Sure enough, it was about the time of today’s old A&J (1993) that Gene seriously began to transition from being a little kid to being a bigger kid. I’m running late again, today. Turkey hangover would be as good an excuse as any, which brings me to, I hope you had a great Thanksgiving holiday! I have been in further contact with our potential Web designers since I brought the subject up last week, and I’m getting pretty excited about it. I really think we’ll see something this winter. I appreciate those of you who suggest, “Don’t change anything!” Really, how could that not be flattering. However, we all know things change, and let’s be frank: the ol’ Web site is way overdue for some updating. I can assure you, however, the basic experience you have now will be available, along with a lot more. Don’t worry! It’s going to be fun.
It’s Only a Phase
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59 responses to “It’s Only a Phase”
I was the anonymous poster several hours back; apologies for the lack of attribution.
As long as the fruitcake isn’t dry, I am a BIG fan thereof! Claxton is preferred.
As in the case of most foods, good fruit cake is good. The problem, I think, is that there are far too many examples of “not-good fruitcake” out there. “Dry”, as cxp indicates, perhaps being the most egregious of the fruitcake sins, with the use of cheap candied fruit being close behind.
As I’ve mentioned, rum cake is my holiday cake of choice, both to prepare and to try not to eat too much of. And it seems to me to be more difficult to make a bad rum cake than it is to make a bad fruitcake.
Jerry – May your return be swift and bearing great news on your son’s health. Until then, peace.
Ghost – It’s really, REALLY hard to go wrong with rum. 🙂
Bah hum bug, use the rum for walking the plank; go with a good brandy in the fruit cake.
Jerry, hang in there.
My grandma used to always bake delicious fruitcake. She was a staunch Baptist, with my Grandpa a deacon in their church. My dad would have to buy the rum or brandy for soaking the cake out of town and bring it at Thanksgiving. I think she kept a bottle of “rum flavoring” for her friends to see if they wondered about the taste.
Jerry, sorry that your step-son isn’t well. I pray for a speedy recovery.
Lady Mindy, how did I know you were going to say that? 🙂
News Flash! (No pun intended) 56-year-old Madonna poses topless for a magazine shoot. Apparently, there’s no such thing as too much attention for some people. And before anyone asks, all I looked at was the pixilated version of the photo illustrating the article.
“If you’ve seen two, you’ve seen them all.” – George Burns
Believe Burns based that generalization on personal experience, but he was clearly wrong. Perhaps he just was emphasizing they were not the ultimate goal. Once, in George’s tenth decade, someone asked him, “When did sex stop for you”? “About three o’clock this morning.”
Au contraire [speelczech accepts that], back when toplessness [but not that] on Mediterranean beaches was news, a French person [cannot remember gender] dismissed the hoopla with, “Bre asts are like noses; they’re all different.” TIME, ’70s or so.
Jerry, I second what Mindy from Indy said! Speedy recovery for your stepson and excellent holiday season for you all.
No fruitcake for me please. Can’t stand that candied citron’s flavor. But if you have a good homemade German Chocolate Cake, count me in. I miss my mom’s version of that cake more than anything else she ever cooked. But I still have Mom!
Ghost, I saw M’s photos in the rabbit magazine in the 1980’s and was not impressed then. Unlike many things, I doubt there is any improvement with age.
http://www.billboard.com/articles/news/6334796/madonna-paul-mccartney-worlds-richest-list
Billboard has just named Madonna worlds wealthiest recording artist. Goes to show two of a kind can be a real winner.
“Nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public.” – H. L. Mencken
Debbe 😉 A Christmas song with a Western slant…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HVfP9MDZExk
sandcastler: Longest Run on the Billboard 200
Pink Floyd’s acclaimed 1973 classic “Dark Side of the Moon” has spent an amazing 861 weeks riding the Billboard 200 album chart. That’s over 16 (non-consecutive) years!
Quality lasts!
Jerry, good thoughts for his speedy recovery, and may you be home soon!
c ex-p, my mom favored Claxton fruitcakes, too. I have never cared for any type of fruitcake, but if I must partake let it be Alton Brown’s Free-Range Fruitcake. When my younger daughter got married I baked one of those for the groom’s cake. Not bad. Mark, it has no citron in it!
For Ghost, Indy Mindy, and whomever- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybNPAsjqeco
JJ, honey, I realize there must be change, and that’s okay. Just don’t change things too much at once. Some of us are not all that technically minded. 🙂
I have often heard that people are promoted to their level of incompetence.
I haven’t seen anything about the Madonna pictures, but I did notice the headlines announcing another Kardashian is showing the public her better side. whoop-de-doo.
Another Kardashian?
Somehow, I think this bit fits in here
http://faithtap.com/2120/jeanne-robertson-why-you-dont-send-husband-grocery-shopping/
Enjoy the day all. Another long one.
Good morning Villagers…..
Jerry, I am sorry to hear about your stepson, I pray that his condition/illness gets better and he home for the holidays………………AMEN. Try and keep us posted, please.
GR 😉 I googled “madder than a wet hen” and found some interesting comments. I checked my water consumption, and it went back to normal, around 4100 gallons a day those girls drink. Of course, there are small leaks….(I’m going to regret this) like dripping nipples, water nipples that is, those yellow thingies that join the PVC piping down 600 feet of a row of cages. I wouldn’t want to pay his electric bill or water bill….The Boss’s infamous saying “they don’t pay me enough for my eggs!”
Mark….good album, oh the memories that album brings back 🙂
Babysitting did not go well yesterday, the second phone call from my husband was “help”. There were three men here and not one would change that poor child’s diaper. And he was a little stinker. I changed the diaper and took a “stress tab” 🙂 (They are prescription) Rachel must be desperate for a babysitter, as she is dropping him off again today. Think I will be putting in a longer day today 🙂
Ya’ll have a blessed day……
Indy Mindy…..bless you and your hard work
today’s grin: http://cheezburger.com/8389845248
JJ, will you be offering that chicken tea kettle on your new site 🙂
Prayers, Jerry – hang in there!
Looking forward to it.
If someone told me they had yellow nipples, my first thought would be to suggest a liver function test.
I arrived just in time for GR6’s yellow nipple post. Have seen them in blue, red, green, and silver this year. Seems it is trendy to go bare breasted with painted nipples. So yellow works too.