I realized this morning that I had inadvertently skipped one of the cartoons from the above sequence, the one about 10,000 comic-strip writers being out of work, which isn’t as funny as it once was. Anyway, here’s a bonus cartoon for today, two strips about Arlo up a tree.
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Good afternoon mates, appears the Chief Petty Officer is still in the machine shop. Smoke ’em if you have ’em. I will mosey up topside and relieve GR6 from mermaid watch; those 20×50’s cause eyestrain after four hours on.
Here’s a song that will tear out your heart if you’re from the Delta area. Aaron Neville doing “Louisiana 1927”. My mom lived through this one and evacuated, water got into some of house but it was sitting on cypress pilings that a man could still walk under in those days. The drain holes to let water through cypress floors were still there when I mopped the floors in the 1960’s.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EyfnM4Grik
Love, Jackie Monies
OK, I am computer idiot! Why can’t I get these video links to work? Someone out there please link Aaron Neville and Louisiana 1927 for me!
Love, Jackie Monies
So, I know you were a hired gunslinger in Nam, Sandcastler. Did you do a tour for Navy as well?
Love, Jackie Monies
Never in the Navy; known and worked with a Senior Master Chief and a couple fine CPO’s. Also have broken bread with Marines, Air Forcees, and a former NVA political Officer.
Jackie, add: “High and Dry” by Gordon Lightfoot.
“East India Company” by BJ Stevenson
“Rolling Home” by The Brothers Four
“Whup Jamboree” ditto
“Bell Bottom Trousers” by lots of singers, some of them naughty
“Sink the Bismarck” by Johnny Horton
“Southern Cross” by Crosby, Stills, and Nash
“Farewell to Tarwathie” by Judy Collins
“Shenandoah” by Tennessee Ernie Ford
and my favorite:
“The Last Farewell” by Roger Whittaker
I can only try…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EyfvnM4Grik
Oops, forgot to add “The Reuben James” by Woodie Guthrie.
And it’s B *W* Stevenson
Jackie: Nope, hon, no DJ experience. I just have very eclectic tastes in music; have spent a lot of time listening to it over the years; and was blessed with some degree of my paternal grandmother’s near-eidetic memory. Since I seem to have some time on my hands today, I’ll see if I can come up with a few more sailing tunes for you.
I was going to say, “Now, if I could just get Lily to broaden her tastes in music. It seems to me that listening to only two genres of music is like eating only two food dishes; no matter how good they are, you are missing a lot due to a lack of variety.” But from the play list she just posted, she must have listened to some other genres at some point.
“Air Forcees”
“Air Forcees”?
Multi Airforce personnel of both genders and varied rank. Pilots, nurses, crew chiefs, and flight nurses. Hence, I call ’em Air Forcees.
Left out mention of a young Navy nurse stationed on Bahrain.
😀
Ghost: You don’t seem to remember that I live with a geezer and so I just called him and he reeled off that list. I haven’t heard half of them, but I do like “The Last Farewell”.
“The Last Farewell” by Roger Whittaker
A great favorite of mine also, Lilyblack. I had a double album of his that I played a lot back in the day.
sandcastler tm the correct term is Airdales. I was a Squid, myself.
Mark, really? Always thought Airdales was a term strictly applied to Naval Aviators.
Oh ho, so you cheated, Lily. Then let me say, I wish I could get you to broaden your tastes in music. It seems to me that listening to only two genres of music is like eating only two food dishes; no matter how good they are, you are missing a lot due to a lack of variety. 🙂
I have listened to other genres, Ghost. They mostly bore me when they don’t actively disgust me (rap and country are high on this list). I heard parts of a country ditty at the grocery store that said in part something about if you want to ride my (something) you have to ride it all night long. I am still revolted. Like I say, I like to sing but I don’t particularly like to listen to other people singing. I like listening to instruments, though
I just returned from the post office. As I was leaving, I paused to help an older gentleman using a walker navigate two sets of double glass doors at the entrance. Because of the delay, as I approached my car in the parking lot I was rewarded with the sight of a very attractive young lady wearing a very short skirt alighting from a very tall FWD pickup.
Although I do believe that virtue is its own reward, apparently there are sometimes bonus points.
Your geezer you live with would probably love my “regatta”. It is full of gray haired, bearded and distinguished men, most of whom are highly educated and articulate. And happen to build and sail small traditional boats mainly!
It just isn’t a serious, stuffy yacht club regatta. I tell you we are dubbed “Boatstock” for a good reason!
Oh, and we like music of all kinds, many of our members play musical instruments and bring them along.
Am not sure if our “Super Model” member will be coming this year? She is for real and the sweetest, and most Christian, beautiful woman. Without her we’re usually not covered with bikinis, sorry Ghost.
Love, Jackie Monies
Lily, in case I could change your mind about boats, I will add that among my members are at least eight ordained ministers. One was head of chaplain training at the Air Force Academy.
Sometimes the boat names give them away, like Jubilee.
How about opera? I used to keep a set of box seats at the Houston opera and symphony.
Whatever blows your skirt up, Lily. (Not a reference to my above comment.) I’m just glad that you like and appreciate some types of music. I’m a bit of a Mozart geek myself. And I will agree that some C&W song writers seem to have checked both their taste and good judgment at the door when they arrived for work. I used to listen to a local C&W FM station on the way to work, until I realized that many of the songs they played were inappropriate for that time of day. And some of them were inappropriate for any time of day.
GR6, you should have gone back to the door, held it for her; sties may have aligned. 😉
Did someone say “Super Model”? 😉
I recently said that Lily was the only model I know. Now I know two. A tall, brunette, 30-something lady who, as a teen, did quite well as a runway and print model. She even worked in Europe for a while. Now, of course, she has gotten “fat”…by model terms. Meaning she has a normal, attractive figure.