It seems like just yesterday I was telling you that “summer hours” were over, and I’d try to post more regularly. I did manage to do that during the cold months, but summer—and summer hours—seem to have returned already. Tell you what: starting next week we’ll do things a bit differently. You won’t notice so much (No, it’s not the much ballyhooed Web site redesign.), but I think it’ll work better for us all. I’m going to prepare five cartoons that will preload during the week, regardless of what I happen to be doing first thing in the morning. Perhaps I will make a comment, or perhaps I won’t, but I am going to try and check in more regularly during the day and comment on your comments more than I do now. To be honest, coming up with something trivial but interesting to write every morning is the hard part of this task; this way, you can help. I think it sounds like fun. We’re always working to improve your Arlo & Janis experience!
Music to the Ears
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86 responses to “Music to the Ears”
Debbe 😉 I am glad to hear that Junior and Cogburn are alive and well. I know you said you were going to stop naming the roosters, but if you change your mind about naming the third one, I have a suggestion.
Years ago, the Mobile TRACON (radar approach control) used a locally designated and entirely unofficial intersection (an electronically defined waypoint which is given a name) that wasn’t on the published approach plates used for instrument landings at Bates Field. Both the TRACON and the pilots called it…of course…”No-Name Intersection”.
So, you could call the rooster “No-Name”, if you like. Wouldn’t be exactly like naming him.
Oops, there we go again. Apparently the topics are now chestular implants, dieting, Teletubbies, rooster names and instrument landings at Lower Alabama airfields.
Well, it’s been a long time since I recall anyone calling this blog “dull”, anyway. Although there may be a few sticks-in-the-mud who do. 🙂
Drift calculation required.
I THINK I can integrate large breasts, TeleTubbies and religion, all in one? Am I only one watching British humor on PBS?
The fantastically funny, off-color “Vicar of Dibley” ran late, late at night because of its content. Main character was Dawn French, stand up comedian, VERY large breasted and Rubenesque. She played the Reverend Boadicea Geraldine Granger and her verger was Alice, a very dimwitted village “old maid” who adored the TeleTubbies. Hence my familiarity with them as they are the stupidest children’s show I have ever NOT seen.
Anyway, there is a wedding sequence where Alice marries the lord of the manor’s son very much against the lord’s wishes and they have a TeleTubby wedding, complete with wedding dress that lights up and other bizarre décor.
You are forgiven if you have not seen this, as it is terribly off color and often vulgar send up of British village life and the Anglican church. But it won all the British awards similar to our Emmys/ For many, many, many years.
Love, Jackie Monies
then there’s the fox news debate going on between my husband and brother-in-law….and all I want to do is watch a movie……………..I just want to break
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bRdo7WXTVoM
GR…I just hope and pray they’re not discovered……………..but they’re big combs do give them away……………………
…and I am so….feeling into this song that I need to warn those…it’s not for the faint hearted….GR 😉
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lML2N4xB9GU
it is “Creep” by the Pretenders………………..her voice….echoes my feelings now….
Good evening, Villagers. Not much into boob jokes since I barely have any. I will recommend to Janis elastic necks.
Still don’t have a clue where the three joke snakes came form in yesterday’s daily, but apparently Arlo is in the dark, too
Earth to Lily…come in, Lily. The “snakes” came out of her bodice, to surprise Arlo while he was looking down into it. As he has a track record of doing.
You were kidding about not getting it, right?
Completely missed the “peek/peak” joke on today’s real-time this morning. Then again, it was 4am when I read it, so maybe I was still dozing.
Debbe- I wasn’t worried about today’s rain. The worst bands either hit Indy and south or hit Lafayette and make a beeline to Fort Wayne to the north. And of course the roof at the store still leaks. Beginning to think I was supposed to be born an Aquarius.
Jackie – I have seen and am a fan of “The Vicar.” I am a bigger fan of British humor than American. British humor seems (to me) to have a stronger linguistic influence whereas American is more physical; my inner nerd sides with the language.
Question: Do I have to wear my arm floaties when wallowing?
Nope. I have not a clue where one would put *three* joke snakes. One per cup, maybe. Not that I have ever had a bra that you could stuff one of those things in. Not that anybody would want to look down my top. Nevermind, I don’t want anybody to. It makes me nervous to get stared at by men
Lilyblack, I thought they came out of the flower pot. But Ghost has other ideas apparently involving Janis’ blouse. My own favorite gardening strip showed Arlo holding the hose and watering here, there and everywhere. In the last panel he says “When they ask you to just dig a hole, watch out!”.
It’s one of those things where comic/cartoon physics (or physiques) don’t have to follow the same rules that we are generally required to follow (gravity, mass, momentum, etc.) How many times has Wile E Coyote been squashed? Or Roadrunner magically transported? Bugs’ Bunny has exploded how many of Elmer Fudd’s hunting rifles with his finger? Or poor Tom, frequently being thrown about by Jerry or friends. Arlo is lucky that it wasn’t an anvil falling from the sky! I guess it would have been less surprising if Janis was more like Jessica, from “Who Framed Roger Rabbit?”
Neither do I, but it reads like some of our Village neighbors do. Maybe one of them will split for us dullards.
As I pointed out here many times, > a handful = wasteful.
Ghost, here’s a little something for you: http://www.al.com/entertainment/index.ssf/2014/06/miss_alabama_contestants_greet.html
Mark, I was reading fast thru article and thinking, “This reminds me of Miss Congeniality” which is one of my favorite movies with Sandra Bullock. Then I looked at side bar headlines and it says “yodeling and sledge hammering, surprising talents of….” and I go yep, sure does!
Forty seven. A stage full of pulchritude!
Love, Jackie Monies
David, might UT offer a course in cartoon/comic physics? Given how often we experience it there must be a vast body of knowledge. And speaking of Wiley Coyote, how has ACME survived selling so many defective products?
Back when I was young/younger I had a friend who specialized in breast reduction surgery.
Both my younger daughter and I were considering it until she saw the incision drawings for how it was accomplished and that changed her mind. You know Lily, it is really hard to get anything to fit right with REALLY big appendages, especially if you are short and stubby to begin with. And they get in the way of everything! And they are uncomfortable! And heavy.
I actually don’t understand the ones who get breast enhancement so they look like they have balloons on their chests? And what about those bottoms that don’t look real?
Love, Jackie Monies
Sand, I’m pretty sure the state agriculture & mechanical college offers such a course. As to Acme, my guess is they have really good lawyers or Wile E Coyote has trouble getting a lawyer at all. Even bloodsuckers have some standards.
Ghost– today Janice had pokies that really could put an eye out!
sandcastler and David in Austin, I don’t think Acme products were that defective. Wile’s problems came from the use to which he put them. And the same holds true for many real-world product liability suits.
And here is a neat little song for fans of Wile and his prey: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Huf-7dZ8Rts
Once upon a time I used to do a lot of life sized foam core cartoon characters to be used in window displays of shops. One of the most popular and recognizable is Betty Boop. A good display item for Valentine’s especially with merchandise that uses her image.
The thing is, I have NEVER seen a Betty Boop cartoon! Not a single strip.
When Teleflora wire service used Garfield once I did so many Garfields I was afraid Jim Davis would come after me for patent infringement.
The tricky part of doing this type of “ballooned cartoons” is you have to paint and draw both sides of the character so it looks good when seen front/back.
Sorry, I gave up this talent not long after A&J became popular/got drawn so I never did any of Janis. I have done Jessica Rabbit and a Vargas mermaid that created a little “scandal” as a back to school display. (Not in same display- sorry, separate windows)
Some one was heard to sniff, “That may be back to school here in Houston, but it isn’t where I live!”
Love, Jackie Monies
Wow. I looked at the individual photos of the Miss Alabama hopefuls, and I honestly could not decide which of them was the prettiest young lady.
Lady Mindy, it’s important to remember that wallowing is always free-form in the Village. 😉
Lily, if you insist on being literal-minded about it, just assume the salvo came from right cup, cleavage, left cup…1, 2, 3. 🙂
sand, this just in…W. E. Coyote has reportedly retained the personal injury firm of Buzzard, Vulture & Bottomfeeder, PLLC.
Loved the Roadrunner/Coyote song! Used to love seeing the roadrunners out on the empty highways in west Texas and New Mexico. Rarely see them up here in Oklahoma.
Love, Jackie Monies
Ghost, I couldn’t make a choice from a picture either. I would have to talk to them. But if you find the link to the rib-eating contest they took part in, Ms. Ip looks pretty cute holding the bone in her mouth with a dab of sauce on her nose.