This is another strip from my “Best of 2014” entry in the National Cartoonists Society annual awards. (See yesterday’s post.) The NCS requires 12 samples from the calendar year being judged. Whenever I thumb through the old stuff to pick out my favorites, I always am reminded the strips I like sometimes are not the strips you, the reader, favor. So maybe you wonder what I am looking for when I pick out 12 of my favorite strips in a given year. Of course, “funny” is the gold standard. The cartoonist who can be LOL funny every day is going to be a wealthy person, but that is nigh impossible. Even 12 times a year isn’t easy. Second, I look for “fresh.” I look for comic strips with a different and meaningful take on ordinary circumstances. This is, after all, what artists across multiple disciplines strive to do.
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Mindy
Prayers for you and Grandma!
Debbe 😉 I’ll bet you are…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O7B5jXYRy3Q
Mark I did not forget your mom.
Haircut appointment for tomorrow. Forecast is for warm and sunny, so mayhap P&PHS will be wearing something appropriately skimpy.
Well, a guy can dream, anyway. And mayhap I will. 😉
The Chinese laundry is back operating, I no longer trust minions to wash clothes because I am so tired of ruined clothes and mismatched or stained of not washed and stock piled out of sight, etc. I am an excellent laundress and even better ironer but we aren’t going there now. In fact, I am having to rehash a lot because they sanded all the sheet rock with stacks of folded clothes and baskets still in there and didn’t move them.
So, Deja vu all over again.
Big date for Valentine’s Ghost? Getting ahead of the rush? Or do you have a set appointment each ??? Weeks like some ladies do?
Me, I show up and say anyone have time to shampoo and iron my hair? Doesn’t always work of course.
Taking a big plate of cookies and cupcakes to the police department. Even though they don’t come out where I am, I figure their efforts in town are beneficial and appreciated.
Another great comic with a topic I’d not think of: Feb 10th “Looks Good on Paper”.
Good morning Villagers…
Good grief, Indy Mindy, they just keep adding on and adding on responsibilities on you. I do hope you are well compensated for all these nightmares. But being the ‘go getter’ that you are, I have confidence you will succeed. Either that or carry a big hammer 🙂 I do pray your Grandmother gets better, you sound very close to her. You posted a pic of you and her a while back, she looked happy to be with her granddaughter. Don’t know much about computers, but reading Mark’s post sounds like it could be a good option if you could get corporate to cooperate.
And Mark, still sending prayers and thoughts for You and your Mother.
GR 😉 just how fast does your hair grow? Do you go every two weeks for your ‘look’?
Looks like IN is on the above list on the radon list….and we are living on old excavated coal land. You can still see some of the blackness of coal residue in our driveway. Or does coal have anything to do with radon….TR?
Jackie, you sound like me…actually I like doing the laundry…my way. But husband is being helpful in keeping my work clothes washed…I am thankful for that.
later…………..
GR 😉 do you believe? And in answer to your question, yes I am, have to be, no one else tells me 🙂
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Indy Mindy, who is going to look after Blacklight and Thunder while you’re gone?
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While eating some breakfast here, I pulled up my egg packer and found thus U-tube link, my packer is a little older, but at the 2 minute mark, the Farmpacker 200 resembles my Farmpacker 4.14…..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmJH63aLqTI
and they better be lifting taking home eggs restriction….for the first time in over 4 years I may have to buy eggs….and I didn’t know about that little code, Mark. Thanks
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Jackie, I don’t have a standing appointment with P&PHS, I just text her when I want to know if she has an opening for me.
Debbe 😉 I only see P&PHS to get my hair cut about every four weeks. But she does tell me it grows faster than any she’s ever seen. (My hair; what did you think?)
Indy Mindy and Mark, prayers for your Grandma and Mom! And Mindy, I’m with Debbe in hopes that you are well recompensed for all your hard work!
I think I need to get a radon testing kit just to make sure things are good here. I don’t want to have to worry about that, too.
I usually don’t mind doing laundry, but since the machines are in the (unheated) garage right now I have to put on a coat to go stand and put clothes in the washer or dryer, and if I leave wet clothes overnight I’d swear they have ice crystals the next morning. 🙂
Kudos to JJ for today’s A&J – he must have seen the same article as I did on Netflix’s 100 most overlooked films. Here’s the link: http://www.complex.com/pop-culture/best-movies-netflix-streaming-right-now/.
I’ve now watched half a dozen of them (I have no interest in the zombie/horror/slasher genre, which rules out about 20% of the list), and it is a revelation. One “People Places and Things” is a gem that, if it had a theatrical run, I never noticed.
So not knowing what P&PHS is, I decided to Google it and it came back with a few links to prior posts by Ghost is A&J.com. One was July 4th and the other was mid July. Upon reading it, I realized that I mentioned the story of watching the Auburn Alabama game, which I just repeated a few days ago. Since I probably mentioned it when it happened, I guess that I get redundant. Hopefully I have told the story the same way. Of course as we age, sometimes the stories get a little foggy.
The other story was when I got attacked by bunch of bees this summer. I still have the pictures of how swollen my hand got. One thing that I didn’t mention was going to the Urgent Care and the receptionist was very rude to me, eventually asking that I pay the co-pay before seeing the Doctor. I have learned that this is pretty standard, but when you are in pain, you really don’t want to hear that. So when I saw the nurse, she starts taking my vitals, including my weight. When I got off the scale, she asked how tall that I was and I responded “8 foot 7! Where is the Doctor and what difference does my weight matter”
Fortunately the Doctor was very kind. Obviously my blood pressure had spiked and she told me to try to relax as she could not administer the shot. After some deep breathing and me making fun of the crabby way I acted, it dropped quickly back to normal levels.
Debbe: According to Wiki The highest average radon concentrations in the United States are found in Iowa and in the Appalachian Mountain areas in southeastern Pennsylvania. Some of the highest readings ever have been recorded in the Irish town of Mallow, County Cork, prompting local fears regarding lung cancer. Iowa has the highest average radon concentrations in the United States due to significant glaciation that ground the granitic rocks from the Canadian Shield and deposited it as soils making up the rich Iowa farmland. Many cities within the state, such as Iowa City, have passed requirements for radon-resistant construction in new homes.
So, given that radon is most highly emitted from igneous rocks (granite, for instance) but is also found in many sedimentary rocks as well (limestone, for instance, has particles of igneous rocks in it), you cannot predict where it will be. The only folks who probably have no need to test are those with open crawl spaces under their floors or those living in upper floors of buildings. The issue is whether it has a direct path into a tightly-insulated, poorly ventilated home.
One can Google P&PHS? And get results??
Google obviously has too much time on its hands. 🙂
I found this to be the funniest cat photo of the day:
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Yeah, it shows some Ghost Rider 6 person making comments. Big Brother is looking over you!
As far as I can remember, Ghost has given the full version as petite and pneumatic hair stylist. Right, Ghost?
Ghost, re Google: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5XcKBmdfpWs
CXP, You reminded me of a saying an old and dear departed friend had, “I hope that God takes “IT’ out of my mind before He takes “IT” out of my body!” His prayers were answered several years ago. Mine were not answered.
God bless us every one.
In P&PHS, I recall the first P = pulchritudinous.
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