0064 — App Dating for the Elderly
Added 2024-05-10 17:00:08 +0000 UTCAt noon PDT today, the extra panels from this strip's production will post in the In-Universe and Author's Tiers.
An aged member of my extended family recently announced his intention to re-enter the dating pool after several years' absence. (It is not certain if this truancy was noticed.) When asked which app he was going to use, he mentioned that a friend had heard of one especially for seniors, called, "OurTime."
When recalling this exchange some hours later, I misremembered the app's name as, "One Last Try," chuckled, and wrote this strip.
Comments
things were never gonna last with Polly, nor should they have
Cohen is a Ghost
2024-05-14 12:19:10 +0000 UTCT got his ass.
Nicholas Williams
2024-05-14 01:01:13 +0000 UTCEvery panel sings in this one. “Henry the Eighth bedroom patter” should be a song by the Decemberists
Walter Biggins
2024-05-13 02:00:27 +0000 UTCi would imagine he does as well, they drive him
Datura
2024-05-12 17:22:30 +0000 UTCPolly :(
Nicholas Vining
2024-05-12 03:31:01 +0000 UTCGuess things didn't work out with Polly 😔 Still, though, Ray and Roast Beef have a wingman track record; Teodor is basically the last person he should be asking
Keith Richards
2024-05-11 23:21:11 +0000 UTC"playing poorly for unwanted prizes may be the caption of your generation" is the caption of my heart
Rob Dalton
2024-05-11 22:41:56 +0000 UTCDo they really still have the questions?
Don Rowe
2024-05-11 01:17:10 +0000 UTCTeo being a dick to Connie. Only Ed. E. Haskell knows how to treat this man, a man so old that everything triggers a half hour monologue and has hot water instead of coffee because the temperature is more than enough stimulation.
J Hardy Carroll
2024-05-11 00:05:36 +0000 UTC"Playing poorly for unwanted prizes" makes me want to board the first train out of town and never be perceived again
Lionstooth
2024-05-10 22:57:28 +0000 UTCI am going to stick a pickle up my nose until I forget this
Tyrone Slothrust
2024-05-10 22:08:23 +0000 UTCIn the next strip I want to see Phillip make the same request of Teodor, but just because he thinks it's a cool new app to make new friends to roast smores with.
Allie
2024-05-10 21:47:45 +0000 UTCWait what happened to the cool stripper girlie? 😢
Jenn
2024-05-10 21:20:09 +0000 UTCRIP Craigslist personals...plenty of noise, but a blank canvas for written expression. Cornelius would have been well served.
Ryan Boyle
2024-05-10 20:57:04 +0000 UTCUnless Cornelius was pulling Miami's leg (quite possible), we know that he's spent enough time in jail to have had at least three different nationalities of cellmate. That could be a fun backstory to explore. The Ray+Beef childhood flashback strips are some of my favorites - it would be cool to see Connie's past too!
balbert
2024-05-10 20:56:55 +0000 UTCThe rare strip where Teodor is right. I treasure these moments.
K. Unknown
2024-05-10 20:52:27 +0000 UTCWe've only ever gotten passing references (I think?) to his marriage with Iris Gambol, but I expect that losing her caused Connie to go through some rough miles and raw whiles.
Oppido
2024-05-10 20:31:06 +0000 UTCI hear Tina is looking.
Vincent Verweij
2024-05-10 20:27:48 +0000 UTCI'm sure she would be too smart to think sticking around was even in the neighborhood of a good idea. And Cornelius too smart to bemoan it overlong
Datura
2024-05-10 20:18:57 +0000 UTCI'd be down to see an arc where Cornelius takes some Ls. Maybe in flashback. It's always nice to see him as the authority on morals, manners, and manhood, but yanno, dudes don't get wise by not suffering
Datura
2024-05-10 20:17:10 +0000 UTCI’m happily married but now considering creating a Tinder account just to write some faux-Henry VIII bullshit and see what happens.
Chris Gumprich
2024-05-10 19:55:02 +0000 UTCNot in Connie's age bracket but I feel like the outcome would be the same regardless of whichever platform I haplessly wandered into.
Jay Y
2024-05-10 19:18:01 +0000 UTCs a v a g e
Yelahneb Unicornucopiax
2024-05-10 18:48:58 +0000 UTCNot really, I just hate the thought of Mr. Bear answering all those awful questions.
blair
2024-05-10 18:33:09 +0000 UTCAdding 'played poorly for unwanted prizes' to the epitaph candidates
Phineas Jones
2024-05-10 18:32:59 +0000 UTCIs … is that bad?
Jonathan
2024-05-10 18:29:54 +0000 UTCAlso “playing poorly for an unwanted prize”, oof.
Matt Mitchell
2024-05-10 18:28:52 +0000 UTCWe are all Cornelius
Ben Wilinofsky
2024-05-10 18:26:34 +0000 UTCIs “pine” a coffin or an email client? 😅
David Garrett
2024-05-10 18:23:45 +0000 UTCAt least Téodor didn't make a counter-offer of setting up an OKCupid profile.
blair
2024-05-10 18:12:52 +0000 UTCBut Elon sacked him, so he's not a contractual loser anymore.
blair
2024-05-10 18:08:38 +0000 UTCLet the man flex his antediluvian rizz, T
severecorvid
2024-05-10 17:47:23 +0000 UTCSame 7-11's, playing poorly, tinder vs. pine... this one's a clown car full of diamonds.
Cody Richmond
2024-05-10 17:44:20 +0000 UTCNo desire to resurrect "the MILF-Man," I guess.
Oppido
2024-05-10 17:42:58 +0000 UTCConnie and T is one of my rarely explored but definitely favored combos.
Hector Jimenez
2024-05-10 17:39:06 +0000 UTCI'm sad she and Connie aren't an item anymore, but I just know their parting was more amicable and respectful than most couples' actual relationships, and that he still comes out to support her photography shows. (She finished her degree with his encouragement.)
Oppido
2024-05-10 17:36:49 +0000 UTCi have to give it to "sexting one handed with a ouija board" as hitting me hardest on this one not a month goes by that i dont think about "dude needs mane" so connies adventures mis- and otherwise through romance always crack me up
Zen Window
2024-05-10 17:33:17 +0000 UTCConnie's "Fuck you, do it" was delivered so politely, and yet so forthrightly.
Joe Locastro
2024-05-10 17:23:08 +0000 UTCTeodor’s dating “history” seems to not support the authority w which he speaks. I guess that is maybe part of the fabric here.
Matt Mitchell
2024-05-10 17:15:08 +0000 UTCIt's a Would Somebody Blow Mr Bear Friday!
b.zap
2024-05-10 17:14:28 +0000 UTCCornelius is getting cranky in his even older than that age
Matthew Harris
2024-05-10 17:13:51 +0000 UTCAdding pilulous to my vocabulary. And I'm on Teodor's side here - ornate language has its place and Tinder is definitely not it.
Julie (HiDeeHoGal)
2024-05-10 17:10:56 +0000 UTCOh no, Polly.
Hunter
2024-05-10 17:09:47 +0000 UTCSo long to Polly, wherever you might be.
Benton Sartore
2024-05-10 17:08:22 +0000 UTCOff to Amazon to buy a Ouija board.
Brian Sutton
2024-05-10 17:08:17 +0000 UTCusing tinder feels out of place for connie given some of his history, but the 7-11 line got such a laugh out of me that i don’t mind
Cy Heffley
2024-05-10 17:07:34 +0000 UTCYeah, Connie's got the wrong end of this. T is right for once. Must have killed Onstad to give T the win here.
Josh Egbert
2024-05-10 17:04:05 +0000 UTCI am in this picture AND I LOVE IT
Anthony Thompson
2024-05-10 17:03:03 +0000 UTC
