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Fondue Attitude

By Jimmy Johnson

December 4, 2003


I’ve got something a bit more current for you this morning, from 2003. The original of the above Arlo & Janis comic hangs in the guest bathroom of a friend’s house. I’ve noticed I have a lot of artwork hanging in bathrooms, but there’s no such thing as bad publicity. Actually, the above is part of a week-long series, which you can see by clicking on the date below the cartoon. I should mention this, because it just encourages you (You know who you are!), but this flashback from Arlo and Janis younger years was one of my sneaky attempts to depict Janis in a “diaphanous” blouse.


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71 responses to “Fondue Attitude”

  1. Nancy Kirk in AZ Avatar
    Nancy Kirk in AZ

    Today’s real-time cartoon (11-6-20) was TOTALLY one of those “peeking in our windows” for husband Jim and me!! He usually beats me up by about two hours–coffee, a book, and walk the dog. (In my defense, I walk the dog in the afternoon/evening.) Glad to hear you’re with me, Ghost–NON-morning people.

    1. Steve From Royal Oak, MI Avatar

      Oh Nancy….You’re husband beats you up?

      Maybe I read that wrong.

      1. Steve From Royal Oak, MI Avatar

        AAAUGH “Your” not You’re

        My kingdom for an edit button!

  2. Mark in TTown Avatar
    Mark in TTown

    I get up early only because I have to start work at 7am Mon-Fri. Using my weekend sleeping habits, I would probably sleep till 8 am or later if I had my own choice daily. Over my life span I have worked all kinds of shifts: days, evenings and overnights. Overnights were the worst.

  3. TruckerRon Avatar

    One of the few benefits of leaving trucking was getting control of my daily routine. I truly enjoyed the trucking life, but they have rules about having any condition that EVER causes syncope. The fact that the device in my chest makes a recurrence almost impossible doesn’t matter. OTOH, if I’d merely had a heart attack, I could still be driving!
     
    But as things stand, my morning starts in time to get to work M to F. On weekends, it’s set by family and/or church duties. And once I’m able to fully retire someday, those hours will shift to allow me much more time with the telescope on clear nights… and more time on cloudy nights to learn image processing for astrophotography.

  4. Jackie Avatar
    Jackie

    And I TGOUGHT that today would be better. So much for me and Little Orphan Annie.

    Good morning.

    Awake and washer still going.

  5. Jerry in Fl Avatar
    Jerry in Fl

    We’ve got a lot of bridges to build, but we have to get through the next two months first.

  6. Jerry in Fl Avatar
    Jerry in Fl

    We have a policy of not joining or signing up for anything that we didn’t request, especially if it’sfree.

  7. Ghost Avatar
    Ghost

    I’m having enough problems getting the things I “did” order lately. My computer mouse crashed and burned the first of the week. Not in love with the idea of going inside the nearest big box store, I ordered it online on Sunday. Delivery was promised Monday…it arrived Thursday. Our digital thermometer (something neither Jackie not I need to be
    without) stopped working. Ordered touchless (like clinics are using now) replacement on Monday, with promised delivery on Tuesday. As of today, it’s apparently not even been shipped, with no explanation.
    Of course, I don’t remember us complaining (back in “the old days”) about waiting for weeks for things we ordered from the Sears catalog to arrive. 🙂

  8. Jackie Avatar
    Jackie

    Went to library to order Harry Potter books and get new library card, put Ghost on my card to order or pickup books for me. Picked up Catcher in the Rye, one of my favorite books as young person. I went to New York alone age 13 and visited most of sites in book.

    I cannot read the print in book!

  9. curmudgeonly ex-professor Avatar
    curmudgeonly ex-professor

    Ah, memories. Back in the ’40s, my typical school notebook had an irregular B&W design all over the outer covers but also had a rectangular chart on the back in which all kinds of unit conversions were given. Even the obscure ones were given space, including “scruples”. I can recall exactly zero times that caused me to use scruples as a unit, but we WERE prepared (through 8th grade, anyway).
    .
    Apropos of nothing mentioned herein: Why do I detest the word “broth”? Unfortunately, my MBH loves to use it, possibly even when not quite correct. The sound of that word strikes me just as a too-suave, “oily”, person would.
    .
    Have found some family photos going well back into the 1800s. Busily making some available to others on Ancestry.com – others sharing descent from the most prominent pair in the photos. One or two or three are returning the favor with some pictures they have. Neat.

  10. Burns Avatar
    Burns

    Just wanted to mention to Jimmy that I thought the 3rd panel of today’s cartoon was great! You don’t usually draw Ludwig sitting up like that. A new look that I really liked!

  11. Jackie Avatar
    Jackie

    CXP do you mean used as

    “The political broth of slugs, worms and snakes continues to simmer in Washington:s cauldron despite efforts to stiffle the fire,”

    Reading too much J K. Rowling!!

    1. curmudgeonly ex-professor Avatar
      curmudgeonly ex-professor

      Nope.

  12. Sideburns Avatar

    I just realized that another good title for this strip would be “Fondue Memories.”

    1. Mark in TTown Avatar
      Mark in TTown

      That’s kind of cheesy, Sideburns.

  13. Steve From Royal Oak, MI Avatar

    AAAUGH “Your” not You’re

    My kingdom for an edit button!

  14. Ghost Avatar
    Ghost

    Re 11-7-20 real-time cartoon: “They always say imagine your audience nude.” And if one were speaking before a group at a nudist resort?
    Also, as I can tell you from experience, that doesn’t work very well when one is being interviewed on a live television show.

    1. Ghost Avatar
      Ghost

      I was once the guest speaker at an evening meeting of the local Parents Without Partners chapter. (As you would guess, an organization for divorced parents.) I noticed they were getting antsy about five minutes into my talk. Turned out they always adjourned to the VFW for drinks and dancing as soon as the program was over.
      At least some of the ladies in the group were nice enough to invite me to join them.

      1. Sideburns Avatar

        Actually, I would have expected the membership to include both widows and widowers.

  15. Ghost Avatar
    Ghost

    If this isn‘t a 2020 Storm Track, I don’t know what is…
    https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/archive/2020/ETA_graphics.php?product=5day_cone_no_line

  16. Jackie Avatar
    Jackie

    The current Monday strip burning leaves in the fire pit is exactly what I had planned to do Sunday and Monday!

    I have huge concrete patio in front of house where driveway and carport used to be. It is full of pine needles and leaves which I intended to have Ghost burn in my fire pits while sitting in deck chair!!

    1. Ghost Avatar
      Ghost

      Hopefully, that will not require me to make an addition to my computerized recipe collection (A Recipe From Ghost’s Kitchen)…”Smoked Ghost”.

      1. Ghost Avatar
        Ghost

        Also, southerly winds are currently 13 with gusts to 25, so…

  17. Jackie Avatar
    Jackie

    Ghost is cooking pot roast for dinner with gravy and mashed potatoes. I asked for a vegetable and he replied, “in addition to all the ones in the recipe?”

    That’s OK- frozen green peas have uses besides putting on swollen body parts. They are edible too.

  18. Jackie Avatar
    Jackie

    The pot roast was slow to simmer so I ended up doing a fast ham bacon and onion quiche. Too salty, I kept asking myself if I had put in salt? I had. Still glod.

    Goodnight Ghost baby. See you in morning.

  19. Jackie Avatar
    Jackie

    Nostalgic cooking, I whipped up a lemon chess pie tonight using Bill Clinton’s favorite recipe. Used a roll of premade pie crust. They used to serve this pie at Williamsburg colonial restaurants as well. Somewhere I have been reading this week claims.pies with crusts were not baked until ovens came into use. I must research that.

    Anyone want recipe? Easy why it has survived hundreds of years.