I’m running late today, but I am here! The above A&J from five years ago is a good example of something I mention here rather often. Regardless of what one thinks of the joke itself, it’s a good example of the essential comic strip, one where the words and the art are equally important. Take one away, and the other doesn’t work. No less than Charles Schulz said, it is what makes a comic strip a comic strip.
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Lady Mindy, just how long has it been since you cleaned out your closets?
Yeah, that would be some great publicity, alright. You know, the one based on the premise, “We made a really, really stupid corporate decision a few months ago, but don’t worry; we’re going to fix it and soon things will be as they ever were. Oh, and please don’t tell our shareholders. Thank you very much.”
Good one, Gal. Although it appears Arlo may have overdone it a bit. I’d prefer a woman to respond with a slight blush and then slide closer to me while offering a titter, rather than turning crimson and sitting there in shocked silence.
And before Loon says anything, let me add…
titter (n) a tittering laugh
I wish I had the computer smarts so many of you do! If you love flowers and gardens as I do, I recommend “visiting” the Bayfield , WI inn Mark found for me. I love this place, it is just an older motel that was turned into the most beautiful place with the use of flowers and plants done creatively. It is a work of love, done by the wife of owners I believe. We visit a lot of gardens and lakes and look at rural landscapes with wild flowers.
Texas takes advantage of their wildflowers and plants and encourages plantings. I am opposed to mowing and wish our entire country were flowers and wildflowers from coast to coast.
Once I was doing the flowers for Ladybird Johnson’s visit to NASA to dedicate something in Lyndon’s memory. A dumb female VP from Texas bank who was hosting the event called with a “brilliant idea she’d had!” I should go out on roadsides and pick the flowers because she’d heard Ladybird liked wildflowers.
I pointed out not too politely that first, it was February in Texas and not much in bloom, and secondly, Ladybird had worked hard to get laws passed that prohibited such picking on roadsides, protecting our flowers! And thirdly, while I had wildflowers planned for the event they were being flown in from Holland, grown in hothouses!
Love, Jackie Monies
Here’s another from a few days later. It shows that men and women will probably never agree on what we think is attractive.
http://www.gocomics.com/arloandjanis/2000/06/07
Jackie: “It is a work of love, done by the wife of owners I believe.” Polyandry? In Wisconsin?
Very funny Ghost, but yes, it’s been a while. If my memory serves, I first discovered it behind the bar at my maternal grandparents’ house, disguised in an old Coronet toaster box. From there, it lived on the top shelf of my parents’ closet; at some point, I brought it home with me and it’s lived on MY closet shelf. My eight year old self wrote my own and sister’s names and ages on the top of the box, likely the last time we put it together. I remembered it as HUGE, imagine my rueful surprise tonight to find it had “shrunk.” To paraphrase Arlo – it’s always been that size, you just don’t remember being that small.
Trucker, I saw that after I sent it. Don’t think you can edit this later? I asked who did flowers and gardens, expecting to hear a landscape company and they said owner’s wife.
David, I would add a little to your linked strip, or rather subtract a lot. Janis’ figure looks fat to me. 😛
Jackie, and anyone who loves flowers, should visit here if they are ever in South Alabama near Mobile.
http://www.bellingrath.org/home/
CXP, I do love “small world” coincidences! Jim spent a considerable amount of time in Malott Hall his first two years at KU when he was an engineering student. He started college in 1956–right after Sputnik went up, and every American boy who could add 2 and 2 and reliably get 4 was supposed to become an engineer and help us catch up with the Russians! (Anybody else here remember that?) After two years he figured out that wasn’t where he belonged and got into math ed where he did belong. He went back to grad school from ’61 to ’63, but that was also in math ed. I, in the meantime, was firmly in the liberal arts, with a double major in French and German, taking botany and geology for my sciences. I think I placed out of math altogether. We got married in 1963 and I graduated in 1964. Jim taught at West Junior High for five years after he got his master’s. He always says he taught high school, junior high, and college, and he liked junior high the best.
Were you teaching at KU or doing grad work–or both? Jim thinks he remembers that Stouffer Place was married student housing….
Most women’s figures probably look fat to you, Munchkin. 😀
Lady Mindy, how many pieces are there to the puzzle?
How can I choose a season, Mark? They sound fabulous! I don’t care how many boats we are towing the next time I go through Mobile I have to see those. We go to Florida for the Everglades Challenge in first week of March so I might catch two bloomings?
Mike does love to see flowers, he just hates growing them and gardening! And especially mowing grass or weed eating.
We seem to tour for flowers, water/rivers/lakes, historic homes, nautical museums and REALLY good food.
Thanks and love, Jackie Monies
Anyone know some good restaurants in Wilmington, DE or close by?
Jackie, sounds like Mobile would be good for you and Mike then. You’ve got flowers, Mobile Bay with the forts (Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead), the USS Alabama plus planes and a submarine, and lots of fresh seafood. I can’t really recommend restaurants there because i’ve only visited twice and that was about 20 years ago.
If nobody comes up with food recommendations for Wilmington, try the TripAdvisor website. Or there is another called UrbanSpoon.
Jackie, all I can tell you is that is if you stop in Mobile, stay at, or at least eat at, the Battleship Inn. I love that place! Their hamburger steak smothered in onions is to die for, or was in 2009, anyway
NK/AZ: I was a chem grad student, although wasn’t then a TA ( I did some later on and had done some earlier). Took about 5 graduate level math courses, too, mainly in whatever the administration building was called and one in Summerfeld. Aim was to get a math minor on my doctorate, but the university dropped the concept of minors on Ph.D.s right about then.
Yep, Stouffer was married student housing. Whether it was exclusively for married grad students or for any married students, we never found out. All the people we lived near were in grad school.
If you go to one of the map sites and check out the campus, our building 3 was the one nearest the NE corner of 19th & Iowa (US 59?) intersection; from a different point of view, it’s the one most to the SW of that part of the campus. Apartment 12 was top floor, most to the right as seen from the front. At the time, there were 6 1-bedroom apts. on each floor but when we last visited (’94) we found that the top 6 had been changed to include at least two 2-br apts (+ two 1-br); possibly just three 2-br. 1-br was fine for us; we had no kids. Our major problem was that the end wall was attached to the heavy concrete stairs. The stairs were sinking a bit and pulled the wall outwards enough that, on a windy day, a lit match or small candle could be blown out if held in the cracked corner inside the apt. We lived there 5 years. In response to my fairly mild complaint, the university did more plastering and then paneled the end wall. I believe we probably were the only Stouffer inhabitants with paneled walls in the lr. and in the br., both of which shared that end wall.
The height there allowed quite a view to the NE around to SW; too bad for any tornados coming from the W or NW sides. I did see my first tornados from the hill in back of the apt.; it was an interesting twin-funnel job and did little damage. I did hear, possibly correctly, that it had taken some older woman in her tub out of her house and deposited her safely on the ground, still in the tub. Stranger things have happened.
I remember very well the bad one of early June in ’65 or ’66. That one damaged every building on a college campus (not KU) in Topeka. We drove over to see what had occurred and were properly appalled. Several people attempting to take shelter in the SW corner of one building’s basement lived only because they couldn’t figure out which was the SW corner! The real SW corner was blown in and stony rubble filled it; they were in a different corner.
Washburn U., on June 8, 1966. Google it for images.
Good morning Villagers….
Well, we’re down an employee…and just before the purge of the hen house. My nephew-in-law quit. Long story short, he’s an ingrate. And a very angry young man. Drama…hate it.
But hey, Indy Mindy, when you’re done cleaning out your closets, come on down and help me with mine. I’ve got to do some boxing and donate to St. Vincent’s…clothes I’ve not worn in years…..lots of dresses that no longer fit, and on, and on, and on.
I love the wild roses that grow along side these country roads. Not to mention the Black eyed susans…which are my favorite.
Stocking up on eggs, the other hen house is in molt (no eggs), and then we’ll have none for about 2 to 3 weeks…..gonna bring home about 4 trays, that’s 120 eggs…think that will last us?
gotta go….later….
GR 😉
today’s grin: https://i.chzbgr.com/maxW500/8277629184/hE0AFE4CF/
Debbe, younger daughter walked into breezeway last month and said, “Your dogs are mulching.” I said, “What, you mean they’ve chewed up something?” She said, “No, you know, mulching like camels do when their fur falls off.”
I said, “You mean molting like chickens.”
Today’s A and J, YES! Jimmy does read our comments. Arlo just picked one of those gold plated tomatoes I grow!
Harvest yesterday was 5 small yellow cherry tomatoes and a handful of green beans. Helper is out installing the trellis wiring on the 4 x 4’s and I put the inoculate on the sprouting beans and peas. We will plant them come hell or high water today!
In trenches with some peat moss to keep cooler and moister, then idea is you can back fill the trenches as they grow and V-trench holds moisture.
Love, Jackie Monies
Debbe, cat quote so good! Mine and my 12## dog often run UP my body, beginning at bottom to face and that will wake you up with a start!
Love, Jackie
Did anyone else watch Mark Twain last night? My mom kept talking to me and didn’t care to watch, so I gave up and Mike recorded it for me. Then I gave up and looked at photos of his funeral on internet and the reenactment. I think Twain would have enjoyed both? Not sure.
Great quote, about funerals. “I did not attend but I sent a lovely note saying I approved.”
Love, Jackie Monies
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