Here is another A&J comic from the recent past, 2014 to be exact.
Learnt Offerings
By Jimmy Johnson
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104 responses to “Learnt Offerings”
Ghost Rider 6: Siri has a much better personality. (Huh, HAL doesn’t recognize her name. I’m not surprised.) Also, the fiction trope of crazed chess manic was used as foreshadowing in that story. It may have even been Morphy’s opera game reenacted that he played with Frank. It’s been used in other movies. Actual incidence of psychosis among chess players v. general public, I don’t know, but it sells fiction. Nerds used to be really easy targets.
Nope, wrong again. Roesch and Schlage played it in Hamburg 1910. I would say the opera game had a part in _Bladerunner_ but my bating avg. tonight is pretty bad.
We were hit with rain, freezing rain, sleet and probably other crap today. My boss suggested yesterday that anyone who could work from home today, do so. The streets are still a skating rink. Hopefully the sanders will be out overnight.
Debbe, I hope your absence is not because of bad news for your girls.
Debbe was herself quite ill. I am more worried about her and pneumonia and exhaustion.
Incidence of high functioning autism in chess masters apparently high. Think Rain Man with a chess biard. He’d know every possible move before a man moved. Haven’t looked at wiki but I was alive during Bobby Fisher’s reign on the news reels. What, you thought we had CNN and FOX?
HE WAS WEIRD. Not a geek. Weird. I was married to a chess player. We had many sets including some beautiful boards and carved chessmen. And then he never touched one again.
I never could get involved in chess. The game just did not “click” with me. My favorite games came from SPI, Avalon Hill and Mayfair, to name a few. Of those, my favorites were the Great Battles of the American Civil War series by Richard Berg, B-17 (solitaire game where you were trying to get one bomber over the target and return without losing the aircraft), Rail Baron (think Monopoly with railroads instead of hotels), and Empire Builder (where you built your own railroads using wipe-off crayons on the map.).
I really miss those games, but the first two companies have been out of business for 20 years or more, and the games are mostly out of print too. With the exception of the Empire Builder versions.
Learned chess in high school but could never get enthused about playing it for some reason.
Learned contract bridge in college, loved it, but have never played since.
Learned about women in the AF and have never stopped playing since.
Morphy, I believe Hal is correct that the Internet should be capitalised. Also can be abbreviated as ‘Net. (I’ve seen this done, and do it myself.)
Or, make up your own name for it. I did.
And yes, I am very concerned about Debbe’s health. Pneumonia is serious enough in its own right, but I suspect her respiratory system is already compromised to some extent due to environmental factors. The needle is rising on my Concern-o-Meter, and I’m hoping we hear from her soon.
If we unite in the information we have about her I will actually drive up there. You think florists can’t find people? Ask a florist, even if the person never gets flowers. I could find people.
I am worried about pneumonia and all those chemicals she has breathed, coupled with chicken dust and feathers. Florist was my retirement career after workmens comp adjudicator.
Jackie, ask Old Bear. Debbe posted her work address so he could mail her that Chicken Poop lip balm. You could send a letter to her there if she doesn’t come back here in a timely manner.
I remembered that and her love of going to Tru Value. Hey, I LOVE Tru Value. Bought an outdoor fireplace, a fire ring fireplace, a new table for patio, some great giant soup cups for microwave and think I went in for a pet water dispenser. They hadn’t unloaded the truck yet. Oh and two really comfort
Comfortable big arm chairs for my camping gear. They run great loss leader sales.
Beginning to suspect that Jackie holds a black belt in shopping.
Does someone know for a fact that Debbe has pneumonia? I’ve had pneumonia four times and expect someday it will get me. Do we know the name of the chicken**** outfit that she works for? We cannot lose contact with her.
Oh, you have got to see today’s “Non Sequitur” cartoon! It is rare to see an idea that I wouldn’t have thought of or haven’t already seen elsewhere.
Good morning Villagers….
I am sorry for having caused concern for some of you. I’ve done some thinking since my last post regarding THE post, and ….
First there would be no way I would target Mark nor Jerry for the personal problems they are experiencing. I have personally been there with my Father having surgery and having a stint put in so that he would not lose his legs. My Mother’s life in a nursing home, only to die alone.
Second, no….Mark does NOT owe me an apology, sir. And I’ve apologized already for the
guised post.
I usually don’t drop in here after work. Feeling down from that morning’s distress (I had a hen who had a blowout) she was still alive when I pulled her out. As she laid in my hands, she started shaking and quivering…..then she died in my hands. I had tears in my eyes as it brought back a flood of memories. The postings made me even more depressed. Yeah, I know there is a scroll button.
Sister and I don’t agree on headstones for my Stepdad and Mother….no life insurance on Stepdad and Mother had a little. She wants us to all pitch in a $$ to get head stone. I said why not get one that lays on the ground, she didn’t like that idea….so I told her, in a hundred years, who is going to give a #### who is buried there. Then the loss of the homestead to Medicaid because of the nursing home wanting reimbursement
I love this Village, and will remember to scroll through.
Physically, I have bronchitis, on antibiotics, and two of the three pans of chlorine dust are out of the packing room. And I wear a dust mask more than before. I am feeling better. Tired though. Don’t want the teens coming into the hen houses as they would not follow proper bio security protocol. Thus, the seven day work schedule for the past month.
Now it’s all said and done…let’s move on…..let’s play 🙂
Love, Debbe
Jerry, you are a hero…thank you.
Indy Mindy…my thoughts and prayers were with you yesterday. Are you OK? I too am my Mother’s daughter….sometimes she drove me nuts, but this nut didn’t fall too far from her tree.
GR 😉 we gotta be…..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_91hNV6vuBY
Today’s awwww……
http://cheezburger.com/8746484224
Debbe… glad you are back, Sweetie. We love you…
Glad you’re back, Debbe. Stay with us.
How the other half lives [well, maybe not half]:
http://www.bemidjipioneer.com/news/local/3936863-they-think-were-crazy-some-bsu-students-lake-bemidji-parking-lot-wvideo
What about polluting the lake, one of many on the upper Mississippi? What watershed do the storm sewers up here empty into? Same difference.
Many drive fewer miles when they use this parking lot, and many carpool, and many live in the dorms or in private housing within walking distance of the U. A larger proportion walk to school than did when we came here in ’58, and none then biked. I was one of the first to bike to campus, and was considered a young oddball prof. Now bikeracks are all full.
Peace, emb
Debbie glad you and kitties are back. How is pneumonia? We love you.
TIP BlogSpot. Can the Wantaige family [sorry, I didn’t memorize the spelling] sue Melcher?
http://thatispriceless.blogspot.com/
Peace, emb