I hope you had an enjoyable Labor Day holiday. I remember having fun with this 2009 A&J when I drew it. I’m afraid it’s obvious that my video-gaming experience was limited to early versions of Nintendo, but we are talking about a cat here. Ludwig can’t be expected to master “Call of Duty.” That is a video game, right? I was pretty good at “Duck Hunt,” to which Ludwig’s game above owes much.
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Missed. But it seems a pretty day to be in the park. 🙂
‘Is it Wednesday??’ Good, Jimmy!
“SweetSusie#1? wouldn’t be strong in your case. Too easy for anyone who knows you to guess. 🙂 As a password for me, however, it would be totally unquessable.
So should I then be on the lookout for nude photos of you on the InterWebNet?
Nope. Some drawings and a painting, but you’ll never find them :p There are no nude photos of me and darned few photos, period. I am camera-shy
Everyone must have had a busy hump day Don’t miss Joe Biden’s sound bite today..
Which sound did Joe bite?
And, more to the point, will the White House disavow whatever he said?
You mean, “We will follow them to the gates of Hell? Or to the golf course, whichever comes first?”
Ah… Now it all makes sense!
I didn’t see it, but someone told me it was, “We will manage them to the Gates of Hell.” But that would be a mixed message, plus not making any sense, so surely not.
Will this become a no-holds-barred political site? It’s already a largely pro-NRA site. Peace, emb
No politics from me. Not really pro-NRA either, but a gun owner, hunter, and proponent of broad interpretation of the US Constitution’s Second Amendment. I pretty well think the current crop of all parties are generally corrupt and self-serving. I believe that we have lost the ability to behave with any degree of statesmanship and that unfortunately, compromise has become a four-letter word.
I’m pro-Second Amendment to the US Constitution, not pro-NRA. In fact, I’m pro-US Constitution in its entirety, to the point I once took an oath to defend it “against all enemies, foreign and domestic”, which I took to mean with my life, if necessary.
GR6, and that oath has no expiration date except your own!
What’s interesting, TruckerRon, is that both Joe Biden and J. Danforth Quayle were highly-regarded members of the US Senate right up until they became Vice President, when they suddenly started being considered idiots. There seems to be something about the job that makes people put their brains into cold storage until their term ends.
I sometimes wonder if the Veeps are forced to recite lines fed to them by the Big Guy’s crew of writers, handlers, and managers? They certainly are forced to attend funerals for them.
TR, most presidents want their VP’s to be little more than sock-puppets for their administrations, no matter how capable they were before the election.
‘. . . forced to attend . . ..’? The funeral gig is a legit job for a VP. If Queen Elizabeth cannot go, maybe Prince Charles can. I’ve attended funerals when someone else in an organization had a conflict, or more important things to do. I could have been forced to when on active duty in USAF, but the occasion never arose. When stationed it the UK, had a BOQ roommate buy the farm in W. Germany [B-26, notorious plane], but have no idea where the funeral occurred. Maybe stateside.
There’s a long, detailed, and well-balanced article on Joe Biden in a recent New Yorker. He’s been more useful than some VPs. The article also makes it clear Joe is not simply a yes-man or a mouthpiece for anybody.
Took the same oath, as did my fellow officers [and maybe airmen] who spent a fair amt. of time selling coffee and tobacco on the black market in occupied Ger. I didn’t drink coffee then, but I had taken that oath, and avoid law breaking in general. Maybe 2-3 mph over the speed limit.
In an LA Times article on Richard Nixon’s 1962 book, Six Crises, Marvin Seid wrote, “ ‘The vice presidency,’ John Nance Garner [FDR’s VP] once confided to fellow-Texan Lyndon Johnson, ‘isn’t worth a pitcher of warm spit.’
I’ve also heard that even that statement was bowdlerized.
And I guess it’s best that Veeps are kept busy and not plotting against their bosses.
The B-26 Marauder had a horrible reputation for killing its crews. It was a fast twin-engine attack bomber with narrow wings, which meant there was very difference between its normal operating speed and its stall speed. Crews called it “The Flying Prostitute” because it had “no visible means of support”.
Airmen in exile from the Netherlands (The Flying Dutchmen) trained on the B-26 during WWII at the Jackson Army Air Base (now Hawkins Field) after the Nazis overran their country. I have visited Cedar Lawn Cemetery in Jackson MS, where more than 30 of them who died in training accidents are buried.
“Once there were two brothers. One ran away to sea; the other was elected vice president of the United States. And nothing was heard of either of them again” – Thomas Marshall
Ghost: The motto of the B-26 squadron training in Orlando was “One a day in Tampa Bay”
“I was born in the house that I helped my father build.”–Richard Nixon
A compromise is a solution that makes no one happy.–unknown
Okayyy, I am being put to bed…again! Good night, all
We started playing games on main frames in college – no graphics. When you managed to blow up a ship it said “BOOM”.
Then we moved along to Atari – game and 800 computer. They had a real good version of the 3M company game of “Stock Market”. Also there was an “adult” game very elementary in design.
Then along to Commodore 128 and it’s games.
Then to the real thing – an Epson IBM compatible 286 computer – hard drive and everything.
Since then we have had a series of computers (one about 4-5 years, but we each keep ours 6-10 years). There have been a couple of other computer games over the years – the first Wii being the last one.
I am still using the DOS version of Monopoly in my computers, it is better than the fancier later ones.