It might not come as a surprise to you, but I’ve been out a bit myself lately. I’m in the second week of a vacation/work vacation, in the latter portion alas. The strips running in newspapers this week and next, and on GoComics, are “best-of” repeats, chosen and recolored by myself. This week’s strips are from 2012, and next week’s will be from 2008. I hope you enjoy seeing them again.
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We had noticed the repeats AND the re coloring.
Good work.
🙂
“Insecure Janis”, from back in the day when she seemed to be as much warden as wife. And when, as Jackie and I have discussed on more than one occasion, she was really not very likable. Fortunately, she seems to have gotten over that.
Debbe-fine,thanks. J
No I didn’t notice…25 years of reading this strip and I doubt if I have ever noticed.
Ghost, let us know how the chemo session goes today. I hope this one will go as planned.
I must be misunderstanding something. This week’s strips on GoComics so far state 2014, not 2012.
Jimmy posted on FB. He is on vacation this week and the daily strips are “best of” in his words.
Mark et al., Jackie and her oncologist agreed this morning to defer her chemo treatment until next week. Her lab values were good, and she felt OK, but they both felt her fractured molar should be removed ASAP. So she will be having that done tomorrow morning. That will also allow her to be pre-medicated this weekend prior to her next chemo treatment and hopefully minimize the chance of a repeat of last week’s issues.
True Grit Update: I believe I mentioned previously how Jackie’s new F150 pickup came to be named “True Grit” and how, because of its name, we planned to get it the personalized tag “WWJWD”, for “What Would John Wayne Do”. Even though the local tag office told us WWJWD had not been issued at the time we applied for it, it had apparently been issued to someone else by the time our application got there.
I had put down a second choice on the application of “WWJWD1”, and that is what we received. Only then did I realize that what we got was actually cooler than WWJWD…if you read it as “What Would’ve John Wayne D-ONE”.
Thanks Ghost. With the problems Jackie’s been having I was concerned something else might go wrong. Glad it didn’t. Good luck on the tooth extraction, Jackie.
Mark:
I was referring to Jimmy’s wording: “The strips running in newspapers this week and next, and on GoComics, are “best-of” repeats, chosen and recolored by myself. This week’s strips are from 2012, and next week’s will be from 2008.”
I just checked GoComics, and that strip also has 2014, not 2012.
The only finishing touch I can think of for True Grit would possibly be a bumper sticker that reads “I brake for shapely females wearing tight leggings.” Unless Jackie has something to say about that, of course. 🙂
Headed to the oral surgeon’s office.
How about “Sundress appreciation society” Ghost?
Polishing the old silver gag, never fails to get a smirk from the audience.
Oh? Must be a cultural something re polishing old silver that I’ve not run into; don’t know what to smirk about.
Peace,
Jackie came through the molar extraction with a hitch. She was alert and talkative (now there’s a switch 🙂 ) in recovery, if a bit goofy from the happy juice they gave her for the procedure. We’re back at the hotel, and she’s in bed sleeping it off.
eMb, it is a reference to today’s strip on Gocomics.com. Janis is engaged in polishing Ag and Arlo seems intent on some other activity.
c x-p: I know she’s doing that in today’s strip, but Sand says, “Polishing the old silver gag, never fails …”, implying, I think, that it’s a gag commonly used, maybe even outside the comics page.
Peace,
Decorah nest has over 1,000 viewers right now. Maybe that eagle is incubating. Nobody at the Decorah North nest now, and no eggs.
https://explore.org/livecams/bald-eagles/decorah-eagles
In Texas and cowboy states the only silver polishing joke so know is polishing the silver belt buckles worn with jeans.
Belt buckle polishing involves dancing very slowly very close with much bodily contact
Decorah North claims to have an egg as of Fe 25th. Plain Decorah seems to claim three of ’em. Found this by going to the new chat places and reading.
I, and, I suppose, eMb, are now more educated about silver jokes….
Jackie
Tonight in rough out boots, jeans, plaid shirt and a rough out leather jacket with that gray grizzled beard he looks more like a real deal rancher than most anyone you see locally. A tall, lean, clean cowboy with no horse!
I am trying to get caught up – I am 20 days behind and spinning my wheels.
Just had to say “Horse” has to be the name of Ghost’s next vehicle – then he will HAVE
a horse.
So it’s about “slow dancing” + Ag buckles.
Didn’t even know that was a loop to be out of. Such a complex world of “many things, sailing ships and sealing wax and cabbages and kings,” and now downloads, cell phones, drones, MP3s, and surveillance webcams.
Peace,
Back at the 13th- “A Grave Matter:
It has been my contention for quite awhile that gravity has been increasing.
I blame it on the stopping of Atomic Testing – those born before the cessation
notice it more than those born after. Isn’t harder to get out of a chair? up from the
floor? And just look what it has done to my chest!