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…
By Jimmy Johnson
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251 responses to “But seriously, folks…”
Debbe 🙂 Get them boots a-movin’, Santa.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AtRsNcpM-w4
With all the truly horrific events of our world, the Village is truly a haven to smile and laugh a little. And be a tiny bit outrageous at times.
Good night and love, Jackie
I could say something about Janis’s coffee pot, but it would be wrong on so many levels.
Looks like the change to short skirts didn’t last long.
Good morning Villagers…..
GR 😉 chicken 🙂 growing up, we had a cookie jar with the chicken (hen) as the top and the nest was the cookie jar….loved that cookie jar.
Mark, no I hadn’t heard of FM before, but I did bookmark that song. While I was MIA yesterday, had the TV on and I wanted the remote control to see if we had the Blockbuster Package, I said I wanted to see “Manhunter’, my husband teased me and said all I wanted to do was hear the music. I think we have MGM, if I can ever get the remote away from my husband.
We watched a movie about The Andersonville Civil War POW camp….it was horrendous, the conditions. My husband and BIL said that there was a camp in northern Illinois that was probably worse because of the wintery conditions there.
Jean, I had a couple of those tops too. And snapping them was a challenge when one was in a hurry…to do whatever 🙂
ya’ll have a blessed day
Ghost, somehow in your comment about aerobics class I first read that you perverted for three years… After a double-take I correctly read “persevered.” 🙂
Debbe, that would be Camp Chase, I think. And keep in mind that a large part of the problems with the Southern camps was of Union making. On the one hand they blockaded the Southern ports and made it very difficult to obtain anything that could not be made here, including medicines. On the other hand, they refused to exchange prisoners to create a greater burden on Southern resources.
It is a teapot, silly, with a cute chicken cozy to keep it warm. (But you knew that) 🙂 Great, JJ!
David, I suppose one could make some kind of a case that I was three years a persistent pervert…if one really cared to do so. 🙂
Did I mention that my instructor was awesomely fit?
GR6: That’s really what keeps me going to the gym instead of finding ways to exercise effectively at home… plus they have machines that allow me to work on muscle groups without triggering my sciatica.
Debbe, I had the name wrong. Camp Chase was near Columbus, OH. Camp Douglas was the main Illinois camp. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camp_Douglas_%28Chicago%29
Good morning, haven’t read weather report but it is colder I know. At least the freezing rain and ice did not materialize. There are times it is good the whether people are wrong.
Glad to see you Debbe, I am beginning to worry anytime anyone goes missing! Ditto Jerry, Mindy, David and anyone else I didn’t mention! I said in the past I’d go “Oh, six feet of snow in New York?” Now I worry about if any of you are under it!
About the tea cozy, I wondered if everyone would figure it out? I get the comics an hour earlier than Go Comics for some strange reason on Yahoo, so I went to bed wondering if all would figure out what it was. It is a good one, Jimmy.
Love, Jackie
sand: Thanks. Wife used to watch ‘Night court’, but I saw only glimpses if down basement for something else, so I did a search. Basically seems a likeable character; they’d have to add a geezer component for me to play the part, but his nuttiness fits. emb
Late to the discussion, but those snaps-down-there shirts were also called “body suits”. If you had a long torso, they were torture!
side: Sorry, meant you not sand. And yes, that teapot was appropriately ghastly. We own/owned a few gruesomes like that. Peace, emb
P.S. OF is socked in.
Just one overriding question: will tees be available for this Christmas?
Denise, you are *so* right about body suits and long torsos!
And somehow this seems to fit the discussion at hand- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5bLX06yR3wY
Jimmy,
I know what you mean. I still code my websites like it’s the late 1990s using very simple HTML, with only occasional snippets of more modern code if I can figure out how to work it in as needed. Most modern websites are a mess of new fangled stuff under the hood, it’s to the point that you have to live and breathe that stuff to know how it all works.
I may have told the anecdote about wearing one of these things with snaps in crotch, with a button up body suit one piece pants suit over it. Very time consuming to get into or out of. Had plunging button up top, so the undershirt part was essential.
Asked to use the bathroom at one of my customers, off limits to public, so I don’t lock door and proceed to disrobe. I look up from my seat just in time to see Chuckles the Clown tear into bathroom ripping off his clown suit like Superman in the phone booth.
Then he turned around. I have to say Chuckles didn’t need to pad his clown suit and should never have worn Speedo underwear.
Oh, he was there tying balloons for the children. Still gives me nightmares!
Love, Jackie
Love, Jackie
I understand that 13,000 prisoners died at Andersonville. Could they not have used prisoner labor to obtain lumber and at least build some shelter from the weather? The prisoner in the picture that I saw last night looked much worst than anything from a WWII concentration camp.
How wonderful, in this holiday season, that the Village come come together in common and deeply-held beliefs; to wit, pantyhose are evil and body shirts are not much better.
No, Jackie, you’ve not told that anecdote; if you had, I assure you I would remember. 😉
You know what? I ain’t gonna fight that war. The Civil War was wrong all the way, wrong for the North, wrong for the South, wrong for the slaves it freed, wrong for the dead and wounded, wrong for the civilians, wrong for the prisoners of war.
There is nothing any of us can do to change that nor the resulting chaos that followed. Just try to remember to never go that way again.
While working on genealogy during Mike’s illness this week I sat here and read tax records and census reports on my home parish in Louisiana. It went from being the wealthiest in the entire South to being the poorest in the entire United States, almost overnight from what I could see.
Love, Jackie
Gal…. 🙂 wish you did too
Ya’ll have a pleasant evening….I’m hitting the recliner and seizing the remote control 🙂
Carp de remote. 🙂
Dear Jackie, your stories about what you had to wear in your college days boggle my mind. Especially what you had to wear for the cattle judging — it just leaves me speechless!
What you wrote about the Civil War shows your great wisdom and humanity. I agree completely.