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…”
Hmmmmm… could it be a yoyo?
What happened, that post was awful.
S/b, These are my thoughts on what it might be, then I am no expert on movies.
Please, oh please, give us an edit button.
Debbe 😉 Oh, were you inquiring as to whether I still have my vermiform appendix? I thought you were asking about an appendage. But yes, my Appendix, my Index and my Table of Contents are all still intact and attached. Hey, wait. Were you being bad when you asked that? 😉
Happy Black Friday, everyone. You realize, of course, that it is your patriotic duty to the nation to venture forth today onto the battlefields of Commerce and, having already bought mass quantities of comestibles for yesterday, to now buy sufficient amounts of soft goods and durable goods to keep you heavily in debt until this time year, at which point the cycle will begin again. Yay, Economy!
I see by the old InterWebNet on the computer that the White House Christmas tree is being delivered today. I’m vaguely surprised that a couple of rogue agents in the Environmental Protection Agency’s Cincinnati office did not issue a “pardon” for the tree before it was harvested.
Well, the Big Meal is over, and I am pursuing my favorite Black Friday doings-having a cup of tea and eating a slice of leftover pumpkin pie. Yesterday was good. All three kids were home, and brought a few of their friends, so there was lots of laughter. Dinner was only a bit later than planned, but that’s okay. Instead of one big turkey I opted for two smaller ones, which worked well. Now the leftover carcases will become soup! And of course there is my favorite of the leftovers-a turkey sandwich with mayo and cranberry sauce. YUM!!
Indy Mindy, I am glad you and your Grandma got to spend the day together!
It sounds like everyone in the Village had a good Thanksgiving, no matter the traditions, and I think that’s a very good thing.
My vote in the “disk dangling on a string” mystery is a monocle.
But that is a stereotypical directorial accessory typically worn with jodphurs… and the socks would tend to rule that out… but it still might be a monocle.
Aussi:
Vendredi Noir est arrivé! Moi, je vais me rester ici chez moi. Comme je n’ai pas d’argent, c’est bien facile de décider. Ma foi, quiconque n’a pas d’argent ne doit pas visiter les magasins, n’est-ce pas?
Translation:
Also:
Black Friday is here! Me, I am going to stay here at my house. Since I have no money, it’s very easy to decide. My faith, whoever does not have any money should not visit the shops, is it not so?
For several years when I was a small girl and Daddy was stationed elsewhere (Korea, I think) Mom and I were guests for Thanksgiving dinner at the base NCO club. Turkey, dressing, potatoes, green beans, gravy, rolls, and yes, Ruth Anne, pickles, olives, and celery!
Debbe, I did listen to Arlo Guthrie yesterday, and revisited WKRP in Cincinnati, as well.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lf3mgmEdfwg
That episode always makes me laugh until my stomach hurts, mostly because I remember the actual Lenox Square Turkey Drop that a local radio station did one year as a promotional thing. Yes, it really happened in Atlanta.
My guess is that the device is a tape for determining focal length, as in the first 10 seconds of this OK Go video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1ZB_rGFyeU
That video has a cute song, hundreds of cute Japanese girls, and an amazing bit of photography and choreography all in one shot.
It is quite curious that the commentary software will accept links from youtube, but not from another part of the A&J website, wherein one could find the celebrated “There’s just something about a peek” strip. My link to same will remain in Moderation Purgatory for centuries, it would appear…
There is a lot more singing and dancing in the OK Go video, however. Maybe that is the clincher…
I too would vote for it being a monocle. In fact, Arlo is displaying several of the quintessential cliché movie director accessories of a folding canvas chair, beret, ascot, jodhpurs, megaphone, monocle and, sometimes, a pencil-thin mustache. However, wearing knee socks in place of riding boots does make him look more like a classically attired golfer.
Jean,
Always loved that WKRP Thanksgiving episode. Calls to mind another radio station promo. Rock 103 held a bikini contest at a local mall. The catch, the mall did not get let in on, it was all prego moms to be. All contestants had to have been baking the rolls for at least six months. Seems some in Memphis were put off and the radio station was no longer welcome at the mall. Thereafter, Rock 103 did street corner spot promos during rush hours with nonprego bikini models. Morning drive time became a more enjoyable experience.
sandcastler™: Memphis? I grew up there, graduated from Messick High, went to Southwestern at Memphis (aka Rhodes College today), before moving to Utah.
It’s something like a stop watch, guys! They used to click them and say that “It’s a wrap!” Don’t know what they are called but JJ probably does. No monocle. Heck, maybe it WAS a stopwatch for timing?
And to me it looked exactly like a classic movie’s outfit for a director!
Love, Jackie
Ruth Anne, I just happen to collect “spooners”, topless “sugars” and if I can find one, “Celerys”. Those are names for antique cut glass or pressed glass containers that were on the table in olden days.
The hard ones to find are the “celerys” which are NOT flat as they were later when we chopped or curled it. Early “celerys” are upright and looks a lot like a vase, so you will sometimes find one in an antique store labeled as a vase. They cut the celery and put it in them upright like flowers and I suspect there was water or ice?
By the way, I occasionally run into old fashioned restaurant(meaning nothing has been changed in 50-60 years) that still serve the olives, celery, carrot sticks, pickles in those restaurant appetizer metal compartmented thingies.
I really enjoyed the article!
Love, Jackie
Knickers! Not jodphurs, knickers. Which are correctly worn with the hose/stockings/knee socks. Right shoes, too.
I went back and looked and magnified it all.
Geez, Jackie, I thought for second your reference to “spooners”, topless “sugars” and “Celerys” (even though “Celery’s” threw me) were a response to sand’s comment about bikini models!
Where’s my BP medicine?
Ghost, now YOU are going to make me laugh every time I see that billboard for our local Farmers’ Market. It has a stalk of celery with a bushy top in between two large red tomatoes on either side. When you come off the toll road into that curve and see it, it is already disconcerting enough.
You go, Huh? Who/what is that supposed to be?
Jackie, note the trousers and footwear. I still think knickers and knee socks say “golfer” more than “director”.
http://31.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_luzy8faVW81qd247mo2_500.jpg
If you google images for “cecil b demille boots”, I’ll think you’ll see that old school film directors loved them some riding boots.
I would be afraid to comment further on your local billboard. I will say that I have seen some tomatoes that must have developed from three different close-together blooms that feature two round and one elongated fruit, connected in a rather startling configuration.
Black Friday brawls reported at stores in the Houston and Atlanta areas. Rather odd behavior for people supposedly preparing for a holiday that celebrates the birth of The Prince of Peace, I’d think.
Not as surreal, though, as viewing the lighted “Season’s Greetings” sign strung across the street in Ferguson through a fog of tear gas.
Wondering if I have gremlins in my tablet or if multiple, almost identical posts will eventually show up under my name. Using the desktop now so we’ll see what happens.
For the webcam fans among us, when nothing is happening on the OF cam, check out the cams at explore dot org. (Maybe that’s why my earlier posts disappeared?) They have quite a variety of sites from all over the world, some featuring the scenery and others focused on critters, both wild and domestic. There too the comments sections have developed several nice little communities of like-minded folks – the osprey nest fans, the Katmai bear watchers, etc. Like our village it is heart-warming to read how kind and caring people can be.
Note to JJ – don’t even think about using the comments program that Explore has been using! They plan to replace it and for good reason.
OK, I’m going to copy and save this in case it disappears again. Here goes!
Success!
Ruth Anne, the several times my comment disappeared into ether I decided it was divine intervention and didn’t send a duplicate! I may have said something I shouldn’t I think?
When your dancing “topless, ” your trying to get enough “celery” to buy “sugar” to fill your “spooner.”
😉
Ron, Memphis was just a pass through duty station during my government years.