Is Arlo a pedantic smartass or a smartass pedantic? There’s a current cartoon coming up later this week in newspapers that is very much in this vein. This cartoon from 2003 ran online not very long ago, but I’m away from my desk this morning and suffering connectivity issues on top of all, so I just grabbed something off the shelf. I do like this one. It’s very Arlo & Janis.
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Glory be! The Great Wally World Tamari Soy Sauce Conundrum has been solved. Checking my phone messages at home this evening, I found a call from the local store supervisor I had tried to reach. Her message was that my order was returned, rather than being held for me to pick up, because one or more of the bottles had been broken in shipment and had voided sauce all over the other bottles. Good to know that the enterprise that is competing for my shopping dollars is not incompetent but rather just careless.
I would have appreciated a more timely notification of the nature of the problem, however. Oh, well, I won’t take it personally. As Hanlon’s Razor, which I quoted in another context not long ago, says, “Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.”
JJ, Why not reissue Bop Til You Drop? Used copies range from $150.00 to $2000.00.
Good question Jerry. I would love one.
I’m just there for the tan, it’s not near my house, Ghost.
There was no question regarding your preferences?
Perhaps I will wear underwear and go to church in morning, we have a new vicar. Do you think the Lord cares or not?
About your underwear or about you being there?
Jerry in Fl, the copyright on that probably belongs to the publisher, who seems to be out of business. Maybe JJ should just produce a new book reprinting the strips in chronological order. They’ve done it for many other long-running comics. Or maybe he could get GoComics to put all his strips on the archive online to hold us till the next book comes out?
As a rather back slid Anglican the Lord probably wouldn’t care about clothes, he’d consider it a miracle if I made it there!
Since I have lived here 20 years without attending, I think it might cause ceiling to collapse on us to all. I am going to risk it and have put out a quite respectable outfit, rather elegant casual in fact, involving long sleeves, long white slacks and a smart straw fedora hat. I could attend any denomination in these including Southern Baptist.
Post master and new chamber of commerce manager invited me. Both are married, not to each other, priest is too I assume and vicar is female. We are ecumenical faith.
Polo and either ‘dress sweats’ or cargo slacks at BUMC tomorrow. Congregation would worry about me if I dressed up.
I owned a male-style fedora once; bought it in Selfridge’s or the ritzier place in Knightsbridge [owned by a guy w/ 2 wives now, unless he’s sold it]. Rummaged it, eventually, I think. Prefer caps.
Peace,
And no, I doubt Elohim cares. emb
That was what I thought too but I never made it to hair salon, so hat. I used to love women’s hats but have adopted the caps and men’s hats made feminine.
My flying pig looks so natural out in yard. The guys put him sitting on a ledge of the creek and since he sits on his butt he looks like a little brown pig sitting there. Wings hardly noticable. Think I need a second porcine aviator to keep him company, he looks lonely. He is a porcine navigator.
Wish I were in Texas suffering in heat and mud, sailing with my friends. I swallowed some spray and it is infectious.
God bless us every one.
Amen
The book of faces is acting strangely this morning. I can access it on my iPod’s app, but not on my laptop’s browser.
Village, I am speechless. Let us pray for our country and those killed and wounded in Orlando. Pray to any God of your choice but pray.
I have friends I got “I am OK from shooting in Orlando” was my wake up. They weren’t at Disney World.
For anyone who hasn’t already figured it out from other comments, the Winter Park where I live is right next to Orlando, where I was born and raised. I haven’t checked online, CNN, etc., so I don’t know how the national media is covering the story since everything on our local TV stations is their own coverage.
I think it’s worth noting that while Pulse is known as a “gay club”, I understand that it is also just a good club (if you’re into clubs) regardless of sexual preferences/identities. Our niece posted that it was a frequent hangout for her friends when she lived here – she even took her mom there once.
The call for blood donations has resulted in long lines all over town. Let’s hope some of those folks turn into regular donors.
Funny, I just don’t think of my friends with labels. “Labels are for filing. Labels are for clothing. Labels are not for people.” Martina Navratilova
The media is obsessed with labels, one word to define us all. We are more than that.
People go to dance clubs, all ages, sexes, shapes, sizes, religions, wealth, education and sexual preferenices.
Life is like that, the world is like that. We don’t deserve to be labeled. Nor killed.
Races and ethnicities. Left that off. Isn’t it strange, I don’t think of that enough to list it. We are people.
One word to rule us all, one word to find us. One word to bring us all, and in the darkness bind us.
With apologies to Tolkien, but with that one substitution, still very powerful verse.
Tolkien often got it dramatically right.
In case you don’t think Parkinsons affects your brain, I just remembered that my son lives in Orlando. I have no reason to think that he’s gay although I would love him anyway. Gotta go call him.
I had to leave a message on his cell phone. I had not turned on the tv or looked at the net all day and my wife told me about the shooting a few minutes ago. We are in Pensacola at least once a week and this could have easily been there. I always say that if I’m in a crowd of people and someone starts shooting I will be one of the first victims because I’m going after the *.
Y cousin plays in a lot of clubs because he is a stunning guitarist and plays five other instruments, college student so he plays many bands. All I could think was hope he wasn’t playing. He is straight A student and I’ve no idea how he does it. But think of the young lives lost.
Jerry, I am with you. Time to get the license since I will email home all summer.
Be home.
I tried to post and was rejected outright. ???
Just leaving fitness center and yes, I sweat. I would not describe it as ladylike dew. See if I get rejected?
Prof. George Healey, my first, and widely beloved, Freshman English teacher at Cornell, quoting someone or a general custom, said, ‘Horses sweat, men perspire, and women glow.’ Construction of a large university mace took place after ’51, I think. Prof. Healey was appointed carrier of the mace at graduations, installations, and such. Ideal person: formal when appropriate, but warm. Remembered me through all 4 years. Died too young, of some rare illness, early ’60s or so, at perhaps age 50.
Note the ‘Prof,’ not ‘Dr.’ He had a Ph.D. At the time, most Cornell faculty had doctorates, but the catalogs did not feature the widespread practice at other colleges and universities in listing a dept.’s faculty, say: ‘Dr. Abercrombie, Dr. Case, Mr. Gross, Dr. Peters, Miss Quill, Mrs. Rich, Dr. Taft’, maybe all with first names, which often told you gender. No, it was all Mr., Miss, and Mrs. [This was before MS arrived.] I got them to do that for a year or two’s catalogs at BSU, but too many Ph.D.s and Ed.D.s objected. Fun.
Peace,