I limp to the end of this week with a rather generic offering from 1993. However, I’m beginning a project which should have an indirect affect on what we do here. “The Billy Ireland Cartoon Library and Museum” at the Ohio State University has accepted my donation of several dozen original Arlo & Janis comic strips, going back to when the strip began. In the next few weeks, I’ll be rooting through pretty much everything I’ve drawn since 1985. I’m going to pick out a couple of strips from each year to give to the folks in Columbus, but I’ll keep an eye out for anything that might interest us here, as well. Who knows what lurks? I certainly don’t remember. Now, somebody please explain what Boxing Day is.
“I’m figuratively dyin’ here!”
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158 responses to ““I’m figuratively dyin’ here!””
I hate repeating sounds in a sentence so the above could well be the worse sentence that I’ve ever composed.
Don’t feel bad, Jerry. For a long time I thought “#stuff” meant “pound sign stuff”.
Which, come to think of it, makes about as much sense either way.
Ref the link I posted above, there is a “Sign Guestbook” option, as well as one to “View Guestbook”. I’m not suggesting we “break the website” or anything, but I wonder how many entries it can hold. That was…
http://www.gillfirstnational.com/memsol.cgi?user_id=1485642
I’m adding 20th century arson investigation to my personal list of unscientific sciences, based more on guesswork, folklore, and personal interpretation than the scientific method.
Ghost, the signature page requires you enter an email address and you have a choice of public or private entry. I don’t mind having a public entry or having my email available to the family, but I have issues with putting my email on a public list that just anyone can see.
Phone and address info will apparently not be displayed, but it it is not clear that email address will not be.
Of course, I have more “burner” email addresses than I can keep up with.
Thank you Ghost and all the Village. I know the love I have found here and that is OK. I have found in life that love is truly its’ own reward and all one can ask for.
Love, Jackie
I saw just a day or two ago on a rerun of the TV show M*A*S*H that boxing day was a day in England when servants exchanged places with the masters, or in the case of British military, where officers traded places with the enlisted. If there are problems with that version of the holiday, please inform Alan Alda.
Someone here not only posted their full name the other day but exactly where they live. Not a particularly good idea. Someone may want to show up and pose nude for you.
I posted this on the Christmas Day post just before today’s was posted:
Today is also the Feast of St. Steven (from Royal Oak). Although I believe that I have over feasted since Monday (my birthday) Stepen was a great martyr of the very early church and deserves a special day.
Also, I have never quite understood the spelling of Stephen. My Mom named me after her Grandfather who spelled it that way. When asked for the spelling on the birth certificate, she said “with a “v”” as she did not want my name to be Steffen.
I have posted video of my cat that does somersaults so that I can give him his treats every night. On Christmas, my son captured it in slow motion. It’s a little dark.
To see it in real time from an earlier video, you can click on my videos and see it posted twice.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KkKtB5BE_a0&feature=youtu.be&a
Perhaps I should post my address and see if someone shows up and gets naked.
Well, it has happened. 🙂
Good morning Villagers….
GR 😉 thank you for posting the link, Jackie has been on my mind a lot.
So, I just couldn’t help myself with that Cheezeburger pic…..when I saw it, I almost spit my coffee out on the screen. Then GR, you came up with a pretty funny joke.
hc…thanks for helping to explain ‘Boxing Day’…seems to be various answers as to why and what. I see where JJ is asking about it too.
Yesterday was nerve wracking….I had two 15 year olds…..and “Skittles” (alias Dakota) was getting very close to me “knocking his block off”….he is such a child in many ways. Today, I will have three teens, the oldest being 18, he too has a low tolerance for “Skittles” I will be taking my prescription bottle of anti-stress tabs to work today 🙂
My mom got out of the nursing home for one night….my one sister had her spend Christmas night at her house. Mom was thrilled, she said she slept until 10ish…..going in after work again to see her, as the weather is going to be getting colder all week long.
Received a phone call last night…they are dropping little Kyler off for babysitting today and tomorrow……glad I’m working today.
ya’ll have a dry Caturday………………..
today’s grin:
http://cheezburger.com/8329555968
now that tune will be in my head all day….they call it an earwrom don’t they?
Jerry and Indy Mindy, I have a Calvin and Hobbes strip taped to the fridge that has Calvin’s dad walking into the kitchen and saying “Why is it I can remember a commercial jingle from twenty years ago but I can’t remember why I walked in this room?”
Trapper Jean, I’ve said it here before, but it is because my brain is a cornucopia of useless information. It has no use for current information.
This has to stop. I’m eating two breakfasts to try and get rid of all of the cakes and pies and other goodies and I haven’t even touched the rumcake yet. Cloudy with storms predicted for later. It’s usually warm for much of December with some years being a big exception. This has just been a consistently cool month. No sweaters or heavy jackets required yet. No frost this morning for a change. I’m still adjusting to life up here in the Florida hills.
Ummm. Rum cake.
Actually, I only fixed one this year and had none of it, as I left it with my Lower Alabama friends. Debating whether or not to go to a New Year’s Eve party at other friends’ house…may make another to carry to them.
OF erupting, in fog.
http://www.nps.gov/features/yell/webcam/oldFaithfulStreaming.html
There appears to be a bit of testiness on display over on TDS this morning. Have you ever noticed that any cartoon dealing with Arlo and Janis’s sex life seems to bring that out?
Me, I’m just having fun thinking about what “gift” Janis considered worthy of a gift certificate presentation. 😉
Jackie is home for a couple days with Michele, Brandon (SIL) and Jack, almost 3 in March. My gardener/helper and my dog and cat sitter spent all day wrapping beautiful packages for him, arranged in piles on his Pappa’s bed. He had a beautiful Christmas from Mike and my mother and my “staff” who deserve special boxing day gifts. That is what Boxing Day was about in its’ second incarnation, to reward those who served and labored for you and your family.
Dickens, the Christmas dog, almost had a conniption fit when I finally came back to bed and spent entire night licking me until his little tongue almost fell off. The cats jockeyed for space and licked a few licks too.
The donations to the American Cancer Society in Mike’s honor are beginning to arrive. The letters and internet posts and cards. They do help. I am truly humbled to have touched so many lives but Mike deserves the praise for he touched mine as no one else.
I checked, the funeral home and they do not show e-mail addresses at all. They do that to prevent spammers and trolls, who troll the dead as well as the living. In fact, you can use your signature, like Debbe or Ghost or EMB and that is fine, I will know. And you can also send them to me privately and no one else will see them.
I promise not to appear at Ghost’s house in any attire. That didn’t come out right.
Love to all, Jackie Monies
It came out just fine, Jackie. 🙂
I’m happy that Jack had the best Christmas possible.
Love, Ghost
All:
Off topic. Culling files, noticed the URL below, thought it worth posting. I would not have used some of the vulgarity therein, but it does report a sad trend in this nation, and perhaps others. And I’m not sure the apex has been reached, or that it had not been reached earlier; remember the war to eliminate Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction?
Peace, emb
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/08/01/1228320/-The-Fawning-Police-State-The-Apex-of-American-Insanity-Has-Been-Reached?detail=email
Congratulations, Jimmy! My sister and I visited the Billy Ireland museum this past summer to see the Watterson/Thompson exhibit. Lovely place, lots of light, and plenty of parking in the nearby parking garage. We may return this summer and it would be great to see your work there.
Merry Christmas to you and to all in the Village.
Cool ! I got the entire DVD set of the Wild Wild West for Christmas – it’s the original steampunk
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12/26 12:14 PM “But science is the best way to answer some pretty important questions about this physical universe”, which scientists do I pick?
http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052702303480304579578462813553136 – ——
12/26 9:12PM – “posted their full name the other day but exactly where they live” , eh yeah, but you’d need my gate code