This old cartoon is from this very date, May 26, in 2009. I’ve loved a good tuna-salad sandwich since I was a kid. Mama made the best “tuna-fish salad,” but, like most of her recipes, her tuna salad was very simple. Mayonnaise, a little pickle relish and canned tuna. I know: it doesn’t get much more generic than that, but she had a real knack for mixing it all together. There’s nothing more dispiriting than anticipating a good tuna-salad sandwich and opening a can to find a watery mess that looks like the bottom of a chum bucket. As Arlo discovers, even buying the more expensive “chunk” variety is no guarantee of satisfaction.
244 responses to “A Mournful Tuna”
I doubt I would become the Crazy Cat Lady joining the Bat Guano Crazy one so I accept your offer Ghost. Any time, announced or not is fine. It’d keep me on my toes and promote more order in my life than exists currently. Motivating good behavior with a dangled carrot seems appropriate on a comic strip forum.
Thanks for making me smile. I did and did.
Steve, I got to see what your weather is like. It’s your turn to experience mine. I once had a going away picnic at which a well-endowed young lady had too much to drink and began blubbering about me leaving. It was a little embarrassing. We had never done anything more intimate than say hello. She had a friend though who must have given me a good recomendation.
By far the best offer I’ve had all day, Jackie. 🙂
For anybody on Classmates.com: I get a daily email from C.com, but that page is not suited to searching. On the page are many chances to click; just pick one and click. You will get a page which has search capabilities – in my case, at the upper right on a horizontal orange band. The search rectangle is usually set to searching all names and places, but there is an arrow at its left for a drop down menu. Drop it down and select “all yearbooks”. The menu will disappear and the rectangle reappear. Enter ONE name in the rectangle and click on the magnifying glass icon. Voila!
On the pages of hits, focus in on your quarry by using the year, state, and city options at the left of the list of hits.
Find a likely hit and click to open. Initially, the hit page may be foggy, but it usually clears up in a little while. There is a change-of-size option a top center; I always enlarge. Enjoy the hit. Then, go back to the page showing that hit page among the others and click on the option to show more hits from the same yearbook; with luck, you’ll find more.
Why ONE name? if you enter a full name [“Joseph Furfural”] you’ll get hits for “Joseph” plus hits for “Furfural”, and that will be an unholy number of hits. Just enter “Furfural” and see only a few hits. Of course, if the sought name has an unusual first name [“Benzaldehyde Roberts”], enter “Benzaldehyde”, but be aware that you’ll miss hits wherein that person is listed in the format “B. Roberts”. Clearly, using the surname is often better.
My usage of the language, above, lacks a bit; sorry!
Trapper I was cute in the 1st & 2nd grade. After that not so much.
GM Debbe
B’ugs
Looks like Janis dodged a bullet…
Good morning Villagers….
Gal….happy belated birthday….have a good time tonight.
Hopefully, it will be a quite weekend here…BIL and his daughter left to help NIL move…several miles away….yeah!!!!! I just hope they stay the weekend there.
Neighbor down the road dropped off some nice size blue gill…12 in all…..husband going to fillet today…guess what (I’d better) I’m have for supper 🙂
And I am glad the current story arc has come to an end.
Happy Caturday……
Evidently, the URL didn’t want me to tell about my doctor’s visit as it wouldn’t submit, then I deleted the paragraph….and it posted. Anyway, my thyroid is still high, lost 5 pounds, and she doesn’t want to increase my meds as I have a high metabolism and she doesn’t want me to lose any more weight…take multivitamins, also had to show her the motions I go through when I pack….bad hip….so I got a steroid shot…
Strange…it took it.
gonna be a hot one today, told my Boss I was going to strip down to my ‘bare’ essentials…those hazmat suits are too hot. It was almost 100 percent humidity in the packing room yesterday…..
Rick, I agree on the “Happy Memorial Day”….and I also hate Memorial Day sales……
“Lest we forget”
Out of curiosity, I googled Memorial Day songs…..
http://www.thenation.com/article/top-ten-memorial-day-songs
too true and too funny
http://cheezburger.com/8799270144
Debbe – regarding the cheezburger link: I agree COMPLETELY!
Debbe, it may be the hazmat suit keeping you too hot…. sounds like the results from staying out in the sun for too long. Take care of yourself best you can. 🙂 GAL- Happy day !
Jackie has always known what Janis found out about old flames and since mine go back so far they are now old men, too old for me because they became old on schedule while I didn’t. I gained lots of life experiences but refuse to age or do old lady things. I like to be around ageless people who continue to keep on acting as though Father Time missed us.
So, I don’t go to reunions, don’t look up old boy friends or classmates. Not interested in who I once dated, although I was worried about that one southern gentleman plastic surgeon and relieved to find out we didn’t know each other.
Do miss the speech, bought a tee shirt that says “Speak Southern to me.” I miss a lot of things Southern of course.
Janis can be a tad delusional at times anyway. Glad we didn’t get her reuniting with Vince for a cheating episode. A and J is no Rex Morgan or Mary Worth which are inane and boring.
Looks like my “Twenty Year Rule” was in play for Janis, as well.
Debbe 😉 Sorry about your song last night, hon. I’ll do you twice tonight. 🙂
“Bare essentials”, eh? Although come to think of it, that’s all that the members of my all-female staff wear under their work clothes, too.
Happy birthday, belated to all and blessings to all. Not much time today. Things to do. I really wonder at how I had time to work. Still reading, even if I don’t comment.
God bless us every one.
Bear, I believe I have recounted the story of how some well-meaning old biddie told my mom that if she had my waist length hair cut short I would have ringlets like Shirley Temple. She was WRONG, so even in first grade photos I had frizzy hair. I hate those early pictures.
And for those speaking of old flames…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sWNwwy-sjKo
Oh, Ghost Sweetie, you do realize that under our clothes we are all naked, yes? 😉
The Ghost knows. That’s his Super Power. He uses it only for good, not evil.
Yes, Jean dear, I do realize that. Constantly. 😉
And yes, also, Jackie. But are you familiar with the concept of “a little good evil”?
I am rather ecumenical. Anglicans tend to be liberal even on issues of good vs. Evil. We were founded over issues of sin by our titular leader of the Church of England, Henry the Eighth. Long history so my version of evil is REALLY bad stuff. X-Ray vision is harmless.