This one is from 20 years ago this month. Remember where you heard it first. Often, when I’m addressing a group, I am asked if I ever get political in the strip. My immediate reaction is, “Well, don’t you read the strip?” But I don’t say that out loud. What I say is, I don’t produce overtly political material, but I do a lot of “social commentary.” I believe that if I take sides politically, 40 to 50 percent of readers will be angry whether my stance is justified or not. However, if I comment on underlying problems we all face in society, I find that almost 100 percent of readers agree.
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Not “Tinker to Evans to Chance”, but those Auburn Lady Tigers looked pretty good winning the Southeastern Conference softball tournament championship yesterday. Congratulations, Ladies!
IT’S GREAT TO BE AN AUBURN TIGER !!!
WAR EAGLE !!!
GO BIG BLUE !!!
God bless us every one.
Baseball repeat: My first barber, Mr.Joe DeLouise, was a 100% Yankee fan and he converted me, in South Louisiana, to be a Yankee fan. At Mr. Joe’s funeral a few years ago, I told his son that if Joe Dimaggio hit a home run (on the radio broadcast then) while Mr. Joe was cutting your hair, he might loop off one of your ears! I’m still a Yankee fan (second only to Auburn)
70+ years later!
Rest in Peace, Mr. Joe.
God bless us every one.
Oh dear, it has been hot enough here to cause a lupus band down on my leg between my Capri jeans and my foot. Not good.
Good part is I am not having back pain and slept for twelve hours and going to work in front yard planting stuff and weeding.
Unlike Janis I garden in long pants, long sleeves, long loose gardening shirts or jackets, huge gardening hat, gloves. Not even a peek.
Gonfalon and poem, baseball. Learned more than one thing today already. Arlo and Janis and this group keep me coming back for that reason. Have given up on rest of cartoonists but Jimmy.
Debbe 😉 As far as a sleep-aid is concerned, I find a clear conscience works better than any pharmaceutical product. 😉
No snow flurries here in the Deep South this morning, but walking outside to find below-60-degree temps in mid-May was enough to shock the system.
I must say I’m sadly disappointed by your gardening attire, Jackie, seeing as you the one who motioned gardening-in-the-nude. 🙂 Oh, and I googled nude cooking just to see what I would get. (Raise your hand if it didn’t occur to you that I might do that.) What I found were some trailers for what is apparently a series of videos titled “Cooking in the Raw”…which is just what you’d expect it to be. I thought one young lady used rather poor judgment by leaning over the stove top and getting her bare chestular area so close to the skillet while she was browning off some ground beef. Well, at least she wasn’t frying bacon.
Ghost, I told Jackie after seeing her gardening attire, that if she had been the model for Janis the strip would have taken an entirely different turn. No “just something about a peek”. But Jackie can work some magic in the kitchen, even got me to eat broccoli and enjoy it, something I have never done before.
Jackie has lupus and have to time exposure to low UV rays but can cook nude with no problems. And no, did not cook for Mark nude either. I find nudity bothers the clothed more than the unclothed for some strange reason.
Glen killed two more snakes yesterday in leaves on porch, he thinks pygmy rattlers. Glen is my deputy sheriff resident who moonlights as my house repairman. He is out painting walls outside kitchen so Stonemason who is laying garden paths can put in new walls for a new herb garden.
I am wearing camo patterned gray jeans and long sleeved Hooded yoga top to garden, cooking shrimp and chicken stir fry for workmen. With whole grains for carbs plus vegs. If you can cook it outlasts nudity and other attractions.
I understand about lupus and sunlight, Jackie. Good to know it doesn’t affect your ability cook in the nude, though. As you may have surmised, I like to cook and am a pretty fair hand at it. Perhaps one day we will have a cooking “throw down”. Heck, I even like broccoli.
And as you may have also surmised, I don’t have a problem with nudity. 😉
Nope but I figure I am going to have to find some anonymous meeting place a la Sleepless in Seattle to meet you, be sitting on a bar stool somewhere to see if a tall silver haired and bearded man shows up.
And how would you know what I look like unless I wore red?
I did not find an obvious reason for Arlo’s comment to Janis in today’s strip. The best I could come up with was the timing involved in Janis’ [presumed] morning ritual of “bed to bath to breakfast” with her coffee being served at just the right moment.
Does the above make sense to anyone else?
cxp: https://cdn.meme.am/instances/500x/53355552.jpg
Although it does appear, in the next to the last panel, that Arlo had to “hurry the throw” just a bit.
Note Janis asks why he always says same thing each time. I assumed joke was on predictability of long time married couples, she in her morning routine, he in his making of coffee and same joke every morning?
Like “Who’s on first?” Which I finally get, since I never saw any 3 Stooges movies.
Good sports writers were good writers in the day. Even I read them. Heck, I even dated one.
“Who’s on First?” was Abbott & Costello, not Stooges.
HAvent heard thar either, never saw any of their movies. I had a deprived life including no television until I was about 29.
https://youtu.be/J_gSWTQKE-0
Above link is Abbott & Costello for Jackie… 🙂
Jackie, their routines were on either movies or radio. So no reason to have been deprived. These days, TV is more depraved, than deprived. At least in my opinion.
And why would Arlo need to explain the comment? Janis appears to be on her device far more often than we see Arlo on a computer or such thing? She is certainly capable of finding the answer.
He certainly got better at it!
http://www.gocomics.com/arloandjanis/1997/12/31
See??
http://www.gocomics.com/arloandjanis/2016/05/07
(Two links in one post is a one-way ticket to Moderation Hades) 🙁
Dear c ex-p, you are one of the few to understand it. We are old enough to know this is simply a reference to three baseball players, third baseman, shortstop, second base, or first? That, you can look up. They worked so fast together and were so skilled, they were famous for pulling off lots of double plays. In today’s comic, Arlo is thinking of his own skill at having Janis’s coffee ready at just the right moment. Why has he never explained it to Janis? I can’t imagine.
Because, Sweet Charlotte, a guy has to preserve a little of the mystery.
In case you never noticed, we’re not too good at that. 😉
Charlotte: [Shortstop, second, and first.] Maybe just to be one-up. We [both male and female spouses] do these little things. Actually, if we do it at too refined a level, it can dismay others. One of our daughters in law used to get totally lost when we were at it. If this is the worst trivium that Arlo keeps from Janis, the marriage is in pretty good shape. Speelczech doesn’t know trivia has a singular. Now I’ll have to check; and yes, Janis can easily look it up, if she just goes to the Wiki site I listed above. Peace,
Janis is not really a “morning person”, is she? But that’s been demonstrated many times before, hasn’t it?