I hope you noticed, the current A&J strips a couple of weeks back were about space travel and the planets, including our own. I tried to convey, in what I hoped was an amusing way, the simple point that it would be easier, cheaper and a far better gamble to take care of our own comfortable planet instead of counting on space travel to save our bacon should Earth “become uninhabitable” in the future. Of course, I was excoriated by some for “getting political.” It’s inevitable this day and time. Here’s another “political” cartoon from way back in 1993. I mean, weren’t you taught to save money and not borrow recklessly? Arlo and Janis, where we court controversy fearlessly.
66 responses to “It’s the stupid economy!”
Vapors [or vapours] must have a more explicit definition. Here ‘vapours’ is [still undefined], in the 2nd stanza of my favourite G&S duet, from ‘Ruddigore.’ [The props are sui generis.] The story leading up to this 2nd act bit is complex, but the gentleman was previously a ‘bad baronet,’ and the lady his love whom he abandoned, knocking her off her rocker.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AOQIiOyHpcQ
I’m secretary or editor for pretty much everything I ever belong to. I’ll be secretary of Ghost’s fan club.
Here’s a rare fish… the elusive megamouth shark:
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2017/07/rare-megamouth-shark-sighting-video-spd/
I nominate Galligo as treasurer for the Ghost Fan Club. Can’t think of anyone more qualified to count the club dues.
Mindy, Llee, Debbie, Laura, Smygz I am inviting you to join, along with anyone else who’d like to be included. We will have Ghost Reports.
First report, he is down where he is looking so good I am threatening buying a tux so we can go to social events like the one where Rich Widow Lady bought him. The best Eufaula has to offer is an Elvis tribute next month.
However, the Legacy dinner theater group is full of about a hundred single seniors, all female and all alone. I had planned to wear some skin tight metallic jeans and a heavily beaded jacket with 1960s hair and makeup as my Elvis “tribute.”
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Really!
From Mindy from Indy on FB: https://scontent-dft4-2.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/20258146_1436830476399261_2441133554410101588_n.jpg?oh=2a226d6f52473031ff949052b721c1c3&oe=5A059E10
June Foray, the woman who voiced Rocky the Flying Squirrel has died. She was 99.I just loved her voice work . She was the witch who was always losing hairpins in the Warner Brothers cartoons.
June Foray has over 300 credits for her work at IMDB. She truly was incredible
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I nominate Galligo as treasurer for the Ghost Fan Club. Can’t think of anyone more qualified to count the club dues.”…..
What dues? LOL
Virtual dues.
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Just heard from my hospital to schedule a needle biopsy and an ultrasound on breast. It is set for next Tuesday at 9 a.m.
They were doing it tomorrow but no one told me to get off plavix blood thinner.
Met with my lawyer who it turns out has had FOUR forms of cancer and survived all, including breast cancer.
She assured Ghost that not only were the dancers mostly naked but the ballet was extremely erotic that was being performed.
Just found out who my surgeon is, Dr. Laurie Flynn. She heads the Hilcrest cancer surgery group and is highly qualified, having gone to Ole Miss as undergrad and to University of Mississippi Medical School, then internship and residency at Baptist in Alabama, finally specialty residency at Sloan Kettering. I am convinced with all 5 star reviews.
Ghost, if you like aliens you should read Footfall. Similar plot device as Lucifer’s Hammer with herd-beast aliens added. Same authors, so some of the same astronomy & physic applies.
I’m rereading all the Known Space and Puppeteer novels from Nivens now. If you know that universe, from what I know of you from this blog, I’ve thought of you as someone like Gil the ARM. Hopefully you are busier chasing organleggers and not caught on mother hunts!
If you like Niven, read the “World out of Time” series which includes Integral Trees and Smoke Ring if you haven’t. It’s a different universe than Known Space and doesn’t have FTL space travel.
Jackie, hope the biopsy goes well and the result is easily treatable!
Jackie, I hope the biopsy proves the mammogram to be wrong, and that it will simply be dense tissue or something which is not cancer. Glad you have your Ghost support team there.
Jimmy posted a new retro strip this morning, “When Shadows Crawl,” and I didn’t notice! 🙁