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Christmas Releases

By Jimmy Johnson


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Today, I’m doing something I’ve never done before, and I’m not really supposed to be doing it. Instead of some old cartoon from the past, I’m showing you previews of the coming week. That’s right! Each panel in the “comic strip” above is from a panel that has never appeared in print or pixel. Granted, they don’t make much sense when assembled in one strip, but that’s never been a major impediment around here before. Technically, I’m not supposed to show you stuff before the syndicate has released it; if you come here tomorrow and find Snuffy Smith, you’ll know what happened. So, watch for the above panels, in newspapers the week of Christmas!

Oh! By the way, if you aren’t already a member of the Facebook group Arlo and Janis Fans, now would be an auspicious time to join. The group needs 21 more members to reach 500. Officially, I don’t have anything to do with the site. Mostly, it’s the work of Jim Young, a fine fellow with a lot of time on his hands, apparently. I know it would make him happy to hit the 500-member mark. And me, too!

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81 responses to “Christmas Releases”

  1. Debbe Avatar
    Debbe

    Jackie….when I read your post at the end of yesterday’s comments, I cried for you. You are a strong woman and need to stay strong for Mike. I echo all the comments above regarding the passing of your mother….as one said, she had a quality of life and that is because of you, know you did well with your mother.

    Love, Debbe

  2. Debbe Avatar
    Debbe

    Good morning Villagers…..

    GR 😉 did the wrist and finger/thumb sizing…on my right hand as my left wrist is bigger because I broke it a couple of years ago. I am of average build. Each trays roughly weighs 3.5 pounds, and roughtly each stack of six weighs around 20 lbs or more. Two stacks of six make a case, and there are 24 cases to a skid, so I load a tray of six 48 times onto a skid. I cheat on the top though, I put 4 and then 2 on top of the four. Yesterday, I loaded 204 cases. Ian, my son, helps me do the top. He’ll usually pack the top for me….that’s my boy

    Sideburns, I can’t believe you loss that much height. Next time I’m in doctor’s office, I’m going to have the nurse do my height.

    And I love the Charlie Brown Christmas video….will play it in it’s entirety when I get home…..and its PAYDAY!!!

    Gal 🙂 Snoopy is cool.

    ya’ll have a blessed day.

  3. Galliglo from Ohio Avatar
    Galliglo from Ohio

    Jackie: So many have said what I am feeling for you. Know that you are a good daughter… a good human being… a good child of God. Love – hugs – prayers to you and the family.

  4. emeritus minnesota biologist Avatar
    emeritus minnesota biologist

    Jackie: You are a neat person. Peace, emb

  5. Steve from Royal Oak, Mi Avatar

    Jackie:

    So sorry.

    Peace be with all of you.

  6. Indiana SAM Avatar
    Indiana SAM

    Jackie

    I’m a little late but sending you our sympathy, encouragement, compassion, condolences. My folks both passed a couple of decades ago. Dad had debilitating strokes and Mom had Alzheimer’s. Mother-in-law had Parkinson’s. We KNOW they were all much better off in the next life, just as I feel your Mama is happy now, too. Hang in there.

    Love you back,

    Steve Moore (Sam)

  7. emeritus minnesota biologist Avatar
    emeritus minnesota biologist

    “[OF] Predictions will resume when the Visitor Education Center reopens on December 15, 2014.

    I predict they will resume in 2015. Bonne année. emb

  8. emeritus minnesota biologist Avatar
    emeritus minnesota biologist

    Forgot to close quotes. How like me!

    “[OF] Predictions will resume when the Visitor Education Center reopens on December 15, 2014.”

    I predict they will resume in 2015. Bonne année. emb

  9. domaucan1 Avatar
    domaucan1

    Jackie,
    I don’t write much but I must send you some love and well wishes and sincere condolences. What you did for that family was indeed wonderful. May God bless you and your family and friends always and in all ways.

    (I’ve been having e-mail problems and may have to change to another address soon.)

  10. Denise in Michigan Avatar
    Denise in Michigan

    Jackie, I’m so sorry for the loss of your Mom. We know how much she meant to you, and how much you meant to her. It’s good for you to let your children help you during this time; they will look back on what they did for Grandma and Mom and Dad and know that they were able to share their love in a meaningful way. I will miss hearing what she had for breakfast and what she thought about something. Please keep telling us your stories of her.

  11. sideburns Avatar

    Debbe, I have osteoporosis, diagnosed after I had a bad fall during a hypoglycemic episode and ended up with compression fractures. It’s possible, I guess that the compression was vertical. I still think of myself as being taller, and the size difference really messes up my BMI, making it even less accurate than it was before.

  12. John in Richmond Texas Avatar
    John in Richmond Texas

    Sorry to hear that Jackie, I just got caught up after two days, took wife to Galveston for a mini-bucket list thing to see some sandhill cranes. — –SO a brand new board game – lots of individual A&J panels that you mix and match into the best strip. — — so AGAIN I have to change all 10,20 30? things that auto bill periodically on my credit card, I’m always getting a new card because they got hacked or something and now there’s new extra special improvements for e commerce and clouds or something so I have a new card and number and have to update everything again. I need to see how much I can just auto bill through Paypal so I only have to change one thing

  13. John in Richmond Texas Avatar
    John in Richmond Texas

    Gaaah! OK, so I find out the card they sent me is my old card. I got a new card last month after diet pills were being charged on it, then I get a new card that says just all their regular junk about how new and great it is, but it turns out that it was just a new date renewal of my old hacked card that was in the pipeline to come to me

  14. emeritus minnesota biologist Avatar
    emeritus minnesota biologist

    I’ve just posted something twice. Both times it disappeared from this box but did not appear above. This is a test. It is only a test. . . ..

  15. emeritus minnesota biologist Avatar
    emeritus minnesota biologist

    Scientists are stereotypically humorless. We aren’t. The paragraph below, from Sky & Telescope’s weekly newsletter, is part of an article on Curiosity’s detection of organic molecules in Mars’s air and rocks. Each time I copied the item, S&T had gratuitously added a URL, which I deleted this time. We’ll see.

    “One simple organic molecule, methane gas (CH4), has a similar story. It can arise abiotically as a product of the breakdown of meteorite-borne organic matter, or from the interaction of water with silicate minerals such as olivine and pyroxene (both present on Mars). On the other hand, it can also come from primitive microbes called methanogens, which produce methane as part of their metabolic processes. (The sub-meter-scale resolution of the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter’s HiRISE camera has ruled out Martian cows.)”

  16. emeritus minnesota biologist Avatar
    emeritus minnesota biologist

    This site apparently won’t let me post other URLs. Peace, emb

  17. emeritus minnesota biologist Avatar
    emeritus minnesota biologist

    If you don’t know that cows and other ruminants, wild and domestic, burp a lot of methane, you won’t catch the humor in the (. . .) above.

    Horses, manatees, and other non-ruminant herbivores and omnivores [we, along with most other primates, are by nature omnivores] release methane by another route, mostly.

  18. curmudgeonly ex-professor Avatar
    curmudgeonly ex-professor

    I must differ with some of what eMb cited from “Sky & Telescope”. Reaction, if any, between water and pyroxene (or olivine) cannot possibly produce methane. The reason is simple: neither water nor pyroxene (of any kind) nor olivine has any carbon atoms. Thus, methane – which must have a carbon atom in each molecule – is not possible.

    If one is thinking of the actual production of carbon atoms via nuclear reactions in stars, such atoms can be made, but they would not be arising from water nor from pyroxene nor from olivine, as all those materials would have already been broken up into separate atoms at such extreme conditions. There simply could not be any water or pyroxene or olivine at the conditions inside stars.

    If I am incorrect, feel free to say so!

  19. Ghost Rider 6 Avatar
    Ghost Rider 6

    Running very late today…I’ve been getting things in order so my BIL can keep check on my Mom tomorrow while I make a day-trip to Lower Alabama to visit my best friend of many years for the first time in several months. In some ways, her health is not much better than my Mom’s, so I’m very grateful that my Mom is doing well enough for me to travel without worrying about her, and that my BIL is is available to back me up.

    Debbe 😉 Merry Christmas from the Deep South…

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xg81vGuZx7k

  20. Ghost Rider 6 Avatar
    Ghost Rider 6

    Since I will be leaving at still-dark thirty tomorrow morning and will be lucky to make it home by midnight, I’m posting tomorrow’s Christmas Playlist selection tonight.

    Debbe 😉 Classic artist, classic song, classic sound…

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZ6yQgBvuoI

  21. Mark in TTown Avatar
    Mark in TTown

    Debbe, I learned something new tonight about the Blockbuster on Dish. They have free tv shows as well as free movies. I found they have Night Court on it. Don’t know if it is the whole series, but it is one of my favorites. Too bad they don’t have Barney Miller too.

  22. emeritus minnesota biologist Avatar
    emeritus minnesota biologist

    c x-p is right. Maybe reactive C is available in the immediate area and they just left that out, but I just copied what the S&T release said. I think there is CO2 in Martian air (and therefore soil), maybe as its main constituent. Peace, emb

  23. Debbe Avatar
    Debbe

    Good morning Villagers……

    Happy Trails GR 😉 Stay safe,

    Got a few flurries ‘floating’ down right now, nothing significant. But I know when I read the forecasts a day or two ago, they showed temps only in the mid twenties next week, with lows in the teens. Now they are calling for 50 degree weather on Monday and a some winter weather on Christmas Eve.

    Mark, is there a charge on that Blockbuster channel? I’ve clicked on it, and I’m just hesitant to hit select…..I faithfully watched Barney Miller in those days. What was the old detective’s name on the show…he had such a dry sense of humor.

    No one wanted to work today. So it’s just me and an 18 year old. ‘Skittles’ (Dakota) and the other 15 year old wanted off. Dakota promised me he would come in on Monday and would work Christmas Day with me. Yes, the hens don’t stop laying because it’s Christmas. Ian will work at the other hen house with “we don’t know yet”. Probably The Boss….but I’m not going to tell Ian that yet 🙂

    Happy Caturday!!!

    Emb and cxp, way over my head, there’s such intelligent life in this Village…and then there’s me 🙂