We at Arlo & Janis do not think hitting a cat in the head with a door is funny. In our defense, this one just sort of slipped by quality control. In fact, we think physical humor is disgusting, and we are very excited to be present at the dawn of a glorious era, the digital production of comics. In the future, when every panel is a cut-and-paste copy of the initial panel, with only the dialog—and maybe an eyebrow—changing from start to finish, physical humor in the comics will become all but impossible and will disappear from our consciousness altogether. We live for that day.
185 responses to “Cat Fall”
Mindy, he’s your boss and doesn’t know how to spell band? Well, just don’t give them any band aid. That’s a big deal now.
Real-time strip of 02.11.17:
Interesting coincidence that Jimmy’s strip would appear the morning after I read this item in Russia Today last night:
Hong Kong residents squeeze into ‘coffin homes’ as housing crisis worsens
https://www.rt.com/business/376936-china-poor-coffin-homes/
People are living in cardboard boxes.
Good morning Villagers.
Thank you for being
A tiny house! Yes, we are really fortunate. Thanks for the reminder…
Finally, there’s a new Pibgorn.
http://www.gocomics.com/pibgorn
Peace,
I hope everyone has a shiny day. That’s what I plan to do.
Ghostly Personal Advice: Laugh at your problems; everyone else does.
Good morning again. Dickens and I are in beautiful sunny Carthage, Missouri walking.
Good morning Llee. We will be around as soon as we load van! Don’t ear brunch yet darling.
Have a great day friends. I will.
Ghost, I forgot your song from Debbe. I will post when I get back to room. Have a great day, like a sunny breakfast egg Sunnyside up.
Here’s your song for Saturday morning Ghost. Sorry I have been forgetting to post your songs.
https://youtu.be/92nj_dOQYOc
Good morning, Villagers. Nothing else to say, just checking in.
Thanks, Jackie.
I still remember the first time I heard that song…through a headset while crossing the Rockies at 35,000 feet.
Note: No comments about being high, over Colorado, are necessary.
Yeah, who wants to check the actual weather on The Weather Channel when you can instead watch “The Adventures of Overweight Canadian Tow Truck Drivers”?
Think I’ll bung the ingredients for another batch of Law Dog Stew into one of the slow cookers.
Oddly, I had just recently begun to give some idle thought to resuming the judicious application of a “manly fragrance” following my morning shave and shower. I used to do so assiduously, but in recent years I have discontinued that habit. Perhaps because I noticed I was attracting as many women without it as with it. (Just kidding. Or am I? 🙂 )
I have a theory that there is at least one cologne that ideally suits every man, if he is fortunate enough to discover it. I have mine, not a new or trendy one, but one which produces an amazing number of incidents where public contact with female bank tellers, sales clerks, and cashiers produces an appraising look and the question, “Umm, what’s that you’re wearing?” I have to say that does brighten my Ghostly heart.
And then this morning I ran across this…
http://thelawdogfiles.blogspot.com/2017/02/well-thats-awkward.html
On the topic of being fortunate, this is interesting:
“While global wealth totals $255 trillion, the median wealth of all 4.8 billion global adults is just $2,222; the average is $52,819. In North America, it takes $4.47 million in wealth to be in the top 1%, in Europe it takes $1.41 million, in Asia-Pacific $660,000 and in China $230,000. The 33 million earthly millionaires, 0.7% of the global adult population, own 45.6% of all planetary wealth.” ~ Dr. Elliott Eisenberg, the Bowtie Economist
He could have gone further.
If you remove wealth realized by possessing real property (car, house, etc.), 0.01% (or less) own about 97% of the wealth. That was true about 20 years ago, and it might be even higher now.
For some reason, 0.001% sticks in my memory, but I imagine that’s wrong.
Ghost, body chemistry has a lot to do with how colognes smell, too. I asked a man with whom I worked what he wore because he always smelled delicious. When I got it for my husband, he smelled…well…way less wonderful. And on me, a cologne popular a few decades back smelled just like Raid insect spray.
Hi, Nancy K!
Ghost: ‘I have a theory that there is at least one cologne that ideally suits every man, if he is fortunate enough to discover it.’
Guess I’ll never know, since I’ve never tried one, unless you count the scent on standard OTC deodorant [which, fortunately, becomes less needed with age]. My wallet, of course, knows that I’ve never tried one. Since, in ’48-’52, I could not have been more fortunate in affairs of the heart than I was, t’would have been a waste of money. Elaine used cologne some, but I never paid it much attn., and she realized I was no fan of makeup.
Wonder what fraction of the world’s total economy goes for such waste? That could lead us into forbidden territory, both political and religious. Fun.
Peace,
Daffodils are pushing up ,and redbuds are blooming. Normally, I would be happy to see these signs of spring. But in February? I just know we will get freezing temps. again, and the awakening plants will be damaged. That makes me sad.
I love today’s A&J. Arlorealizes how lucky he is not to be homeless,living in a card- board box.
Ludwig hiding in the box reminded me of the cats that I had who loved to play in boxes. We would cut holes in the box sides and watch them play with each other. Nothing like watching a cat have fun.
Does Ben Gay count as a fragrance? Actually I use biofreeze but Ben Gay sounds funnier. And I’ve been with same woman for 35 yrs., so no jokes about the Ben Gay!
I doubt Ghost REALLY wants to smell like John Travolta in Michael as the Archangel. But his effect on women was unquestionable as they were falling in multiples.
He smelled like fresh baked cookies.
Which is when I began to use toasted sugar. I smell like fresh baked cookies and that is half the reason for Cowboy Cookies name. My boat.
Here is Travolta in the famous dance scene from Michael. Fabulous man and dance. Cookies.
https://youtu.be/tTlKIzXRfhU
I always felt Travolta was as good or better a hoofer than an actor. Wise directors capitalized on that. He even got a dance scene in a move in which he portrayed a heroin-addicted mob hit-man. (Dance starts at about 1:00 mark.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WSLMN6g_Od4
Speaking of actors that can dance…
I’ve posted this before, but I think it’s great.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQ7z57qrZU8
Walken cracks me up, anyway.
I really need to brush up on my tango skills.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KXCiLub8DZg
Ghost:
My two favorites:
Old Spice – I bought it every Christmas for my dad, and, now, my son does the same for me.
Avon’s Wild Country.
I know that both of those might be considered to be nerdy and déclassé by some.
I don’t care.
Rick, I have a bottle of Old Spice after-shave and a mug of their shaving soap on top of my bathroom etagere for sentimental and decorative purposes. As I too had done many times before, I gave it to my dad for Christmas a few years before he died. Before he could use it, he had to switch to an electric razor, and found them in a drawer. I hadn’t thought of it, but I might try the aftershave.