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Hair Today…

By Jimmy Johnson


Arlo gets his hair cut, 1997. I’m sure I have run this little series of comic strips on the web before, but it’s been a long time. A point of trivia: Arlo had his locks shorn right before the family vacation to the beach, where they discover young Mary Lou in a family way. I have very fine (as in “thin”) uninteresting hair. As a younger man, I wished for a thick mane of hair like the tennis pro Bjorn Borg. From my current perspective, I am grateful to have hair at all.

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152 responses to “Hair Today…”

  1. Mark in TTown Avatar
    Mark in TTown

    Groundhog Day!

  2. Ghost Rider 6 Avatar
    Ghost Rider 6

    You must have the selector switch on “Auto” instead of “Semi”.

    https://aninterestingthought.files.wordpress.com/2015/02/m4-selector-switch.jpg

  3. Mark in TTown Avatar
    Mark in TTown

    Hal has an echo.

  4. sandcastler™ Avatar
    sandcastler™

    Jackie, you need to use an EndIf statement to prevent your code from looping.

  5.  Avatar
    Anonymous

    I don’t get today’s punchline. Will someone help?

  6. Mark in TTown Avatar
    Mark in TTown

    Jackie, you know how adults get when children try to make a point that they don’t want to discuss? Mary Lou is going that route with Meg.

  7. curmudgeonly ex-professor Avatar
    curmudgeonly ex-professor

    Didn’t mean to mislead; I was the 9:59 poster, and I meant to refer to the re-run strip heading this page.

  8.  Avatar

    Had some terrible Vietnamese bun tonight. I forget Tulsa is an early town and they roll up sidewalks at 8. My favorite Vietnamese joint is a dump with a 4.7 rating that closes at 8.

    Ate in the nearest one still open at 8.30 which I mercifully forget how bad until I taste it. Yuck! I am from Houston and have been eating Vietnamese since 19 60s so I can say worst I have eaten.

    Still ate it.

  9. Ghost Rider 6 Avatar
    Ghost Rider 6

    Debbe 😉 For my sister…she loved Motown music.

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

  10. Old Bear Avatar
    Old Bear

    Steve fRO
    We don’t buy books now so will try to get Library to purchase.

    They sometimes will Purchase on Request.

  11. Debbe Avatar
    Debbe

    Good morning Villagers….

    Mark…good comeback on Jackie’s multiple postings 🙂

    My Dad comes his hair over on top….it’s funny when the wind catches it.

    ….happy payday!!!

  12. Debbe Avatar
    Debbe

    GR 😉 here in SIN, temps are in mid 70’s for awhile….so,

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XE2fnYpwrng&list=PLE3662ABDF33E51D6

  13.  Avatar

    It is amazing how stubborn a ten pound dog can be about moving over. Add four ten pound cats and you lose the bed.

  14. Lost in A**2 Avatar
    Lost in A**2

    The barber had never heard of the tennis player so gave her best guess of what Arlo said, asking him to explain what he meant.

  15.  Avatar

    About Gene and Mary Lou and most importantly, Meg. I have spent every day since Sunday including Sunday in doctor’s offices or hospitals or labs. That gave me the unique chance to see paper newspapers, the Tulsa World, and what others read in comics.

    Family and children oriented strips dominate the Tulsa World. I was counting and calculating percentage yesterday but unfortunatelyrics they called my name before I finished.

    Another point, print newspapers are bought by older geezers I noticed, who also work crossword puzzles to keep their minds sharp. At least that was observation from five days people watching. Geezers included women mainly.

  16.  Avatar

    About Gene and Mary Lou and most importantly, Meg. I have spent every day since Sunday including Sunday in doctor’s offices or hospitals or labs. That gave me the unique chance to see paper newspapers, the Tulsa World, and what others read in comics.

    Family and children oriented strips dominate the Tulsa World. I was counting and calculating percentage yesterday but unfortunatelyrics they called my name before I finished.

    Another point, print newspapers are bought by older geezers I noticed, who also work crossword puzzles to keep their minds sharp. At least that was observation from five days people watching. Geezers included women mainly.

  17.  Avatar

    About Gene and Mary Lou and most importantly, Meg. I have spent every day since Sunday including Sunday in doctor’s offices or hospitals or labs. That gave me the unique chance to see paper newspapers, the Tulsa World, and what others read in comics.

    Family and children oriented strips dominate the Tulsa World. I was counting and calculating percentage yesterday but unfortunatelyrics they called my name before I finished.

    Another point, print newspapers are bought by older geezers I noticed, who also work crossword puzzles to keep their minds sharp. At least that was observation from five days people watching. Geezers included women mainly.

  18. DaveP Avatar
    DaveP

    Jimmy: what’s up with the change in Gene’s hair and clothing coloring? He’s being colored-in more like his father.

  19.  Avatar

    Mayhaps Arlo and Janis are joining those denizens of advanced age and heading on the road as retirees in an RV instead of the boat, Gene and Mary Lou and Meg taking over half the strip as a do over of the early years of A and J?

    Hey, it beats rewriting entire strip and rerun Ning like some did.

  20. Ghost Rider 6 Avatar
    Ghost Rider 6

    Jackie: So HAL wildly misspells words/phrases; does not allow you to proofread or correct its output before posting to the blog; and, on its own hook, posts the same output multiple times. Were it me, I’d consider replacing it before it refuses to open the pod bay doors and leaves you stranded outside the ship.

  21.  Avatar

    I foresee that coming. I have been using Hal to route my driving this week. Oh boy, he sends me on weird routes.

  22. Ghost Rider 6 Avatar
    Ghost Rider 6

    Did you perhaps refuse to date someone in college who is now a major investor in the company that builds HAL?

  23. Ghost Rider 6 Avatar
    Ghost Rider 6

    Did you perhaps refuse to date someone in college who is now a major investor in the company that builds HAL?