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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Dear Lilyblack, I like your quote about staying immature; it’s funny. However, I must say that although I’m pretty old, I’m still immature in many ways and it’s not so good. Reacting without thinking; procrastinating; not being able to decide about things. At least I am not a spendthrift … I can say that. I am extremely frugal!
Charlotte: I am pretty frugal except when it comes to clothes, shoes, and food. Oh, well. 😀
The only comic besides A&J I read daily is Dilbert, to demonstrate solidarity with him, as we both seem to work for an evil, pointy-haired boss.
Jackie, I certainly respect and appreciate Debbe. Heck, I’d even respect her in the morning. 😉
Debbe 😉
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HTzGMEfbnAw
p.s. Did you see the link to the Budweiser commercial song you wanted?
GR6, of course we didn’t contract out Apollo to aliens. Never would have had the 3 deaths in the testing phase if someone who had done this before had been in charge.
Now, with the way this Administration has handled NASA, I wouldn’t be surprised to learn that Obama contracted out missions to aliens. After all, he has already made us dependent on the Russians for lift capacity.
The “What’s Up Dock.” At least it was until Gene told the name to everyone and Warner Brother’s sent their bunny ears lawyer in to “fix” things. 🙂
Jackie – I got nothing on Debbe. I just go in and do what I can with what I have. Although if my employees don’t get in line, I’m borrowing Debbe’s whip. I could use Blacklight’s cat toy as a bullwhip, but she likes to sleep with it and doesn’t let it get too far.
The nicest compliment I ever got as a boss was the employee who told me that until she worked for someone else, she didn’t realize how I made it possible for everyone to work and do their job. She said we were like an army where each person knew what they had to do and we did it together, but it was me who planned the battles and was the general. But no one knew who the general was because I was in the trenches with them fighting.
You’d have to work in a big busy flower shop at Valentines or Mothers’ Day or weddings to understand that one. But I think a convenience store or a chicken house could be just as bad. In fact, growing up in the wedding industry you quite likely know!
Going to bed! I am “boated out” and punchy and have to get up early and go order more concrete and pay EARLY before the workers make it here to spread it.
I used to tell my employees that if anyone came in and tried to rob them, to give them the money and then beat the heck out of them with the REALLY long stemmed roses with REALLY big thorns.
Love, Jackie Monies
Jackie, I guess that is like a medical facility. The doctor, mainly The Boss Of My Life, is the general and we are the little enlisted people doing our duties. I like to think I have made sergeant.
Up late (early?) proofreading, and Jimmy’s breaking of the 4th wall in today’s strip almost made me laugh out loud and wake the rest of the tentatively asleep household. Excellent!
Good morning Villagers…..
Gosh guys, thanks for the kind words, I am humbled…..of all the jobs I’ve had from the bridal industry to doing night audits at hotels, I love this job….I think it’s the solitude.
Yesterday afternoon, the 15 year old and I were walking the aisles looking for the dead, and the hens were all cooing….I stopped, looked at Dakota, and said “listen, isn’t that the most peaceful sound you’ve heard?” He looked at me like I’d lost my mind. Simple things in life make me smile. And I’m still trying to find out, and I know he did it, why a hen’s head came in on the rod conveyor into the packing room. He’s denying it, but, he’s the mischievous one and he did my point about how disgusted I was with that episode.
And Indy Mindy…you are to be admired….you work with The Consumer….and Jackie knows about that too.
GR 😉 (blushing here) so sweet to have found that song. (Never heard of the group Passenger, gonna check out their other songs) Thanks, and Angel of the Morning? Day off? Don’t know, another monthly inspection is coming up….and I see too much to get done.
Ya’ll have a blessed day
Oh, my husband assisted Brooklynne with the griddle cakes yesterday…my husband said it didn’t turn out very well…edible, but messy 🙂
And Lily…when Brooklynne returns I’ll give her an extra hug.
Jackie…the kindest words ever spoken to me by an employer are the ones that came from the Boss man I work for now.
Thought I’d broken the new “used” packer….I was crying, over the phone to him, and he said “Debbe…it can be fixed…you are the kind of employee every employer wishes they had working for them.” I stopped crying, and said thank you….then he made me overseer-er of my hen house!! Men sure know how to ‘woo’ you!
Debbie, when a kid is making or helping to make a meal, messy is always the best. It is how you know they really had a hand in it (literally).
I need to correct my previous post. A couple of years ago, I read an excellent biography of Neil Armstrong by James Hansen. Recently another biography by Jay Barbee, NBC space reporter came out. His book strayed a bit from Armstrong’s story but if you enjoyed the space program, it was interesting.
Late in the book, Barbee mentions Buzz’s punch and I realized that this happened in 2009. Buzz is now 84 and not 79. However Barbee explained that you would have to believe that the US government killed the Apollo 1 astronauts if they were trying to fake it. I am sure these folks have a convoluted explanation.
I think that it is important not to believe everything that you read and sometimes things are portrayed in a positive light, but organizing a lie is a very difficult things
And yes Jimmy, we did see that coming
Good morning, Villagers. I didn’t see it coming. Well, not in that strip, but then I am famously (among my friends) non-percipient. It’s a beautiful morning, here, after a beautiful weekend. The Man In My Life roasted a chicken yesterday, and I thought of Debbe.
Steve, since I handled the benefits paid to the civilian astronauts from Apollo 1 who died in the fire in the capsule, that would make me part of any conspiracy. Yes, all I saw were the documents the government sent me to substantiate payment of benefits but I did pay such awards. I also personally knew at least one of the widows later in life.
The only conspiracy I knew of that was a cover up was the deaths were not instantaneous nor painless. Even the witness statements I got were probably sanitized and less gruesome than reality.
Love, Jackie Monies
Re conspiracy theorists: One thing I’ve noticed about them is that the ones that ride their particular hobby horses into the ground are usually the ones that make a considerable amount of money from their books, paid appearances, and now (I imagine) their web sites.
As always, “Follow the money trail.”
Jackie, that is very interesting, pretty much as I would have imagined it.
Ghost, I am sure you are absolutely right.
Jackie, if you need some more sailing songs, here are a few I found…
Sailing Ships (White Snake)
When I Go Sailing (Kenny Peck & The Smokey Jack Band)
Sailing I Would Go (Gareth Watson)
Sailing to Philadelphia (Mark Knopfler)
I Go Sailing (Stevie Wonder)
I Will Go Sailing No More (Randy Newman) (also by Los Lobos)
Let’s Go Sailing (Shara Michelle Austin)
Ship is Sailing (Jimmy Cliff)
Sailing on a Ship (Phil Wickham)
Big Ship Sailing (Freddie McGregor)
The Sailor’s Alphabet (Seamus Kennedy)
I Could Go Sailing (Cruize Control) -This is probably my favorite on this list.
I would suggest Jimmy Buffett’s False Echoes (Havana 1921) but that would probably make most everyone cry, even the SEALs and other spec ops guys. It does me. (Reminds me of my dad and his closest brother.) If you must have a Buffett song, Son of a Son of a Sailor, perhaps?
Good morning, Villagers.
I’d forgotten that story about Aldrin punching out a “theorist” until reminded of it today.
I had the pleasure of listening to Harrison Schmidt talk of the Apollo program a number of years ago. I even got to speak directly with him for a short exchange.
Don’t forget Single-Handed Sailor by Mark Knopfler, too. That would probably be very appropriate for Jackie’s friends.
Talking the day today, supposedly to clean up from yesterday’s leaking ice-maker water line, but mostly because I felt lazy and have so much vacation time accumulated I’m about to lose some of it. No biggie. Hey, I lived through Katrina. At least the water wasn’t coming through a big ol’ hole in my roof. Or from not having a roof. Or walls.
Maybe I should do like the guy in the computer-backup TV commercial and spend the day eating ribs, racing a go-cart, practicing tennis and diving for lobster. Well, eating ribs, anyway.
Thank you Ghost!!!! I only had one of those songs so far.
Were you a disc jockey playing music at one time in your life? You are quite good at locating and on mixes!
If anyone wonders, I am going to do song mixes to play on loops on CD’s for audio/sound background but also DVD’s with the videos to do on screen with continuous play loops too, so I am working on subjects of tall ships and historic ships, cruising and sailing videos, music that has sailing or water videos to go along, and some just plain fun videos and music.
Since I have never done any of this on my own, I will be going to e-how for instructions and how to do.
Like we don’t have a great program(s) already, but I thought I’d do this for people who might want to sit around, rest, watch or listen, drink some beverages, whatever.
Love, Jackie Monies