Jun 27th 2008 09:04 am All I ask is a small ship…
I don’t speak Greek, but I know what Homer would say: D’oh! I just now discovered why the mail was so light Wednesday. The post I made up for June 25 never got published! Apparently, it’s been sitting on my hard drive for two days. So, scroll down a couple of entries and see “Quinine won’t get it.” It even serves as an intro for the subsequent strips.
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16 Responses to “All I ask is a small ship…”
Steve from Royal Oak on 27 Jun 2008 at 10:36 am #
You know I almost wrote you a note asking about why I did not see one for the 25th. I was especially confused yesterday until I read Jim in southwest Illannoy’s post, which would explain why the alarm bells were going off. I have seen so many odd things with computer programs not showing me what I am expecting, that I just assumed the Cyber Space Gods were not happy.
Jim in southwest Illannoy on 27 Jun 2008 at 11:34 am #
Since the subject was on boats at first I thought of the wrong Homer, then realized that one would never say “D’oh!”. Yes, everything passes eventually, even the good stuff.
One of the guys around here filled his jon boat with catfish he caught in a soybean field. Last year the folks around here were praying for rain. They can stop for a while now (please).
Phil in Sugar Land, TX on 27 Jun 2008 at 2:56 pm #
In reply to Ken from a couple of days ago:
A funnel cake is made by drizzling a sweet batter into boiling vegetable oil in a 18 inch pot, through a funnel. The thin stream of batter fries as it hits the oil and sort of sticks together like a fried mass of rope about the size of a medium pizza. After you fish it out and drain the oil off, you cover it with powdered sugar and eat hot. Part of it is showmanship.
Imagine a hot, fried donut the size of a pizza. The first bite is wonderful, but by the time I’ve eaten most of it, I’m wondering why I thought That was a good idea.
Southern Louisana and the parishes (counties) around Lafayette in particular are known for good food, but I think cardiologists come from all over to work at the hospitals there because there is soooo much work to be done. Sauces made with pure cream, roux, deep fried turkey… Jimmy J, you should the stay the heck out of the area.
Curmudgeonly professor on 27 Jun 2008 at 3:53 pm #
Two days late: How about Gene Ahem and his “Major Hoople” and Fontaine Fox with “Toonerville Trolley” as great cartoonists?
Anonymous on 27 Jun 2008 at 4:01 pm #
And Janis rolls her eyes, no doubt remembering Arlo’s case of “malaria” a day or so ago.
Jim in southwest Illannoy, let the people there keep praying for rain, just ask them to direct it down our way. We need the help. And the rain.
JJ, I tend to check here at odd hours, so I wasn’t sure if you had missed a post, or I did. Oh, and I’ll take my D’oh-nut with chocolate icing and some of those little sprinkles, please!
Mary in Ohio on 27 Jun 2008 at 4:18 pm #
Shoot, JJ, I just figured that was your day off!
In college, I had a friend who went to see the movie Ulysses,which was based on James Joyce’s novel. She said she couldn’t figure out where the boat was. I’ve also known a couple guys with kidney stones who, after the ordeal was over, were known to say “This too shall pass.”
Anyway, we can be glad you are just forgetful (like the rest of us) and not ill.
Ginger in Auburn on 27 Jun 2008 at 4:41 pm #
I won’t have access to a boat, darn it, but I’ve got 7 more days until I have my week at the beach! My pilgrimage! I have the old cartoon of yours from years gone by posted on my fridge. The one after Janice says, “Our week at the beach has been nice, but it’ll be good to be home.” and Arlo replies musing to himself in the ocean, “What if I am already home?” That’s me. BTW, those are not exact quotes! Have a great weekend.
Jim in SE Mississippi on 27 Jun 2008 at 5:56 pm #
Jim in southwest Illannoy:
Y’all are in our thoughts. And then all that water’s gotta go down Old Man River to the Gullf. The misery will be well spread out.
Bet you got tired of hearing “Ill-a-noise,” huh?
Jim in southwest Illannoy on 27 Jun 2008 at 6:41 pm #
Jim in SE Mississippi: Thanks. I’m on high ground, but I have a lot of friends who aren’t so fortunate.
Ill-a-noise, yeah I’ve heard that a lot. I’m a transplant from Indiana though, so it doesn’t bother me much. I’ve called it worse.
Jim in southwest Illannoy on 27 Jun 2008 at 6:42 pm #
Anonymous, need to know where you are to know where to send this rain. It was raining horizontal this afternoon. I started to say it was coming down, but it was going sideways.
Ken from Framingham (Boston Globe reader) on 27 Jun 2008 at 6:49 pm #
Phil, we do have “fried dough” in these parts, which is probably basically the same as a funnel cake– for good and ill– but without the panache! Thanks.
Jean from Dahlonega GA on 27 Jun 2008 at 7:17 pm #
Okay, why did my post show up as Anonymous? Are the Cyber Space Gods mad at me, too?
Greg from Robertsdale on 27 Jun 2008 at 11:05 pm #
Amazing what a good “set-up” can do for a joke. The alarm bells make much more sense now. It’s not hard to set off those sirens. When it comes to our wives, we husbands telegraph our moves pretty clearly.
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Jim in southwest Illannoy on 27 Jun 2008 at 11:56 pm #
Jean, I’ve read about your water problems and we’d gladly send a few million gallons your way. Be careful what you ask for though. Remember we were in a drought last year.
Kim in California on 28 Jun 2008 at 2:33 pm #
We could use some rain, as well. We are in sort of a draught, but more seriously, is that with all of the fires in the state, the smoke is making its way toward us in the San Joaquin Valley, and the air is just miserable. My husband has a mild form of asthma, so we haven’t been able to sleep with the windows open, and we try to only go where we have to. My Mother-in-law has it severely, so they take the motor home and run when the weather is objectionable. Crazy enough, they left town and went to Napa, and only a few days later, the Napa fires broke out!
Mary in Ohio on 28 Jun 2008 at 3:42 pm #
Apparently (see Saturday’s new strip about Pogo) at least one levee break was caused by muskrats! Danged swamp critters.
We are under t-storm watch for fourth day in a row. Thurs it rained an inch and a half in a few hours – that just floods my basement (and not from sewer backup, thank goodness!) but thoughts and prayers are with all you guys who have too much or not eough water. (On average, statistically, of course, the country is doing fine!)
Funnel cakes, fried dough – try Navajo fry bread! Or corn fritters – with honey. Goo’ness.