Now, don’t be offended. You know I’m not talking about you, but this old cartoon from five years ago is an example of the problems I sometimes cause for myself. Arlo’s words in the last panel, “I figure grape jelly/wine…,” makes the joke very subtle. The reader must fill in a blank. I know—I certainly hope—that many readers would have no problem doing this, but looking back I know a lot of readers probably were left thinking “I don’t get it.” This could have been avoided by having Arlo say, “I figure grape jelly/wine, what’s the difference?” I have had to learn over the years that a cartoonist can’t be too obvious.
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Another reason my iPhone stays home. My liffe is complicated enough. Twitter is beyond me
@Lilyblack,
I’d Symply say we are beyond Twitter…..
Another Fargone rant…..texting; if you have to text back and forth more than once, call and save time! Unless you are in a meeting 🙂
Meanwhile, Google just wants us to leave the driving to them so we can surf the web on their satellite fleet.
That horrible day in November, 1963, I was at home with the children when a friend phoned and told me. I flew to the TV, turned it on, and watched transfixed as you can imagine. Crying. The older children got home from school (early, but in our time zone not very early). We all cried. Couldn’t believe such an awful thing could happen.
Some noise from upstairs later … our twin girls in their cribs, seven months old … I had forgotten about them!
It was a sad, sad, dismal weekend, with the procession, the funeral and all.
And the shooting of Oswald by Jack Ruby! I saw it live on TV at a friend’s house and almost threw up, it was so … I don’t know what.
I was at work, at the college, perhaps in a meeting in the academic VP’s office. Somebody suggested a moment of silence. Spent more time than usual at the TV, was actually listening to MPR when Ruby shot Oswald. Rotten time. Didn’t lessen my habitual pessimism.
On a different topic, and a less significant one, here’s a website on the apostrophe and its proper uses. I’m not pointing fingers, just being helpfully pedantic.
http://www.grammarbook.com/punctuation/apostro.asp
Peace, emb
You’re kidding, right? 😛
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J8PB1a1c9zA
GR :)…then there’s the girls…….
No Lilyblack, both Kennedy and Oswald were killed in Dallas that weekend.
A little late with this subject, but there is another southern soft drink – Cheerwine. And GR6, my Mama told the story of her first date with my father when he took her out and ordered a “dope.” She was pretty worried until she realized it was a Coke.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RcDCvQbOdig
🙂 stop right there…………………………………..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SmPMMitJDYg
…been a long 23 days, straight, for me, it’s time for me to change my mood….don’t click if one doesn’t want to…
GR;) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tgYuLsudaJQ
Golden slumbers to all….
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tgYuLsudaJQ
Keep on rock in….
http://youtu.be/UH8Dt4u09hg
And we get Brooklynne Rose this weekend….she graduated from Kindergarten last Thursday…Andrew has picks and video…still trying to figure out how to put it on U Tube…she wore a white cape and gown with a red rose in her small hands, (how appropriate for a rose of a child).
They sang a song about how they could spell cat, and bat….but they could not spell hippopotamus. I pray for the youth of that generation. But, could there be a change in the wind….no, not going to post another song.
goodnight………………
Sandcastler….thanks…. damn good song..never had an Uncle Joe, but I did have a Uncle Charlie 🙂
I don’t remember the day itself, I was only two. I do remember the funeral on TV. We were at my “city” Grandma’s house for Thanksgiving that week. I can still see the black & white console TV, showing the horse-drawn hearse and the riderless horse, boots upside-down in the stirrups. Everyone was really upset.
Sandcastler….Then, there’s this….I do believe your lady had done this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4zD_FmHp2RM
Last one….. been Sally in another life 😉
Debbe, Loon just smiled, shock her head.
say goodnight Debbe….it’s “Tuesday Afternoon” for me….but I wont’ post a liink 🙂
Ah, the sun is behind the elm trees. Evening is here. Lovely time in Texas in summer. I shall go out and do pastoral dances on the lawn.
And I will Symply Kill the wasp’s nest by the side of the deck now that it is Fargone dark…..hate doing it, but too close to where grandkids go…..
Lilyblack, you’ve done gone an made me miss setting on the patio at Billy Gene’s in Kerrville.
Made me think of the Ya Ya Sisterhood. But the book, not the movie.
Love, Jackie Monies