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Luckily, the girls one and only friend happens to be an amateur therapist! Paging Apartment 3H!
Friday, July 3, 2015
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Luckily, the girls one and only friend happens to be an amateur therapist! Paging Apartment 3H!
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Clear up something for me, long-term fans. A few months ago Margo mentioned owning the building. So, does Lu Ann have a one third share in the entire apartment building, or a one third share in the discrete unit 3G? At Manhattan real estate values, even the latter would represent a hefty chunk of change, and the former....walking away from a one third ownership in an apartment building would require a level of imbecility impossible to comprehend. Even for Lu Ann, who does not seem to be the sharpest knife in the block.
Margo owns the "3", Tommie owns the "G", and Lu Ann owns the hyphen.
It would make sense that they just own 3G— realistically, even that would be a stretch, except that they probably bought it in 1953—but I remember a Comics Curmudgeon entry from some years back, where they seemed to be doing construction in the basement, because they had somehow acquired the whole building. Does anyone else have the deets?
From strip of 8/10/04, reprinted on Comics Curmudgeon: Margo says "We own the building now; the buck stops here!" in response to Lu Ann stirring up potentially lead-laden dust. But how they acquired the building, I can't say.
I also can't say whether ownership of the whole bloomin' building is a delusion of Margo's. That sounds kind of plausible, though.
What I can't suss out is why Luann has to give up her financial stake just because she's moving out. Was there some weird clause in the purchase agreement that the Ladies have to live there to retain ownership? Is it like a tontine where the last resident one gets the whole shebang?
I'll say this - if the Ladies are collecting rents from a whole Manhattan building it helps explain the cavalier attitude toward work that Luann and Margo have. (Also, do we really want Frank and Shulock depicting the women working? Talk about tedious - though it would be a bit charming to see Luann plinking out a shipping manifest on a manual typewriter or Margo using one of those pneumatic tube message systems they used to have.)
SUNDAY
No sign of the ghost dude in today's strip. I choose to think of him as the ghost of independence, arriving on Independence Day. He represents Margot's liberation from reality. Argh!
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