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!””
It’s the old year being chased out by the much younger new year.
Still no predictions, but there are people there, the webcam is keeping a watch, and there’s lots of vapor. Of course, it’s prominent in cold air. emb
http://www.nps.gov/features/yell/webcam/oldFaithfulStreaming.html
Jerry: Of course. How could I not see that! Peace, emb
It’s blowing, and there are predictions: 1347 +/- 10 min. Blew about 1341. emb
http://www.nps.gov/features/yell/webcam/oldFaithfulStreaming.html
Thanks Jerry, it was lost on me; now I see it.
Jerry, I missed that totally. I was laughing at Ludwig and the kitten but just because I have had cats and kittens, dogs and puppies like that.
I just commented that Jimmy really nailed it, I have had a puppy who hung onto my keishhound
like that, being dragged all over the house with a puppy on her fur.
Love, Jackie
I could just hear Luddie grumbling “Durn kid! Get off my lawn!”
Jerry, it’s been grey and drizzly here all day, too.
OF next due 1634-1654.
http://www.nps.gov/features/yell/webcam/oldFaithfulStreaming.html
Thar she blows!
I enjoy once or twice a day going to the Abbey Road live cam to see what the Brits and the crazy tourists are up to. There was almost a bad accident this morning as someone turned out to the wrong (right) side of the street and almost hit another vehicle head on. They both stopped in time, but I can imagine calling 911 and reporting an accident on Abbey Road.
Jerry, 911 would get you nothing in the UK. You would need to dial 112.
Ghostly Observation #27
Judging by the dumpsters at my Mom’s apartment complex, Christmas is not only the happiest day of the year, it’s the trashiest day as well.
Q: Do you know why no one in (name of central European country people tell jokes about) knows how to call 911?
A: They can’t find the “eleven” on their phones.
Keeping checking in with us, Jackie. You never know what brand of inspired foolishness you may encounter here.
Speaking of which…
Obscure reference of the day: “A légpárnás hajóm tele van angolnákkal.”
GR6, whatever have you been doing with your hovercraft? And as to the eels, are you smoking or pickling them?
After looking up that phrase, I think whoever created it was smoking his eels. Are the people who create language lessons that bored with their jobs?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G6D1YI-41ao
I love the British bobby’s 911 (or 112) system.
Mark, one of the Beijing daily newspapers publishes a list of American slang phrases each day. Phrases like,”Kodak moment” and The cat kicked the bucket” leaves Chinese readers confused. Not always easy to explain. So whenever I come across funny foriegn pharses I always wonder what I don’t know. 😉
Actually it’s 112 for Europe; most Brits use 999. Both work, but the 999 existed first and people use what they’re more familiar with.
Here’s a recent PSA in Britain that includes the 999 number… and it’s both informative and funny:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ILxjxfB4zNk
I’ve never worked up the nerve to ask who did the emergency breathing for me in 2009; they were still teaching CPR with the “kissing” back then.
sandcastler, in 10 years “Kodak moment” will be a nonsense phrase to elementary school children, like “a real stem-winder” is to those born after battery-powered watches took over. The same probably applies to anything to do with photographic film.
You all make me smile, just as you did when I was lurking here. Keep it up, Laughter helps as pain relief and therapy. Just ate some great spiral ham from neighbor with a Diet Coke. Had Italian wedding soup for dinner. See? I am getting some nutrition, nothing compulsively fattening or driving up my blood sugars. In fact, usually the opposite, I’m having to watch the lows.
But I’m trying to be good and take meds, get some sleep, which I will do in a minute I think. The dog and cats comforted me all night last night. How do they know? They do. Dickens slept in a curled up “ball” with his head on my heart all night. He has never done that in his life. Skipper got right beside him while Ashes and Garfield took the left side flank.
I am going to keep sleeping in back part of house with animals and keep front half clean for Jack and Michele’s use. Plus, Jack has to have the master bath floor to erect train tracks and put together the bridges and catapults, etc. It is same size as master bedroom, as it was once a room, not a bath.
Love, Jackie Monies
Wonder what the Chinese would make of “Cray-cray epic photobomb fail while merked”?
Sleep well, Jackie.
sandcastler, Symply and emb, have fun with these: http://hubpages.com/hub/Funny-Southern-Sayings-and-Southern-Expressions
What does it mean? I have moved into totally “out” mode I think.