Today, I’m going to begin a series of cartoons that first ran in 1997. It ran for two weeks in newspapers, and before we’re finished, I intend to show the entire series. So, I hope you enjoy “Hardly Harvey,” because Harvey will be visiting with us for days to come. Harvey is a giant dust bunny visible only to Janis, and he is, of course, based upon the title character in the 1950 movie starring Jimmy Stewart, which probably would make my list of 25 favorite movies.
Hardly Harvey
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68 responses to “Hardly Harvey”
Ghost: Try this one if you want to see Love Tees. They aren’t very, um, racy
https://www.victoriassecret.com//clothing/all-tops-c/the-love-tee?ProductID=198121&CatalogueType=OLS
OF to blow at 17301750 hr. CDT. Right cam is zoomed to some background geysers. URL next.
Cam zoomed to other background geysers.
http://www.nps.gov/features/yell/webcam/oldFaithfulStreaming.html
‘. . . round-heeled ones’. Had to explain that to someone while volunteering outside the OR at the local hospital. Maybe the same person who didn’t understand ‘easy as a Monday crossword puzzle’. Grateful to say I’ve never tried either, despite opportunities, including chicks willing to ‘do anything’ for a passing grade.* [‘Oh? Try studying.’]
*Even sadder are the ones in hotel corridors asking if you ‘need some company?’
Dear Ghost, your colorful story of watching NCIS demonstrates why I never have, and still do not, watch these “shows”. I just can’t stand all this TV stuff, and don’t want to see it.
My sympathy goes to Jackie who doesn’t want to see or hear Fox News but has to because Mike has it on. I understand.
They have TV News not by FOX? 😮
EMB, my husband Mike used to say he never got accosted by the hookers at conventions and I said I couldn’t understand that, as he was/is exceptionally handsome, especially when he was young.
He said the kind that worked the conventions he went to got financial reports on exactly who was there and he couldn’t have attracted any if he’d had a $100 bill stapled to his forehead!
I always thought that was funniest comment I’d heard on subject.
Actually the hotel scenes as filmed in “Pretty Woman” seemed accurate to me, based on way all the properties handled hookers and security at our bigger hotel accounts. Not far fetched at all.
Love, Jackie
P.S. Ought to say that Ghost’s comments on NCIS were posted on last night’s thread, Sept. 30 at 11:47 pm.
Oh, I like the poem a lot that Lilyblack posted … Vagabond Song. Wow, you are highly educated, Lily!
Heh, I just went to college three years to get my Medical Laboratory Science degree, but I hang around with some pretty literate folk, Charlotte. Glad you liked it! 😀
Ghost, worse than watching a t.v. show with a wife who says, “Oh no, not the bubonic plague! They have ALREADY done that one!” and a husband who says, “But not in New Orleans.” is watching a sailing movie with boat and sailing nuts.
One of my all time favorites (who, me think Rob Lowe is gorgeous?) was a mystery called “Masquerade” that he made back in the 80’s that involved Newport rich folks and big yachts.
The denouement was when he was supposed to finish off the rich heiress he has married as part of murder conspiracy. He won’t do it, so his partners do or try to.
It involves cutting diesel lines in yacht, filling bilge with fume, cutting electrical wires to look like chewed by rats, Rob Lowe coincidentally going aboard to prevent wife’s death and big rat jumps on his hand and bites him, causing him to fall into wiring and blowing up yacht and himself.
It was a beautiful boat too.
Now this plot is pretty unlikely, about like pulling that rat out by the tail in the ship’s quarters. So every time I see someone pull a rat out in a movie or t.v. plot (which they do more often than you would think) I also think of Rob Lowe!
I will refrain from any more offensive remarks about Rob Lowe.
Love, Jackie
What do you and your sailing buddies think f “Master and Commander,” Jackei? The movie, I mean. I have read all 20+ Patrick O’Brian Aubrey/Maturin novels, so I may be prejudiced, but I thin it is the greatest movie about ships ever filmed.
Yep, Jackie, and in my case it’s watching almost any movie having to do with aviation. A lady friend made me take her to see “Non-Stop”, a film which had some holes in its plot you could fly a Boeing 767 through, land, and then taxi to the ramp. Of course, Liam Neeson apparently turned her on, so the evening did have a happy ending. 🙂
Ref my comment from earlier today, I suspect you are familiar with the useful Southern remark “He/she sure showed his/her butt last night”, which has nothing to do with indecent exposure but does usually have a lot to do with alcohol. Also, your story about Mike and the $100 bill reminded me of the Southernism “Bless her heart, she was such an ugly child her mama had to tie a pork chop around her neck to get the dog to play with her.”
I’ve heard it explained that in the South, a woman can get away with saying almost anything about another woman as long as she prefaces it with “Bless her heart”.
Thanks, Munchkin! Now I know what a “Love Tee” is. No, not particularly racy, but I did notice it was described as “semi-sheer”. I’ve always wondered, does that mean one can almost see through it, or one can almost not see through it? 😉
I don’t know much about sailing ships, but I thought Master and Commander was awesome as a movie.
Judging from the VS tees I have, Ghost, it means that you can almost see through them. See the models in the link. I guess anybody that was dumb enough to wear a white one with a black bra would get some, erm, exposure, but I just wear white with tees if I wear anything at all 😛
If anything at all? Be still my heart. 🙂
Not all conventions have ladies of negotiable virtue wandering the corridors. One, rather infamous Westercon in San Diego, had them lounging by the swimming pool until the men found out that the pretty women expected to be paid. Once that was cleared up, the men started looking for less professional companions and the hookers went elsewhere. Here’s a filk song about some of the things wrong there, although there are a few words different from the ones I’ve heard used: http://www.sccs.swarthmore.edu/org/swil/FILKS/filkbook2.html#0
The name comes from the fact that Astrid Anderson (Poul’s daughter) had a boiled potato fall off of her plate at the opening-night banquet and it bounced when it hit the floor. Poul said, “I’ve often written of a dull, sickening thud, but this is the first time I’ve ever heard one.” The song was written in time to be sung at the Closing Ceremonies, and there wasn’t another Westercon there for over 25 years.
Jackie – They’ve dialed back those ridiculous accents on NCIS:NOLA from the original two part spin off on NCIS. I spent most of those two episodes yelling at the TV. So bad, it wasn’t funny. It put me in mind of Nick Cage in “Con Air,” pointless overkill. And I don’t think CBS really believes NOLA can stand alone, too many charter characters guest staring too quick. They shoved away from LA fairly quickly, with Vance having a couple of video cameos and Abby as the lone in person crossover.
My allergies have gone crazy today. Will check back in tomorrow. More to tell, but too miserable to type.
PS: LOVE Master and Commander!
Me too. I started on Master and Commander and managed to erase all I typed, so will take some allergy meds and go to bed after a shower to wash off the allergens.
The Rose/The Surprise was designed by the late and great Phil Bolger who inspired and motivated and made everyone want to build boats or design them. We own two small Bolgers. Most of his boats were not classic tall ships of course but he could do them.
We all loved Aubrey, my favorite quote is “The lesser of two weevils” and a lot of boat designers being British are addicted to the pun. Jimmy Johnson should come if he can from Alabama because he would truly be in heaven with a dozen or so of them to shoot puns at.
More later if I don’t forget!
Love, Jackie
OK, back, we LOVE Master and Commander too. I only wish they had done more as they originally said they might. Best period sailing movie ever and great battle scenes. Plus Galapagos.
I have read every Patrick O’Brien of course, we have autographed copies of some. When I was a kid I wanted to marry Hornblower.
Boat nuts love me, I read the books they do and watch the movies too.
The motoring doesn’t bother me much as it does Mike.
Mike was a certified crew member on the Tall Ship Elissa in Galveston, TX and was a topmast man, which means he was way up at the very top tier of the yards. He was doing this at 50, so you can imagine he is pretty indomitable. Me, I can’t even get in a boat without falling on my face any more!
Love, Jackie
Asked Mike what he objected to about Master and Commander besides the back winded sails when they were motoring, which does look weird. He said he objected to condensing three books into one movie and their not doing any more of the books.
I said that was hardly a valid complaint.
Phil Bolger is a boat designer I really would like to have known. It is sad because he developed dementia and committed suicide as he could not bear losing his mind. He was truly a genius and most original thinker.
Most of his designs are no longer available for building but we usually have a good number of his boats here, as I try to get people to bring them. Beyond 30 plus feet it gets hard to trailer a boat but we have had some of his larger small boats here.
Our schooner was a classic Chesapeake Bay schooner that qualified for the schooner races for traditional schooners, so as close to a tall ship as Mike could get. Too big to trailer.
More than anyone probably wanted to know about Master and Commander! I have Australian designers, New Zealand designers, Great Britain, South Africa, Canada, all coming in a few days, along with possibly friends from other countries I may not know about yet. All boat nuts!
Love, Jackie
There was a great J.M.W. Turner exhibit at the Dallas Museum of Art when I had just moved in here, and I met several Patrick O’Brian fans milling about in the restaurant afterwards (one carrying an H.M.S. Surprise tote that I considered purse-snatching). We got a huge table together and talked P O’B until they closed. I met one lady, Jane something, who said she was a member of the drew of the Rose and she later sent me a still of her climbing the rigging during the movie, dressed in men’s slops. My favorite memory of her is when she pointed out during the “Pulling the Surprise away from the Alastor” scene one of the background shouts is “Pull! Pull like you were pulling a Frenchman off your mother.” Which I always listen for now. They refer to the movie as “The Fillum”.
My favorite scene in the books is when Jack gets Stephen’s sloth drunk. “Jack, you have debauched my sloth!” Second is when Stephen kills the despicable Ledward and Wray and dissects them with the Dutch naturalist. I can be a vengeful woman towards book characters.
the full-scale ship built for master and commander is part of a nautical museum in san diego. they also have the carrier midway as a museum of its own. last time i saw the midway it was tied up near us in yokosuka, japan.
In New Ulm, on the Minnesota river in s. MN, most of the people are of German descent, but they pronounce their town, New Ullum.
Now, see Lily, you COULD enjoy being around the kind of boaters who hang out in our yard. Sorry, no Frenchmen that I know of coming, but we are going to have a program on canoeing down the Loire Valley with castles and grape vineyards I am sure. Wish we could have been on that trip.
In case there are Lord of the Rings fans here, my New Zealand friend has lots of LOR stories too, his friend cooked all the foods used in the film for the Hobbits and Fairies and other folk. I think everyone in NZ had some hand in those films. It is a small country. To be truthful, the accents are worth the trip in my opinion.
About once a year I start a discussion on fictional sailing books and sailing movies so everyone gets to say what they like best. And we always have a book sale. This year we will have a new book reading and a writing forum on getting published or at least writing for publication.
Love, Jackie