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Est. 1985

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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.  Avatar
    Anonymous

    Where is rest of Village? I know Texas is flooding still and Florida is supposed to but I was watching TV from a cross trainer and no sound for one hour. Since this was first TV I had seen in a year and a half it was eerie. Four big screens, no sound and I felt like I was in a foreign country as I had no idea what was going on.

    Except terrorists were being arrested, people were being killed, refugees were fleeing and dying, Trump was insulting people, Hillary was being investigated and Bernie was still in race. I have to get a hat or blinders for tomorrow.

  2.  Avatar
    Anonymous

    Music for comment, found this one while looking for Dylan version. Never heard Willie sing this.

    https://youtu.be/XDU_ywBe2h4

  3. Ruth Anne in Winter Park Avatar
    Ruth Anne in Winter Park

    Looks like Colin (and most of its rain) has made its way between Jerry and me. We had quite a downpour last night which may not have been related to the storm, but today was mostly just cloudy, not much wind. What we did get this afternoon and evening was not as much as some regular summer rains. Friends and family in northeast Florida and the Savannah area have had it much worse.

  4. Ruth Anne in Winter Park Avatar
    Ruth Anne in Winter Park

    Hmm… spoke too soon? Getting another wave of fairly heavy rain now, but this may be the last of it. Won’t complain if we get to listen to it through the night πŸ™‚

  5. Mark in TTown Avatar
    Mark in TTown

    Some good advice in this song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=98MbfAATOc0

  6. Ghost Rider 6 Avatar
    Ghost Rider 6

    Debbe πŸ˜‰ “… shed the hazmat suit about halfway into packing…”

    Dare I ask what that left you wearing, hon? πŸ˜‰

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BqDjMZKf-wg

  7. Old Bear Avatar
    Old Bear

    GM Debbe

    Naught to say than be safe.

    Stay hydrated.

  8.  Avatar
    Anonymous

    Good morning Debbe, I have come up with a temporary way to keep my chick’s utilizing my galvanized stock tub beer cooler to put them in inside my big mobile dog pen with a tarpaulin shade cloth stretched over top to keep hawks and owls and cats out. Or we may put them in Stock tub out on deck in shade for now with a metal screen over top until they get bigger.

    What is opinion on if grown chickens and bantam will end up eaten by cats? Well fed cats.

  9.  Avatar
    Anonymous

    Debbe I have a small book I want to mail you. Mark said you had an address you used for the poop gloss and I can send it there. No religious pamphlets, a tiny book about being happy which takes work, just like marriage. It does not involve nudity either!

    Galiglo I have one for you too and you can send me a message with an address to mail too.

  10. Jerry in Fl Avatar
    Jerry in Fl

    Send a copy to the Don. Which reminds me, why isn’t he using “Another Brick in the Wall ” as his theme music?

  11. Debbe Avatar
    Debbe

    Good morning Villagers…..

    ….and a good morning back at you Old Bear…

    Blinky, had forgotten that one of the Monkees had wrote that song….

    So many music links, and yes, I’ve clicked on each. Couldn’t bring the one link up Mark, Rainbow, and I will check Dish out for the movie. I could use a good laugh…thanks.

    Rick, went back to yesterday’s ‘Peanuts’ ….in a hurry yesterday morning and didn’t go through all my comic strips. Go-Comics has posted that same strip three years in a row I had read in the first few comments.

    Jackie, will try to email you my home address…..if your email address above is correct.

    Ahhhh…a cool front has come in, high of 75 today πŸ™‚

    Jerry, now I have the ‘Born Free’ tune in my head…thanks a lot πŸ™‚

    …..another sleepless night πŸ™

  12. Debbe Avatar
    Debbe

    GR πŸ˜‰ hah, wouldn’t you like to know πŸ™‚ hint….I wear black

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=loWXMtjUZWM

  13. Debbe Avatar
    Debbe

    a taste of true friendship…..

    http://cheezburger.com/8800350464

  14. Rick in Shermantown, Ohio Avatar
    Rick in Shermantown, Ohio

    The last ten pounds aren’t the hardest.

    They’re impossible.

  15. Jerry in Fl Avatar
    Jerry in Fl

    I don’t know if you saw my recent comments after my recent trip through Ohio, but it is a beautiful state. What are all of those big fields of crops? I’ve never before been able to see land until it disappears over the horizon like looking out at the ocean.

  16. Jerry in Fl Avatar
    Jerry in Fl

    Debbe, Did you see Stan Lee with grumpy cat?

  17. Ruth Anne in Winter Park Avatar
    Ruth Anne in Winter Park

    Bob and I have always traveled with a small “reference library” – atlases, bird books, flower and tree books, etc. We’ve often wished for a “Field Guide to Fields” so we could identify the crops we were seeing.

  18. Steve From Royal Oak, MI Avatar

    My wife’s publisher is offering her first series of books free for those with a Kindle. She recently won a prestigious award and is nominated for another. These books, especially the last one, will be good background for a book that will come out this fall, Forgiveness. She also published another book, Devotion, a couple years ago that involves many of the same characters. So this is a promo to help generate sales for a couple more of her books.

    https://www.amazon.com/Woodland-Hearts-4-1-Anthology-ebook/dp/B01CXL5YV8

  19.  Avatar
    Anonymous

    Steve while I am no romance reader, thank you for the offer. I admire writers who are good in what they do even if it is not something I read. Obviously your wife excels in her genre. And you are proud of her too, so thank you.