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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. Old Bear Avatar
    Old Bear

    Sand
    I WAS going to disagree with you about Commonwealths but
    I can’t – true there are 4 within the contiguous states but there
    are 2 territories.

    Debbe
    PM me about what you said – you will know how shortly.

    To the Village – believe what and who you will but according to
    Albus Dumbledore “Love is the greatest magic”

    “Love one another as I have loved you”

  2. Mark in TTown Avatar
    Mark in TTown

    I didn’t know this album existed till I heard it mentioned on talk radio yesterday: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tUTWQ361aNE

  3. Ghost Rider 6 Avatar
    Ghost Rider 6

    “Daddy’s going to kill Ralphie!”

    Guess what I’m watching.

  4. Charlotte in NH Avatar
    Charlotte in NH

    Christmas is a time for remembering, and thinking of what is important to us. Also for great nostalgia for past Christmases and the friends and family we shared them with. Also for great music, that restores our tired spirits and makes us whole again.

    Have a wonderful Christmas, all you dear Villagers!

  5. Ghost Rider 6 Avatar
    Ghost Rider 6

    Debbe 😉 Just like last year, my favorite version, by far. Merry Christmas to all.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MHioIlbnS_A&list=PLD23362D97B443EB7

  6.  Avatar

    Please, please tell me you don’t own a leg. My oldest daughter has a matched set. Lamps.

  7. curmudgeonly ex-professor Avatar
    curmudgeonly ex-professor

    Let me be the first to register a “merry Christmas” from the CST zone! Blessings on y’all….

  8.  Avatar

    Blessings upon us, everyone. It’s Christmas here as well. Love, Jackie

  9. Mark in TTown Avatar
    Mark in TTown

    Merry Christmas to all the Villagers.

  10. Jerry in Fl Avatar
    Jerry in Fl

    Great link Ghost, and thanks. A hearty agreement with all of the above. We are all friends who just haven’t met as yet. And remember, if we don’t try to have peace in the world, who will?

  11. Mark in TTown Avatar
    Mark in TTown

    Ghost, (and interested parties), all about the author of A Christmas Story. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Shepherd

  12. Mark in TTown Avatar
    Mark in TTown

    Debbe, does this look like your last health plan? http://www.gocomics.com/closetohome/2015/12/23

  13. Jerry in Fl Avatar
    Jerry in Fl

    Mark, a very interesting guy, thanks. And finally, JJ, in a less than good day for all of Missssippi, I hope that you had a calm day.

  14. Debbe Avatar
    Debbe

    A TRULY JOYFUL CHRISTMAS TO ALL VILLAGERS……

    Thanks guys, now I’m blushing, you made me feel very special. I just love coming here, I love the friends I’ve made here, each and everyone fills some void in my life. I often think of you all while working, the things one says, and the journeys you take, whether it be long or short.

    Working today with the Boss, at the other hen house. After that, I’ll come home (it’s only about a five minute drive from my house) get cleaned up and go to Sister #3 for some family love. Ian may not make it today. He has two jobs and has to be at work at 9 in the morning. But he’ll be with me in spirit….

    I also realized I didn’t post the cheezeburger link: http://cheezburger.com/8595584256

    Have a blessed day with your loved ones.

    Debbe

  15. Debbe Avatar
    Debbe

    GR 😉 you beat me to the ‘Christmas Eve/Sarajevo’. Do you have the CD, if not I suggest getting it, it’s a wonderful story put to music.

    From their “The Lost Christ Eve” cd

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4EqHNktfDJ4

  16. Debbe Avatar
    Debbe

    “Lost Christmas Eve” cd….in a hurry here, don’t want to be late since I’m working with the Boss today.

  17. Debbe Avatar
    Debbe

    Eating my usual breakfast…P&J on homemade Amish bread.

    Mark, yes it does…..

    Indy Mindy has been MIA lately, hope all is well with her.

    Old Bear…don’t understand your PM……

    …now I really got to go 🙂

  18. sandcastler™ Avatar
    sandcastler™

    Merry Christmas Debbe. Savor the time today with the boss.

    Merry Christmas to all in this Village.

    Some may remember this Christmas, others may not. I find the link like a walk with an old friend.
    https://medium.com/@gregmaletic/the-sears-wish-book-1977-10d41595f624#.8952rv9xg

  19. emb Avatar
    emb

    Merry Christmas,

    Ages ago, I think not in The New Yorker, there was a seasonal cartoon. A shepherd or someone calling out from the entrance to a stable, “It’s a girl!”

    Today’s Frank and Ernest: [Try it as is. If it doesn’t work, delete the ? , which I don’t remember being there.]

    http://www.gocomics.com/frank-and-ernest?

    Peace and Happy Boxing Day, emb

  20.  Avatar

    I fell asleep typing as I went to sleep finally, just as Debbe went to wake the chickens, I fell asleep. That post is under me somewhere because I dug phone out from there.

    Merry Christmas, OMG look at how early it is, those cats won’t let you sleep in! I had four hours sleep!

    Mindy from Indy is fone, she had some photos and posts on Facebook yesterday with her family.

  21.  Avatar

    I fell asleep typing as I went to sleep finally, just as Debbe went to wake the chickens, I fell asleep. That post is under me somewhere because I dug phone out from there.

    Merry Christmas, OMG look at how early it is, those cats won’t let you sleep in! I had four hours sleep!

    Mindy from Indy is fone, she had some photos and posts on Facebook yesterday with her family.

  22. emb Avatar
    emb

    Jackie, I expect Mindy is fine, and hope you are, too.

    Debbe, You are a blessing to all of us, not only because of your cheeseburger postings:

    “I also realized I didn’t post the cheezeburger link: http://cheezburger.com/8595584256

    I just worked left arrows from that one, and came to one featuring a cat and a bald eagle. Short videos, eagle seems bamboozled. Have to scroll down for 2nd view. Locale is most likely Kodiak Island, where wife and I spent 3 nights at a former student couple’s home. Had scheduled only 2, but Kodiak airport is often socked in. Bald eagles are at dime a dozen there. Seafood is fantastic. We checked out their crab-pots, had crab and stuff 2x, once on an oily beach upwind from a smallish dead odontocete whale, picnic Elaine had help put together [she made the crab salad], accompanied by world’s finest dark beer, Taddy Porter, which we found in a grocery, I think. AK is fascinating, but I wouldn’t . . .

    Now in my Arlo speelczech: odontocete and Taddy. Peace, emb

  23. Trapper Jean Avatar
    Trapper Jean

    Marry Christmas to everyone in The Village, and Peace and Good Will to all!