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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Good morning Villagers….
Gary…they euthanize the hens in what they call “kill boxes”. They literally throw them in this stainless steel box, turn on the carbon dioxide (I think that’s what it is), remove them and then literally throw them on a conveyor belt that literally ‘dumps’ them in a huge truck bed. As you can tell, I’m not a fan of this, but such is the agri business. It takes about 2 or 3 days to ‘kill’ 75,000 hens. Then they are transported to the corp and from there I don’t know.
Before all this happens, they remove two or three hens, terminate their lives, and do an autopsy of sort….taking samples of meat from the hens to see if it is not contaminated with bacteria or other parasites……and I’ve heard many conflicting stories from soup companies to dog and cat food companies
At the other hen house, they had the ‘kill boxes’ setting on the wooden front deck floor. The boxes were full, the floor had deteriorated due to water lines that had condensation on them for years. You guessed it, all three ‘kills boxes’ went through the floor, into the ‘pit’. My poor son was one of the lucky ones to have to go down there and retrieve the dead hens and boxes. He came home only wearing his underwear.
It’s a brutal business….and I’m already not looking forward to the end of August.
How’s that for a morning breakfast treat?
ya’ll have a blessed day
I now wonder when the current series is going to “top out.” 🙂
sand: Down, boy. I doubt that things will progress to Janis and Mary Lou discussing their undergarment preferences and sizes, and showing each other the bras they are wearing.
But you never know. As I just observed, Jimmy has been know to throw us some curves. And with ML, he threw us some nice ones. 🙂
It’s raining , it’s pouring. Let’s see, what should I do now?
I don’t know, Jerry. Does it involve snoring?
Snoring? Can’t come up with the original text, just ’40s guttersnipe versions.
Debbe 😉 My breakfast went down fine. And it included eggs. 🙂
There are multiple processing plants in this area that use the broilers produced by the growing operations I mentioned recently, and I could tell you some even less appetizing stories about them. But, hey, we gotta eat. And agribusiness continues to insure that we have adequate, affordable food to eat. (See: “Third-World Food Production and Availability”)
It’s nothing new. It’s how we all got here. As Janis once observed here, “Nature, red in tooth and claw.”
First Old Faithful eruption I’ve seen with lots of steam but no jets. Bummer. Next is projected for 1126 CDT +/- 10 minutes. I’ll be away.
http://www.nps.gov/features/yell/webcam/oldFaithfulStreaming.html
There have been a few complaints about the length of story-arc JJ sometimes follows… I also follow 9 Chickweed Lane. I was surprised to see that the current story-arc there started last year, November 25 to be precise. THAT is a slowly developing story.
For the issue of egg houses, broiler houses, feedlots, etc… If you don’t like it, then raise your own. Or buy from someone near you that raises it locally. However, be prepared to pay more for the privilege. The primary reason we have cheap, good quality food is corporate farming. Family farms may produce higher quality, premium, food but in general we have decided that price is more important than quality.
I was reading Chickweed last night and thinking the same thing!
When will this ever end? It has dragged out for so long I have lost track of the plot and wondered if Brooke had too?
And somehow this melds with Edie’s/Eda’s story of HER spy/espionage in WWII and she found Bill in the mental hospital with amnesia? See, I have lost track, so the current arc must end badly for him as well- well, that seems inevitable.
No, JJ moves them along smartly in more ways than one use of word.
Jokes involving bras and curvature don’t bother me at all. There are a lot of great minds disguised by DDD.
Love, Jackie Monies
Yes, Jackie, the Data Display Debugger is a common UNIX interface that keeps great minds engaged.
With little better to do, I went to the archives and discovered that the current arc in 9 Chickweed Lane actually started November 9, 2009. It ran until September 22, 2010. So the current thread there is ACTUALLY just a continuation, after a three year gap. My goodness!
Yep, Chickweed Lane has replaced Apartment 3 G as the slowest moving strip in history I suspect. And yes, I was a fan of 3 G back in the day. A strip that also displayed pruriently nubile young women who spent time looking distinctly comely.
Actually 3 G had better dialogue. And the Professor for a little intelligent observation now and then. What DID he teach?
David, I always enjoy your knowledge and research. I just complain, don’t look for real data.
Love, Jackie Monies
Breaking News: According to a source close to the cartoon series “9 Chickweed Lane”, a new story arc will be introduced in late November of this year and run through the second quarter of 2015. In the arc, Edda Burber will cross her legs while wearing a micro miniskirt. A related but unverified rumor suggests that a subsequent arc, running for the following three months, will feature Edda indecorously uncrossing her legs and recrossing them in the other direction.
As long as we’re admiring well drawn comely women, I bet David and Ghost can find some of the women from the Golden Age of Comics which had a LOT of women characters.
The Dragon Lady was always a favorite of mine. I had fingernails down in Texas that I always called my Dragon Lady nails, a reference that passed over most people’s heads.
Milton Caniff did fabulous pin up women characters. Al Capp’s hillbilly females were the creators of the original Daisy Mae’s and short skirts/micro mini’s. Who else remembers beautifully drawn women? Terry and the Pirates, Smilin’ Jack, Steve Canyon. There were more, I know.
Love, Jackie Monies
Jackie: I just snuck into The Man In My Life’s study and his diploma reads Tulane 1970. They don’t make them like that any more. If they ever did more than once.
Ghost, I love today’s 9CWL. Some action at last!
David, Jackie, et al.:
I presume the ’09-’10 arc was Brooke’s take on Shakespeare’s ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream.’ The current one, which I check on only sporadically, is Brooke’s version of Shakespeare’s ‘Romeo and Juliet.’ Both arcs used only dialog from the actual plays, though not all of it. The arcs will take as long as Brooke’s version of the plays takes. If I’m wrong about the ’09-’10 arc, let me know. I followed Brooke’s MND more closely, but did not record the dates. IMO, given the tasks Brooke has set for himself, the arcs are not unduly long. The ‘courtship’ of Amos and Edda took a while, and was great, and I don’t think it was entirely meant to lead up to his spoof of the Tabu ad [though that was neat].
Major gripe I have with Brooke is his common waste of the Sunday strip on Solange. My cat, M. Trouve’, is > interesting > Solange, and better looking.
From time to time I watch (online) Old Faithful doing its thing. The eruption I just watched was one of the longest I’ve seen, with water spurting up at least 20 feet for over 3 minutes before it devolved to just steam. Glad I tuned in!
Yes, Lily, but the way things are going for Martine and Bill, the rifle will hit the ground and discharge, killing all the British prisoners and attracting the attention of a nearby Panzer division which will come to investigate, finding them in flagrante delicto again.
::Sigh:: What a pair of “secret agents”.
OK, I am going to sound stupid here but I have read both plays and seen them performed. I don’t see the WWII arc’s as using Shakespeare but I did think he was doing a homage to the old movies from period? I am not especially fan of old black and white movies from 1930’s and 40’s but that was what I thought I was reading?
Guess it is deeper than I see on surface. Deep waters move slowly.
Love, Jackie Monies
emb and Jackie (and Ghost): There seems to be a fundamental error in apprehension here. Brooke does his Shakespeare on “Pibgorn,” http://www.gocomics.com/features/search?search_string=Pibgorn (by far my favorite of his two strips) and that is the strip that is currently running “Romeo and Juliet.” 9CWL is running the WWII adventures of Bill and Martine.
Lily, Correctomundo! I don’t follow Pigborn at all, just occasionally peek in. The arc in 9CWL a few years ago was to explain who was Juliette’s father (and to expose that she was a “love child.) The current strip is to explain how Bill, Gran’s eventual husband, was injured and suffered amnesia. Apparently, it took quite a while…
Back to A & J… what WILL Gene and Mary Lou do once the restaurant is sold? What will Arlo do with the schooner? Is there an early retirement in store, with sailing around the Caribbean?
Jackie– regarding Dogpatch. I had the good luck to play ‘Lil Abner in the self-titled musical. There were several voluptuous high-school girls involved as well. One of my favorite lines, part of a song, “You deserve someone good-lookin, namely me. You deserve someone un-tooken, namely me. That is how I’ll remain, unless you get me (shall we say) in the family way, come next Sadie-Hawkins Day.” They are probably passe today, but the Sadie-Hawkins dance was always a highlight of the school year.
Lot’s of well drawn women in the comics. There’s a newer artist, Frank Cho, that does a comic strip with frequently over-endowed women. You can see it at the website LibertyMeadows.com. There is also a Frank Cho blog, but I won’t include that address, lest my comment go into the bottomless pit of moderation.
(PS– It’s completely clear that I need to get out of this wheelchair, off my computer, and back into the real world.)
(PPS– TruckerRon, disappointed that my stream broke… I missed the eruption of Old Faithful. )
Perhaps Gene and ML will “go back to nature” as Arlo and Janis dreamed of doing, at the same time building a successful organic produce business around their farm.
Perhaps Gus will be elected US Senator from whatever his state of residence is.
Perhaps the S/V No Name will be lost in a freak boating accident while on a 3-hour cruise, stranding Arlo and Janis on an uninhabited isle and allowing Arlo to become truly “disconnected”, while Janis is portrayed in the increasingly skimpy remnants of her spaghetti-strap top and shorts.
Perhaps I should quit daydreaming about Janis in the increasingly skimpy remnants of her spaghetti-strap top and shorts, get off my butt, and go to the gym.
Heh, I don’t understand the romantic (to put it kindly) appeal of Janis, but then I know a lot of guys that crushed on Imoen in Baldur’s Gate, so I guess a lot of these things go over my head. Personally, I think the sexiest character in the comics today is Rip Haywire, but that’s just me.
David, I follow Frank Cho’s blog, mainly because I love to see Dean get beaten up and I love the Frank and Brandy star-crossed lovers story line. The bear, the duck, and the wiener dog leave me cold, but I would love to step into the Tree-Top Tavern for a couple every night.