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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Ghost and Debbe: Yes, I do wind sprints every Sunday morning. That’s run as fast as you can till you can’t catch your breath, catch it, panting mightily, and then do it again. Think of the scene in “Chariots of Fire” when the Scots runner falls down and then gets up and finishes the race. I’m a runner, I run 50+ miles a week and have finished three marathons, the last in under three hours.. Wind sprints build your endurance for the sprint to the finish line. And for running after patients that leave without paying their bill. 😀
Lilyblack: My wife and I love Chariots of Fire, but not everyone else does. That’s OK with us because we enjoy it and that is all that matters. I ran 16 marathons with congenitally bad hips, but every Tuesday I went to the track and ran with a great group of runners. 4 of them qualified for the Women’s Olympic Marathon trials. My son was in High School at the time and their hard work (and I guess mind) helped develop a great work ethic.
He bought a shirt and wore it to school that said Fartlek, It’s a running term. You wouldn’t understand. I told him to bring another shirt in case the administrators made him change, but he was a State Finalist and one of them was Sweedish.
Love the Fartlek shirt, Wish I could wear one but the rather elementary sense of humor of some of my friends would ruin it for me. My compliments on the work ethic and the running team :cheers:
Jerry 4/11 11:59 about Archie being dead, yeah DC and Marvel have all their alternate timeline/universes stuff too. There’s even Afterlife with Archie, where they’re all zombies, (people forget Sabrina the Teenage Witch is an Archie comic) they had a few years in the future series where he married Veronica and I think they’ve had him marry Betty, but they’ll always have the plain old regular Riverdale High and Pop’s Malt shop ones. Remember a few years ago DC had Superman die and Marvel has a series where Peter Parker is dead and there’s a new gay black Spiderman in Houston….. … … Debbe 9:19AM Billy Joel. So about all I listen to on Sirius/XM is the old radio (Life of Riley, Gunsmoke, X Minus One, etc) , Doctor Radio, and the music of the 40’s, 50’s and 60’s and now they’ve taken off the 40’s for a 24/7 Billy Joel channel, he’s all right, I can take him or leave him, but I want my channel back, it probably is temporary, they’ll pick channels at random for something special for a few months at a time
Well, I leave in the am for Shands where I will have a second DBS surgery. I’ve cut off all of my hair and told my wife that I am going to keep it this way, but got a veto on that. Assuming that I don’t get a computer virus in the brain you will hear from me in a week or so.
A hook up to XM radio would be ok as long as I can pick the station.
Good morning Villagers….
John in Richmond…they even have a 24/7 of Springsteen….at least they use to.
Lily…thanks for the exclamation….
GR 😉 good song….
today’s grin: http://cheezburger.com/8138853888
gotta go
ya’ll have a blessed day
take care Jerry…
Didnt get caught up on the real time strips until this morning. LOVE the tossed salad strip. Will have to print that one.
Jerry – I would want a USB port. Never forget anything again. You could clean up at the next family Trivial Pursuit gathering. Best of luck!
I guess Janis just got her salad tossed, Arlo Symply wanting to help indeed! I just read this as I must have skipped Sunday’s somehow. JJ being Fargone hilarious again! No comments other than Mindy from Indy’s realative….amazing GR6, sand and Minnesotadon must be hanging with the loon, even the triad and Shelly haven’t touched it….
Jerry, good luck! See you when you get back.
Lilyblack, have you ever come to Georgia and run the Peachtree Road Race? Happens on the 4th of July. http://www.peachtreeroadrace.org/
Ghost, I know you’ve heard this one, but for some reason it’s on my mind this morning.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mynzbmrtp9I
DBS, my first thought is direct broadcast satellite surgery ? and chemo for your hair to fall out?, so I looked it up, yeah, good luck with that
Thanks, Jean. That’s one of my favorites. Of course.
SF, I was going to say something about Arlo finding Janis’s “secret spot”, but then I said, “Nah.”
Good luck, Jerry!
Trapper J, I have not been to Georgia since I was a kid and my parents took me to Sea Island.
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