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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“”The John B. Sails” is a Bahamian folk song from Nassau. A transcription by Richard Le Gallienne was published in 1916, and a version was included in Carl Sandburg’s The American Songbag in 1927. Since the early 1950s there have been many recordings; variant titles include “I Want To Go Home, “Wreck of the John B”, and “Sloop John B” http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_John_B._Sails
Jackie, guess I’m getting a little loopy, too. Did you say you found this one?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7khQNR7s1Ho
Or this one?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0cBsnopTVmo
Dear Trucker Ron, I admire what you wrote, and certainly agree with you.
How could anyone commit this terrible act? It’s impossible to imagine. Discouraging.
And when it gets late and loose, there’s always the “The Captain’s Wife’s Lament”.
Evil will always go where and as far as it is allowed. We’ve been doing too much allowing lately.
Walter E Williams summed up the “too much allowing” problem in this insightful column:
“Our Unwillingness to Defend Ourselves”
http://jewishworldreview.com/cols/williamns071614.php3
As he points out, it leads both to increased crime domestically and increased terrorism throughout the world.
Debbe 😉
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bNgcYKNoE3I
Thanks, Ghost- Chris Cross and Sailing, Ride Like the Wind were #1 on list, then Southern Cross. I ended up writing Kokomo and Key Largo above and below, Pina Colado and Sloop John B., Shadow Captain, Cool Change by Little River.
My list goes on for four pages, has classical music, folk music, operetta, the Muppets, Ray Charles, country and western, tropical rock, sea chanties, Scottish, Irish, bagpipes, Dire Straits, Duran Duran, lots of Jimmy Buffett, Cat Stevens, Lyle Lovett and a whole lot more.
My friends know I am unusual. My music taste runs pretty wide and wild sometimes. Last time I did a bunch of stuff like this to use was a long time ago and I had a professional audio-video studio right across from my showroom. They helped me but then asked me for copy of music to listen to, said they loved all the songs I picked.
Theme of that one was “If You’ve Never Been to Texas” party and we did music about Texas with Texas video and still shots. Since this was 20 years ago, video and youtube weren’t around. At least not like now! We used video done for Texas tourism department and recorded songs to go along, so sort of like youtube.
Well, they loaned me the sound system and the video screens too, so this DIY venture won’t be that good!
Love, Jackie Monies
GR6, is it you can see why Mary Lou makes 20% more tips or you can see nothing else got revealed in today’s strip?
Dinner for six was Arlo and his appetite/stomach?
Love, Jackie Monies
The 20%. 😉
Good morning Villagers…
GR 😉 thanks for ‘Just My Imagination’……
So Jackie, did you U Tube and get “Ride with the Wind”? Didn’t click on the U Tube links above.
Gary…I’ll tell you later about my ‘sanitizing’ for a new brood of layers….my house is scheduled to be ‘purged’ the end of August….my ‘girls’, and a few roosters, are 2 years old in August, and they are spent hens. But I am still getting at least 160 cases a day, that’s 340 eggs in a case, you do the math. Another but here….they are getting a vitamin pack in their feed.
as Emb says….peace
Steve….just listened to the link you posted, you have a great singing voice…thanks, made my breakfast a little more pleasant.
Debbie, where do your spent hens go. Many of the barns I was involved with sold them to the soup companies.
I may be going against the current opinions on the real-time A & J, but I do NOT think that the 20% refers to tips. I think that Gene is dropping hints before Mary Lou is ready to make an announcement. But what do I know…
Loon will tell that the 20% top works on me. 😉
TruckerRon and GR6, this is not the first time. Remember the Korean Air Lines plane the Soviets shot down in the Sea of Japan in the 1980’s. And then they did their best to hamper investigation/recovery afterwards. Now, same song, different verse.
Let’s not forget the US downed an Iranian passenger plane on 3 July1988. 290 lives lost.
sand, having lived on the same type ship as the Vincennes for 3 years, I had a really big lump in my belly when I heard that news. I thought how could “we” do that. It was a trying time, just like now.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/inatl/longterm/flight801/stories/july88crash.htm
Flying a civilian airliner over an area of active hostilities is seldom a good idea.
Gary: ‘As the new guy, I often got the crappier jobs. Crawling under the cages with a 4? squeegee and hose with the smallest nozzle to clean the pits.’
Summers of ’49 and ’50 I worked as a ‘vacation keeper’ in the mammal dept. at the Bronx Zoo. That is, when I got to work, about 10 miles from home on the IRT, I found out what house I’d be working in that day, when some guy was on vacation, sick, or had the day off. I could go into details, but will give just one example. In the small mammal house, two civets shared a cage, with a shift cage next to it that I enticed the beasts to go into while I cleaned out their exhibit cage. It had a cast concrete + rock water trough with a plug in the center that you unscrewed to drain it. Trouble is, these civets also used it as a toilet. Civets are carnivores and their p–p is much like doggie do. First item was to reach into the trough and unscrew that drain. I washed my hands a lot at the zoo. Comparable tasks with other beasts. You can probably do a search to find out how pygmy hippos mark their territories.
This laptop changed that ‘ to a ?
Have any of you tried Uber or Lyft? Here’s a columnist explaining why he likes them:
Try it, you’ll like it, Or: Economics for beginners
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/cols/greenberg071714.php3
GR6, I concur. Qantas had moved from that corridor four months ago.
Yes, we had a discussion before going to Russia this spring. Our Russian hosts were equally concerned about the impact the Ukriane event could have; business conditions are still fragile and dependent on foreign investment.
I don’t check inoften enough… 🙂
Jackie, we sail a Catalina 400. We are currently spending the summer docked in Offat’s Bayou on Galveston…not the best sailing location, but good as a weekend getaway to the island. As for jobs, got it in one…my wife is an IT manager with an oil company. Between Bartlesville and Houston, we spent 3 years in Anchorage. I used to teach high school science, but have been a stay-at-home dad sinc the kids came along, and love it!
TruckerRon, we used Uber extensively when in NYC. They have a great iPhone app, and worked a lot better than the cabs. Only a little moree expensive, but worth it to us.
Trying to stay away from the news today…things are pretty scary over there right now.
Have a great day, villagers!