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The Christmas Caller III

By Jimmy Johnson

December 23, 1993


I have a doozey of an excuse this morning! My neighbor is having a driveway poured. She knew she was going to have a yard of the stuff left over, and she offered it to me. So, I’ve been up since dawn moving junk out from around my garage and building concrete forms, to make a work space. The concrete truck is here as I write, but here’s the next installment of “The Christmas Caller.” We will get back around to talking about comic strips.


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28 responses to “The Christmas Caller III”

  1. Ghost Avatar
    Ghost

    The concrete truck ate your homework? Oookay.

  2. Ghost Avatar
    Ghost

    So the concrete truck ate your homework? Oookay.

    1. Ghost Avatar
      Ghost

      Welp, gonna be one of those days when it takes the comments a while to post, I ss.

  3. Burns Avatar
    Burns

    Poor Gene. I remember a similar situation when I was working checkout at my father’s store and someone came along with a box of sanitary napkins.

  4. Ghost Avatar
    Ghost

    Re 8-20-20 real-time cartoon: Ah, the mysterious and magical brassiere. Object of many boys’ (of all ages) fancy and fantasies. Little did Gene realize one day ML would have (and wear) a “45%-tip” top. Possibly braless, one would think, to command that level of gratuity.

  5. TruckerRon Avatar

    Regarding Gene’s reaction in the classic, I’m assuming he’s blushing as well as mentally freezing… Which raises the question of why do we blush? What evolutionary advantage, if any, is there?
    .
    “Man is the only animal that blushes. Or needs to.”

    ? Mark Twain

  6. Blinky the Wonder Wombat Avatar
    Blinky the Wonder Wombat

    JJ-

    Are you laying rebar? If not, your concrete may end up cracking and falling apart in a few years.

    1. David in Granbury Avatar
      David in Granbury

      Hopefully at least concrete mesh. 🙂

    2. Jimmy Johnson Avatar

      I was a “rod buster” on my summer job during college. I tied miles of horizontal and vertical rebars. We were building a sewage-treatment plant.

  7. emb Avatar
    emb

    Panamian squirrel eating a banana it just peeled.
    https://explore.org/livecams/birds/panama-fruit-feeder
    Peace,
    Panamanian

  8. Jackie Avatar
    Jackie

    I once had a concrete truck fill my red convertible with concrete while I ate lunch in the school cafeteria. It covered all the school books and class notes I left on back seat. Obviously top was down.

    1. Ghost Avatar
      Ghost

      Arguably even worse than what happened to Biff Tannen’s black 1946 Ford Super DeLuxe convertible. At least the manure cleaned off.

  9. Steve From Royal Oak, MI Avatar

    Man you could write a week’s worth of strips if Arlo got a yard of concrete…

  10. Jackie Avatar
    Jackie

    Obviously Mary Lou was an early developer physically and mentally. I related to her because I got my first bra at 8. I was not excited, I was mortified. It was 1952 and they did not make kiddy bras, it was a hideous white quilted full coverage bra like the kinds featured in Sears catalog.

    Easy to see how she ended up pregnant with Meg as a too young teen. By age 12 adult men were groping me, trying to proposition me, asking me to go to hotel rooms! Concede they had no idea my age but……

    Jimmy hit the too old child with no parental guidance so correct in Mary Lou. We make mistakes but we are tough and too old too fast.

    1. Mark in TTown Avatar
      Mark in TTown

      I recall reading an old Dick Tracy story that had an older politician involved with a 20-something woman. It ended badly for him, and Tracy’s final comment on the situation was “Too soon old, too late smart”.

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