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Today we have a Saturday post featuring an A&J from 2004. As I have mentioned, I’ll be in New England in August, at the Boston Comic Con Aug. 12-14 and at the Vermont Comic Con Aug. 27-28. This is my first real venture into this sort of thing, and I chose New England, because I have a lot of readers there whom I’ve never had a chance to meet. I have shipped more copies of “Beaucoup Arlo & Janis” to Massachusetts than to any other state. I am happily aware I have followers in other places as well, particularly the upper Midwest. I am thinking I might do this convention thing two or three times a year if all goes well in the northeast. I’m open to suggestions for appearances in 2017. Do you have a comics convention where you live? It seems everyone does!
58 responses to “Knock Knock Joke”
Good morning. Jimmy you are up early.
Jimmy does more before 9:00 AM than most folks do all day. (Thanks, US Army!)
I suspect the retro cartoon above is on the short list for the “Arlo & Janis After Dark” book.
In the USAF, of course, at 9:00 AM we were having our third cup of coffee, checking the markets, and starting to think about what to wear that day. 🙂
And then there are those of us who went back to sleep and just woke up again. A 10 pound Adventure Dog is enthusiastically licking my foot. He has a foot fetishist and dove under comforters when I greeted him. Now I have to let him lick or it hurts his feelings.
You get used to it unlike cats who lick.
Jackie, the Venezuela you knew is obviously not the Venezuela of today.
http://www.cnbc.com/2016/07/29/venezuela-calls-for-mandatory-labor-in-farm-sector.html
Perhaps Bernie should go down there and show them how to do socialism right. He probably has lots of time on his hands.
Posted w/ little comment, just to keep the record straight.
http://au.org/blogs/wall-of-separation/the-beginning-and-the-end-religious-right-prophecy-scholar-dies
IMO, he is forgiven; we all are. But I think he’s in for a talking-to, and maybe penance of some constructive sort. I suspect I am, too, but that Elaine got off pretty easily.
Peace,
Venezuela wasn’t in very good shape when I lived there. I vividly remember poverty, revolution and dictatorial governments. All Americans should experience that to appreciate our own country. And avoid dictators.
I am being head butted by a hungry spoiled cat named Skipper.
GR6, in the Army dressing was a no brainer: green clothes and boots for taking where the work was.
Scroll down from Debbe’s cheezeburger yesterday and you come to a matching quiz: match the photo to the pictured animal’s ‘scientific name’.Since you have another turn whenever you guess wrong, you eventually get all right, and it says, ‘Wow.’
The quiz is not consistent: sometimes it’s order, sometimes family, once even subspecies. I knew some, but of course eventually got all right. Fun, and some of them may stick, at least as recognition if not recall. Peace,
‘2. All Americans should experience that to appreciate our own country. And avoid dictators.’
Interesting wrinkles on that. Daniel Arap Moi was the +/- benevolent dictator of Kenya when we were there on an 18-day safari in ’87. In Nairobi, his photo was in every store, sure sign this is not just the country’s elected leader. Kenya is capitalist, and you can own land, but what you do has got to be ok w/ the boss. Basically, low-key fascism. There were camo-uniformed* soldiers around, but not so many you’d always see them. Don’t know how limited the press was, but clearly some. Very comfortable being there, and interesting to be part of the very obvious minority. [*Illegal for civilians / visitors to wear camo.]
Same time, ’80s-’90s, church friends [former ’60s BSU students] visited USSR often, mostly what is now Chechnya, same story. Plus, if you forgot your wallet someplace, it was waiting for you when you went back. [That, I believe, is now less likely there.]
USSR was ‘Communist’ [actually something the Soviets never really achieved, and possibly unachievable]: the state owned everything except some personal stuff, and everyone worked for the state, or had a ‘job’ involving little work. Turned out to be inoperable, largely [IMO] / failure of real feedback up to where it was needed. But like Kenya, fine place for non-threatening foreigners to visit. Now, like Kenya in ’87, basically low-key fascism, and probably not a good place to mislay your wallet. Few years ago, a Russian civilian was quoted, ‘Everything Marx told us about Communism was false, but everything he told us about capitalism was true.’
Is ‘Communist China’ communist? Major difference btw. it and the other two now is that you cannot own land, but can own whatever the Party allows you to build on it, and most [much?] production/employment is capitalist. Good 5-day visit there in the late ’90s, just after Thanksgiving, wrote 3 columns, no good reason to post them here. One item stolen from my backpack, outdoors, in a crowded park; one I could not manage without today.
Peace,
Well embedded you should have gone to Cuba, central America or south America, especially during a revolution. My memories aren’t so benevolent.
That was emb obviously Hal changed to embedded.
Suppose I just knew too many whose family was on the side being over thrown.
Hey, the rats chasing Arlo and Janis in the banner are great. Haven’t mentoned how good all your artwork for the “project” is but it is what it is, excellent.
Kickstart has gone over $15,000 and I am proud of Jimmy and the Village. Only four days to go.
Having a late brunch with our daughter before going to Wrigley. Using Uber for the first time.
Jimmy come on up to Detroit anytime. Just anywhere in the Midwest would be cool.
Debbe
When my daughter was in the Girl Scouts, she taught us to roll our clothes and I have used it ever since.
Trucker, from early this morning: Yep, there is a difference between, say, “three times more than” and “three times as much”. Other similar wordings are possible. Example:
Suppose a chap [or chappess?] drives along at 25 mph. If another person drives three times as fast, that second person is moving at 75 mph. However, if a third party drives three times faster than the chap/pess, then that third party is driving at 100 mph. One could also have stated hat the third party’s rate of speed was three times more than the chap/pess’ rate of speed.
I learned too as a salesman that 70% less 10 less 10 less 10 still did not give it to you free, just cheap.
Yes, Jimmy, they have a little comics con every July in San Diego, about 300 miles south of here.
This song just popped up on my radio a few minutes ago and it seemed so appropriate given some of our recent comments. You see, I love America and always have. I love the geography, the scenery, the people, the little towns and even some of the big ones. I could have traveled the world but I chose America.
https://youtu.be/yfnA4XAvLk4
TruckerRon on 30 Jul 2016 at 1:28 pm #
Joke for today!
A blonde lady motorist was about two hours from San Diego when she was flagged down by a man whose truck had broken down…
The man walked up to the car and asked, “Are you going to San Diego?”
“Sure,” answered the blonde, “do you need a lift?”
“Not for me. I’ll be spending the next three hours fixing my truck. My problem is I’ve got two chimpanzees in the back that have to be taken to the San Diego Zoo. They’re a bit stressed already so I don’t want to keep them on the road all day. Could you possibly take them to the zoo for me? I’ll give you $100 for your trouble.”
“I’d be happy to,” said the blonde.
So the two chimpanzees were ushered into the back seat of the blonde’s car and carefully strapped into their seat belts, and off they went…
Five hours later, the truck driver was driving through the heart of San Diego when suddenly he was horrified! There was the blonde walking down the street, holding hands with the two chimps, much to the amusement of a big crowd.
With a screech of brakes he pulled off the road and ran over to the blonde.
“What are you doing here?” he demanded, “I gave you $100 to take these chimpanzees to the zoo!”
“Yes, I know you did,” said the blonde. “But we had money left over so now we’re going to Sea World.”
Trucker: That is hilarious, perhaps the more so because I used to take care of chimps and other critters at the Bronx Zoo.
Jackie: I made no claims re fascist countries in general, and I love the USA as much as anyone. Therefore, I am particularly disturbed, when [IMO] our national behavior disappoints me.
I may express my love differently from some. E.g., I don’t own a flag, but strive to leave a smaller ‘footprint’ than many do.
Peace,
The comic com where I live in Columbus, Ohio is this weekend. Interesting folks wandering around the convention center while I shopped at the North Market.
Our national behavior has often distressed me my entire life. We do not treat our fellow citizens as we should but neither do most of the world treat theirs so well. Given poverty in a third world nation or America I’d still take America. Ditto on politics although right now I am appalled.
Somebody link that link about alternative candidates please. It’s time to go back to America the beautiful.
About ‘America the beautiful.’ All four stanzas are worth considering. Peace,
My favorite lines, that you rarely hear – “Confirm thy soul in self control, thy liberty in law.”