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Fool me once…

By Jimmy Johnson


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Back to the old cartoons. Current events are always a ready source of material for cartoonists. The idea for this 1998 A&J came directly from the news. There was an article making the rounds at that time saying precisely that: research indicated that one of the many effects of pregnancy upon women was an increase in intelligence. As Janis and most of the headlines phrased it, Arlo’s response was the obvious one. Sometimes, they write themselves, but not very often.
Thanks for all who ventured to the Facebook site “Arlo and Janis Fans” and joined the group. You shattered the ceiling of 500 members, which is what we set out to do. The master of ceremonies there, our friend Jim Young, was very pleased.

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183 responses to “Fool me once…”

  1. Debbe Avatar
    Debbe

    need an edit….and Mike

  2. Trapper Jean Avatar
    Trapper Jean

    Jackie, I am hoping that with morning will be the report that Mike is much better and will be home for Christmas.

  3. Trapper Jean Avatar
    Trapper Jean

    Ghost Sweetie, I’ve often heard that joke, but as “to show the possum it could be done!”

  4. Ghost Rider 6 Avatar
    Ghost Rider 6

    Jean dear, someone once told me some guy from South Alabama made a fortune exporting armadillos to North Alabama and selling them as “Possum on the Half Shell”.

  5. TruckerRon Avatar

    While we were listening to Mel Tormé’s classic Christmas song, a friend told this one:

    The big chess tournament was taking place at the Plaza in New York. After the first day’s competition, many of the winners were sitting around in the foyer of the hotel talking about their matches and bragging about their wonderful play. After a few drinks they started getting louder and louder until finally, the desk clerk couldn’t take any more and kicked them out.

    The next morning the Manager called the clerk into his office and told him there had been many complaints about his being so rude to the hotel guests….instead of kicking them out, he should have just asked them to be less noisy. The clerk responded, “I’m sorry, but if there’s one thing I can’t stand, it’s chess nuts boasting in an open foyer.”

  6. Debbe Avatar
    Debbe

    Good morning Villagers…..

    Got it….panel one from “Christmas Releases” is panel one in today’ real time strip…..what an eye, what an eye 🙂

    …and a blessed Monday to all.

    Jackie…..still praying ……………………………………………………………….Amen.

  7. Debbe Avatar
    Debbe

    oh, and I love the above ‘jokes’…I love the play on words.

  8. Debbe Avatar
    Debbe

    TR….Indy Mindy posted the Christmas Canon with children singing it….it too is absolutely wonderfully done.

  9. Debbe Avatar
    Debbe

    ya gotta love Sally

    http://www.gocomics.com/peanuts-holiday-countdown/2014/12/13#mutable_1241877

    yeah, I know I’m out of sequence, but I always did march to a different drum 🙂

  10. Debbe Avatar
    Debbe

    …and Jerry has been missing to long………………….JERRY!!!!!

  11. Ghost Rider 6 Avatar
    Ghost Rider 6

    Lady Mindy, I hope your AWOL friend and employee turned up with nothing worse than a sheepish expression on her face.

    Denise, I haven’t forgotten about your husband, either.

  12. Ghost Rider 6 Avatar
    Ghost Rider 6

    “Only Three More Shopping Days Until Christmas”

  13. NealinBawstun Avatar

    This morning’s A&J strikes a quasi-respondent chord. As a kid in Miami lo those many decades ago, there were no fresh-cut Fraser firs to be had, and so the choice was an artificial tree or a Scotch pine cut in August and needle-free by the time it hit south Florida.

    As an adult living in New England in a house with a cathedral ceiling, I have gone overboard. I have continually cajoled my wife into having trees with heights of up to 14 feet. Our new home has a more conventional 8-foot ceiling. Not quite table-top territory, but well on the way in my way of thinking.

  14. Steve from Royal Oak, Mi Avatar

    We bought some Chestnuts when we were in London a few years ago. I have to admit that I like the smell of them roasting on an open fire (and singing about it) than the taste of them.

    TruckerRon, I enjoy that kind of humor.

  15. Denise in Michigan Avatar
    Denise in Michigan

    Thank you, Ghost. We really are a Village…thank you, Jimmy.

    And thank you, Jimmy, for the Christmas week sneak peek panels!. (I’m glad you haven’t turned into Snuffy Smith.)

  16. emeritus minnesota biologist Avatar
    emeritus minnesota biologist

    Haven’t read the new posts yet. TIP comic and blog are both Santa-themed today.

    http://www.gocomics.com/that-is-priceless/

  17. emeritus minnesota biologist Avatar
    emeritus minnesota biologist

    Here’s the TIP BlogSpot.

    http://thatispriceless.blogspot.com/

    Peace, emb

  18. emeritus minnesota biologist Avatar
    emeritus minnesota biologist

    Thanks, Trucker. Chestnuts? That is en route to becoming one. Heard/saw a version of it a few years ago. As puns go, perhaps that’s relatively new.

    Peace, emb

  19. Mark in TTown Avatar
    Mark in TTown

    Some seasonal music from Jethro Tull: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGOao1_JVTo

  20. sandcastler™ Avatar
    sandcastler™

    GR6, he is remembered for this also. 😉
    http://youtu.be/xuUBCF3KKxc

  21. Ghost Rider 6 Avatar
    Ghost Rider 6

    During the last several years of my sister’s life, she and I decided to forego having our own trees and instead put up and decorated a full-size tree at my Mom’s, since that is where we gathered for our Christmas meal and gift exchange. Last year, with my sister having just passed away, she did not have (or want) a tree at all.

    This year, I was determined that she would have tree, even if it were a small, table-top one…which it is. Perhaps it’s not as impressive as a six- or twelve-foot tall one, but as with gifts, it’s the thought that counts.

    I’m talking off this week to spend more time with my Mom. Somehow, that seems very much what I should do right now.

  22. TruckerRon Avatar

    I’m always a bit jealous of those who have had good relationships with their mothers. My mom & I were always at loggerheads until after she had a malignant brain tumor removed… and was left paralyzed on one side… her last 18 months were the best we had together. She finally accepted me and my choices in life and allowed me to love her. More and more, year by year, I am beginning to accept her and her choices and to miss her.