Oct 18th 2012 08:11 am Safety in numbers
Still in October of 2002. I’ll have to drop off the strip and run, because I’ve got to draw some new strips. I will try to post tomorrow. I want to get back to five a week as the rule and not the exception, but time is never seems to be an ally by week’s end.
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220 Responses to “Safety in numbers”
Dave in MA on 18 Oct 2012 at 8:19 am #
“….but there never seems to be enough time to do the things you want to do once you find them……”
Steve from Royal Oak, MI on 18 Oct 2012 at 8:23 am #
Happy Thanksgiving Jimmy…Are we headed to the beach again?
Mark from Maine on 18 Oct 2012 at 8:27 am #
Excellent classic to complement today’s underboob. Arlo strikes out here and with the turtleneck . . .
Dan on 18 Oct 2012 at 8:30 am #
Today’s strip… Underboob? Oh my!
Ghost Rider 6 on 18 Oct 2012 at 8:36 am #
Today’s cartoon of Janis’s black camisole (and more) : A&J’s male readers :: red meat : ______.
And Mindy, it appears from the retro cartoon that GR6 is not the only one who occasionally displays evidence of a fetish. But I have news for Janis…a dozen is good, too.
Michael on 18 Oct 2012 at 8:38 am #
I think Janis wants a dozen so that some can be doing other chores, etc.
And… yeah… underboob ftw….
Symply Fargone on 18 Oct 2012 at 8:40 am #
JJ, this is as big as getting rid of twin beds on TV and going with the double bed……yee hah! I’m not half as excited over the picture as I am that you were so Fargone as to put it out there!
Tom from the Front Range on 18 Oct 2012 at 9:01 am #
I’d like to believe that JJ is the victim of a inattentive colorist once again.
Rickmeister on 18 Oct 2012 at 9:07 am #
“Stick with a dozen” implies that she knows that twelve is just a fantasy. Two on the other hand…hmmm….
Mindy from Indy on 18 Oct 2012 at 9:15 am #
Another Arlo award winner! This one will definitely earn a few raised eyebrows.
Speaking of raised eyeebrows, Yet AGAIN someone has provided me with (unrequested) highly personal information about a third party; and AGAIN not only to I have regular interaction with said third party, but said person would be mortified to know that I know what I do about them. Because I am an awful person, these bits of information always strike me as funny. (I am thoroughly ashamed of myself, really I am.), but now I have to behave myself the next time I see this person.
Ghost Rider 6 on 18 Oct 2012 at 9:15 am #
Tom, that was my second thought, too. But my third thought was that the color of the upper undergarment would likely match that of the lower undergarment, therefore making it difficult for the colorist to misinterpret the black-and-white rendering of the cartoon.
But listen to me! The ladies here will be thinking I over-think these things.
Ghost Rider 6 on 18 Oct 2012 at 9:28 am #
Lady Mindy, for years I have known something of an extremely personal nature about a higher-up person in my organization. Since I’m not ready to be “retired,” I have kept this information strictly to myself. But like you, I find it hilarious, and if you know anything about me, you know I like to relate funny stories.
So far I’ve managed to suppress the fact I know this about her, except for the knowing smile I can’t help giving her every time I encounter her. Which probably bugs the heck out of her, wondering what it means. Which is almost as funny to me as the story itself. Almost.
Mindy on 18 Oct 2012 at 9:34 am #
Mindy from Indy, fake it! Be a paragon of friendly, non-threatening, non-knowing! I’m in the same situation, just biding my time. Ain’t it amazing how much information is out there just waiting to be snatched our of the air? Ghost? I’ve never said that fetishes are bad things. I have one [or more] of my own and they dovetail quite nicely with the 108.6 that John has. The decimal point comes into play because he’s still working on #109.
Did Arlo’s arm disappear? Or is that the “boob” talk you guys are tossing around? Now, answer me this: How come if John pats me on the butt in public that’s supposed to be a good thing but if I do the same to him he jerks like I just jabbed him in the ribs only forward rather than laterally?
And I have to think that a dozen would not only be unromantic, it would be crowded and messy and probably painful with all the knees, elbows and foots. Never mind.
sandcastler on 18 Oct 2012 at 9:58 am #
No comments, it has all been said.
Hmmmm. Underboob, Cammy, nice sweater; all jiggly with no pokies.
Ruth on 18 Oct 2012 at 10:00 am #
Not sure about the “underboob” but the colorist did strike again. I would never wear a black cammy under a yellow cable or open weave sweater because the cammy color would show through. My friends and I agreed we would wear a flesh or neutral colored cammy under that sweater.
Arlo has it lucky, I broke out the sweaters a couple of weeks ago and won’t put them away until March or April. Of course by then friend hubby really misses and therefor appreciates the show of assets even more!
sandcastler on 18 Oct 2012 at 10:03 am #
Ruth, can only dream of sweaters down here.
Ghost Rider 6 on 18 Oct 2012 at 10:05 am #
Mindy, having a dozen would admittedly pose organizational and scheduling issues, but I think those issues would be quite solvable.
I never doubted that you, like most of us, have some fetishes. No matter how great the main course, it can always be enhanced by the proper side dishes and seasonings. So to speak. But I must say I’m impressed by John’s pursuit of excellence in the field.
Shelly on 18 Oct 2012 at 10:44 am #
“Underboob.” Is that what you guys say for “bra-less?” Which Janis apparently was. Which makes me feel a lot better if “respectable” ladies in the comic strips can head out into the public like that. We really aren’t alone!
Blinky the Wonder Wombat on 18 Oct 2012 at 10:45 am #
I’ve always enjoyed larger sweaters on my bride- clingy ones accentuate her gifts but fluffy ones hold a promise of unwrapping things later. As the poet Steven Tyler once noted: Those softy, fuzzy sweaters, too magical to touch. To see her in that negligee is really just too much.”
A wise man once gave me sage advice about giving sweaters as gifts to lady friends: always buy them too small. She will either be flattered that you think she is that small or she will proudly wear it and display her charms.
Dan on 18 Oct 2012 at 11:02 am #
Shelly, Pictures, television, movies, artwork, the mall and even the office reveal an abundance of top down perspective cleavage. While the bottom half is rarely shown. Hence the term.
Ghost Rider 6 on 18 Oct 2012 at 11:17 am #
Gosh, Shelly, you mean you… GR6 is blushing.
I’ve never had much use for the term “underboob.” However, “side cleavage” is another matter. And although I’m sure you’ll find it shocking, Mindy, that term is sometimes applicable to women in sundresses.
Mindy on 18 Oct 2012 at 11:27 am #
I am so terribly shocked! And so easily shocked! I may never go bra-less again…until the next time…or wear that white silk blouse with the billowing sleeves that John loves so much when I [used to] go bra-less, especially when that extra little button was undone. But I’m far too shy for that nastiness and perversion so of course I’m only teasing you, Ghost. [John will NOT show the photographs! Especially the poster-sized blowup I didn't know he was having made and framed until it showed up in his office!] Shelly, I sense that you’re terribly shy as I am!
Dan in SWMo on 18 Oct 2012 at 11:46 am #
Very clever social comment, JJ—the difference between obvious hyperbole (a dozen) and getting uncomfortably close to an imaginable scenario.
sandcastler on 18 Oct 2012 at 11:51 am #
Shy could imply a coyness attribute which can be most pleasing in it’s own right. While a glimpse of the forbidden can be a stimulating experience for all parties.
Dave in MA on 18 Oct 2012 at 11:56 am #
Blinky the Wonder Wombat, wrong attribution. Written by Seth Justman, sung by Peter Wolf with the J. Geils Band. No Steven Tyler involvement.
Ghost Rider 6 on 18 Oct 2012 at 12:06 pm #
Mindy, GR6 is really blushing now.
Well, at least I’m getting red in the face for some reason.
Mindy on 18 Oct 2012 at 12:11 pm #
Better get your blood pressure checked, Ghost.
Blinky the Wonder Wombat on 18 Oct 2012 at 12:13 pm #
Dave in MA-
D’oh! I knew that, too. Well I guess I’m old enough to start claiming it was a senior moment. At least I got the right city…
Speaking about “underboobs”, I remember reading about how the original Star Trek producers drove the NBC censors crazy with their female “alien” costumes. Gene Roddenberry said “They’d let you expose a breast all the way down to the nipple on the air, but heaven forbid you show the underside. Maybe they thought moss grew there or something.”
Anyway, I can’t say we we menfolk like these views, but as a very wise man said “There’s just something about a peek.”
Ghost Rider 6 on 18 Oct 2012 at 12:16 pm #
Does 200 over 175 sound about right?
Mindy on 18 Oct 2012 at 12:21 pm #
Was it higher in times of stress when you were a teenager, Ghost?
sandcastler on 18 Oct 2012 at 12:25 pm #
Moss? Never have found any moss in my explorations. Gr6, forget to take your daily Divan?
Ghost Rider 6 on 18 Oct 2012 at 12:32 pm #
Who worries about blood pressure when they’re a teenager, Mindy? If guys did, they wouldn’t have time to do anything else.
In all seriousness, Mindy, as tasty as I’m sure you looked in that white silk blouse, I think I’ll always picture you in your BDU trousers and thin old sweat-soaked tee shirt, fighting the Great Bamboo War. I think competence and self-reliance is sexy in a woman. (I hope this doesn’t jeopardize my carefully cultivated chauvinist image.)
TruckerRon on 18 Oct 2012 at 12:35 pm #
So much conversation sparked by a mere arc of a line!
Ghost Rider 6 on 18 Oct 2012 at 12:47 pm #
The pen is mightier than the fevered imagination.
Mark from Maine on 18 Oct 2012 at 12:54 pm #
FYI, side cleavage = sideboob. in the interest of consistency . . . Plus, when we mention the B-word with another word (under and side) attached to it, it flies right through moderation.
Nothing moderate about either the classic or today’s A&J!
sandcastler on 18 Oct 2012 at 12:54 pm #
GR6, great one-liner. May we freely quote you, or do you have it locked up in copyright?
Mindy on 18 Oct 2012 at 1:10 pm #
TruckerRon, didn’t you know that a peek? To quote Arlo in one of Jimmy’s Sunday offerings, “There’s just something about a peek.” John really pulled me out of a cocoon, built up my confidence and turned me into a carnivore, so to speak, and one of the first things he taught me was that a peek is often far stronger — in effect — that total exposure. He then proved himself to be somewhat confused and perhaps a liar when he got that total exposure, but I didn’t mind. But, sandcastler, be advised that fevered Ghost lost his pen. I won’t say the next line that just begs to be written because I blush too easily. Now I think I’ll go flash John.
Shelly on 18 Oct 2012 at 1:17 pm #
Shelly wrote that “flash” comment at 1:10 pm. It’s now 2:16 pm EDT. If she’s not back in 14 minutes the flash was in the pan, so to speak, and she’ll be delayed indefinitely.
Did that make sense to anyone other than me?
sandcastler on 18 Oct 2012 at 1:18 pm #
Oh lovely Mindy, grace us with both thine poetic line and thou delicate blush. For there tis no wine or rose more delicate and delightful than the blush.
sandcastler on 18 Oct 2012 at 1:20 pm #
Shelly, the blog clock is on CDT, one hour earlier than EDT.
Ghost Rider 6 on 18 Oct 2012 at 1:31 pm #
Carnivore?? Not going’ there.
My pen is not lost. I always know where it is. It’s a fountain, by the way.
Terry on 18 Oct 2012 at 1:32 pm #
Wow! Today’s strip shows that Janis is Hot in the world of comics.
Blinky the Wonder Wombat on 18 Oct 2012 at 2:25 pm #
Terry-
Agreed. And considering the proliferation of unrealistically over-endowed female characters in the comic world, JJ proves once again that a man’s imagination is still the strongest aphrodisiac.
sandcastler on 18 Oct 2012 at 3:05 pm #
Being October is National Breast Cancer Month and today’s strip has uncovered the under boob, this link just seems a natural fit. http://mashable.com/2012/10/18/touch-yourself/
sandcastler on 18 Oct 2012 at 3:15 pm #
Strange day. Wife gives a phone number of a friends husband been disconnected. Just posted above earlier and it ended up on the January 28, 2008 page. On top of that Google released earnings early and tanked stocks. Might electrons be spinning out of balance today?
Mary in Ohio on 18 Oct 2012 at 3:22 pm #
When my friend Bill went to a topless bar for the first time, he was not that impressed: “Seen one you’ve seen ‘em both.”
emeritus Minnesota biologist on 18 Oct 2012 at 3:23 pm #
Speaking of “unrealistically over-endowed”, why have Blondie’s cartoonists gone so far overboard over the decades?
Speaking of decades, here’s a word, without looking it up: Romex. I think it was still on the market in the mid ’60s.
Bob, near Mark on 18 Oct 2012 at 3:47 pm #
eMb,
Romex? What an electrifying thought. Send me a wire about it.
emeritus Minnesota biologist on 18 Oct 2012 at 4:03 pm #
Bob: Very good. I don’t think the more modern product uses the same brand name. Or does it?
sandcastler on 18 Oct 2012 at 4:46 pm #
Based on a Google search, there is an official Romex website. But, it is listed as south wire.com, apparently Rome Electrical has been sold.
emeritus Minnesota biologist on 18 Oct 2012 at 5:07 pm #
I was under the mistaken impression that Romex referred only to the original late ’40s cable, using PVC insulation for the individual copper conductors with a paper wrap and braided fabric overwrap. It was usually black or silver colored. Apparently the companies involved continued the trade name for the more recent cable in which flexible plastic replaces the “paper wrap and braided fabric overwrap” that had been a pain to work with. Other brands were cheaper; we ordered ours from Sears or Ward’s when rewiring an old [1897 or so] house in ’59-’60 and later. Lived there for 46 years, as I think I’ve mentioned before.
Mindy on 18 Oct 2012 at 5:36 pm #
Shelly wrote, “Shelly wrote…” Are you having a blonde moment, Shelly, or have you been around this crowd too long? Anyway, I’m back with no further commentary.
Bob, near Mark on 18 Oct 2012 at 6:38 pm #
eMb,
I think Romex has just become a generic term, in the same way as Kleenex.
Bob, near Mark on 18 Oct 2012 at 6:41 pm #
I should have added “for non-metalic sheathed cable” to that generic statement.
sandcastler on 18 Oct 2012 at 6:57 pm #
Bob, near Mark, don’t let the makers of Kleenix hear you say or write that it is a generic term;they spend a small fortune in legal fees to protect the name and making certain it never becomes generic. Many an author and news editor has received a cease and desist letter for using the term in a generic form. JJ, hope you don’t become a recipient of a letter.
Ghost Rider 6 on 18 Oct 2012 at 7:08 pm #
Welcome back, Mindy. By my calculations, you were gone 4 hours and 16 minutes.
John! Dawg!
As for Shelly…don’t feel bad, hon. Hanging around this bunch would probably have made a blithering idiot out of Albert (Al the Brain) Einstein, to the point he’d have forgotten what that E=mc squared thing he came up with meant, and people would have always been telling him derisively, “Way to go, Einstein!”
Mindy on 18 Oct 2012 at 7:32 pm #
I had to fix something for supper, Ghost. John was famished.
sandcastler on 18 Oct 2012 at 7:43 pm #
Mindy, how many courses in a four hour sixteen minute meal? And, how much does John weigh if that is his usual eating habit? Finally, when do you find time for the bamboo wars with all the cooking.
Ghost Rider 6 on 18 Oct 2012 at 8:05 pm #
“Dessert first, eh?” he asked archly, with a knowing smile.
Jean in Dahlonega Ga aka Trapper Jean on 18 Oct 2012 at 10:35 pm #
“Life is uncertain, eat dessert first.”
While discoursing on whether Janice is bra-less or not you all seem to have forgotten something…her cammy might be one of those with the built-in bra. The only problem with those ‘shelf bras’ is that the lady ends up with a “uni-boob” rather than cleavage, which might not matter when wearing a turtleneck sweater. Also, if this is the case then the curved line might be the bottom edge of said shelf bra, no?
And speaking of National Breast Cancer Month I have to remember my appointment tomorrow afternoon! A good report will mean one less thing for me to worry about.
Ghost Rider 6 on 18 Oct 2012 at 11:22 pm #
Thanks, Jean. As usual, you’re a fount of knowledge. But somehow, the idea that Janis is bra-less seems more interesting than a “shelf bra.”
However, “shelf bra” reminds me of an old French phrase for a busty woman…”La femme qui a du monde au balcon,” literally, “She has the world on her balcony.” Those French are a bunch of scamps, aren’t they?
Ghost Rider 6 on 18 Oct 2012 at 11:22 pm #
Oh, meant to add, “Good luck tomorrow.”
Mindy on 19 Oct 2012 at 12:27 am #
Good luck, Jean! Sandcastler, the questions of how many courses is simple: all of them. John is actually quite slender. He works a lot, gets plenty of exercise. And to answer how I can cook while fighting The Great Bamboo Boondoggle War, I multi-task as most women learn early how to do just to put up with the demands placed on them by the male species.
Actually, it’s not difficult. Cooking doesn’t always require the cook’s immediate presence. If I’m doing something like chicken egg foo yung, I have to stay close. If it’s deer stew or gumbo I can go forth and kill some more while it simmers and ages. John loves stews, gumbo and soups go he makes it easy on me and he actually prefers that I fix enough of these dishes that he can have the same thing two or three days running. After the soup/stew/gumbo runs out [and he wastes none of them!] I do something different like the Chinese dishes to keep him off guard, so to speak. Remember, John also cooks from time to time. He’s a keeper but don’t tell him. I don’t want him to get a big head. I can say this now because he never comes back to look at what was printed so late [or early, depending on your perspective].
curmudgeonly ex-professor on 19 Oct 2012 at 1:25 am #
Sandcastler @ 3:05 – On behalf of all, thanks for the reminder. I did go to the site you gave and read it. I also watched the slide show – now THAT got a bit rough in the language and attributions.
I have often told the MBH, I’m always willing to do even more than my part on the examination front – for anyone – but she demurs at my enthusiasm, for some reason or other!
Good luck, Trapper….
Ghost Rider 6 on 19 Oct 2012 at 2:36 am #
Which came first, the chicken or the egg foo yung?
I know, but someone had to say it.
Hi, John.
Mark in TTown on 19 Oct 2012 at 6:28 am #
Good luck ,Jean!
Jimmy, I too used the $10 per bag rule. And it is still pretty true, just as you show it with the new low-capacity bags.
Have a great Friday, everybody.
Mindy on 19 Oct 2012 at 7:47 am #
There goes another regional oddity, again. Bag. Sack. Poke…
Jean in Dahlonega Ga aka Trapper Jean on 19 Oct 2012 at 8:06 am #
GR6, there’s also a style of bra known as “balconette”. I wonder if it was designed by a Frenchman?
Don’t forget crockpot cooking! Mindy might be putting her soups and stews together and letting them simmer along happily in a crockpot while she goes out to battle the Evil Bamboo. I will be making a Bolognese sauce in a bit and letting my crockpot do the cooking while I’m at my appointment.
Thanks for the good wishes, all!
Jean in Dahlonega Ga aka Trapper Jean on 19 Oct 2012 at 8:07 am #
Oh, and Mindy-just don’t go buying a pig in a poke!
Ghost Rider 6 on 19 Oct 2012 at 8:18 am #
As I said, Jean, you’re a fount of information. In the future, I’ll direct all my bra questions to you.
Ah, slow cooker soups and stews. Love ‘em. Have a new recipe for a Provencal Beef Stew I’m going to try next.
Mindy on 19 Oct 2012 at 8:28 am #
Jean? Run and hide! Ghost’s next question will be how to unfasten a bra with one hand…and then how a woman can remove her bra without taking off her shirt. I won’t be so cruel as to say that after that he’ll ask what to do once the bra is removed.
Mindy on 19 Oct 2012 at 8:29 am #
Can I say that here?
John in Virginia on 19 Oct 2012 at 8:47 am #
Apparently you can, Mindy.
Ghost Rider 6 on 19 Oct 2012 at 8:49 am #
Mindy, you just said it.
Why would you think I don’t know how to unfasten a bra with one hand? I learned that in Boy Scouts, although there wasn’t an actual merit badge for it. As to your second point (no pun intended), I well remember seeing Jennifer Beals do that in Flashdance.
As far as what to do once the bra is removed, I’m always open to learning new things.
Here’s an interesting survey question for the ladies (or their spouses)…how many fasten their bras behind their backs, and how many fasten their bras in front and twist them around?
Dave in MA on 19 Oct 2012 at 9:24 am #
a Bolognese sauce ? I didn’t know you could make a sauce out of Bologna….
Bob, near Mark on 19 Oct 2012 at 9:24 am #
GR6,
Some have clasps in the front.
Some bras do, too.
Blinky the Wonder Wombat on 19 Oct 2012 at 9:36 am #
Dave in MA-
Even though I know what Bolognese sauce is, I also immediately think it is made with bologna. Sounds like something we would make during Boy Scout camping trips.
Russel Trojan on 19 Oct 2012 at 10:43 am #
The idea of a “Shelf” bra just makes everything seem so utilitarian …
emeritus Minnesota biologist on 19 Oct 2012 at 10:46 am #
Ran across this Friday morning: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LzyI_Hh8ufI
It’s Jean Redpath and Garrison Keilloer singing “Tuna, the food of my soul”. First saw and heard it > a decade ago, when they broadcast one episode of Prairie Home Companion on public TV. What doesn’t come through well, at least on this cptr, is the occasional bursts of laughter from the audience as people recognized the tune. It was neat. Wife knew the tune well, which I did not. She could hardly contain herself.
Mindy on 19 Oct 2012 at 10:57 am #
Ghost, why would a woman want to fasten her bra in front and twist it around, as you put it, unless she had back or shoulder problems? Bob, near Mark, speaking of front-clasp bras, John once got all frustrated and was sputtering like some old Model T engine trying to unfasten my bra…and I waited a moment or six before telling him it had the front clasp. He’s good, though. All he needs is a little encouragement or an impish moment and thumb and index finger and he’s good to go. Quick like a bunny rabbit, so to speak.
Ghost Rider 6 on 19 Oct 2012 at 11:39 am #
I don’t know either, Mindy, but a number do, even the young and, ah, flexible ones. I thought maybe it has something to do with what they learned at their mothers’ knees, so to speak. Or perhaps it has something to do with the tonnage of the cargo (boobage?) in respect to the capacity of the cargo net, to put it in nautical terms.
Out of respect to John, I have no comment on your last sentence.
emeritus Minnesota biologist on 19 Oct 2012 at 1:28 pm #
I think JJ’s nimble fingers cartoon is in the book. Or maybe he posted it here once. Pretty sure I’ve seen it somewhere lately, though memory is fallible.
chill on 19 Oct 2012 at 2:46 pm #
my new work for the day: boobage. Thanks GR6
Steve from Royal Oak, MI on 19 Oct 2012 at 2:57 pm #
Doing a quick look online, it appears that Arlo and Janis does not appear in St. Louis or San Francisco, so that means that we need to all rally behind the Tigers in the World Series. Of course the way that their pitching is going, our support may not be needed. I sure wish that the series would be over by now as it can get a little chilly around Detroit in late October. It is a very happy day in the “D’ today.
Mark in TTown on 19 Oct 2012 at 5:04 pm #
The commentaries on bra removal remind me of an episode of “Are You Being Served?”. The ladies have a display on the counter of a bra for “well-endowed” women, which the store’s maintenance man comes to pick up. He explains that the bras have been recalled for a defect. To demonstrate, he pulls out a hammer and gives the display a light tap. The bra shoots off by itself, leaving a bare torso. “The h’elastic can’t take the strain”, he tells them.
Mindy on 19 Oct 2012 at 5:17 pm #
Quick like a bunny rabbit. Referring to John. Oh, phooey, I goofed again, didn’t I?
Announcement: John is NOT quick like a bunny rabbit in certain ways.
Ghost Rider 6 on 19 Oct 2012 at 5:18 pm #
Hum, a self-removing bra. Wonder if a patent has been granted. Hey, if it had a remote control…
Sounds like something Howard on The Big Bang Theory would devise.
Ghost Rider 6 on 19 Oct 2012 at 5:22 pm #
Mindy is like a box of chocolates…
That’s OK, Mindy. That’s why we love you here.
Bob, near Mark on 19 Oct 2012 at 6:08 pm #
On TBBT, Howard Wolowitz already had developed that robot hand (which he promptly put to unintended use for one type of release). I’m sure he could reprogram it for clasp release.
Mindy on 19 Oct 2012 at 6:16 pm #
Self-removing bra. What next? Leave it to Ghost. Eject! Eject! Eject!
Jerry in Fl on 19 Oct 2012 at 6:35 pm #
Well, I’m home again and back to using magic words on the stupid computer. I just finished a great post and for some reason it disappeared before I could enter it. This time you’ll get a more abbreviated verson. We just missed the attempted bombing at the Federal Reserve Bank in New York and apparently just missed a significant earthquake in Maine. We were in a heavy snowfall up in the White Mountains in New Hampshire and it was beautiful. I also loved a tour of the Thousand Islands in the St. Lawrence and seeing Boudt (SP?) Castle. Of course Niagara Falls was spectacular. I won’t bore you with anymore at this point, but will see you when I can and as I think of things to mention. As John Denver wrote it’s good to be back home again.
Ghost Rider 6 on 19 Oct 2012 at 7:03 pm #
Welcome back, Jerry. Well, if you’ve gotta miss something, a bombing and an earthquake would be two good ones.
sandcastler on 19 Oct 2012 at 7:09 pm #
Eject? Pop out boobs?
Catching up on the day, had a private security engagement. Nice to see y’all keeping busy.
Ghost Rider 6 on 19 Oct 2012 at 7:18 pm #
Did you get to wrestle anyone to the ground, sandcastler? No, only the bra would eject. Then variables would kick in.
I don’t know, Bob. As I recall from the episode, the “hand” might grasp the clasp and then not release it, just as it did Howard’s, ah, release mechanism.
Still watching The Big Bang Theory, debbie?
Mindy on 19 Oct 2012 at 8:00 pm #
Talk about strange…
sandcastler on 19 Oct 2012 at 8:06 pm #
Does an ejectable bra have break-away straps or is it strapless? Trying to imagine the physics. Would have to blow away from the body and up. Not clear if or how it would work. Can envision with an open, low cut neckline; otherwise how would it escape? Think there would be risk of boob and facial injury to the wearer. Colour me befuddled.
Ghost Rider 6 on 19 Oct 2012 at 8:44 pm #
I’m not strange; my mamma had me tested.
Lost in A**2 on 19 Oct 2012 at 8:44 pm #
On today’s comic: reminds me of the opening of “Just You and Me, Kid.” George Burns walks out of the supermarket carrying a couple of bags and says, “When I was younger, I could carry a hundred dollars’ worth of groceries. Come to think of it, I still can.”
sandcastler on 19 Oct 2012 at 8:56 pm #
GR6 is not strange, he is just ex-Airforce.
Ghost Rider 6 on 19 Oct 2012 at 9:00 pm #
sand, it started with a discussion of unfastening bra hooks with one hand and progressed to the concept of a remotely controlled bra remover. You know how things go around here. Actually, I’m still a proponent of the old-school method of removal.
sandcastler on 19 Oct 2012 at 9:13 pm #
GR6, we both are from the era when there were no bras to remove and love was free. How sadly the times have changed away from the days of our youth.
Mindy, I know you are too young to understand my references but, read up on the sixties to begin to understand.
Mindy on 19 Oct 2012 at 9:27 pm #
A real man can use his teeth if necessary. And I’m familiar, if only in theory, with the summer or love and the era when bra-less-ness was obligatory rather than optional. Everyone had to conform to produce nonconformity. Talk about strange….
emeritus Minnesota biologist on 19 Oct 2012 at 9:29 pm #
“no bras to remove and love was free. How sadly the times have changed away from the days of our youth.”
Fortunately, those days were after the youth of some of us. Actually, “free love” has been available for some people always [but it was not really free] and bras are a relatively new invention or acquisition. Did we Westerners actually discover them or some such in Hawai’i? Whatever, by the ’60s, I was quite content to have a problem neither with the risks of free love nor with bras. There’s a lot to be said for monogamy.
Shelly on 19 Oct 2012 at 9:30 pm #
I wonder if Jimmy had any idea at all how this blog (is this a blog?) would evolve. Or is “mutate” the word I should use? Actually, I wear a sports bra most of the time, guys, so all your clasp removal methods are well and truly negated by simplicity. Hows come the conversation lingers on lingerie, sundresses, bras and the like but never on jockey vs. boxer?
Shelly on 19 Oct 2012 at 9:31 pm #
Ah, Lord, now I’m like Mindy. I do wish I’d never asked that question. Strike that from the record, please.
Ghost Rider 6 on 19 Oct 2012 at 9:36 pm #
Jockey.
Ghost Rider 6 on 19 Oct 2012 at 9:44 pm #
I remember walking down the street in San Francisco one day in the fall of 1972 and thinking I was glad I didn’t own stock in Maidenform or Bali.
Galliglo in Ohio on 19 Oct 2012 at 9:52 pm #
Boxers are sexier… just saying…
Ghost Rider 6 on 19 Oct 2012 at 10:22 pm #
Really, Gal?
TruckerRon on 19 Oct 2012 at 11:09 pm #
How about wearing neither?
TruckerRon on 19 Oct 2012 at 11:09 pm #
Just saying…
Jean in Dahlonega Ga aka Trapper Jean on 19 Oct 2012 at 11:29 pm #
Rodney (that’s my husband, just so’s you know) has no trouble with bra clasps, so I’m staying out of that conversation. As to self-releasing bra clasps, I think I’ll stay with the old-style ones, thank you very much. With my luck the clasp would release at the worst possible moment, and there I’d be, just hanging out.
Has anyone else seen the Most Interesting Man In The World commercial on boxers vs briefs? “What’s between you and your pants is between you and your pants.”
Gal, have you seen the movie “Real Genius”? There’s a scene with Val Kilmer walking around in a pair of baggy boxers. Since watching that I’ve never thought of boxers as sexy. Neither are old style tighty-whities. Now certain low rider styles…not going there. I don’t want to end up in Moderation He!!
Dave in Ma-all it is is a meat sauce, and bologna is meat-sort of-so I suppose one could make Bologna Bolognese.
Ghost, if the Provencal Beef Stew is good, wanna share the recipe?
Mindy, you seem to have a man of many talents. Congratulations!
Ghost Rider 6 on 20 Oct 2012 at 12:01 am #
Sure, Jean. I’m going to try to start it about noon tomorrow to have it ready for dinner. I’ll let you know if it’s worth fixing. But I’d sure like to have your sauce recipe.
Say “hello” to Rodney and tell him I think he’s a very lucky man to have found a six-foot-tall redhead who can wear 5-inch heels and who seems to have an interesting outlook on life. But I’m sure he already knows that.
Oh, I get it. You’re talking about mankini shorts, aren’t you?
sandcastler on 20 Oct 2012 at 7:32 am #
Boxers. I go commando for my daily five miles. Enough said.
Mindy on 20 Oct 2012 at 8:12 am #
Commando? Does that mean cammie asbestos?
sandcastler on 20 Oct 2012 at 8:16 am #
Symply Fargone on 20 Oct 2012 at 9:58 am #
Boxers vs briefs vs commando…hmmmmm…believe I have done them all and believe that I change as much as the wind shifts…there are no favorites. Some days there is a beard some days I’m cleanshaven, right now the hair is about a foot long in a month it will be an inch or two long only….the vagaries of time apply to my whims, why? Because, I am Symply Fargone
and I thank you all for indulging me…BTW a great onion recipe dip to follow some day when i post near the top. L8r y’all
emeritus Minnesota biologist on 20 Oct 2012 at 9:59 am #
Shelly:
“Hows come the conversation lingers on lingerie, sundresses, bras and the like but never on jockey vs. boxer?”
Well, from the subsequent posts, one answer is that you had not yet brought it up. But that’s insufficient; this blog [yes, it is one] has gone on about bras and boobs for ages and never mentioned men’s underwear or external equipment, though it is populated by perhaps as many women as men. I suspect the answer is we have one track minds.
JJ did a couple of strips about that years ago. I cannot remember the details, but, in response to Janis’s query about men having their minds on sex much of the time, Arlo answered, in effect, “all the time”. He wasn’t far off, although many seem to obsess about another subject, which seems to concern the women here about as much as the men. But I’ve not yet run into a hen party where the first thing you hear when someone introduces you is “How about them Twins?”
Mindy on 20 Oct 2012 at 10:06 am #
Forget about sex, at least for a minute or two, Ghost & Company, and consider this: How many times in movies have you watched females [and even men] brush their hair? An exact number eludes you, of course. Consider then, in all those myriad times you’ve watched the females/males brushing their hair have you ever seen hairs left in the brushes? A kiss at the place of your choosing to the person who can honestly answer in the affirmative.
Mindy on 20 Oct 2012 at 10:06 am #
Careful, it’s a trick prize…
Symply Fargone on 20 Oct 2012 at 10:13 am #
Mindy,
Don’t need the prize(at least not the trick part
but I believe Rita Hayworth had a scene in a silky shimmery seemingly gold(b&w movie) lounging and brushing her hair with stray strands in the bristles(bristols for this crowd;-)
A friend of my girlfriends recently found out (via her teenage son) that men seem to have sex on their mind a preponderance of their waking hours i.e. constantly. This led to the belief that men are actually the best multitaskers in the world, to be so consumed with one thought and still manage to function…..I rest our case.
And I am, well you know already….
Mindy on 20 Oct 2012 at 10:16 am #
Simply Fargone, as far as multi-tasking, cattle of either sex [or none at all] can eat while walking while mooing while doing other things as well. Defense rests.
John in Virginia on 20 Oct 2012 at 10:21 am #
And therein lies the question. Is a steer sexless simply because he has been, ah, well…I once witnessed a major argument involving a [possibly former] male who had, in a tragic accident, been neutered, so to speak. When arrested he insisted that he was “none of the above” due to his tragedy and demanded his arrest report reflect same. The arrest was for sexual misconduct through obscene display and in court he pursued his claim, saying [quite convincingly, I thought] that he could not be found guilty of a sexual display, obscene or not, since he had become, through no fault of his own, sexually neutral. I’m just sayin’…
Ghost Rider 6 on 20 Oct 2012 at 10:48 am #
Interesting question, John. Is gender defined by physical characteristics (see “transgendered persons”), psychological orientation (see “homosexuality”), or chromosomal makeup ( see “Klinefelter’s syndrome”). Or is one’s gender simply what one declares it to be. Also, there is a difference between castration and emasculation, which raises the question of how each affects sexual identity, if either does indeed do so. (How that for a change of perspective on sex, Mindy?)
I liked Garrison Keillor’s description of the male sex drive: “It begins at puberty and ends six months after death.”
Shelly on 20 Oct 2012 at 10:55 am #
What have I walked in on?
Ghost Rider 6 on 20 Oct 2012 at 11:01 am #
Hi, Shelly!
Ghost Rider 6 on 20 Oct 2012 at 11:05 am #
Mindy, I’m guessing your “trick prize” offer may be related to the story about the girl who told her boyfriend she wanted him to kiss her some place dirty…so he took her to New Orleans.
Mindy on 20 Oct 2012 at 11:08 am #
Well, I have proof that I’m a witch. John was driving the car one evening when we were dating. I touched him on the leg and he immediately turned into a motel. Is that what you had in mind? How in the world did we get on this??????
Hi, Shelly!
Ghost Rider 6 on 20 Oct 2012 at 11:17 am #
I guess, Mindy, because when you get right down to it, there’s more to sex than just fun and games. Although there is that.
Since you live in VA, we’ll consider you The Good Witch of the South.
sandcastler on 20 Oct 2012 at 11:32 am #
JJ, quick post anything, the slippery slope is turning into an avalanche.
Jean in Dahlonega Ga aka Trapper Jean on 20 Oct 2012 at 11:49 am #
Mindy, one may never see a person in a movie or on tv leave hairs in the brush, but obviously they do, because the detectives always find it for dna matches.
And on the subject of guys unclasping bras-who else remembers the Happy Days episode where Fonzie walks into the men’s room at Arnolds’ to see a radiator wearing a bra and Raplh and Potsie trying to unclasp it one handed? At the end of the scene Ralph and Potsie leave the room and Fonzie effortlessly unclasps the bra.
The next question is: What does a Scotsman (or any other man) wear under his kilt?
Ghost-I’m not a fan of Borat, but on the right men a mankini could be interesting. just saying.
Oh, and Mindy, want to join my coven?
sandcastler on 20 Oct 2012 at 11:56 am #
Jean, being I am Scottish but, not able to speak for all Scotsmen; nothing is worn beneath my kilt, everything works fine
Mindy on 20 Oct 2012 at 12:01 pm #
Well, Jean, if I don’t join, may I at least list mine as affiliated with yours? I forgot about the Defectives always finding hair for DNA. I’d love to see a movie where the hair came back to a Cape Buffalo or a Yak or something like that, just for the fun of it. [Sandcastler, please note what Jean and I are attempting to forestall the impending avalance.] John, who always has something to say, being typical male that he is, says that there were never any hairs in Kojack’s hairbrush. I think I’ll pat his pointy little head and send him off to bed to contemplate his maleness. So, Jean [and anyone else], continuing to forestall, in the best tradition of the Spartans at Thermopylae, what was your favorite all time best television series? And who was the best James Bond?
Bob, near Mark on 20 Oct 2012 at 12:04 pm #
Is that where the expression “Scot free” came from?
It’s a rather taxing situation… well, actually it’s a rather “untaxing” situation.
Bob, near Mark on 20 Oct 2012 at 12:10 pm #
Kojak (Telly Savalas) graduated from “that other” high school in my home town. I, of course, graduated from the correct one. I don’t know if he was partial to lollipops in high school.
Mindy from Indy on 20 Oct 2012 at 12:15 pm #
When I was a high school senior, our class had shirts made up that were deemed so “disgraceful,” the higher ups told us flat out if they saw even a *hint* of one, they would cancel our graduation ceremony (a week away). About 2/3 of the class wore “the shirt” under a flannel to grad practice. We had just started practice – six of us already at our seats, the rest of the class milling at the back of the gym, when my friend (one of the six) had a personal disaster: her front clasp bra suddenly burst open beneath her shirt. Thankfully, she was wearing a *non-offensive* t-shirt, so nothing else gave way. Her walking mate ripped open his flannel (thereby revealing one of those *forbidden* shirts) so my friend had some privacy whilst reharnessing her assets. Once her situation had been remedied, everyone turned to our class advisor, who stood here with his head in his hands. His judgement? Since the wearer was “protecting the honor” of the lady beside him, the advisor would turn a blind eye to the shirt.
NK in AZ on 20 Oct 2012 at 12:17 pm #
M-A-S-H ( sorry, doing this at iPad and can’t find asterisks) and Sean Connery.
John in Virginia on 20 Oct 2012 at 12:30 pm #
Police Story and Sean Connery with Daniel Craig in second and moving up. I bet not many remember Police Story, much less the episodes with Don Meridith and Sylvester Stallone!
Ghost Rider 6 on 20 Oct 2012 at 1:15 pm #
Trying to change the subject, eh?
OK, I’ll play. Hill Street Blues. (But Police Story was good, too.) Concur on Connery and Craig.
Reharnessing her assets, Lady Mindy? I like that turn of phrase. Oh, sorry; we’re trying to change the subject, weren’t we?
How about the best Bond Girl name? Oh, sorry; we’re trying to change the subject, weren’t we?
Ghost Rider 6 on 20 Oct 2012 at 1:32 pm #
Hey, Mindy, I can’t remember if you said if your Bamboo Fighter’s BDU is camouflage or not, but I’d assume so (unless it’s a LEO color). If it is camo, what pattern is it?
Mindy on 20 Oct 2012 at 2:55 pm #
Woodland camouflage pattern, Ghost. And, no, I’m not trying to change the subject. What makes you think that? Besides, who the heck is Don Meridith? [She asked, continuing to try to change the subject.] And the T-shirts are usually black or OD greed. Fair enough? [She will not even hint at the color or whatever underwear is or is not worn, no way, no how, no time!]
Russell Way Out There on 20 Oct 2012 at 3:05 pm #
Mindy, what could would underwear not worn be? Inquiring minds want to know.
Russell Way Out There on 20 Oct 2012 at 3:06 pm #
What color, I meant. You got me all shook up.
sandcastler on 20 Oct 2012 at 3:07 pm #
JJ had a blog,
With a hint, hint here,
And a hint, hint there,
And a hint, hint everywhere.
Bob, near Mark on 20 Oct 2012 at 3:10 pm #
“Barney Miller” and Sean Connery.
And Don Meredith was just Dandy!
Don’t know what underwear not worn would be, but a bra with a defective front clasp would be blunderwear.
On second thought, underwear not worn would be “at home in the drawers”.
Mindy from Indy on 20 Oct 2012 at 3:29 pm #
Favorite series? I like different shows for different reasons. I have all of NCIS on DVD, but for sheer variety, The Muppet Show is always good fun. Late night is Craig Ferguson. However, my all-time two favorite single tv episodes are M*A*S*H’s “Goodbye, Farewell, and Amen” – still the best two hours of dramatic television ever, and CSI:Vegas’s “Ending Happy” – I’d tell you about it, but we are trying to change the subject.
Let’s just say it appeals to my offbeat sense of humor. I adore Paul Guilfoyle; I think he is underutilized on the show.
Connery is Bond.
My favorite bits of Hollywood magic are the crime scene investigators who apparently have no idea what their job description actually entails, and the endless supply of incendiary ammunition every level of law enforcement officer is required to carry.
Ghost Rider 6 on 20 Oct 2012 at 3:57 pm #
Yes, Lady Mindy, happy endings are good. Apparently, like me, you don’t buy that a single round of handgun ammo can cause a vehicle to erupt in a huge fireball. Small wonder that many people who know little or nothing about firearms are terrified of them. Thanks, Hollywood.
Ghost Rider 6 on 20 Oct 2012 at 3:59 pm #
Thanks, Mindy. I figured woodland pattern, but when I picture you fighting the Great Bamboo War, I want to be sure I’m picturing you correctly.
Also, I thought John might enjoy you completing your “uniform.” Note the pink version.
http://www.amazon.com/Rothco-Ladies-Spaghetti-Strap-Tank/dp/B0016BVSIA/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1350765750&sr=8-1&keywords=woodland+camo+tank+top
John in Virginia on 20 Oct 2012 at 4:15 pm #
Black is black…and I see a red door and I want it…period.
Robin in Fl on 20 Oct 2012 at 4:35 pm #
Bob, near Mark
“On second thought, underwear not worn would be “at home in the drawers”.
And the non-wearer would be at home not in drawers.
Unless s/he were not comfortable and thus not, colloquially speaking, at home.
Ghost Rider 6 on 20 Oct 2012 at 5:10 pm #
“I see the girls walk by dressed in their summer clothes
I have to turn my head until my darkness goes”
That’s gotta be yellow sundresses they’re wearing, right?
Galliglo in Ohio on 20 Oct 2012 at 5:19 pm #
I DO remember Police Story, and Don Meredith. I don’t remember Sly in that… evidently I was not impressed. MASH is excellent – I still enjoy them… also Barnery Miller and Night Court…
Reaching WAY back, anyone remember M-Squad with Lee Marvin? He had my teenage heart…
Bond? ALWAYS Connery! But, yes, Daniel Craig is second…
Mark in TTown on 20 Oct 2012 at 5:34 pm #
Here’s a change of subject. You know Nissan has a car named Versa. If a police department used one for prostitution stings, would it be a Vice Versa?
And Mindy, as for you being a witch. Remember the Bugs Bunny cartoon where at the end the witch who had been chasing him turned into a female rabbit. And Bugs starts to walk away with her, looks at the camera, and says:”Yes, she’s a witch. But aren’t they all?”.
Mindy on 20 Oct 2012 at 5:57 pm #
And the puns just keep on rolling! Talk about a topic change! Yee haw!
Nancy in Bucks County on 20 Oct 2012 at 6:08 pm #
Oh, my. Go away for a couple of days and my favorite blog goes wild. Again.
Late night with Johnny Carson and Connery, though I did kind of enjoy Pierce Brosnan.
Ruth Anne in Winter Park on 20 Oct 2012 at 6:26 pm #
I know we’re trying to change the subject so I guess I shouldn’t tell this story about a history professor I once had. After citing a recent (at the time) study that said that college-age men thought about sex every 7 minutes, he said he would try to include something related to sex in his lectures at that same interval to help everyone maintain their focus on his subject.
Ghost Rider 6 on 20 Oct 2012 at 8:16 pm #
Which, Ruth Anne, had to have made your history course infinitely more interesting than mine.
Mark in Boston on 20 Oct 2012 at 8:56 pm #
I have a friend who wears a kilt from http://www.utilikilts.com/ .
He assures me that like a proper Scotsman he wears nothing at all underneath it.
He was a piper in the Canadian army. His regiment was The Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders of Canada (Princess Louise’s). If you wore anything under your kilt, you were considered to be out of uniform and penalized for it. And yes, during inspection, sometimes the officer would require you to lift your kilt and show that you were not out of uniform.
Mark in TTown on 20 Oct 2012 at 10:56 pm #
Hey, remember the discussion about saving albums to CD. Check out this transfer gadget I found:
http://www.hammacher.com/Product/Default.aspx?sku=76797&promo=Electronics-Audio&catid=97
Mindy on 20 Oct 2012 at 11:30 pm #
A friend from Scotland, who does wear a kilt from time to time, especially when doing bagpipes at funerals, told me [and showed me] that underwear are acceptable and that tradition called for a groin cover of loosely wrapped cloth. And, yes, John was with me at the time and it was done in a polite, dignified, non-sexual manner. I did, in fact, buy a kilt for John who is of Scotch-Irish [among other things] heritage. His response was, “You gotta be kidding me!” As I recall there was an extra word in the sentence but that’s a story for yet another day. Having pleaded a Mindy, I will say that he did wear it once, in private, and the outcome was both hilarious and pleasant but no details to follow since we’ve changed the topic. Does anyone remember the Opel GT?
Jean in Dahlonega Ga aka Trapper Jean on 20 Oct 2012 at 11:47 pm #
Mark in Boston, my husband’s kilts are Utilikilts, and he always carries their business cards in the cargo pocket to hand out to those who ask where they might acquire one. And while he might wear briefs for everyday, under the kilt he might wear camo-print silky boxers!
Mindy, you may certainly be affiliated! The more the merrier! Thermopylae? I think I’ll go watch 300 again. Gerard Butler in a leather kilt…:-)
Favorite tv shows? Oh boy! I think the all time winner would have to be NCIS. Mark Harmon and David McCallum together is always good. And the Muppet Show is a perennial favorite, as is barney Miller. Bond? Connery, of course, followed by Timothy Dalton. Didn’t see that coming, did you?
Gal, I don’t remember M-Squad from it’s tv days, but I have the dvd set, which I am enjoying!
For John and his Kojak reference I have Veggie Tales “No Hair For My Hairbrush”. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LtHr7gluh08
Jean in Dahlonega Ga aka Trapper Jean on 20 Oct 2012 at 11:48 pm #
Mark in Boston, my husband’s kilts are Utilikilts, and he always carries their business cards in the cargo pocket to hand out to those who ask where they might acquire one. And while he might wear briefs for everyday, under the kilt he might wear camo-print silky boxers!
Mindy, you may certainly be affiliated! The more the merrier! Thermopylae? I think I’ll go watch 300 again. Gerard Butler in a leather kilt…
Favorite tv shows? Oh boy! I think the all time winner would have to be NCIS. Mark Harmon and David McCallum together is always good. And the Muppet Show is a perennial favorite, as is barney Miller. Bond? Connery, of course, followed by Timothy Dalton. Didn’t see that coming, did you?
Gal, I don’t remember M-Squad from it’s tv days, but I have the dvd set, which I am enjoying!
For John and his Kojak reference I have Veggie Tales “No Hair For My Hairbrush”. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LtHr7gluh08
Jean in Dahlonega Ga aka Trapper Jean on 20 Oct 2012 at 11:51 pm #
Okay, why did my post repeat itself, and is there a way to delete one of them?
Mindy on 21 Oct 2012 at 12:50 am #
Worry not, Jean, the page has hiccuped twice today on me. Oh, goodie! Both covens affiliated! Watch out, ye who cross us!
Debbe59 on 21 Oct 2012 at 5:36 am #
Good morning to all….just love this blog, it’s so A.D.D., and that’s good, I’ve learned a lot on so many subjects!
Here’s a subject change, a friend emailed me this you tube on Richard Pryor, it’s 32 years old:
http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=-_cdbByTeNE
I laughed so hard, he was great in his day.
Have a blessed day ya’ll
=^..^=
Ghost Rider 6 on 21 Oct 2012 at 6:42 am #
If it’s nacho day, whose day is it?
Say Buenos Noches, Mindy.
Looks like Jimmy may read what we scribble here, after all.
Debbe59 on 21 Oct 2012 at 7:23 am #
Why GR6…it’s the Lord’s day………let us rejoice in it!
Ghost Rider 6 on 21 Oct 2012 at 7:37 am #
OK, Debbe, you got me there.
Psalm 118:24 was the favorite Bible of verse of a dear lady (my third grandmother, I called her) who passed away several years ago at age 96. I’d give anything to hear her recite it again.
Debbe59 on 21 Oct 2012 at 7:48 am #
GR…it too is one of my many favorites….I love Isaiah 40:28-31.
Mindy on 21 Oct 2012 at 9:01 am #
Pryor sounded so frighteningly real, didn’t he, Debbe? And my grandmother loved that Psalm also. She said it fit EVERY day.
And, since today is nacho day, not only will I fix los nachos magnifios de Mindy par a sacudir el mundo, I shall spend time practicing my [European] Spanish so that I can get a drivers license in California and not have my car towed by the police.
Vaya con queso.
Ghost Rider 6 on 21 Oct 2012 at 10:30 am #
…y hasta lasagna.
Mindy on 21 Oct 2012 at 10:44 am #
Y? Why not?
Mindy on 21 Oct 2012 at 10:45 am #
Oh, I’m sorry: never answer a question with a question.
Amended response: Because.
TruckerRon on 21 Oct 2012 at 10:59 am #
“Go with cheese.” I like that. And I miss eating lasagna, but I’ve developed the most frustrating allergy possible.
Mindy on 21 Oct 2012 at 11:37 am #
TruckerRon, have you tried some of the milk substitute “cheese” on the market? Haven’t tried them but I keep hearing the vegans talk about how good they are. Come to think of it, I’ve paid so little attention I can’t think of the names of any of the products.
Anyway, in continuing honor of Lasagna Day…or is it Nacho Day? Whatever. My Spanish lessons continue!
Vaya con prajos, mi complicaciones y amoebas.
Ghost Rider 6 on 21 Oct 2012 at 11:48 am #
Did you mean “Vaya con piojos, mi complicaciones y amebas”?
“Hablamos español” here…not!
And good luck with that drivers license thing, Mindy.
Mindy on 21 Oct 2012 at 11:57 am #
Was that dirty?
I’ll change it, then. Vaya con alubias.
Is that better?
sandcastler on 21 Oct 2012 at 12:01 pm #
Mindy, moving west?
Ghost Rider 6 on 21 Oct 2012 at 12:07 pm #
“Vaya con alubias” is fine; “vaya con pedos” would not have been.
Mindy on 21 Oct 2012 at 12:09 pm #
No, sandcastler, I just want to live in Virginia and vote in some of the more contentious California elections.
Vaya con huevos.
Lost in A**2 on 21 Oct 2012 at 12:21 pm #
The fake cheese reminds me of kosher bacon. Someone whose opinion on food I’ve come to trust, and who has eaten the latter, notes that it is a very poor substitute for the real thing. I can’t help but feel the same way about fake cheese.
I’ve tried various low-fat substitutes for cheese, mayo, and margerine. My decision was to do without: better none than those things. The real things have crept back into my diet, though.
Ghost Rider 6 on 21 Oct 2012 at 12:38 pm #
Or as we used to say in the service, “Vaya con cojones.”
sideburns on 21 Oct 2012 at 12:50 pm #
I don’t know about “kosher bacon,” but I do know about beef bacon. It’s not as easy to find as it used to be, but it’s pretty good. The texture and flavor are different, of course, but it’s damned good if you don’t expect it to be exactly like bacon.
What I object to are “fat free half and half,” and “fat free sour cream.” What they are is “imitation half and half” and “imitation sour cream” and pretending that they’re actually dairy products is nothing but a lie. If I had my way, people would be forbidden by law to use those names on the packaging because it’s a violation of the Truth In Advertising laws. I’ve no objection to people buying those horrid things, just to the misleading names.
Mindy on 21 Oct 2012 at 1:05 pm #
The “kosher bacon,” which, I suppose, is the turkey bacon, grows on you. As much as John loves his port bacon, he really likes the turkey as well, and it’s not as greasy and ergo sum better for his stomach.
Ghost, I refuse to touch your cojones comment so you won’t catch me there.
Vaya con cuchilos!
Mindy on 21 Oct 2012 at 1:06 pm #
Paragraph 2 definitely did not come out right, did it? Please delete everything from “Ghost” to “there.”
sandcastler on 21 Oct 2012 at 1:11 pm #
Deleted. Not forgotten. And it put a smile on me face.
Russell Way Out There on 21 Oct 2012 at 1:24 pm #
Deleted. Awesome. Majestic, even. I particularly thought the “knives” was a nice touch. Mindy, you always seem to brighten my day at some point or another, and usually in the most unexpected ways. Vaya con piedras.
Mark in TTown on 21 Oct 2012 at 1:54 pm #
TruckerRon, what about sheep’s milk or goat’s milk cheese? I have heard of them being used by those who have allergy to cow’s milk products.
Mark in TTown on 21 Oct 2012 at 2:01 pm #
Mindy, Vaya con ferrocarril.
Jean in Dahlonega Ga aka Trapper Jean on 21 Oct 2012 at 2:07 pm #
I’m not going to worry about the Left Coast because pretty soon The Big One will hit and America will have it’s second island state. Anyway, I never lost anything out there, as my Dad used to say.
I may have to learn whatever the local version of Spanish is, though, just to get by here. Gainesville and surrounding towns have growing Hispanic communities, so it’s learn or get left behind!
Many years ago my grandmother’s doctor told her she should start using “low sodium” salt as it would be better for her. She bought a small box of the stuff and tried it. The next time she visited the doctor she asked him if he had ever used it, and he said no, but she should continue doing so. At the next visit the doctor apologized. In the interim he had tried the stuff and found it truly awful. He said she could go back to real salt, just use less. I have since used that as a life lesson: stay with the real stuff, just in moderation.
Vaya con salchicha!
Debbe59 on 21 Oct 2012 at 2:08 pm #
And now we’re talking Spanish? When I lived in Corpus Christi…Texas that is…we called it TexMex! All I learned down there were the dirty words!!!!
Think I’ll go watch Johnny in Dark Shadows with my son……just how depp can you go????
Bob, near Mark on 21 Oct 2012 at 2:09 pm #
sideburns,
Back in the ’60s, there was a small, independent supermarket on East 10th Street in Alamogordo, NM, that smoked their own bacon. They also made beef bacon. That’s the only place I’ve ever seen it.
I just tried Googling beef bacon and found
http://www.beefbacon.net/
There’s also a post on ehow.com on how to cure your own beef bacon.
Ghost Rider 6 on 21 Oct 2012 at 2:34 pm #
Mindy, you don’t have to touch my cojones, but please keep your cuchilos away from them.
sandcastler on 21 Oct 2012 at 2:51 pm #
First I’ve heard that Mindy was a slasher.
Mindy on 21 Oct 2012 at 3:07 pm #
Oh, that cuts deep, all the way to the bone.
Vaya con leche.
Ghost Rider 6 on 21 Oct 2012 at 4:00 pm #
Vaya con tetas.
Kind of come full circle, haven’t we?
sandcastler on 21 Oct 2012 at 4:34 pm #
Vaya con Oreos!
Mindy on 21 Oct 2012 at 4:48 pm #
Hasty Lugers, guys.
“Tetas?” Say it’s not so!
Ghost Rider 6 on 21 Oct 2012 at 5:07 pm #
Peter Luger’s…the Brooklyn NY steakhouse, that is. Can you tell I’m hungry for beef?
Lost in A**2 on 21 Oct 2012 at 5:22 pm #
From what I was told, kosher bacon was made from beef. And, in the ’60s, wasn’t that good. If you didn’t know any better, it was OK, but even then not great. I’ve not tried it, nor do I see any reason to.
TruckerRon on 21 Oct 2012 at 6:37 pm #
First, I want to apologize for inadvertently misleading folks into thinking I was having a lactose problem. I’ve actually acquired a worse allergy–to gluten. I don’t have celiac disease, but my gut doesn’t tolerate wheat products… which eliminated most of my former diet as a type 2 diabetic. I was making whole-wheat products in my handy, dandy bread machine and enjoying breads, pizzas, etc. Now I’m having to learn to cook with other types of flour. And the longer I go without gluten the more sensitive to it I’m likely to be according to my doctor!
Second, has anyone else figured out the naughty bits in today’s Chickweed Lane? In a family paper!
Mindy from Indy on 21 Oct 2012 at 6:57 pm #
TruckerRon – No! But I’d really would love to know what those dirty anagrams were.
Vaya con helado!
Ghost Rider 6 on 21 Oct 2012 at 7:10 pm #
Lady Mindy, I suspect the putative “provocative anagrams” are meaningless. But “taste” is an anagram for “tetas” if that helps any.
curmudgeonly ex-professor on 21 Oct 2012 at 7:23 pm #
For all who tried to help with my computer problems a couple of weeks ago, here’s the update.
As it happened, I had been deleting the browsing stuff all along, so that suggestion didn’t bear fruit, though it may have been helping.
This week, I was notified that there was some kind of bug herein which had to be removed manually – my computer defenses could not handle it. Son came this afternoon and set things up to do a real cleaning job on the innards (several hours’ worth) after manually ridding the system of that bug. Whether truly or just in my non-fevered imagination (something rare on this site!), the machine does seem to be crisper now. We shall see as time passes.
One of the symptoms this week which got me to ask son for help was the occasional case in which I clicked on a Google hit and got a screen with an arrow to be clicked – and which then got me to some place advertising dresses. Whatever the bug was also had disabled the “go back” button, so I couldn’t get rid of the ad! At least it wasn’t a porn site…. Does this seem familiar to anyone? Son said the records showed that this computer had acquired the bug about 9 weeks ago. That would correspond to when I noticed problems, so I do have hopes that cleansing the system will solve the problems.
Thanks to all who offered ideas.
John in Richmond Texas on 21 Oct 2012 at 7:37 pm #
I read all the comments and have nothing to add on topic(s) so just let me say that I’ve just discovered Crest has a mouthwash specially designed for people over 50 ! Am I the idiot? Am I the only person who didn’t know this? also – Cinerama is an anagram for American
Bob, near Mark on 21 Oct 2012 at 8:00 pm #
John in Richmond Texas,
But you have to be old enough to know what Cinerama was. I am. I’ve been. Multiple times. You younger folks can just imagine an earlier try at something like a wide-screen IMax.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinerama
sandcastler on 21 Oct 2012 at 8:08 pm #
I remember a great couple of Cinerama’s: Grand Prix with Paul Newman, and Mad,Mad,Mad,Mad World.
sandcastler on 21 Oct 2012 at 8:11 pm #
Sorry, the mind is failing me, Wikipedia says it was James Garner in Gran Prix. What ever was Maverick doing in a race car?
Ghost Rider 6 on 21 Oct 2012 at 8:32 pm #
I wouldn’t get too excited, John in RT. This is what Crest claims on their web site…”Crest Pro-Health For Life Rinse – defends against tender, inflamed gums from gingivitis, bad breath and plaque that brushing may miss. This rinse was selected for people over 50 because it is alcohol-free and provides a unique sensation.” They also have “Pro-Health” tooth paste, tooth brushes and floss.
But wait…it’s better for 50+ year olds because it’s “alcohol-free and provides a unique sensation”?? I’m all for unique sensations but doesn’t this honestly sound like something their marketing department came up with? I brush and floss regularly and have professional cleanings done three times a year, and I really don’t see how I’d get any additional benefit from swishing an OTC mouthwash around in my mouth. Seems to me too much like spitting money down the drain.
curmudgeonly ex-professor on 21 Oct 2012 at 9:11 pm #
About those anagrams in “9 Chickweed Lane” :
While the wife seems to be regarding her angular snake and the husband seems to think it is both sad and small, what they are really saying is:
Wife: “Mount me, baby.” Husband: “I’m trying.”
Perhaps there are better options for the sets of letters given. If so, let them be known.
TruckerRon on 21 Oct 2012 at 10:37 pm #
That’s how I interpreted them as well. So our minds are equally dirty if there’s a more innocent anagram we’re missing.
curmudgeonly ex-professor on 21 Oct 2012 at 10:57 pm #
My attempted statement just went into some region involving non-printing. Maybe I need to rephrase it.
Given that the two (in 9 Chickweed Lane) are wed, whatever they said or meant is perfectly acceptable.
Jean in Dahlonega Ga aka Trapper Jean on 21 Oct 2012 at 11:29 pm #
If I am going to have a “unique sensation” it’ll be from something other than an alcohol free mouthwash. As for OTC solutions, my dentist says why pay a ridiculous price for prescription mouthwash because the OTC stuff is just as good.
TruckerRon, the good part is that gluten-free products are becoming much easier to find in today’s stores. I have several friends who are allergic or have Celiac’s and they are quite happy about this.
Vaya con pan!
NK in AZ on 21 Oct 2012 at 11:40 pm #
Sandcastler, I think it was both Newman and Garner. A truly fine movie.
TruckerRon on 21 Oct 2012 at 11:42 pm #
Yes, Jean, the products are showing up in our local stores. It hurts to have to pay a premium price for a substitute, but after not having any cookies or other snacks since mid-June, it was worth it. Sort of.
The real problem is the emotional part of walking through a kitchen full of things I can’t have anymore. Then there’s trying to find a restaurant to eat at with my family. We do have one pizza place with gluten-free pizza and pasta, but it costs me an extra $2 (and an extra 20 minutes) for the privilege. I’ve tried ordering things at other restaurants that would have been gluten-free if I made them at home only to discover that they had reused the same boiling water for spaghetti squash that they had used for pasta. Or the same oil for fried chicken and french fries. Or some other shortcut that triggers my gut to react the next day.
In short, I hate having to snack on fruits and vegetables! I *want* cake! Sandwiches! Without paying twice as much for the privilege! (Yep, this is a tantrum.)
Mindy on 22 Oct 2012 at 1:20 am #
Paul Newman, James Garner and Steve McQueen raced. Garner dropped out of it early. McQueen, of course, died — of asbestos poisoning, not racing — and Newman kept racing for years, not as spectacular as McQueen but a very good amateur, and ended up owning half of the Newman-Haase Racing Team. Grand Prix was great in that widescreen format. I have it on DVD and it’s still great but the big big big element is missing. As is often the case, unfortunately.
Mindy on 22 Oct 2012 at 1:20 am #
Hasta la gumdrops, by the way.
David in Austin on 22 Oct 2012 at 8:00 am #
Trucker Ron,
My son-in-law is having some problems that resemble gluten-related issues, and he is avoiding all gluten items if he can. One of the things that he really enjoyed were flour-free peanut butter cookies. The were actually very good! I will get the recipe and post it here–just in case someone else wants to try as well. There was also a non-wheat flour mixture that they baked in their bread machine that was reputedly a satisfactory substitute for wheat bread. I will include the name of that product, too.
Lost in A**2 on 22 Oct 2012 at 9:33 am #
Spelt is often used for gluten-free bread.
Mark in Boston on 22 Oct 2012 at 5:28 pm #
The best Cinerama movie: 2001, A Space Odyssey
If you saw it in 35mm, you haven’t seen it.