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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Yup. My favorite wine glass, especially if serving from a Franzia Box of Zin
Good morning Villagers…..
Thanks Mark for helping DellaMae and me out on the drummer….oh, and you too GR 😉
GR…I also like Joan Baez’s version of that song
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nnS9M03F-fA
ya’ll have a blessed day……
Indy Mindy…..tough times don’t last forever…but tough people do….as I keep trying to tell myself 🙂
Oh, and Jackie…thanks for that quote from Maya Angelou…”listen to yourself and in that quietude, you might hear the voice of God”. I wrote it down, and put it in my purse, and pulled it out once yesterday to help give me strength. I like her stories, been a while since I’ve read any…but I did like her readings.
Funny thing is I got this one instantly and that is often not the case here.
Nice one Jimmy. You clearly know my dance partner. 😉
Good morning, Villagers. DellaMae, I find that if I read about something depressing, like the Civil War or WWI or fiction like “Ironweed” that I get sad and am less fun to be around. I love to sing and hear others sing, at church, I don’t go to concerts, but recorded music leaves me cold.
From almost 20 years ago…
http://www.gocomics.com/arloandjanis/1994/09/02#.U4iKxvldWa8
Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose.
Nice one, Ghost
emeritus minnesota biologist-
In defense of the old computer programmers: in the early days of computing, computing time memory was verrry expensive and representing years with two numbers instead of four saved a lot of money and energy. By the time memory and computers became cheaper, so much data had been encoded in the old format it was not practical to convert it.
The biggest headache with the Y2K bug was not in the programs themselves but in finding programmers who still knew the early coding languages and could thereby review the programs to see even there were any issues with the 2 versus 4 year dates. Those retirees made a small fortune in consulting fees. All of which ties in nicely to this Classic A&J comic:
http://www.gocomics.com/arloandjanis/1999/12/30#.U4iUN_ldWiE
Le changement est bon, francs sont mieux.
Ghost, Ghost, my sweet Ghost! You have an incredible archival memory of the strips– where, oh where is that arc about Janis, Arlo and Gone With the Wind set in the fraternity house when they first meet?
By the way, I just read all the 1994 strips last night and I almost posted the one you did!
Tonight it is “1995” I read.
Lily- you must deal with issues and life as best you can. It sounds like you have some wonderful people helping you do just that. It isn’t necessary to be like anyone else nor do what they do or say. Just make peace with yourself and move on, as you are doing.
From one who knows.
Love, Jackie Monies
Blinky: All very true, but shouldn’t it have occurred to some foresighted tech or officer that this would cause a hassle in a few decades? After all, a major chunk of our govt. is charged with defending us.
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Thanks, Jackie. With all the issues my therapist deals with, my form of sedative seems pretty minor. At least it gets me to sleep at night.
Once upon a time I lived on valium and Diet Coke. Or was it Tab? No matter, I still drink the diet soda.
My cardiologist is addicted to Tab, which I help enable him to drink. (Can’t buy it in Oklahoma)
My therapist in New Orleans was addicted to Diet Dr. Pepper and was so afraid of not being able to find it that he carried cases of it in trunk of his Porsche. Another friend had same addiction and filled all the soda machines at his business with Dr. Pepper.
Everyone has something, big or small, as a crutch. Lily, keep working through your life and someday you’ll run as free as you do racing.
Love, Jackie Monies
Thankfully coffee is not a banned substance in the civilized world. Though the European’s make it’s intake a refined art.
Jackie, was unaware that the Baptists had a prohibition on Tab. I could have understood if the ban was on Fresca, it mixes with nothing.
Not to step on anyone’s toes, but GWTW:
http://www.gocomics.com/arloandjanis/1997/10/20#.U4i4Cnbb5iM
Thanks for reminding on how I missed out on being a big time newspaper guy. Still I’ve got a fond memory of that night with Janis and the banana.
Thanks, Bill. That was the ONE! Which just shows how good JJ is, the mix of GWTW and Nixon and Viet Nam and Arlo and Janis meeting, all in one great strip/arc. Oh yes, and gay rights too, don’t tell me JJ doesn’t have courage.
Love, Jackie Monies
sandcastler, I know that in some states it is classified and sold as an energy drink. Not sure why it isn’t sold in Oklahoma or bottled.
I am from Monroe, LA, the birthplace so to speak of Coca Cola (after family moved over from Vicksburg, MS) and they still sell all Coke products there. So, I buy it and bootleg it over the border to Tulsa, OK and haul it over as a present frequently.
At my age and condition, keeping your cardiologist, heart surgeon and thoracic surgeon happy and loving you is an important relationship!
Love, Jackie Monies
Thanks, Bill. I don’t see the GWTW connection, but great arc
Jackie, if I just keep the Surgeon In My Life (AKA The Bossw In My Life) happy, i am doing quite well. The only other doctor I have seen in five years is The Man In My Life’s opthalmologist. And he wasn’t interested in my eyes.
Jackie, I spent a wonderful afternoon in Monroe two years ago. Visited the Flying Tiger museum out by the airport. Enjoyed it greatly and had a wonderful talk with the director, a granddaughter of Claire Chennault. Had heard the stories growing up and know at least one former astronaut for whom the Flying Tigers inspired his interest in aviation.
Speaking of southern soda concoctions, whatever happened to Mr. Pibb? Come to think of it, why does it seem so many great sodas came out the South: Coke, Pepsi, Dr. Pepper, Barq’s, Mr.Pibb, Mountain Dew, RC Cola, Grape and Orange NeHi?
Well, first of all, that Tab drinking doctor is one man! He is also certified in pulmonary medicine.
But in addition to him I DO have an autoimmune/rheumatology specialist, an endocrinologist, an orthopedist, an ophthalmologist
, and internal medicine specialist who also does gastro cases. Oops, forgot the skin specialist!
Do NOT get lupus or the myriad other diseases that seem to go with it!
About the GWTW strip, you’d have to have seen the movie to understand it, which you may not have. It is a direct parody of actions and dialogue in famous picnic at 12 Oaks where Scarlett declares her love for Ashley Wilkes, only to be turned down. Clark Gable/Rhett Butler is asleep/laying on sofa and hears entire embarrassing episode.
Janis is Scarlett O’Hara, Arlo is Clark Gable/Rhett Butler, Woody is Ashley Wilkes. Some of the lines are JJ’s play on the words of script.
Funny, funny, funny.
Love, Jackie Monies
You can still buy Dr. Pibb in Monroe area so far as I know. They keep bottling all the original and added on soda’s Coke had. I remember the first Sprite we saw in a machine, and I have certainly heard a lot of stories about how the cans and plastic bottles would ruin the family fortunes. The family fortunes were made on the glass bottles and the bottling processes, in addition to the beverages.
Funny you said that about the south and beverages. I grew up during hayday of sodas in glass bottles and the wonderful old open cases full of ice. I think it had something to do with the heat down there. That and there were no major towns to have soda fountains, so they invented bottled beverages to transport out into boonies.
Husband claims it was the horrible water supplies. We all drank sodas from birth to counter the mud in the water! Soda with breakfast, lunch and dinner and in between.
Love, Jackie Monies