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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I was born in 1985 😛
I have only recently decided to admit I am a senior citizen. Before that I preferred to think I was ageless. My husband would be insulted when offered a senior citizen discount, as he had totally gray hair in his late 30’s (a family genetic thing)
What current events would you like to talk about? I was just reading a good blog on Bobby Jindal, Rep. of Louisiana and once thought of as presidential candidate. It dealt with fiscal irresponsibility and lack of conservativeness in financial affairs.
Wait, that is politics I guess? But folks, this is Louisiana! At least they weren’t talking graft, kickbacks, theft of public funds, womanizing or riding your horse up the capitol steps and into the capitol building! Or writing “You Are My Sunshine”- that is an embarrassment that has followed me my entire life!
Nothing much changes.
Love, Jackie Monies
“Welch’s Grape Jelly Wine”? Mogen David might come close. If you like Welch’s, thank a Methodist. Welch invented it so teetolaling Methodists could do communion without alcohol. True.
Trucker: Thanks. If they are similar to other professional orgs, profit, NFP, public, whatever, one cannot assume the top office is occupied by somebody with any expertise in that or a related profession. E.g., the CEO of a hospital may have no background in any medical-related subject. Decades back, our local [once Lutheran] hospital* downtown built a completely new hospital on the south edge of town. A few months before the time of the big move [which might involve some patients that couldn’t be rescheduled], CEO had a staff mtg. and asked wife [that floor’s head nurse] how many babies would be born on a particular potential moving day. I think a hospital CEO generally has a bachelor’s in business and probably an MBA, maybe with a course or two in hospital admin [= all employees must wash their hands after using the restroom].
It just hired a new chaplain. If not Lutheran, that’s the first in its history. *Once an independent outfit, it is now part of a major chain of NFP hospitals, and has benefitted thereby: state of the art in heart/circulatory, oncology, orthopedics, whatnot.
Good aggie jokes. I am a grad of the NYS Coll. of Agr.# at Cornell U., but most of my dorm mates and many of my friends were in A&S, Engin., etc. Ran into little ag-related humor. The endowed Coll. of Hotel Admin. was occasionally butt of jokes. E.g., Hotel 101 was Cutting Pie for Odd-numbers of People. #Now the NYS Coll. of Agr. and Life Sciences.
If Coors or Anheuser-Busch had a patch of bad lawn near the admin. bldg., they could dig it up and put their hop garden there.
😉
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sdRfVPNl3Lw
for me this is a surprise……let’s see ….
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sdRfVPNl3Lw
sorry…got to get rid of my right clicks….
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sdRfVPNl3Lw
They are they same song…oops…I’m over sixty,,,gotta get a life 🙂
TR….well…my friend…what and where it it? Or was Jackie right?
Jackie, and Debbe, you don’t seem elderly to me, but, senior, yes. You were here before me! 😀
Debbe, that was the state psychiatric hospital, as I noted above, which painted the dirt green and, 15 years ago, painted some dying grass green because the legislators were coming to inspect the joint.
Sweet slumbers….
Thanks, TR, as I’ve mentioned, must have had an Alzheimer’s moment in reading and comprending…sorry.
Lily…with age, comes sage…………….goodnight my blog friend…..tomorrow is a big time ‘crunch’ day…..
GR 😉
I am in my “golden girls years” I guess. I always identified with Blanche but not the Blanche in Streetcar. She always depended on the kindness of strangers.” I had a mother-in-law like that.
Love, Jackie Monies
Now for the latest news from my home state of Louisiana: Ex-governor Edwin Edwards, four times governor of Louisiana is running for the senate. He distinguished himself as “the fastest zipper in the West” and ran on the platform of “Indicted But Never Convicted.”
He was also known as the Silver Fox and the Silver Tongued Orator and was finally indicted and convicted of racketeering involving millions of dollars. He is now out of prison and starring in an A & E reality show with his current wife who he met while in prison.
And I make nothing up. You can’t make up stuff like this!
Oklahoma is actually rather dull comparatively.
Love,. Jackie Monies
Debbe 😉 For you…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q45TyPk8yiI
It would have been for Lily, too, but apparently she doesn’t listen to music. 🙂
Act over 60? Where the @*$% would be the fun in that?
Jackie, my favorite Earl Long story: One day he was sitting in the Governor’s Office when a leaf blew in the window and landed on his desk. He signed it.
Jackie, Debbe, Ghost, and many, if not most, of the rest of us – The correct response is “But this IS what over 60 acts/looks like!”
Hey! What nekkied lady?
There was a recent tragedy involving four [students of the institution of higher learning of your choice]. They were riding in a pickup when the driver lost control and the truck plunged into a lake. The driver and passenger escaped, but the two riding in the bed of the truck drowned when they couldn’t get the tailgate down.
Hey, don’t go making fun of Uncle Earl! I have ALWAYS sworn that I was NOT related to the Longs of Louisiana, as does any self respecting Louisiana native. In my case it is not true. Their mama is kin to my family which makes them kin to me somehow and I have no idea to what degree. In the case of Winnfield and Winn Parish, Louisiana it is hard to escape being related to anyone to some degree.
It is like that Kevin Bacon game.
The thing about Louisiana is that our politicians are usually so colorful and such skilled crooks it is hard not to laugh along. During college one of my roommates was a Mafia don’s daughter and her body guards sat outside our dormitory windows, day and night, followed us everywhere. She loved to bet on horses and we only had one pay phone on the floor so I was always taking calls from her bookies.
Yes I have had an interesting life and interesting friends.
Love, Jackie Monies
Ghost, I have to ask since I am quite certain you are Southern, where are you from? Just generally, more or less or close enough.
Love, Jackie Monies
Yep, Jackie, definitely Southern. Couldn’t you tell? 🙂 Other than my years in the USAF, I’ve spent my entire life in one or another of five southern states. None was, however, Louisiana. But I have visited there often, both for business and pleasure. Mostly pleasure. 😉
As for Earl Long, I have just two words…Blaze Starr. Way to go, Uncle Earl.
I have a dog named VooDoo Queen, a Catahoula Cur, recently recognized by the dog show people. They originated in same area as the Longs and my people. VooDoo is smart, smart, smart, mischievous, acts bad sometimes deliberately after looking at you first. She is smarter than most people. These are actually the dogs recognized as the official dogs of Winn Parish. They still hold Uncle Earl’s Coon Dog Trials each year. Uncle Earl has been dead a long, long time. They also still hold my Uncle Bob’s birthday party each year although he outlived Uncle Earl. He was last person in Louisiana who trained and drove oxen wagons and teams. At over 100 years!
Don’t tell me about senior citizens!
Love, Jackie Monies
Off the off topic subject for the briefest of moments: the link to the GWTW arc has found me re-reading the year. How did the males in the audience survive this one?
http://www.gocomics.com/arloandjanis/1998/01/03
Don’t know about the others, but I survived thanks to self-administered CPR. Look at the one that followed, Jackie. If you weren’t hanging here then, you may not know the back-story to “Rum and Coca-Cola”. If not, it’s worth looking up.
http://www.gocomics.com/arloandjanis/1998/01/05#.U4p_q_ldWa8
This is song we all played and sang down in Venezuela when I was living there with my stepdad and mom. Funny, Lord Invader was so popular down there as Trinidad is so close.
Our maid was Trinidadian as were so many of my friends. I had not heard the back story until just now and never thought about the lyrics. We all thought the “Yankee Dollar” was all the ones who came over to work in the oil fields and for the ugly Americans who lived in the oil field towns!
We’d have steel bands perform all the time and in fact Lord Invader was one of them!
I LOVE this bar and grill! Excuse me, blog!
Love, Jackie Monies
DellaMae:
I guess that I am indeed a pessimist, always a skeptic, and frequently a cynic.
I like to say that a pessimist is an optimist with age and experience.
About the pendulum: I think it’s more of a mobius strip.