A pithy comic strip about life, love, lust and puthy cats.

Est. 1985

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Look but Don’t Touch

By Jimmy Johnson

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I’m not sure if this classic A&J from 1997 has run here before or not, but if it has it was a long time ago. (Where do you get the strange notion I should know these things?) I received word yesterday that the test batch of Arlo & Janis tee shirts has been printed. I haven’t seen them yet, but I will tomorrow. We’ll be tweaking the design as needed, and before you can say “I want one,” the final product will be in production. More on this soon.

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197 responses to “Look but Don’t Touch”

  1. Judy in Conroe Avatar
    Judy in Conroe

    Mark in TT – Conroe is 40 miles north of Houston and a little over an hour east of Brenham, TX, home of Bluebell. While the Brenham factory is not yet back up, Bluebell has made 4 flavors available in our area (Homemade Vanilla, Dutch Chocolate, Butter Brickle, Cookies & Cream). Husband and I are being supportive by buying some Homemade Vanilla on each trip to Kroger. We took some with us for the kids (not available yet in New Orleans area), on an earlier trip to LA, but haven’t decided yet whether we will do so at Thanksgiving – the dry ice in the cooler cost more than the ice cream.

  2. Judy in Conroe Avatar
    Judy in Conroe

    oops – Butter Pecan, not Butter Brickle.

    My son is a big fan of Bluebell and he says that New Orleans is scheduled for Phase 3. JR & I told him he could come visit us any time he wants to indulge.

  3. Judy in Conroe Avatar
    Judy in Conroe

    GR 6 – I’ve copied your recipe – thanks for sharing. It reminds me of a favorite that I have that is based on Butternut Squash and also includes applesauce. I bet this one is just as good!

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    Love pumpkin and butternut squash in any form but especially bisque. I could make it and cut the calories down. But I like Ghosts version. I need to go cut a section of spinach down and find some summer squash.

    All this talk of food has made me hungry!

  5.  Avatar

    Has more cheese and some Naan bread and another Diet Coke. I love Naan just thrown on top of a bare skillet and warmed.

    The cheese is Yancys Fancy roasted garlic aged white cheddar. Thank you Mark for the information on yellow cheddars, why is it done only in America?

    Mums in yard look fantastic and weather has cooled off. I am definitely here until Halloween, cancelling travel and planting flowers and bulbs with new help who are nice kids and try hard.

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    Where is our hurricane report? I refuse to turn on Whether Channel but I am getting VERY distressing Facebook posts from friends on Mexican coast. The ones on Texas and Louisiana coast don’t sound distressed yet but went into marinas.

  7. Mark in TTown Avatar
    Mark in TTown

    Judy, sorry. thought it was Conroe, Ga. Don’t know if you are still getting our ice cream or not, since Blue Bell was shipping product from our Sylacauga plant to TX and OK to restart. Glad you’ve got it. Wish I did. But I would have to drive over 40 miles to get it, and I can wait. Especially since the weather is getting cooler.

  8.  Avatar
    Anonymous

    32 comments and virtually no mention of Janis’ attractiveness….

    We’re slipping!

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    That wasn’t me! I am no longer insecure like Janis was back then.

    Just heard from my sailing friend who has taken refuge a sore in a high rise hotel with cat and left her boat. Most of my friends in Texas and Louisiana are preparing for storm, even here in Oklahoma we are to get heavy rain and possible flooding.

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    Ashore on land. Nazionale philestine phone.

  11. Ghost Rider 6 Avatar
    Ghost Rider 6

    Anonie: By now, Janis’s attractiveness goes with saying. Am I, though, the only one who noticed the position of Arlo’s hands in the third panel, as he says, “I’d stare at them and drool, knowing I couldn’t touch them.”?

    And Janis’s hair, in the fourth panel, gives a whole new dimension to the term “big hair”, doesn’t it?

  12. Ghost Rider 6 Avatar
    Ghost Rider 6

    Alright, then, consider my response as being to Anonymous, rather than to Anonie.

    I guess. This getting confusing.

  13. Charlotte in NH Avatar
    Charlotte in NH

    Dear Jackie, I use a weather site on the Internet. Simply cannot send links, but you can look for National Weather Service; or n o a a; other folks could help, I bet. There’s A LOT of good information here, no commercialsl, no talking heads! Scroll down on the page, you have many options: hurricane maps and forecasts; weather radar; marine weather you’d like. Tornado stuff in season; safety advice — a person could look at this all day!

    Hurricane Patricia, in the Pacific, I’d better take a look. Sounds really serious.

  14. Mark in TTown Avatar
    Mark in TTown

    Anonymous and Charlotte in NH: http://www.wunderground.com/hurricane/

  15. Mark in TTown Avatar
    Mark in TTown

    Ghost, yeah, I noticed! Today’s retro strip is very realistic, in my opinion.

  16. Mindy from Indy Avatar

    Rats, repost from yesterday: Oh, that isn’t the most tasteless jack o’ lantern out there. Search for sexy pumpkin ( or jack o’ lantern) – just don’t say you weren’t warned.
    And just because he was too cute today, my outside silver tiger, another neighborhood co-op.
    https://scontent-ord1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xfa1/t31.0-8/12182646_10156290665425454_5863825514032591899_o.jpg?efg=eyJpIjoibCJ9

  17. Mindy from Indy Avatar

    I rarely eat ice cream with pie. However, the pie that everyone around here fights over is sugar cream. Yummy.

  18. Mark in TTown Avatar
    Mark in TTown

    Mindy from Indy, check out these pumpkins: https://www.google.com/search?q=Vic+Hood+pumpkin+carving&es_sm=122&biw=1024&bih=643&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0CAYQ_AUoAWoVChMI-MDcm9nZyAIVhW8-Ch1NVw5m

    Mr. Hood is an extremely talented carver. My ex and I went to his carving club for a couple of years so she could learn the basics. He owns a company that does restoration of historic buildings and carves too.

  19. Charlotte in NH Avatar
    Charlotte in NH

    I just went to Wikipedia and as I suspected, the lead news article today is about Hurricane Patricia and has all the details a person could want, and it will be freqently updated, which is good. I recommend it. Mark, thank you for your advice — I have looked at the Underground before and didn’t stick with it, forget why. I’ll revisit it and look.

    Jackie, I hope so much that your friends, and their boats, will be safe. Hope of course that all the people and boats in the affected area will be safe! Doesn’t look too good, though.

    Love,
    Charlotte

  20. Ghost Rider 6 Avatar
    Ghost Rider 6

    Anonymous Anonie: I notice your “name” on your posts is now linked to an InterWebNet site, but clicking on it gives a “This webpage is not available” message. Is that supposed to be a link to your Book of Faces page, or to one of the blogs for which you write, perhaps?

  21. Ghost Rider 6 Avatar
    Ghost Rider 6

    Yeah, Lady Mindy, I can see how ice cream on a pie named “sugar cream” would be gilding the lily. 🙂

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    Anonymous

    Well, I can switch to my online and on Facebook name which is Boat Widow which I have been called for many years. It is a term used for women whose husbands are totally absorbed in building boats and boating..

    Or I can go back to using my real name. When Smartphone, tablet and laptop were replaced I never plugged in a name a couple weeks ago.

    I have no preferable name but the other anonymous might?

    Love, Jackie Monies

  23. Ghost Rider 6 Avatar
    Ghost Rider 6

    Yes, Mark, this pumpkin carving is especially realistic.

    http://www.wagcarvingschool.com/siteimages/1014.jpg

  24. Mindy from Indy Avatar

    Mark – I have seen his work before, but I did not know the artist. Thank you.