I scanned this old Sunday this morning, just for you. I drew a lot bigger back then! It took two passes on my 11X17 flat-bed scanner to get it all. That is the very reason I began drawing smaller, shortly after this cartoon appeared in 1995. It was about that time I started scanning the daily cartoons and digitally transmitting them to my editors in New York. I started drawing smaller so I could scan a cartoon in one pass of the scanner. It was sometime later before I began transmitting the Sunday cartoons, because they simply were too big to transmit by dial-up modem. As it was, I remember it would take 12 to 15 minutes to transmit six daily cartoons. Now, it takes about three seconds.
Forward to the Past
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314 responses to “Forward to the Past”
I think that there’s a movie in there somewhere.
Whoops. OF is next predicted to erupt btw. 5:55 and 6:15 pm CDT.
OF was discovered by the Washburn expedition. Sure, and California was discovered by Jerry Lee Lewis.
I woke up from my nap because Blacklight was standing on my head. She finally laid down on my side. I am furniture for the cat.
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I dunno, I don’t know much about cats, except that one did its level best to make my life miserable when I was a kid. Neeshka, I think, regards me not as furniture but as The All-Seeing Hunter Who Never Fails In Her Hunt. She regards The Boy In My Life as an annoying but sometimes fun pack mate
Didn’t get over 78 all day, time to put the Christmas tree up. …. …. just bought on Amazon Prime A Million Ways to Die in the West, loved it, lush almost Aaron Coplandy musical score and Sarah Silverman as a prostitute, highly recommended
The New Yorker article may have been “about” jokes, but it wasn’t exactly a knee-slapper. And frankly, neither were the referenced jokes. (Perhaps stand-up comedians didn’t have to work very tough rooms back in those days.) I agree with the premise that many “modern” jokes have ancient origins, but that doesn’t necessarily make them funny today…if then.
http://uk.reuters.com/article/2008/07/31/uk-britain-joke-life-idUKL129052420080731
“Sarah Silverman as a prostitute”…there probably is a joke in there somewhere, but I’ll pass.
Oh, and the Reuters story above says, “The study was commissioned by (UK) television channel Dave.”
A TV channel named “Dave”? Now that’s funny. One wonders if it’s locked in a rating race with channel Bob and channel Hermione.
Ghost, Dave?, Dave’s not here!
Anyone else here remember that?
OF is next predicted to erupt btw. 7:26 and 7:46 pm CDT.
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Gee, Mark, my memory of that seems a little cloudy, somehow. I wonder if Debbe remembers. 🙂
Listened to ‘Dave’s not here.’ Whoopee fizz.
I took a short break from my self-imposed moratorium on television watching a bit earlier, to watch the broadcast (no pun intended) of the 2015 Miss American Competition. Well, the swimsuit portion, anyway. My, my, my. I saw sixteen lovely young ladies (all of whom were almost ridiculously tanned, toned and pneumatic) strutting their stuff in what were definitely not the official “flak jacket” swimsuits I remember from my youth. These were rather skimpy two-piece suits that left them 94.8% naked. (Wait for it…wait for it…I did the math.)
Believe it or not, this was the first time in many years I’ve watched it. And I understood some years ago that some women’s groups had protested this part of the competition, even back in the flak jacket day. But from what I saw tonight, the current ownership of the contest apparently has not yet gotten the memo on that.
The Southern states seemed particularly well represented in that part of the contest. Not surprising, as I recall several of my female high school classmates who attended college at a well-known party school and, as best as I could tell, majored in tanning. Or “laying out”, as they called it.
Jackie, did you say you had gone the beauty pageant route in your younger years? Or in prepping young ladies for them? That still seems to be a growth industry in the South (gowns, hair, makeup, etc.).
Nope, Ghost, I did not do any major beauty contests, never stayed in one place long enough to gain any financial supporters, like my local car dealership. Among my friends who did, that seemed to be the route in the 60’s, being “discovered” while hoeing cotton or twirling your baton at age 13 or 14.
Anyone see “A Face in the Crowd” with Andy Griffith, a true Southern classic and movie classic. Totally accurate too.
Seriously, back in the day I had a pack of friends and roommates who did beauty contest/pageants including Miss _____State and Miss America. It was not the production then that it is now, more of a DIY industry of college girls and no fake tanning or plastic surgery.
One of my classmates played the trumpet on Ed Sullivan, her talent in Miss America. One of my friends, roommates was worried her talent wasn’t unique enough. I told her to take a cow and milk it onstage, she had to get up at home and milk for family.
I thought about all these girls during “Miss Congeniality”, a movie I happen to like a LOT and is awfully accurate!
The extent of my beauty events was things like competing for Aggie Queen or in court of this fraternity or that, military courts, so on, very minor stuff. I did, however, wear a lot of evening dresses that had been in Miss Louisiana and Miss America, as my friends would loan them out to me after they were “retired”.
I saw a photo of me not too long ago in one, size 18 inch waist, for real and borrowed. My upper thigh is bigger than that now!
Love, Jackie
Forgot, Ghost you probably flew into Monroe, LA airport sometimes and used Fleeman Flying Services. He owned the Miss Louisiana franchise and based it out of Monroe and held contests there. I worked there for awhile as hospitality hostess and office coordinator of services for those flying in, ordered gas, services, taxis, whatever.
That was 50 years ago and he just died, having had the pageant franchise the entire time! His hostesses were always smiling, good looking and polite! And wanted world peace.
Love, Jackie
Ghost, did you even find the slideshow? I loved the orgy scene “You can start serving the cheaper wine now.” I saved it for my next Sunday School presentation on the Wedding at Cana.
Another thought on manufactured beauty queens, there were coaches and such even back in 60’s but not like now, when the kids begin at birth and in diapers! It is big business now.
In my teens and college years, no artificial anything, you were on your own assets even hair, no hair pieces, no padded bras or swimsuits, top or bottom was your own, tan was yours, nothing that squeezed you larger or smaller.
Funny thing I remember is girls not being pneumatic as I honestly was usually 34-36 on top, 18-20 in middle and 32-34 bottom. That was about standard “accepted sizes” for evening dresses, swim suits and why we fitted each others’ clothes. That was what airlines wanted for stewardesses and a company wanted to sit at a front desk.
Standard issue! People like the Kardasians would be considered freaks in 50’s-70’s I think? I was a tad short for beauty queen route at 5 foot 2 inch but still fitted body shape.
Anyone else remember even Hollywood’s version of women from that period?
Love, Jackie Monies
Caught a few trips to Monroe, Jackie, but they would have been a while after you were there. But I do remember the very nice hostesses. I also remember a period of time when I made weekly flights into Mobile Downtown (the former Brookely AFB), where the FBO’s “line girls” would drive out to the parking area in a van and pick me up. Cute little things they were, especially in their hot pants and go-go boots. (Nothing says professional aviation like hot pants and go-go boots!) I usually got there about lunch time, and they would drive me over to a restaurant where it was the day a ladies’ boutique would be having some local models put on a fashion show…sometimes of lingerie. Pay for that job wasn’t so great, but it did have some benefits. 🙂
My BIL is healing but still not able to drive yet. Five treatments for my Mom this week, plus she has one other doctor’s appointment. Gonna be a busy one.
Debbe 😉 I’ve linked this to you before, but it’s a good one and always reminds me of you. Have a good week, hon.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3z-GwdaKrn8
Nope, Lily, didn’t notice that was slide show until I just went back and looked. Yeah, the orgy one was good. (‘Course, what would be bad about an orgy? 😉 ) And an orgy cartoon in a Sunday School class? You’re braver than I am, Munchkin. 🙂
Read a funny joke on Chateau Petrus, one of world’s most expensive and smallest supply of wine. Waiter was told to go get a cheap wine out of cellar and pick one with a short name, as they were usually of lessor quality and cheaper.
He brought a bottle of Petrus out to guest, who drank it, was asked if it was suitable? He said sure, bring another, it was drinkable.
You’d only find this funny if you were in wine and knew1) waiter was ignorant 2) Guest was even more so!
That bottles of Chateau Petrus we drank in the 70’s are now worth thousands of dollars and I wish we hadn’t drank them!
But it is often done, switching to cheaper wine when their taste is all ruined anyway due to being drunk.
Often, the maître D or the wine sommelier would drink the good stuff and pour something else after awhile.
I thought that was funniest joke, Lily, out of series.
Love, Jackie
Okay, I am glad that when the”girls” were wearing hot pants and go-go boots, I was in the Quarter playing my guitar for spare change. Autumn Mist was my name. Not really, but a girl deserves a fantasy life. 😛
emb, when I was 18 and in the Navy, Dave’s not here was pretty funny. Although I was not into that lifestyle, Cheech and Chong were different enough to give me a lot of laughs. My appreciation for “modern” standup has pretty much evaporated, except for the guys on the Blue Collar Comedy Tour.
goodnight all. As Lilyblack would say, “sh-sh-sh”.
Jackie, most of the young ladies in knew in HS and college seemed to be about five two, and I believe I mentioned that the majority of the women I’ve dated over the years have been five two to five four in height. (Don’t feel bad, Jean dear…one of my favorites was six feet tall.) And the majority of them I do not remember as being particularly busty. Perhaps that’s why I really don’t fine the “obviously enhanced” look attractive.
One of my lady friends and I used to have a routine when we saw an obviously enhanced female…I’d ask, “Do you think those are real?” and she would say, “No, but I’ll bet they were real expensive.”
And what did Autumn Mist wear while playing in the Quarter? Not hot pants and go-go boots, I’m guessing. 😉
Lilyblack, here is an ebook version of the world’s oldest jokebook:
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