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.
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Makes more sense now…doesn’t it!!!???
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0EoOVvGV_aQ
Mark, that is the best version I’ve heard…thanks to the Muppets and Jim Henson, the world is a great big smile…love Miss Piggy. One classy female pork chop 🙂
You know what Yoda and Miss Piggy have in common? They were both brought to life by Frank Oz.
Mark…everything you could want to know about Frank Oz and Star Wars just in case you’re bored.
https://www.google.com/search?q=frank+oz&oq=frank+o&aqs=chrome.3.69i57j0l5.16720j0j4&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8
Another school shooting…why? ….I just lost my supper, in the latrine…Why don’t these demented shooters take their own lives before destroying the lives of families. I’m still mourning over the lives lost at the grade school a few years back. The devil is running loose and we need to ask God to protect us from such brutal atrocities.
May peace and the love of family surround those who are suffering…May God’s love bring them home…for those who die in Christ shall rise up first. Amen
Thank You, Debbe.
Debbie, you’re thinking of the song Coconut, written and recorded by Harry Nilsson in ’71. It’s been covered a number of times and was used as the basis for a skit on The Muppet Show.
My wonderful Ghost cooked a delicious steak, potato and salad Valentine’s dinner for me tonight with bread pudding for dessert. It was the first anyone ever cooked for me.
As we keep saying, it is never too late for a first time nor to find love. I love this sweet man.
I know how lucky I am. Thank you Jimmy.
So happy for you, Ghost and Jackie. Bless your hearts.
(Wistfully wondering — how did “Will you be my Valentine?” turn into “Happy Valentines Day”?)
My mother used to make bread pudding and I’ve always loved it. What flavor did Ghost make for you, Jackie?
Good Valentine’s Day. First Feb. thaw [+40F, next few days highs w/b lower], took my beloved [and happily married] cleaning lady to lunch at Cantabria Coffee, and made 6 portions of much-modified New China egg drop soup + egg fried rice for supper this evening and others later this mo. Plan to give up cptr solitaire for Lent. Bedtime.
Peace,
… days’ highs …
At Berry College, the second eaglet also hatched successfully this Ash Wednesday/St. Valentine’s Day.
http://www.gocomics.com/nonsequitur/2018/02/15
Mark: There is a tall slim door like that on a bldg. in the Minot, ND, zoo. Easy to guess who lives inside. Somewhere, I have Kodachromes.
Peace,
Ghost made a recipe from Zatarain’s that had golden raisins and pecans with a whiskey sauce.
I think I will have some for breakfast.
Our late housekeeper drank entire bottle of Makers Mark, barely leaving enough for sauce. She drank all the liquor in house including all the wine with screw caps!
Curr
Current help does not drink!
We let the drinking housekeeper go over alcohism but did not discover consumption until I was cooking marsala sauce and no marsala but empty bottle.
emb, funny you should say that. My ex always said my animal type was a giraffe. Tall, long-legged and somewhat awkward. Yep, that’s me.
Jackquline
please contact your transportation specialist
leon
True love = homemade
I made my love lasagna for Valentine’s Day. It takes a lot of time and energy, which I don’t have a lot of these days, but then I get to share the results.
As for Zulu coconuts, I never caught one when we lived in New Orleans area years ago. It was my understanding that the Krewe did not allow them to be thrown (possible injury) so they had to be handed down from the floats.
I only went to the downtown parades a couple of times. I took my kids to a few parades in Metairie and there was a kiddie parade (Krewe of Vulcan) that went near my house. That one was fun – the Boy Scouts usually ran out of beads by the time they came by our house on the return trip, so we’d load them back up with everything we had caught so they could keep throwing.
We took the kids to a parade while visiting the folks in Oklahoma and they were not impressed by the bands and the demure floats and the dignitaries riding on horses and convertibles. “Why aren’t they throwing anything?” was the continuing refrain.
Here someone (perhaps a dental association) seems to see to it that folks in parades throw candy to the crowd.
Speaking of sweets, here’s a recipe for high blood sugar… powdered sugar all over the place… and a happy smile on your face:
http://www.myrecipes.com/extracrispy/make-new-orleans-style-beignets-and-celebrate-mardi-gras-wherever-you-are
Thanks to being associated with Jackie’s boutique, I have now perhaps discovered the job for which I have been looking my entire life, without actually realizing it. Job title: Mini-skirt Buyer.
I’m biased, but I’m sure glad I went there. This is a PR video, but an accurate one. Also, I’m also only one person removed from Ruth Bader Ginsburg ’54, who is in the video. After law school [Yale?], she worked at Weill, Gottschalk, and Manges, where my classmate, Marshall Berger ’51, was a jr. partner.
https://www.revolvy.com/main/index.php?s=Cornell+University&stype=videos
Peace,
Get a load of the extremely rare asymmetric decapod! http://www.gocomics.com/looks-good-on-paper .
http://www.gocomics.com/closetohome/2018/02/16