Today’s old comic strip is from 2002. I hate to be the one to tell Arlo, but there’s a lot more gravity in 2018 than there was then. There’s so much, in fact, both my feet rarely leave the ground at the same time anymore without the assistance of an ottoman. It’s Mardi Gras, by the way. The current A&J deals with that in newspapers and over at gocomics.com. When I lived near New Orleans, the NOLA television stations would broadcast Mardi Gras carryings-on all day on Fat Tuesday. I know: it sounds dumb. However, I rather enjoyed checking in throughout the day via TV. It was something different and festive, with no crowds, no parking problems and no unidentifiable liquids underfoot.
55 responses to “A Grave Matter”
“and no unidentifiable liquids underfoot” …
EEEWWWWWWWW!!!!!!!!
Yeah Symply easier with the Fargone step stool these days….no more jumping on the bed!
Watching WKRG in downtown Mobile now. When my sons were small, we packed a picnic and spent the day downtown. My oldest son is in from Houston because he wanted his 4 year daughter and 2 year old son to experience Mardi Gras like he did. I always told the boys that you can’t party on Fat Tuesday unless you plan to be in church on Ash Wednesday.
Fastnacht Day here in Pennsylvania.
I wish I could “like” your webpage offerings!
You can like them on the Arlo and Janis Fans Facebook page.
http://www.facebook/groups/ArloandJanisFans If you’d like.
Also you can watch Mardi Gras on some of the unexpurgated Bourbon St. Webcams too.
Also no unidentified liquid underneath (Unless you forget to let the cat out while watching.)
http://www.facebook.com/groups/ArloandJanisFans/
Sorry! I lost my calm (.com) above. Dang phones…
http://www.berry.edu/eaglecam/ There is a new little fuzzball at Berry College as of last evening! One egg hatched; one egg to go. Hope both turn out to be healthy eaglets.
‘Twas I.
Red Solo cup! Laissez les bon temps rouler!
I have a good Mardi Gras story. But, like so many of my good stories, I cannot tell it here. Suffice it to say that it involved alcohol; a Mardi Gras ball; a beaded Mardi Gras ball gown* that must have weighed 15 pounds; an unfurnished house; and a bad case of carpet burn. Good times.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKZqGJONH68
*No, I wasn’t wearing the gown; my date was.
Fifty years ago, a comely student returned from a Mardi Gras trip and presented me with a string of blue beads. I hadn’t the foggiest what they were, and asked her. She merely said she had gotten these Mardi Gras beads while in NO, and thought I might like them. In those days, friendship was encouraged, so I accepted. It was only years later that I found out how many lasses acquired such beads! Yeah, I was quite naive then.
Having never been Catholic, or even Christian for that matter, Fat Tuesday in its various incarnations has held no meaning for me.
Being a Christian might interfere with enjoying Mardi Gras.
It is a pagan celebration of excess.
Lived about 15 miles west of NO back in the 70s. Enjoyed going to the Mardi Gras parades. Still have a coconut thrown by a crew I can’t remember the name of.
Kurt Vonnegut featured varying gravity in one of his modern novels. One of the US’s adversaries had learned how to manipulate gravity in different areas of the world and was using that discovery to irritate the Americans.
Good Valentine cartoon Jimmy! It is about loving your love ALL the time of course, not just one day.
I live in N.O. The best way to see Mardi Gras is flat on my couch, via YouTube. For all the named reasons, plus no portapotties.
Bob, I think it’s Zulu that throws coconuts.
And Happy Valentine’s Day to the Village.
I lived in Lafayette some years ago and that was as close to N’awlins as i cared to get at Mardi Gras. Lafayette has good, family friendly parades all weekend into Mardi Gras. My son took his little Cajun wife down to NO one year and he came back with a white face vowing NEVER to do that again.
good morning villagers
please don’t anyone take this personally, I found it to be rather humorous 🙂 Is coconut considered a fruit?
=^..^=
In addition to a slang derogatory meaning, fruit has 2 legit meanings, one botanical, one culinary. In botany, part of a flower is called the ovary. After pollination [not the same as fertilization, which usually comes soon afterward], the ovary ripens into a fruit. Depending on how many ovaries are involved, and on what other flower parts may be involved, botanists have a slew of categories they put fruits in. I once knew them all, and got a B+ in the course. Expect the web can give you more info than you want.
Fruits may or may not be edible. Two winged maple “seeds” = one fruit. An elm “seed” is a fruit. A sunflower “seed” is a fruit. A fleshy plant product that is a culinary fruit but which, in fact, contains no seeds, is rhubarb, the stalk or petiole of a rhubarb leaf. [The blade of the leaf is toxic.] A coconut is a fruit, as are most ordinary nuts, but I don’t remember the details. The web knows.
Kitchen-wise, a fruit is something you eat as defined in your culture. Tomatoes are botanical fruits [technically berries, I believe], but we eat ripe ones as veggies, as in a BLT samidge or sangwich, depending on your ethnicity. We eat green ones, picked before the first frost, as fruits, as in Elaine’s fabulous green tomato pies.
Peace,
never had green tomato pie, down south we fry them, as in the title of the book and movie. MMMM, good.
Here’s the problem with today’s Mardi Gras in NO:
http://abcnews.go.com/US/mardi-gras-shootings-leave-lead-injured-orleans/story?id=53071918
I don’t understand why so many people are turning to hatred and violence as part of their lives, as an acceptable way to behave.
Emb…thanks for the info…now to go purchase a couple of coconuts 🙂 I have a couple of targets in mind…..
Wasn’t there a song with the lyric “you put the lime in the coconut”? Mark, that’s your job today..find that song…please.
And Yes, I loved the Toby Keith Red Cup song…..never heard it before. I would always get a fresh red cup when it came time to refill…that way I knew when to quit 🙂
TR…people are stupid when alcohol and guns are involved. Have you read the story about the 19 year girl who identified her killers from her death bed, before she died..may they rot in hell.
Well, it stopped raining…for now.
Silly me…forgot to post the LOL link…regarding coconuts….
https://i.chzbgr.com/full/9125880064/h10928FE8/