Comments on: Maybe I Should Just Rename It the Chickweed Award

By: Penny Nickles

Penny Nickles — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 20:35:33 +0000

Funny, every time I see the title, I think it’s “BigPorn”

By: Chuck

Chuck — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 01:48:07 +0000

Re: Pibgorn vs. Pigborn, it doesn’t help that searching Pigborn on Go Comics takes you directly to the page without offering a correction. Sure it’s correct in the comic header, but if you typed it in a certain way and it got you to the right place, what would make you double check how the header says it?

By: Christine

Christine — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 00:44:41 +0000

While I agree that one can be a virgin without being uncomfortable about sex, the term “virginal” has other connotations to it as well, generally that someone is uncomfortable/ignorant about sex.

I think this series is supposed to be showing her changing and becoming more knowledgeable/comfortable with the topic - look at how she chipped his tooth when she kissed back (her second kiss).

By: chuckers

chuckers — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 09:36:44 +0000

You aren’t the only one that reads it as Pigborn, mkilby.

By: mkilby

mkilby — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 08:48:49 +0000

@ Kit (18) - A “pibgorn” is a type of Welsh hornpipe. The problem I have with the name is that I kept reading it as “Pigborn” the first few times I saw it, and have trouble shaking the mental “swine” connection.

By: Chuck

Chuck — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 01:48:42 +0000

“more surprised that she is comfortable joking with her guy about his “gallant reflex.” Not having, y’know, gone up close & personal….”

I don’t follow this comic, so I don’t know the character specifically, but you can be a virgin without being uncomfortable about sex. Some people just wait.

By: Kit

Kit — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 01:31:48 +0000

I’ve always wondered if “Pibgorn” was meant to be a riff on “glib porn” . . .

By: Max Zook

Max Zook — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 00:27:56 +0000

FYI, “9 Chickweed Lane” runs in the Los Angeles Times. It’s McEldowney’s other strip, “Pibgorn”, that’s only seen on the Web.

By: bookworm

bookworm — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 23:18:33 +0000

arvy, thanks for the laugh! Looks like Bill outed himself.

By: Ted in Fort Lauderdale

Ted in Fort Lauderdale — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 22:47:01 +0000

Padraig - well, it is a (by intent humorous) comic - maybe Brooke was unable to let that joke go by even if it didn’t quite fit the personality of Edna as we’d expect. Then again, he’s showing parts of her personality that Juliette doesn’t expect either. So maybe as Charlene suggests above, Brooke is pointing out that while she was sheltered, she wasn’t _that_ sheltered…