Yes, a little more “Harvey.” Harvey the giant dust bunny has been featured twice in Arlo & Janis, and this strip was his very first appearance, in 1991. Don’t worry: I’m not going to put you through the entire series that followed, which lasted a week. I might, if I get around to it, post highlights from it over the weekend. I think a few of the gags were pretty good. I’ve always had fun with the “Harvey” idea, and I’m sure I’ve shown you this one on the Web before. Also over the weekend, I’m going to try to find some of that material we talked about earlier, the older stuff no one has seen since it appeared in newspapers. You wouldn’t believe how much a box of old cartoons can weigh!
Not More Harvey!
By Jimmy Johnson
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210 responses to “Not More Harvey!”
Why not more Harvey? I’d love to see the whole week’s worth.
Jimmy:
Please DO “put (us) through the entire series that followed”! Strips dating from before the archive at GOComics commences are always welcome. Besides, as George Costanza would say, they are “comedy gold, Jerry!”
…and we may need to take up a collection to defray any chiropractic expenses that arise from our Bard liftin’ and totin’ those boxes of old cartoons, if Jimmy ends up “taking one for the team.” 🙂
Spookiest thing encountered so far on this Halloween morning? Sam Champion’s “demented Santa Claus laugh” on The Weather Channel.
p.s. Can’t say I particularly miss Janis’s ’91 hairstyle.
I’ve seen the Harvey series here, but not this particular strip.
It’s a good start to the notion of Harvey, the introduction that was missing from the sequence I have seen previously.
I like it when you, ahem, dust off the older material…
I keep saying Janis has aged well. Some women do get better looking as they get older, some of us don’t.
She has also filled out some, another good thing! Rounder lines.
I don’t think I have ever seen the original Harvey series either, so I would enjoy it. My husband does notice spider webs, something my housekeeper is oblivious to!
Yes, I have a 3 day housekeeper who has been with me almost 20 years, give or take the period she quit for awhile. Like all relationships, it wanes and whines!
I once had a shrink who said all marriages should have a part-time housekeeper to blame things on and complain about, in order to avoid blaming each other. He said he recommended all his patients hire one, to avoid marital stress and breakups.
Not only funny but true!
Love, Jackie (who has read every word prior to this and TDS also)
Another thought on the old material none of us have seen: would not this be excellent material for the NEXT Arlo and Janis book?
And if it is lying moldering in cardboard boxes, it should be packed in archival protection, like some big plastic bins from Walmart, like my “valuables” are except the ones my housekeeper keeps packing in cardboard boxes rescued from Dollar General. That is a joke, of course!
Someday someone may stumble over the treasure trove out on the curbside and end up on the 22nd century version of Antique Road Show (which may well still be on the air)
Basic thought: shouldn’t you be doing something to save and protect the old drawings?
Love, Jackie
TIP comic and BlogSpot are same today. BlogSpot is bigger. Cute. I wonder what someone will look like if she lives > she expects? Does ‘I wonder etc.’ take a ‘?’? It’s written like a declarative sentence.
http://thatispriceless.blogspot.com/
OF was winding down, no new prediction yet.
Harvey 2, a Halloween tale of dust and paranoia.
Spookiest encounter today; the woman wearing an angel halo.
David from Austin on 30 Oct 2014 at 9:42 pm # : EMB, southern women would argue that she was completely correct in her choice of pronoun. Just as women never sweat, the[y] certainly wouldn’t stink! 🙂
Prof. George Healey, who taught Freshman English [Fall ’47] at Cornell, once opined, “Horses sweat, men perspire, and women glow.” Don’t know where he got it. Maybe he was from the South. No perceptible accent, wonderful low key classroom presence. It helped that FE classes were restricted to 12-15 students or so.
Healey was formal in a most comfortable way. Married, at least one kid, wife from Appalachia, once said to him [he quoted her; we never saw her] that she was going to downtown Ithaca “to buy a bauble for the bairn.” When someone donated a symbolic mace for commencements and such, he was appointed Bearer of the Mace, and led the faculty and graduates in. Died young [perhaps 50 or younger] of some rare, debilitating disease.
One Cornell Glee Club and widespread song says, “Those days were the best I have known.” Largely true, surely of my life that far. Met future wife there, the beginning of the best 62 years I have known [incl. courtship + marriage].
OF webcam offline.
eMb, well, a good portion of Appalachia was settled by the Scots after the Revolutionary War, because England wasn’t in a mood to ship soldiers home, and the mountains here looked a lot like the mountains back home anyways. As near as I can find out that’s how my family got started here.
If I may go back to the previous discussion of beans; I don’t like hummus because I have never been able to like garbanzo beans, ie chickpeas. To me they have a bland taste and mealy consistency I just can’t deal with. Lentils, on the other hand, are great! I have a chicken and lentil casserole recipe that I would happily fix once a week if I could, and I love lentil soup. And speaking of soup, it is definitely time to make a pot of bean soup. I will go to the store and buy as many different kinds of dried beans as I can and mix them all together in a bucket, then when we want soup I scoop a couple of cups of mixed beans out and voila-supper! now the discussion shifts to ham bone, smoked ham hocks, or smoked pork neckbones? 🙂
Jean, others of we Scots came here via the Highland Clearances. My branch was “relocated” to New Brunswick, since branches have spread both south and west.
Dear emb, Your letters are full of wisdom and thoughtful reminiscences. I also like your reminders about Old Faithful, although I can seldom stay in synch for the actual display! It’s hard for me, too, figuring out what time it’s due here on Eastern Time, when you give the military time where you are on Central Time, and the Yellowstone is on Mountain Time … some day I’ll figure all this out.
I must admit that those math symbols mean nothing to me (not a math minded scholar). I can see what you are getting at and am learning.
Mine seem to have made it to the Carolinas prior to Revolutionary War. By 1800-1805 they had all made it to Louisiana where entire “clan” and kith and kin had come via wagon trains. They settled in the central part of Louisiana, in hills that must have reminded them of both their native lands and the Appalachian area. Equally poor land, hard to farm, isolated. They kept up their traditions and speech, religious beliefs and independent and often stubborn ways.
It amused me to find out my father, who was from Carolinas, met my mother in Louisiana and married there, was from an equally isolated family group who had done same thing in Appalachian area. Both sides of my family tree stayed in close tight “clans” and married same families, over and over and over.
As my librarian aunt often commented, it is a good thing we all had the requisite number of fingers and toes and didn’t have an eye in the center of our foreheads.
Good Halloween thought on ancestry!
Love, Jackie
Researching family trees is a pretty funny business, Jackie. I can’t go back very far on most of my branches, but most of my ancestors were poor folk and did not have the means to travel. There are quite of few census records that show members of one family marrying members of a neighboring family, because everyone stayed pretty close to home. And yes, sometimes cousins, usually distant, married.
Jean dear, you obviously recognize that in the South, most soups and many vegetables could not be prepared without ham bone, smoked ham hocks or smoked pork neckbones. 🙂
My ancestors migrated from Germany to England; then to Virginia in pre-Revolutionary War days; and from there spread (primarily) throughout the southern states. Today the family name is well represented in TN, LA and TX, but is relatively uncommon elsewhere. I would not at all be surprised to learn that Jackie knows people in LA with my surname. (One branch there is at least semi-famous.)
I like recipes, but I am not a slave to them. My recipe for “Chicken & Cannellini Bean Soup” just got modified to “Ham & Lima Bean Soup”…a batch of which is in one of my slow cookers right now, and will soon join servings of previously prepared “Pinto Bean Soup” in my freezer. (Who knows…the next batch may be made with lentils.) I feel like a squirrel storing up nuts for the winter.
Prepare to melt into a puddle of “Awwwww”.
His name is Sherlock.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NK-T_t166TY
🙂
OF due 1440-1500 CDT.
http://www.nps.gov/features/yell/webcam/oldFaithfulStreaming.html
One of my friends used to work in the Staff Lounge at SF conventions. One of the things she’d bring to keep us fed was a version of minestrone with so many beans that we ended up renaming it maxestrone. Haven’t had it in years.
Charlotte: I’m no mathematician either. I know how to solve simple algebraic equations. The one I use most often is:
F-32 = 9/5 C
Thus freezing, 32 F = 0 C.
But I cannot do calculus.
The virtue of ‘military’ time-keeping is you never have to ask, ‘a.m. or p.m.?
> = more than, quick tempered > she is. Works.
Peace, Evan
GR – that’s so neat!
Boiling, 212 F – 32 = 9/5 C; 180 = 9/5 C; 180/9 = C/5; 20 = C/5; 100 = C.
– 40 F = 9/5 C; -72 = 9/5 C; -72×5 = 9 C; -360 = 9 C; C = -360/9 = -40. Thus, the F and C temps are the same when it’s -40.
Time to go back to:
http://www.nps.gov/features/yell/webcam/oldFaithfulStreaming.html
You all have talked me into making yellow split pea soup tonight!
That and fact I bought some smoked beef sausage and have some ham and ham bones left, carrots and onion and I just dug the last of the fall “new” potatoes, so that and the herbs out in pots should do it. I am certainly no slave to a recipe.
Pleasantly surprised to have a large colander full of lovely potatoes, as these were planted from seed potatoes left from Spring that never got planted! That and gardener had no idea what she was doing but she did half way what she was told, so not bad, all things considered.
I am like the Lutheran women in Lake Wobegon. Not half bad for a Thanksgiving dinner.
Love, Jackie