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.
Feverish Plans
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317 responses to “Feverish Plans”
My curly-haired daughter came in from shopping and we chatted a bit; now she’s gone out to her pickup truck to carry in the big bags of birdseed she got for me at the Feed Store. I feed the birds year round and enjoy seeing them flying in, hopping and pecking; they go through a lot of birdseed!
Thank you, Debbe, for the good wishes. Good luck to you with all the work at the henhouse.
Is the “Luanne” strip referenced different from the “Luann” strip seen on gocomics.com? I saw the latter and noticed nothing unusual at all.
Dearest Ghost, I LOVE your story about the TV repairman! It sounds completely believable!
Ancient cartoon in New Yorker [I think]: housewife [maybe + husband] standing there, and repairman on his knees behind the set, saying, “Gee! Look at all those wires.”
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c ex-p, is this the Luann cartoon about which you noticed nothing unusual? 🙂
http://www.gocomics.com/luann/2015/03/13
http://www.gocomics.com/arloandjanis/2006/08/24 was always my favorite from that beach series, that would be my wife
yeah, the mash the button thing, I know, it seems dumb, but with most systems, it has to absorb whether you want channel 2, 22 or 222, so it waits to see. … … as for collecting A&J, my usual thing is every several months, I go back in gocomics.com and click and print out every one I want, four to a page, add to a binder and put out at holidays.
Thanks Denise. The tv repairman came to our house so often that I remember his name over 50 years later. His name was Gordon Shirtleff or Shirtluff. I’ve never heard that name otherwise, but hopefully he had children after moving our big combo tv, phono and radio around.
Yep, had a squirrel attack of similar situation once. Just like the Birds of Hichcock (doesn’t look right)
I’m hot here as in weather not body. Have only seen a couple of hot bodies and they were young males. I did see a shop with sign for DD swimsuits and thought of Ghost and if I keep losing weight I might make it into one.
I always thought the juvenile sounds were from Arlo.
Ghost, I was looking at the 3/14 Luann. Thanks for the correction.
Sounds like a plan, Jackie. Stay hot, my friend. 😉
Still working on the compilation. Actually have examples of all except Janis totally nude, which for some reason I’m having an inordinate amount of trouble locating. (I’m not counting the ones of her in the tub, where the assumption is that she is naked, because of the “behind the scenes” series several years ago, in which she was showing climbing into the tub wearing shorts and a strapless top.) I know for sure there is one of a totally-nude Janis, I just have not found it yet.
One other I didn’t list, because I don’t expect to find an example, is “Janis bottomless but not topless”. That one would have a charm of its own for me, but maybe that is just me. 😉 And no, I would not count the one of her bending over to get a shot in her buttock in the “Harvey” series.
Sorry, Ghost, I could not hear you over the juvenile pandemonium just then.
And for the ladies demanding equal time: Arlo in the buff!
http://www.gocomics.com/arloandjanis/2001/06/07
(Our Humble Author also did an alternative version for newspapers that did not feel brave enough to run that version.)
Ghost, this may help you out. Second panel.
http://www.gocomics.com/arloandjanis/2007/06/12
What?
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No, Evan. That nude, but not just implied.
It went; nobody on hand to watch it except the cam operator and we remotes.
Peace, emb
I did a search and found a guy in California with the same name as Gordon and probably about the right age. I think that he was born in Illinois, but still could be the same guy. Wouldn’t that be something?
Another site to steal time, and with no ads: http://www.ustream.tv/opensea
The cam is apparently fixed in open water in/near Monterey Bay. Saw several kinds of bony fish I cannot identify, ordinary-shaped sharks, one hammerhead shark, and at least one sea turtle who like to swim near the webcam: fins and shell up close, swam R, then L. May not be just one turtle.
The reason Hichcock didn’t look right is Hitchcock.
Peace, emb
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Jackie, for you. I suspect you may disagree with Arlo.
http://www.gocomics.com/arloandjanis/2007/06/11
In the ER waiting for CT results. Swelling is getting worse and more painful. Afraid it IS a surgical hernia.
Charlotte, please tell me, does the curly-haired daughter also play the banjo and speak Mandarin?
I’ve had a very large hernia for years. For reasons that I don’t understand it causes no pain and the doctors say that I don’t need surgery. You have my sympathy. As a veteran of two brain surgeries, among others, I agree with those who say that there are no “routine” surgeries.
Thanks for the link, emb. I also checked out others on the site. They have several eagle cams and one at a cat rescue in OH. As you say, lots of interesting things to look at. Oh, yes, they also have live video from the Space station and earth view from the station too.