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Good Bye Kiss

By Jimmy Johnson


This old A&J is from October, 1995. Note the email address in the third panel. No, don’t write me there; it won’t do either of us any good. I called it to your attention, so I could mention that Arlo & Janis was one of the first strips out there to make use of email. Innovation was so easy back then! Speaking of innovation, I have seen the beta version of the new GoComics website, and you can, too. Go to the GoComics site and select “blog” from the menu there. Scroll down until you find the post about the new changes, and there’s a link there. It isn’t exactly what I was expecting, but I also was told this was to be a multi-phase project, so I will withhold comment. You, on the other hand, needn’t feel so constrained.

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204 responses to “Good Bye Kiss”

  1. Ghost Rider 6 Avatar
    Ghost Rider 6

    I see the blog has already gone back to CST.

  2. Ghost Rider 6 Avatar
    Ghost Rider 6

    Debbe ๐Ÿ˜‰ Bonus track.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iDpYBT0XyvA

  3. Old Bear Avatar
    Old Bear

    emb
    re your Why Me podt

    My mother always said “only fools and idiots are certain.”
    .
    At work when people say “you know everything” my answer
    ” my brother and I know everything – but he is not here now”
    Implying he has the answer I do not.
    .
    The other is “I am not that young”
    .

    Why is it that for many people the three hardest word to say is “I don’t know”?

  4. Old Bear Avatar
    Old Bear

    Jackie & Mark

    Glad you both are OK
    .
    Maybe you should look into a seat belt for Dickens.

  5. Jackie Monies Avatar
    Jackie Monies

    Ghost, I know you say not to appraise situation when exhausted but maybe I should have spent money on face lift instead of that boat or either boat? I thought a boat would be more fun in long run. I feel tired tonight.

    Have fallen off healthy eating big time this trip. Even vegetable plates in Alabama and Mississippi are NOT healthy. Good but not healthy.

    Love lawyers, guns and money which is playing now.

  6. Jackie Monies Avatar
    Jackie Monies

    My daughter had seat belt harnesses for her dogs to keep them in Mustang convertible and not thrown out.

    He was sleeping in back right where she hit us and tore off back. If she’d killed Dickens I cannot say what I’d have done.

  7. Ghost Rider 6 Avatar
    Ghost Rider 6

    Remember what we do when we fall off the wagon, Jackie…we hop back on the wagon, and we do not beat up ourselves for falling off. And I don’t have enough experience with either boats or face lifts to help you make a call on that.

    If it’s any consolation, the extra pounds I picked up when I had to give up my gym visits to look after my mom are coming off very slowly. But they are coming off, and “non deficere”.

  8. Jackie Monies Avatar
    Jackie Monies

    Never had a face lift either or any plastic surgery. Didn’t know boat would require one too!

    Yes, get back on and keep trying. This last trauma made it too easy to say life’s too short to not eat dessert. First!!!

    Back doing those leg lifts in bed to stay limber. Dickens is used to ducking a swinging leg.

    Saw a sign that said desserts are stressed spelled backward

  9. Debbe Avatar
    Debbe

    Good morning Villagers….

    Still trying to get used to this keyboard…..sometimes I have to search for the cursor.

    No t & t’s here last night. A longtime friend of mine called it trick or drink night. She would have this fake arm dangling from her closed trunk of her car….too funny. The town had a two hour limit on Halloween, the first hour I would take Ian out, then go home loaded with candy that I handed out….didn’t spend any money on candy.

    Jonathon told me yesterday that no more feed was going to be delivered. They brought the carbon dioxide cylinders yesterday. The ‘purging’ begins tomorrow.

    Jackie, tell Mark hello and he is still in my prayers….Amen

    Ian has a court date at eight-thirty today….this is dragging out toooooo looonnnggg.

    Y’all have a blessed day

  10. Debbe Avatar
    Debbe

    GR ๐Ÿ˜‰ without comment I say….

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0kNGnIKUdMI

  11. Debbe Avatar
    Debbe

    And today is All Saints Day……also known as All Souls Day

    http://cheezburger.com/8985251584

  12. Debbe Avatar
    Debbe

    a GM back at you Old Bear…that is true, as the Boss has said they aren’t the only egg producpers around……he’s keeping Ian and me busy the next month cleaning the hen houses. Gonna be kind of nibbblley in there with no hen heat.

  13. domaucan1 Avatar
    domaucan1

    Debbe,

    Slight correction. Today is All Saints’ Day, tomorrow is All Souls’ Day.

    God bless us every one. God bless the USA.

  14. Jackie Monies Avatar
    Jackie Monies

    Debbe, I was just thinking I don’t think I have ever hugged Mark. He is a foot and half taller than me and doesn’t bend in middle. Back injury?

    But I will get somewhere in middle and see if I can hug the midsection. He is a sweet person and like all of us here he needs a friend to extend a hand sometimes.

  15. Smigz Avatar
    Smigz

    Mark, thinking about you.

    Jimmy, today’s real-time strip hit home. Our curbside recycling is once every two weeks, and I ended up putting a reminder on my phone calendar. There is a huge container on wheels that we keep outside and never could fill to the brim, but the small receptacle in the house regularly overflows.

  16. Jackie Monies Avatar
    Jackie Monies

    Debbe, I hugged Mark around his midsection. My arms had trouble going around and my head was at rib section. He said that was far as I could reach without a ladder.

    Told him it was from you. We need to come hug you.

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