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…”
Happy Thanksgiving everyone! Here’s one more American proverb:
There’s no joy in anything unless we share it.
I’d say we’re a pretty joyful group!
I meant to share the article linked below a couple of days ago but got busy making pie and cranberry relish.
When I was growing up, whenever we had a major holiday meal or one otherwise involving large numbers of visiting relatives, the table always included a couple of “relish dishes”. We had cut glass dishes that were divided into a least two sections. One would have celery sticks, carrot sticks, and very thin green onions with parts of their tops; the other would have some sort of little pickles and black olives. Sorry to admit that this family tradition went by the wayside when I took over the dinner production.
I had forgotten all about it until a few years ago when my cousin Nancy mentioned that one of her memories of dinner at our house was the black olives that only she and my father ate.
http://www.boston.com/food-dining/food/2014/11/24/celery-and-olives-dominated-thanksgiving-for-nearly-years-until-they-didn/4GFrGQyPYexAs8OuyCKVBK/story.html
Borp! Didn’t need to doggie-box, ate only a bit more than I should. They served everybody a plate of turkey, mash + gravy, stuffing, and corn, and there were slaw, cranberry sauce, and rolls on the table. You could both have coffee and 1% milk, which I used also as coffee cream. I ate lots of slaw, ’cause I’ve no use for cooked corn. [Fortunately, the House Un-American Comm. never found me in the ’50s. Corn is for making tortillas, corn flakes, and gri-yits.] And I wiped the fluff off the pretty good pumpkin pie.
Good time. Met some interesting people. Young woman next to me was a senior at a local ‘Christian’ college, majoring in psych. Asked me what I taught at the univ., biology, and we didn’t pursue that. She will make it a point to read my newspaper articles, she says. Doesn’t know my next article or two will be non-sectarian responses to two recent “Faith” columns that appear most Fridays.
Another 20 minutes to let dinner settle, then off to the hospital to work out.
Be good, emb
Symply, welcome home.
GR6, I second étouffée, food of the Gods.
Jerry, edit button is a BIG YES.
Tom, having no CD slot, I’d rather have a Bit Coin dispenser. 😉
My wish list item, support for Emoticons.
If you have to change your website (but why have you to change, really ?), please don’t change your URLs for the old pages.
I have a lot of bookmarks on your best pages, and I don’t want to lose them.
You have to know (at least the people who will destroy everything on your website) that the cool URLs don’t change.
http://www.w3.org/Provider/Style/URI.html
Wife and I had a great Thanksgiving. Our daughter invited us to go with her and volunteer in a food serving line at the local American Legion where they brought in a bus load of Navy recruits from Great Lakes Training Station. What a great group of young people and much fun talking to them.
I can remember at least twice while in the service when members of the local civilian community invited me and others to have a Thanksgiving meal in their homes, something which was greatly appreciated. Although I must say that the mess sergeants and their crews did themselves proud with the Thanksgiving and other holiday spreads they put out in their chow halls.
When I drove into town earlier I saw a huge crowd of cars at the local VFW and wondered if they were hosting a dinner for the Veterans. There are a lot of them in this area and many are older.
…stop right there…it’s not official until you’ve listened to Arlo….Arlo Gutherie that is 🙂
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m57gzA2JCcM
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Grandma and I say Happy Thanksgiving!
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Debbe 😉 Your are correct, ma chérie. I listened to it this morning. 🙂
The NFL does many things very well. Halftime shows are often not some of those things.
Debbie – thanks for the reminder. This is the first Thanksgiving since 2006 that we stayed home. The one good thing about being on the road today is the multiple opportunities to listen to the account of the massacree and sing along.
Mindy – great picture. Grandmas are such a blessing!
Thank you Mindy! Glad you got to see your grandma – you are blessed!
A long day is almost over. It was grand… my SO was not feeling well so he did not go to the restaurant for dinner, so I brought it home for him. For supper, I prepared potato soup and salad – and we have lots of desserts for later.
Very thankful for my blessing, and not the least of them – the Village. Blessings to all.
GR6,
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You found a photo of Martine?
Well, the children are asleep after a busy Thanksgiving Day. I am thankful to have eight little people, along with their parents, under our roof tonight. I know these days are fleeting, because in a few short years it will be hard to get everyone together at the same time.
Mindy, thanks for sharing your picture; I know your Grandma was happy!
Dear Granny Carol, you are so right. Good that you have the wisdom to see that! I feel a little sad that it won’t happen again for me. But I did have a lovely Thanksgiving Day. My most wonderful son-in-law picked me up, a grandson and a friend helped me down a snowy path in the driveway, drove to their place twenty-plus miles away. Three beautiful daughters were there — Nancy was roasting the turkey, but lost electricity last night in our big snowstorm; so she brought turkey and everything to Marge’s, finished cooking there. Alice and her husband drove from northern Vermont; the storm had ended so the roads were okay. Eleven of us fit snugly around the table; a card table at one end was the children’s table, but these children are thoroughly grown up! This had to be improvised when the feast was moved from Nancy’s roomier place to Marge’s smaller apartment, but all turned out well.
The conversation around the table was mostly about movies … you Villagers would have fit right in. I haven’t seen any movies lately but I greatly enjoy listening to the family’s opinions on them. Football was on the TV, sound was off … nobody was watching. Afterwards they played a board game … ten of them did, I preferred to look on and see what happened. Much laughing and joking over the funny answers. Marge and Dana drove me home, helped me up the driveway, now I’m at the computer. Tomorrow, daughter Pat and her husband and three children will be here. We’ll repeat the driveway trip and drive to Nancy’s if power is back on, or again to Marge’s, for leftovers and visiting.
Mindy from Indy, the photo of you and your happy grandmother is heartwarming. Glad you posted it.
Thanks for making me laugh with Arlo Gutherie and Alice’s Restaurant. Somehow I had NEVER heard that. I know who he is but somehow never connected that link.
And thank all of you who introduced me to Youtube which I had never clicked on before. Shame on you, my family thinks I am addicted but my grandson loves grandmamma and the choo choo’s.
And now I read and watch things I am still learning and enjoying and some I knew about and some I didn’t.
Listening to Neil Diamond who I somehow never appreciated? Coming to America seemed appropriate to listen to today. How could I not have connected him to all the music?
Thanks and good night, Love Jackie
Good morning Villagers….
Ya’ll are quite welcome…….Alice’s Restaurant is a Debbe tradition every Thanksgiving, I laugh and visualize at the same time…they made a movie I did not see, I didn’t want to ruin my imagination.
Indy Mindy, you have a beautiful Grandma….treasure her. I miss mine.
So Jackie is addicted to U Tube…..that’s not a bad thing, keeps me sane and I have found songs that I’ve not heard of in years…you should see my bookmark You Tube…the list goes on and on. Neil Diamond is good, his was the first concert I ever attended in ’72.
Back to the hen house today……brought in the egg blocks, packed 216 cases of eggs…that’s a lot of eggs…then came home to a hearty meal of pork loin, baked taters, yams, frozen corn and green beans…….it was a very full feeling meal. Then I napped. Talked to Mom on the phone. Wished I had the energy to have made it to my sister’s house.
Have to go into the city to cash our paychecks, and Wal-mart plaza is in my way to get to the bank….arrrgghhhh.
Ya’ll have a blessed, leftover day….I’m taking pork loin sandwiches for lunch, with Mayonnaise 🙂
And GR 😉 you didn’t answer my question about your appendix 🙂
=^..^=
…and JJ, please don’t change this website too much, I’ve always followed the KISS method, and it always worked for me 🙂
Retro strip:
I found out many years ago the best way to fool people is to tell the truth.
“Nancy was roasting the turkey, but lost electricity last night in our big snowstorm; so she brought turkey and everything to Marge’s, finished cooking there.”
Almost 50 YA, power went out [not, I think, on TG]. But the wife next door was doing a roast, and we cooked with gas. She called my wife, “Sure!”, over she came, and all was done in time for her company to come and eat. Good couple, good neighbors, have had more troubles [not marital] than their share. I believe she and her oldest son have moved out of town. Husband died of pancreatic cancer 20+ YA.
Dear Jimmy,
Arlo’s outfit on Thursday was a hoot—1920’s film director’s knickers, stockings, vest, puffy sleeves, and beret à la California—complete with clapperboard. But I have stared at what seems to be a coin on a string and cannot understand it—nor does anyone here or at GoComics seem to have commented on it. I am afraid I must ask: Please, what is it?
DJJG, a light meter? A pocket watch? A stop watch? These are my thoughts are whst it might be, then I am no expert on movies.