Today, from 1996, musings from Gene’s old flame Ruth. We’ve looked at a lot of old strips over the years, and we’ll continue to do so, but I think many of us—myself included—enjoy looking at something else now and then. I’ve experimented recently with sketches and illustrations of inside information, but there’s only so much of that to go around. I’ll keep looking. It’s Friday, but at least I’m up to two posts most weeks. Maybe Summer truly is winding down.
No Doll Living
By Jimmy Johnson
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145 responses to “No Doll Living”
Anyone planning a trip to France in the next couple of years? If this works out, it would definitely be a one-of-a-kind place to stay: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/france/11805989/Palace-of-Versailles-forced-to-put-up-paying-guests.html
Jackie, don’t feel bad. I used to say I didn’t start buying a band’s albums till they had broken up. Now I realize that was because a lot of them were not popular enough to get on the radio, so I didn’t hear of them till somebody else played them for me.
One reason I attribute my lack of musical knowledge to is that I spent 21 years in Houston, TX listening to country and western. In Texas in those days C and W dominated the airways, I know because I had to do some advertising research and they swamped everyone else. We also had a good classical station or two that I listened to a lot. My kids in the 1980’s were listening to rock a lot which I had always loved but when I married in 1966 my rock and roll days pretty much ended.
So, when kids became tweens and teens we listened in car to both their current R and R and the oldies from the 1970’s. But if it didn’t make that, then I didn’t hear it. Rock didn’t make it to our home and that is a shame, I missed a lot. Don’t think there is enough time left to make up for five decades I missed but I will try! Y’all always contribute things I listen to and it helps me determine if I like the artist enough to buy music. I might add I have added almost 200 CD’s to my collection this year and I do listen to music of a lot of genres. Thanks for that. Love, Jackie
Debbe 😉 These next few songs were part of the soundtrack of another pretty decent movie. Can you guess this movie? Clue #1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=53iso7IailQ
If I had that WABAC machine, I’d look you up on the beach and ask you to dance. And check out your orange string bikini, of course. 🙂
Debbe 😉 A bonus tune and also Clue #2. Because Birthday.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yoOuTSBAWWA
If you’re looking for bikinis, you really have to see this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jaV-6qunC3g
Good morning Villagers….
And thank you all for the well wishes, and song links…it was fun.
Steve…wonderfully done…and it came in just find on Miss Dell here 🙂
Had a nice, but short visit with Ian. He has an interview Tuesday at the E’vill Country Club doing dishes and making salads….his roommate also is employed there. They serve $50 steaks!!!
Sideburns, those little girls were just precious,
It’s Monday…gotta go…
ya’ll have a blessed day
GR 🙂 without pulling up the movie…I’m going to make a stab at it…
“American Graffiti”
Debbe 😉 Guess I’m gonna hafta find some less known movies. 🙂
Sideburns, that was a cute video! How did you happen to come across that one? A family member in the lineup?
Have to say the little bitty munchkin short one was a stand out and will probably grow up to be an extroverted but short legged stand out, if no one ruins that spirit that shown through so vividly! Loved the kids, Jackie
Ghost, even I figured out American Graffiti without trying or looking, but it is one of my favorites.
Captured my teen years pretty accurately, along with The Last Picture Show, two seminal movies that everyone should see if they want to understand their parents or grandparents?
Love, Jackie
I was just looking for the song, but when I saw that one in the list, I knew it was the one I had to pick. Glad you enjoyed it.
People on The Dark Side are all trying to figure out today’s real time strip — what is the device Arlo is trying to connect, and what’s wrong with it? They don’t get the humor, it’s just a symbol of these things we try to add to our computers, phones, etc. and when they don’t work right it’s so frustrating.
Charlotte, that is why they are on the Dark Side, whereas those of us here live in the light.
In other words, some of them don’t have very bright bulbs screwed in!
Does anyone here remember how to catch a squirrel? Be careful with that apostrophe.
Bluetooth speakers and other wireless devices…what’s the mystery? I thought guys were supposed to love Bluetooth stuff.
I think you could devise a pretty good drinking game based on how often some people embarrass themselves.
You could have ended the sentence at “drinking game” and assume the rest.
Ghost, you’d have to exclude politicians as a category for that game. You’d have to be rich to afford that much liquor, and it would turn you into an alcoholic due to the quantity.
Correct, Mark. But I was speaking of amateurs, not professionals. 🙂
Just committed to many thousands of miles of smiles for dental work on one missing tooth and two crooked ones. Discovered what I already knew, I am not a good candidate for a tooth implantation with all my autoimmune issues. So, an expensive multi-tooth bridge, which we know works, and caps on all the front teeth on the top. Too late for braces, shouldn’t have removed them twice in the past! Oh well, good teeth and a big smile!
Keep remembering that elderly aunt of mine who spent even more to avoid having dentures. When I suggested that as a cheaper alternative, she told me she intended to die with her own teeth in her mouth, even if they were all attached to just one of two of her original ones.
Vanity, thy name is being invoked. Love, Jackie
Jerry, I do know the one about catching a polar bear [and don’t recommend it] but don’t recall the one about a squirrel, though I got my fud for a thesis about watching them.
Peace, emb
Fud? I think that it was how to qualify as an Alaskan and it was supposed to include killing a polar bear. Anyway, the answer is show them you’re nuts.
Also involving wildlife, we refilled the hummingbird feeders Saturday afternoon. My wife wanted to wash them off and I told her it wasn’t necessary. She asked me “Would you want to put…?” and that’s about as far as I can go here.
Jackie, I believe I’ve mentioned previously that I don’t know if I will die with any of my own teeth, but I’m fairly sure I’ll die still owing for some of them.
I’m doing pretty well so far, other than losing my wisdom teeth to military dentistry (and yes, my wisdom to the USAF). If they are going to send you some place without dental staff, a dentist looks at them; says, “I think that one there may possibly become impacted at some point in the future”; and yank-yank-yank-yank. All at one sitting, which was interesting. Rode the shuttle bus back from the base hospital to the transit barracks with a mouth full of blood; took one of the three (count ’em, three) Darvons they gave me; and slept for 12 hours, waking up to find my pillow case looking like someone had butchered a hog on it. Fun times.
emb, the ones you have to look out for are the bipolar bears…you never know what to expect from them.
“It’s important to keep the dreaded black mold off your Hummingbird Feeders. Dirty feeders can cause illness and death in hummingbirds. You should replace your nectar every few days in hot weather and be sure to thoroughly rinse out the bottle each time. Try to avoid using soap whenever you can.”
From: http://www.surfbirds.com/bird-feeders/clean_hummingbird_feeders.html