Yesterday it was Milk Duds, and today it is popcorn. I sure hope they’re going Dutch! I’m running late; I have to go draw new cartoons now.
Movie Moves
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274 responses to “Movie Moves”
Never go anywhere without your towel!
Jackie, if you’re buying DVD’s, the best deals I’ve found locally are at the Barnes and Noble store. Just go and look through their sale racks. If it is something that is not popular within a narrow segment of their customers, it will be marked down till it sells. I have gotten Blu-Ray discs of Ray Harryhausen movies for under $10, the complete Mr. Bean tv series for around $20, etc. Oh, and the complete Rumpole of the Bailey for around $50 (it started out at $99).
And Jackie, if you haven’t seen Mr. Bean, here’s a short clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aFgLrWiNHFc
Ruth Anne, 😉
Jackie, “Maybe she and Bill will kill each other.” Bill cannot be killed. He marries Julie’s mother, who is early-pregnant with Julie, courtesy of the German officer/opera singer.
Peace, emb
EMB, I KNOW that but maybe it is Bill’s “evil twin” in the insane asylum, a look alike, and Edda can’t be sure it is really him because she knew him so briefly that his face isn’t what she does remember. And the real Bill has been killed by Martine and someone substituted in his place and the tombstone that Julia finds what seems like eons ago is where the REAL Bill really is but she is pregnant and needs a husband FAST.
Well, that is how soap operas go and my plot is no more implausible and far fetched than Brooke’s nor more ridiculous. Elephants have died sooner than this arc will ever end. If there was ever a cartoon that needed a story board, 9 CL is it. I don’t think anyone remembers or much cares anymore!
It’s like a Christmas fruitcake that keeps being regifted.
Love, Jackie
Mark, I knew who Mr. Bean was because of his Olympic appearance with Queen Elizabeth.
Watching that clip, they should have had him marry Alice Tinker in the Vicar of Didley, good match up.
All of the episodes of Rumpole of the Bailey? Oh my! I have been referred to more than once as She Who Must Be Obeyed. I own a Toby Jug that is the spitting image of Rumpole, but the funny part of it is that the jug dates back to way before there even was a Rumpole.
Going to bed early I hope. I have an 8 a.m. appointment in Tulsa, maybe I should not bother to go to sleep but just stay up.
Love, Jackie
!!!! Take two – I *was* on the correct page originally, I swear!
The very first comic in this saga has always bugged me the most. If Bill O’Malley married Gran, fathered Roger, and so on, how in the heck did he end up in the middle of a cattle pasture in Normandy?!
In the beginning … http://www.gocomics.com/9chickweedlane/2013/11/25
Today was a loooong, sucky day. Off to bed.
My point, exactly! Who is under that tombstone? Hence the ridiculous plot line I made up to explain it all. Or it could take a turn like all the ridiculous soap operas on t.v. and just explain it was all a dream and nothing really happened after Bill got wounded in the head at Normandy.
Heck, they could all be a dream, even Roger, no one ever got born.
Sorry your day was so bad Mindy. I hope you are paid well as I’d not want to do your job. But then none of us ever are paid well enough anyway for all the dirty work women do.
Love, Jackie
Pogo my possum is out munching cat kibble. He is a good looking possum, very young. The baker’s rack the kibble is on is level with my desk top, hence the good view. He just shoved the bowl off onto the porch. Kathud.
Just went back to the site above and worked my way to where Bill slugs the Brit. colonel. I’d forgotten the details, and also the mysterious grave. Hmm. emb
Ghost Sweetie, Denise is right-the answer to the ultimate question of Life, the Universe, and Everything is 42. And, if McEldowney is just drawing 9CL as an excuse for porn, is his supposedly very Christian play he wrote atonement?
Ruth Anne, I always know where my towel is!
Mark, McEldowney’s version of War and Peace? It wouldn’t surprise me. Then again, maybe he forgot where the plot was going, too.
Jackie, I haven’t seen possums or raccoons eating the outside cats’ kibble lately, but there is a big orange cat that looks like Garfield that has been coming up and eating a bit every day or so.
Indy Mindy, breathe in, breathe out, move on.
Trapper Jean, and then again maybe Brooke is doing 9CL the way Donald Westlake wrote the Parker crime novels. He just sat down and started writing without a preconceived plot. Westlake told a friend, “If I don’t know what’s going to happen, neither will the reader.”.
Buffet’s advice is always good, either Warren or the other.
Busy day. Jackie, my Mom is doing remarkably well; nothing much to report there, right now. Thanks for asking. Also, I was going to wait until closer to your Redneck Riviera trip, but since you mentioned it now, I’ll tell you that a trip over to Pensacola to eat at Tu-Do Vietnamese Restaurant will be worth the drive. I’ll try to remind you before you go.
Lady Mindy, perhaps Martine is buried in that cow pasture. We can only hope. (Sorry you had a sucky day, but remember…Karma owes you one for helping that lady.)
As far as McEldowney’s work, I’m sure his wife and all his sycophants are telling him he’s doing just fine with 9CL and Pibgorn, and they (and his ego) are the only ones he listens to. (Pibgorn has even less plotting than 9CL but, thankfully, also usually has less dialogue.)
Jean dear and Denise Marie: You were correct, Mmes. I asked Siri again, and she did indeed confirm that the answer is “42”. (I didn’t make that up,)
Debbe 😉
Way to go, protesters. Now *that’s* how you win undecided people over to your point of view.
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2015/01/15/easton-ambulance-with-injured-driver-diverted-brockton-hospital-due-protestors-fire-chief-says/Uk1ffBGmC5OobFNPXNI6IJ/story.html?p1=Article_Related_Box_Article_More
Jackie, be sure to stop a Dave’s Catfish in Pace and, to answer your question, one, if she screws it in tight. What? The light bulb! The light bulb!
Alternate answer: how big is the light bulb?
I had a light bulb joke, but upon reflection, I decided it would not be too bright to post it and didn’t.
Hint: The punch line is “You can unscrew a light bulb.”
Jackie
I now have a shedder scraper ad on my home page.
OB
Good morning Villagers…..
Call me….’blond’, but I don’t get the answer “42” and why can’t you leave home without carrying a towel? 🙂
Mark, I asked my BIL about the correct title of the book, and he told me the same. He has the book and said he would bring it to me when he makes a trip to his house. Yes, little Kyler reminds him of Little Red Chief….he loves the part where the kidnappers have to pay the father to take his child back.
When I got home yesterday, I was taking my boots off by the door and had my slippers close by, Kyler picked up my slippers and tried to put them on my feet…..he is a hugger and a kisser too…..but, into everything, but he’s learning. He needs to be around other children and not two 60ish year old men who are being put through potty training. He has gone through two babysitters so far….does that tell you anything?
The vet only had a 1:30 opening and I didn’t know if I could be home by 1:00 to take care of Kyler….so Hampton has a 3:00 appointment today. She was more active yesterday…to my relief.
Jackie…what a way to wake up to…..your dog peeing on your leg and foot, you are so positive….I think I would have gone back to bed….after another shower though.
GR 😉
ya’ll have a blessed day…..and it’s PAYDAY 🙂
Today’s grin
https://i.chzbgr.com/maxW500/8424925440/h66779992/
Unless I’ve missed his posting, we haven’t heard from John in Richmond for a while, sending a prayer his way…………………………..Amen
ok…so I whike’d 42…..and like it explains a lot to this egg packer 🙂
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/42_%28number%29
never watched the movie….’Travelor’s guide to the galaxy’, or something like that…..
Debbe: don’t bother with the movie – read the books or watch the TV version that was done for the BBC and shown on PBS, if you can find it. The radio version was also good – my introduction to Douglas Adams, another creative person gone too young.
On the subject of animal hair (a couple of days back), see today’s rhymeswithorange.com
And as long as we’re making references that may be obscure to some, are there any Firesign Theater fans in the Village?