Of course, in the turbulent corporate seas of today, Arlo and most of his shipmates would have been thrown overboard long ago to lighten the payload, and the ship would be crewed by foreign nationals who are willing to subsist on hardtack and won’t sue when they’re flogged. Actually, this sort of thing was happening to merchant mariners long before the rest of us ever saw it coming. Well, no one literally was thrown overboard that I’m aware. Anyway, that’s the good thing about a cartoon job.
Daysailing
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147 responses to “Daysailing”
Well, I guess not, Lily. A lot of the time Gen. Doolittle was flying, people were shooting at him. 🙂
Debbe 😉 Here’s a stellar tune for you, hon.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xgEL-oCMN4g
Mark, you will love trains. It is a shame that they are not priced affordably now. I have wanted to take my family and grandkids on a train cross country trip to get out of driving minivans thousands of miles. The last train trip I made was taking my kids from Houston to New Orleans and back and that was a long, long time ago.
I really want to go through Canada by train and that is really expensive.
Love, Jackie Monies (who didn’t get her nap and dryer quit on me)
I like flying, commercial or private. My brother is a pilot and I really enjoy being up there with him. He had a tail-dragger (I forget the details)…then he and some buddies got a Cherokee 6, which fit his family of 6 much better. Just before he was posted to Kabul, he finished building a Sopwith Tabloid. It is one of the kits offered by Aerodrome Airplanes. Oh! Let’s see if I can get the link to post, they use his plane and Robert in a video:
http://vimeo.com/101347216
Well I goofed somewhere but it is a beautiful plane. He still has some detailing on his to-do list. He has neat ideas about what to do in civilian life but so far the military keeps him busy.
Sorry, not on topic really, but flying comments made me think of him and we’re really proud of him. Thanks for letting me ramble!
Thank you Jackie. I can’t say they aren’t priced affordably. $144 from Chicago to LA is probably cheaper than most airlines. Like Southwest, you can check 2 bags per person. If you do get a sleeper, the meals in the dining car are included in the price. But they adopted the airlines pricing policy that the closer you are to departure, the higher the fare. Someone asked me why not just fly and have more time at the destination? I told them that the train trip was part of the vacation, like taking a cruise ship. I’ve ridden passenger trains in Asia, but none in the US, except for one short (50 mile) trip here in Alabama.
Good night all. Have a great weekend after your work is over tomorrow!
The most comfortable ride of my life was the Shinkansen from Osaka to Kyoto and back. My host explained that it was a short ride, but so much faster and convenient than a car trip.
Gracious, Ghost, I had completely forgotten about Texas’ famous Tree Top Airlines! Of course, I flew them. Actually we all did I guess. Just not enough did, I suppose.
And you probably flew me on some of those flights, I am guessing.
Love, Jackie Monies
Mark, I consider that a capital rate, as the Brits would say. It is less than I usually end up paying per day for gas and a day’s worth of gas won’t get you far toward California.
I hope you really see some fabulous scenery. The only time I ever rode the train to California I was a child in the 1940’s and my mom keeps telling me and being annoyed I don’t remember it.
Sunset Limited on the southern route.
Love, Jackie Monies
Good morning Villagers…
Planes, trains, and automobile…..first thing I thought of was that old movie with Steve Martin and John Candy, been awhile since I’ve seen it, but the funniest scene was when the car caught on fire on the wrong side of the road….anyway…
Jackie, that is on my bucket list….a train ride across Canada…..
GR 😉 stellar is the right word…going to make a folder in my U tube file titled GR…too many good songs.
Ya’ll have a blessed day
and it’s, yup, you got it PAYDAY………………
oh, and the Corp came in yesterday and ‘sacrificed’ a hen to take meat samples for analysis of meat to be sure it’s free of chemicals as the meat is sold to whomever’s consumption. Hens are going out starting Aug 12th….and 8 days later a new brood.
Was it Gary who cleaned poultry houses? Not looking forward to the ‘decontamination’ cleaning. arrrgghhhhh!!!! Not looking forward to loosing my ‘girls’ either.
RE: today’s TDS…you tell ’em, GR
today’s 🙂
http://cheezburger.com/8263014912
this cat does get around……
Well, hey Debbe, you and I seem to be the only Villagers awake today!
TDS which I never read is hilarious! The comment on “We should get wound up about Mary Worth?”
I remember when Mary Worth ran the thread on the unwed teen age mother about fifty years ago and all of America got wound up!
Made me sort of do fast paradigm shift here with Mary Lou, Gene and the Peanut.
Ghost is right, the restaurant business is back breaking endless work. I am only member of my kids plus husband who has NOT done this full time. I have helped out (a little) and catered (a little) and fed a lot of people at times (a little) but nothing like a popular restaurant takes.
Did I tell you about the time I was telling one of my employees’ husband to take some time off from the restaurant he was giving his life to, Steak N Ale at the time? I said, “Gene, don’t you know that Lincoln freed the slaves?”
Being color blind I neglected to notice my friend Gene was an African American restaurant manager!
Love, Jackie Monies
Good morning, Villagers. Jackie, The Boss of My Life says that “Tree-Topper Airways” was Trans Texas Airways and that became Southwestern so I guess enough people flew them. Not me, though. *shudders*
Actually it ended up being Continental Airlines and fired most of my friends who worked for “Tree Top”. Southwest won the war of the regional airlines and came out on top. They were also known as the “Tinker Toy” airline and ran “Peanut Fares” which we all took advantage of. They would let you fly places for $19 and $29 and I remember taking some flights to go eat in another town (like New Orleans) or go see a play in another town, that sort of thing.
Houston saw some major cheap airfares in those far off days and I can remember cheap rates to Maine, like $99, and same deals out to California. Of course that may have been one way? But it seems it might have been round trip?
Love, Jackie Monies
I need to tap into the group’s memory. Not long ago there was a discussion of what was happening in some other comics, one of which involved a mother/grandmother visiting another country and deciding to get married, seemingly on the spur of the moment. I meant to save the link but forgot and now I can’t remember the name of the strip.
Trains – would love to do any or all of the cross-continental routes. On our first trip together Bob and I took the train from here (Winter Park, FL) to Baltimore. In those days, 1974, having a room was more affordable than now; the beds weren’t that great but the privacy was nice. A few years ago we rode it to DC and found that sleeping in coach was not that bad. The food is good, the coffee excellent, and being able to see the scenery without dealing with highway traffic is wonderful. If you factor in the price of gas and motels on trips that are too far to drive in a day, and if you can plan ahead enough to get a good rate, train travel is a pretty good deal in my opinion.
Ruth Anne, that would be “Stone Soup”. Today’s installment shows granny calming Alix down form her understandable fear that she is losing her granny with specious fobs off to a nebulous future where Alix “can come visit her any time she wants when she is bigger.” If she can afford to take off school or work and afford the airline fare to Zimbabwe, that is. 😛
Debbe 😉 Awwwww…a GR folder. How sweet! You know, that does answer the question, “How do I gift a digital friend in a digital world?” Why, with digital music or digital pictures, of course.
Happy Pay Day, hon. http://www.fanciesflowers.com/images/tele12HPROSE.jpg
Yeah, well, like some others here, I should probably stay away from The Dark Side, to the benefit of both my systolic and diastolic. But it’s like a bad car wreck on the highway…you know you shouldn’t look, but sometimes it’s hard not to.
Mostly, I wonder if some of the Darksidians are reading the same cartoon as the rest of us. (At least one over there is expressing concern over what the staff at The Dock will do when Gus shuts the place down on one day’s notice…apparently not understanding that they have, as Jimmy says, “cartoon jobs.”) But as Jackie noted, occasionally there is a pearl of humor to be found there.
How am I “Anonymous”? I’m never anonymous! 🙂
Jackie, since it sounds as though you may have prowled Central America in the past, I’m sure you remember TACA Airlines (originally Transportes Aéreos Centroamericanos).) Also fondly known as Take A Chance Airlines.
Of course, you do have to give props to their captain who successfully dead-sticked his 737 onto a grass-covered levee near NOLA after both engines flamed out. IMO, that ranks right up there with Captain Sully and the Hudson River ditching.
What year was that, Ghost? I remember it but not year?
Since he is now deceased, I will tell you that my husband’s best friend in college went on to become the King of Tort. He specialized in air plane crashes, worked out of New Orleans. Sort of paved the way with crashes and then went on to knock out the big tobacco companies.
His family funded the chair that James Carville is now occupying at Tulane Law School in Wendell’s memory. Which is ironic, as James and Wendell were pretty adversarial in college.
And yes, I have known some interesting people in life!
Love, Jackie Monies
RE: eleven comments above, Oh yeah, that’s one of the best movie scenes in history in Planes, Trains and Automobiles when Officer Michael McKeon asks John Candy if he really thinks the car is safe for the road and John Candy looks so totally serious and honest saying, yes, yes I do. … …I do recommend the Durango and Silverton narrow gauge for a day train trip
Thanks, Lilyblack!
Jackie, according to Wikipedia, that was May 24, 1988. Landed at the NASA Michoud Assembly Facility.
My wife and I have taken many a train trip. We live near Chicago so we have taken the Empire Builder to Washington and Portland and the Southwest Chief to Arizona. Also did the City of New Orleans to NO and have gone to DC. We love the trains, especially since wife will not fly.
We are going to Hawaii by ship and will get to San Fran by train. I feel I am living in the 40s sometimes.
CC: More poewr to your wife. If I din’t love Europe so much I’d never get on an airplane again
I agree that the restaurant business is hard work. When Dad retired, nether my sister nor I wanted to keep it up because it was just as hard working there as it was for our ancestors in Egypt before Moses came along.