I’m running late today, but I am here! The above A&J from five years ago is a good example of something I mention here rather often. Regardless of what one thinks of the joke itself, it’s a good example of the essential comic strip, one where the words and the art are equally important. Take one away, and the other doesn’t work. No less than Charles Schulz said, it is what makes a comic strip a comic strip.
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Lily, if it helps, just think of him as Ron Jingo, Apparently some SF fans of a more liberal bent already do. But he can certainly write a good action/adventure yarn.
Remember New Coke? I’ve heard it was Coca Cola’s attempt to make their product taste more like Pepsi. But Dave Barry claimed their secret formula for New Coke was to fill open vats of indeterminate size with an indeterminate amount of Old Coke; dumping in an indeterminate number of 100-lbs bags of sugar; and letting it sit for an indeterminate amount of time. I have to admit that it seemed a bit sweet and flat to me, compared to Old Coke.
Mark in TTown – I missed your truck crash earlier. Holy cow! Well, something cow-ish anyway. What a mess. I line the line about ” waiting on trucks full of waffles or sweet corn to drive by.” At least someone had sense of humor about it.
Indy Mindy: I know, I know, What kills me is the part about “The spark still burned, so I used my knife And late that night I saved the life Of Ringo.” Where could a bullet be that an untrained cowboy with an unsterile knife could remove and save him?
emb.. .. “when we become a fascist theocracy” oh, Lois Lerner won’t let that happen
Well, he never said it wasn’t sanitized. People are hardy, we’ve survived the dark ages and lots of stupid ideas about health and hygiene. My guess is shoulder wound since he had to relearn the quick-draw skills.
I only drank New Coke twice: my first time and my last. They were both at the same time.
And out West you probably had to have some basic understanding of the medical process and survive.
Prior to about 1900, one was statistically more likely to die if one went to a hospital than if one did not.
Something else those who pine for “the good old days” should remember.
Yeah, but how would a shoulder wound endanger his life? Collapse a lung? Knife and bullet removal wouldn’t help. Blood loss and shock, lacerate a major blood vessel (axillary artery or vein)?” Using a knife wouldn’t help and might make it worse. I know, I know, artistic license. But that’s the kind of things that bug me. I asked The Boss Of My Life, a real trauma surgeon and she just laughed and said, “It’s a song, Susie. Next you are gonna ask if Paul McCartney could really sleep in that girl’s bath.” This from the woman that used to holler at the TV on Grey’s Anatomy.
Lilyblack, most likely danger was infection. Bullet would carry fabric, etc into the wound. Many men of that era had survived the Civil War and had some idea of quick and dirty battlefield surgery. Of course, in those days it was mostly all quick and dirty before the germ theory of infection had taken hold.
Ghost, you might also like to read A State of Rebellion by Tom Kratman, if you haven’t yet.
OOPs, Ghost that is A State of Disobedience. Guess thinking of the Civil War brought out the other thought.
Hey, all you housekeeping types. We just had somebody tell us nt to keep potatoes in the fridge. Is that true?
Lily, I know you will consider it a waste but he probably poured some alcoholic beverage into the wound, onto the knife and down the throat of the shot gunslinger. I thought of you when I read that article about nine things to do with vodka other than drink it!
About Coke, we used to use Coke the beverage to remove corrosion off battery connections and to clean spark plugs in the old days. Still works, I used that hoary old trick to get a expensive nonstarting vehicle to ignite for a person from some other country recently. He was amazed!
It will also do a decent job of cleaning out ground in asphalt and dirt from wounds on knees, chins and other scraped body parts.
New Coke was the most disgusting beverage ever foisted on the public. When they changed the formula on Diet Coke quite a few years ago I collected several thousand signatures (pre internet) by standing outside groceries to petition Coca Cola to go back to whichever artificial sweetner they changed.
Addicts!!!!
Love, Jackie Monies
Best kept in wire baskets at room temperature out of sunlight for both sweet potatoes and white potatoes and onions, garlic, that is why people stored them in basements and cellars. Do not store in plastic bags, even if ventilated with holes.
True fact, m,am!
Thanks, Jackie, I will pass that on
Ghost, thanks for the Christian Bale pic! I’m not sure he quite fits my mental picture of Travis M. either, but he is certainly nice eye candy. Bwahahaha over size only for flower beds. And I am one with you on Kindle one-clicks!! I will at least check for possible John Ringo e-books at the library first.
CXP, so we have something in common besides philately. I was born in a small town in southeast Kansas, went to high school in Salina, and husband Jim and I both attended college at KU and lived in Lawrence for five years after we were married. That’s a long time ago now (1963-1968). We have been back, and of course it’s very changed now. We still have family living here and there throughout Kansas.
Looked up a little more on why. Cold temps in fridge make the starch in potatoes get sweeter and changes taste. If you expose to light, they turn green, which I knew, but Idaho potato guys say you can cut that off and they can be eaten. The change in the starch also changes how they cook (I knew that one) and you will end up with gooey smashed potatoes and French fries that look weird and don’t fry well.
Yard/gardener lady just planted my crop of assorted colored potatoes, so we will see if we get fall new potatoes. It’s hell when you have to hire help for your hobby! I need to roll those snow peas and green beans around in some inoculate to throw in rows of that new garden bed. I favor tall pole varieties and buy a rainbow of colors, so we will have green, blue, yellow, off white, purple and rattlesnake varieties unless we get an early freeze before they mature.
Got smart and bought the industrial plastic mesh rolls they use to hold back road construction to use for trellising. Finding a color other than orange was a little of challenge.
Love, Jackie Monies
Ghost and NK in AZ, go to the Baen Books website. They are Mr. Ringo’s publishers. They have some free e-books for all types of E-readers on the notion that if they can get you to read a book by someone you don’t know, you might be tempted to buy further works. Sounds like a good idea to me.
Sounds nice, Jackie. In our huge lot, there is a 100 x 100 foot tilled area surrounded by a cute little picket fence which is planted and tended by me. The Man In My Life does have some supervisory functions, hehe. There is a 6′ round plot for herbs ( mint, thyme, sage, and basil) with a bay tree growing in the middle. The veggies this year are tomatoes (three different types: cherry (which started in our compost heap three years ago and I am still growing) Pomodoro and a heritage variety I got from my friend Joan. I replanted them this July and they are doing very, very well.Hot peppers, which I have to pickle myself before they are fit for human consumption, radishes, onions, eggplant, and zucchini. Yeah, I know what they say about zucchini, and I only plant three plants and they are plenty for our family with occasional guests. I like gardening, it works off nervous energy and I love the fresh veggies.
Jackie, why not use orange? The plants would show off better against that contrast color and help you find the beans.
Went to the Baen books site and 1636: Commander Cantrell in the West Indies is not a freebie, darn it! 🙁
If I live to retirement, I’m gonna have a herb garden, perhaps even a small potager garden or salad garden.
I don’t grow lettuce, Ghost. The bunnies and the grasshoppers like them too well. Easier to just buy them.
Mark I considered that but these are about 40 foot long beds times three and have 4 x 4 posts with stanchions across tops that fun down length of bed. They sit in front of where I am “supposed” to be putting a guest house “someday” and we all decided the neighbors can’t figure out the trellised garden anyway and orange would further confuse them! Plus daughter said she didn’t want to look at Day-Glo orange from front porch of the guest house, as this stuff is supposed to last for years without falling apart from UV damage. We will see.
This was supposed to be my birthday present, husband had lung removed instead in February, so I ended up hiring contractors to build it. Could have taken out a gift certificate for gold plated tomatoes!
Love, Jackie Monies