Given the drift of yesterday’s conversation, I couldn’t resist showing you this Sunday example of reality-bending from five years ago. Speaking of yesterday’s conversation, I would like to set the record straight about one thing. I do not draw my comic strip digitally. Far from it. In fact, I recently experimented with felt-tip pens, which most cartoonists—the decreasing number who do not draw digitally—have favored for years. I drew with felt-tip pens for several months, but I didn’t care for the results. I have gone back to pen nib and India ink on 100% rag Strathmore paper. In fact, they don’t make the pen points I use anymore. I have to watch for them on eBay, where they’re sold as antiques. I figure I have a two-year supply on hand right now. Only after I finish drawing an A&J strip do I enter the digital world by scanning the artwork and creating a file.
153 responses to “Fowl Story”
Mindy, I am very curious the types of weddings you attend. I’ve yet to see any of those dances at any wedding I’ve attended. Must be an “Eastern” thing! lol
One thing I’m wondering about, Jackie is why that indenture document required the King’s signature.
Good morning Villagers…
Bryan…yup, it is an Indiana thing I believe, especially in Southern IN….when my mom was in the bridal business, she would also decorate for the receptions and help follow through the reception and stay to take her decorations down. I ‘volunteered’ to help many an occasion, and yes, unfortunately, those three ‘dances’ are played at receptions……usually well into the reception and on the third keg of beer 🙂
Brooklynne Rose made her arrival last night….dressed to kill. Little girls look cute in boots, gray skirt, with a printed, drop waistline shirt. I asked her if she knew what the design on her shirt was…yes, the peace sign.
Gotta go….working with the mischievous 15 year old today…..
Happy Caterday…………..
GR 😉 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rhyiqGIJQus
Morning Villagers.
As to the daily real timer; maleness never sleeps. Same can be stated for femaleness. 😉
Indy Mindy – Bryan – Debbe – et.al.
re: Wedding Songs:
I am from The city of Logansport, Indiana, about forty miles from Purdue Univ. north half of the state. I have lived here most all of my life (except when I went to THE Indiana University – sorry ’bout your luck Steve from R. O.), and I’ve never heard those songs at weddings, even when I lived in southern Indiana (Bloomington). Maybe the weddings I went to did not supply enough beer…
Note…my real name is Steve Moore (no, not THAT Steve Moore)
I don’t know about Bryan, but I do speak several languages: English, American, Pig Latin, and on occasion, Sarcasm.
And I don’t mind the funny dances at wedding receptions, but the one “custom” that irritated the heck out of me was where the groom smashed the cake onto the bride’s face. Happily that seems to be relegated to the 90s, because I haven’t heard of it happening since then.
I haven’t gotten a Nook or Kindle, and don’t intend to. I like the feel and smell of real books. Plus, with my luck just as I was getting to the really good part of the story the battery of the Kindle would die and there I’d be. No, thanks! 😉
Well, I see that some are in fine fettle over on The Dark Side today. Lighten up, dudes and dudetts. It’s just a cartoon.
Jean dear, it’s OK. Be a “Luddite”; I’ll still love you. 🙂 I just like the richness of well written words, regardless of the format in which they are presented.
Oh, and I’ll bet you can speak Southern, also.
About why King George signed off on the indenture papers? I asked same thing and I “think” I may know or guess? Haven’t done much real research on these documents but a friend gave me a clue. She is descended from the first person in America to have been indentured for life. Wow!
That was like legal slavery, no different, and it applied to both black and whites, all races. In most cases you were indentured for so many years and then you were free but life meant until you died.
Maybe that required a more serious decree and signature?
About name changes in 1700 and 1800’s period, many were changed just because no one could read, write or spell well then, so things are “variable” but more sound alike sometimes.
What I found however, in case of one of my paternal great-great-greats was he was illegitimate, went by mother’s name until adulthood and when biological father died he took his name. No legal work, just took it and that was that!
Ditto on children who got “taken in to be raised” by families. Sometimes they had same names, as in nieces or nephews, grandchildren, sometimes they didn’t. Census often shows all under same family name and they’d go thru life with that name, no legal changes.
Love, Jackie Monies
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Was Matata the Lion King’s broad? Actually, if there’s only one male in a pride, he has access to all the females. If there are 2-3 males, one may still get most of the action, sometimes right on the road in front of a safari tour van. There’s a video of that somewhere.
On safari in Kenya, ’87, we saw two ‘courting’ but they discreetly[?] headed off down the trail out of sight. En route, she mounted him a couple of times. He was the only male in the group, with 4 or 5 females. Lions there are well habituated to vehicles. First thing a cub sees when it emerges from a den is likely a Land Rover.
SAM in Logan – Probably not enough beer. Second-stringer stupid songs at weddings Acky Breaky and Electric Slide (some restrictions apply), Mony Mony (drunken ad-lib lyrics come after keg two), that Grease soundtrack remix thing, and the Macarena.
The one “black tie” wedding I attended had a truly wretched band. I left early to work on homework. No choreographed dances or heaven forbid, rap please.
Speaking of adoption: http://www.economist.com/blogs/economist-explains/2013/04/economist-explains-why-adults-adopted-japan
Speaking of languages we speak, I speak English tolerably well in several dialects and Japanese (less well, year by year) on occasion as needed.
Husband plus daughter back in Tulsa at hospital. He suspected he had a clot in leg, so they are in ER right now. I am baby sitting grandson and my mom, not very well apparently. But I sat here and googled while baby slept. There are lots of signatures of George III for sale, some are in $15,000 range, some in hundreds. Wonder why?
Did royal kings do nothing but sign their names to stuff back then?
Military commissions, land deeds, just a ton of stuff. You’d think they’d have someone who could forge a good copy?
Still can’t find out why he’d sign indenture papers, as about 500,000 people came to colonies indentured as a way to pay fare.
Did learn that our native American people were abused and signed into indentureships, another thing we did to harm them, including lifelong ones.
But this is interesting to learn and read.
Love, Jackie Monies
Jackie, the value of many historical documents is based on both the signator and the historical significance of the document. A Thomas Jefferson document to John Adams with reference to the writing of the Declaration of Independence will always sell for more than the ones mentioning weather or crop yields.
The Native American quote that is tmy favorite from that ….hell, not pussy footing around this one…..they got the low end of the totem pole….in more ways than one..they got &^%$#@.
“Treat the earth well: it was not given to you by your parents, it was loaned to you by your children. We do not inherit the Earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children.” –Ancient Indian Proverb
But just like every other ethnic group…it only takes one bad apple……
tag: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wRmzajCyToo
(Eagles…and it isnt’ ‘peaceful easy feeling’ either 🙂
Remember well my son what you have seen, for that which is forgotten returns to the swirling winds. Navaho proverb
Yep, Sandcastler, that $15,000 was something concerning American Revolution I think. It has been interesting looking at auction results for historic documents, going for very little money for entire lots.
Something I knew but no one talks about much are the convicts sent to America from England. We know about the ones to Australia but America got a lot as well. It made it cheaper than keeping them in prison in England.
My friends in New Zealand keep telling us their settlers came of their own free will.
I didn’t realize until today that indentured servants/trades went on in America until early 1900’s?
Lots of documents mentioning vellum, parchment, leather in those auctions.
Love, Jackie Monies
Jackie, I always thought it was cool when Le Roi used his ring as a seal for hot wax on a document. Perhaps that was why I always wanted to be a Notary Public…until I actually became one.
Debbe 😉 Although I’m familiar with two of those three dances you mentioned (The Chicken Dance being the exception), I’ve never seen any of them performed at a wedding reception I’ve attended. Of course, there are probably reasons for that, the primary one being that the vast majority of wedding receptions I’ve attended were held at the church where the wedding ceremony was performed. The alcohol content of those receptions tends to be very low. (Read, “zero”.) Add the fact that a very high percentage of those church receptions (the ones held in The Deep South, anyway) were held at churches of a certain denomination which is prevalent in The Deep South.
If you don’t get the significance of the latter fact, here’s a joke for you.
Q: Why do married couples of a certain denomination which is prevalent in The Deep South not make love standing up, in front of a window with no drapes, with the lights on?
A: They are afraid someone will see them and think they are dancing.
I have always wanted to attend a Polish wedding, though. I’ll bet they polka down pretty good.
Jackie, some would tell you that indentured servitude still exists today. Only they call it a”student loan” now.
Ghost, Ghost, Ghost! That is too funny! I laughed out loud and I needed a laugh today.
There is a beer fest annually up in Tulsa that features Chicken Dancing but I have to admit I saw it on television I think, not in person.
Good news is they didn’t find a blood clot in Mike’s leg, so he didn’t have to stay in hospital. Maybe he will not sit so much now.
Love, Jackie Monies
Yay, Mike! Again.
Jackie: Why I eschew wine rituals.
http://www.gocomics.com/arloandjanis/1995/02/09#.U8Gh2fldWa8
Ghost, my son in law will probably be my age when he gets his student loan paid off. One reason he had no interest in becoming an orthopedic surgeon. Only person I know who med schools actually recruited but he became a designer of artificial limbs which he loves and is fantastic doing.
Love, Jackie Monies
Good news Jackie…tell Mike he’s “got to move it, move it, move it….” and, Jackie, you have to put the moves into the ‘mantra’. 🙂
Other good news…just heard my first Cicada: http://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/2014/05/17/periodical-cicadas-year-mating-loud-shrill-emerge-invade/9207641/
Why it just seems like it was 14 years ago
I JUST reread 1995 and that cartoon and laughed out loud there too.
Good question- where is that silly silver cup on a chain of Mike’s?
I don’t think I have actually seen it in twenty years we have lived in Oklahoma and maybe not for a long time before then.
Someday I will forget to pay storage unit rentals and all this stuff will show up on a reality t.v. show!
Love, Jackie Monies
I once had a sign in my office that read “Eschew Obfuscation”.
The student loans necessary to become a physician can be truly brutal to repay. On the up side, many docs work in hospital-owned or -based practices these days, and the competition for them can be so intense that in many cases the parent hospital will pay off their loans. Of course, the docs have to sign an employment contract, and there’s that indentured servitude thing again, but at least they come out well financially.