It’s three-fer Thursday! Here is part of a little series that ran 10 years ago this month. I recall it was easy to produce; the jokes about meditation wrote themselves. I do not recall exactly what was going on around me at the time, but I can tell by looking at this old artwork that I was drawing very fast. My favorite gag is the first one. It is this type of strip that earns my humor descriptions such as “subtle,” and “intelligent” and “not very funny.”
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I beg to differ…..it is very funny 🙂
A lot of people will fall asleep while praying. And they feel guilty about it. A Pastor once said,”Don’t feel guilty, God wanted you to sleep. What better thoughts to have as one loses consciousness?”
JJ, slightly off topic, but is there a story behind the Cobra Janis & Arlo are leaning on in the website title-bar graphic? Was it just something they stumbled on? Or was it composed specifically for this? just wondering.
I remember discussions on Cobra but not answer.
Dogs and cats have frolicked all night or so it seems. And how many ARE there?
For a good look at the whole enormous ‘decorah-eagles-north-nest, search those 4 words ASAP. Peace,
Contemplating Janis’s navel…now there’s a man with a plan.
I’ve always suspected that meditation is a form of self-hypnosis. Or perhaps that self-hypnosis is a form of meditation.
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DaveP, there was discussion of the origin of the Cobra in the early days of the blog. Don’t have time to search for it now, but as I recall it was some artwork Jimmy had done for something else that he found and repurposed for the blog.
Speaking of early days, if you go back to the post of 1-16-08, which was *very* early, you will find mention of a “tunafish sandwich”. Imagine that.
And on 1-24-08, Jimmy posted a cartoon that included one of the most elusive of all A&J elusive items…a Janis pokie. Imagine that. (You don’t have to imagine it; just go look at it.)
Yeah, I’ll update my Book of Faces settings…just as soon as I get an account. Someone be sure to advise me if any porcine aviators are sighted. 🙂
I am looking for one for my garden in rusted metal without paint. They were everywhere and now they are all painted. Flying pigs of course.
For a brief second I thought the porcine aviator was Ghost and two seconds later I said “No, he lost all that weight.*
You left yourself open there darling but it was clever.
GR6: I looked at 1-24-08 and saw nothing remarkable.
Not me we have others. I may have to go back to public.
Funny, I am public everywhere else?
Don’t tell FB but I don’t pay any attention to the ads anyway!
Another I posted on yesterday’s before I realized there was a today’s.
CEP:
Yep. Jim says he was in a basement apartment of the house of Harold and Bonnie Herd, and he thinks 2409 sounds right, but he doesn’t remember the street. It sounds like your directory was done in the spring that year.
NK/AZ Yes, Mr. Hird was a meter officer for the local gendarmes. He died a few decades ago according to Ancestry.com.
GR6, meditation and pistol shooting both require focused concentration. A reason I enjoy both?
Another side note. Trying to talk my yoga/meditation teacher , who is firearms phobic, visit the shooting range. Guns and yoga.
Into visiting the shooting range. Seems spell check is messing with me.
P.S. type spell as sperl and it gets corrected to sperm; could make an interesting post. 😉
When you get where you can consistantly keep ’em in the 10-ring while doing a headstand, sand, be sure and let me know. 🙂
Jackie, the Janis pokie cartoon was under that date in the blog archive (to be found below), not the gocomics.com cartoon archive.
For Anonymous – http://arloandjanis.com/2008/01/page/7
But when you go to that day on GoComics, it is edited out. I can’t post a link to that one, you have to navigate to that date.
Ghost:
When I try to open the blog archive, on many dates, I get “Comments are closed.” Is it a Chrome issue?
Jackie.monies2324@gmail.com remembers that it.
Ok, I am in back surgeons office and hit send and didn’t notice auto fill filled in my personal email address. That was not intentional. However, most of my life seems public anyway. What I began to say was I am not the anon interested in Janis ponies.
I remember going through that live with nature in remote country out of reach of civilization and no electricity. No people, middle of mountains and pine trees, self sufficient. I think Mike dreamed of being a forest Ranger in a log cabin?
We know how that ended, highest priced wines in the world and a three piece suit eating in five star eateries.
Long way from the woods!
Pokies not ponies. We know Hal messes with me.
Steve, Commments Closed is apparently due to the blog settings being set, intentionally or otherwise, to auto-close after one week. That’s why the orphans get locked out if a week passes without a new post.
Another issue is that some time back all the old comments, many, many thousands of them going back several years, apparently got trashed. I still hate that, as all record of many friends I had here who no longer post are gone, gone, gone.
Yeah I enjoy going back to see old comments and miss seeing some really good ones.