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Conspicuous by Their Absence

By Jimmy Johnson


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Think about it. We should be living in the golden age of UFO sightings. Every sentient person is walking around with a cell phone that doubles as a camera—a camera that can instantly duplicate a photograph to a technically unlimited number of recipients, including news outlets who are more than happy to post unsolicited material these days in lieu of paying actual reporters. And where is Big Foot?

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168 responses to “Conspicuous by Their Absence”

  1. Evan Avatar
    Evan

    Ah, Jimmy, the aliens, Bigfoot and Nessie are waaaaay ahead of you: They all carry cell phone jammers. As scientifically depicted in the movie “Battleship,” only analog devices can defeat superior Alien technology. Of course, Alien technology DOES have several problems. Their GPS, for example, cannot operate in Earth’s gravitational field, and they must therefore rely on crop circles. And they still cannot penetrate aluminum foil hats with their brain wave devices. But if you want a picture of them, you need a Kodak Brownie or a Poloroid Swinger. 😀

  2.  Avatar

    They just tossed their pods over when I was born to lighten the weight in the spaceship as they used the Mississippi River to navigate south by on visual.

    Big Footloose is supposed to be all around me here in eastern Oklahoma. I have been on some God forsaken roads in this state but seen nothing of him.

  3.  Avatar

    Damn Hal! I typed and read Big Foot and he changed it! How do you take a picture of an alien when the devil possesses your phone?

  4. emb Avatar
    emb

    Evan: Right, like creationists and ID creationists, they always have an answer, usually one not subject to rigorous testing. I just posted Jimmy’s 3-sentence comment above, with a note about the cartoon, to two blind-cc. blogs [theologs and cultured sorts]. Should have added a URL for that strip. Peace, emb

  5. Steve From Royal Oak, MI Avatar

    Instead of UFO’s we get pictures of celebrities behaving badly.

  6. Mark in TTown Avatar
    Mark in TTown

    Where is Bigfoot? Probably playing for some NFL team. Have you seen some of those guys out of uniform? Look too big and muscular to be normal human and I doubt it’s all steroids. Pro wrestlers too. Like Andre the Giant.

    But all those ghost shows on tv, and no video of a ghost yet. I don’t watch them, but Mom does and sometimes I get a couple of minutes of the show while making her dinner, or whatever.

  7. Old Bear Avatar
    Old Bear

    Hey
    If you were Big Foot would you want to join today’s society?
    Come to that Aliens too.

  8. Old Bear Avatar
    Old Bear

    Awaiting moderation?
    The Vikings HAD to have an open stadium.

  9. Old Bear Avatar
    Old Bear

    Does not like:
    Bud Grant must be ——– up his sleeve.

  10. Old Bear Avatar
    Old Bear

    The word it does not like is sn1gg3ring

  11. Old Bear Avatar
    Old Bear

    to ?laugh at someone or something in a ?silly and often ?unkind way:

  12. Mark in TTown Avatar
    Mark in TTown

    try snickering

  13. Old Bear Avatar
    Old Bear

    Debbe
    When your girls start doing double yokers you have to make what I had at a wedding where
    I was the main attraction (well maybe just the leading man).

    They were hard boiled and one pocket was deviled egg the other was deviled ham.

  14. Mark in TTown Avatar
    Mark in TTown

    Big Foot (feet?) could get job as Wookie extras in Star Wars films and work in the Disney parks, no costume or makeup needed. Aliens too.

  15. TruckerRon Avatar

    I thought the aliens worked in the back rooms of the USPS:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xl9kWE-7aGU

  16. Dan McD Avatar
    Dan McD

    I’m just going to leave this here:

    https://xkcd.com/1235/

    Randal’s comic came about four months after this one, by the looks of things, so I guess great minds think alike!

    Peace,
    -McD

  17. dAVE. Avatar
    dAVE.

    And what of the Loch Ness monster?

  18.  Avatar

    Want to go to Scotland and wander around? Sounds like it is water or boat connected.

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    Got a phone call alert several years ago that a friend was on television with his aliens being seized by Federal agents. I finally figured out they were arresting all his cute warehousemen. I mean, I was in the flocal industry………….

  20. Mark in TTown Avatar
    Mark in TTown

    Jackie, your last post reminds me of a news story that ran while we lived near Nashville. One of our favorite restaurants was a Chinese buffet. Got a teaser on tv that it was raided for illegal aliens. So we watched the story, and it wasn’t the operators, but the servers and the folks who refilled the buffet. Latin Americans, not the Asians we were led to expect by the way the story was promoted.

  21. Ghost Rider 6 Avatar
    Ghost Rider 6

    Still on the road, but had to say…Big Foot moved to Seattle, put his mane up in a man-bun, bought some dark-rimmed smarty-pants glasses, and is hiding in plain sight disguised as a ginormous hipster.

    Taking a break at a House of Waffles and realizing, not for the first time, that most Southern women need instructions on how to coordinate leggings with their regular clothing. In their defense, it really doesn’t get cold enough around here often enough for them to spend that all much time on it.

  22.  Avatar

    Not sure about Waffle Houses but in Walmart and $$General they put a coat over the fluffy pajamas and some Furry boots.

  23.  Avatar

    Just went and bought myself a Dickens Tracy two way wrist radio watch. Now I have to figure out what it all does but I will know what time it is without dragging cellphone out.

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    Dick Tracy but Dickens is more like it!

  25. Rick in Shermantown, Ohio Avatar
    Rick in Shermantown, Ohio

    Evidently, Jimmy’s never seen my shoes.