0064 — App Dating for the Elderly
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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
Cohen is a Ghost
things were never gonna last with Polly, nor should they have
Nicholas Williams
T got his ass.
Walter Biggins
Every panel sings in this one. “Henry the Eighth bedroom patter” should be a song by the Decemberists
Datura
i would imagine he does as well, they drive him
Nicholas Vining
Polly :(
Keith Richards
Guess 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
Rob Dalton
"playing poorly for unwanted prizes may be the caption of your generation" is the caption of my heart
Don Rowe
Do they really still have the questions?
J Hardy Carroll
Teo 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.
Lionstooth
"Playing poorly for unwanted prizes" makes me want to board the first train out of town and never be perceived again
Tyrone Slothrust
I am going to stick a pickle up my nose until I forget this
Allie
In 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.
Jenn
Wait what happened to the cool stripper girlie? 😢
Ryan Boyle
RIP Craigslist personals...plenty of noise, but a blank canvas for written expression. Cornelius would have been well served.
balbert
Unless 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!
K. Unknown
The rare strip where Teodor is right. I treasure these moments.
Oppido
We'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.
Vincent Verweij
I hear Tina is looking.
Datura
I'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
I'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
Chris Gumprich
I’m happily married but now considering creating a Tinder account just to write some faux-Henry VIII bullshit and see what happens.
Jay Y
Not in Connie's age bracket but I feel like the outcome would be the same regardless of whichever platform I haplessly wandered into.
Yelahneb Unicornucopiax
s a v a g e
blair
Not really, I just hate the thought of Mr. Bear answering all those awful questions.
Phineas Jones
Adding 'played poorly for unwanted prizes' to the epitaph candidates
Jonathan
Is … is that bad?
Matt Mitchell
Also “playing poorly for an unwanted prize”, oof.
Ben Wilinofsky
We are all Cornelius
David Garrett
Is “pine” a coffin or an email client? 😅
blair
At least Téodor didn't make a counter-offer of setting up an OKCupid profile.
blair
But Elon sacked him, so he's not a contractual loser anymore.
severecorvid
Let the man flex his antediluvian rizz, T
Cody Richmond
Same 7-11's, playing poorly, tinder vs. pine... this one's a clown car full of diamonds.
Oppido
No desire to resurrect "the MILF-Man," I guess.
Hector Jimenez
Connie and T is one of my rarely explored but definitely favored combos.
Oppido
I'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.)
Zen Window
i 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
Joe Locastro
Connie's "Fuck you, do it" was delivered so politely, and yet so forthrightly.
Matt Mitchell
Teodor’s dating “history” seems to not support the authority w which he speaks. I guess that is maybe part of the fabric here.
b.zap
It's a Would Somebody Blow Mr Bear Friday!
Matthew Harris
Cornelius is getting cranky in his even older than that age
Julie (HiDeeHoGal)
Adding pilulous to my vocabulary. And I'm on Teodor's side here - ornate language has its place and Tinder is definitely not it.
Hunter
Oh no, Polly.
Benton Sartore
So long to Polly, wherever you might be.
Brian Sutton
Off to Amazon to buy a Ouija board.
Cy Heffley
using 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
Josh Egbert
Yeah, Connie's got the wrong end of this. T is right for once. Must have killed Onstad to give T the win here.
Anthony Thompson
I am in this picture AND I LOVE IT