Jan 31st 2013 08:16 am Quietude
As has been stated here often and recently, things change very fast, especially “things.” Check out the old component stereo in today’s classic A&J, from 2001. I know; a lot of you old-timers probably still have one, but I’ll bet your kids don’t. And I’ll bet you wouldn’t be willing to try and make a living selling them. Check out, too, the headphones. We all grew up with a version of them, the larger the better. They sounded great, even if you wanted to listen to nothing. The better ones were capable of shutting out any outside noises. True, they were not very portable—unless you really did want to listen to nothing.
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157 Responses to “Quietude”
Mike From Hartland on 31 Jan 2013 at 8:28 am #
Large headphones never went out of style for the serious listener. Even today if you go to the Best big box store you will see a selection of them. Ear buds just don’t work for me.
sandcastler on 31 Jan 2013 at 8:56 am #
Mike is correct. The tech magazines still devote reviews to the many new, high quality headphones being marketed. I own a pair of decent ear buds, they travel in the backpack for daily use. At home there is a nice noise cancelling set of headphones; keeps peace when wife watches Downtown Abbey, Homeland, and other TV shows I don’t enjoy. Moral of story, open concept floor plans require noise cancellation to save marriages.
There was a thread on missile launches yesterday. The best ones are at White Sands. They close down the highway that runs thru the range for launches. Since most are contained within the site, you can watch the whole flight from launch to impact. Pack a picnic basket and make it a date.
Don in Oklahoma on 31 Jan 2013 at 9:29 am #
I went to high school in Titusville, Florida and at one point, live in house on the Indian River right across from the VAB building. We watched all the space shots when we lived there. Also, when I was a teenager, we used to camp on the islands in the middle of the river and get an even better view. That was back in the late 1960′s and early 1970′s when they were shooting the Apollo rockets off. I did get to watch the Apollo rocket lift the first visitors to the moon as well.
Dan on 31 Jan 2013 at 9:52 am #
White Sands? The missile base or the national park?
My friends and I skipped class to see the shuttle land at white sands. Too much wind or some such and it didn’t happen on that day. I don’t remember if it was the following day or what when it made its only landing there.
twofootartist on 31 Jan 2013 at 9:53 am #
I still have a component system that I bought years ago. No headphones, but it has a big power amplifier and Klipsch cabinet speakers. My daughter and a friend were listening to it and amazed at the clarity and depth of the music it produced. Of course, it’s wasted on the noise that passes for pop music today but it makes classical and acoustic music come alive.
sandcastler on 31 Jan 2013 at 10:16 am #
Dan, missile range.
phil in Missoula, MT on 31 Jan 2013 at 11:02 am #
He’re a cartoon in regard to the uprourious cartoon last week that offended the easily offendable…
http://www.uclick.com/client/sea/co/
phil in Missoula, MT on 31 Jan 2013 at 11:03 am #
uproarious. I knew that didn’t look right
Ursen on 31 Jan 2013 at 11:15 am #
I recently bought a Koss headset for use with my computer that has a lifetime guarantee, the mic is a little iffy, I have to have the mic resting right on my mouth, but the earpieces are killer. Not noise cancelling, but close to it. I bought Koss because I bought a set at the PX in 1972 and they lasted until lost in a move about 12 years ago. Nice sound and tough as nails.
JDS on 31 Jan 2013 at 12:23 pm #
Well, I’m not sure how we got on the topic of missile ranges, but has anyone here been to the USAF tracking station that was on Canton, Island? Interesting place, but a little off the beaten path you might say. The base has been closed for decades, but there are a handful of people (24 at last count) living there now. For anyone interested in getting away from it all, this would be the place to go, if you can find a way to get there.
Bryan on 31 Jan 2013 at 1:25 pm #
Dan-
Yes, Columbia landed on the second attempt day. It was still obscenely windy with a solid wall of gypsum dust in the air but it touched down nonetheless.
I wasn’t there but my brother was one of the photographers there, spending most of his time huddled under a drop cloth stretched over his tripod. A picture of him like that even ended up in time or some similar news weekly while one of his shots ended up, at least for a while, at a rocketry museum.
Dave in MA on 31 Jan 2013 at 1:26 pm #
Still maintain the home component stereo.
Also listen in the car.
Otherwise, I tend not to enjoy music. The MP3s you get from Amazon or iTunes are just not high enough quality, and when played through a system that is NOT designed to filter out the high end, you hear WAY too much high end distortion for my taste (best description I ever heard for that distortion is “metallic sparklies”).
Connecting the computer to the stereo, using a high end professional sound card that I use for tape transfers from analog masters to digital for mastering for CD release, the sound quality even from the computer’s CD drive is beautiful. But one I play something from iTunes it sounds horrible! Playing through the computers’ built in sound card through little tiny “satellite” speakers you don’t hear the distortion very much, but that’s because the high end has all been filtered off intentionally to sound better with modern sources.
And when I had to replace my amp a few years back, I couldn’t find anything I liked in the stores. Getting something with actual manual bass and treble controls, let alone with a midrange control, is so expensive it’s just not feasible for me any more. Those with the bunch of pre-sets that let you chose things like “rock” “arena” “large room” “small room” “bathroom” “underwater” etc (ok, I’m exaggerating, but you know what I mean) are completely unusable for me. I don’t want my music to sound like it’s in a big arena (with lots of reverberation) I just want to tweak the bass or the mids or the highs slightly.
Ended up trolling yard sales, as did a friend. He eventually found a replacement amp for me which I’m satisfied with.
As for earbuds, can’t really say I like them. Too close to the eardrum. I prefer the large comfortable headphones that have a better bass response anyways.
Dave
sideburns on 31 Jan 2013 at 1:28 pm #
I have an mp3 player that I use at the gym. It came with earbuds, but I promptly replaced them with a small headset. I’ve never used a pair of earbuds that stayed in place without being pushed in so far they hurt. Even a small headset Just Works.
Mindy on 31 Jan 2013 at 1:38 pm #
We threw out the earbuds, got a small headphone set for Skype. Ended up using what looks like a cell phone but plugs into a USB port. Now, what does USB stand for? John says Unusually Sensual Boobs. I think he’s related to Ghost.
Mindy on 31 Jan 2013 at 1:38 pm #
Oops! Sorry, Ms. Collins! Mea Culpa, Mea Maxima Culpa!
Ursen on 31 Jan 2013 at 1:53 pm #
Mindy Universal Serial Bus. And no it isn’t a bus where they serve cereal.
sandcastler on 31 Jan 2013 at 1:58 pm #
Mindy, in the case of Ms. C., USB stands for Unusually Sensitive B***h.
Robin in FL on 31 Jan 2013 at 2:05 pm #
sandcastler
Play nice. She is as entitled to her opinion as you are, without recrimination.
billinbossier on 31 Jan 2013 at 2:16 pm #
Today’s strip….
You know, I have never used a Red Box. I quit renting videos when the Blockbuster in Bossier City closed. Now, on those dreaded days I actually go to Walmart, I go to the $5.00 bin, and dig thru it until I find a movie or two I might want to watch. The ones I don’t like I take to a local pawn shop that gives $0.99 a piece for them. If I like the movie, I just keep it.
Mindy on 31 Jan 2013 at 2:29 pm #
Butch?
Mary in Ohio on 31 Jan 2013 at 3:17 pm #
They’re now called “noise-cancelling headphones” and Bose (among others) sells some that cost mucho dinero. I bet the ones in my living room would work just as well if I cut off the cord with the quarter-inch stereo plug.
Symply Fargone on 31 Jan 2013 at 3:31 pm #
@ Ruth Anne from Winter park,
Another reason I am jealous of you(the other is your husband’s music collection)
….Must be awesome to see that and so often in your case. absolutely a Fargone thing!
@GR6,
That could not be Mindy she has told us she has a more “robust”(is that allowed Ms. Curtis) figure.
Never been a size guy, it was always shape for me…….don’t know why, but just sayin’
Mom was a hoarder and for those of you who did not know she passed Thanksgiving. My unfortunate (in location only) sister lives in Switzerland where Mom lived and now has all that stuff to go through(of course I cleaned out M&P’s house when they moved from the US to CH, so i know it is not a chore to be envied, especially as there are probably $ and/or stocks hidden almost anywhere! She was an amzing woman(and packrat; mind you I am not talking broken old junk, just stuff like the 100+ Skippy peanut butter jars i found in a cupboard!
@GR6,
you are getting a following dude, but I would not make an appt. to meet some of your internet friends!
@Mike From Hartland,
I like the big Bose ones w/noise cancellation…can revel in my Blues and not really hear that stupid jet engine white noise sound. I love ‘em. One of the best expenditures i have made travel related.
@Mike From Hartland
Have a Bose system for sound in my car with speakers mounted to either side of the front headrests…absolutely the best sound I know, when the car is not driving on the road(too much road noise in the design gets through) My friends are amazed too. Infiniti got this right with their sound system….
@Sandcastler,
Ms. Curtis gonna look fer U after GR6 dude.
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U guys crack me up……and sometimes astound me, I like our group, yes, even you Ms. Curtis. Everyone in this world is necessary so I can continue to be the one that really is Symply Fargone.
Symply Fargone on 31 Jan 2013 at 3:33 pm #
@Mary in Ohio,
No they really are amazing……and if you travel a lot worth every cent. Just another one of my Fargone thoughts.
Ghost Rider 6 on 31 Jan 2013 at 4:23 pm #
Mindy, the thought of being located between and in proximity to Ginger and Virgin Mary gives me two concerns. First, since I have extended the Loving Hand of Avuncular Friendship to VM, I’m afraid such a thing would have a somewhat incestuous aura to it. Second, due to the still unresolved issue of Ginger’s gender…well, I think you can get my drift without me continuing with Ms.-Curtis-has-a-cerebrovascular-accident-class details.
Although the jury is still out, I am considering the possibility that Virgin Mindy’s kvetch is worse than her bite, the prima facie evidence being that her parents didn’t strangle her the week after she reached puberty. Of course, it could well be that she is just toying with me, but in my experience being toyed with can often be quite interesting.
sandcastler on 31 Jan 2013 at 4:28 pm #
^°^°^°^°^°^ never mentioned a specific name, just Ms. C. That could be VM’s last initial for all we know and also is my wife’s last initial, don’t jump to conclusions.
sandcastler on 31 Jan 2013 at 4:34 pm #
For those meeting a kvetch here is your website: http://kvetch.com
sandcastler on 31 Jan 2013 at 4:34 pm #
Needing not meeting, Siri struck again.
mike in 96 on 31 Jan 2013 at 7:35 pm #
Dave in MA, in the late 60′s we needed an amplifer to boost a 100kc signal from our timing and control buildings a quarter of a mile or so to the transmitter sites without distortion. A McIntosh Tube Type Audio Amp was selected. No distortion even to 100kc. Really clean highs!
Ghost Rider 6 on 31 Jan 2013 at 8:03 pm #
All I know is, I waited like forever in front of an electronics store with a big sign out front that read “USB’s Here” and none of the Universal Studios tour buses ever did come by.
To revisit a hot topic (well, to me, anyway)…Mindy if you and Ginger are indeed identical twin sisters, which one is the evil twin?
Mindy on 31 Jan 2013 at 8:30 pm #
Without conceding the point or denying it, much less confirming Ginger’s gender [I won't even confirm or deny Ginger's species], let me point out the obvious: I could never be the evil twin sister, or evil anything, simply because I am so sweet and loving and pure, etc. Your question, though, was a marvelous attempt to lure me into a indiscretion. Of course, it could also be compared to killing butterflies with a pungi pit. [Speel check won't accept "pungi" but John confirmed the speeling for me.] Persistent little devil ye be, laddie, aye, an’ I hopes ye keep on bein’ yersel’ because The Village loves ye, even Ms. Curtis, I be sure.
I’m still 90-percent certain the nefarious Ms. Curtis is the product of someone’s fevered imagination, that is to say that “she” is the creation of an impish Villager to set us grumbling. I felt the same about the Virgin Mindy at first, yes, I did, but I’m coming around to the point where I begin to believe that “she” is real. I haven’t decided if “she” is as venomous and nasty as we might be led to believe.
Ghost, USB could also stand for “Unnaturally Stuffed Brassieres.” With apologies to Ms. Curtis. At least, dear Ms. Curtis, I didn’t mention panties, in any form, including bikini, Boi shorts [also known as Boyshorts], G Strings or thongs, all of which would unquestionably arouse your offspring to lewd and lascivious thoughts and deeds and in the process turn them into rabid Democrats and dealers in porn [Democrats please forgive me and understand that I'm merely tweaking Ms. Curtis' sense of propriety] and also eaters of chocolate and drinkers of alcoholic beverages. Oh, the horror! The humanity! [Camera 1 cue to the Hindenberg burning with voice over from the sundress wearing trollop on the weather channel who undoubtedly raises sheep and collects belly button lint for use in mysterious rites of spring.] I’m tired. I’m going to bed.
Lost in A**2 on 31 Jan 2013 at 10:02 pm #
Just before that last parenthetical, I thought Ms. Mindy had changed the subject to turkeys.
Ghost Rider 6 on 31 Jan 2013 at 10:45 pm #
Panties? Weather trollops in sundresses? Oh, Boi!
Sundresses? Wait a sec. On The Weather Channel? They aren’t even wearing transparent pantyhose now.
Mark in TTown on 31 Jan 2013 at 11:38 pm #
Mindy, try punji sticks. That is the spelling I had always seen and it’s the one that shows results when you search it.
herb in sj on 01 Feb 2013 at 6:59 am #
Thanks to John I will never look at usb again with out chuckling,
and usb port????
Mindy on 01 Feb 2013 at 7:16 am #
Mark in TTown, you knew what I meant which is what matters, but, either way you spell it, the result is more (^A%($^#A)A^)(% bamboo. Thanks, though. Herb, bear in mind, John is a professional pervert. Not that I’m complaining since he keeps both his per and his vert at home instead of running off to spread pollen and all that non-ecclesiastical stuff.
To Ghost: If you can get here before midnight, we’re having a “Weather Girl Party” at the house with several dozen WG’s attending, wearing either sundresses or pasties and G-strings, their choice. BYOB. And, no, that does not mean “Bringing You Our Boobs.”
How in the world did we get on this topic? Thankfully the newest A&J Retro is due and we can change page and get away for John’s and Ghost’s dirty minds. So sorry, Ms. Collins, in case you really are real, and I don’t apologize to Virgin Mindys.
Woodrowfan on 01 Feb 2013 at 7:48 am #
Yep, I gave up on ear buds and went to headphones. They’re a bit bigger than my iPod but they work a LOT better than earbuds!
emeritus Minnesota biologist on 01 Feb 2013 at 8:09 am #
Newest retro? Maybe. JJ often posts only M-Th, leaving us a 3-day weekend. We’ll see.
John in Richmond Texas on 01 Feb 2013 at 8:11 am #
can’t stand sticking things in my ear, have little round pad type headphones I use with my iPad in bed, to listen to The Great Gildersleeve or Dimension X while my wife reads her Kindle, still amazes me how good the sound is and that when I hold them away from my ear you can barely hear it, so I know nothing leaks out and bothers her.
Don in Oklahoma on 01 Feb 2013 at 8:13 am #
I bought a new Iphone 5 last year and the new ear buds that came with it work much better than the old ones (they actually fit into my ear without hurting). I tend to listen to audio books while working out and when driving for any distance, so the quality is not as critical as when listening to music. I find that listening to audio books while driving relaxes me while keeping me very alert. Listening to music tends to make me sleepy.
Don in Oklahoma on 01 Feb 2013 at 8:26 am #
By the way, USB stands for Ultimately Sensual Booty… And don’t get me going on USB2…
Brent from Waterloo, ON on 01 Feb 2013 at 8:35 am #
@Symply Fargone: Yep, my travel noise cancelling headphones are great. I’ll wear them on the plane even if I’m not listening to anything, as they make it so much easier to hear what people are saying. My big audiophile headphones can’t do that… they block all outside sound equally. I also have two addition headphones at home… one that’s well known to be bright, and the other to be warm. But those are open headphones that sit on the ear, so they don’t really block much.
Mindy on 01 Feb 2013 at 8:44 am #
Leaped right on it, eMb. Oh, well, I thought Thursday was Saturday so it stands to reason that I’d think Friday was Thursday. And if it doesn’t stand to reason, sorry, that’s the way the Cheerios splattered on the floor.
Tell me, honestly, do you guys ever notice anything except…never mind. I know you don’t, at least not until the 49th date.
sandcastler on 01 Feb 2013 at 9:32 am #
Mindy, are you saying February 18 will be that famous “until another day?” Extrapolating, since Feb. 18 is the forty-ninth day of the year and you said, “at least not until the 49th date.”
Mindy on 01 Feb 2013 at 9:53 am #
sandcastler, February 18 falls on a Monday first quarter but the moon is in Zodiac sign Gemini II! An astrologer would say, “Although we all want to take of your families first, it is time to take care of you first. February 18th is a day when you need to value your own health, wellbeing, spiritual needs and physical needs. Eat well, meditate and exercise. Play with your family and enjoy your life.” That’s all well and good, but on that date in 1129 Jerusalem was taken by Emperor Frederik II and in 1865 Charleston, South Carolina was evacuated as Devil — I mean “General” — Sherman approached with his cossack — I mean “Union troops” — to rape and pillage [sorry, Ms. Collins!] — I mean “capture and loot” — that fair city, so, obviously “until another day” simply cannot fall on that most auspicious date. I would have thought that to be most obvious. Oh, well, the local weather girls will all participate in a Wet T-Shirt contest at 7:00 pm at __________________. Losers will donate their T-Shirts to charity.
Don’t you just hate me, Ms. Collins?
Mindy on 01 Feb 2013 at 10:01 am #
sandcastler! I forgot, forgive me, but I failed to note the tidal schedule for the Chesapeake Bay at the Smith Point Light with lows at 0001 and 1257 hours local and highs at 0622 and 1834 hours. I don’t know how I could possibly have overlooked such crucial information but, perhaps, it was because I’m busy training for the Wet T-Shirt contest mentioned above. Don’t you just really hate me, Ms. Collins? I can sign you up for the competition if you wish. The Virgin Mindy has already enrolled.
emeritus Minnesota biologist on 01 Feb 2013 at 10:05 am #
“. . . at least not until the 49th date.” We do notice one or two things first, sometimes, but mostly when we are not particularly interested in the person herself. I, a horny,inexperienced college sophomore, met future wife, a freshman coed, in an extra-curricular organization at Cornell [Ithaca NY, not Mt. Vernon, IA] because she was a delightful, bright, friendly person. [I may have posted this before; I've told it often for decades.] Asked her hair color by my roommate later, I said “brown”. She was a redhead. I thus decided her eyes were blue. They were brown. Did I notice other things? Of course, but later, and I have no complaints.
emeritus Minnesota biologist on 01 Feb 2013 at 10:12 am #
In my post above, change “met” to “noticed”; obviously didn’t meet her “because she was a delightful, bright, friendly person.” But I sure did notice her, an obvious day-brightener.
Virgin Mindy on 01 Feb 2013 at 10:16 am #
I have not! But if I did I would certainly humiliate you!
sandcastler on 01 Feb 2013 at 10:22 am #
Mindy, a simple no would have been the simpler answer. As to the “Devils March,” one of me great-great-grandfathers was along on that adventure; he was: Virginia born, Ohio raised, and an Iowa volunteer.
Training for a wet T-shirt contest? My knowledge of those say, that at most, only a few drinks are needed as preparatory training.
Blinky the Wonder Wombat on 01 Feb 2013 at 10:34 am #
Seems like researchers, inspired by last Friday’s A&J, have concluded that making whoopie only expends 21 calories:
http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/sex-only-burns-21-calories-according-university-study-224521651.html
The real story, though is that the average act of passion only takes 6 minutes. The moral of the story is if you want to use bedroom gymnastics to loose weight, focus on the foreplay.
Blinky the Wonder Wombat on 01 Feb 2013 at 10:45 am #
BTW, today is the Annual Wing Bowl in Philadelphia. “Bacchanalia” is the one word I would use to describe it: Fat guys eating large amounts of chicken wings while show girls prance and over 20,000 drunken spectators cheer them on. All I can say, is that it a purely Philadelphia thing that, like the Mummers, can not properly comprehended by those living outside of the Delaware Valley.
http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/sex-only-burns-21-calories-according-university-study-224521651.html
Ghost Rider 6 on 01 Feb 2013 at 10:53 am #
Good morning, Virgin Mindy. It seems my mental picture of you is turning out to be remarkably accurate, sweetheart. Play much volleyball?
Mindy on 01 Feb 2013 at 11:08 am #
sandcastler, it might have been easier but would it have been as much fun trying to figure out what the heck that all meant? As for training for a Wet T-Shirt contest, it’s the training that separates the amateurs and the average from the truly great. Take Virgin Mindy [please!] for instance. That child will never train for anything in her life and for that reason will always be the base line for any graph of excellence.
Ghost? What does volleyball have to do with anything? Or is that another Guy Thing I don’t want to know about?
Ginger says Hi to all Villagers. [Gender specific pronoun deleted] apparently had a long, busy night and slept in late.
Lost in A**2 on 01 Feb 2013 at 11:28 am #
Some people like watching bouncing . . . balls, Ms. Mindy.
Mark in TTown on 01 Feb 2013 at 12:36 pm #
Mindy and sandcastler, My paternal great-grandfather was on the defending side against that march. He was Alabama born and raised. From what I have been able to piece together, his unit was with A.S. Johnston’s Army of Tennessee when it went to Shiloh. Then Corinth, Stones River, Chattanooga, Nashville, Franklin and the Georgia campaign. Finally his unit surrendered at Goldsboro, SC in April 1865. Records say he was finally paroled home in July of 1865.
sandcastler on 01 Feb 2013 at 12:51 pm #
Mark, great family history, thanks for sharing.
sideburns on 01 Feb 2013 at 1:03 pm #
It might interest you to know, Mark, that Sherman wasn’t actually heading for Atlanta. His orders were to go after the Army of Tennessee and follow it wherever it went. As it fell back to avoid being forced to fight without fieldworks, it came to look like Atlanta was the goal, and it gradually attained a propaganda value that far outweighed its military value. In the end, what was left of the Army of Tennessee retreated West, and Sherman simply let it go because it was too weak to worry about.
sandcastler on 01 Feb 2013 at 1:17 pm #
Sherman planned his broad march to the sea based on studying the 1860 census reports. Knowing that a supply train would not be able to support his Army, nor could he protect an extended line of supply, he plotted a course that would allow the greatest possible foraging opportunities. Following what was the agriculture belt was strategic, the rest was as they say, history.
sandcastler on 01 Feb 2013 at 1:40 pm #
As a further note on my above comment. He was aware of the disaster that did Napoleon in during his Russian campaign and that the few who survived had resorted to foraging. A compelling case of having learned histories lessons.
Mindy on 01 Feb 2013 at 3:05 pm #
Napoleon is still hated in Russia and Sherman is still hated in God’s Country.
sideburns on 01 Feb 2013 at 3:16 pm #
Another thing he did was plot his course to threaten two different places. The Confederates had to guess which one he was heading for and defend it. Then, he shifted his direction to threaten the other place and a new one and make them guess again. Lather, rise, repeat, with the result that he got all the way to the Atlantic Ocean without ever having to fight. Sherman may not have been the best general in that war, but he was certainly a master of maneuver!
One thing that’s often forgotten, Mindy, is that Sherman used his troops to fight the fires in Atlanta and did his best to save as much of it as he could.
Mark in Boston on 01 Feb 2013 at 3:22 pm #
Here up North we honor visitors from other states by playing a song with the name of their state in it.
Oh, you’re from Georgia? Cue the band: “Marching Through Georgia”
Ghost Rider 6 on 01 Feb 2013 at 3:49 pm #
Mindy, VM will probably understand the mental picture and volleyball references.
Mary in Ohio on 01 Feb 2013 at 3:53 pm #
Fargone – luckily, I don’t travel much and still live in a quiet neighborhood.
Sideburns et al.- Sheman is both accused of burning Savannah and of working there to douse the fires too. In a lot of cases, which side initially fired the bales of cotton and the ammo depots is still debated.
Ghost Rider 6 on 01 Feb 2013 at 3:59 pm #
“History is written by the victors.” — Unknown
Anonymous on 01 Feb 2013 at 4:31 pm #
History is written based on the author’s perspective.
Woodrowfan on 01 Feb 2013 at 4:40 pm #
what was left of the Army of Tennessee retreated West, and Sherman simply let it go because it was too weak to worry about.
And General Thomas was waiting for Hood’s army to show up. One of my GG Grandpas was with hood. he HATED Hood almost as much as he hated Sherman, and loved Johnston.
Ghost Rider 6 on 01 Feb 2013 at 5:05 pm #
A currently running TV ad featuring a song by the Rolling Stones seems to saying the Devil is coming soon…and he’ll be driving a Mercedes.
Mark in TTown on 01 Feb 2013 at 5:18 pm #
Woodrowfan, verse added to “The Yellow Rose of Texas” by members of Hood’s Army of Tennessee:
Oh my feet are torn and bloody, and my heart is full of woe,
I’m going back to Georgia, to find my Uncle Joe,
You may talk about your Beauregard, and sing of General (or Bobby) Lee,
But the gallant Hood of Texas, played hell in Tennessee.
Mindy on 01 Feb 2013 at 5:32 pm #
How did I know oh, so completely that I could stir up some discussion by mentioning The Late Unpleasantness? Someone in the Village once corrected me on that, said that “The Late Unpleasantness” referred to the Reconstruction Abomination and the sleazy Carpetbaggers, that General Lee did not use the phrase nor was it intended to refer to the War of Secession. Not only do I beg to differ, a Professor of History at Washington & Lee University [THE University of Virginia] and another from next door at Virginia Military institute concur most strenuously: General Lee DID, while President of Washington College, repeatedly use the phrase “The Late Unpleasantness” is speech and writing and did refer to the War. I yield to their expertise. As I recall, Shelby Foote, one of the great War of Secession historians and writers also makes reference to General Lee’s use of the phrase. The General also steadily referred to his opposition as “Those People,” rather than “those )(*&(*A^T($^%(#&A)(%R# Yankees.” General Lee was, at all times, a gentleman in the best Virginia traditions.
One of the most moving sights I’ve encountered was Lee’s Tomb in Lee Chapel on the W&L Campus. At the time, Traveler was standing behind his sarcophagus as if waiting for one final ride. Traveler, I understand, has been moved. Unfortunately, I’ve been told, the years were unkind to him and he’d begun to deteriorate. That is a pity since the horse’s presence only added to the aura of sheer presence.
Forgive me, I had no intention of waxing sentimentally into a blue funk for years past.
Go away, Virgin Mary, you bother me.
Mindy on 01 Feb 2013 at 6:22 pm #
Incidentally, Mark in TTown, John Bell Hood is highly respected in Virginia as well! But I’ve heard it said, and I agree, that some of the best generals the South had were in the Union Army. Smirk. Snicker. Giggle.
sandcastler on 01 Feb 2013 at 6:56 pm #
Mindy, care to comment on J. C. Pemberton?
Dave in MA on 01 Feb 2013 at 6:58 pm #
Ok, this site has managed to get itself blocked at work again, so I haven’t had access for several days. Yesterday, the access was restored, I posted one message, and the site got blocked again. It’s blocked because of content filters. I’m now accessing it from home. I guess, from reading comments here in this particular thread, that there’s been someone unhappy here whose last name starts with C?
I’m wondering if I should just let it be and not bother going back to read all the comments from the past week or so.
Ghost Rider 6 on 01 Feb 2013 at 8:18 pm #
Blocked at work, Dave? Was it something I said?
If you have time, go back to 1-25-13 (the day of the infamous f…p… cartoon) and read at least a couple of days forward.
Ghost Rider 6 on 01 Feb 2013 at 8:22 pm #
BTW, what’s with the type style in today’s real time cartoon? Have we seen that before?
sandcastler on 01 Feb 2013 at 8:48 pm #
GR6, you think JJ is using felt tips for lettering? Or he may have off shored the lettering.
Lost in A**2 on 01 Feb 2013 at 9:54 pm #
Hmmm. . . IIRC, Mr. Johnson once said that he can letter the strip faster by hand. Nonetheless, the dialog is in a new typeface, that differs from that on the calendar and in his signature. ‘Twould seem to be more than just a different pen.
Ghost Rider 6 on 01 Feb 2013 at 10:43 pm #
I wonder if, for some reason, the lettering for 2-1-13 was done by the syndicate. I mean if the colorists can get away with somewhat changing the meaning of the cartoon by coloring it a certain way, maybe the editors thought they could totally change its meaning by changing the characters’ words.
Seriously, I wonder if there was some kind of production problem, and they had to do a work-around.
Mark in TTown on 01 Feb 2013 at 11:32 pm #
GR6, maybe Jimmy did it because Arlo is talking directly to the reading audience instead of to the other characters in the strip?
Jerry in Fl on 02 Feb 2013 at 1:07 am #
Sorry, but I’ve beeen in too much of a funk to keep up recently. I scanned a little and noticed comments re The War of Northern Agression. These days I feel much more in common with people up Nawth and if the global warming gets to the point where winters are bearable I just may move. I already have a t-shirt that says: Governor Scott, we’ll leave the light on. Fl DOC, and I’m thinking of getting one that says: Everything that you know you saw on Faux News. I live in an area of 38 houses and only one of my neighbors is capable of having an intelligent conversation. I try to be nonconfrontational, but life seems to pushing me into a corner and, when I decide to fight, I don’t use a feather duster.
Ghost Rider 6 on 02 Feb 2013 at 6:00 am #
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=80QHRTQ3Kmw
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Debbe59 on 02 Feb 2013 at 6:25 am #
GR..you’re up very early…looking for your shadow? Loved today’s real time strip, had to read the comments to understand it though…blonde moment?
The car commercial…is it “Symphony for the Devil”? Think I’ve seen it. And Satan sure has been running amok lately…
I’m still trying to understand the big hype about Groundhog Day..it’s origins, anyone know?
Hey..big game on tonight…IU plays Michigan….GO IU…if it’s Groundhog day, March Madness is not far behind. Hoosier Hysteria…grew up with it. When I was junior in High School (in 1970,total enrollment under 500), our little team made it to the final four championship playoffs, we played East Chicago Roosevelt….and lost, but hey, it was a thrill for us.
Ghost Rider 6 on 02 Feb 2013 at 6:47 am #
Close, Debbe. Sympathy for the Devil. (Glad you’re sticking around to play with us.)
I saw my shadow this morning. So, I guess, six more weeks of double entendres, bad jokes and trying to gentle that spirited filly, Virgin Mindy.
Wish I could send my shadow to work and stay home in bed.
Debbe59 on 02 Feb 2013 at 6:52 am #
Me too, GR…there’s a bondness at this site. Very educational too, like the above posts on the Civil War. Don’t work too hard.
GO IU……………………
Debbe59 on 02 Feb 2013 at 7:24 am #
Found the super bowl ad on the mercedes….interesting manicure on William Dafoe.
sandcastler on 02 Feb 2013 at 8:21 am #
For fans of Groundhog Day:
http://muttscomics.com/default.aspx
Steve from Royal Oak, MI on 02 Feb 2013 at 9:12 am #
Wow and for all of these years I have mispelled Loogootee. The single class tournament is the true Hoosier Hysteria. A year ago this weekend I was in the gym in Knightstown where they filmed Hoosiers. I am going to be in the area on Sunday as my Step-Mother’s mother died at the age of 99 1/2. My wife might like to see the gym, so if we have time, we might swing over there.
Boiler Up
Ghost Rider 6 on 02 Feb 2013 at 9:20 am #
Handled like a true company man, sandcastler.
Ghost Rider 6 on 02 Feb 2013 at 9:40 am #
Mindy, sorry I missed the “Weather Girl Party” last night. Sounds like it was going to be lots of fun. Out of curiosity, how many wore sundresses and how many wore oh-so-tacky-and-oh-so-50’s-but-still-hard-to-beat-for-sexy pasties and G strings? I’m guessing they all wore 5-inch “hooker heels” because that’s what all the weather babes on TWC do. And props to Maria LaRosa of TWC for leaving her black pantyhose at home today.
I thought BYOB meant “Bring Your Own Blonde.” At least, that’s what I did last night.
Ghost Rider 6 on 02 Feb 2013 at 9:41 am #
Oh, and who won the wet tee shirt contest? And more importantly, did you enter?
TruckerRon on 02 Feb 2013 at 9:52 am #
I believe Groundhog Day is the midpoint between the first days of winter and spring. So, winter is halfway over and an early spring sure would be nice to have.
TruckerRon on 02 Feb 2013 at 9:57 am #
I don’t understand why a news network that has both liberal (Bob Beckel, Bret Baier, Chris Wallace, Shepard Smith, and Kirsten Powers) and conservative hosts is so reviled. What’s so wrong with giving BOTH sides some attention?
Mindy on 02 Feb 2013 at 9:59 am #
sandcastler. Pemberton. Vicksburg. [It really wasn't his fault.] Good morning, Debbe! Glad to see you and here’s a hug. Ghost saw his shadow which means six more weeks of Virgin Mary [isn't that a non-alcoholic cocktail, by the bye?] but his comment above makes me think he plans to ride Virgin Mary until she breaks or stops bucking. Gonna ride her hard and put her away wet, Ghost? The Weather Girl Wet T-Shirt contest was called off due to frigidity. Not mine, Ghost, before you ask. Everyone just sat around in a natural state of pokies and high beams and discussed…things. New topics kept coming up all evening long.
As for seeing my shadow…I’ll be lucky to even see the higher level clouds through our overcast. The weather girls can’t be blamed but NOAA and USWB can’t make up their minds on the upcoming weather. It will either snow this afternoon, or it will snow this evening or it will snow late tonight. They’re fairly confident that it will snow. The maritime forecasts does indicate that this will not be a good day for sailing off the Outer Banks. Drat. One of these days John and I [and maybe Ginger] will sail down to Gus’s place and see the kids and Arlo’s boat.
Symphony for the Devil. I like that! Sympathy for the Devil is one of my favorite Stones songs. Next to Girl with Faraway Eyes. And Paint it Black. And Play with Fire. And…come to think of it, the Stones have done very few songs that I didn’t like. Think I’ll either go listen to some Stones or some Baroque. Bye.
emeritus Minnesota biologist on 02 Feb 2013 at 10:39 am #
I haven’t done a search, but seem to have read somewhere that it originated in Britain or on the Continent, but with hedgehogs, not woodchucks. I don’t think any Asian marmots get as far west, but they are mostly mountain-dwelling marmots like our western species. I believe our woodchuck is the world’s only temperate forest [not necessarily old-growth], non-colonial marmot. Hedgehogs are Old World insectivores, and many spp. hibernate. They are also non-colonial.
Lost in A**2 on 02 Feb 2013 at 12:54 pm #
What is the difference between “non-colonial” and “solitary”?
David from Austin on 02 Feb 2013 at 1:27 pm #
Non colonials were the ones that moved in after the Revolution ….
sandcastler on 02 Feb 2013 at 2:42 pm #
David, to which Revolution are you referring?
TruckerRon on 02 Feb 2013 at 2:56 pm #
The Revolutions were at 33, 45, and 78 on the family Hi-Fi.
Mary in Ohio on 02 Feb 2013 at 3:38 pm #
Woodrowfan -I read a book about the Battle of Franklin within the last year – can’t remember the title. But it was a horrific battle – almost the equal of Fredericksburg and Cold Harbor and just about as senseless.
Mindy from Indy on 02 Feb 2013 at 3:41 pm #
“You say you want a revolution…” Sorry. And sorry Mindy, not much for the Stones.
Really glad this week is over. Almost 60 hours. And my insomnia is back.
Too bad my housework won’t do itself. I have today off so I am vegging on the couch with some hot tea. Housework will wait until Monday.
In other news, my aunt’s mother had a successful surgery, is out of the hospital and might even be out of rehab in two weeks (down from 6-8). This woman is a machine.
Mindy from Indy on 02 Feb 2013 at 4:03 pm #
And oh my gosh Ghost, you are right – that one meteorologist DOES look like she might be pregnant. And did you know there is actually a forum about all of the pregnant Weather Channel ladies? Ha!
Charlotte in NH on 02 Feb 2013 at 4:20 pm #
Hello to emeritus Minn. biologist, Now you’ve reminded me, I have a question that is right up your alley. A daughter and her husband were visiting on January 6. Through the kitchen window we saw a Chipmunk foraging busily under the bird feeders. We were astonished! None of us had EVER seen one in the winter and could hardly believe our eyes. There was a little snow on the ground, not fresh, maybe two or three inches. My son-in-law took quite a few pictures. So, what do you make of this, with your expertise?
We are in southern NH, not high altitude; it was seasonably cold that day. And I saw it the next day as well; and had the luck to see it at the end of the day, high-tailing it toward the house next door; so it wasn’t one of “our” Chipmunks. They are presumably sound asleep far underground, with their storerooms of “stolen” birdseed. Have not seen this fellow again.
emeritus Minnesota biologist on 02 Feb 2013 at 4:25 pm #
Lost: No difference, really. Just that I was writing about a ground squirrel genus [Marmota] that is largely mountain-dwelling and all but one sp. colonial, so coming from that direction, our woodchuck is unusual in contrast to its colonial cousins, therefore “non-colonial”. Don’t know if anyone has done the DNA work to see who its closest relatives are, and to suggest which came first. I suspect the colonial [all Marmota colonies are variously extended family groups, by the way] habit is the older characteristic in the genus. In the less challenging environment of our Eastern Deciduous Forest, there is less percentage in maintaining a community of close knit relatives, and greater advantage in spacing out to avoid individual competitors. It’s ages since I had occasion to search the literature on marmots. D.P. Barash 1974, Animal Behavior 22:446-448 and D.P. Barash 1974, Science 185:415-420, are good references, and I know he’s done later work on the genus.
emeritus Minnesota biologist on 02 Feb 2013 at 4:46 pm #
Charlotte/NH: Nothing to be “astonished” about. Eastern chipmunks are relatively light hibernators, often emerging to forage on tolerable days in winter, especially if their underground stores of seeds nuts are running low. [Unless you have color-banded "this fellow" or he (?) has peculiar markings, how are you going to tell which one you are seeing next time?] Lots of mammalogists, including this one, have seen Tamias striatus out in winter, with snow on the ground. Good of you to maintain a chipmunk feeder.
Ghost Rider 6 on 02 Feb 2013 at 6:18 pm #
Lady Mindy, she is definitely preggers, but I have an alibi.
Actually, I’ve lost track of how many of TWC’s female on-air meteorologists have worked while pregnant. I once even saw a syndicated newspaper columnist writing humorously about whether or not a willingness to get in a family way and work on-camera right up until the time of the blessed event was a requirement for employment. I think Vivian Brown has had at least three children since she started there.
Good on your aunt’s mom. She’s turning out to be a real superwoman.
Which reminds me…earlier today I was in the lingerie department of a big box store (no, Mindy, I was accompanying a female friend, not lurking there) when I saw some “cartoon character” panties for adults on display. I did my best to keep a straight face, but it was difficult when I noticed three of them featured Super Girl, Curious George, and (you saw this coming, didn’t you?) Hello Kitty.
Mindy from Indy on 02 Feb 2013 at 6:48 pm #
Ghost, apparently there are a number of people who noticed the high occurrence of maternity-wear over the years.
Did you find anything special to add to your El Phantasma-wear? A new garter belt perhaps?
You in a lingerie store, who’d a thunk it?
And yes, she is a superwoman. I’m fairly certain one of the big reasons for her longevity is the Grim Reaper is scared to death (pardon the pun) of her. I know I would be.
Jerry in Fl on 02 Feb 2013 at 6:57 pm #
My apologies for venting on you guys, although no apologies for telling the truth. Sounds like a contradiction, but my father saw no problem with telling somone that they needed to lose weight because, after all, it was true. Point being that you guys are not here for me to vent on.
Mindy from Indy on 02 Feb 2013 at 7:22 pm #
Jerry in Fl, If you need to vent, vent. We are here to listen. Hopefully, we can also brighten your day and give advice/sympathy/courage to help you get through a bad time. I understand what it’s like to think and value differnt things than the people around you. It is extremely frustrating. When I hit one of my lowest points, I made myself sit down and write a letter to my best friend, and tell her why her friendship was so important to me. It was a two-fold thing: one, I wanted her to know just how much I valued our friendship and what a great person she is, and two, it reminded me of something positive in my life. Obviously, not everything can be fixed with a letter, but actively finding one thing positive in life, every day, helps counter the negatives. I hope you kick your funk soon, and if you come join us up North, that’s our gain and their loss. (But fair warning, I’m not too sure about the warmer winter thing, it’s pretty darn cold right now.) Sending goodwill and positive thoughts your way.
Jerry in Fl on 02 Feb 2013 at 7:30 pm #
Thank you Mindy. Believe it or not, I needed that.
Charlotte in NH on 02 Feb 2013 at 7:50 pm #
emeritus M b, Thanks for your words of wisdom. These furry fellows may be light sleepers, but for many decades I’ve made a comitment to observing the world around me, and this is the very first Chipmunk I’ve ever seen in the Winter. Seeing one the next day is a high probability it’s the same one; no others were seen, and haven’t seen any since.
I do realize that I’m not using the scientific method.
Planning to take part next weekend in the Audubon Winter Bird Count. Do you have this out in Minnesota?
Ghost Rider 6 on 02 Feb 2013 at 7:55 pm #
Jerry, Lady Mindy is just one of many reasons I like to hang out here.
Ghost Rider 6 on 02 Feb 2013 at 8:16 pm #
Lady Mindy, I am certainly secure enough in my masculinity to visit a lingerie shop or even shop in one. Did you think otherwise?
Come to think of it, I didn’t see any garter belts. (It wasn’t a What’s-her-name’s Secret shop I was in.) Apparently they are not that much in demand these days, notwithstanding a physician I know who claims he goes home for “lunch” every day and expects his wife to meet him at the door wearing one. (I know that sounds like someone’s TASFYAD, but it’s not.) I guess regular stockings have been replaced by those damned can’t-see-through-them pantyhose things. So El Phantasma (if indeed there is such a person) will probably have to make certain wardrobe adjustments.
Ruth Anne in Winter Park on 02 Feb 2013 at 8:17 pm #
Audubon may count birds at different times in various locales; in Florida it’s between Christmas and New Year’s and you really need to be an expert birder. However, we can all join in on the Great Backyard Bird Count, sponsored by Cornell’s college of ornithology, which is coming up soon. Here’s the link – http://www.birdsource.org/gbbc
Mindy from Indy on 02 Feb 2013 at 9:10 pm #
Ghost, We all know that your alter ego shops at Fredrick’s of Hollywood.
JDS on 02 Feb 2013 at 9:43 pm #
@TruckerRon – I don’t understand either. It is sad, but there are many people, my older brother and one of my two sisters included, who can’t accept that there are honest people who simply don’t agree with them. I’m thinking that maybe it has something to do with the long term effects of a certain inhaled substance on the way the brain functions, but that’s only a guess based upon my personal observation of my relatives.
Ginger on 02 Feb 2013 at 10:14 pm #
Inhaled substances?
Ginger on 02 Feb 2013 at 10:15 pm #
You meant Chanel, of course…
TruckerRon on 02 Feb 2013 at 10:25 pm #
I can accept that there are people who don’t like the music that I do, that believe in theories of life that I don’t, and who don’t like A&J (poor saps!). That doesn’t mean I think they’re evil or need to be attacked. I wish everyone could be a little more tolerant, willing to live and let live. OTOH, if they come after me or mine, I will put up a real fight.
Ghost Rider 6 on 02 Feb 2013 at 10:38 pm #
Fredrick’s of Hollywood? I’m afraid that products from that purveyor of ____ ___ bras and ______less panties might not meet El Phantasma’s high standards for good taste and decormum (if indeed there is such a person.)
Mark in TTown on 03 Feb 2013 at 12:20 am #
TruckerRon, I like what you say and agree with it. Thank you for sharing it and stating it clearly.
And Jimmy, I am sorry to hear that Auburn has decided the Toomer’s Corner oaks can’t be saved and that they will removed them soon.
Mark in TTown on 03 Feb 2013 at 12:20 am #
Remove, not removed. Darned fingers!
Debbe54 on 03 Feb 2013 at 4:34 am #
Did you see it? What a game IU beat Michigan…great game..I think we’ll be moving up to No. 1 again. Coach Crean’s brother-in-laws are coaches for the Ravens and the 49ers…small world.
Steve from Royal Oak….how in the world did you come up with Loogootee? Read your post and just about dropped my coffee
AND you are right, this new class division in high school basketball has taken a lot of the hysteria out of it. I would always like to pronounce Loogootee as Loogitoogi…people don’t pronounce it correctly, they use the long ‘o’ vowel instead of pronouncing it like the words look, took! The coach at Loogootee is the winningest coach in the State of Indiana…Jack Butcher.
And Steve my condolences on your step mother’s mother. Hope you have time to see that old gym.
Michigan plays Ohio tuesday….that should be good.
Oh, and I’m a Butler fan too, then there’s Purdue.
Once read an article from Slate on “why people love to hate Duke”, wish I could remember what all it said….brain farts!
The IU stadium is huge, it was built in 1971…saw Elton John perform there in ’73, and we were way up in the rafters…..over 17,000 seating capacity
Debbe54 on 03 Feb 2013 at 4:42 am #
Good morning Mindy…you have got to listen to the Stone’s song “Time Waits for No One”, the instrumental in it is just the best they’ve done.
And good morning to you GR…the only time garters are used are on the bride. I’ve seen some pretty funny things done when the groom takes the garter off his bride…like when one groom started pulling out empty bottles, and other assorted trash before he pulled off the garter…..
And another good morning to Trucker Ron….visited my mother at the nursing home yesterday, and she told me too that yesterday we were half way through winter, so I guess that’s where the groundhog thing came from.
Debbe54 on 03 Feb 2013 at 4:43 am #
Jerry…don’t stop coming here….still in my funk, but I look forward to coming here every morning…oh, and reading A&J
Mindy on 03 Feb 2013 at 5:59 am #
Good morning and hugs to Debbe [I'll try to find that song; I assume Keith Richards does the lead instrumental part which makes him a better guitarist than all the Beatles put together, including Starr!], good morning to everyone else sans hugs cause I’m in a lousy mood: it’s early Sunday morning, it’s still cold, it’s snowing, I have a cold [but was careful not to contaminate Debbe] and I’m in an increasingly homicidal mood. Ghost, you find all of Vicki’s silks to be so sensual but I bet you’d swoon at a nice pair of cotton Boi Shorts [a/k/a Boy Shorts]. We are now halfway minus one through winter. If we get the extra 6 weeks of winter I swear I’m going to Pennsylvania and run over not only that lying woodchuck but the mayor as well! I can’t wait for sundresses, bikinis, and even the renewed Bamboo War!
How come no one ever cheers for Slippery Rock State Teachers College? Go Forty-niners!
Debbe54 on 03 Feb 2013 at 6:13 am #
Ah…hugs back at you Mindy….just be glad we don’t live in Alaska where some areas this time of year get about 1 to 2 hours of shady sunlight. There’s a word for this seasonal depression, but it escapes me now…Mindy from Indy always has some insightful advice and I enjoy her optimism.
Oh, Mindy tell John that my son has ‘tweaked’ my computer, I have a different antivirus, and my computer is a wam, bam, thank you mamm speed
Maybe a saline solution rinse would help you out……
Lost in A**2 on 03 Feb 2013 at 6:44 am #
SAD – Seasonal Affective Disorder. Supposedly caused by too little sunlight.
Debbe54 on 03 Feb 2013 at 7:12 am #
That’s it, Lost…..
JDS on 03 Feb 2013 at 7:34 am #
@Ghost Rider 6 – You’re not fooling anybody with those blanks in your sentences.
Mindy on 03 Feb 2013 at 7:53 am #
John especially likes the “wham, bam, thank you, Ma’am” part, Debbe, so I’ll phrase it differently. I’m in a better mood now. I remembered that we had one heck of a Mid-Winter Party last night. All ____ of us. I don’t drink all that much but, in lieu of a saline rinse or drip, I just consumed two [in a period of two hours] hot Southern Comfort drinks with John’s secret mixture of chase-the-cold-away ingredients.
The activities of last night’s discreetly quiet but not quietly discreet party were undertaken by trained individuals, please do not attempt to replicate them at home, and, as usual, management assures interested parties that no animals were injured, including the…oh, I do so wish that The Tattler and The National Inquirer, as well as the Republican National Committee, had not been present. They, the RNC, were…oh, never mind. I promised not to discuss politics. A special thanks is extended to the 2,395 weather girls who also participated.
Mindy on 03 Feb 2013 at 7:54 am #
No, Ghost, I will not share photographs or videos.
Mindy on 03 Feb 2013 at 7:54 am #
Apologies to Ms. Collins.
JDS on 03 Feb 2013 at 8:23 am #
@Lost in A**2 – The effects can be offset by taking vitamin D, which is normally produced by sunlight on the skin. Or perhaps the effects can be offset by that inhaled substance that I referred to earlier. I don’t know. But the vitamin D seems to work for me.
Ghost Rider 6 on 03 Feb 2013 at 9:17 am #
Mindy, I hope all the weather girls at your party are aware of the current condition of the pregnant meteorologist on TWC (hereafter known as the Weather Madonna) and took proper precautions last night…not to catch your cold, I mean.
Lady Mindy, I can’t keep up with your work schedule, but if you were watching TWC this morning, you would have seen that the Weather Madonna was working the early morning shift for the first time I can recall. Maybe she decided that as long as she was going to be up barfing every morning, she might as well go on into work. (Apologies to Ms. Curtis and every other pregnant and formally pregnant woman in the world.)
Speaking of TWC (and I believe someone was), I see they are about to begin showing just what the world needs…another “reality” show. I use quotations because, as I believe I have mentioned previously, if one has any knowledge whatsoever of the subject of the shows, one will likely find much of what they portray as being “real” to be either nonsensical, hard to believe, or downright incredible. Of course, I myself find that to also be true of many television news shows.
Ghost Rider 6 on 03 Feb 2013 at 9:44 am #
Speaking of TWC (and I believe someone was), I see they are providing live coverage of the Super Bowl from New Orleans. A wise move, I’m sure, should the NWS suddenly issue some type of weather alert for inside the Super Dome.
Virgin Mindy on 03 Feb 2013 at 9:51 am #
Well, Pervert Ghost Rider, you’ve truly outdone yourself this time. How, pray tell, can anyone be “informally” pregnant, since you have created your chauvinistic “formally” pregnant category? I most assuredly cannot see you ever being in one of the reality shows.
Ginger on 03 Feb 2013 at 10:10 am #
Ouch! She stung you there, Ghost Rider! And just when we thought she’d been swept out with the tide!
Mindy from Indy on 03 Feb 2013 at 10:12 am #
Ghost, Yes, I did see “Weather Madonna” Banks this morning. (I work late tonight.)
Mindy on 03 Feb 2013 at 10:58 am #
Barney Bush died. And I’ve been watching the commentary on whether or not the Volkswagon Jamacian Super Bowl commercial is or isn’t racist. And the Coca-Cola commercial is or isn’t racist. And…have we gotten into the era where everything anyone says, does, writes or thinks is going to be racist because it offends someone or something…or some place…or some how…jeez. I wanna go back to the Sixties! Or the Fifties! Or 1845.
John in Richmond Texas on 03 Feb 2013 at 11:11 am #
Jerry in FL – well, yeah but you’re still not supposed to go around saying random things just because they’re true, like your clothes are stupid or you have a zit face. You would have liked it Friday night. We were at the annual Fort Bend County Republican Lincoln/Reagan Dinner, our guest was LT Col Allen West, he said lots of true stuff. . – a lot of trouble between people is that one may speak of certain unelected bureaucracies or judges deciding how you will live or you may speak of what the president or congress just did or what a cabinet secreatry said and to you it means the dissolution of the United States of America, but the person you’re talking to has no idea what you’re even talking about. and voting with your feet? we know all about that, Texas gained four house seats in the last census
Ghost Rider 6 on 03 Feb 2013 at 11:16 am #
Oh, wow, Virgin Mindy! Flagellation for a simple typo! Someone call paramedics while I attempt to staunch the flow of blood!
And since everyone knows only chauvinists are ever guilty of making typographical errors, good and valid point. Enjoy the rest of your weekend, sweetheart.
And at least I didn’t typo “flagellation”.
Mindy on 03 Feb 2013 at 12:32 pm #
Apologize to Ms. Collins, Ghost. She is our resident conscience, you know. [I still don't think she's real!] The Virgin Mindy is apparently the Village’s stone in the shoe. Or the darned mosquito that won’t go away. But I think Ghost is getting a warm spot in his little old heart for Ms. Virgin!
Ghost Rider 6 on 03 Feb 2013 at 12:37 pm #
Lady Mindy, Crystal Egger is TWC’s current Weather Madonna, not Danielle Banks. Ms. Banks, while perfectly lovely, is, I believe, just, ah, somewhat full-figured.
This is why I never ask a woman, “When are you due?” unless I am absolutely sure she is in fact enceinte.
Or were you just being catty?
sandcastler on 03 Feb 2013 at 1:01 pm #
GR6, careful what you say to or about VM, remember she has claimed possession of a high GPA.
Still amazes me when I am going for a day what topics of discussion pop up. I may have to invest sometime watching TWC on a TV; all this time I thought it was just a nifty app. The Village Regulars and Irregulars can truly be irregular and regular, wonder what this village would look like if JJ was to ink it on paper.
Mindy from Indy on 03 Feb 2013 at 1:20 pm #
Ghosty, It would appear we both are correct. Egger and Banks are not only both pregnant, they have the same due date, as per Ms. Banks’s own Facebook page.
Ghost Rider 6 on 03 Feb 2013 at 2:07 pm #
Oops! My bad. Haven’t seen Ms. Banks lately on TWC.
What is their due date? And did both of them attend one of Mindy’s parties together?
Mindy from Indy on 03 Feb 2013 at 2:16 pm #
Some time in April. Actually, Banks was on after Egger this am. (11a EST) I keep missing Egger. Have no idea what party(ies) they might have attended. I’ll leave that to your fevered imagination.
Jerry in Fl on 03 Feb 2013 at 2:51 pm #
One of the Johns-You did a better job of making the point that I was trying to make, which was that there are times that telling the truth just for the sake of telling the truth is oftertimes unnecessarily hurtfull. And oh yeah, I would love to go to one of those dinners just as soon as I get down from Mt. Everest. TWC used to do a very good job of giving the local forecast “on the 8′s”, but has decided to be an entertainment network with regular programs. Isn’t it strange that as the number of reality programs grows evey day we know less and less about what is really going on in the world?
sandcastler on 03 Feb 2013 at 3:54 pm #
Jerry, get a few good apps and the world is yours on demand. Of course, they might not work on Mt. Everest, it is unlikely there are cell towers on the mountain. A good probability of some satellite gear at the base camp, those are only located at the 12 to 13k altitudes and would still require a powerful transmitter. Keep the oxygen bottles close at hand and stay warm.
Mindy from Indy on 03 Feb 2013 at 8:44 pm #
Wow. Longest The Village has been quiet in a while. Everyone too stuffed on Super Bowl snacks to type?
TruckerRon on 03 Feb 2013 at 8:46 pm #
There’s an extremely large bowl of snacks? What am I missing here?
I don’t watch sports programs. I get TOO involved in them and my heart does funny things, then my ICD gets involved, and it gets messy.
I miss it. A little.
Mark in TTown on 03 Feb 2013 at 10:46 pm #
I went to a local sporting event, of sorts, today and had fun. Watched the local SCA group hold a fighter practice at a park next to the Warrior River. Wind was a bit chilly, but beautiful sunshine and lots of interested spectators. Nobody doing it for money, just having a great time. I started to say nobody doing it to make the big leagues, but most fighter-types want to make it to a knighthood eventually. Anyone close to Lumberton, MS in mid-March ought to check out Gulf Wars. Thousands of attendees, biggest SCA event in the South. You can find videos on YouTube.
Jerry in Fl on 03 Feb 2013 at 11:40 pm #
Thanks anyway. My brother is really active in civil war reenactments, but the fun seems to have escaped me so far. I did my nights in the woods back in the 70′s and had enough by 77. War game is an oxymoron.
Mindy on 04 Feb 2013 at 6:12 am #
“Who Let the Dog Out” became synonymous with the NFL. Now it’s “Who Turned the Lights Out.” I’ve read that during the great blackout in the northeast during the Sixties pregnancies spiked. Knowing New Orleans as it is and as it wants to be, I wonder if the ensuing spike around the nations will be linked to the presence in the Super Dome? It was a hard fought game, especially by the 49-ers, but I’m surely glad I put my money on the Ravens. I said I was FOR the 49-ers, not that I was going to bet on them. I wonder what the Ghost of Poe is doing right about now…the terrible part is that I forgot all about the game and didn’t watch it, and that means that John got to feast on all the shrimp and alligator wings I fixed.
Mindy on 04 Feb 2013 at 6:46 am #
New Orleans electricity used to be furnished by NOPSI which was owned by Middle South Utilities. NOPSI is now something like ENTERGY and I have no idea who runs the street cars like NOPSI used to do. Knowing NOLA, I suspect they simply forgot to pay the light bill. Buddy Deliberto once said the Saints could pull defeat out of the jaws of victory every time. The City does a great job of that now since the Saints finally make it to a Super Bowl. Best politicians money can buy, and Huey P. Long said that!
Ginger on 04 Feb 2013 at 7:29 am #
At least in Virginia, when we buy a politician, he stays bought!
Meryl A on 05 Feb 2013 at 1:04 am #
And husband always says that I am crazy that I can’t use earbuds. I have a nice pair of smallish headphones, bluetooth, so I can listen to the TV while we work in the office without him having to hear it. Worked great until he bought a HD TV. Now plug for bluetooth is in back and I have to take the set out of the bookshelf to plug in. Afraid that I’ll drop the TV and it has to go back leaning on something or other or it is on the wrong angle to see the picture. Life sure is better now – not.
By the way, large earphones seem to be making a comeback, based on TV the last few days.