I miss boat fever. It was a mistake to allow Arlo to acquire the sailboat. The endless sweet agony of anticipation was a state of mind with which many readers seemed to relate. For years, people would beg to be put out of their misery, beseeching me, “Please let Arlo get a boat!,” and I would laugh maniacally, “Bwahahahahahahahaha…!” Well, I remember laughing that way, but maybe I just thought it. Then, I weakened, and people began asking, “What happened to Arlo’s boat?!” And that, dear readers, is how we got where we are today, and none of us knows where we’re headed.
217 responses to “Navigational Hazard”
2nd link = 2nd post: http://www.gocomics.com/arloandjanis/2002/05/18
a must share.
Morphy, you know I am a back slid Anglican, an American high church Episcopalian. I am completely comfortable in our country’s Cathedrals, be they Catholic, Anglican or Episcopalian. I love the grandiosity, the over the top music, voices, pipe organs and instrumental symphonic offerings.
As my Granny always told me, “Hell’s full of Episcopalians!”
Lots of my theology is based on her hell fire and brimstone approach to right and wrong. I knew the intellectual viewpoint but when you love someone you respect their belief even if you don’t think that Day Light Savings was a direct act of Satan himself.
In Judiasm on Passover there is always an empty chair for Eliahu Ha’navee(Elijah the prophet) at some point during the seder the door is opened for him to Symply come in and join the events(I have never caught a glimpse of him but I did see Papa drinking his wine after the meal!) Guess empty chairs have been around for too Fargone long….thinking reverently of those who have made my life possible
Well said Symply.
I know this little guy’s feeling; https://scontent-dft4-3.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/18670746_1343212369102228_6750876909765432800_n.jpg?oh=6621253b7d2272f0d676b9956b9bdc00&oe=59ACD9AD
Love the Daylight Savings jibe.
oops, better acknowledge ‘gibe’
Dang it Gal…..a happiest, belated, birthday greeting and grains 🙂
grains?? of amber wheat and ‘grain’….America, America, thy shed thy light on thee…
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJlN9jdQFSc
Thank you, sweet Debbe!
The clocks at Granny’s farm NEVER went on day light savings time even today. She died long ago but the clocks went on ticking on God’s Time as set down in the King James. No one would change them.
“Heads up” to all in the SE diagonal half of TX and all of LA – severe winds possible, saith TWC.
Looks as though the Decorah North inhabitants dissembled a fellow avian early this afternoon. When I watched, all I could see was a bird’s leg & toes, and a swirl of somewhat downy gray/white feathers with black bars transverse to the ribs thereof. Now, one can see skeletal remains and a few of those barred feathers. Would those feathers indicate a grouse? When eMb returns from his HS party, he can tell us.
I think the afore named was at the party. Too much good food: home-smoked pulled pork, var. sides, pineapple chunks and large strawberries to make potstickers at a chocolate fountain, etc. About half the attendees were from BUMC, as is the graduate and his family. R
Rest were friends, relatives, and neighbors. Some of those from out of town were at church this morning, which was good, because there was more than usual extra seating. Three-day weekends are like that.
Peace,
Jackie, now you have my laughing, not for devilish motives, but because you have reminded me:
In my shower is a ‘waterproof’ analog clock that I have not yet set to the Time Warp jump to the East. [Tim Curry, as Dr Frank N. Furter] Reasons may be: Mental math is not that hard, only time it is in sight or in reach I’m in a hurry, similarly my hands are wet and don’t want to remove back while shower running, I’m just lazy. Maybe last should be first.
But I laughingly bet that if that AA battery lasts until November, I will still have one clock on Granny’s God’s Time.
Jackie and I are discussing Old West lawman and badmen. We both seem to know quite a bit about them. Go figure.
How much do you two know about Utah’s Orrin Porter Rockwell?
“John Wesley Hardin…so mean he once shot a man just for snoring. From the Time-Life Western Atrocity Series.”
My Mama was fond of claiming kin to notorious outlaws. From about age 11 I learned to research to prove these untrue. Granny began this outlaw legacy with claims to the James Gang (not true).
Beginning in 1961 we visited Lincoln County New Mexico where she learned Billy the Kid was a McCarty, our family name. I have been refuting those claims ever since. Not true.
Most family legends are no more than these. Yet my relatives continue to repeat them because “Aunt Polly said so and she had such a good memory.”
If family tradition is to be believed, on both sides, then I am nearly exactly “¾Irish, ¼German”. Yeah, that’s a fun combo. But honestly that’s three generations USAmerican on both sides.
Looking into the heritage years back, my father’s proud, pure Irish heritage was five generations from the Erin Isle. My very German named mother’s heritage was only four from Deutschland. But the kicker was the maternal-maternal-maternal line was also four generations from Ireland.
When I would jokingly say that I was one generation closer to Blarney Castle and the River Shannon through my Kraut loving Heinie, my father was not amused. So I stopped that particular form of humor when around him. The irony of Irish Republican hatred for that German family living in England is not lost on me.
And yes, I know the River Martin is not the Shannon. But most Americans don’t.
If the numbers don’t make sense, it is because I mixed labels on generations to me through my father and mother. So I am five or four generations removed, where my parents are four or three.
Woke up to read daily, read it aloud to Ghost. Said aloud, “Mary Lou is blonde again. The Dark Side will be commenting on that again. What a pack of idiots!”
Ghost said “They already are.”
Sure enough I look down at featured comment (Ghost had to tell me about that new item on GoComics) and there it is. Complaining about the hair color!
People! Who cares? It is a comic strip! The humor is not in the hair! Unless Jimmy puts humor in the hair!
Pay attention to the art and drawing or the words and humor. Ignore what Jimmy has little control over, the colorists.
There are several daily comics showing some respect for the day today. I especially like the Tank McNamara strip. It is a reflection on the sacrifices made, but also a bit of ridicule for some sports figures who have recently chosen to use the National Anthem as a protest time. Generally, I’m all in on free speech. However, I prefer Tebow’s knee to Kaepernick’s.
http://www.gocomics.com/tankmcnamara/2017/5/29
(I first posted the following on Memorial Day 2014 and re-posted it in 2015. I offer it again in case the population of the village has changed in the last two years.)
Empty Helmet
A couple of weeks ago, my wife and I walked through a consignment/craft store in Logan, and seeing a WWII-era Army helmet hanging upside down by its leather straps took me back 52 years.
I grew up on James Road here in Lancaster, and I don’t know of any father in our neighborhood who had not been in WWII or Korea. Not all fathers fought, but all served. Seeing men in Lancaster who were disfigured or crippled by war was a common sight, and we all took it as a matter of course. We were taught that they were men deserving of great respect.
One of the fathers on my block saw Hell, and he came back with shell shock. He was usually okay, but sonic booms were hard on him. However, as he said on occasion, he came back. The real heroes did not.
I always thought about that whenever I was at my friend’s house on Clayton. An Army helmet hung upside down by its leather straps underneath the carport. His mom planted flowers in it. His dad didn’t come back from Korea.
David:
I have no complaint about Kaepernick having a political opinion, especially considering that I have my own extremely strong opinions.
However, I disagree with his using his employer’s venue as the medium.
If he wants to buy ads in newspapers or buy ad time on television out of his own pocket, more power to him.
But I do not like his using a medium that was not constructed for a political purpose – and using it for free, to boot.