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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My mother is always commenting on people’s dress when we travel. She cannot understand why they look so sloppy or what they wear. She harks back to the days when you wore a dress or suit, gloves, heels and a hat to ride a train or a plane. And that is how I dressed long, long ago too.
I came across photos of me taken at Carlsbad Caverns wearing dress, cancan petticoats and hose. The men were wearing suits and hats and ties! And we were tourists!
Nowadays people wear the same things on an ocean cruise that they wear to Walmart.
And honestly, I was thinking of other box stores than Walmart. Which I try to avoid whenever I can for entirely different reasons. But sometimes cannot be avoided.
Love, Jackie Monies
All the photos I’ve seen cover up the interesting parts of the Rihanna “dress”. I am assuming she wasn’t wearing those strange big purple ribbons across her crotch and breasts?
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Luv the way your mind works, Jackie!
Fishnet gown!! Jackie, Rihanna had on little panties, but nothing on top. And she wore it to an event where she got a fashion icon award. 😉 Love the pic of uptight Anna Wintour giving her the award.
She’s worn stuff like that before, btw. Obviously comfortable with her body, which is admittedly pretty awesome.
Also, Jackie, I know what you’re saying about people traveling in something like cutoffs and flip flops. Makes you wonder what they do dress up for.
I always make it a point to dress up to travel, especially if it’s an international flight. Guess I’m just retro! It’s probably not a fair fact of life, but I’ve noticed if you’re well put together you get treated approximately 173% better by all the people who can help you have a pleasant trip and easy time at the airport, such as customs.
“Learned a long time ago not to judge people by dress codes. It is a poor marker of wealth, social background, or character.”
Amen. And judging people is a risky business anyway. But, if you want someone to judge relatively safely, judge those who create and enforce dress codes, and maybe those who clearly judge people by what they wear, or by their makeup. I’ve seen and heard examples in the private sector, in several institutions of higher ed., in the federal civil service, and, of course, in churches.
As a biologist, I think it should be illegal to require attire that is physically damaging or uncomfortable for no sensible reason. As an individual, I’d add jackets and neckties.
This blog is close to setting a numerical record, no?
Yes, wonder where JJ is. Should we send a search party?
Just to be clear, I don’t advocate judging people based on external material benchmarks either. I’ve just observed getting treated differently by being dressed well. Also, it’s a my choice because I enjoy interesting clothes and shoes and etc.!
If memory serves, mine is comment #357, which is one more than that long series a week ago, ending when no comment form appeared in this blog.
OK, DellaMae beat me to it, so THIS is #358.
#360! Can’t keep up….
Like I saqy, I just like to avoid mental distress to see people dressed like they do at Wal-Mart, and I am not talking shorts and flip flops, either, both of which I am wearing right now. Have you ever visited the “People of Wal-Mart” site?
http://www.peopleofwalmart.com/
People of Walmart is an entertainment website founded in 2009 by brothers Andrew and Adam Kipple. As the site’s title suggests, the website features user-submitted photos of socially awkward or undesirable customers who were photographed at Wal-Mart
Time for Jimmy to come home before we crash the system. This group is so amazing. We talk like civilized people should, a conversation with value and interest. There is a Jimmy Buffet song I keep thinking of, “Gypsies in the Palace” which is what usually happens when you leave something unattended.
For those not fans of that Jimmy, it is about him leaving his house to be housesat by some of his entourage.
Love, Jackie Monies
Heh, 363 comments
DR. SEUSS EXPLAINS WHY COMPUTERS SOMETIMES CRASH
(Best if read out loud.)
If a packet hits a pocket
on a socket on a port,
and the bus is interrupted
at a very last resort,
and the access of the memory
makes your floppy disk abort.
Then the socket packet pocket
has an error to report.
If your cursor finds a menu item
followed by a dash,
and the double-clicking icon
puts your window in the trash;
and your data is corrupted
cuz the index doesn’t hash,
then the situation’s hopeless
and your system’s gonna crash.
If the label on the cable
at your house,
says the network is connected to
the button on your mouse,
but your packets want to
tunnel to another protocol,
that’s repeatedly rejected
by the printer down the hall,
and your screen is all distorted
by the side effects of gauss,
so your icons in the window
are as wavy as a souse;
then you may as well reboot
and go out with a bang,
cuz sure as I’m a poet,
the sucker’s gonna hang !
When the copy of your floppy’s
getting sloppy in the disc
and the microcode instructions
cause unnecessary risk,
then you’ll have to flash the memory
and you’ll want to RAM your ROM.
Quickly turn off the computer
and be sure to tell your Mom!
Many years ago we won a cruise in a sales contest. I tried to get my hairdresser to go with Mike but she wouldn’t (and he is a good looking guy) as I don’t especially like cruises.
Ended up going. My boss’ wife said I was the only one, along with Mike, who actually owned a cruise wardrobe. We looked like photos the cruise line would use to advertise. But that was my favorite way of dressing.
Now, along the way you learn things, like do not wear a three piece white Southern planters suit with a pink shirt and tie unless you want everyone at Dallas Market trying to pick you up, male and female. Fashion note from my husband.
Do not get your hair cut super short in a female buzz cut for some of same reasons and wear an outfit that looks like Ellen DeGeneres for same reasons.
Part of my lecture on judging people by what they wear!
Love, Jackie Monies
Symply a proverbial last post, I think it Fargone quits at 365 or so…
Still going on.
Jackie, I will add don’t wear short shorts when you go to a bar by yourself.
Just checking in: off to bed in a moment. Had to work the morning AND third shift Sunday. Did fine, but today about killed me – I switch to nocturnal so easily, but back again (I am spacing on the word for daylight-active critters.) is SO HARD.
Took me three tries to get one shift covered – the first one broke her leg at her store the night before. Everyone is running barebones crew or fewer. Counting my stars this store is so much easier to run than my old one.
On the plus side, my poor, over-worked dehumidifier finally got the humidity level iny apartment under 50%. Only took it most of a day on turbo to do it.
Still going! Does anyone still have a computer with a floppy disk, or even a diskette? Trucker Ron, I remember both shuttle disasters. For the Challenger I was on an exercise in Germany. The base rec/mess hall had a huge projection screen that played the news and the video over and over. Everyone there was in shock. Put a definite pall over what had been a successful ReForGer.
That anonymous was me… For the Columbia, I was in central Texas by then. I was getting the oil changed in my truck and watched events unfold on the waiting room TV. Oil changes stopped for a while while everyone watched in disbelief.
OK, I’m back. What did I miss?
Underage college drinking, archived A&J cartoons, a Miss America gown, conspiracy theories, college female dress codes, D-Day, handicapped parking/big box stores, how people dress in public, how people dress to travel, a fishnet dress, sensible attire, a Jimmy Buffet song, a “Dr. Seuss” poem, Lady Mindy may have broken someone’s leg and made it look like an accident, computers with floppy disc drives (I have one–my computers never break and I never get rid of them), the Challenger and Columbia disasters…OK, got it.
And to think I use to worry about not being “on topic”.
Can’t leave us alone unsupervised can you, Ghost?
And I did tell you how to march in formation in high heels on grass, black top and cement, all of which took a different way to keep from breaking your ankle and to keep moving! We didn’t even get to march in loafers or flats. I bet I can find a photo from the 1960’s of some poor female mascot marching in skirts, stockings and high heels.
Topic? What topic?
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I can’t wait for that picture, Jackie!!
Mindy from Indy, that would be diurnal, as opposed to nocturnal, which was what my security guard job was. 9 out of 12 years working 3rd shift. AAAGH! as Charlie Brown would say.
And it’s starting to seem like we’re playing one of those games where you take turns stacking odd things higher and increasingly precariously ’til someone puts THE one on top that makes it all topple. Will it be meeeee this time? What is that game called? And don’t say “Twister”, Ghost.
Mindy, the word you were trying to remember is diurnal.
Cross-post echoed Mark in TT. Sorry.