Escort Service
By Jimmy Johnson
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40 responses to “Escort Service”
In 9CL, go back one day to see what Edda & Amos are excited about.
https://www.gocomics.com/9chickweedlane/2019/11/07
Peace,
Maybe 2 days would provide a fuller sequence. Peace,
Nicely done. Tidy is good.
Love today’s comic! In 38 years of marriage, I’ve been woken up during the “romantic part”, exactly once. But sleeping is nice too.
Sleep is nice… I was awaken several times while my esposa was reading 50 Shades of Gray. Was ok at first, but that book was beyond me.
I have no idea what is happening with the other comic strip. It is beyond me.
I have had some good experience with You Tube videos. Occasionally I will realize halfway through them that they are demonstrating a different model than the device that I am looking for help on. Fortunately no disasters.
Steve,
Edda & Amos are married, she’s pregnant, something moved while she was playing the piano [Amos on ‘cello], & she realized it was it was the fetus’s first kick. Quickening, I think it’s called. Their fans are all godparents.
Peace,
Comment on the page: No left margin/whitespace is very distracting to me.
Agreed. It may mark me as an old fogy, but it’s less confusing to my eyes to have a margin.
Either JJ has modified the page since your comment about a margin or my browser (Chrome) works differently than yours. All containers are centered on the page with the text being flush left against a margin.
At work I use Chrome, so at the time I commented there was no margin to the left of the text. I’m home now using Safari, and there is a margin.
New layout is looking good, Jimmy. I don’t have any trouble with the minimal margin – use the whole space. Especially like the large size of the strip. Also like today’s strip!
Cheers,
My default browser is Firefox, but I also have Chrome bookmarked. I have virtually no margin below the comic in either browser, so perhaps there is a default in my computer that gives that result. The only difference I see between the two browsers, in my computer, is that Chrome shows a graphic before the name of the person leaving a comment (Wisconsin Dan has a personalized graphic), and Firefox has a broken line box with no graphic in that spot.
I like the larger format for the retro strip. The better to see details in Jimmy’s art, and the better to enjoy new colors.
OK, size, margin, etc. are affected by (a.) your screen size and resolution and (b.) the browser magnification value you have set for this page. I do believe the page is “larger” in that when I view it on my laptop screen it is larger than before as I have to reduce my magnification to bring it to the size it was the last time I visited. When viewed on my desktop screen the page is larger but still has margins (my desktop screen, a 23in monitor, is set at 120% magnification)
Both Chrome and Firefox can be scaled with the CTL + and CTL – keys.
Your mileage may vary. Closed test track. Do not attempt on an public roadway.
Personal note to emb, no one cares about 3CL. if they do they are reading it and already know.
I LOVE Monty but don’t entertain with updates. No one else may think it funny. I suspect Jimmy might?
About the Village page I read on a Samsung phone Galaxy 8 maybe? I only care that I can read cartoon and comments. Rest is wasted on me. Carry on and be happy.
Jackie, I read 9CL daily, and I had no idea what had happened until I saw it here.
Tom (F)FTFR, the page scaling does affect the left, but at 100%, for me, that puts the left edge elements all the way to the edge. I am using Chrome, on a Windows desktop. I can get what is to me a tolerable white space by dropping the page to 90%… but then the text is 10% smaller, too. 🙂
Jackie,
NO ONE? Sorry, but I don’t feel qualified to generalize re the tastes or tolerances of others in the population in general or those in the Village in particular. If I couldn’t care less about Auburn vs. Alabama or such, or about what somebody is fixing for supper, I just scroll past.
Some Americans must care re Edda, Juliette, Amos, Thorax, et al. or 9CL wd’ve vanished from Gocomics and surviving newsprint. Steve had a question & I answered it.
If others care little re Wooly-Necked Storks and Grevy Zebras in Africa or a Peregrine nest on a Baltimore skyscraper, they likewise can scroll. If nothing emb posts is ever of interest, they can scroll as soon as they see “emb.” I’m generally too curious or nosy to do that, but chacun … .
I’m not fixing supper tonight, because First Lutheran is having their annual lutefisk supper tonight. Besides, I might see my favorite conventional preacher [and a close friend] there. I sometimes play hooky from BUMC just to hear her.
Peace,
DR, true that everything is reduced with down scaling.
I’m not sure how WordPress works in this respect but there is usually a setting that allows the same appearance for a page regardless of screen resolution and aspect ratio. I’m only guessing but JJ may have possibly clicked a button that disabled this. It is “under construction” after all. I’m just pleased that he provides this service for us through the construction period.
EMB, keep up the good work. Everyone has an opinion, some folks theirs is the only one that counts. Lutefisk! I’m half Norwegian and I can’t get near the stuff.
We were told by our helper at HP last night that Microsoft 7 is going away and will cease working so we have gone to Firefox with no problems.
Will try to give a link to the great herring war later.
Window 7 is not going away. It just will not be supported any longer by Microsoft. This means no security or driver updates. Your computer will work as it always has with Windows 7.
I still have some computers running W2000 and W-XP. Support for these was ended years ago but these computers have specific jobs that work well with those operating systems. If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.
Microsoft offered a free upgrade from W7 to W10 when it was first introduced. While not widely advertised, I believe you can still upgrade W7 to W10 at no cost. At least this was the case just a few weeks ago.
As a retired web designer I have to say put the giant gocomics image below your post. Above the header is the worst possible place for it, visually speaking.
It was no biggie (unlike the ones ending in “0” or “5” we all seem to pay the most attention to), but thanks for the birthday wishes…Gal, Jerry, Old Bear, and Bob in Orland Park. (Hope I didn’t miss anyone.) Oh, and Jerry, a belated Happy New-Lease-On-Life Day to Cilla.
On my birthday my body weight was 0.3 lbs less than it was on my birthday the year before. During the year, the most I have been above my current weight is 7.9 lbs. The most I have been below it is 3.1 lbs. Overall, I’m pleased. (My BMI falls in about the middle of the “overweight” range, but I’m not too concerned about that. Apparently, at my height one must be nearly skeletal to reach even the top end of the “normal” range.) So, yay me, I guess.
Happy Belated Birthday, Ghost. Glad you are happy with your weight, and that your physical therapist, aka Torquemada and Torquemada II, is doing what works well for you.
Ghost – every year is a + and if gravitational attraction on the body mass is the same as (anything with a decimal point is the same)
last natal anniversary it is a double plus (++)
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I like 9CWL
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It was +9* here this morning.
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I am using a Windows 98 – just not hooked to the inter web – works fine
I found W10 NOT to be an improvement on previous systems.
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Used to attend Lutifisk in Southern MN all the time — Bemidji is a little far, even for good Lutifisk. 🙂
The new Header is nice – the old Sports Car was better!