Today’s classic A&J is from August of 1994, and it first appeared mere days before the changeover to digitalization. In other words, it was one of the last daily strips actually to be shipped by Federal Express to the syndicate offices in New York. Speaking of digitalization, remember when I mentioned earlier this year that I wanted to revamp this Web site? I’ll bet you haven’t forgotten. You just assumed I had. Well, I haven’t. I have decided, though, that I need professional help. With Web-site design, I mean. I have been in contact with said professionals, and I’m hoping I might have something new to show you early in 2015. I know we go through this sort of thing a lot. Believe me, I know, but please humor me. I’m going to ask you, again, to make suggestions for the new Web site if you’d like. That way, I’ll have your input all in one place and fresh when I meet with the Web people after the Thanksgiving holiday. Any new suggestions, or restatement of old suggestions, will be appreciated. And I haven’t forgotten about the T-shirts, either.
But seriously, folks…
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251 responses to “But seriously, folks…”
“that’s a wrap” 🙂
A thought for Thanksgiving:
As we all know, Thursday is Thanksgiving. Like many other American holidays, feasting is an important part of the day. However, unlike any other holiday I can think of, Thanksgiving has always been about the food, because we’re happy that we’ve had a good harvest (And those of us who think there’s somebody to thank for this generally do.) and that there’s enough of a surplus that we can afford to eat our fill and more so without worrying about having enough to last through the winter. All other holidays started out to celebrate something else, with the food gradually becoming more and more central to the observance. What does this mean? It means that you can pig out as much as you like, Thursday, secure in the knowledge that that’s exactly what you’re supposed to be doing.
Happy Thanksgiving all! No idea when, where, or if, I will have a “proper” Thanksgiving meal today, but if my luck holds, I will make it up north to visit grandma. Her first year so immobile she cannot get picked up and taken out for the day – and no one else local to her will be around to visit. Now pardon me, but I must get this pesky “work” thing out of the way so I can catch up with Arlo. Wish me luck, and someone have a piece of pumpkin pie with a side of whipped topping for me!
HAPPY THANKSGIVING VILLAGERS…..
…and there’s snow on the ground, no one said there was going to be snow on the ground, stupid Whether.com!!!! It’s not much, maybe an inch or less 🙂
And I am thankful for my new tires….and a spare and a little ‘change’ left in the bank.
I am mostly thankful for my loving husband and my loving son.
I am thankful I have a job I enjoy at my age. We let George the Rooster out again yesterday. He heard the feeding system kick on and the augers going….he started crowing, and crowing…told Ian he’d better get him back in his cage before he went cuckoo.
Walked the aisles before I left yesterday and found two major egg blocks…my son is blind in one eye and can’t see out the other…no seriously, he did some major work outside yesterday…like loading all the bait traps with rat bait, cleaning all the fan louvres. He was covered in hen house dust from head to toe. So, it’s going to be a long day bringing in the eggs, we will be rejoicing bringing in the eggs.
GR 😉 loved your list 🙂 So, you must still have your appendix?
Ya’ll have a full feeling day.
Oh, Gal…thanks for the explanation on the ‘shine’ 🙂
Jerry…the best day I ever had was giving birth to my son.
Over the river and through the woods. Happy turkey day.
Not a specific suggestion, but a general observation:
In the past few years, websites have gotten so complex that the processing power required to properly render them is ridiculous. I use an old machine as my primary browser… a single-core processor running at under 2GHz… and there are several sites that take over 5 minutes just to draw the page, because they have some much stuff (mostly ad-related) to draw.
It would be one thing if it took more processing power to deliver better features, but… the WWW of 2014 isn’t significantly better than the WWW of 2009.
Happy Thanksgiving to everyone. May God bless all of you always and in all ways. No matter how the Iron Bowl comes out, it’s still GREAT TO BE AN AUBURN TIGER !!!
Happy Thanksgiving to the Village. In honor of the turkey myth, I will relate that when my rather old daughter gave birth to my only granddaughter, she began celebrating holidays with her, like Christmas and Easter and Halloween with her with gifts and decorations. Thanksgiving had none so she made up The Great Turkey as its’ benefactor.
Yesterday she called me enroute from the American Girl doll store where she had gone to buy the Great Turkey gifts. My granddaughter is in third grade and surely has stopped believing?
The funny part if you read the comic strip Monty is that the Sunday strip was that Monty was writing and drawing a children’s book that featured the Great Turkey. He said he was having trouble with the ending where the character gets eaten at the feast.
Love, Jackie
Happy Thanksgiving to everyone here in the Village!
Ghost, you and Mama come on over and be welcome!
JJ, please don’t sophisticate the site out of my meager abilities to navigate it! I like it the way it is. 🙂
Thinking the same thing, Jean. Ever once in awhile Yahoo pops up on my screen so sophisticated and “busy” that I can’t figure out where to go. So I Google.
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again…Happy Thanksgiving, everyone. And don’t not eat too much.
Be sure to enjoy it this year, for by next year the PC Police may have had it changed to “WASP Immigration Day”. 🙂
Lady Mindy, tell your grandma “Happy Thanksgiving” for me. You’re a good girl to go to such lengths to be with her on what to me is the most “family oriented” of the holidays.
Thanks, Jean dear. Wish it weren’t such a long drive to get to the top of your mountain. 🙂
I dunno, Jackie. For some reason we often seem to “eat” our heroes. Especially in politics and show business.
Debbe 😉
Speaking of which, that durn turkey weighed so much I almost could not lift it to counter top. So much for my “bargain” shopping to buy the biggest one since the prices were on sale! I will be feeding it to my yard crew. Who by the way I am thankful for having FINALLY gotten the concrete ditch cut out of my driveway to catch water from road and direct it into my fancy ditch!
I am standing there looking at it and wondering if I smear it with butter or not when my eyes light on the bacon drippings in a small bowl from mom’s breakfast. So………and now I have to find a syrup to baste it with too! I am thinking honey since I have some that sugared and needs to be melted down.
So glad “you know who” is gone, as I am going to have roasted bacon honey basted turkey! YumYumYum!
By the way, my driveway was 6-8 inches deep, no rebar in it and each block weighed about 200#. I was reminded of the pyramids.
So we saved the blocks and plan to use them to create a retaining wall on opposite side of “street” to keep run off water from topping the ditch and force it through the culvert into my ditch and then down to lake.
More engineering and cooking information than needed but I thought I’d report on how project turns out.
Love, Jackie
Remember to Symply leave room for more holiday goodies next month and take a moment to think of those who don’t have as Fargone much as we do…..
and Thanks to you, JJ…for the forum and the art.
Really bad manners. We forgot to thank our gracious host who invited us all to partake here!
We’re not having turkey until Saturday, when my wife’s family is gathering at her parents’ house. There is still poultry to be had, however. Today there is a chicken in the pot for chicken and dumplings. For us, dumplings are accompanied by English peas and pickled beets. Tomorrow I am making a modified chicken cordon bleu. I’m using boneless chicken thigh fillets, a bit of country ham, cream cheese, mozzarella, and wrapping with apple-wood smoked bacon. We’ll have the thighs with whipped potatoes and fresh-frozen corn. THEN on Saturday we’ll have all the traditional Thanksgiving food.
David, that all sounds delicious! Can we come visit you? I haven’t been in Austin in ages but I suspect you are out in country somewhere outside Austin.
Did you smoke your own bacon and ham? It would not surprise me at all. I love being able to talk “bacon” again. Is that like talking turkey? Bacon, bacon, bacon. Boy, that feels good to say.
And being able to cook whatever we like without apology. One of the most important rights of all Villagers!
The grocery closes at noon so I need to get dressed and going.
Love, Jackie
Happy Thanksgiving to all.
Today’s TIP BlogSpot and comic are the same
http://thatispriceless.blogspot.com/
and kinda cute. [Yes, speelczech, ‘kinda’ is a word.]
Free to pig out all we want? Not this boy. It’s no fun waking at 1 am with heart-attack angina that turns out to be ‘only’ esophageal. Did it twice, 6 Mondays apart, fall 2012[?]. Afraid if I show up at the ER with angina, they’ll just say, “You, again?” and send me home.
At Community Holiday Meals, participating churches often have boxes to take leftovers home in. And I don’t need whip on the pumpkin pie.
Peace and TG blessings, emb
Happy Thanksgiving y’all. Have a thoughtful and thankful day. Please remember to pray for our service men and women who are serving overseas and can’t be with family.
I don’t know what browser you’re using, James, but most of them now allow you to install little things called “addons.” One of them is Adblock Plus, which does a great job of preventing most advertisements from being downloaded and displayed. It may be just what you need.
Happy Thanksgiving to our Villagers and those they love. We are grateful to you, Jimmy, for providing this bountiful feast!
emb: “Kinda” is one of my favorite 5th Doctor episodes.
Indeed, may you all have a blessed Thanksgiving and be truly thankful for what you’ve received. The MBH & I (& other church members) got “into” providing many baskets of foods for those who lack; now it is to be repeated for Christmas. (I know there are other times of the year, so we donate heartily to various world hunger funds, too.)