Forget the boat. What happened to Arlo’s glasses!? Friday isn’t the best day to start a series nor is it a good day to begin a journey, but I’m going to do both. When I was young, I remember reading an anecdote told by Charles Schulz. In Peanuts, he depicted Charlie Brown’s sister Sally in a new set of glasses for which she’d been fitted by the “ophthalmologist.” According to Schulz, he received vociferous pushback from optometrists, who saw themselves sidelined in favor of a medical doctor. Sparky had not given the matter any thought beforehand, but apparently it’s a touchy area with optometrists. It’s just one of the great things about being a cartoonist: you never know from whence the slings and arrows will come. Sally went on to lose her new glasses, too.
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Yeah but I figured Arlo got Lasik….yeah that’s the ticket. Janis still uses her cheaters though.
Have a safe trip to Iuka today, Jimmy.
I am sorry you will not have the opportunity to meet the elusive Ghost this weekend, Jimmy, but not half as sorry as the elusive Ghost is that he will not be meeting you. 🙁
Nor I. I am not as elusive as you and Ghost but I am disappointed.
He has promised me a trip to the Universalist Unitarian Church personage as a substitute.
Have a great show Jimmy. I did NOT buy Milton Canniff or Cathy Guisewaite in hopes of buying another Arlo and Janis.
I will throw in the savings from cancelling Garrison Keillor into the A and J slush funds.
TIP blogspot. Melcher is ok, but the painting sure matches its title, ‘Jealousy and flirtation.’
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Peace,
Coyote on the prowl. It’s rough.
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Peace,
…still here, and a bright and sunny day it is here
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Optometrists are qualified to prescribe corrective lenses and check eye pressure. They are not medical doctors, as are ophthamologists. In all matters regarding eye health, as distinct from vision correction, an optometrist should always refer patients to an opththamologist.
Good timing on this retro. In two weeks I’ve got an appointment with the VA eye clinic. I’m needing new glasses and have to have the exam first.
I thought Arlo’s gotten contacts!
Anyway, this lip-sync is hilarious!
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Well pooh! Here Ghost and I are back in Tulsa on our way to emergency room. I wish they had exercised caution earlier in day or better yet yesterday when I called.
I no longer even feel bad. Pooh!
I’m pretty sure Schulz decided consciously or unconsciously that it was funnier to have the Peanuts gang saying “ophthalmologist” than saying “optometrist”. It’s a longer word and harder to pronounce so it’s funny when little kids say it.
Done with emergency room and waiting for paperwork. Do not have to have any additional tests or procedures.
Don’t feel bad so Ghost and I are going off to eat somethi g good, like salmon.
Learned something worth coming here to learn. You can get too high a diet rich in protein. I have always been a high fiber semi-vegetarian who ate small portions of meats. All cancer nutritional writing stresses increased protein and how to add to your diet.
I took this to heart and continued the fruits and vegetables while bumping the protein. Bumped it too high it turned out.
Whey powder added to my foods and the extra protein complicated my chemo.
Jackie, I’m sorry you had that experience. But it is very much a relief to read the solution is well in hand. I hope recovery continues in your previously remarkable fashion. Best of wishes for you.
A lion, scarecrow, and tin-man walk into a bar. The munchkin didn’t even notice, and walked right under it.
An Irishman walked out of a bar…
… it could happen.
…at closing time.
Speaking of vision, I’m delaying the procedure that so many of us in our age group have to undergo: cataract removal.
Yeah, I keep hearing about easy and safe it is. I still can’t shake the foreboding that I will be part of the 0.1%.
From November 30, 1965, through May 31, 1966, Sally Brown wore an eye patch for her amblyopia or “lazy eye.” Her brother instigates the episode, simply wanting to test her for the malady. But they do indeed end up using an opthamologist—and Sam O’Vartea I’m sure is exactly right, because the word is simply a bit funnier than “optometrist.” I have no recollection of her wearing eyeglasses. But Linus van Pelt begins wearing some for his myopia. He first wears the glasses on February 5, 1962 and last on September 9, 1962—just most of one year. I think he looked cute in them. But Sally thought her eye patch made her look like an ad for men’s shirts!
Both my children wore the patches, glasses and had surgery for their eyes.
As adults they wore contacts and glasses off and on.
You just don’t see that much nowadays for some reason?
Ghost can weigh in on the surgery. Mostly he wears his glasses to read and drops them down on his nose and seductively says “molecules” with predictable results.
Jackie, I think most vision insurance has an either or stance to glasses and contacts. They pay for one or the other yearly. Even the VA optical service only covers one pair a year of glasses. So if they create a bifocal set for me and recommend single vision for working on the computer, I have to go to an outside optometrist to get the single vision pair.
Oh, and Sam O’Vartea, good pun screen name there. I just recognized what it actually said.
Hi, Villagers. We had company and then a short trip so I got about five posts behind. I’m catching up now as we drive home. Fun to see lots of new names here. Welcome! The location speculation (nice rhyme there) was fun. Not important, no, but fun to talk about.
Arlo destroyed his keys trying to open a paint can? Bottle top end of a churchkey will usually work.
Peace,
Sam O’Vartea, yeah that slipped by me too. Nice one.
In my childhood quality often gave way to convenience, and I did not yet know better to question it. Russian tea was powdered mix, one part Lipton instant iced tea plus one part TANG breakfast beverage, adjust to taste. Just add hot water.
Discovery of Earl Grey teabags, and then loose preparation technique, came later.