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Christmas Cheers!

By Jimmy Johnson

Since many of you seemed to enjoy my memory of the aluminum Christmas tree (albeit selective and embellished), I thought you might enjoy this Christmas Eve A&J from 2006, also based on a holiday memory. This one is not selective or embellished!

Today's "Arlo & Janis!"

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29 responses to “Christmas Cheers!”

  1. DaveP Avatar
    DaveP

    LOL! Merry Christmas JJ !

  2. Geo Avatar
    Geo

    Merry Christmas!!!
    JJ, you were far more self-reliant than I as a child.I didn’t even turn on the stove until in high school.
    Meanwhile you learned the results of your early cooking. Later results sound much better.

  3. Ruth Avatar
    Ruth

    My daughter did that twice when she was little, both times after eating too much sausage.

  4. Steve from Royal Oak, MI Avatar

    I love today’s strip when Arlo calls Luddie his “Little Buddy”. About 12 years ago we had to put our 21 year old cat down and I emailed Jimmy as a friend to share my grief. Jimmy “got” it and I think that’s why he writes such a great strip.

    Merry Christmas to all.

  5. Jerry ford Avatar
    Jerry ford

    ???????? Merry Christmas!!

  6. emb Avatar
    emb

    At age 8 or 9, I bought a 4 oz. Baby Ruth for a nickel from the vending machine outside a classroom at St. Joseph’s [oldest RC church in NYC], & barfed when I got home [or before?].

    Peregrine [cannot tell tercel from falcon] at Baltimore aerie. Starlings, rock pigeons, and house sparrows must be in good supply. Merry!

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  7. Ghost Avatar
    Ghost

    Re 12-24-18 cartoon: An instant classic. And touching.

  8. Burns Avatar
    Burns

    Once again, the Boston Globe has done a purge of the comic pages. And once again A&J survives! Yay!

    Today’s Christmas Eve talking animals strip is the best ever, by the way!

    1. jimmyjohnson Avatar
      jimmyjohnson

      Yay!!

  9. Tunadavis Avatar
    Tunadavis

    Love hearing about how events like birthdays, anniversaries, weddings, holidays, don’t always go according to plan. Fun and relatable for sure! Merry Christmas everyone.

  10. Galliglo of Ohio Avatar
    Galliglo of Ohio

    The Christmas Eve strip was wonderful! And so was the vintage one above.
    Thank you, JJ and Village, for a wonderful year. MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!

  11. TruckerRon Avatar

    Toby Keith loves his bar. I love this Village!

    Merry Christmas to one and all!

    Can we still insert simple HTML tags?

  12. Ken From Okemos Avatar
    Ken From Okemos

    But did you top the milk with a slice of room temperature butter? That makes the barf so much more impressive. My maternal grandmother used to get us warmed milk topped with butter for upset stomachs. If you managed to keep a mug of it down, you were not all concerned about the stomach problems any more. As an adult, I later learned that despite what the locals where I was stationed might think, swapping goat’s milk for cow’s and dumping a large amount of sugar into the mix does nothing to improve either the taste or the resulting physical impulses. The childhood practice sessions with Grandma did keep me from embarrassing myself and providing amusement for local bystanders, however.

  13. Nancy Kirk in AZ Avatar
    Nancy Kirk in AZ

    I too, Trucker Ron. Merry Christmas to the Village and to all a good night.

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