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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Debbe 😉 Yes, Chrissy was best known for that song, but she had a rather interesting career. Sadly, she was apparently unable to receive radiation treatment or chemotherapy as treatment for her breast cancer due to also suffering from multiple sclerosis.
Remember when Coors beer was not available in all states, and there was a huge demand for it in the states where it wasn’t? Of course you do. Well, perhaps not you youngsters like Lady Mindy and Lily.
GR 😉 …tag
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5-NlR54PqLw
Debbe 😉 Tag…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOjz9yMQY5U
Dellamae…I was thinking I had not seen your comments before….WELCOME……yes, I remember the early Coke days…..before my time though….sigh! Now it’s a buzz named Bud, and a bud 😉
I’m saying goodnight on that one….
Goodnight, sweetr dreams, and
tag…..and the last one on my end…of the blog, that is
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sdRfVPNl3Lw
Mindy from Indy: http://www.amazon.com/Postobon-Manzana-Apple-Flavored-Soda/dp/B003F2YJ20
Mindy, it’s cheaper here: http://www.amigofoods.com/posodr6.html
I believe that cocaine and cocaine alone was originally legal for sale. One of my old favorites was Delaware Punch. I thought that it had gone away and then I ran across it. The memory was much better than the real thing. My total so far is 3 ufo’s, lived in a haunted house and have photos of a ghost. I had no idea that the Marfa lights were so well known. BTW one of the ufo’s was seen in the infamous Gulf Breeze area.
Oh, yeah, the Marfa Lights are very well known. Last time I was there, there were folks from seven different states at the viewing area.
My dad regrets that “Grapette” is no longer available. Sounds yucky to me, but then he is a Scotch drinker
Lilyblack, just did a search for Grapette. Company website says now available exclusively at Wal-Mart under the name Sam’s Choice Grapette and Orangette. Enjoy, Dad.
Mark in TTown – You are a rockstar. When I went to Colombia, all the locals wanted Coke and we fell in love with apple Postobón.
GR6: I usually avoid the music videos posted but did watch yours. When it was over, I saw below the window, “show more”. I clicked, but, unfortunately, no more of the singer was shown! (well, someone had to say it)
I have found that diet Dr. Pepper with no caffeine is a very fine drink. It is amazingly superior to all other diet drinks I’ve tried; even good albeit sugarless. Otherwise, I favor Diet-Rite with about 10% RC Cola to overcome the diet taste.
My beloved husband says that diet sodas taste like licking a rock!
He will not drink soda of any kind and never has. When he was in wine sales the surprising thing was “water” as we know it in bottles barely existed. Perrier was about it and his company represented them in America. Turns out he not only sold more Perrier than anyone he actually sold about 90% of their sales in U.S. Commission wasn’t much, if any.
Now bottled water is everywhere and we all drink more than ever. But not enough.
My cardiologist told me to move my office into bathroom and drink all I was supposed to!
Love, Jackie Monies
Jackie, I fill a two quart bottle every evening from the tap and let it sit in the frig overnight. Tastes fine to me and it is cold! A nice thing when you get into the fifth mile.
I must have been blessed with some sixth sense somewhere along the way. My husband says it is because the aliens dropped me off in a pod and he has photo to prove it. But that is another tail.
Once I dated a seminary student who thought he wanted to be a priest (he’d have a hard time with the celibacy but he was Anglican) His entire family had bizarre paranormal talents, including his mom who studied at Duke in paranormal psychology. When his dad died suddenly, he began to haunt the house. I suppose he thought he still lived there.
We got used to doors that opened, knobs that turned, lights going off and on, that sort of thing. Then one day the maid came in totally upset with the iron in her hand. She said, “I’m quitting! I can stand the doors and lights but when they come in behind me and clear their throats and cough, I am going home.”
And she did! Never came back!
Love, Jackie Monies
I’m a little late for the pending disaster discussion, and Y2K, the disaster that wasn’t. Thought I’d chip in anyway. There was a potential for quite a few problems, some of which, like banking, control systems, air traffic control, electrical, etc. that could have had substantial effect.
The truth is a bunch of people spent a lot of time and effort to fix the problems before they occurred. I’m not so sure that it was short-sighted of the people in the 1960’s and 1970’s that built computer systems that only used two-digit years. Storage was expensive after all. The people that were short-sighted were the ones that didn’t upgrade systems and software in the 1980’s and 1990’s that was already obsolete– they just kept on adding to it and patching holes.
I made a decent bonus, paid in 2000, for getting business systems and software upgrade to prevent any Y2K issues. My company turned over the new century without a hiccup.
We do all know that the new century began in 2001, right?
This is bad but I keep thinking how proud Mr. Pibb must have been when his son, Pepper, graduated from med school.
Go ahead, throw the tomatoes and rotten produce, I know I deserve it.
Jerry, yes. The millennium!! 🙂
By the way, welcome to the Village, DellaMae. Pleased to meet you. You seem like a good fit here. If you stick around, I do believe you will become one of my “friends I haven’t met yet”. As such you’ll be allowed one bad joke or pun per day. Or more, if you insist. 🙂
Oh, and call me Ghost. But you already did, didn’t you? 😉
Good morning Villagers….
Ahhh….day 21 and counting 🙂 Chicken Run………………………..through the aisles today. Got inspected yesterday by the Corp., and they only thing we got ‘wrote’ up on was weeds, grass, near the building. Give me a break, but my brother-in-law said, you want them to find at least one thing wrong, nothing is perfect. But the big, big, 5 star inspection is Monday. Got me a new flashlight, with 117 lumins, LED light….it’s the little things that make me smile.
On the audit sheet, one of the requirements states the outside grounds, their word, immaculate conditions around outside of the building. Personally, I would have used the word pristine 🙂
We’re starting to get a little slap happy with all the hours, yesterday my nephew took the 15 year old’s 4 wheeler and drove it, and parked it on top of about a 5 foot rock pile that still needs to be spread out. Little Dakota came in and wanted to know who drove his 4 wheeler, I grinned and said “me”…yeah, sure, he said.
GR 😉 yes I remember when Coors was only sold in certain states….years ago, my cousin just returned from a trip from Colorado…she had about 3 cases of Coors in her trunk….she opened the trunk lid to our delight and shared….
Gotta go….lunches to prepare,
Happy Caterday
The “new century” is actually an arbitrary date, based on a calendar proposed by a pope about 1500 years ago. Though supposedly started with the birth of Christ, the calendar is not based on scripture, since Herod the Great died in 4 BC. He was reported to be alive at the time of the Nativity, so the start of the Gregorian Calendar in 1 AD (since early western civilization didn’t have the concept of zero in math until hundreds of years later) is purely subjective. Popular usage as the year 2000 starting the new century/millennium is not uncommon.
The issue is further complicated by the astronomical use of a year 0, international computation (ISO 8601) and differences between the Julian calendar and the Gregorian calender. Also, depending on when and where you lived, the new year started at Easter, Annunciation, or Christmas. Pedants may insist that January 1,2001 is the starting point, but popular culture does not agree.
The rest of that story is that as soon as Coors became available locally, people immediately stopped talking about how great it was. Forbidden fruit effect, I suppose.
High school in a minute and a half. This took me back a few years, and, I have to admit, it’s kind of sweet. Good job, Google.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CmFV_f-snTY
JJ, excellent Saturday morning strip. Are you on a thematic commentary of our times? The advent of mobile technologies have insulated and isolated us like none other. With self driving cars on the horizon; we will then be able to move about in a self contained bubble of self gratification.