Welcome to what I’m calling “Weird Wednesday,” for lack of anything better. Today, just for fun, I’ve taken a recent cartoon and changed the ending to something… weird. Drawing a reality-based comic strip, even one based loosely on reality such as Arlo & Janis, can be confining. Well, to heck with all that! This being the Internet, where nobody will see it anyway, I thought I’d goof around a bit. To refresh your memory, and to drive up my traffic there, here is the original strip as it appeared on the GoComics Web site January 8.
Weird Wednesday
By Jimmy Johnson
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64 responses to “Weird Wednesday”
Weird Wednesday???? Hey I resemble that remark!
OF due now. emb
Is it weird if I don’t think this is weird?
Lousy weather + mediocre blow. emb
OF due 1702-1722 CST. Still crummy weather. Peace, emb
http://www.nps.gov/features/yell/webcam/oldFaithfulStreaming.html
David, your from Oshkosh where they do that weird fly in thing, so you get a free pass.
“Lousy weather + mediocre blow. emb” For future reference, you may want to rethink scanty posts. 😉
I always feel good when I read stories like this one. A hard worker, lived a frugal life, but loved his community.
http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2015/02/04/vermont_secret_millionaire_ronald_read_leaves_huge_gift_to_charity.html
sand: Why? emb
Jackie, I sent you a picture of Elvis when he was only one year old. If you would like to share it, that’s fine. As we know I have ten thumbs and they don’t work very well. Thanks.
I can’t believe how long it’s been since I managed to toddle through the village and, lo and behold, the topic o’the day is one I am well versed in: weirdness.
I like the castlery one’s idea of a book of “twisted A&J”.
Jackie, It’s been raining all day and it’s raining from Mobile to Tallahassee. Sorry.
OF due 1828-1848 CST. Peace, emb
http://www.nps.gov/features/yell/webcam/oldFaithfulStreaming.html
David in Austin, I think it’s a cheese spread-and-mouse sandwich.
Castlery one?
emb, it just sounds off. Like something you might hear in a ski lodge bar. A guy dropped $$$$$ to ski only to find the slopes closed. Then his afternoon diversion $$$ left him feeling less than satisfied. Now over his evening Scotch $$ he says to a friend, “Lousy weather + mediocre blow.”
Snowing….
https://i.chzbgr.com/maxW500/8441164800/hCF32D75F/
Debbe 😉 I do believe I’ve had a similar conversation on occasion. 🙂
Stay toasty.
I think Jimmy thought we were too sad and serious this past several days. You go, Jimmy!
Debbe, yeah!
My post, “Lousy weather + mediocre blow.” followed shortly after one alerting folks to an ongoing eruption, and obviously referred back to that eruption for anyone scrolling. Terse post, but clear. Seems appropriate to me; no reason to infer anything else from it.
Peace, emb
GR6, This article arrived in my inbox through a sidedoor, former Army pilot type. Is a long read, but if you’re military or pilot type it is gold.
http://foxtrotalpha.jalopnik.com/how-to-win-in-a-dogfight-stories-from-a-pilot-who-flew-1682723379
Janis must been watching 1983’s “Never Cry Wolf” when Ludwig sauntered in.
About 9CL: This is a wild guess. We’ve been treated to a drawn out sequence [though its real time might be only a few wks. toward the end of WWII]. I cannot remember exactly how it started, but Bill has a head wound which may have joggled his mind some, and he’s with Martine. They’ve had a fantastic, and sometimes erotic, trek across rural country, their source of sustenance often unclear, their clothes remaining in topnotch condition, and Martine has done fantastic things with a Luger: e.g., shooting into a German soldier’s telescopic sight, downing a fighter plane. She also has done Batman-like stunts; e.g., upending a naked German out a convenient window. Bill, long since fully[?] recovered, who supposedly has had some basic military training, pulls the completely asinine stunt of vigorously distracting her from drilling her last Nazi, so she gets wounded and should have bled to death by now. He’s gotten her sewed up, and is carrying her off with no blood on his clothing.
What is the chance that Brooke McEldowney is taking us for a ride, that’s it’s all a dream and Bill is just recovering from the original head wound? The “all a dream” bit is a cheap trick, legitimate in Alice in Wonderland but rarely anywhere else. As a kid of 10 or so, and a fan of The Wizard of Oz and subsequent L.F. Baum books, I was enraged that the film adaptation had it turn out to be just a dream at the end. Grand Rapids*, MN, has a Judy Garland Museum, but I’ve managed to avoid it. It also has a splendid coffee house, “Brewed Awakenings.” I think I’ve mentioned that before. *Judy’s home town.
Peace, emb
Sandcastler — I loved the story about the frugal man who left millions to his Vermont hometown. It made me feel good, too. And when I saw the headline, I hoped that it was Bennington, because that’s where my son Bill lives. Well, it’s not; it’s Brattleboro, but that’s a worthy town too.
If I had been following Chickweed Lane I’d have commented, but it’s just gotten so far-fetched that I can’t stand it any more (I’ve peeked when it was mentioned here, but all the killing has really put me off.) I used to follow it faithfully and enjoyed it when it was more believable. I’m glad to have your analysis on the latest happenings, eMb.
All the world is crazy except the and me-
And sometimes I wonder of thee.