The next big thing around here will be the redesign of this Web site. I know. I’ve been talking about that for years, but you didn’t think I’d ever get around to the T shirts, either, did you? Actually, some work already has begun on a new site, but it’s very preliminary at this point. I don’t know how it will look or even what it will contain exactly, but we’ll keep doing what we do now. There’ll simply be more. Anyway, it’s something for the new year.
126 responses to “Dirty Santa”
As one who began reading inappropriately right after I was weaned (mama let me read comic books before I was three apparently ) I have always abhorred censure and banning of books, writing, movies, whatever. That should surprise no one.
However, given the cesspool of today’s television programs and some music, kids are going to have heard and seen it all without the necessity of learning to read and form their own opinions. It’s like fast food, just swallow the garbage.
My soap box, I read through the school library before I got out of second grade. I moved on to the adult library, located at the oil camp club, so no one knew what I read. Yeah, I read Mickey Spillane and knew about sex by nine years, but I also read Sinclair Lewis, Robert Benchley, Dorothy Parker, every play script that made it to Broadway . Anything that made it to that lending library I read. I wanted to move to New York and go to the Algonquin Hotel, an ambition I crossed off at age 13 on a solo trip to New York.
Rant over, indiscriminate reading makes you decide, not someone else deciding for you.
Berkley Bredthed has hit the super sensitive magnum offended good this year.
Lost what I had written as I read – have ti remember – bummer.
We /they are teaching to the lowest common denominator.
The N-word is not limited to white people.
The National Geographic used the “P” word in the 30’s describing young
children.
Jerry was going to ask if people were satisfied with sizes.
So a person your size with chest accouterments should go for the XL?
Just go back to Vertically Challenged to see if Luddie can do it or not.
GR6 Get your friend Chicken Poop lip balm as I told Debbe the other day –
keeps you from licking your lips so they don’t get chapped.
Mindy
Company I work for allowed me to take vacation in Jan during slow time.
But if not done then – lost.
that is try to remember
We as a country are being dictated by the minority and most cases a very small minority.
Anon:
Same here.
How about that?
Pretty neat, I think.
Jimmyjohnson@arloandjanis.com is a pretty nice guy and company is extremely service driven.
By the water Jimmy, one of my friends who reads the Other Cat (if Bill can be considered a cat) alerted me to the latest mode of preventing starving cartoonists. You pick your favorite Bloom County 2015 strip, pay and Berkley Bredthed autographs it to you and draws an original Bloom County character on the strip in pencil.
For a little more than small change. Although I must say the Two Spaces for America campaign slogan is pretty fumny.
Hal has done it again! I typed way and he printed water.
Jackie, I too was taught to read partly through comic books very early. My lifetime favorites have been the Duck stories written and drawn by Carl Barks. Here is one of my favorites, which I read in an early 1960’s reprint, although the original publishing date is in the late 1940’s. Who would have thought of Donald Duck comics handling the idea of poverty and trying to help those who were trapped in it?
Just scroll down as you go and click on each page to enlarge, just like the current A&J.
http://www.michaelspornanimation.com/splog/?p=3248
By the way, Barks hadn’t smoothed Uncle Scrooge into a more likeable character yet, still had more of his namesake in his behavior.
‘We as a country are being dictated by the minority and most cases a very small minority.’
We might not all agree on which minority. Really, probably several didtate, but we may also not agree on which diktat is most important. I understand polls show most Americans want more gun control, but that seems not to have happened.
Most may also tire of PC, self among them. Also, it gets pretty ghastly when ‘Fashion’ dictates short skirts and all women wear them. Madison Ave. is a pretty small minority but seems to dictate much of what people do, and much of what info they see or hear.
The 1% or 2% [a ‘very small minority’] probably dictate more than most people realize. The press, which is not as liberal as some pretend [and largely owned by the 2%], acts as though the second most popular contestant for the Democratic nomination does not exist. Various non-govt. outfits, some of them loudly if superficially religious, wield more influence than their numbers justify, and that the Constitution allows. Among other things, money talks.
Peace, emb
These would be some I read too but in 1940s. Boy do I regret burning them in 1950s.
Obviously I never outgrew comics but I remember Little Abner, Pogo, Superman, DickTracy in comic books. Am I wrong?
Nope, Jackie. Although the Little Abner and classic Dick Tracy would not be acceptable to the politically correct society of today. Superman still appears in comics, the others were (I think) reprints of the comic strips in some cases, and new stories in others. Last attempt at reprinting the classic Dick Tracy was by Bruce Hamilton about the time the Warren Beatty movie came out. Only lasted a few issues. Prior to that a company called Blackthorne Comics printed a long series of softcover reprints and then comic book reprints of Tracy. Most were black and white, like the original strips, and were the cleanest and clearest copies available. Currently there is/are publishers doing complete hardcover reprints of both Little Abner and Dick Tracy.
That is exactly what I remember, how politically incorrect all those comics were. I mean I knew it back then that they were pushing it. To be honest, politically correct is about as non-funny as you can get.
I happen to be a minority of one – but I don’t get to do any dictating – not even in my
own castle. That includes the scrieving type of dictating.
oops forgot 1 link per
For the railroad enthusiasts among us,
The Wiscasset Waterville And Farmington Railway Museum
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Wiscasset-Waterville-and-Farmington-Railway-Museum/147279126870
you do not have to join to look – has got their #9 locomotive steaming after 82 years.
They have been working at it for 20 years – there is rejoicing all around.
There are some youtube offerings also
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U61sfEilTXs&feature=youtu.be
And
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iX9Asc0F9uA&feature=youtu.be
The WW&F is a Maine 2 foot gauge Railroad
#9 does sound sweet.
Good morning Villagers…
And it’s a wet Monday at that….everywhere, looking at the National Weather Service map. Temps will be falling all day, not an ideal cleaning a hen house weather.
Judy, thanks for the well wishes…we need them
Gotta go, clean packing room at my hen house, a semi inspection sometime today. Then over to the other hen house to pack eggs….no rest for the wicked.
I’m so glad you all got your T Shirts and the special touch JJ added makes it more special.
Ya’ll a have a blessed Monday
Old Bear, if that was a tee question to me the answer is yes, an xl would be appropriate for women with large hands. Of course I say that not having either female accessories or an xl to try on.
The “Thanks” on my packing slip does not have a J, but rather an exclamation point. Maybe by the time my order came up JJ was in a hurry? 🙂
TIP BlogSpot for today. The TIP comic is a repeat of one from last wk or 2.
http://thatispriceless.blogspot.com/
Peace, emb
Good morning. The rain has stopped in Oklahoma so perhaps it will elsewhere but it seems I got a glimpse of the weather channel and they were talking snow storms in the Dakota state from another big rain system hitting west coast? Those people have had horrible storms, I have a lot of friends there.
There is a huge television just pots idea my bedroom door but I find I am happier to live in ignorance, even of the weather.
Outside my bedroom door. Hal gets more creative daily. I know a lot of people name their cars and GPS. Am I only one who named phone?
I like the idea anon mentioned about offering (for an appropriate and commensurate price, of course…) the semi-customized signed strip as Brethed is apparently doing. I would sure buy one to hang in my study! 🙂
So would I, in a heart beat. Of course we are still searching for my original and my original Tank McNamara to frame for my office.
I did mention how you can only fire someone once unless you were dumb enough to hire them again. I was times three times three employees, so nine times stupid.