This comic strip from ten years ago this month is an excellent example of the subtlety for which A&J is known. Subtlety usually elicits one of three responses: “That’s cute;” “I like funny comic strips,” and, most often, “I don’t get it.” I suppose this particularly strip could have been made better if I’d added a thought balloon in the first panel, reading, “Boy, I really do like to relax and do nothing in the beautiful spring weather” and another in the second panel to the effect, “I sure do like to work hard in the yard and garden when spring finally comes!” I’m sorry. I’m not talking about you. You wouldn’t be here if you didn’t get it. It’s just that I woke up in a snarky mood.
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317 responses to “Feverish Plans”
Is the ability to explain what Pi Day is one of the questions on the Nerd Quotient test? 🙂
Someone forgot to turn the comment time ahead to DST.
http://boingboing.net/2015/03/13/cat-on-final-approach-for-land.html#more-372202
URL says it all.
My mama had a Southernism that drove me crazy my entire life “when will you/he/she /they come through?” Always said it and I have no idea on the origins of it.
GR6, most certainly! The WP article was in me inbox this AM, sent by a mathematical PhD type.
Did you see the snowmobile paraglider? Can’t wait.
Darn, I forgot to say my BS level was 105 and I had a delish dark chocolate Glucerna for breakfast. That BS is diabetic speak, like geek speak for pie and not what you are thinking of in my case
Yep to all questions.
Jerry, another possibility is the server changed locations. It may now reside in Arizona and be running off of a solar grid. 😉
Around here it’s “my last good nerve”, as in “you’re standing on my last good nerve, and it’s about gone”.
One of the first comments on Pi Day I saw this morning was the comment “I’m changing my PIN to the last four digits of pi”. 🙂
The nice thing about driving a green Ford Excursion is that it’s generally bigger than most cars in any parking lot and I can easily spot it, and if I can’t the key fob has a little button that, if mashed, honks the horn twice. I’ve used that feature quite a bit in the Maul of Georgia parking lot.
Missed the 9:26 shout – got another chance tonight
And there’s this from India:
http://fox13now.com/2015/03/13/bride-walks-out-of-wedding-after-groom-cant-answer-this-simple-math-problem/
OF due 1105-1125 CDT. emb
http://www.nps.gov/features/yell/webcam/oldFaithfulStreaming.html
Sand: http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/happy-pi-day-fellow-nerds-why-its-a-big-year-for-the-celebrity-of-numbers/2015/03/13/df753dba-c82c-11e4-aa1a-86135599fb0f_story.html
Around here ‘Mike & Maggie’ refers to two youngsters in their 60s who are married to two other people. They were a semi-pro singing team [also had day jobs], and [as individuals usually] still pipe up occasionally.
A few years ago, a funeral was deliberately staged as a hootenanny, which the deceased would have desired [and possibly had so indicated beforehand]. Maggie was one of several singers involved. Wife would have loved it. Maybe she did.
Peace, emb
It has actually been a long-time tradition that the Village does not go onto DST until sometime after most of the rest of the US does so. My working theory as to why this is–
The blog software does not automatically make the change and…
1. Jimmy does not know how to change the time manually (not likely, given how long he has been doing this and the fact that it does eventually get changed)
2. Jimmy forgets to change the time manually (even less likely, given the number of DST-themed cartoons he has done over the years)
3. Jimmy is afraid to change the time manually (possibly some merit to that one, as the Law of Unintended Consequences seems to have come down hard on him in some cases where he has apparently done some software tweaking)
4. Jimmy is too busy to change the time manually right away (I favor that one…as much as we might like to sometimes think otherwise, and as much as we appreciate what he does here, running this blog is not really Job One for him)
Ghost, Job One for YOU is officially now completion of your compilation project, henceforth and evermore to be known as “Beaucoup Janis.” There ain’t no time for theorizing, son, you got prit near 30 years of comics to scour! 🙂
Evan, two thumbs up on that!
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Pending completion of my compilation, here’s one especially for Jackie…
http://www.gocomics.com/arloandjanis/2006/08/22
Although I suspect that may not have worked for her on certain Hawaiian beaches she frequented back in the day. 😉
Forgot to mention that, as of a few days back, snow is all gone, except for scattered remains of piles made by snowplows. It will snow again, but maybe not enough to last. OTOH, we’ve had more than 20″ dropped on us in late March. The ground could use the extra water. Haven’t heard/seen robins yet, but w/b walking to the gym and back, so may detect them this afternoon.
Peace, emb
And equal time for you Luann fans…
http://cdn2-b.examiner.com/sites/default/files/styles/image_content_width/hash/c5/1c/c51c409705861975de6884389ef95a54.jpg?itok=QUiwYS7h
And no, that’s not creepy. Isn’t she like 35 years old now?
Ghost, but the reeeaaaaallllly old-timey sets took even longer. I remember my parents telling me to turn on their 1955 set (can’t remember…was “Philco” a television brand?) a couple of minutes before a program started so the set would have time to warm up before the show came on.
Jerry, your Mom and family are in my prayers. You are right that some of us have bought the t-shirt on this. Kudos to your Mom for taking responsibility for her own well-being by recognizing that independent living at this point is not the best option.
Debbe: http://www.nola.com/business/index.ssf/2015/03/new_bird_flu_strain_has_poultr.html#incart_river
This version sounds like really bad news.
Also, from the WTH Department, I actually found this one being discussed on a Smith & Wesson Gun Forum, CIDU-style. Go figure.
http://www.gocomics.com/arloandjanis/2014/06/02
Denise: True, that, for the old tube-type TV’s. I heard a story about a TV repair man from that era who made a house-call (yes, they did then; remember, the average set probably weighed 100+ pounds) to work on a TV with a problem he had never encountered. Turn it on, it would warm up, the picture tube would light up, then the TV would immediately go off, and the cycle would repeat time after time. Just before he went completely crazy, he realized the set was plugged into one of those flasher outlet plugs from back in the day that made strings of Christmas tree lights go on and off.
Hard to believe that snow is mostly gone in Minnesota! Lots of snow still everywhere, in New Hampshire. It has gradually shrunk down over the last week or so and the big piles are smaller and more dirty. Seems to be no danger of flooding, I hope.