A smart husband, like a smart lawyer, doesn’t ask a question for which he doesn’t know the answer, not in the above context anyway. In reality, husbands ask many such questions, such as, Do you know where my shoes are? Well, you know what’s coming for most of us: winter! And it’s just Veteran’s Day.
No Second Guessing
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63 responses to “No Second Guessing”
Janis’ eyes in the last two panels, particularly the third one, make this piece awesome. Truly a LOL moment. Thanks!
The strip does not appear in Firefox at this time (Version 33.1) I had to open the dreaded Internet Explorer to enjoy it.
The above should contain the caveat, “At least not on my machine”
and on mine…
Won’t come up on my machine either, even though previous strips appear just fine. Tried Firefox v33.1, Chrome v38.0.2125.111 and Safari v8.0. It did come up in Safari BTW.
No picture here, either.
Using Chrome, no cartoon. But I right clicked on the little icon in the corner where the strip should be and clicked on open image in new tab. Then it downloaded the image and I was able to click on it and see it. Strange.
Same issue here and I did exactly as Susan suggested.
Thanks, Jimmy for the love for Veterans in today’s strip. Here is a link from our local paper of restaurants and businesses doing special discounts for Veterans today and my thoughts that I posted on my FB page.
Obviously today is a day to be thankful for Veterans. We should always be thankful for those who gave the last full measure of devotion, but today is a day to thank those who have chosen (and those who accepted the draft) to serve our country and risk their lives for all of our freedoms. Some continue to pay a price for that service and we must make sure that they are taken care of.
It is especially heartening to see restaurant give free meals or special discounts on this day. Hilger’s Restaurant started doing this years ago. Here is a link to businesses in the Detroit area that are offering special savings for Veterans and are worthy of our thanks:
http://patch.com/michigan/birmingham/free-meals-and-deals-vets-military-veterans-day-list-0
Thank you, Debbe. Thank you, Carol. Thank you, Steve. It was my honor to serve, and I would gladly do so again.
Props go out to Arlo (and Jimmy) for his remembrance of those warriors in today’s real-time cartoon. The fact that I know all of them by name likely says something about my age. Your average 40-year-old (and under) probably would recognize few if any of them.
Props also to all the men and women here at the Village who are veterans. (Watching the laying of the wreath ceremony at Arlington on TV as I type this.)
Today’s strip is in TIF format, that’s something not a lot of browsers understand. You might have to find the link, save and open with a photo viewer.
To all our vets and active service members, on land and sea and in air, in wartime and peacetime; and to their families and friends…I give thanks.
JJ has produced many strips honoring veterans both living and dead. One is featured today at CIDU.
The one that has affected me the most though is this one from the 50th anniversary of D-Day:
http://www.gocomics.com/arloandjanis/1994/06/06
Thanks, Jimmy, for these.
I was drafted before the lottery. LBJ was taking anyone who could draw a breath. I was so lucky to fight that war at Ft. McPherson near Atlanta as a pharmacy specialist. So, I guess I kinda won.
Who can answer this question without looking it up? Jimmy mentions George Baker in the last set of 3 names (all cartoonists). What was George Baker known for?
And let’s not forget Dave Breger either.
Was an honor to do my duty for my country. All Pointers out there, please notice I covered the Academy’s motto in my acknowledgement.
Chorme on my tablet is not showing the retro, will have to fire up a Microsoft based machine.
Mark, they were both quartered before they became drawn.
😉
Mark: I had to look up both! I was familiar with Sad Sack, but I had forgotten – if I had ever known! – the artist.
Thanks to Jimmy – and you – for bringing these names to our attention on this day…
sandcastler tm, see hint from Susan in NC above about Chrome and today’s retro.
I have a feeling the problem viewing the strip is due to the fact Jimmy is having to scan these instead of posting from an existing file.
Galliglo, those names were familiar to me thanks to the public library having collections of Mauldin and Breger, and a certain comic book line which published Sad Sack comics in the 1960’s.
http://sadsack.net/OriginalComicStrip.htm
Oh, and one more from my own branch of the service, Hank Ketcham. Go Navy!
Yes, the 6-6-94 A&J would be hard to top as a remembrance of D-Day. It reminds me of several invasion veterans who were interviewed on TV that day. As those men in their 70’s and 80’s spoke of their brothers-n-arms who died on the beaches, you could see in their eyes and hear in their voices that it was to them as if it had just happened. In some ways, I’m sure, it will always be 6 Jun 1944 for them for as long as they live.
Mark, I saw Susan’s comment on Chrome. It requires a mouse to right click, my main world (tablet) is mouse free, thus requiring the machine switch. Thanks for thinking of me.
Here’s a musical reminder of those who fought in The Great War, whose Armistice Day has changed to Veterans Day.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u3YlNNG_1Z8
U.S.Army Signal Corps, 1960-1962. dit dit dit
Today’s strip shows up in neither Firefox nor Seamonkey and neither does any icon for it. I examined the page’s source, copied the link, pasted it into a new tab and was told that I had to activate a plugin to see it. Now, I can see it in that tab but not in this one.
I finally had to use the dreaded Internet Explorer.
Okay, finally saw the retro. Had to go to the evil product from Finland that runs on a laptop. Think Arlo dug a deeper hole by mentioning Judy. Rule Zero of male survival; when confronted by an angry SO never give them any ammo they don’t already have in the chamber. (See, I can still recall what was said yesterday. 😉 )