It turns out, 20 years later, that eggs aren’t bad for you after all—or bacon either if it isn’t highly processed, but that kind of bacon is hard to come by. It isn’t often you see this many people in an A&J strip! Maybe that will make a good theme for us here this week: other people in Arlo & Janis. To be honest, I’ll have to think about that one.
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How about featuring strips which include the neighbors? Like the one where Arlo and Janis are walking past the couple who grin at them. And Janis says “I told you they could see in the windows”.
Jackie, I posted the link to the New York Times article and it has disappeared.
emb, something you might find interesting: http://www.al.com/news/index.ssf/2016/05/turtle_its_whats_for_dinner_fo.html#incart_river_home
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Some of the “party interaction” ones are “classic” . . . Fashionable late .
I’m sure that Debbe approves of Arlo’s breakfast!
Jimmy, so do you, say, take a head shape and pop different hairstyles on it? Or do you think of a new character as a whole? I suppose Walt Kelly thought of a personality for every character, walk-on or more important. I further suppose you picture them in your mind before you draw them. (I can’t picture anything in my mind, a condition newly-known as “afantasia.”)
The “eggs aren’t bad for you” change from last fall was not any new science. It was a change of votes by a committee, and was definitely not unanimous. The egg marketing organizations made sure that the change was highly publicized.
I’m sure little Meg is very happy though.
Mark, that’s only one way that eagles deal with turtles. They also drop them on rocks to break their shells. In fact, Aeschylus is said to have been killed in Sicily when an eagle mistook his bald head for a rock and got a bulls eye with its dinner.
Arlo’s remark was likely no less inane than what the other three were discussing. Seriously, people, how significant is 99% of conversation conducted standing up, at a party, with a drink in one’s hand?
I think the others were discussing the latest food fads for breakfast or how bad bacon and eggs are for you. Our imaginations can fill.it in. He was contributing on topic.
Eggs? I recently had a dietician take a group of us vets on a shopping tour of a grocery story and stop at the egg section and told us not to forget the eggs. She mentioned that eggs were a great source of protein in moderation.
They are and we need to eat more.
Or, Arlo’s comment of “I had bacon and eggs for breakfast” was a total non sequitur which derailed their conversational train. Either interpretation would work. Darn that Jimmy! He keeps on making us think.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5xDrRAtSC5w
I think the record for an A&J strip featuring total number of individual people drawn within would be the Sunday strip for 12/11/1988. It is unfortunately not available at the online archive. I do not remember where I first saw it; it might have been on a page of this blog. It had a total of seventeen other people besides Arlo and Janis. It was, naturally, another party… and apparently one at the Days’ own home.
I have posted some inspirational thoughts for the ladies of the Village. Here is one for the men: https://scontent-atl3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/45133_627129250656295_1671049253_n.jpg?oh=5c083150a6adf0d71bd226e35f76146a&oe=57B6B03A
Oh, boy. Everybody check your freezers: https://consumerist.com/2016/05/03/crf-frozen-recalls-everything-processed-at-wa-plant-since-may-2014-due-to-possible-listeria/
Comical male house sparrow at his entrance to the apt. downstairs. http://www.chesapeakeconservancy.org/osprey-cam Peace,
Mark: Thanks for yesterday’s and today’s posts. Going through raptor pellets and their trash heaps has always been a favorite activity. Several times have taken a bunch of owl pellets to elementary classes for the kids to dissect, with reference skulls for comparison. Seems to me there are a few fossilized sites of ancient [last few MY] pellets and scats containing prey items.
Also, dung heaps of giant ground sloths in caves in the SW have been gold mines / ancient [mostly Pleistocene] climatic change as evidenced by pollen grains accidentally ingested by the beasts. One of BSU’s late lamented alumnae, Dr. Francis Bartos King*, got her master’s and doctorate in palynology, studying pollen grains in anthropological sites of early humans, mostly in the eastern US. She and a roommate lived with us two years, ’68-’70.
*a search might yield some citations.
Peace,
My mom was a country cook from around the Mammoth Cave area.
Chicken fried in bacon grease. Salt-cured, hickory smoked ham and eggs fried in the grease. Everything in a cast-iron skillet, of course.
Pure heaven. How I miss those meals.
For Debbe (and relevant to today’s topic!)
https://scontent.ford1-1.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/fr/cp0/e15/q65/13138820_608171412680389_4474569750390684425_n.jpg?efg=eyJpIjoibCJ9&oh=f36fa3a4411be8255e69ecb81cc00ec7&oe=57E29155
You’d think I’d be used to the lack of sleep by now. Four hours. After a twelve-hour work day, it was off to the polls. At ten of six, they ushered everyone inside; the line was still to the end of the sidewalk. Good thing schools have long hallways. Finally got to hold my ballot a full hour after the poll had closed. Off to bed.
Whoops! Frances Bartos King. Peace,
Mark, thank you for the post for men but real ladies, even the salty ones would agree with that thought.
Dear Mindy, bless you for what you, and the others, endured for the sake of democracy! I was thinking of you today, believe it or not, as I knew Indiana would be voting. My best hopes that you can catch up on lost sleep.
Lady Mindy, as a veteran, I salute your determination to exercise your franchise.
Well, it’s official…I have the biggest unit in the neighborhood.*
And I went to see my P&PHS*** today.**
* The HVAC guys came and installed a new AC unit today. What did you think?
** These two comments are not related.
*** For those of you wondering (as well as for those of you not wondering), had the short, empire-waisted dress P&PHS was wearing today been just a bit more flimsy, it could have easily passed for one of Janis’s black nighties.
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