July 5, 2009: Sunday Showdown!

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• For Leroy, there's no better dessert after a big filling dinner of boiled garbage than a well placed criticism of Loretta's cooking. Today's insult is a slight change of pace; usually we find him launching the critiques at the start of the meal or even mid-meal. The remark loses a little bit of its power if you consider the fact that despite his protests, he seems to have completely cleared his plate. Nevertheless, it's still worth a point for Leroy.
• Always the master wordsmith, Loretta flips to the alternate definition of "scene" and then makes the appropriate pun about Leroy being a terrible choice of mate. I'm sure her friends never get tired of her constant, clever,word tricks. Speaking of friends, isn't Loretta's friend in this scene none other than her doctor's sadistic nurse? Or maybe she has other friends with similar vacant stares and soulless dots for eyes? Loretta get the point.
• Unfortunately for Leroy, one can't gain a point when the other spouse insults themselves. If he's looking to get back into this race, he really should have taken the time out hang around one of Loretta's sweaty workouts. It's a veritable goldmine of potential put downs and hurtful remarks. While Loretta's thighs may be falling in their win-loss column, such missed opportunities by Leroy is a good reason why she's currently leading in this blog's win-loss column. Push.
  
• Since we haven't seen any evidence from past scenes at the beach that Leroy does anything else but sit on the sands ogling ladies in his scandalous black banana hammock, one has to wonder what he was really doing with that book. My theory, based on how soaking wet it is, is that he just took in into the bathroom and is covering up for accidentally dropping it in the toilet. Looks like the public library is joining the ever growing list of places the Lockhorns are permanently banned from. It's deemed a push.
  
• Can you really blame Leroy for all his cocktail party peeping when his head is directly in line with the grotesquely disproportioned breasts of all the towering bimbos in attendance? It's unavoidable. Loretta's comments perhaps indicates that she is willing to tolerate Leroy's wandering eye, in the hopes that all this arousal leads to some lust induced fatal heart attack. Loretta breaks the tie and claims the day 2-1.

Official Count:

Leroy - 55
Loretta - 66
Push - 65