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Frequently Questioned Answers IV

By Jimmy Johnson

Buy the new book, "Beaucoup Arlo & Janis!"Today's "Arlo & Janis!"

I told you a few days ago: near the end of this series there’d be a little pay-off for regular visitors to arloandjanis.com. As I remember, this is the first appearance of the Cobra-like sports car that prominently and incongruously appears at the top of this blog. In the strip above and every day on the Web, we are left to wonder, “What is Arlo really like?”

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289 responses to “Frequently Questioned Answers IV”

  1. Evan Avatar
    Evan

    What’s to wonder? Arlo is pretty consistent in most things that are routinely depicted. Turns out, he also has that sports car.

    How he AFFORDED such a car is perhaps something to wonder…

  2. Trapper Jean Avatar
    Trapper Jean

    Well, I guess this just proves that Arlo has as rich a fantasy life as the rest of us do. 😉

  3. sandcastlerâ„¢ Avatar
    sandcastlerâ„¢

    I now wonder if GR6 lives near Jimmy and serves as an Arlo role model in some strips.

  4.  Avatar

    I explained last night on Facebook that the Cobra is not real but part of Arlo’s fantasy world. Like the boat was all these years. The realization of that boat fantasy ended Arlo’s constant sailing and the real boat sits at a dock unsailed, just as they usually do in real life.

    Jimmy runs deep.

    Love today’s Real Time. My Pagan friends world wide have been celebrating IN large and small ways. I learned last night it is a three day holiday. That pagan was in Australia. It isn’t over so still time for that special gift for the pagan in your life. A other friend in another country told me if he hadn’t offered up that chicken my surgery would have ended differently.

  5.  Avatar

    Great minds, Sand. Saw both strips today and the microwave pinged.

  6. Steve From Royal Oak, MI Avatar

    Maybe we should ask: “What is Jimmy really like?” Or that might be too scary. 😛

  7. sandcastlerâ„¢ Avatar
    sandcastlerâ„¢

    Steve, we could dial up Rhetta, she might tell. 😉

  8.  Avatar

    They probably signed no tell agreements.

  9. Jerry in Fl Avatar
    Jerry in Fl

    What are any of us really like? Hmmmm. Tr, as one who IS wired, I appreciated the phone cops. BTW, whatever happened to Gary Sandy? And BTW, here’s a crazy idea. If you don’t want pictures of yourself making weird faces printed in the paper then don’t go on tv and make those faces.

  10. Mark in TTown Avatar
    Mark in TTown

    Where is everybody?

    Is there anybody out there? Just nod if you can hear me. Is there anyone at home?

  11. sandcastlerâ„¢ Avatar
    sandcastlerâ„¢

    🙄

  12.  Avatar
    Anonymous

    ????????????

  13.  Avatar
    Anonymous

    Those were a devil, an angel and a giant wink. I forgot where I was.

  14. Steve From Royal Oak, Mi Avatar

    I got one of the t-shirts for my Birthday and posted to the A&J Facebook page.

  15.  Avatar

    A little while ago I stumbled across Miss Charlotte on the Facebook page of Jimmy Johnson Door Number 2. She was looking for JJ but I was not lost as she was. This Jimmy Johnson is an absolutely fascinating and MOST well rounded person. I suspect if they are not the same person they would like each other

    Anyone besides Charlotte and I know about this? I have been following ND eating him all yesr.

  16. Charlotte in NH Avatar
    Charlotte in NH

    I am here and have looked at the site several times thru the late afternoon and evening, wondering where everybody had gone! Many explanations come to mind: shopping, baking, parties, concerts — we know there’s lots to do this time of year. They will come straggling in tomorrow, I reckon.

  17. Mark in TTown Avatar
    Mark in TTown

    Jackie, translate this please: I have been following ND eating him all yesr.

  18. TruckerRon Avatar

    Lovely little story from the ‘net. Could be by several folks I know who’ve also retired from truck driving:

    So after landing my new job as a Wal-Mart greeter, a good find for many retirees, I lasted less than a day….

    About two hours into my first day on the job a very loud, unattractive, mean-acting woman walked into the store with her two kids, yelling obscenities at them all the way through the entrance.

    I said pleasantly, “Good morning and welcome to Wal-Mart. Nice children you have there. Are they twins?”

    The ugly woman stopped yelling long enough to say, “Hell no, they ain’t twins. The oldest one’s 9, and the other one’s 7. Why the hell would you think they’re twins? Are you blind, or stupid?”

    So I replied, “I’m neither blind nor stupid, Ma’am, I just couldn’t believe someone slept with you twice. Have a good day and thank you for shopping at Wal-Mart.”

    My supervisor said I probably wasn’t cut out for this line of work.

  19. Charlotte in NH Avatar
    Charlotte in NH

    Jackie’s comment appeared after mine, so I am interested to read it. Actually this was two or three months ago (I think) when we were all worried about Ghost when there was nothing from him for weeks, remember? I wanted to ask JJ for help, and he did reply, but said he hadn’t kept the real names and addresses of the Villagers, no help there.

    I did not find this other JJ that you speak of, Jackie, so know nothing about all this! Maybe there is some other Miss Charlotte out there? (Kidding … impossible!)

  20. Old Bear Avatar
    Old Bear

    emb
    Just as an aside – I built swimming pools in Coventry, RI and environs 50 YA.

  21. Mark in TTown Avatar
    Mark in TTown

    Jackie, I have sent you a message on FB. Got to call it a night. Got another day and a half of work to do before my holiday begins.

  22. Jerry in Fl Avatar
    Jerry in Fl

    Don’t you people have anything better to do? Oh. Never mind.

  23. Ghost Rider 6 Avatar
    Ghost Rider 6

    Ghost Rider 6 has Romeo Tango Bravo. Earlier this evening, I went to my favorite Italian place* in the city I was visiting for fettuccini Alfredo and chicken parm. My companion wanted a glass of white wine so I ordered her a pinot gris. When it came, I looked at her seriously and intoned, “Ah, pinot gris…which means…peanut of the twilight.”

    Maybe you had to be there.

    *Actually, my favorite Italian place would be Giada’s…well, never mind.

  24. Ghost Rider 6 Avatar
    Ghost Rider 6

    Debbe 😉 All the Hispanics with whom I come in contact seem pleased when I wish them a “Feliz Navidad”, much more, I’m sure, from the effort rather than the sound of my Deep South accent and my sketchy pronunciation. 🙂

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xMtuVP8Mj4o