I was really digging this art arc back in 2002. All four panels, I think, work particularly well, especially the fourth panel. And, yes, even in 2002, most kids would have used an online dictionary if they bothered at all, but that wouldn’t be nearly so funny as Gene desperately thumbing through the Oxford English Dictionary, would it? This is called “artistic license,” class.
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I was just perusing Monday’s cartoon, which is either a startling example of “déjà vu all over again” or, more likely, a rerun. So that puts me about two days behind. Hum. Yeah, that seems about right.
When the cartoon was originally drawn, Janis’s britches would probably have been considered to be Capri pants, à la Laura Petrie. Now they would likely be known as “leggings” (not to be confused with yoga pants), something about which I have some knowledge, due to there being a few hundred pairs of leggings hanging in Jackie’s two boutiques.
As I mentioned before, I’ve been surprised at how widely they have been adopted for wear by all ages and sizes of females in Oklahoma. And even more surprised how good most of those females look wearing them. Although they do come in solid colors, including black, the ones with prints are much more popular and the wilder the print the better. Unlike yoga pants, which tend to leave it all hanging out, leggings are often paired with a tunic that falls to about mini-dress length, which makes them look nice and preserves the wearer’s modesty. The nearest to an exception to that I’ve seen is when our manager wore a pair with large sunflowers printed on them. She mentioned that one of the flowers ended up “where no sunflower was ever likely to grow.” Fortunately, her tunic solved that problem.
Oh, and we learned the legs can be tucked under to make them Capri pants-length. And the tunics can be tied up around the waist if the wearer is proud of “what her mama gave her” and desires to let it all hang out.
For at least a wk, this has been the only live cam of the 4 Rift Valley cams in W. Kenya. The other “highlight” and “meditation” views are interesting, but repetitive.
https://explore.org/livecams/african-wildlife/african-river-wildlife-camera
Peace,