February 27, 2011: Sunday Showdown!

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• It always freaks me out a little when the Lockhorns bust out the box captions. I think its usage is mostly motivated by panel space issues. Loretta's report to counselor Pullman about how the quality of their fights have increased while the actual quantity has decreased is probably about as close as he'll get to something resembling progress working with the Lockhorns. While, he does enjoy the steady billings, I'm sure that he hopes the quality of their fights increase one day to the point where one actually murders the other and spares him further sessions. I'm ruling this one a push.
• One shudders at the thought of the kind of gruesome havoc Loretta has wrought with her totally reckless driving today. I can always expect an appallingly high body count when she comes into the scene carrying the detached steering wheel. I could fault Leroy for not taking advantage of the situation here and making a crack about her driving, but I would probably be a bit speechless and horrified myself. I wonder if Loretta saves all of her old steering wheels as some sort of grim personal monument to all the vehicular damage she has created over the decades? It's another push, the score still remains 0-0.
• It has been firmly established in the past that Leroy has no friends on facebook or any other social networking site, so I'm not sure what he's talking about here. Then again, Leroy may have different standards than most people about what constitutes a "friend". His definition may go more along the lines of someone who isn't an overt enemy. As for Leroy's tool borrowing "friend" here, I'm not really sure why he's so blissful. Maybe he's taking personal pleasure in annoying Leroy. Since it's not overt, he may still be Leroy's friend. Yet another push keeps the day scoreless.
• Leroy finally breaks through the stalemate with, his bread and butter, a well placed cooking insult. It appears that Loretta has really managed to outdo herself in terms of dining disasters. Instead of spaghetti, she has managed to cook a inedible supper of human hair. I suspect she took the idea of angel hair pasta far too literally. One can only hope and pray that "Angel" is still alive and safe. Leroy goes up 1-0.
• The day closes with another boxed caption (two in a day...definitely hard to handle). I don't really follow Leroy's analogy here. Leroy considers the day of marriage to be an execution and the engagement prior to be the "stay of execution". Shouldn't the engagement be more like a sentence to execution since it's what sets everything in motion for the eventual marriage? A stay of execution would be more like wedding postponement. Loretta knows what I'm talking about; and with that she gets the point and manages to force a 1-1 push on a fairly uneventful Sunday Showdown.

Official Count:

Leroy - 21
Loretta - 20
Push - 17