Several of you expressed interest in my remarks about drawing with a felt-tip pen versus drawing with a pen point dipped in ink. More specifically, a lot of you wanted to see what I meant. This made me think further on the matter, and I will share some of those thoughts next week. Today, unfortunately, there isn’t time to do justice. So, I am posting two cartoons, one from 2010 and one from earlier this year. The first cartoon, the former, was drawn with a not-inexpensive high quality felt pen. The other was drawn old-school. The difference is subtle, but there is a difference. Look over them, if you’re interested, and we’ll talk about it next week.
247 responses to “Draggin’ th’ Line”
Mark from Maine I was 17 years and a freshman in college so had not thought of that class in a long time. It did make an impression on importance of punctuation in a newspaper article or headline.
Did a lot of headlines throughout college and used it a lot!
So, short answer is I got it wrong when I tried to remember!
Steve from Royal Oak, that’s an easy one. Janis seems to time her morning routine by how long she can stay in the shower. More hot water means she stayed longer than she expected and is late. Good one, Jimmy.
Mark your photos won’t come up. I don’t think eBay let’s you copy.
An hour ago, conditions were 33 degrees with light rain. Have been afraid to look outside since.
Yeah, I had to mention “ice storm” the other day, didn’t I?
As we used to say in the service, “If you mention something good, it goes away; if you mention something bad, it happens.”
At least all those poor people standing and sitting on the tarmac at FLL aren’t having to do it in this kind of weather.
What happened? One of my friends posted link to shooting on z Facebook just now.
Even the idiotic cats go two feet from door, touch the snow, sniff it and come back in.
Now if I could the others in.
An example of the eerie kind of thing that happens to me so often…before Thanksgiving, I ordered two bottles of Prestone Spray Deicer*. I really don’t know why…other than light frost, I’ve had no ice on my windshield here for years. It was delivered yesterday.
*$6.50 for two 32-oz bottles; price is $10.50 for one bottle now.
Latest report is a passenger on a flight arriving at Fort Lauderdale from Canada went to baggage claim area, retrieved his luggage which contained a weapon; took it to the restroom and loaded it; went back to luggage claim area; and began shooting. Multiple fatalities and wounded reported. People ran out of the terminal in all directions and now stranded all over the airport waiting for all-clear.
Possible…
https://www.tsa.gov/travel/transporting-firearms-and-ammunition
Good lord! What is to stop anyone from doing this?
I know it is supposed to be for hunters and sportsmen. I have friends and family who fly to our of state hunting areas and shooting competitions.
But it seems easy to abuse evidently.
http://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/community/broward/article124963889.html
Jackie, i clicked on the photo link I posted earlier and it opens for me. Maybe it’s your equipment?
Ghost, how do you travel with weapons?
When I used to fly to floral design shows they would confiscate design knives, wire cutters, scissors and glue guns. I lost quite a few. Didn’t always remember to check tool kit.
The way described in the TSA link. Baggage claim area is considered a “soft target” (not a secured area), though. Basically anyone can walk into it, armed or not, so the fact the weapon came in as “checked baggage” is immaterial.
The origination of his flight being in Canada didn’t make sense to me. Reports now are it was Anchorage AK.
In cases like this, initial reports are almost always incorrect. And some new outlets will report it incorrectly all the way to the end.
A firearm has to be unloaded and in a locked, secure container when checked, but its ammo can be carried boxed in the same container. The fact he went to the restroom to load the weapon would have resulted from that, and would seem to show that the TSA regulations were followed.
TSA screening covers pre-boarding areas, and as far as I know, not the lobby, baggage claim, or departure areas.
Also, reports are the shooter had some type of criminal record and was being treated for physiological problems. If so, he would have already been a “prohibited person” as far as handgun possession is concerned.
Listening to a TV reporter displaying his ignorance on the subject right now. Not stopping him from “reporting”, of course.
Ghost, I have a neighbor who falls in that prohibited category and has a house full of guns.
Are you saying that a known record of any mental health issues prohibits gun ownership? Well, duh, Jackie!
This shooting just restored my fear of flying. I have flown hundreds of thousands miles since I was six years old. The 911 attacks brought on a total fear of flying that I just got over two years ago. It never occurred to me that an airport was so easy.
Feel certain you knew all this Ghost. Do you still fly a lot?
On a positive note I have a blackberry biscuit topped cobbler ready in oven staying warm.
“…I have a neighbor who falls in that prohibited category and has a house full of guns.”
Yep, all laws are only as good as the enforcement of them.
I know it’s of no comfort to the victims or their loved ones, but statistically it’s still very low risk, Jackie. And I’d rather have some of your cobbler than worry about it.
It might be cool enough to eat some. I usually make pie crust cobbler but didn’t feel crusty today.
It’s sweet but artificially so.
My best flavor is probably peach or apple. With vanilla bean ice cream. My favorite is raspberry.
Self-indulgence, as a reward for getting 2 things done today [usual average is one].
1. Deposited checks at bank.
2. Picked up radon-checking kit at county bldg. [Bemidji is co. seat of Beltrami Co. The town of Beltrami is, I think, in Norman Co. Several such discrepancies in MN.
Anyway, picked up a made-on-the-spot takeout burrito at Qdoba, stopped at Dunn. Bros. for a lb. of decaf, had a free cup of hi-octane, and a scone. Love scones, and like that D.B. does not dribble sugar on top of their scones. Read some in what is turning out to be a good book for serious layfolk* on the history of life on planet Earth. May write a review of it someday [*new in dictionary]. Dunn is a pleasant place.
Peace,