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.
Look but Don’t Touch
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197 responses to “Look but Don’t Touch”
Anonymous, I can’t get Blondie on Chrome or Internet Explorer. It won’t even show when I go to newspaper comic websites. I wonder what is going on.
By the way, check out Gasoline Alley. You recall Jimmy mentioning Mutt and Jeff a few days ago. There are developments in their narrative happening in the Alley. Go back about a week and start there.
Good artist at getting styles but yes, Janis could have been better dressed.
Anonymous, here it is: http://comicskingdom.com/blondie/2015-10-25
Also, Blondie’s Janis is flat. Blondie, over the decades, has gotten bustier. emb
I wonder, though, if the current artists for these strips did their own characters. Kind of a “jam” comic. Maybe one of them will let us know. I think it’s great to see the crossovers in this and the Gasoline Alley. Helps remind some of who is still around, and introduce the others to a new audience. Way to go!
According to the numbers cited in today’s Gasoline Alley a cat year = 15 human years. So, our last cat which died at 19.5 human years was nearly 300 cat years old!
Debbe 😉 Hello, hon, it’s me.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lLeCB7Kn-VE
Good morning Villagers….
Looking out my window here and the moon is almost full and it is now 5:19 on my computer….where does time fly 🙂
Re: Blondie….I had to get out my magnifying glass just to see all the characters. In Mark’s link, I read some of the comments and someone mentioned great job of photoshop. Just how old is the strip Blondie, and is the original artist still alive….inquiring minds want to know.
45 degrees on my front porch, and the heater is NOT working in the packing room. Skittles got it to run some, by banging on the piece where the gas is supposed to glow into the thingy jingy….told him we better not do that as I still had a few things left in life to do. Guess who will be calling the boss first thing this morning 🙂
GR 😉 cranial rectal inversion….got to remember that one 🙂
ya’ll have a blessed Monday…
GR 😉 and yes, I’m still on Chrissie…I like her version too, just call me……
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TUiaP2jHA-g
🙂
https://i.chzbgr.com/full/8577823488/hF91D0714/
Good morning, Jerry….how is Tippy’s recovery coming along?
Strip of 10.26.15:
I had a laptop once and doubt I will ever have another. I also doubt that I will ever have a laptop, tablet, or a smartphone.
Because a computer is a work tool for me (even at home), I need a desktop.
Also, I have large hands and poor vision. That means that I work better with a large, ergonomic keyboard and two large monitors. I also have a large, ergonomic pointing device.
To speed things up a bit, I also use Dragon Naturally Speaking. I like it better than Siri.
However, Cortana is looking better and better.
Debbe:
The original artist of Blondie passed quite a while ago. I think his son draws and writes the strip now. (By the way, anyone else miss the pack of puppies that used to be in the strip?)
Yesterday, my local paper had a Marmaduke strip, commemorating its original artist whom we lost very recently. Based on the strip’s panel, I think his son is now in charge.
Tippy weighs six pounds, hasn’t let the surgeries slow him down and thinks that he’s just as big as the rest of them. He always comes to me when I call him and lays beside me or lets me hold him. We try to give equal attention to the others but you can tell that Spunky is not the same. Elvis and Cilla have adopted him though. A 7.5 quake is said to have been felt all over Asia, especially Afganistan and Pakistan. The weather has reached us and it is windy and raining.
The long answer to Arlo’s question. http://www.mondaynote.com/2015/10/25/the-pc-is-passe-what-now/
OK, so I asked Siri if laptops are still cool. She didn’t know. She had to look it up on the InterWebNet. Siri can be rather thick sometimes.
GR6, careful what you say about Siri. She is rather sensitive about her thights, call them thick and who knows what she will tell you.
sand, you must have better luck with Siri than I do. When I tell her to show me her thighs, she just responds with “Who, me?” or “You have the wrong Personal Assistant, Ghost.”
Ok, so what is Siri? When I try to look it up I get stuff about Sirius radio and spellcheck doesn’t recognize it either.
Jerry in FL, Siri is a voice-operated personal assistant built into Apple phones and the Ipads. You can ask it a question and it will speak an answer, not always a sensible answer, thus the commentary from Ghost.
Good morning all, I am up and have had my piece of Multigrain bread wrapped around a paper thin slices of fat free ham and an egg cooked in olive oil spray, no salt, no butter, no mayo, no cheese. A bunch of grapes and a Diet Coke. That is brunch actually and Dickens and I are going to walk an hour down in the park by lake after I stop in at $ General who needs my financial contributions. They had to let a large group go at home office.
The ones in stores work their butts off so I say let corporate downsize.
That brunch was delicious by the way. The way I feel is worth it all except I am not suffering any.
Anonie, my lunch was 2-oz low-fat ham and one slice low-fat Swiss on 100% whole wheat bread, water back. Great minds…
Individual $* stores do a good job, in my experience. Even if the shortage of help does make maneuvering a shopping cart down the store aisles a bit problematic on re-stocking days.
GR6, I am having better luck with Siri than I am with this beta version virtual keyboard. One just talks nonsense without thinking while the other makes corrections when I don’t ask.
You can’t make this stuff up: http://apnews.myway.com/article/20151026/us–dog_shoots_woman-41f9a4bbc8.html
Two $ General managers working their butts off stocking shelves.
I went in for sectioned plastic totes for jewelry, gloves, accessories. Told you I am back dressing well a casual version of my Houston days. Ended up with a lot of basic tunics and printed stretch pants on sale, sweaters.
I shamelessly mix expensive with cheap/inexpensive clothes. I began life in teens being recruited as a teen model, mama said no. Then I won A fashion design scholarship, mama still said no. Taught sewing and design principals for the old Stretch and Sew franchise, worked retail clothing for awhile in younger days.
Style sense never leaves but it like any other skill, you have to practice it and I have 20 years off the routine. So I am back studying casual dressing and not a La Kardashian which is trash.
Most people could take me home to their mama and I’ll pass.