in the first place. After all, she only decided on sending them away the day before Lawrence and the Enjos left because she was at her wits' end. She would not be thrilled to be told that she cannot, despite her hope otherwise, simply dump her problem in someone else's lap without paying a penalty so being told point blank by the man I call Bob that he's sick of people like her sending their discipline problems his way without having the decency to warn him in advance about someone who's going to make life miserable for the other campers so that's why people who do what she did kind of have to come along for the ride so she doesn't get sued for his damages. What's the fun of packing her kids off somewhere to forget about them if that isn't an option.

As if this didn't anger her enough, having That Man come along every day breathing down her neck about the stupid stunts Mike gets into and how they're somehow her fault for raising him wrong is not something she'd react well to. She very much needs to not have people act like her mother and tell her that she can't duck a problem or wish it away by blaming television or Gordon Mayes so being told that his being a pliable goof is her doing is going to go as well as his suddenly developing an interest in some girl she makes into a threat because she was a friendless, tongue-tied wallflower throwing herself at someone she didn't stand a chance with at his age.

Crossposts: http://dreadedcandiru2.livejournal.com/1003205.html

As we know, Lynn used the messed-up camping trip John and Phil went on as a boundary separating the Early and Middle Years of her strip owing to the fact that shortly afterward, Lizzie started attending elementary school. Personally, I think that John and Elly probably justify using September 1986 as a dividing line because they went from a 'young' family just starting out to a more mature family with two children in school and not because a few months earlier, John learned that his brother in law is a walking hazard in the wilds. The reason that I mention this is that this is probably not how Mike and Liz think the dividing line ought to be.

This is because I like to think that when the two of them look back on their childhoods, they refer to things happening either before or after Thelma Baird passed away. It seems to me that when they just happened to start attending school means rather less to them than when it became a reality that they were never going to see this person they knew and liked any longer. It also seems to me that the Elly who wanted Lizzie to stop feeling pain or sorrow because Thelma didn't suffer has no real idea that her children use what she calls a sad miracle as a reference point.

Crossposts: http://dreadedcandiru2.livejournal.com/989185.html

As we know, Lynn has programmed Elly with her values....the chiefest of which is that weighing more than some arbitrary standard makes you ugly and thus unworthy of love and attention. She'll deny it to the end but the belief that anyone not 'perfect' should just settle for a lonely and unhappy life of isolation and the contempt of their betters is a living thing within the strip. The problem is that Elly seems to have married a man who actually might love her more were more of her to actually love. Based on his agreement with his grandfather's approving comment about what people who subscribe to his fetish call Big Beautiful Women, it might be that John wonders when Elly will stop worrying so much about the outer packaging and love the person inside it.

This is because the poor sap is living in denial as to the fact that Elly simply cannot associate the adverb 'pleasingly' with the adjective 'plump' but insists that any evidence that there are men who get off on the pounds that make her feel less than human is a crazy urban legend that is at war with how people actually think and act. The end result is a life of frustration for both: hers is messed up because she wants to lose pounds to please him and him because she wants to become less lovable.

Crossposts: http://dreadedcandiru2.livejournal.com/988494.html

As you’re about to see, Annie is about to do something that Lynn considers to be very foolish. Said thing is to ‘sabotage’ herself by not obsessively fixating on every God-damned physical imperfection because the diseased mind writing the strip actually thinks she’s healthy. To a sane person, Anne’s lack of concern about her looks makes her a smarter and healthier person than the maniac tentpole character. To Lynn, this means that she’s shot herself in the foot by stopping worrying endlessly about the sole criterion of her worth as a human being.

This example of vintage morality would be bad enough were we not about to have our noses rubbed in the implication that her audible objection to being married to a shiftless, immature dullard is pretty much why the gormless prick made a lie of their wedding vows. Her Liography has too damned many examples of the goober moaning because his oh-so-fragile ego got bruised by a collision with the reality of his being him and Anne being too damned good for him for us to not get the message that she sort of brought her troubles on herself liking who she was and telling him to get off his lazy ass.

Crossposts: http://dreadedcandiru2.livejournal.com/988081.html

Although we’re about six or seven years from actually having to deal with an odd little habit Mike had when first registering for classes, it seems to me that we’re only a year and a half from understanding why. The habit I had in mind was that for the first week or so, Michael made a point of reminding everyone in a position of authority that his last name had two t’s in it instead of just the one. At the time, I’d thought that off-camera, he and the others had had problems with their last name that we never got to see and he was just being careful.

The reason that I mention this is that one of those times seems to me to have been the attention John was attending when Richidjit Velocityaddict came speeding around a bus to T-bone the Yellow Over-Compensation Mobile. As I recall, he had the devil’s own time trying to get a room because the clerks looked at the guest list and assured them that no Patterson, John from Milborough, Ontario was on there. My guess is that the dimwit behind the counter was wondering why Paterson, John, from Millboro, Ontario was a no-show. Somehow, this got back to John and it’s why Mike is running around reminding everyone he meets how he spells his name.

Crossposts: http://dreadedcandiru2.livejournal.com/987638.html

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The inadmissable known implicit in Liz's vision problems.
April and four destinies.
Better Loathing Through Chemistry: Another Proposal
"We were so drunk, I was afraid Mike would be born a dimwit: A Proposal
Did you ever see a dream of endless misery walking? Mike and Gordon did.
The Anthony blindspot perplex and Elly's past.
The rescue fantasy conundrum.
Gordon and the Breathalyser Kiss.....
The joys of sitting until numb: the 2019 edition.
Pardon me, Foob....Is that the Patternooga choo-choo?
The missing "T" and the lost room....
The acne hypothesis.
On reacting to a number and not to actual behaviour.
The unbolted gate supposition.
Running from the family: why Deanna wins.
Elly at camp: a proposal
On camping trips and funerals.
John Patterson: Is he a frustrated chubby-chaser?
The Stupid-ass Downfall of Anne Nichols.
Patterson with two T’s….a proposal.

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The inadmissable known implicit in Liz's vision problems.

April and four destinies.

Better Loathing Through Chemistry: Another Proposal

"We were so drunk, I was afraid Mike would be born a dimwit: A Proposal

Did you ever see a dream of endless misery walking? Mike and Gordon did.

The Anthony blindspot perplex and Elly's past.

The rescue fantasy conundrum.

Gordon and the Breathalyser Kiss.....

The joys of sitting until numb: the 2019 edition.

Pardon me, Foob....Is that the Patternooga choo-choo?

The missing "T" and the lost room....

The acne hypothesis.

On reacting to a number and not to actual behaviour.

The unbolted gate supposition.

Running from the family: why Deanna wins.

Elly at camp: a proposal

On camping trips and funerals.

John Patterson: Is he a frustrated chubby-chaser?

The Stupid-ass Downfall of Anne Nichols.

Patterson with two T’s….a proposal.