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”
Lily, thank you all for helping feed those in need. You are a good person.
Love, Jackie Monies
Trolls feed on provocation. Ignore them and they wither and slither away.
Regarding: dissociative identity disorder. We usually have about 300 patients at the state psychiatric hospital; it’s unusual to have more than 3 or 3 patients diagnosed with that ailment. It’s truly rare compared to the other mental illnesses.
Thanks, Jackie. It was fun. I love cooking and working with my friends. And if I get a star in my crown, why, all the better 😀
Wylie Coyote sees stars after getting crowned with an anvil.
I said “George” by mistake.
Love, Henry.
That’s okay, Henry, just watch out for those Billy Goats Gruff. They are fierce when aroused 😛
Last night was also special for me. BTW, George is still raving about it too.
We’ve been out of town for a couple of days during which we saw Michael Douglas and Diane Keaton in their new movie. I think that it was “And So it Goes” which in my opinion is what it will do rapidly. Glad you liked Nicholson and Keaton. What was the one with Cathy Bates and Nicholson both nude in the hot tub?
Dunno, Jerry, I’m not much of a moviegoer. I just remember A Few Good Men and Fried Green Tomatoes, and there was no hot tub in those, thank goodness
“About Schmidt” Kathy Bates and Jack Nicklaus. He drives a big RV in this one. Yes, the naked hot tub scene was funny. She is fearless, which I admire. Jack N. is just plain crazy I suspect but both are good actors.
She got Oscar nomination for this role.
Love, Jackie Monies
Oops, well now George and Henry and the “Virgin” know who their Secret Squirrel is.
Jackie, I see “anon” and I keep thinking about Shakespeare’s porter
Good morning Villagers….
Had some good thunderstorms this morning…..woke me up and could not get back to sleep. High today, 88 degrees and high humidty and the low tomorrow night…..51 degrees….shiver me timbers.
Lily, I truly admire your helping those in need….I say that’s another rung in the ladder to heaven.
Gremlins still running amok in the hen house….why they didn’t put in a new auger ($2200 for 1200 feet!) on Friday instead of trying to fix the stinking thing I don’t know. So much time and labor wasted…not to mention the bottom row of hens haven’t really eaten since Friday at 11:00 am. So we’re having an ‘auger’ party this morning…..that means I’ll be packing, wrapping, and stacking all by myself…..there’s a song there …..”Alll by myself…. 🙂 don’t wanna be, all by myself…..never did like that song.
Miss Charlotte….thought of you: http://cheezburger.com/8265962240
Jerry, thanks for the critique….I didn’t think the second one would be as good, sequels never usually do.
Jackie….”About Schmidt” was a good movie…Kathy Bates is a fine actress…remember the movie “Misery”?
GR 😉
Ya’ll have a blessed day
later……
Lily:
‘Shakespeare’s porter’? A ‘red cap’ in one of his plays, or a beer?
I don’t think Samuel Smith’s Taddy Porter had been invented by then, or at least had not got down to Stratford or London from way up in Tadcaster, near York. IMO, world’s finest beer. emb
OK, so I started out as planning to use “Anonymous” but we have at least one such, computer wouldn’t take it, I wanted to blame the other anonymous anyway! Then I shortened it to Anon and it took it and I admit I thought of word “I shall see you anon, farewell my friends”.
I like this group. You all have a good vocabulary, use interesting words and quotes, I hardly think anyone here is boring and I just wish I lived nearby and could have you as material friends. And I use that word in it’s older definition.
By the way, Lily, someone in your triadic relationship is blessed I would say and I am not sure whom. Please turn out to be a real person, not some internet fantasy.
Love, Jackie Monies
Heh, Jackie, I know who is blessed and that would be me. 😀 I should be, by ll rights, be all dead and rotten but I am here, alive and well, to wish everyone in the Village a good morning before I have to get to Sunday school.
Oh, as to the Porter: Macbeth, Act II, scene 3:
Enter a PORTER. Knocking within.
Porter
1 Here’s a knocking indeed! If a man were
2 porter of Hell Gate, he should have old turning the
3 key. (Knock.) Knock, knock, knock! Who’s there,
4 i’ the name of Beelzebub? Here’s a farmer, that hang’d
5 himself on th’ expectation of plenty. Come in time!
6 Have napkins enow about you; here you’ll sweat for’t.
7 (Knock.) Knock, knock! Who’s there, in the other
8 devil’s name? Faith, here’s an equivocator, that could
9 swear in both the scales against either scale, who com-
10 mitted treason enough for God’s sake, yet could
11 not equivocate to heaven. O, come in, equivocator.
12 (Knock.) Knock, knock, knock! Who’s there? Faith,
13 here’s an English tailor come hither, for stealing
14 out of a French hose: come in, tailor; here you may
15 roast your goose. (Knock.) Knock, knock! Never
16 at quiet! What are you? But this place is too
17 cold for hell. I’ll devil-porter it no further: I had
18 thought to have let in some of all professions that go
19 the primrose way to the everlasting bonfire. (Knock.)
20 Anon, anon! [Opens the gate.] I pray you, remember
21 the porter.
Yes, Lily, I know that feeling too. There are guardian angels who watch over some of us. Since this is Sunday, I will confess I often ask that question, “Why me, Lord? What did I ever do?”
Once I asked it like Job but now I think Kris Kristopherson is right.
Love, Jackie Monies
I didn’t think it was a squirrel.
Love, Lysistrata
And if you have read today’s real time A and J, you will know that Lily’s passage from MacBeth is right on target and on topic!
Jimmy’s heat lock joke, assuaging the gates to hell!
Love, Jackie Monies
Kathy Bates wrote “America the Beautiful”. It’s true.
Lysistrata. Ha! My, you’ve gotten talkative of late, Dearest Virgin.
Y’all don’t go be hatin’ on my adopted niece, now. VM is only funning us, and she actually loves us very much.
Aand, I’m back from church. I think our choir did real well. I din’t get picked to solo the Lord’s Prayer in two weeks. *pouts* but I’m sure our first bass, Jim, will do a great job!
We are having our hats-and-white-gloves tea next Saturday. Can’t wait!
Yeah, right.
Debbe, thanks for the cat photo on “cheeseburger” — that is cute.