When I sat down today to update this page, I thought it would be interesting to look back and see what A&J comic strip ran on this date in 2001. It was interesting. Actually, this cartoon appeared in newspapers Monday, Sept. 10, 2001. It was the beginning of a week-long story line about mortality and uncertainty. While not exactly predicting the horror of the next day, it’s creepy enough, don’t you think?
Unfortunate Cookie
By Jimmy Johnson
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123 responses to “Unfortunate Cookie”
GR 😉 you’re hysterical….it’s “there’s a bad moon on the rise” (bathroom on the right!!!)
Love ballads, here’s an oldie but a dang good one…one that I remember well.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gmz0h3r3Sos
they’ll sleep all day, just to run all night….
https://i.chzbgr.com/full/8562324224/hFC8F056C/
Mark, I watched the video on the two young girls putting a balloon near space…think of what they will be capable of doing in years to come. Very encouraging parenting there too.
Rick, you have a lot to be proud of in your son….job well done.
Sorry, Debbe… Melanie no longer has Antonio…
Debbe, you’re on the money with the connection of Precious to Gollum. But The Golem is something else: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Golem_(1915_film)
She woke us up this morning nibbling on our toes and, yes, she is sleeping with us. We still have not decided on a name, but we have checked with all of the neighbors and nobody claims her. She is not a ferrell cat. She is now ours and we can watch her all day. I have to go for now.
Checking in from Port Townsend Wooden Boat Show and having a complete blast. Looking from bed at bay and the waves lapping below, hundreds of boats swinging at anchor anchor from my bed. I am in heaven.
I think our noble leader of the village would understand. Wish you were here Jimmy.
Love, Jackie
Hey Jimmy, just stood up and looked out side window. There’s a red hulled schooner just like Arlo s about 100 feet from my balcony and three other classic schooners still there, a few yawls, a half dozen single masters. For last few nights I had hundreds anchored just hundreds of feet off my balcony.
Go schooner men! Love Jackie
Good cat person Jerry. Sorry to not ignore you but the cat?
Debbe: Thanks. I’ve not eaten Skittles, and don’t think I’ll put them on my bucket list. Precious didn’t ring that bell, but “My precious” would have brought Gollum to mind instantly. That Wiki photo of the young Tippi Hedren is one of the most attractive women I’ve seen posted here. De gustibus . . ..
Thought today’s TIP would name the scientist, but the painting is simply titled, “Science is measurement.” Same painter did many nice birds; “Study of a penguin” is both accurate and cute as a mule.
http://www.framingpainting.com/painting/science_is_measurement-27115.html
Peace, emb
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Jerry
Well not reading other suggestions right now-
A few from Harry Potter & Doctor Who or family
Ginny – HP
Amy – DW
Rosie – DW HP & F
Katy – GMIL
Abby – MIL
Annie BH & Orphan
Emmy ?
Minnie -Walt D
Mickie _WD
Elly Mae – Beverly Hillbillies (liked animals)
Poppy – HP – flower
Lovey – Just because
Lizzy – ?
Sally – ? Peanuts
Tippy if she has different color on end of tail or ears.
Menolly – Pern Series – Misunderstood teen – lived on her own
though it may be too many syllables.
Those are a few of the “E” names I thought of.
Hugs to the little one.
As I mentioned yesterday, my son Dan qualified for the Boston marathon with a time of 2:57:17. 20 years ago, I ran my fastest marathon with a time of 3:52:19 so he basically ran 2 minutes per mile faster than me.
I am not sure if this picture will work, but here is Dan at the finish line. The woman making the international sign for a touchdown and leaping for joy is my wife and Dan’s mother.
https://goo.gl/photos/kGNWvUTrMVQmyHcJA
Steve: your son’s accomplishment and picture are both amazing. Congrats on helping rear such a talented young man!
Yay, Dan!! Thanks for sharing, Steve.
The photo is great, Steve. Congratulations to him, and to you and your family. Your wife looks to be in great shape, too.
Debbe:
Did you mean Steve?
I do have a son, but I don’t think I’ve mentioned him here in quite a while, if ever.
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Old Bear, Thanks for the list. I like Tippy, but we haven’t agreed on a name yet although my wife says she will just call her Little Girl. I told her that’s fine for now, but it isn’t a name. The others (Elvis, Cilla and Spunky) are rapidly coming around to my surprise.
Jerry: More possible names, extracted from a list I made. Published some in a column for the paper, others thought of since. Peace, emb
The nine Muses are: Calliope (epic poetry and eloquence), Euterpe (music and lyric poetry), Erato (love poetry), Polyhymnia (oratory or sacred poetry), Clio (history), Melpomene (tragedy), Thalia (comedy), Terpsichore (choral song and dance), and Urania (astronomy). Each final “-e”, as in their mother Mnemosyne (and many other Greek words) sounds like the final “-y” in “comedy.”
Got the idea of related “bemuses” from the pronunciation of apostrophe, a Greek word for a mark used to indicate possession. Got a laugh from the crowd at a dinner where several of us introduced honored guests at a retirement dinner. Here are some that might do for a female cat.
Bemuses, selected, short, mostly ending in ee sound. CAPS = accented syllable, each final e = ee.
APOStrophe, Bemuse of possession
CaCOPHone, Bemuse of heavy metal music
EPIPHane, Bemuse of sudden insight
FacSIMile, Bemuse of plagiarism
HERnia, Bemuse of overexertion
MiSOGyne, Bemuse of male chauvinism
MoNOTone, Bemuse of no-hitters (and of some notions of paradise)
PaLINDrome, Bemuse of reflection
PheROMone, Bemuse of attraction at a distance
TheODice, Bemuse of rabbinic hair-splitting
TheRAPe, Bemuse of psychoanalysis
emb, did you forget CaTAStrophe? Bemuse of disasters.
And while on the be’s, don’t forget the three bats in Pogo: Bewitched, Bothered and Bemildred.
Ghost and Jackie, some Biloxi bathing beauties: http://www.al.com/#/41
emb, you are so clever and funny! Mark, Catastrophe would be a good name for a cat, ‘cept it’s too long. The bats in Pogo are so funny, too. They are dressed as hobos (tramps) in the strip; gee, I haven’t thought of them in a long time.
Charlotte: Neither had I.
Mark: The 3 bats are great, but don’t sound Greek. I have CaTAStrophe, Bemuse of disasters someplace, perhaps in the longer list which I extracted above. But thanks.
Peace, emb