Digital tools being as they are, this 2008 cartoon would have been an excellent opportunity to draw the first panel and reproduce it three times in the subsequent panels, pasting in dialog and the cat in the final panel. A cartoonist doesn’t want to get lazy and overly dependent on Photoshop, but it would have worked well in this case because of the “wait for it” nature of the gag. In this case, however, I did not. I diligently redrew each panel. I’d like to offer myself as a martyr for artistic integrity, but I’m not sure I qualify. I was using a felt pen which is a speedy medium, and I suspect it simply was easier to knock out each drawing than it would have been to involve a lot of computer chicanery. That can often be the case with me. Oh, that felt-tip pen thing I was going to talk more about. I have not forgotten!
165 responses to “Door No. 1, etc.”
Jackie, might get a verbal verification on VIN over the phone before you drive. Yours is not the first time I’ve read bait and switch. An old tactic brought into the 21st C. with a shell game/three card monte twist.
And it is every shade of sleazy. Fifty shades of sleazy.
Late last night when I said I had a freezer full of flesh and Ghost asked about statutes of limitations I think he thought I was making meat pies or bar b que. “The secrets in the sauce. ”
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweeney_Todd:_The_Demon_Barber_of_Fleet_Street_(2007_film)
Jackie:
Most car dealers like politicians – you know they are lying when their lips move.
Some would rather lie than tell the truth even if the truth were easier.
There is a dealer near here like that that I would not even drive by
but it is the only way into town.
Morphy
When it is 20 below mine have a second and a half
at 20 above they have a little over 3 seconds. And they do not go out in groups;
it is one at a time.
Charlotte, this is the FIRST time I have ever felt semi-qualified to help on a computer problem…hope this works.
You can specify which sites can use cookies and which not; it is not an all-or-nothing deal. My son taught me that.
Go to the “tools” icon – looks like an 8-petalled flower – and click to see its menu. Click on “internet options” to open a window elsewhere (hereon, at the upper left). Click on “privacy” tab. Under “settings”, click on “sites”. On that last, you will find a place to list sites you allow to use cookies and to remove sites using cookies if there are any shown. Save what you list/delete by whatever means is provided. Close windows.
Anyone: If I have erred in the above, tell Charlotte the correct way to do it.
Here is the song The Worst Pies in London from Sweeney Todd.
https://youtu.be/15rYM5Cxufw
Jackie I missed a punctuation
Most car dealers are like politicians –
There were 3 dealers near here that I liked – great guys – all lost their affiliation
during the bail-out, each from a different “Big Three”.
One fought Dodge over a territory infringement a while back and won. I guess no surprize
there.
He said when he figured it out he was loosing money on each new-car sale. The city he was
in would not allow Used Car lot in town so he retired.
Another gets by on used cars, consignments, and repairs – His dealership was with Ford for
100 years.
The other is still doing OK, sells trailers, lots of used trucks, and networks with other dealers
to sell new(?). The thing is, they will find what you are looking for. And I am not what you call
a regular – It was 20 years between purchases. (Though they were my servicing dealer for many years.)
GM Debbe where-ever you are.
Greetings Mizz Charlotte.
Old Bear, hadn’t considered the meteorological weather. My barometer was more self referential. If I’m smiling during the stare down there is a good day ahead. If my cat can get to me, I better make an adjustment before the first real issue of the day raises it’s head. My cat will always come back when hungry.
Hadn’t thought it through, maybe sphygmomanometer is a better metaphor, but I had to copypaste that. Never learned a mnemonic. Got mnemonic right that time.
But having a feedback loop for my demeanor is very useful.
Just occurred to me, I consider my cat a better feedback tool than another person. And the cat has no discernible facial expression. Oh crap, does that mean it’s time for a ‘relationship check’? Think I’ll just try ‘touching base’ a couple extra times. Don’t want to jump to far ahead.
Curmudgeonly, hat doffed. Descriptions and labels can be frustratingly different across brands. But the ideas behind them are very similar. Well done.
One time I had picked up the slang of ‘hamburger’ for the icon in Android(?) for their settings menu. It shares an appearance to a one-color version of an old Burger King logo. The person I was trying to help didn’t see it that way, and became very frustrated before I clued in and started saying ‘three lines’.
But the guidance of idea is right on.
For those that like old trains: here is a flying cut-off performed at the
“Maine Two-Foot Winter Photo Shoot” on Jan 14/15
https://youtu.be/Vy-OM02fo4o
Done when helping a train up a hill.
This is on “The Wiscasset Waterville and Farmington Railway Museum, Alna Maine
From the fb page
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10209593442925571&set=o.147279126870&type=3&theater
Click on the left or right side of photo for more. Most are 1930? or 2017?.
Click on “Not Now” when the window comes up.
Click on photo to enlarge – then L or R
The next L is a nice Black & White.
Denis Istomin, a name I did not recognize; 30 year old tennis player from Uzbekistan; who in earlier years topped out at 33rd in the world, currently ranked 117th; a wild card entry at the Australian Open; made it to the second round being matched against last year’s champion, Nº 2 in the world Novak Djokovic; kept him on the court for four hours and fifty minutes; before defeating the champion and sending him to the locker room so he could stay and give interviews.
I was surprised.
On my way out of state to check on a very good friend who is very ill. I may be away for a few days.
Old Bear:
I am also a ferroequinologist.
Have you visited the B&O museum in Baltimore?
I haven’t made it there yet, but I hope to do so this summer.
Cow elephant and young at river bank. Must be dry season; water down at least 2′ from month ago.
http://explore.org/live-cams/player/african-safari-camera
Peace,
Old Bear: While it is true that many people do not lose their accent, I know of many folks that do not. I co-worker was born in Ireland and came to the US after college. I met him when he had been here 20 years and he spoke with a Southern accent.(He lived in Virginia) My brothers and I grew up in Fort Wayne but 4 of them moved to Central Indiana and all have a bit of a twang to their voices. A good friend of mine hosts a radio show and she sounds like a typical Midwestern, even though she is from Rhode Island. When she goes back to visit for a week or so, she will occasionally read something on air and forget her accent and start to giggle and explain that she spoke that way for 25 years. Someone called in and told her he had not been back to New England for a long time and would she please introduce the next song in her Rhode Island accent. She would also do her St. Patrick’s Day broadcast with an Irish accent. She is gifted.
Two former students, not related and at different times [at least 5 yr. apart] went from BSU to jobs in MS. Both have what to me are moderate S. accents. But one reported that, even after a decade or more living and working in MS, colleagues there said she spoke like a Yankee. Both prof. biologists, she wildlife cons., he Ole Miss prof.
Relatively few locals recognize what’s left of my Newyorkese.
Peace,
Now, how many difference can you spot among the first three panels. (not text) Go!
I am a good example of a hard to place accent. I do not sound like anyone from the deep Delta South nor do I sound like Texas or Oklahoma. I talk Southern but not placeable.
Of course, when I am in deep South they think Yankee and when I am in West or North they think Southern but can’t place where. That is partly result of living many places and partly result of being taught universal English, to learn to speak like the man on the six o’clock news.
Remember on Are You Being Served? The young clerk wanted to learn elocution to speak posh?
Direct TV is in my yard reinstalling my satellite dish which will restore television here. Just in the nip of time, my favorite situation comedy is being brought back to television. I actually watched and loved this one.
Will and Grace are returning. https://www.google.com/amp/mobile.nytimes.com/2017/01/18/business/media/nbc-will-and-grace.amp.html
Ghost, you are a good friend and a good man. She is lucky to have you. Take care, I know you will take care of your friend.
Wish I really knew you. I have felt for three years that I was missing knowing an extraordinary person. You are special.
Just saw an online quiz (about Southern manners) that asked which side a gentleman should walk when with a lady. As most here surely know, the correct answer is between her and the street. The real question is why?
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Of course, it is to shield her from any splashing water or mud from passing coaches!
When dating my last date the answer was the side he could hear from since he was totally deaf in one ear. He would joke to pay attention to which side he was walking on since that was how he tuned people out.