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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I had a sweetie FA on my last Lufthansa flight, she knew about customer services. 😉
Did she bring you huge mugs of beer, too, sand? 🙂
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-wa5m9M1KMZA/TjFpmuhz5kI/AAAAAAAAE0I/yY2wm9dZTzs/s1600/lufthansa.9.jpg
Now this takes commercial flying up a notch.
http://www.funnyjunk.com/Flight+195+is+a+bitch/funny-pictures/5034572/
If Mary Lou wore a bikini, would she get 95% more in tips? (Remember, I previously did the math.) 🙂
Sandcastler…where were they going in such a hurry?
Indy Mindy…old S IN is gearing upr for the annual. replica of the
German Octoberfest….check out Jasper…..does anyone need a room????
Those Soviet stewardesses look JUST like the ones from my era!
Amazing! Except no one had red in those days. I applied to all the lines flying to South America because foreign language got better pay. Delta ended up hiring me and I ended up going back to college. Delta was originally founded in my hometown in Louisiana, so totally southern girl oriented in their hires in those days.
We wore garter belts and hose because panty hose hadn’t come on scene or didn’t work right, I forget which. But yeah, no tennis shoes, flats, loafers, practical shoes. Those Soviets shoes look as what I wore most of my life.
I moved to Oklahoma with about 50 pairs of heels and don’t think I have worn any since I got here and discovered rural dress codes!
Love, Jackie Monies
Ghost, I think women’s clothes and dress codes in the 50’s and 60’s were all established and written by men. Men who saw us as paper dolls or dressed up mannequins.
Who remembers Stepford Wives?
Love, Jackie Monies
Lily, I actually am happy you love your work and your boss and your patients. You deserve to be happy.
But I will admit to going on youtube and watching some of Sweeney Todd which I had not seen since the 1970’s theater tour.
Didn’t see Johnny Depp in movie. Then I went and watched a lot of Mama Mia to take the taste of blood and gore and darkness out of my mouth.
Don’t drink anything the supervising nurse offers you or eat any apples either.
Love, Jackie Monies
Heh, don’t worry, Jackie, I don’t let sourmouth people ruin my day. I love my life and I hope that never changes. 😀
Ghost, for some reason when I think of funny medical movies, Mother, Jugs and Speed comes to mind. Bill Cosby, Raquel Welch and Harvey Keitel made a good combo for that one.
Cosby on ‘ice cream’ was a hoot.
I actually know three paramedics working for the local EMS that I call Mother, Jugs and Speed. All of them are familiar with the movie, and none of them mind…even “Jugs”.
Just read plot summary, et al. This sounds so much like the Mash “dark comedy” medical movies, I do not know how I missed this one except those two cute little kiddies of mine wanting to see Disney?
For those who followed the Katrina disaster in New Orleans, as I did, you will remember the part played by Charity Hospital. I worked for a smaller charity hospital but part of same Louisiana state hospital program. It was where doctors went to train if they wanted to see really horrible conditions and not go to foreign countries.
We treated diseases that were supposed to not exist in America.
There seemed to be no routine cases, everyone was critical, dying, shot, run over, dying in delivery, in fires, wrecks, neglect.
And yes, we found humor in the human chaos we dealt with. You did or go nuts. I was nuts, I loved it, couldn’t pass chemistry and calculus.
Love, Jackie Monies
Jackie, here is a little medical footnote to history with which you are probably familiar and many others are probably not. I had a cousin who passed away from complications from diabetes last year, just 10 days after my sister. She was an RN who, when she was last well enough to work, worked in a Baton Rouge hospital, on its ward for Hansen’s disease patients.
Her favorite patients were from Carville. Although the leprosarium itself was closed in 1999, there were at the time about a dozen residents still there, all elderly, who had lived there their entire lives and had no families or anywhere else to go. But when they needed acute or long-term care, they were transferred to her ward. She said they were some of the sweetest people she had ever known, and she loved taking care of them.
Add a strange bit of history to your story, Ghost. Carville is the home origin of James Carville, the Ragin’ Cajun now on Fox News but infamous for his political spin doctor plotting for politicians like President Clinton.
Carville was named for James Carville’s grandfather (I believe not great-grand) who was postmaster there. James and I went to school together when he went to the University of Southwestern Louisiana in Lafayette. He dropped out, never finished. I notice he left this off his website and resume.
James and I were friendly antagonists, he was as crazy then as he is now and just as bombastic and outrageous. Since I wrote most of the political commentary for the school paper, I routinely derided him in print and he spent a lot of time trying to get me to go out with him which I wasn’t the least interested in.
If you saw Billy Bob Thornton in “Primary Colors” play Carville, you saw a toned down Carville. Doing his “Loving my mama” routines and hitting on women.
I have visited three leprosarium’s, the one in Louisiana, the one Father Damian founded in Hawaii and an unnamed and terrible one in Venezuela that we weren’t supposed to be in.
Your cousin was blessed I am most certain to have cared for these poor shunned people.
Love, Jackie Monies
The fact that Carville’s wife’s pet name for him is “Snakehead” is probably significant.
I see by the calendar on the wall…well, you know how the rest of that goes. Therefore, “on topic” with Friday’s “Mary Lou in her tightly fitted top” cartoon is…
http://www.gocomics.com/arloandjanis/2006/04/19#.U8n8V_ldWa8
And based on today’s (Saturday’s) cartoon, I need to re-do the math. 😉
When there was a big full page ad of Carville and Mary Matlin (spell check says that but it looks wrong) in bed together I went “Ukkk! ” and showed it to my daughter who went “Yuck” so when movie came out I made her watch it and she still said “Yuck” and agrees she would definitely not have dated Carville. Of course, she is a conservative anyway.
I actually admit that three guys from REALLY good Southern families who went on to become multiple killers were guys I went out with but I drew the line at Carville. I can proudly say I would NOT date Carville.
This has nothing to do with politics, just personality and obnoxiousness. Mine and his.
Love, Jackie Monies
Only you could make math indecent Ghost. 😀 What scares me is the distinct possibility you have a pretty solid idea of both Janis’s and Mary Lou’s real world measurements.
In another two hours, I will have been up 24. After work today, I drove up to Peru (Northern Indiana has a weird facination with giving its towns names after southern locales. See also: Mexico, Galveston, and Chili – there are more.) Anyhow, Peru has a circus connection. Valid after-school endeavors include juggling, high wire, large animal stunts, and flying trapeze. The week-long festival is Circus Days, or the “annual corruption of the local youth to make lots of money” as my best friend’s mom calls it. Didn’t go see the show, just wandered around, eating lots of non-doctor approved foods and people watching. My friend’s sixteen year old niece declared us “too old” for the merry-go-round {whatever}, but not too old to get our faces painted. In a circus town, you get AWESOME face painting. 🙂
Okay, the A&J cartoon for today goes right over my head. I think I could have understood it except for Arlo’s smile in the last panel. I asked The Man In My Life about it, and he said married couples have these ongoing dialogues. I just wish I had been the same age as him and I could have married him and could now see what he sees.
Peace and Love,
Susie
🙂
Awesome, Lady Mindy. If you’re not up to running off to the circus, you just run off to Peru.
Nah, Lily, Ghost would be a far more interesting choice, even though I don’t know your special man I have known too many nice boys/men from the South and Tulane (right?) Wonderful manners and charm usually and well read. Is your special man my age? Heavens, I may have actually known him!
Now, Ghost intrigues me for same reason. I have known too many well mannered and charming Southern bad boys too, witness admitting the ones who killed wives, girl friends, family and friends.
And yet I have stayed married to one man for 47 years. My yard lady has had seven ex-husbands, which I told her that she should have NEVER done! Several of those were from good families too.
Love, Jackie Monies
Mindy, didn’t you have enough of a circus with the convenience store from hell? Cursed with evil and bizarre acts of mystery?
I guess a circus of flying acrobats and wild animals seemed plain tame and restful.
I’ve been watching boat porn for hours.
Love, Jackie Monies