In real life, Arlo wouldn’t even have to turn the light on, but then I’m allowed to draw him flipping a light switch.
Home & Away
By Jimmy Johnson
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132 responses to “Home & Away”
If I turn on the light in the middle of the night, at least one of my eyes is blinded as my pupil is slow to dilate. I have been told that this is fairly common. It is always good to be home, especially from an overseas trip.
Steve, I know that return home feeling.
I like it, but there is one thing missing. Ludwig weaving underfoot because he missed having them home. He would be in the way for at least the first 24 hours or so. But yes, home is where you have the route among the furniture memorized.
Mark, our cats are either under foot as you mentioned or completely standoffish.
This is cool. The proverbial hole in the ground is a real hole. Most fittingly it is in downtown Chicago. http://www.chicagomag.com/Chicago-Magazine/February-2015/The-Spire/
@David Austin, yesterday, I find myself often control F searching here, cuz I’m at work where youtube is turned off, so I have to go home and look up when someone had a link I’m curious in
John, I don’t recall seeing “Secret Agent Man”! I think when I saw “The Prisoner”, it was being rerun on PBS. I look forward to researching it!
David, I’ve been so focussed on your transplant, I forgot about your foot! How is it healing?
I never thought of it that way, Jimmy, but one definition of home could very well be the place you can navigate confidently in the dark. (Except my home, which has light sensitive nightlights in every room due to my hubby’s preference…but I held firm on none in the bedroom.)
Denise,
The foot is healing, some. I am now allowed to put some weight on it, wearing “the boot.” I visit the doctor again in three weeks for another x-ray and assessment. Progress, slow but steady.
For the “real time” A&J and the species surviving: I had an economics professor that said boys/men think about sex more than 50 percent of the time and then showed the math for what would happen if we didn’t. It demonstrated a downward spiral in birthrates until no one was left! I strongly suspect that also requires interest from women of child-bearing age as an assumption for the calculation. [do with this factoid as you may choose] 😉
For the retro… it’s nice to have the light so you can be sure you are hitting the target. Here comes TMI– stop reading now. After 7 years on dialysis and no urine output, hitting the target is a skill that has to be reacquired! 😀
David, good job of pointing out what women don’t understand. My wife complained until I explained it. Whoops. That was only relating to your last comment, not the one before that.
sandcastler ™, I can see two major problems with the swimming hole idea. 1. 76 foot deep middle section is asking for drowning incidents, bad idea in a lawsuit-mad society. 2. Drawing the water from the river invites all sorts of possible nasties, not all of whom would be stopped by the filters. That is one reason Disney World’s original water park closed. The water was drawn from Bay Lake, which turned out to have a parasite in it. Young girl caught the disease, died, and park was eventually closed because no one could figure out a way to filter out all the possible problems.
The fifth panel looks like an homage to R. Crumb.
I second this motion: http://cheezburger.com/8476897280
I had a history professor who said he had read that college-age people think about sex every 7 or 8 minutes, so in order to help us remain focused on history, he would try to include something sex-related at similar intervals in his lectures so that we would all be thinking about it at the same time. (Sorry if that sentence rambles a bit; I have a touch of allergy-brain today.)
David: I understand that it is like riding a bicycle – one never forgets!
How come only Arlo gets to wander around topless?
Could be A&J run in papers in orange or red states. http://gotopless.org/topless-laws
Douglas Kinley, Janis sometimes wanders around topless, but Jimmy only shows us those scenes from the back! 😉
WiTexan, so THAT’S why it looked familiar!
Ruth Anne, Our Humble Author addressed this very topic.
From 5/11/1994 (not in GoComics archive, alas):
Janis: That’s silly!
Arlo: No, it’s true! Men think about sex differently than women.
J: Ok, how do men think about sex?
A: Constantly
J: “Constantly”?
A: See? You don’t have any idea what you’re up against.
So from your anecdote, I infer that college-age females think about sex every 14 to 16 minutes, and the professor was averaging the males in with that to arrive at his figure. 😉
http://www.gocomics.com/arloandjanis/1994/05/11
Here it is Evan
Arlo on Janis’ wardrobe, from same week in 1994; http://www.gocomics.com/arloandjanis/1994/05/07
Thank you, Mark. I had gone to GoComics and navigated backward on their calendar, and May 1994 was entirely grayed out. When I hit your link, voila, and when I clicked on the calendar there, May had plenty of entries. Technology beats me yet again… c’est la guerre.
Denise, the only reason they never used Number 6’s name in the TV series is because it was a different production company and couldn’t get permission. I do know, however, that either the second or the third novel about the show started with the line, “Drake woke up.”
Mary stepped on the rainbow this morning at 7:28
Prayers to help him, as he says, “Walk the talk”
http://www.blazingcatfur.ca/2015/02/18/evening-photo-double-rainbow-crater-lake-oregon/
no time now – will be back later
Evan, found it through Google with search for Arlo and Janis archive May 1994. It looks like that is as far back as GoComics goes, though.