So, do Arlo and Janis still work? Yes, they do. They’ve been luckier than many over the years; they’ve had stable employment, maybe not with the same companies the entire time but in similar fields and environments. There is no doubt they’re in that winding-down phase of employment, when the management would love to get rid of them and replace them with someone younger and cheaper or, more likely today, outsource their work entirely, but they just know too damn much about how things work. Perhaps one of them will be offered the “consultant” track soon, where they’re paid half the money to clean up after a workforce making even less. Speaking of money, they like the money, of course, but they would leave for a new challenge and less remuneration in a heart beat, say helping run a fun little local-food enterprise, but the benefits are the trap, especially the insurance. See? You don’t really want to hear all this. They have modern jobs, sure, but they still are modern cartoon jobs. It’s nice work if you can get it.
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So the family will be all together. 🙂
And Debbe, this made me laugh and think you’ve got to see it..
http://www.gocomics.com/onebighappy
WE now know who “They” are:
http://www.gocomics.com/9chickweedlane
for May 22 2017
Thorax is a complicated character – very.
Realize they are less revealing than plunging necklines and such, but to me dresses like Edda’s, above, are really sexy. Maybe I’m a deltoid fetishist.
Peace,
Thorax somewhat [but only somewhat] resembles the nutcase in David Copperfield, who lived up in an attic, and flew kites w/ messages for some departed hero. Peace,
On the current strip, I had an additional giggle. I think it has been said that Jimmy does not color the dailies, only Sundaes [the treats with extra art]. But it appears Gene inherited a ‘type’ in furniture choices as well.
The Salmon Sofa, Redux.
Ghostly one says this is first time he ever had to put panties and shorts on a woman. He has more experience in undressing than dressing women. Then he modified that statement to first time dressing a sober woman.
All those bartenders he dated apparently also drank. This is probably first time anyone has dressed me as I was never drunk enough or sick outside hospital care.
http://www.gocomics.com/snow-sez/2017/05/22
T. Shepherd’s strip is a slow paced glorification of the Persian breed, but today’s is a cute twist.
Would be refrigerator worthy, but the only magnet strong enough messes with my hard drive.
Funny Morphy. How about industrial velcro?
Made my jaw drop.
Why didn’t I think of that? Had done similar years back, in RV’g days of yore. Was shown the idea by TruckerRon style friends.
Now realizing the crossover realms of Teamster/maritime/RV’er. Living spaces under motion.
It’s all connected.
And if it becomes disconnected, there is a loud r-i-i-i-ping sound to let you know, right before the bang! of gravity’s resolution.
Morphy, there’s also this stuff: https://www.amazon.com/Super-Glue-HandiTAK-Reusable-Adhesive/dp/B001O8Q1PU
Why isn’t anyone impressed that Cher can dance and sing at her age and wear a sheer costume? Who the heck cares if her nipple was showing? No one will be offended or repulsed by what I saw just now.
I was impressed. I have liver spots worse than that.
All workable solutions.
But I like being able to have my laptop, you know, on my lap. Actually I prefer table or desktop, for good ventilation and heat dispersal, but going with an image. Original comment was a small satire on the ease of clipping, in the old sense of actual fingers in real-life scissors. Versus the locked-down approach to copyright defense currently in place at GoComics.
It used to be a sign of a friendly home, when a few yellowing bon mots were stuck to a metal refrigerator door with those alphabet magnets you never through out, even though your kids are in college.
BTW Jimmy, I have stumbled across the once-a-day grace afforded to traffic with a cookie from this site. If it is intentional, thank you. If you make it known you do not like your dailies being snipped, I would stop.
Oops.
Hadn’t seen the recent hubbub, bud. I’d put it down to either jealousy, or the relentless drive for more clicks. I remember being *very* impressed with Tina Turner’s pins kicking it out, years beyond expected best by date.
Jackie, think I saw the pic you are talking about. No costume at all, at 71. And she still looked much as she did when performing with Sonny in the 1970’s when wearing those sheer Bob Mackie dresses.
Debbe:
Yep, we do.
I can slightly twist a line that I wrote in here about a year. Here’s the revised version:
We now know who be this they everybody be talking about.
Jackie:
Why, when you write “panties,” do I expect Beavis and Butthead to pop up and say, “Panties. Heh, heh. Heh, heh.”?
I think Cher and Tina look fabulous. Better than 90% of their fans, gay or heterosexual, male or female. They are beautiful feisty women who have given life all they had all these years since their teens.
These are some of same people who post on comments like our Dark Side. These are justill looking to criticize.
Rick because in our relentless frantic grasping at never aging we sometimes set the phone booth at too high acceleration and we go back to silly juvenile innuendo and risqué humor.
But I am going to claim the dangerous narcotic pain medication they are giving me to help me tolerate the knee pain.
Then too I doubt Ghost has dressed any drunk bartenders since his college days?
In line with Beavis, I’ve forgotten which one’s which, when scrolling past my comment above, in this font more clicks looks like more richards, heh heh, heh.
Something crossed my mind while I was eating a baked frozen pizza [not Stouffer’s, and also w/ extra veggies added] for supper. When I was a teen in NYC in the ’40s, Stouffer’s was a restaurant chain. I knew nothing of its history, but knew of 3 in Manhattan, one on E. 42nd nr. Grand Central [which I’d never eaten at], one on 5th around 44th or so, which I’d eaten at several times, and one on 57th [Carnegie Hall is 2-3 long blocks W], which I’d eaten at often. Across the street at 57th and 5th is, or was, Tiffany’s, which I think I’ve never been in, and would not bother if I had the chance.
All the ‘eaten ats’ were courtesy of Mom, and often we were with ‘Cele’, a fellow office worker w/ no future at Universal Pictures. Women did not have executive jobs there, even when 2x smarter than the men who did. So went online. Knew they’d gone out of the genteel if not elegant restaurant business, now doing frozen foods, but didn’t know they were part of the Nestle’ empire. Started in ’22 in Cleveland. Wonder what ever happened to Schraff’ts [sp?] and Child’s?
http://www.1939nyworldsfair.com/univ_lg_window.aspx?pageTitle=Stouffer's%20Restaurant%20Menu&imgType=n&numImg=0&retUrl=stouffers/stouffers&retUrlExt=htm&retName=Stouffer's%20Restaurant%20Menu&imgNum=0&imgName=stouffers/images/large/stouffers-2&contributor=Hilary%20Rossen
Peace,
P.S. Forgot to suggest that you enlarge the luncheon menu. And those prices were a bit higher than several years earlier. Peace,
In the interest of accuracy…Ghost has not had to dress any intoxicated female bartenders since his Air Force days…to the best of his recollection.
Oh, and I have given Jackie photographic proof that I did serve in the USAF, protecting Merica from the godless commies. And Jackie just commented that she really like the tailored fatigue uniform I was wearing, especially the trousers. Have I mentioned that Jackie is still on drugs?
eMb or anyone with information: At the great horned owl nest in Montana, what happened to the owlets? They aren’t present now – two adults are – and they certainly did not seem to be old enough to leave as of the last day or two.
Perchance, is the current picture not truly current, but a rerun of older recording?
Ghost, how about intoxicated female non-bartenders?