Let me be the first to go on record saying it: the A&J cartoons running in newspapers and on GoComics this week are repeats. I was under the weather recently and took some extra time to recuperate. However, I did arise from my germ-besotted recliner to choose a week of my favorites from the winter of 2010 and remaster them. And, yes, I am feeling much better now. Thank you for asking.
Cold Comfort
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43 responses to “Cold Comfort”
Get well.
JJ -Hope you are better. Up early on a Monday to post this. Thx
Holidays are an especially lousy time to be sick. Glad to hear you are feeling better in time for the New Year’s revels. Here’s to everyone having a safe and prosperous 2020!
Did you get your flu shot?
Still snuffling here from my annual case of Christmas Crud (aka “seasonal allergy”). Oh, did I mention that earlier this year I saw an ENT and was tested to see which allergen(s) had been regularly bedeviling me at certain times of the year for several decades? Other than a “mild” allergy to egg whites (which had never been evident to me), I tested negative for everything. (This despite the fact that anytime I walk into a funeral home for a visitation, the floral arrangements immediately cause my eyes and nose to begin running. To the point others there must think the deceased was my best friend.) Beats me.
My dad used to say, “If you nose runs and your feet smell, you must be built upside down.”
There are several ways to transmit the crud, and a few of them are enjoyable. It may be worth it, Janis….
I just found out that my two very best old friends of the female persuasion – from the1940s-1950s – not only knew each other, but were buddies living only a few doors apart! Am in email contact with both from a safe distance away and will be careful what I write henceforth!
Looks like 2 beaver out on the Mississippi ice, SE MN. Beats me.
https://explore.org/livecams/birds/mississippi-river-flyway-cam
Peace,
Well considering the time lag between drawing and publishing, I hope that you’re illness did not spoil your Thanksgiving….
Thanks for the heads up. Before the internet only people with incredible memories (or a bunch of A&J cartoons on the fridge) would have known the difference!
JJ:
I hope that it’s not the flu. That stuff’s bad news this year.
Any day with Arlo & Janis is a good day – new or repeat!
One of the things I listen to while working out at our city’s rec center are old Car Talk episodes. Today’s episode had a Grizzly tale that I loved:
https://www.cartalk.com/radio/letter/two-bear-scientists
There was also true wisdom in this Chickweed strip… though I’d have trouble giving up the last piece if it were truly DARK chocolate!
https://www.gocomics.com/9chickweedlane/2019/12/30
1. I was just going to post https://www.gocomics.com/9chickweedlane/2019/12/31
2. The previous joke, with a different lead-up [or perhaps several] is well-known in some biology depts. It often is set in Eurasia; the Old World Brown Bear is the same sp. as our Alaska Brown Bear and our Grizzly. “There were two hunters, a Norwegian and … .”
Peace,
Catch your sneeze in your elbow – less chance of spreading the cold.
On the other hand, my Grandmother said you could not get rid of a cold
until you gave it to someone.
.
One of THOSE aphorisms 🙂
I’d like to wish everybody here a happy, healthy New Year.
More like Arlo knows how to ring-a-ding-ding in a new year. (Thanks, Frank.)
Happy New Year, everyone.
Happy New Year everyone….I have it on good authority that you can’t get Jimmy’s via the blog. But you might want to run an anti-virus program on your computer. 🙂
JJ [whose email says not available] & everyone; I wish all a happy year, and a better one. Peace, emb
May sobriety and reason, plus some empathy, rule our private and public discourse!
Sitting after dinner with friends with the football game on catching up with the Village—-and sending fond wishes to all for a good year ahead. Nancy K.
I wonder if Arlo wore his new sweatshirt to work today.
Many workplaces used to have this quaint thing called a “dress code”. Before “code” became “something programmers write”, and “dress” became “whatever one pulled out of the closet after giving it minimal, if any, thought”.
Strange subject, but cute take-off on it.
https://www.gocomics.com/that-is-priceless/
Peace,
But wait, Ghost. When was the last time our favorite comic strip couple even REFERENCED going to work?? Seems like years. I thought they had surreptitiously joined the leisure class. And otherwise, kudos to Janis for wearing a size 10. She’s been worried about her figure lately but obviously, she has nothing to worry about. Lucky her. Good genes or good habits or both.
I agree, Bonnie, that that was the big take-away from today’s cartoon. But I guessed everyone would catch that. Personally, I’ve felt they were too young to have retired already. Well, in cartoon years, anyway. (Notwithstanding the possibility they may have sold the schooner and taken an early retirement. That would have explained what happened to the boat.)
No they probably sold the boat and gave the money to Gene and Mary Lou for their business, or bought into it as silent partners.
I doubt they’ve retired. There’s a do when people retire. There was at the end of spring term in ’94. Here’s today’s groan.
https://www.gocomics.com/shoe/2020/01/03
Peace,
Apparently Arlo uses the time-honored expletive “Ah, haystack!” As have I, on occasion.