Remember the memorable 1997 sequence at the beach, when Gene’s friend Mary Lou is expecting a baby? Of course you remember it; it’s memorable! Well, the above is the lesser-known final cartoon in that storyline; the family is back home, and Mary Lou is forgotten. Or so it seemed at the time. I guess you would equate this one to the little skit they would tack on the end of television sit-coms, little jokes that stood apart from the basic plot. You know, the last minute or so that was always dropped when a show went into syndication, to make room for another commercial.
Letter of the Law
By Jimmy Johnson
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236 responses to “Letter of the Law”
It’s starting.
TIP comic isn’t bad, but that’s less problem with birds than mammals. Witness all the raptors that have been banded in nests and later fledged. Dickey birds also, but they are legion, not headliners.
http://www.gocomics.com/that-is-priceless/
TIP blog needs a separate reply. Peace, emb
Naughty TIP BlogSpot: http://thatispriceless.blogspot.com/
Peace, emb
Debbe 😉 They did a lot of good ones.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nXuKD4NluKk
I close with following:
Nobody is what they think they are.
Some of us know it.
Some of us suspect it.
And some of us don’t care.
some of us
and some of us wonder around lost apparently.
Enjoy so many of the Villages comments, thanks to those I see here and on Facebook as well. Found myself at long last at my new employers in Washington, driving mountain passes at midnight through construction and rock blasting at midnight was interesting, two nights consecutively.
Keep reminding myself America’s freeway system is about 15 years younger than me!
Love Jackie
Good morning Villagers….
Gal, there has been some excellent advice given above….I really like the idea of being a mentor though. Get a sheet of paper and list the pros and cons and see which list is longer, then make a decision.
I can draw my SS when I’m 62 next month, there’s no way I could survive mentally and physically if I would retire….I’d go nuts. Besides, I’d take a 25 percent cut in benefits if I’d start drawing now.
Yesterday The Corp came in and they weren’t happy about the quality of eggs…dirty from rust marks made from the steel rod conveyor belt and the cooler isn’t working. The boys went out and purchased a special steel wire brush and put it on the electric sander….they got the rust off and got down to the bare metal. The Corp is not pleased with the way things get pushed under the rug when it comes to maintenance issues…I’m afraid they may not want to put new hens in our 20 or 30 year old building unless these maintenance issues are addressed. And I do have a list of things to get done. The Boss will be back on Monday morning and I intend to ask him how long he plans to stay in the egg business….as I need to work. Thought about going over to The Corp and putting in my application.
Jackie, glad you made it safely to your new employer’s destination. Just what will you be doing?
Glad you dropped in Indy Mindy…take care girl.
and it’s hump day for some of you…..speaking of humps, Jerry 🙂 I admire your determination, I really do….I was just teasing you about the humps…..
gotta go…ya’ll have a blessed day
wow, GR 😉 that is a favorite of mine….love Boston. Wish my CD player worked in my car, I could really get pumped up listening to them this morning.
Ian just ‘strolled’ by, his shoulder is killing him from holding that sander yesterday. I tried holding the handle while I gave Andrew a pair of safety glasses to put on…..what power.
Gal 🙂 https://i.chzbgr.com/maxW500/8494854912/hC451064B/
Thank you all for your insightful comments! Getting another take on a situation is always beneficial.
I think interim service is a good idea. I have a couple of other specific concerns and I will bring them up for discussion at the meeting. This entire process should be interesting… but then my life has started to be a little boring!
Debbe
Just be glad you do not have to pick eggs from individual nests.
One or two at a time into a basket. And then all the rest that goes with that system.
Well, answered Debbe and Smartphone sent it into cyberspace!
My new employers are Gig Harbor Boats http://www.ghb.com as sales rep for their classic and classy traditional small craft, wooden boats duplicated in fiberglass. I get to haul myself and my boat Cowboy Cookies around America to boating events, sail, hang out on water with sailors and boaters.
I bet Arlo and Jimmy would like to do that. I also represent thee others, Small Craft Advisor magazine, Duckworks magazine and John Welsford Small Craft Design of New Zealand. All from pursuit of a passion and hobby.
Like the chicken and egg business, early and long hours.
Love Jackie
yeah, but Debbe, if you do the math, after a certain number of years, you will / would have wound up with the same amount of money in benefits anyway. Just take the amount you get from 62 to 66 or whatever (for me it’s 66 and 8 months, I’m 57) mentally add it to the lower amount you get past that date and you get to a point where it’s the same total amount. .. ..If you mean you’d go nuts from nothing to do No way, my wife had more than she could handle, just go to http://www.meetup.com and search anything you can think of
Late to the party, Gal, but of the people I’ve personally known who returned to fulltime work after “retirement”, about half have loved it and half have hated it. So not much help there. I can certainly understand the financial aspect (I have a bout of depression every time I get one of those “estimated retirement benefits” estimates from the SSA and compare it to my current income), but I suspect that you may be “of an age” at which committing to fulltime employment might not be the best long-term choice. So I’d vote for taking an interim position, if possible. And who knows, you might love it enough to want to make it permanent.
Ghost Sweetie, that looks more like a swimsuit cover-up than an actual dress. I might have worn it at one point in my life, but not so much now. Anyhow, sundresses in general have always been chancy as my skin has two settings: Albino and Tomato. 🙂
Jean dear, if you think that about the crocheted “sundress”, you should have seen some of the actual “cover-ups” being flogged on that site. Anything they covered would be too small to matter. 🙂
Downer of the Day: The realization that not only are more and more individuals of my approximate age showing up in the obituary listings but that a number of them are expiring in NURSING FACILITIES, for crying out loud.
Meanwhile, I’m busy feeling (and, I hope, looking) better than I did ten years ago. Pretty much my hobby these days, I suppose.
Debbe, try this one, when you have time to spare:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mlpl-RzsCck
Anybody else like H. G. Wells?
Retired at 62.5; best idea ever – wouldn’t think of going back. My SS is the lowest possible because of my annuity/pension…waiting a few more years wouldn’t have helped SS much and probably would have lowered my pension. Have done much better financially after retirement than I did before retirement!
Just saw that one of my stocks is at its lowest price in quite a few years for no reason I can see. The price is only about $30.50 and it pays a “dividend” (actually, a “return of capital” so it is not federally taxable until you sell the stock) of $2.88. That’s over 9.3% and with a great chance of capital gain, too.
My other stocks are just going up a little or down a little. OK with me – I bought all my stocks for the dividends, not capital gains.
c ex- p: Blame Greece. Everyone else is. 🙂
Most of my retirement funds are in investment grade (non-junk) bonds. That won’t make me rich, but hopefully it also won’t eat a third of my savings as did the equity (stock) market in 2008.
I officially retired at 62 because it had gotten clear to me that nobody was interested in hiring me to do tech support or any other kind of computer work that I was good at. (Thank you, outsourcing!) When I turned 65, I applied for a VA pension as well, but got back a long set of confusing, ambiguous paperwork with no instructions as to which parts of it needed to be filled out and which didn’t. I eventually asked my Congresscritter for help and, mirabile dictu, I received a reply, with some forms to fill out giving permission for her staff to see my records and assist me. I’ve requested help from various Representatives several times over the years, and this is the first time anybody has bothered to reply. The odd thing is, I gave my email address, but the reply went to my sister, who forwarded it to me.
A little Gal, but will put in a vote of interim. Putting in a full time, long term commitment after retiring once can be daunting. That is unless it is disguised as lots of fun. My spouse has retired three times now, and can’t quit volunteering where she retired from last.
Ghost think 45%. And a limited partnership I got suckered into – 90%. Granted it was money I could afford (underline that) to lose not that I wanted to. Only a few $K.
Deductions for a lot of years.
As for retirement look at your health and longevity of Ancestors. I waited till I had to and still
work 3 days a week. It keeps the brain cells active and the body moving. Like the Village.
Mark
Just read WotW and reread Invisible Man and Time Machine. The trick to reading the old books is to forget late 20th century and with H.G.W. early 20th.
Excellent health, Bear, so far (knock, knock); life-spans of previous generation…males about mid-eighties, females early-nineties. If I retire at “normal” retirement age, I fear it will give me too many years to be bored.
Unless I can come up with some really interesting volunteer work. I was thinking I’d volunteer at the local medical center, but that is where my sister had her ill-fated surgery, so it will probably be better for all concerned for me to not do that. Still thinking Civil Air Patrol, which fits many of my skill sets. I will investigate that when my Mom’s health gets a bit more stable.