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Hossing Around

By Jimmy Johnson


I like this one, even if it is from just last year. Plus, it somehow seems to fit our ongoing discussion about content and advertising on the Web and about changes coming to the GoComics Web site. Probably you think I know a lot more about these changes than I’m telling, but I don’t. I don’t know more than you, although I am a lot more curious, believe me. I will admit to a brief conversation with Aaron Weber, the young man in charge of developing the new site, and he stressed that the changes will be far beyond cosmetic. Whether they are fooling themselves remains to be seen, but I do believe the folks at Universal Uclick are serious about exploring the future of “printed” comics. I am excitedly trepidatious, or trepidatiously excited. Mostly, as I stated yesterday, I will wait and see.

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308 responses to “Hossing Around”

  1. Jackie Monies Avatar
    Jackie Monies

    Love the Whippenpoofs and used to be able to sing along. A capella is just amazing ability but I like barbershop and a capella Hawaiian music.

    Doesn’t someone here sing in a harmonizing group?

  2. Ghost Rider 6 Avatar
    Ghost Rider 6

    No, Jackie, don’t drop out. And remember my motto: “Never give up.”

  3. Jackie Monies Avatar
    Jackie Monies

    Going to have a few glasses of cheap pink wine. I need to do something about blood sugar, sweet and fruity?

    No one in Eufaula seems to have any French wines. There was a reason Mike seldom came here when he was in wine business.

  4.  Avatar
    Anonymous

    I’m about to download my photos from trip. I’ve been waiting four years to go back to New Hampshire. I’ll tell you why later.

  5. emb Avatar

    Many of you have probably already seen this, but maybe you know someone who hasn’t.

    http://www.mprnews.org/story/2016/10/24/one-fourth-of-us-cancer-deaths-linked-with-smoking

    Peace,

  6. TruckerRon Avatar

    The low smoking rates in Utah (we were among the first to ban smoking in public buildings) seem to be paying off according to that article. That doesn’t mean much to my wife’s best friend’s family — Renee never smoked a day in her life but still died of lung cancer.

  7. Jackie Monies Avatar
    Jackie Monies

    Mark’s mother is a life long chain smoker and would not stop. The house was so bad I could not be in it even after she moved out when I picked up cats. It is a miracle only she had cancer. I am emphatically opposed to smokers. I know Mike was exposed to second hand smoke but he never smoked.

    He made me stop smoking and be baptized before he’d marry me. Just in case he failed to save my life, he saved my soul. Ironic he died of lung cancer.

  8. Jackie Monies Avatar
    Jackie Monies

    Apologies for depression. My blood sugar was down to 41 when I got home and I was getting shocky. It’s up to 114 now after eating.

    Having that glass of cheap wine and going to bed soon. It’s sweet Italian white dessert wine, not pink. Paired well with that ripe pear I had for dessert. I’d have liked a good blue cheese of some sort and a piece of shoftbread.

  9. Ghost Rider 6 Avatar
    Ghost Rider 6

    Debbe πŸ˜‰ Not to mention any names…

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kI3MwwWYC3Q

  10. Old Bear Avatar
    Old Bear

    Mark
    Prayers and what Debbe said.

  11. Old Bear Avatar
    Old Bear

    If the Village has not seen Bobbe Vee has stepped on the rainbow –
    He was 73 the results of Alzheimer’s
    He was at a facility where a friend was the Activities Coordinator.

  12. Old Bear Avatar
    Old Bear

    I could have punctuated that better.

  13. Jackie Monies Avatar
    Jackie Monies

    Llee I love your nasturtium painting. Is it for sale?

  14. Old Bear Avatar
    Old Bear

    GM Debbe

    I have come to the conclusion that politics is
    too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.
    ~Charles de Gaulle~

  15. Debbe Avatar
    Debbe

    Good morning Villagers…..

    Old Bear…think de Gulle may have had something there πŸ™‚

    Stinking phone started ringing at 3ish….alarm was going off at henhouse, the Boss has his phone turned off….and I finally took the phone off the hook after I found out the alarm was the temp inside the henhouse was 55 degrees.

    Went into Workforce One and got some questions answered….the unemployment office has a chat line and it’s quicker to get through than ‘hanging on hold’. Gonna try that this afternoon.

    And Ian got me a ‘viable’ email address since my ISP is discontinuing their email service.

    Llee, I love your paintings ‘First Snow’ and ‘Lean on Me’, they’re beautiful, you do good work girl.

    Jackie, please don’t apologize for your depressions….if it wasn’t for my depressions I’d have nothing to drink for πŸ™‚

    Happy Tuesday

    Mark, still in my prayers.

  16. Debbe Avatar
    Debbe

    GR πŸ˜‰ now you got me started walking……and there is a river of dreams

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hSq4B_zHqPM

  17. Debbe Avatar
    Debbe

    This one is for Jackie…….’and a good captain never goes to sleep’

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LVlDSzbrH5M

  18. Debbe Avatar
    Debbe

    time flies when you don’t know what you’re doing

    http://cheezburger.com/8981406720

  19. emb Avatar

    Todays TIP BlogSpot. Note: This Klimt is not Gustav, but Ernst. Peace,

    http://thatispriceless.blogspot.com/

  20. Smigz Avatar
    Smigz

    Jackie, please, please do not let your blood sugar level get that low. If you don’t have symptoms of low blood sugar (some people don’t), please use a meter to check regularly.

  21. domaucan1 Avatar
    domaucan1

    I spent a beautiful, in more ways than one, weekend in Auburn,AL. Always a great place to visit for me. Fifty year veterinary college reunion coming up in the Spring. Time to renew old friendships and remember the “good old days”! WAR EAGLE !!!
    Blessings and prayers for everyone. Busy day.
    God bless us every one.
    God bless the USA.

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