Here is the next installment of Susan and Gene at the movies in 1995. I don’t want to look like a sorehead, just because there weren’t any SEC teams in the big championship game (for the first time in the Neolithic era), so congratulations to The Ohio State University Buckeyes, and condolences to the Oregon Ducks. At least the game featured two of the more distinctive team names in college football. Ohio State has a great team. They demonstrated that with authority down the stretch, when it counted. Have you noticed, though, that the trend in sports journalism, especially after big games, is the obligatory story, “What is wrong with the team that lost?” Mm, nothing? They simply lost? Nah! That couldn’t be it!
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59 responses to “Big Spender”
Debbe, try “The Ransom of Red Chief” by O. Henry and your questions will be answered.
curmudgeonly ex-professor: Thanks for sending me back to that Foxtrot strip. It’s a good math joke, of course, but I’d missed the mobile and its improbable behavior.
Trucker, c x-p: What 13 Jan. Foxtrot strip? Cannot find it? 13 Jan. newspaper strip = 2 people, mugs, chairs, table. Mobile?
Peace, emb
EMB– http://www.gocomics.com/foxtrotclassics/2015/01/13 Look for the positions of Jupiter and Saturn
JJ, last two dailies have hit close to home. Have your elves tapped our routers?
Pretty sunrise at OF site. No predictions for this morning yet. Peace, emb
http://www.nps.gov/features/yell/webcam/oldFaithfulStreaming.html
Dave, Thanks. Didn’t realize they were viewing a different comic. I presume the drawing was a deliberate gotcha.
Peace, emb
PS. Will there be any living readers who remember WWII when the current episode of 9CL is done? Do any dailies still carry the strip?
Good morning and goodbye until later. Overslept and have to be in Tulsa for doctor’s appointment. Tried to load some clothes into washer now that ice has melted out of drain pipes, elderly dog couldn’t hold it any longer and peed on my foot and pj leg and I have to take another bath!
Never say that life with me is not interesting!
Love, Jackie
The very first comic in this saga has always bugged me the most. If Bill O’Malley married Gran, fathered Roger, and so on, how in the heck did he end up in the middle of a cattle pasture in Normandy?!
In the beginning … http://www.gocomics.com/9chickweedlane/2013/11/25
Today was a loooong, sucky day. Off to bed.