Speaking of saving labor, I don’t remember what was going on in the late fall of 2002, when this series would have been drawn, but it is obvious I was trying to produce a “quick” week of work. There is a lot of, shall we say, economy in the drawing. Plus, the gimmick of “answering” reader mail isn’t exactly an original one. However, life sometimes places one in a bind, even a cartoonist, but if the result is acceptable, all is well. I like to think this little series turned out well. Whatever was compelling me to hurry, I think the jokes are sharp. Sometimes, hitting a single in a pinch can be a very satisfying achievement.
90 responses to “Frequently Questioned Answers III”
‘But that is a southernism, bushy tailed and bright.’
Jackie, it’s more widespread than just southern. Rather than ‘bushy tailed and bright’, I’ve more often heard ‘bright-eyed and ‘bushy tailed.’
Peace, emb
Metric version: “Feelin’ bright-eyed, bushy-tailed, and 3.05 meters tall.”
Loses something in the translation, doesn’t it?
I imagine Egyptians and Hebrews had the same trouble converting from their [2 different sized] cubits to ‘ and “. Likewise, more recently, Brits from sterling to decimal. I understand one stave church in Norway is humongous because the builders thought the plan’s feet were metres. [Speelczech wants meters.]
Below, I’ll ad a blind-copy email I just sent out. Peace, emb
Just heard Michael Barone announce on MPR the usual live broadcast, at 0900* 24 Dec. of ‘Nine lessons and carols’ from the chapel of King’s College, Cambridge, UK . 9 standard readings from Hebrew Bible and New Testament [both KJV], generally by a few to several Brit. accents, + more than 9 carols by the combined soprano/alto boys choir [one member of which starts the ceremony with verse 1 of ‘Once in Royal David’s City’] and the choir of tenors, baritones, and basses of Cambridge students. King’s is a long chapel; you will actually hear that kid’s voice before the sound gets to the back rows.
*It’s 1500 [3 pm] then in Cambridge; the stained glass windows go dark during the service, even earlier than they would in N. USA. Cambridge is 52+ deg. N; Winnipeg, Manitoba about 50 N. For those who cannot manage 9 am Chr. Eve morning, the program is rebroadcast at 5 pm [1700] 24 Dec. Some may want to listen 2x.
[9L&C is also broadcast by Amer. Public Media on other public radio stations.]
Joyeux Noel, emb
So, today’s A&J points out today’s version of “bread and circuses”?
Unfortunately, even the political arenas are circuses, too. Most of the politicians are clowns, made up to impress and deceive. :/
The famous stuck in the mud incident which brought my late husband international infamy and admiration happened because his partner thought the charts were in feet, not inches. I of course knew but he refused to listen, told me he had studied charts for months for both challenges.
Told me to f.o. I almost left him stuck out there.
So, David… “plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose” still holds true, just in more arenas today.
An elderly woman decided to prepare her will and
Told her preacher she had two final requests.
First, she wanted to be cremated, and second,
She wanted her ashes scattered over Wal-Mart.
‘Wal-Mart?’ the preacher exclaimed. ‘Why Wal-Mart?’
‘Then I’ll be sure my daughters visit me twice a week.’
Till later
What, elected officials and politicians who want to be elected officials attempt to deflect or/and distract? Really?
Jackie, misinterpreting data is somewhat understandable. (See below) Failing to own up to it when you do is unforgivable.
LA Times 10-1-99: “NASA lost its $125-million Mars Climate Orbiter because spacecraft engineers failed to convert from English to metric measurements when exchanging vital data before the craft was launched, space agency officials said Thursday.
“A navigation team at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory used the metric system of millimeters and meters in its calculations, while Lockheed Martin Astronautics in Denver, which designed and built the spacecraft, provided crucial acceleration data in the English system of inches, feet and pounds.
“As a result, JPL engineers mistook acceleration readings measured in English units of pound-seconds for a metric measure of force called newton-seconds.”
The spacecraft crashed.
Villagers cease thy worry, the deeds art done! I got every poltice purveyor and bloodletter booked ! Amen!
Dermatologist, endocrinologist (two different ones) rheumatologist, internist (who is primary) surgical cardiologist, sleep apnea specialist, dentist (last of caps) and big drum roll, top plastic surgeon in Tulsa to start planning to lose some skin.
Deliberate pun, excess skin costs some skin unless I can justify with some of my ailments.
Even rented another warehouse to move the 26 foot fiberglass sailboat into so we can turn boat port into car port and clean out area. Dog house is about finished, along with garden house and we shift gears to laying concrete stones for walks, dry patio areas, retaining fake stone stacker for creek sides.
Feel so much better but staying in house, not lifting stuff, cooking a little. Clean stove and load and unload dishwasher, keep going through fridge @ND throwing away. Doing mild exercises with no weights, no bends or much exertion. Still works.
Solstice at 9:39 PM CST 12/21/15
Yae the days get longer!
J: while you’re talking to your surgeon about excess skin, ask if you can donate it. Most temporary grafts are done with cadaver skin but there are uses for skin from living donors. It’s hard to find info, but your doctor should know.
Oh yeah, planning to go spend my birthday in first week in February in Florida Keys with my little sailboat Cookies
Which was plan when I bought her last birthday from there. Mrs. Mac’s Kitchen while freeing cats. Thinking I may buy one of the Ford F150 pickups with the new Ford campers available through your dealer for first time. The pickup was kind of planned, sort of, but I hadn’t yet decided on camper which was part of original plan.
Dear Jackie, nice going! Your plans and medical appointments are perfectly delightful! You are taking hold of life with both hands and I am thrilled for you.
Well, I could have other toe nail cut on but they won’t do it until after released from all the others, so skipped podiatrist and allergy specialists. They can wait until I am back but may skip toe for now.
Pushing envelope of recovery so I can be in Florida and warm water. Invited a female friend but she declined, in a commited relationship.I told her I was just going to sail, kayak and swim, plus I was straight. She laughed.
Ugly Christmas sweater season is upon us. Saw this, it screamed GR6. 😉
http://boingboing.net/2015/12/21/sexy-ugly-christmas-sweater.html
sand, I don’t even know what to say about that…other than if one’s “reindeer” seems to be staring down at one’s feet, one perhaps needs to rethink wearing it.
Jackie, if you accomplished all that today, I need to hire you as my Administrative Assistant. I could then take early retirement and no one would notice I was gone.
I have had very noisy voice service at home for several days, although my DLS seemed to be working OK. This morning, the service tech called me and said he was on the way. I said that was fine, but I was told to expect him on the 23rd, and I was not there. He said he probably would not need access and would come on. When I got home this afternoon, the phone line was totally dead and DSL was out. About 6:00, just as I was starting to think that Lily* from AT&T was going to owe me a date (or something), my service came back up. We shall see if it lasts.
* http://i.imgur.com/q49U0YH.png
Ghost, when you said Lily from AT&T, this is the mental image I had: https://ephemeracaptured.files.wordpress.com/2015/05/lily-tomlin1.jpg
Yours is better.
1. That photo of Lily Tomlin is a keeper.
2. I am continually amazed by, and most grateful for, the wealth of astronomical and cosmological info that has been attained in my lifetime. Here’s a latest example, from ‘Barsoom’ [/ Edgar Rice Burroughs], just next door.
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/spaceimages/details.php?id=pia20174
Merry Christmas and Peace, emb
Recent earthrise picture from the LRO. Has been my wallpaper for last few days.
http://www.gizmag.com/nasa-moon-earthrise/41018/
Ghost, not only did I accomplish that but called pharmacy twice, my insurance agent, my lawyer called to say I had over paid him by $1700 and several other minor things like the golf cart store regarding replacing my stolen cart, contacted Ford regarding pickup and read articles and literature on new camper they are sellingp, ran and wrote on my two big Facebook pages and the three Yahoo sites I still manage.
Plus conducted a lot of polite miscellaneous comments elsewhere and here.
At my peak of time management I ran six sales territories at once, including one on one coaching to the reps, customer service to that account base and MOST importantly made every appointment these guys went to, setting them for the sale. All these guys were given choice of being fired, quitting or working with me. In the time I did this three won Salesman of the Year and two more would have but they got fed up with company and quit. One had been national sales manager and he said it was only year he had enjoyed the job because he knew he had a sale when he walked in. Territory was Atlantic to Pacific and Gulf to Mason Dixon line. We brought in 80% of all new business in those years, other eight reps brought in 20%.
Yes, I can multi task if brain working. By the way I just got press release on Race to Alaska teams R2AK 2016 if you want to Google and there is a Team Ghost Rider. You said you didn’t sail.
People keep borrowing my name. 🙂
Debbe 😉 This is how Santa has to deliver the goods since PETA got an injection against him for “reindeer abuse”.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AtRsNcpM-w4