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Natural-Born Chiller

By Jimmy Johnson


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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195 responses to “Natural-Born Chiller”

  1. Ghost Rider 6 Avatar
    Ghost Rider 6

    Lady buns good; man buns, not so much.

    Talkin’ ’bout hair styles. You believe that, don’t you?

    Speaking of which, it’s time to make another appointment with P&PHS already. She always says my hair grows faster than any she’s seen; I tell her it’s because it likes to come see her.

  2.  Avatar
    Anonymous

    By the way I liked your choice of hair and beards combo, Ghost. Like their music too. So, you are six five and look like a country rock star combo?

    If you are real then you better send me that picture. I get a half dozen or so a day, all divorced and widowed with appealing children. They should try boats or dogs and cats or fly fishing but I digress. I just delete the applications. I like real friends.

  3. emb Avatar
    emb

    ‘Two years and two days later, on June 6, 1944, the Allies invaded Normandy on D Day. Even though the basic strategy was always “Get Hitler First,” I find it dubious that we would have been able to devote so much shipping to the Normandy Landings if there were still six fleet carriers opposing us in the Pacific. I’m no expert, but I honestly wonder if D Day could have happened without Midway.’

    Side: I expect you are right. At age 12, I knew about the battle of Midway, but not how pivotal it was. Is any pundit claiming that the first, if it failed, would not have delayed the latter? I don’t follow WWII history closely, but it seems likely people would expect the three theaters do affect one another. We had the resource, infrastructure, and organizational advantage, by and large, but they were not infinite. I’ve heard that about half our productive capacity was devoted to the war effort. That % may well have been higher in the UK and USSR. The latter certainly had geographic and demographic advantages, but at great cost. I believe they suffered greater mortality than the rest of the Allies put together.

    I’m not sure we have learned as much from that and other conflicts as we might, except for the lesson that we should be militarily prepared.

    Peace [?],

  4. emb Avatar
    emb

    ‘TO affect one another.’

  5. Ghost Rider 6 Avatar
    Ghost Rider 6

    No, just six two.

    Why don’t I get a half dozen or so pix per day from women? It’s because I’m not a Millionaire Widow Lady, isn’t it?

    Never married, so never divorced. No children, appealing or otherwise. That I know of.

    Maybe I’ll tease you with a picture from back in the day, when I was keeping America safe from whatever it was we needed to be kept safe from.

  6. emb Avatar
    emb

    Just one chick? There were two some days ago, and often an adult or two prevented a good look at the nest. Peace,

    http://www.chesapeakeconservancy.org/osprey-cam

  7.  Avatar
    Anonymous

    You know I have always been swept off my feet by pilots and flight instructors, air traffic controllers and lately even a glider pilot and a helicopter pilot. Of course, that is what aircraft and pilots are supposed to do isn’t it, sweep you away?

    That was before the modern form of air travel entered the herd em into cattle cars mode.

  8. Ruth Anne in Winter Park Avatar
    Ruth Anne in Winter Park

    emb: notes below the webcam image say the other chick was taken by a predator, other egg nonviable and destroyed.

  9.  Avatar
    Anonymous

    We have lots of eagles in cliffs down by marina at far end of Lake, they nest in rocks and soar over the lake and mountains down by dam where Canadian River exits out of Lake. I love to watch them from land or water. Even the features are protected, only Native Americans may own them.

    I have a friend in Puget Sound, fabulous eagle photographer. I will post some of his work here.

  10.  Avatar
    Anonymous

    Eagles photos didn’t work. Later. My fortune said to place special emphasis on old friendship. Just had mostly vegetarian Chinese food, mushrooms, green beans, broccoli and cantaloupe. Half a cup of grilled chicken. No rice or noodles, no fried my friends who own the restaurant cook for me special. I love them.

  11.  Avatar
    Anonymous

    https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=1615510888760646&id=100009052528502

    Some eagles. As promised, thanks to Mark telling me how.

  12.  Avatar
    Anonymous

    Excuse me but how did best cheap gaming get on here? That is genuine spam and we can’t even make it on with our music links? Don’t go there.

  13. TruckerRon Avatar

    And the spammer’s spelling was atrocious!

  14. Mark in TTown Avatar
    Mark in TTown

    Looks like the writer took English as a third (or lower) language. I agree with Jackie, don’t click on any of the links there, including the name.

  15. TruckerRon Avatar

    Here’s a test for your heart:

    http://www.ksl.com/?sid=40060841&nid=1017

    If you don’t need tissues by the end of it, your don’t have a heart!

  16. Ghost Rider 6 Avatar
    Ghost Rider 6

    What spam link? I didn’t (and don’t) see one.

    So, Jackie, I’m guessing some secret admirer is sending songs directly to you on, I suppose, Libro di Face?

  17.  Avatar
    Anonymous

    Nope, my prior to this week private gmail account. One daily or so. Interesting choices.

  18. Mark in TTown Avatar
    Mark in TTown

    Ghost, the spam appeared under the previous retro strip.

  19. Jerry in Fl Avatar
    Jerry in Fl

    I spent about two hours yesterday in bed surrounded by lovely young ladies. They were wearing masks too. Woo-hoo! They (with a little help from some doctors) were replacing one of the batteries in my chest. At the finish I began finding it difficult to catch my breath so they decided I was reved up a little too high and they set me back to idle which is about my usual speed and I’m fine.

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    Anonymous

    This is NOT one of mystery music choices but I do like this group, the song and the place.

    https://youtu.be/XamDeKZEJYo

    Need to walk around Walmart. I am short my goal of walking today but got in 30 minutes on elliptical trainer and heart rate stayed just fine.

  21. Mindy from Indy Avatar

    Jerry – That is some tune-up! While I do not envy your predicament, I am glad to hear you are making the best of it.

  22. Galliglo in Ohio Avatar
    Galliglo in Ohio

    Hugs, Jerry…

  23.  Avatar
    Anonymous

    Something fun here. When I was in Birmingham with Mark we went to a place called Treasure Hunt and I scored something REALLY valuable to me, all the leftover Easter Peeps in Birmingham, Alabama. I bought them all.

    Each year at Sail Oklahoma we hold a fun boat race that involves scooping peeps out of the lake while sailing boats that look like kids toys using butterfly and dip nets. It involves adults and children and children at heart. Follow the link Miss Charlottesville, it will delight you.

    https://youtu.be/3wbhFGD1haM

  24. TruckerRon Avatar

    Jerry, I’m equipped with a CRT-D. What do you sport in your chest?

  25. Mark in TTown Avatar
    Mark in TTown

    The store is Bargain Hunt and they had a big stock of Peeps and other Easter candy cheep. So on the way back to OK, the back of the van was full of cat cages and the middle seats were almost completely filled with packages of Peeps. Did you know they make those in flavors like blueberry and raspberry now?