Remember “More” magazine? It was a magazine dedicated to telling women how great it is to be old. “More” ceased publication in April. Gee, imagine that. This is a special Saturday edition of arloandjanis.com. As I told you earlier this year, I will be in New England for the Boston Comic Con, Aug. 12-14, and for the Vermont Comic Con, Aug. 27=28. I have a lot of readers in New England, and I am looking forward to meeting some of them. I just learned, however, that the Boston Comic Con potentially could sell out of tickets before the event, meaning buying tickets online beforehand is the only way to guarantee entrance. If you’re interested, you can visit their Web site. I thought I should mention it. Exhibitors (That would be me!) don’t get a direct share of the gate. They just sell things. At the A&J table, autographs and conversation will be free. I hope to see as many of you as possible.
140 responses to “Continued Beach Erosion”
Jerry, what’s up, doc???
This isn’t the exact boat Jackie is buying, but the same type.
http://boatplans.cc/john-welsford/penguin/#photo-gallery
JJ, nice Monday opener. Now we expect more of these.
I’m pretty sure that you can leave the United States without a passport, it is the getting back in that is the issue..
I’m sure that I have recounted this story here before, but my wife flew to Chicago several years back and because she had not traveled in a while, she kept her driver’s license out in case she needed it. Unfortunately she misplaced it on the airplane. I ended up scanning her passport and somehow she was able to get home. She immediate went and got a replacement Drivers License. 2 weeks later she got the old license sent to her in the mail….
Things at Auburn University got a little hot. http://whnt.com/2016/06/27/auburn-firefighters-respond-to-fire-in-lowder-business-building/
Steve, even with a passport it can get complicated. On a return flight from Europe I was issued a boarding pass, but somehow the “system” failed to add me to the flight manifest. There I am, standing in a secure area with baggage and no “authorization.” For a moment I fear my life had come to an end.
Just staying at home sounds better all the time.
The aftermath of the events of 2001 certainly made crossing the Canadian border more frustrating for us truckers. Even coming back to the US with empty trailers required an intense look at all your truck’s paperwork, running the truck through a giant x-ray machine, and an extra hour or two at the busier crossings. If you had freight, you needed even more paperwork from one of the brokers with offices at the border. Then there were the unsmiling people with uniforms and guns walking around your rig with mirrors on the end of poles so they could look under everything.
Going into Canada took just long enough to show your bill of lading to a nice person who smiled and said, “Welcome to Canada.”
https://www.iru.org/resources/newsroom/vehicle-x-ray-scanning-at-borders-could-be-better
I wonder just how much radiation I was hit with each time?
If you hear two dizzy American five footish women and a ten pounds dog are living in a boat on a trailer in Canada you will know we couldn’t come home again.
Ghost I will bring the boat to Mississippi coast. It is one of those places I love. It has headroom for tall people and sleeps tall people but only five footish people like me can stand up.
Sandcastler,
Thanks for the news of my Alma Mater. I live in Big BR,LA, but my heart lives in Auburn. Just read that we’re playing a home and home series in football with Penn State in ’21 & ’22. Hope I’m still around. I just may make the trip. WAR EAGLE !!!
God bless us every one.
Re today’s (6-27-16) cartoon, I feared the word “stacked” had departed the modern-day lexicon as a term describing a female. (I believe the PC term is “curvy”.) A variation that may apply to a petite yet still curvy female is “short stack.” I suspect that at least one villager may have had the latter term applied to her at some point in her life.
Old story: Two guys were discussing whether or not “stacked” applied only to the superstructure or to a female’s entire body. One of them settled the argument by observing, “You can’t stack anything from the top down.”
I remember working for a short time for a guy that I had ZERO respect for. We were having dinner with a few coworkers and he kept mentioning the “Rack” on the waitress and other ladies there. Living in Michigan the mental image of Bambi (as an adult) on these women almost made me laugh.
I might make an occasional glance, but I think that I learned High School to use my silent voice when making such observations. After 33 years of marriage, I think that my wife hears that voice. We both laugh though. Like Arlo, I know that I have it good.
Ghost given the age of many of my male friends and that many are veterans I may still be called that.
I loved the restaurant where waitresses wore tee shirts that say “More than a big deck.” The restaurant is famous for huge outdoor deck on water.
I have learned long ago to not take offense but it is all just
Looking. Last night I saw an older man literally turn in his tracks checking out a woman in store.
I always thought stacked was a reference to a heaping plate of pancakes with a side of meat. Had to correct spell check, it wanted to change heaping to healing. Wonder if there is a Southern add-in for spell check.
GR6 “old story”: If you buy some specialty balloons with flat [well, mostly] top and bottom surfaces and fill [not overfill, lest the surfaces curve too much] with helium, you could stack them against a ceiling, from the top down.
I haven’t looked, but I think such unusual balloons are available.
Jackie: ‘I have learned long ago to not take offense but it is all just Looking. Last night I saw an older man literally turn in his tracks checking out a woman in store.’
Dad, 70+, used to do that, but not too obviously. He’d often comment on good looking women, but more overall that just bosoms [will that get this moderated?]. He made it to only 80. His older son, my half-sib, got to almost 92. Didn’t see him often, but think he was more proper than Dad. I inherited Dad’s roving eye, but that’s all the roving we ever did. Elaine knew it, but wasn’t worried, would even draw my attn. to one I’d missed.
Blondie, as drawn for the last few decades, is stacked in the sense I’ve heard it used, more or less synonymous with top-heavy. Searched several sites re Blondie’s history this morning, but couldn’t find any samples of ’30s-’40s strips. She was, early on, a flapper, B-cup at most. Peace,
That is true about older strips of Blondie. They went to tiny waist and hips with stacked top in later years, like the nose art on WWII aircraft. Mark would know when if Ghost doesn’t. Janis is drawn conservatively. My cartoons of women in 60s was in busty style.
‘thaN just bosoms’.
Second attempt-Hello Debbe. I didn’t mean to ignore you, but we’ve been pretty busy. We did the estate sale last week. We’ve also been planning future travel. We decided to cancel the trip to D.C. and go back to Niagara Falls,Boston, Philly, etc. That will be in October when we will have colorful trees. I don’t have the date yet when I pick up the convertible. My step-son will go with me and we will decide exactly when in the next couple of days.
Jackie, art style probably changed when styles changed in general. And when original artist passed job on to others.
http://www.toonopedia.com/blondie.htm
Debbe – HEEE’s back.
The sandwich that Arlo made is a “Dagwood” (mentioned in Marks link)
So of Arlo had called properly there would have been no strip for today.
Do many people today know the term “Dagwood”?
Mark
on 25 Jun 2016 at 5:30 pm #
https://scontent-atl3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/13466048_1749805148619781_1760898797839909588_n.jpg?oh=b3c1d881a41f05cbfbac895d4f031144&oe=57FADEB8
The lower left panel looks like a Time Lord council (Dr Who)
Now THIS is a flag pole
http://mortenson.wistia.com/medias/tejnwpitig
Where did I put my keys?
So true
https://www.youtube.com/embed/prfCkIOdeAc?rel=0%26controls=0%26showinfo=0
Old Bear, thanks. One show I never got around to watching. Just too much to do and not enough time, I suppose.
So if Jackie does buy that boat, when she tells us she is starting home, we should all face our computers and sing, “tow, tow, tow your boat”.