Day 3, and ten more classic cartoons featuring young Gene, these from 1990. It seems most of you are enjoying this look back at the early days of Arlo & Janis, with emphasis on the family son. I’m glad of that, and I thank you for being here. If you’ve just arrived, we have been doing this since Monday, so scroll back a couple of days and catch up on the 20 old cartoons that have already been posted. For you regulars here at the Web site, Mike Peterson said some nice things about you recently in his impressive blog “Comic Strip of the Day.” 1n 1990, Gene’s appearance had stabilized, but the humor noticeably was taking on a more unique character, trending away from jokes that could be transplanted into the speech balloons of any comic strip child. If Gene wasn’t growing yet, the strip was.
90 responses to “Gene, Gene, Gene…”
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Some smartphones have the ability to double as a remote control. I have an app installed on mine that will substitute for my streaming device’s remote. So Janis would probably lean over and change channels with her phone, since she seems to be more tech savvy than Arlo.
Whoops! “… guenons, I believe.”
One bit of curiosity satisfied.
I feel I’m talking to myself here. Y’all come back now, you hear?
Some times I have to talk to myself if I want accurate advice.
Mark – you could not find a nicer person to talk to, than yourself.
Mark – I’m sure Old Bear and I aren’t the only ones here. Somedays I just don’t have that much to say. A friend started a fun and interesting thread on FB recently, posting famous first lines of books (and making us try to remember where they’re from); he’s up to 197 responses last time I checked.
Here’s a few to get us started:
“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.”
“Call me Ishmael.”
“Out in the backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun. Orbiting this at a distance of roughly 30 million miles is a beautiful, blue green planet whose ape like creatures were so amazing primitive that they thought that digital watches were a pretty neat idea.”
“We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold.”
Should have double-checked one of those before I copied/pasted it. Here’s the correct version:
“Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the Western Spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun. Orbiting this at a distance of roughly ninety-eight million miles is an utterly insignificant little blue-green planet whose ape-descended life forms are so amazingly primitive that they still think digital watches are a pretty neat idea.”
Also a pretty neat idea – those life forms just launched the Parker Solar Probe to study that yellow sun.
A Tale of Two Cities
Moby Dick
I know the third but can’t remember the title, and I have no idea on the 4th.
First two quotes were familiar, Mark has them I believe. Third sounds like The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, but I didn’t want to spoil by looking. I’ll swing away at Barstow with two guesses. Easy Rider popped in my head, but I don’t think the movie was based on a novel. And I can’t think of a Ken Kessy … wait, is it The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test?
Mark is right on the first two. Stowaway is right on the third (good name, by the way). I had to look up the other one – Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.
So let’s hear some of the Village favorites!
Here’s one:
Once upon a time when the world was young there was a Martian named Smith. Valentine Michael Smith was as real as taxes but he was a race of one.
T-Ron:
Stranger in a Strange Land.
One of my favorite novels.
TR: Don’t know the title but it was on my friend’s list 🙂
Thief! Thief! Thief!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jLLW7s2R4Ss
TruckerRon and Rick, two thumbs for that one. Great book.
UP, two thumbs up, for crying out loud!
Most of the lines on my friend’s post were classics and/or science fiction. This one, neither and lesser known I think, popped into my mind so I looked up the exact wording:
“Mom and Pop were just a couple of kids when they got married. He was eighteen, she was sixteen, and I was three.”
Opening lines of Lady Sings the Blues, autobiography of Billie Holiday.
I wonder what the ant’s plan was? Did he need to break into a crystal vault?
Those are good stories, folks, a couple new to me- adding to list! And isn’t the Parker probe a neat thing? What mysteries will it help unfold???? Anyone see the meteors?
I’m with the crowd–found the first two easy. Guessed right on the third. No idea on the fourth.
I like anything Heinlein. We own and re-read them all.
How about this one:
“Once upon a time, sixty years ago, a little girl lived in the Big Woods of Wisconsin, in a little gray house made of logs.”
“In the attic where the rain touched the roof softly on spring days and where you could feel the mantle of snow outside, a few inches away, on December nights, A Thousand Times Great Grandmere existed.”
This should be easy so I will leave out the name:
______ _____’s jaw was long and bony, his chin a jutting v under the more
flexible v of his mouth. His nostrils curved back to make another, smaller, v. (1929)
This is not Sci-Fi, just Fantasy. A LOT tougher.
Someone had written ‘godforsaken’ between ‘Welcome to’ and ‘Caithness’ on the
road sign. (1988)
Heat, pain, and blinding light, burning through my skin and my eyelids. (1981)
This is Easy Peasy:
Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary,
Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore—
While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping,
As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door.
“Where I’ve been is places and what I’ve seen is things, and there’ve been times I’ve run off from seeing them, off to other places and things.”
Old Bear: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dVLUeXkzUjM