OK, here is the last of the running sequence from 2010. This is really getting crazy: it seems I drew this yesterday, and you’re telling me it was seven years ago!? I figure I have drawn over 11,500 A&J strips since I began. It’s strictly an educated guess, but I would say I am proud of 10% of them, embarrassed by 20% and ambivalent about the remaining 70%.
156 responses to “The Run of Things”
Butts not busts. The parts they are always slapping.
Today a long-forgotten can of applesauce in the back corner of a cabinet made its presence known. (Sigh!)
Of course that wasn’t nearly as bad as a former neighbor’s experience. They had the bright idea of making a bed for their youngest by amassing a supply of canned goods (a case lot sale) and stacking them with a sheet of plywood over them. Add the mattress and you’re good to go until you come back from a vacation ten years later…
Indeed. One should never slap a bust.
Who’s wondering how Jean did with her knee procedure? This Ghost is. She said Wednesday morning she was on her way to have it done, and I’ve not seen anything later from her. Wondering about my favorite six-foot tall redhead.
At Southwood Landscape, beautiful beautiful beautiful place. It is peaceful, serene and calming.
I could live here. I did work for them at Christmas to help dress poinsettias for a couple years.
Everything is immaculate and maintained, unlike some big box stores.
Oh, I bought four flats of pansies and two cats and two mallards.
And it all fit in Black Jack.
And a rose bush.
If football, puppies, or kittens aren’t your thing, how about cheetahs?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pcKxeZTDroA
Happy belated birthday, Mark!
What an incredible game. I had to drive my daughter down to Toledo and listened on XM. I was listening to the Atlanta broadcast but switched to NE when ATL fumbled in the 4th quarter. I got home just in time to see something I had waited 50 years for. A Super Bowl Sudden Death. I still think Johnny Unitas winning the 58 Championship in Sudden Death was greater as it really launched the NFL popularity. Now to watch the commissioner give the man he gave a 4 game suspension the Super Bowl trophy!
So this was Super Bowl I should have watched? We’re there any wardrobe malfunctions? We’re commercials noteworthy or funny?
Who won?
Well, if you like close games, Jackie, this was the one for you: The First Super Bowl to go to OT.
My wife was impressed. I worked on tax forms.
Oh yes. I’d have liked to watch this one. In company though. Alone is no fun.
Stores in Tulsa were empty.
Thanks for the birthday wishes, everybody. I had a good time. Tried to post Saturday morning, but my internet went down just as I finished writing it and I couldn’t wait around for it to come up again.
Here’s a freebie, one that allows you to be ‘one up.’ Writer’s Almanac has a bit on lexicographer Eric Partridge, born on 6 Feb. It’s a repeat of one I’d already filed from a previous year, but where I’d missed something. It’s a book title, a bon mot where I’d missed the point, but provides you with a one liner. When you drop it in a presentation to 50 people, perhaps a dozen or fewer will laugh, allowing you to say [with Tom Lehrer], ‘The rest of you can look it up when you get home.’
http://writersalmanac.org/episodes/20170206/
And I won’t be there to reveal that it’s not original with you.
Peace,
Hello? The Village is very quiet; too quiet.
Did the SB celebrations get out of hand? Maybe.
Has JJ put up a new post? Nope.
How strange.
Two adults on the giant N Decorah nest:
http://explore.org/live-cams/player/decorah-eagles-north-nest
Good morning all. I didn’t go to sleep until almost time to get up but no Super Bowl. I am awake, dressed and on way to Tulsa.
Catch you from service at Honda. I have two recalls.
Early meeting today; still playing catch-up. I hope everyone has a shiny day.
Ghostly Observation of the Day: He who can smile in a crisis has found someone to blame.
Or conversely, Ghost, “He who can smile in a crisis doesn’t know what’s going on.”
Thank you for the link to the Writer’s Almanac, emb. It looks like I’ve got some exploring to do!
TruckerRon, that happened to me once with a can of sauerkraut.
My day changed dramatically a bit ago. Got 25 miles north when right passenger front tire blew out with long cut in tire. I am fine, sitting at where I buy tires, they are putting a loaner tire on, my new tire will be here in morning, got towed here. Dickens and I are going on to Muskogee but changed recall service call to Thursday.
Saw a really good quote about people who can do this, accept dramatic unexpected change without going to pieces.
Going to Muskogee to get my second Arlo and Janis cartoon framed so I can hang in kitchen tonight.
Jackie:
Antidote for HHHOTTT food is orange juice or milk instead of water.
Acid cuts the alkaline that burns.
Glad you are alright Jackie – blessings!
Trucker
Surströmming isn’t any good unless the can is bulging –
But even Swedes know you do not open the can in the house.
Supposedly it tastes good – I know it smells TERRIBLE.
Debris in the road is a real problem, especially on Interstates, and can cause everything from severe tire damage to much worse. I have seen unbelievable things in roadways, including a kitchen sink. Crown Vic before last sustained $5K worth of under-the-front-end damage from an entire truck wheel and tire I encountered in the middle of my traffic lane on a poorly lighted stretch of city street a few years back.
Yes, glad Jackie is OK.