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Scary Go Round 20071204 [[Shelley and Shelby doing karaoike.]] / Shelley: TAKE ME WHERE THE FUTURE'S LYIN' / Shelby: SAINT ELMO'S FI-YARR / [[Getting kebabs.]] / Shelby: Jesus, you're the funniest person I've ever met. Why are you here on your own? / Shelley: I'm a travel writer! / Shelby: Me too! Maybe I've seen your stuff! Who do you write for? / Shelley: Oh... er... reputable European titles. / Shelley: Char-a-Banc, Flug-Spass... Razzle. / Shelby: I've never heard of any of those. / Shelley: They all sell out before we can send any copies to the USA. / Shelby: Really. / Shelley: It's a logistical nightmare.
Scary Go Round 20071205 [[Shelley and Shelby are both sloshed, with ukuleles and silly paper crowns.]] / Shelley: ...Those limbo dancin' losers will always fear the names Shelby and Shelley. / Shelby: You're Shelley? I thought you said your name was Sally! / Shelley: Shelley Winters! / <> / Shelby: Oh... Shelley... I was sent here... to destroy you! / Shelley: WHAT? / Shelby: Sorry! I... / [[Behind them, a random scrawny white man points Shelley out to a large ink-covered man.]] / Shelley: I'm going to bed. And don't try anything! I sleep with one eye open, gripping the pillow tight! The pillow contains a gun. And poison. And a policeman.
Scary Go Round 20071206 [[Shelby is sitting up in bed typing on her laptop. She looks up.]] / <> / [[Cutthroat Jim, Shelley's creditor, bursts in, arms raised. Shelby cowers behind the covers.]] / Jim: WHERE'S M'MONEY... Y'THIEVIN' SEA HAG? / [[Shelley comes up behind him and beans him with a fire extinguisher.]] / <> / Shelley: I thought you were dangerous! Where's your pink pearl handled pistol for emergencies? / Shelby: I don't... have any depth perception. / Shelley: You're still a person, Shelby!
 
Scary Go Round 20071207 [[Shelby and Shelley are both outdoors in their nightclothes.]] / Shelby: Shelley, you saved me! / Shelley: I only came to reason you out of, you know, destroying me. / Shelley: Or if that failed, just to agree the best spot for our cataclysmic death battle. / Shelby: That guy would have solved your problem... / Shelley: No lady deserves to die at the hands of a gnarly sea dog. / Shelley: Especially not a lady who still uses the bedclothes bogeyman defence! / Shelby: Sweetheart, don't make me destroy you twice.
Scary Go Round 20071210 [[Shelby comes to Shelley's table at breakfast.]] / Shelby: I've cancelled your death warrant as a matter of samurai honour. Don't think I'm happy about it. / Shelley: Well, thank goodness for that. / Shelley: Even your breakfast egg approves! / [[She has drawn a smiley face on a hard-boiled egg.]] / Shelley: I think we should pool our efforts, write the article in half the time and go home rejoicing! / [[Shelby starts to peel the egg, which now bears a frowny face. Cereal box: "Kellogg's Pacific Flakes".]] / <> / Shelley: In support of this plan, I've drawn a map, with ann-o-tations. / Shelby: Now, it's very subtle... / Shelby: ...but are you maybe leaning toward one thing in particular? / [[Shelley's annotations: "Lobster up a tree", "London", "bicycle puncture hotspot", "large shed", "unusually shaped pony", "coconut palms", "tedious lagoons", and in the middle, "Christmas Mountain" with several arrows drawn toward it with notes "OMG", "mystery", "wow".]]
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Scary Go Round 20080102 [[Amy to bearded, soused Ryan]] / Amy: Someone get Dennis Wilson out of here. He's had enough. / Amy: What's wrong with you? Santa didn't bring you cowboy boots and a lasso? / Ryan: Naw. / Ryan: No dang lady has taken an interest in my body... in a calendar year. / [[Poster in background: "The Bensons - Original Line-up!"]] / Amy: You have to face the fact that you're not a great prospect right now. You're unemployed. The lower half of your face is overgrown. Your best friend carries rabies.
Scary Go Round :: Monday-Friday Comic by John Allison [[Ryan sports a full beard, slumped over in a pub]] / Amy: Someone get Dennis Wilson out of here. He's had enough. / Amy: What's wrong with you? Santa didn't bring you cowboy boots and a lasso? / Ryan: Naw. / Ryan: No dang lady has taken an interest in my body... ...in a calendar year. / Amy: You have to face the fact that you're not a great prospect right now. You're unemployed, the lower half of your face is overgrown. Your best friend carries rabies.
 
Scary Go Round 20080103 [[Bearded, soused Ryan lays his head down on the bar.]] / Ryan: Don't listen to her, comrade bat. It's us that's right and society that's collapsin' around us. / Amy: Ryan! Ladies want a go-getter! Not a chump in his cups! / [[She hauls him out of the pub.]] / Ryan: Fashions change, Ame. You'll be laughin' on the other side of your face when "Miserable Specimen" rocks the spring catwalks. / Amy: Yes, yes. / Ryan: Anyway Amy, you ain't never been out with a "go getter." / Amy: Au contraire, Gandalf. / Amy: If you count "go get" some king size Rizlas. Or "go get" some Gong and Mellow Candle records.
Scary Go Round :: Monday-Friday Comic by John Allison Ryan: Don't listen to her, Comrade Bat. It's us that's right and society that's collapsin' around us. / Amy: Ryan! Ladies want a go-getter! Not a chump in his cups! / Ryan: Fashions change, Ame. You'll be laughin' on the other side of your face when "miserable specimen" rocks the spring catwalks. / Amy: Yes, yes. / Ryan: Anyway Amy, you ain't never been out with a "go getter". / Amy: Au contraire, Gandalf. / Amy: If you count "go get" some king size RizLas. Or "go get" some Gong and Mellow Candle records.
Scary Go Round 20080104 [[Scrabble]] / Ryan: Seven letters! Kumquat on a triple. 67 points. / Amy: Those aren't 7 blank tiles, Ryan, they're rennies. You're going to bed. / [[The room they enter has a picture of two unicorns and a rainbow on the wall.]] / <> / Amy: You sleep here in Shelley's room, and tomorrow we'll think of a plan for you and me. / Ryan: Dang! What's that smell? / Amy: It's the complete absence of any kind of funk whatsoever. Isn't it weird? / Ryan: Man, her duvet smells amazin' what's wrong with that gal? / [[Ryan prays by the bed.]] / Ryan: God and Baby Jesus, please help me not drool on Shelley's fine, fancy pillow tonight. Also continue to spare me from the night dangers of nude sleepwalkin'. Amen.
Scary Go Round :: Monday-Friday Comic by John Allison [[Ryan plays Scrabble with Amy while inebriated.]] / Ryan: Seven letters! Kumquat on a triple. 67 points. / Amy: Those aren't 7 blank tiles, Ryan, they're Rennies. You're going to bed. / Amy: You sleep here in Shelley's room and tomorrow we'll think of a plan for you and me. / Ryan: Dang! What's that smell? / Amy: It's the complete absence of any kind of funk whatsoever. Isn't it weird? / Ryan: Man, her duvet smells amazin' what's wrong with that gal?
Scary Go Round 20080107 [[In bed in the dark, Ryan opens one eye.]] / Ghostly voice: Ryaaaaan / [[There is a green, floating apparition of Gram Parsons. Ryan cowers briefly under the duvet.]] / Ghost of Gram Parsons: It's me, Ryan, the ghost of Gram Parsons, with a message. / Ghost of Gram Parsons: Shoppin' bags are killin' the planet, man, shoppin' bags! / [[Ryan looks politely unconvinced. His T-shirt reads "Holistic Friends."]] / Ghost of Gram Parsons: Folks gotta change! Someone (you) has to lead the way! / [[Ghost of Gram Parsons sticks his head through the wall.]] / Ghost of Gram Parsons: Oo-wee, I never saw a girl sleeps in just a wooly hat before. / Ryan: Dang it, Gram, that's a lady's private hat.
Scary Go Round :: Monday-Friday Comic by John Allison [[Ryan lays asleep in bed, wearing a shirt reading "Holistic Friends". He awakes to a vision of a ghostly Gram Parsons]] / Gram Parsons: Ryaaaaan / Gram Parsons: It's me, Ryan, the ghost of Gram Parsons, with a message. / Gram Parsons: Shoppin' bags are killin' the planet, man, shoppin' bags! / Gram Parsons: Folks gotta change! Someone (you) has to lead the way! / [[Parsons sticks his head through the wall into Amy's bedroom]] / Gram Parsons: Oo-wee, I never saw a gal sleeps in just a wooly hat before. / Ryan: Dang it, Gram, that's a lady's private hat.
Scary Go Round 20080108 <> / [[Through Ryan's opening eyes, we see Amy's chipper face.]] / Amy: Good morning! / [[Amy is kneeling on top of Ryan in bed wielding a pair of scissors. His beard has been mostly removed, with a mustache remaining.]] / Amy: Now this is your own fault, Ryan. If you're been up before 11, it would have never happened. I couldn't rest knowing that beard was in the house. / [[Ryan clutches his face in horror.]] / Amy: Anyway, I left you a 1980s sportsman's moustache. "Urban desperado", very 2008. / [[Ryan examines himself in a mirror with a heart attached.]] / Ryan: Ame, this is a violation of the covenant between man and woman. A fellow has to know his face is safe by night.
Scary Go Round :: Monday-Friday Comic by John Allison <> / [[Ryan opens his eyes and sees Amy]] / Amy: Good morning! / [[Amy is sitting on Ryan's bed, and has cut off his beard with a scissors, leaving only a moustache]] / Amy: Now this is your own fault, Ryan. If you'd been up before 11, it would have never happened. I couldn't rest knowing that beard was in the house. / Amy: Anyway, I left you a 1980s sportsman's moustache. "Urban Desperado", very 2008. / Ryan: Ame, this is a violation of the covenant between man and woman. A fellow has to know his face is safe by night.
Scary Go Round 20080109 [[At Argos, clean-shaven Ryan is filling in some form. Amy is grumpy.]] / Amy: This is to spite me, isn't it? I rescue your face for ladies worldwide... and you stick it right back to me in Argos.]] / [[Sign: Queue Here Please]] / Ryan: Ame, I had a dream, I had an awesome dream. Gram Parsons told me to do my bit for Mother Earth. / [[Ryan picks up a shopping trolley. Amy knocks her forehead for emphasis.]] / Amy: A tartan shopping trolley isn't the way! They're strictly for morons and the over 75 crowd! / <> / Ryan: It's got a real nice wheel action. The planet's startin' to feel safer. / Amy: If you want me, I'll be 20 metres behind you.
Scary Go Round :: Monday-Friday Comic by John Allison [[Ryan and Amy queue at a store to buy a reusable shopping trolley]] / Amy: This is to spite me, isn't it? I rescue your face for ladies worldwide... ...and you stick it right back to me in Argos. / Ryan: Ame, I had a dream, I had an awesome dream. Gram Parsons told me to do my bit for mother earth. / Amy: A tartan shopping trolley isn't the way! They're strictly for the morons and the over 75 crowd! / [[Ryan pulls the trolley behind him]] / <http://scarygoround.com/sgr/ar.php?date=20080109
 

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