Another balloon-free classic featuring teenage angst from 1999. Sometimes, when you’re a cartoonist, you just have to laugh. Laugh ruefully, I mean. This cartoon reminds me of another I drew a few years back. Arlo is working a crossword puzzle and is groping for a four-letter word that means Hawaiian folk dance. Through four panels, he’s stumped, and oblivious to Janis gyrating in the background, similar to Arlo in the second panel above. After the cartoon appears in newspapers, I get a snippy email from someone who writes, “I don’t know what that woman in the background is supposed to be doing, but it sure isn’t the hula.” As Steve Martin might have said at one time, “Well, excuuuuse me!” What is about comic strips that make some people so serious?
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I love this. A man in Baton Rouge spotted a ginormous alligator snapping turtle stuck in a culvert and called a neighbor for help in freeing it. The neighbor, one Martin LeBlanc, reportedly said that when he saw the four-foot-long turtle, which had a head the size of a football, his first thought was, “I’m from Pierre Part. I was thinking dinner, no lie. ”
For those that don’t know, Pierre Part in Louisiana was founded by Acadian French settlers after the French population of Acadia was expelled by the British in 1755. The descendants of those settlers are now known as Cajuns. And yes, they are going to release it in a safer spot and not convert it into beaucoup gallons of turtle soup.
If you want to see The Dark Side in full flower, a very doubtfulthing, read the comments on “Crankshaft.” Troll City.
Assumption Parish. I can’t believe they let the turtle go. Although I have trouble believing a 4-foot long turtle in Lousy Anna. Still, there are stranger things in Heaven and on Earth…John is drooling.
@Mindy,
Took pix of bamboo in Jpan for you to view…will post sometime where yu can see them. Symply pleased you and the triad have returned…..Now for the Fargone part….we left Tokyo Japan on April 10th at 11:10AM and arrived in Boston at 10:45AM on you guessed it April 10th, talk about deja vu all over again!
More when I get time…..
When I fly back from Japan to Detroit, we leave at 3:30 and arrive at 1:00. I came home on our wedding anniversary one year and told my wife that it was so special, I made it 36 hours long.
I don’t know, but if a regulation football is about 11 inches long, this turtle could be four feet long.
http://l.yimg.com/os/publish-images/news/2014-04-09/61232d50-c00d-11e3-b5e0-730cf47cd7aa_turtle-football.jpg
Some people have no sense of humor, others spend their lives emotionaly detached and perpetually angry. Final possibility would be that they don’t understand comic strips or what purpose they serve. It may seem absurd, but, reading panel to panel is not grasped by ever brain.
@GR6,
I’ve Symply seen snappers a lane wide it, blocked the Fargone road at the Holden Reservoir until it crossed into the other pool on the other side of the bridge.
‘Although I have trouble believing a 4-foot long turtle in Lousy Anna.’
When the movie ‘Earthquake’ was big, an exotic pet [mostly reptile] store in Mpls. had a sign out front that read, EARTHQUAKE INSIDE. ‘Earthquake’ was an alligator snapper, perhaps a tad smaller than the one pictured in:
http://l.yimg.com/os/publish-images/news/2014-04-09/61232d50-c00d-11e3-b5e0-730cf47cd7aa_turtle-football.jpg
You didn’t say it was a snapping turtle, Ghost.
What part of “ginormous alligator snapping turtle” did you not understand, Mindy? 🙂
I don’t know what this cat is doing, but it’s not the hula: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DlTK05GJNVk
I think most cats do this before they pounce.
Mark, what the kitty is doing kind of reminds me of what Maria Sharapova does while preparing to return a serve. The view from behind is…intriguing.
Good morning Villagers…
…and a bamboozle morning to Mindy and Clan
Shelly, the double posting happened because this site told me that “you have already posted this”…something like that….and I was bound and determined that I was going to get my morning ramble in.
Yup, TIP comments are priceless
GR 😉
today’s grin: http://cheezburger.com/8140103424
later….
ya’ll have a blessed day…..
Almost forgot…..yesterday my cell phone rang while working….Ian answered it, this guy (I love this) said “you just won price money from the Publishing Clearing House”, Ian repeated this guy’s foreign accent so I could hear….then Ian asked how much….$450,000 he replied, I’m in the background hollering “tell him to get a real job”….this guy wanted a check sent to him immediately so we could declare our winnings…..lmao……
I’m rich, I’m rich, I’m independently wealthy!!!!!
Today’s real-time will send certain imaginations wild.
Wouldn’t you know it – my new store is full of PITAs. (Pain In The …). Had to go in and work a few hours last night. While I feel like crap this morning, I did get some things done I would have put off for late this afternoon. Maybe I will appreciate this silver lining once some caffeine hits the bloodstream.
Ghost, darn it, I was distracted by other things. Don’t pick on me. It’s a bamboo sort of morning and I’m in the mood to maim and kill, not to mention inflicting physical harm. I read your initial post wrong, mea culpa, my mind was elsewhere, and if you pick on me I’ll yell, scream, cry, and send Virgin Mindy to pester you for what will seem to be forever. I may go away if you’re mean to me and never come back, not ever, until the next time.
Hi, Debbe. From all of us. Indy Mindy, now I won’t be able to fix a sandwich on pita bread without thinking about your comment. A suggestion, if you don’t mind, but when I get in the mood you’re in [come to think of it, I am in the mood you’re in!] I sneak out and treat myself to either a banana split or a double scoop cone of one of my favorite flavors of ice cream, usually chocolate marshmallow or rocky road. Hope you can relax soon!
Yes, Janis is a dirty girl. Dirty…dirty…dirty…
The next obvious question is what, if anything, Janis wears under her clothing when she gets down and dirty in the garden. Perhaps we should ask someone who apparently does the same thing on a regular basis. Mindy?
The big question is about their backyard, but we won’t go there…although I’d certainly like to. 😉
Sometimes nothing, Ghost. Sometimes something.
Frankly the many Mindys are mindingly madding.
At least you didn’t say the many Mindys are mindlessly maddening or madding.
Nah. I like our selection and assortment of Mindy’s here.
Backyard action:
http://www.gocomics.com/arloandjanis/2011/06/06#.U0f7HWdOX5A
Pour vous, Jean.
http://www.gocomics.com/arloandjanis/2011/07/18#.U0f9imdOX5A
TIP and the blogspot
http://thatispriceless.blogspot.com/
are identical this morning. Apparently I am out of the loop. What does the comment below the painting mean?
Les Moonves is the CEO of CBS. Stephen Colbert was just named the replacement for Dave on the Late Show.