Summer continues, but here is an old A&J from 2009. At least the door is open, and the lights are on.
At Your Service
By Jimmy Johnson
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162 responses to “At Your Service”
Here’s a great prank by a math professor:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9NQatne0xg
Today’s real-time strip not only broke the fourth wall, it obliterated it.
Something else.
More tests and stuff for RObert yesterday, but it is sounding good. Ok, as good as such a crash might be. Here’s the last update from last night: Lumbar cath, head CT, & Optho went well. Drops for left eye, its swollen a bit open. Lumbar drain 1st done @ 5pm, 7cc over 1 hr, so good. Off the BP meds. Started feeding thru tube & added a CVP central venous pressure line to watch fluid levels such effect BP. After 8pm he was getting his mouth washed out & teeth brushed by nurse. He was following commands. I asked Rob to squeeze my hand as I said goodnight and he did, strong and eyes tried to open. My heart soared!
🙂 And JJ today’s made me laugh out loud. THank you!
Yeah Jimmy, we’re not THAT old. I did google the origins of Top Banana. I guess if we are old, we don’t see that well either.
Thanks. Now I have the Chiquita Banana jingle stuck in my head!
Steve, I’ve been in all three. In 1962 or ‘3 I participated in the theft of a sign pointing to Climax just off I-94. The perpetrator was an Olivet College music instructor as we returned from presenting a play at K College. He was gone by the next year. As for Hell, my late wife and I for 15-20 years led a “trip to Hell” on the Saturday before Halloween: Dinner at the Dam Site Inn, sometimes pizza, sometimes white tablecloth menu, followed by a drive to the Pinckney State Rec Area’s Silver Lake, followed by walking, in the dark, a mile on a dirt road and a mile on a hilly wooded path, flashlights discouraged. I presented gold bricks stamped with “Good Intentions Paving Co.” to all who went, and one year, I presented invitations for this dumb idea in a handbasket. Dumb idea, neat tradition. Widowed in 2011, I remarried in 2014, turned 80 last month and took up light jogging in the spring. I’m contemplating taking my new wife on a trip to Hell. But she won’t be up for camping at Bruin Lake; we’ll have to find a motel.
Thanks for the update, Llee.
“Any landing you can walk away from…” Although I suppose any landing that involves hitting power lines cannot be properly characterized as a “landing”.
Footnote from last night regarding the tavern at which we ate: Jackie commented that what she remembered most about it was the bar and the pizzas she got there. Both her cousins swore the place had never made pizzas, and that perhaps her remembering the bar so well might have been related to her memory of the nonexistent pizzas.
They both teased her unmercifully on a number of subjects. I could tell they had a lot of love for her, as well as great fondness for the memories of growing up with her. And like me, some of their best childhood memories obviously involved time spent with their cousins.
Bob: There is a race in hell in August that I never ran because it was the week before a major race in Flint.
However my wife and I have been to Paradise twice. Tahquamenon Falls is one of the most awesome parks to see. Here is a link to the park:
http://exploringthenorth.com/tahqua/tahqua.html
I have to admit that I have only seen it in the summertime.
Welp went into moderation, oh well.
For any non-readers of “Wallace the Brave,” this is my kind of super-power:
http://www.gocomics.com/wallace-the-brave/2017/7/21
It is hot as he’ll in Louisiana. I am resting up yo go buy flowers at Hobby Lobby. A cold shower is in order.
The seafood has been really disappointing. Two bad meals in a row! I am not happy about this but my relatives and guardians, everyone we came to see likes Ghost. How could they not?
That came out wrong! I am not happy about bad seafood.
I am happy relatives and others all like Ghost!
It’s been over 100 in Tulsa the last couple of days, too. And the same tomorrow is forecast.
“I don’t like the looks of it” said the king. “however, it may kiss my hand, if it likes.”
“I’d rather not” the cat replied.-Lewis Carroll
Jerry: you’re sounding like your old self there 🙂
My old self thanks you.
I found that cat ringing the bell – It was not my friend Gerry
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QhfEUMDUlKQ
If ours learned to ring the bell it would be a full time job letting them in and out.
It is nearly that now.
WOW
Everyone is sleeping in today
GM Debbe & Mizz Charlotte
LA to OK via TX today.
Bumper sticker seen on p/u with TX plate last time I was there: “Welcome to Texas. Now go home.”
Our educational system continues to fail us, or something…
News show on TV in lobby, covering christening of USS Gerald R. Ford and flashing facts about ship on screen: “Length of Flight Deck – 5 Acres”
As a proctor at a local tech college, I am amazed by the confusion engendered by one simple question:
“A forest ranger can see for 12 miles from the fire tower. How many square miles can he see?”
If the multiple choice answers included 144 square miles, about 80% of them would choose it, thinking the observed shape would be a square. Some even tell me the shape of the area would be a triangle. 🙁
Ghost says he can see a circle with a radias of 12 miles and the answer is area=pi R squared.
Show your work.
TR & Jackie
Pie are round.
Especially at VI on Wednesdays.