I realized this morning that I had inadvertently skipped one of the cartoons from the above sequence, the one about 10,000 comic-strip writers being out of work, which isn’t as funny as it once was. Anyway, here’s a bonus cartoon for today, two strips about Arlo up a tree.
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Lily, not a gamer, so I had to google “Imoen in Baldur’s Gate”. But from the images that displayed, yeah, she’d do. 😉
But I’d have thought Rip Haywire would be a bit too macho for your tastes. 🙂
He’s funny and self mocking. I go for funny and humble
Joe is my inspiration for going to the gym. I bought his book and everything. That’s all I have to do, right?
http://rippedrunner.files.wordpress.com/2013/12/joe-manganiello-covers-july-issue-of-muscle-fitness-joe-manganiello-23135675-662-1024.jpg
Too scary muscle-y for me. The Man In My Life is overweight, which all of us stay after him about, but he is jolly and happy and great for the ego. And, man, can he cook!
I believe the biggest revelation about the current 9CL arc is Bill *having* relationship with Martine. Bill knew Juliette wasn’t his and made Eddie feel so bad about this, it was a major stressor in their marriage. (As attested by the strained relationship with Eddie’s son/Juliette’s half brother, whose name escapes me.) I forsee a fatal ending for Martine, with blame somehow falling squarely on Bill’s shoulders. Hence, so much resentment towards Eddie and her still-living love.
I think Gene and Mary Lou will use her half of the profits as start up money for a farm business. And doesn’t Gus still have the condos? I know he sold the hotel for the restuarant, but I believe he still makes money with those and honestly, really nothing stopping Gene and/or Mary Lou from working for the owners. However, Arlo better have some bank for those dock fees.
David….ironically, my husband raised registered Black Angus for years….never did we have one butchered for ourselves. Husband said he would not eat what he feeds….sigh, and we had prime looking ribs roaming around.
I would love to raise my own hens, but unfortunately, I cannot be around other fowl…Corp rule….diseases…I can’t even own a parrot 🙂
Meg said Gus lived in a condo, but I didn’t get from that that he owned other units. I don’t think anyone has commented on this, but my impression was he was going to level The Dock to clear his valuable property, not sell it.
http://www.gocomics.com/arloandjanis/2014/02/14#.U8rvG_ldWa8
Debbe 😉 That’s OK. Parrots aren’t what I’d call good eatin’.
As a teenager I had friend whose parents were Hispanic/central Americans. Her dad would say every time we sat down to eat arroz con pollo, “Someone had better go count the parrots again.”
Got kinda old joke actually.
Love, Jackie Monies
Don’t know what dock fees are where restaurant is in Gulf but in a major city a good marina gets about $400 per month for a good sized schooner. Since I haven’t owned anything that big in a LONG time I may be guessing low.
But I have been spending a lot of time on classic boat porn lately, so I’d be happy to take her off Arlo’s hands if Jimmy decides to sell her. Just don’t have a hurricane solve the problem of the restaurant and Arlo’s schooner. It is getting to be that season and I know that isn’t part of a plot anyone is considering I hope.
Hint, I know Jimmy was greatly affected by Katrina and a hurricane arc could help resolve the feelings everyone still has who loves the coast. I watched Jimmy Buffett do the Bama Breeze video last night and I thought he wasn’t going to make it.
Love, Jackie Monies
I wouldn’t want to jinx us, but as I was discussing with my brother-in-law last weekend, except for Isaac in 2012, we’ve gone some time without a serious Gulf storm.
I guess Katrina was enough for a while, huh? Or was there another one right after that one? I was just a kid, so it’s a little fuzzy
Lily, you are too young! To me it seems like yesterday that Katrina hit. Camille seems that way too. All they ever found of Mike’s family camp was a slab and a pair of binoculars. And it was two blocks inland.
NO Gulf hurricanes. I had a friend whose flower shop on beach in Pensacola area got 20 feet of sand inside twice in same year. He gave up and moved to Central America. Another one who did beach weddings moved up here to Oklahoma mountains, which is about like going to Honduras probably. They specialized in beach weddings and both shops just got wiped out.
Love, Jackie Monies
EMB, I can imagine the stench. The ammonia smell walking into an empty chiocken barn that has sat that way for a week or two is almost over powering but after a 1/2 with the high pressure hoses going, the ammonia level seemed to have been reduced significantly (or we had just gotten used to it).
Debbie, I would hate to see those chickens go to waste. From what I have read, CO2 is supposed to quickly lead to unconsciousness and death in chickens. The most stressful part (for the chickens) is getting them into the chamber. There is a small probability that some critters won’t die and will revive later. Sigh.
I can understand your attitude to purging the barn.
I have a friend who has a small number of chickens and ducks. She has named each critter and I suspects she pats them on the head when she collects their eggs. I get the feeling that you would do the same thing if there were not so many of them.
Okay, not condos, rentals. And I guess I forgot about that one Ghost.
http://www.gocomics.com/arloandjanis/2009/06/05
Gary: ‘EMB, I can imagine the stench.’
At the zoo, most cleanup work is done daily before 10, when the public gets in. The smell wasn’t so bad, it was putting my fingers in the civets’ poopy water that took about 10 seconds’ conscious resolve the first time. After that, it was routine. Of course, I wasn’t in the same house every day, unless I was replacing a vacationing keeper. It was an interesting job. The big cat house keeper, or the head mammal keeper [or both in consultation] wouldn’t let me sub there, but I did help as a second keeper on ‘lion island’, adjacent to the African plains. All males, their cages were relatively hidden and not open to the public, and there was an inconspicuous moat separating them from the antelopes on the ‘plains’. There, the NH3 smell in the morning was major.
I saw 1-2 things not directly related to the job that left me feeling rotten and cynical about some of society’s institutions, and how people treat their fellow humans when they can get away with it. Everybody is created equal, but, as George Orwell wrote in ‘Animal Farm’, ‘some are more equal than others.’
Most of the time, Gus seems the sanest of them all and decidedly practical. What surprised me was Mary Lou’s hair. Was she bleaching it then? Because not only does she have a different style altogether but it is now BROWN.
Love, Jackie Monies
Learned a long time ago that you don’t want to eat things you name.
I’ve always loved ducks since I was a little girl, more than chickens. In college I took ducks from my grandmother’s farm to put on Cypress Lake which they promptly disappeared from, probably to duck gumbo for some Cajun.
We raised some baby ducks from a nest of eggs that got abandoned or the mom got eaten by something. This in a showroom with white fabric walls, white silk carpeting and hardwood floors!
Ducks bonded to my oldest daughter who taught them to swim in the fancy fountain outside the office by going in with them. I cried so when they got hit by cars on Houston roads.
Love, Jackie Monies
I stopped thinking that when I got treed by a goose named Hilda on a butane tank. If I had anything to say about it, there would have been foi gras that night
Yes, Gary. I would…..I had a special when wax deformed and kept her in ICU for a long time, raised her up to drink from the water nipple (leg was swayed backwards) and would actually let her lay in the auger (not running of course) to eat the feed out of it. If one has a heart, it breaks…..
Andrew just showed me this commercial…..awwwww…..can one just imagine what Budweiser pays for marketing:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQB7QRyF4p4
or it was this one….I copied twice, so one is the original….and who sings that sone?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQB7QRyF4p4
goodnight
When we kept rabbits, rule was we can name the breeders, but not their young. Kids learned about raising meat for the table. Wife’s rabbit curry was A1. I occasionally come across rabbit at Greek or Middle Eastern restaurants. Domestic rabbits are descended from Oryctolagus cuniculus, the European rabbit that the Romans brought to Britannia. It’s the only colonial sp. in the family.
Brits and Australians have done the usual [unintended] Darwinian experiment, tried to eliminate these pests with the viral disease, myxomatosis [sp?]. But they neglected to mop up all the survivors. Present day descendant rabbits in both places are mostly immune. Fancy that!
A pleasing development in today’s “Stone Soup” comic strip … do any of the Villagers follow this one? It’s on the GoComics page with a bazillion other favorite comics — easy to find as they are in alphabetical order.
You mean about ErrantEvie getting married? Well, they are old enough to do what they want, but I can’t but feel they are both being selfish. And, being a Christian, or trying to be one, I have an innate suspicion of rank selfishness and hedonism.
Lily, if you’d been a few hundred miles east of where you are now on August 29, 2005, you’d remember Katrina. I gar-on-tee.
You were close to right, Lady Mindy. I had forgotten that one but remember it now. And I really think The Dock’s days are numbered.
Who remembers the full name of “The Dock”?