Judging from the appearance of this simple Sunday cartoon from May, 2007, I was in a hurry when I drew it. Believe it or not, it happens. Its saving grace is the joke, though; I like it. It’s humorous and—I like to think—original. That’s what you shoot for. Many times over my career, I’ve had conversations with people who ask a variation of the question, “So, you could, like, draw six months ahead and take six months off?!” Technically, the answer is, Yes. The question almost always is asked with the breath of incredulity, and I know they’re wishing they could work that way. Perhaps they could. I can’t. I can’t get so much as a week ahead, and I do try. For 30 years, I have tried. At least I am reconciled to the fact that’s the way it is. I’m just lucky to have this gig at all.
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221 responses to “More Computer-Generated Humor”
I know I do. Cannot speak for your female doc.
This is semi family blog site, Ghost.
Bob’s doctor provided him with an eye patch to use after his surgery but it was clear and taped on. No resemblance to either the Hathaway or Brenda’s mystery man, plus he pulled it off in his sleep at least once.
I just typed a paragraph, and when I hit Submit Comment, it all disappeared! Boo hoo.
Well, this one sentence came through all right. I had said it was easy to get on the site — my computer is quite uncluttered; I use Internet Explorer, nothing fancy.
Something is playing games again (rather, “still”). It is nigh unto impossible to get here.
Bet it’s been a while since you heard/read that expression….
Also got here circuitously, but nothing much to report. My giant bowl of red seedless grapes, in bunches of 2-6, is all ready for UMC Palm Sunday ham dinner* tomorrow. They are well-received; usually about 10% to take home. Buncha culls to throw out for the birds tomorrow morning. If I threw them out now, the deer would get them, and they are a royal pain, even though I’m a mammalogist [@($}&%%$&# speelczech!]. Happy P.S.
Peace, emb
*Too many people are away or doing their own dinners Easter. Bah Humbug!
Test: ?
So much for trying to use capital sigma for Sunday.
Finally managed to get here, we will see what prints, if it does. I am for eye patch, with or without shirt, but beard required, clothing optional, sea captain mystery man, I am telling you I loved the sea captain’s ghost in Ghost and Mrs. Muir, does anyone remember the t.v. show? It was Rex Harrison in movie of course, very discreet ghost too.Favorite Rex Harrison role actually.
Find I need a new keyboard, this one is gone.
“Capital sigma”? I don’t get it. It’s past my bedtime here in NH, must shut down computer. Hope this posts all right!
Gee, it posted okay! Jackie, yes, I remember The Ghost and Mrs. Muir, although it was so long ago I don’t remember much about it. Wish I’d seen the movie, but I didn’t. I do love Rex Harrison!
http://images1.fanpop.com/images/photos/2300000/The-Ghost-And-Mrs-Muir-classic-television-revisited-2347311-563-733.jpg
This one’s for you, Jackie.
Let’s give this a try: Σ
I got there with by entering the code I found at:
http://www.dionysia.org/html/entities/symbols.html
Just enter the code beginning with the ampersand and ending with the semicolon wherever you want the special character to appear.
What, Mark? No Rex Harrison so Charlotte can see him too? I do have this thing about the sea I admit. Wait, you were Navy right? But mine were always the Jimmy Buffett ones that lived in days of sailing ships, not the modern ones so much, the pirate looks at 40 or in my case more than 40 I am afraid.Not the yacht club insignia look, the sea wolf or Kris Kristopherson, smart and disheveled. Not fair to let Ghost play the fantasy game alone.
Sorry, Jackie. I was in the tech Navy, dealing with high-tech (for 1970’s communication gear). As for looks, my ex told her sister that I looked like the photo of Bill Gates that appeared on the cover of Time in the 1990’s. But I am 6’5″ and although 60, look younger, such is genetics. Guess at some point I will have to try for a self-portrait to post on FB so the new friends I have not met will know what I look like. Only fair since most of them have their pictures there. Good night all.
I think this is the photo she referred to:http://img.timeinc.net/time/magazine/archive/covers/1999/1101990322_400.jpg
Good morning Villagers….
Aw, Nancy, sorry for AZ’s loss, but Notre Dame gave KY a run for their money…..glad I slept through the second quarter, I’d never would have gotten to sleep….I would have been wound up tighter than a nine day clock….2 points arrgghhhhh…….
Also Nancy and Denise, thank you for your kind words. And yes, life at the hen house is like a soap opera….glad you enjoy my postings. And yesterday was productive, on all fronts. I do tell the teens when they do good work….and they did.
Again the temps are in the upper 20’s here, told the teens not to come in until noonish to clean…let the hen house warm up some. It was 52 degrees in there when I showed up at 3ish to check on the teens.
Mom is getting feisty with the nursing home staff. Both sisters had to go in and set her straight on a couple of things….like the doctor told her she could no longer smoke. She was allowed to go outside at least 5 times a day to smoke…she had to be accompanied by a staff member. She is throwing fits, says it is her right and they are denying her right to smoke. The staff is following doctor’s orders mom was told. Then there is the issue of the salt. My baby sister asked her “Mom, how did you feel about the last 48 hours?” “Lousy”, Mom said…..then sister told her to keep up the old ways and she’d be back in the hospital and may not come back out.
Gotta go……
Ya’ll have a blessed Sunday…..
Evan, I remember that strip and it was funny then and still is…
GR 😉
Trucker: Thanks. Preserved for possible future use.
Charlotte: “Capital sigma”? I don’t get it. S and T, as abbrev. for days are ambivalent, so I use Sigma for Sunday and Theta for Thur. At the bottom of my blank pp. for writing, there are 3-4 lines of symbols that I can insert. Here, the program auto. adds the special i in naïve. But it cannot otherwise read minds. Peace, emb
Debbe, when my stepfather had open heart surgery back in 1970s he came to Houston, thought Debakey was going to operate personally. I doubt he was in room but anyway, he had multiple valves replaced. They told him to walk daily and to be at 2 miles a day by X days and go home to Louisiana. He was upset they weren’t keeping him in hospital, instead came to my house and took over daughter’s room and literally went to bed, mom was bringing him meals and spoon feeding him for a month, bringing in a urinal. I told her to call her cardiologist in LA that this was not what he was supposed to be doing.
I was cooking salt free for him, he wanted his normal food. I told him he was to be eating a special diet and that wasn’t it. He declared he would rather die than eat the diet and not only wanted salted food but wanted a salt shaker and put even more on it. Had he still been smoking he would have done that too.
My mom would not drink water, not eat low salt, forget no salt, wanted her bacon and eggs and normal meals she always ate. Let’s not go into my mother in law who nursing staff and all doctors forbid me to bring home here because they told me she would kill me from her demands.
Says Jackie who is drinking water and nothing else now, has a bottle on her desk top, has her blood sugars down to totally normal without insulin. Just took forever to make me decide I wanted to not only live but to LIVE.
Mark I am still laughing at you and the six foot five Bill Gates in the high tech Navy. Good thing you weren’t in submarine service as you’d be awfully tall. Or does that matter anymore?
I am more like five foot one, used to be two but I have shrunk. I am a darn long way from being tiny again but intend to make it there again. There are too many people cheering me on not to try. No one gets anywhere if they don’t try.
Jackie, I don’t know if there is a height limit for sub service, but I had trouble enough with low overheads on the Oklahoma City. Besides, I preferred the surface Navy to the underwater version. If the ship sank, at least you were at water level when it did, not having to ascend from whatever depth the sub might be when it had trouble.
Found my own Rex Harrison as Captain Gregg photos, although Richard Mulhare was really great looking too, better looking than the one Mark found but thank you Mark, I loved you finding it.
http://www.imdb.com/media/rm135985664/ch0024326
Let’s see if this goes thru?
Of course I no longer look like Gene Tierney either.
Jackie, I loved both the movie and the series, too. There’s just something about those courtly, sea-faring men.
I agree with you, Debbe, that praise is important for employees. Sometimes we even need to do baby steps on that. Commending them when they do something small well, or even just better than the last time, makes them want to try harder the next time. People often fail because no one else believes in them, so they lose the ability to believe in themselves.
And the accents. God, I love the accents. Surely I have told you the story about last year telling one of my British designer friends that I could be married to any of them, it would just be the same man. He looked up impiously (he on boat, me on dock) and said, “You’d be able to tell, Jackie. Different accents.”