When this cartoon originally appeared in 2009, my long-suffering editor Reed Jackson called to thank me for reflecting what goes on in his home when his wife bakes for the holidays. This made me feel good. Comics editors see a lot of comics, and they rarely have time or inclination to comment.
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188 responses to “Half Baked”
Jackie, we have all the things you mentioned…Hazmat suits and dust masks…..
🙂
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GR 😉 my theme song right now….gotta love Annie’s looks…I do 🙂
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ildVYgYWPqc
Thanks for the concern and my apologies for rushing off without telling you. I am at home and glad of it. Debbe, I was briefly in Indiana, I think for the first time in my life. Early on one frosty morn it was. I expected a little snow somewhere along the way, but it felt like frozen fog a couple of times and that was it. Debbe, BCN reminds me that our Elvis has a like affair going with a blondie from somewhere in the neighborhood. She shows up occasionally when he is on the back porch and they just look at each other. He obviously doesn’t mind the visit because he doesn’t howl at her which he does when another male comes by. All of the kitties survived our absence nicely with some checking on by wife’s son and daughter. We don’t have anywhere to board them locally as well as the emotional scarring (scareing?) and expense involved. Just one more note on the trip-I highly recommend Louisville, Ky at Christmas time. Just be prepared for horrible traffic.
Debbe 😉 When it comes to the “raccoon eyes” look…I’m just sayin’…
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GR6: I liked the back view as she walked toward the Statue of Liberty in “Splash,” which I saw with wife when it was showing in local theaters. Of course, that may have been a body double, as might Gina Lollobrigida have been in a N. African locale in a movie ages ago.
Debbe: “They even bought a heat lamp to keep them warm…awwww!!!” Friend [former student/houseguest, now homeowner in Mpls.] She had an indoor cat [former female] and an outdoor male stray, whom she fed. Since the stray marked the furniture dog-style in the house, she built him a heated cat-house which sat on her back stoop. …awwww! May be he now can be inside / change of some sort. Haven’t been there for a couple of yrs.
Peace, emb
On December 7, 1941, at 7:55 AM Honolulu time (right about now), the Imperial Japanese Navy attacked the US Pacific Fleet in their home port of Pearl Harbor. Japan learned, to its great dismay, that kicking a hornet’s nest is not the best of ideas.
Some other countries and bellicose groups that mean us ill seem to have forgotten that hard lesson the Japanese learned and feel our nation is no longer up to the task of effectively defending itself. I hope they are wrong, but I am no longer entirely sanguine that they are.
Thank you Ghost, I was just about to ask if anybody remembered why this is an infamous day.
For generations now, warlike groups and peoples have been telling themselves that we’re weak, soft, flabby and unwilling to fight and we’ve been proving them wrong, over and over. They never learn from history and most of them don’t live long enough to learn from experience.
Debbe
We used “Tacky Glue”
Will get True Vale # tomorrow. – That I know is a warehouse item as I sell
it often.
Sideburns and Ghost, why should we expect foreign enemies to remember what our own government repeatedly forgets?
Ghost, I told you about reading the first person accounts of every single civilian government employees injured or killed in the bombing of Pearl Harbor. There were a lot of them, one of those big government metal file cabinets. Did it on my own time, no one paid me, I just did it. Read every word of every report.
Pearl Harbor Day will never leave my mind.
By day I got paid to read reports from Vietnam but the others reminded me why we were America.
And so the last one is gone: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/theatre/actors/are-you-being-served-actor-nicholas-smith-dies-aged-81/
I miss that show. Glad I can still find it on YouTube since our PBS station dropped it about 3 years ago.
Jackie, you might want to read this: https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/after-74-years-bones-from-pearl-harbor-tomb-ship-may-be-identified/2015/12/06/60263b86-8ee7-11e5-acff-673ae92ddd2b_story.html
I miss Are You Being Served? Also the sequel when they owned a hotel and a farm I think. Some very funny acting in all. Cheesy sets but the acting carried it all.
Yes, the acting company they put together for that made the show, just like with Barney Miller and Mash. And they got by with a lot that wouldn’t be accepted today on either side of the Atlantic.
Debbe, I think there is a bigger change coming your way in the henhouse with all these major food/grocery companies swearing they will change to cage-free eggs in the near future. Presumably this will eliminate the conveyors but you’ll be hand-gathering the eggs from nest boxes?
Among my many boating friends who came to my house each year was one with eight computerized chicken fryer houses and one a free range organic and natural grass chicken fryer grower who moved his flock around with large pens on grassland. Both flocks end up being eaten but I think the natural ones were happier.
My friends often don’t agree politically, religiously, some bear arms, some don’t. Some are even vegetarians. Interestingly we all still get along.
And as long as we leave each other alone, we continue to do so. As Will Smith said in the movie “Men in Black”, if you don’t start nothing, there won’t be nothing”.
http://www.startribune.com/rembrandt-foods-joins-movement-toward-cage-free-egg-production/333922981/
Jackie, I suspect the “happier” chickens were also “pricier.” Calls to mind a discussion here previously as to the relative importance of “organic” foods vs. “regular” foods that are more available and affordable.
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Whoever wrote the article about the cage-free chickens must use a very small laptop computer, to think it’s 67 square inches! Mine are both considerable larger.
California voters approved an animal-rights measure that resulted in a 32% increase in the price of a dozen eggs? The last I heard, the entire state was teetering on the edge of bankruptcy, so somehow I’m not surprised.
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TR, I agree. 67sq inches is nothing more than an 8″ baking dish.