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!
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210 responses to “Not More Harvey!”
GR6, why do otherwise normal appearing people fly in airplanes? They know nothing about the abillities of the flight crew. Have no insights of the plane maintenance records. And the passanger manifest could contain……
I once heard it said that no one watches car races to see crashes, but if there were never any crashes, no one would watch them.
Lady Mindy: Sorry if I sound like I’m piling on. As I recall, you are a NASCAR fan and then there’s that little event down the road from you every year. 😉
sand: If you applied that reasoning to medicine, very few people would ever have surgery. In most cases, they’ve never had surgery performed by that surgeon before; they have not personally verified the details of his education and training; and the OR crew may be either total idiots or pretending to be something they are not. 🙂
Speaking of milk…lactose intolerance is caused by insufficient levels of the enzyme lactase. Most humans, unlike other mammals, continue to produce lactase after weaning, preventing them from becoming lactose intolerant. One would suppose there would have been some evolutionary benefit of humans being able to tolerate milk into adulthood. I wonder if it was simply the ability to use milk as a food source or something else.
Boy howdy, as we are wont to say in the South, some of us are getting frazzled!
I am tired of looking for heirloom seeds. My mama wants to know what I intend to do with the peach baskets full of them I have organized on the table? I have long, handled peach baskets left from all the peaches we buy from the local orchards and they make great rectangular sorting baskets.
Truth is I don’t honestly know but I hope to plant some in a few months! Affirmation of a belief in the renewal of life. I am considering digging out another section of grass and installing a raised bed alongside the three others to use for tomatoes but I know me, I’d put a trellis on the ends anyway to increase growing cucumbers and melons!
And some down the middle as well…………Husband is big NASCAR fan too but I am so dumb that when I was flying into NC to meet with the Lowe’s buyers back in the late 80’s-early 90’s I had to ask what that strange track and condominium thing was we flew over. Had no idea. Looked weird from air.
Two Cows and a Chicken has been exploring that idea, is in reruns now and I think he expanded on premise?
Love, Jackie
emb, as far as I know, “nippular area” arose from a TV show episode.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q5wFeAmUGfM
6:45 PM and it feels like it’s going on midnight. Damned time change.
I know, it is 7:13 here and we never eat this early. It has been dark for hours!
Denise in Michigan, I am happy to see your post. About the red lentils — I was intriqued by the color, having only seen the greenish ones, so bought some, intending to cook them about 45 minutes, as you do. They fell apart in 20 minutes, so I thought they were done and ate them (also used garlic, salt, etc.) Well, they gave me indigestion! I figure they may have looked done but weren’t really; I have read that lots of beans and legumes need sufficient cooking to be really edible. And these foods haven’t bothered me before or since.
Your “hummus … makes a great base for egg salad.” Interesting, can you explain more? I don’t see just how to put this together.
At the risk of sounding stupid, has anything happened to Lillieblack? I’ve missed a few days and she’s no longer on the blog. Pax vobiscum.
Note to JJ: how ’bout them Auburn Tigers?
IT’S GREAT TO BE AN AUBURN TIGER !!!
WAR EAGLE !!!
GO BIG BLUE !!!
Charlotte, I did a fast read on the red lentils and 25 minutes is the cooking time I found. I have eaten them in soups and stews, as I am not crazy about curry but they are kind of like split peas I think in that they are going to cook all to pieces. I’d find a good recipe or two that uses them in a hearty soup and try that.
I am pretty certain that the last time I was in Whole Foods’ dried bean department they also had yellow and black ones, but I may have been looking at something else? No one in family will hang out in the dried bulk product department with me!
Love, Jackie
domaucan1 Go to Modely Crew on October 26th at 9:42 AM and you will see what happened.
Ironically on the 26th, I lost a friend from church that passed away suddenly. Today is All Soul’s Day and the Priest happened to mention his passing. At first I though that he said another name. so I had to double check.
We met a park back in the 1990’s as we were both training for marathons. Since I was singing with a group at church at the time, Bernie came up to me as I stopped to get a drink during a run and told me that he belonged to the same church. We would talk about running from time to time and I was especially happy for him when he qualified for the Boston Marathon.
He never married and was only a year older than me. A bad knee forced him to quit running in 2009 while my hip, which eventually led to a replacement sidelined me in 2006. Both us us had picked up a few lbs, but I started walking 4 yrs ago and I am hoping that will keep me healthy. However no one, not even a marathoner, is immune to heart disease. Due to a rapid heartbeat 15+ years ago during a run in 100 degree heat, my doctor has made me undergo a nuclear stress test, holter device or echo-gram on a regular basis. I have also been on a statin for the last 15 years
Charlotte, I looked for identification on lentils and they come in a complete rainbow of colors, just as I suspected. yellows, blacks, oranges, greens, pinks, lavenders. Some of the recipes were really pretty too, very colorful soups in particular.
Funny thing was I recognized some of the beans I have been buying for spring planting as dried beans, very pretty and colorful. I need more garden beds!!! Or go to Whole Foods more once again.
Love, Jackie
Dear Jackie, the lentils sound very good (I actually began to type lintel and had to go back and correct it!) and I’ll look them over when I shop. I’m very fond of cooking dried beans and have used lots of them over the years but the nearby stores don’t have the selection you speak of. There are regional kinds as I’m sure you are aware. We have “cranberry beans” which I think are speckled with pink, and Maine has “Jacob’s Cattle beans”– it’s from the Bible which I’m not an expert at, but the cattle were apparently streaked and spotted, and the beans are.
Jackie, I found this site some time ago and thought it looked interesting. Have not ordered from them, but if business has been operating since the 1930’s they must be doing something right.
http://www.bulkfoods.com/content/51-categories
Jackie, the speckled butter beans you mentioned are something I grew up eating. My mother always grew them in her garden. We called them colored butter beans. I googled colored butter beans and came up with several kinds that are sold by different companies. There is also a bush type, as well as the pole kind. We are going to get below freezing tonight, but I am hoping my little string beans will make it; they are not big enough to pick yet.
Funny you mentioned those two because I was just looking at the cranberry beans and Jacob’s Cattle beans on Seed Savers this afternoon. I love Johnny’s Seeds up in Maine and have bought from them since I was in ag school in the 1960’s. In those days I think their catalog was a mimeographed black and white on newspaper stock! Of course, I also read Mother Earth back then and wanted to live out among nature with no modern conveniences. Boy, I sound like Arlo and Janis and now Gene and Mary Lou.
Of course, living short on modern conveniences was something I had already experienced growing up. But I swear to goodness I have faint recollections of Mike wanting to be a forest ranger and us living out in woods in a log cabin, close to nature and probably a large body of water!
He is in watching the continuation of “Pride and Prejudice” as a murder mystery, which was confusing the heck out of me as I kept hearing “Mr. Darcy and Mr. Wickham” being constantly referred to and it sure didn’t sound like P and P!
I am off to bed, my body clock says it is bedtime!
Love, Jackie
That bit / the cattle pelage is not very Mendelian, but what did he know?
“Most humans, unlike other mammals, continue to produce lactase after weaning, . . ..” I just read, maybe when looking at a URL posted here, that 65% of adult humans do not produce lactose. Thus, those lacking lactose are the majority. Lactose persistence has apparently been selected for in various human populations that took up milking large domestic mammals, perhaps initially to provide milk for orphaned infants or infants whose mothers produced too little milk. Maybe others tried the surplus and a few carried a gene for lactase production that didn’t quit working during childhood. Keep that up for several generations creates an economic incentive for more milk production, in turn increasing the selective advantage of adult lactose tolerance.
Swedish study or no, I plan to continue roughly a qt. a day [the last 8 oz. as low fat ice cream or fat-free yogurt, frozen or not.
Best man at our wedding is of 100% Chinese ancestry and cannot tolerate standard milk. Known him since 3rd grade [I’ve said that here before], still keep in touch. Cannot speak Mandarin, but knows the Chinese restaurants in Philly pretty well.
Funny photo: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/picturegalleries/earth/11201099/Animal-photos-of-the-week.html?frame=3087231
“Keeping” and “]”, thus: Keeping that up for several generations creates an economic incentive for more milk production, in turn increasing the selective advantage of adult lactose tolerance. Swedish study or no, I plan to continue roughly a qt. a day [the last 8 oz. as low fat ice cream or fat-free yogurt, frozen or not]. Hard to proof my own stuff.
It’s hard to believe how ignorant some people are of AEDs:
http://www.opposingviews.com/i/society/man-saves-womans-life-aed-called-pervert-removing-her-clothes-apply-electrode-pads
If 65% of human adults do not produce lactace, and are therefore subject to being lactose intolerant, it would seem that lactose intolerance would be much, much more common than I would have thought.
A-I have always drank (drunk?) milk, going from whole to 2% and back to whole as life demanded. I have no intentions of giving it up now!
B-As I have mentioned here before a favorite author of mine is Sharyn McCrumb. On a short break from writing her wonderful Ballad Book series she wrote a novel called “Saint Dale” which is about a group of people making a pilgrimage of sorts to all the NASCAR tracks in memory of Dale Earnhardt. The story is told in a style reminiscent of the Canterbury Tales. At a book signing several years ago I had the opportunity of asking Sharyn why she chose NASCAR as the setting, and she said it was because she was a great fan of the sport. I asked her how it could be a sport, as all they do is drive around an oval track at breakneck speeds. She allowed as how it would take a while for her to explain it to me. We have never had that much time, and I still don’t care for the “sport”. 🙂
C-If I wanted sunlight at 10pm I would move to Scandinavia. As it is, I am happy to be back on Standard time.
[Some here have asked about my observations in the “Lilyblack” matter. Others, I’m sure, couldn’t care less. If you are a part of the latter group, please feel free to scroll past this relatively lengthy comment.]
One of the regular commenters on this blog has been conspicuously absent since 10-26-14. That was when another commenter apparently outed “Lilyblack” as a fraud, making an interestingly detailed case that “Lilyblack” was much more a contrived persona than a real person. After one short comment following the outing, nothing further has been heard from “Lilyblack”. One may draw one’s own conclusions from that. (Also, my interpretation of the “Lilyblack” comment “Heh. stirred up some silliness here, I have” is that it was an admission of fakery committed.) Even before then, some here had begun to express doubts about the authenticity and genuineness of the person commenting as “Lilyblack”. Although I had not expressed them, I too had doubts. These are just a few of the things that fostered those misgivings.
If the persona of “Lilyblack” was, as it now appears, a construct, it was fairly well-crafted as to details. However, there were some major holes in it which I should have been able to fill pretty easily but could not. While it’s not unusual for even honest and legitimate posters to a blog to change or omit some details for legitimate reasons (such as to maintain privacy), these missing details were central to the story. (And preserving privacy seemed to be a very unimportant consideration on the part of the person telling the story.)
The persona seemed to evolve rather quickly and drastically, the most glaring example of that being, to me, that the person that originally arrived here seemed to be heavily involved in fantasy gaming. To the point that I remember thinking, “Lookee, lookee, we got us a gamer girl geek here. That’s different.” Now I have nothing against gamer girl geeks; in fact, I was dating a former gamer girl geek at about that time, and we had a lot of things in common, even though I’ve never been a gamer, and we had lots of fun. (The fact that things ultimately didn’t work out between us was due to the fact that I finally realized she was bat-crap crazy and had nothing to do with the fact she was a former gamer girl geek.) But for someone who initially seemed so invested in gaming, all evidence of that seemed to go entirely away quite quickly, being replaced by the heavy-drinking, church-going, choir-singing, classical-literature-and-music fan and self-described “medical professional” persona. (Note: To me, “medical professional” means a physician, a PA, or a Nurse Practitioner, and by her own admission “Lilyblack” was none of those.) In retrospect, the self-description of “Lilyblack” as a gamer probably should have been a red-flag in and of itself.
A close reading of comments over time revealed a number of internal inconsistencies, leading me to believe they were either breakdowns in a legend or reflections of a personality disorder. One example is the oft-visited “sex is icky” theme that was part of many comments, one that would be understandable coming from someone who had allegedly been the victim of a violent assault. At the same time, there were comments made by “Lilyblack” that struck me as being flirty at least and sexually provocative at most.
Other things simply seemed improbable on the face of them. One of the earliest comments I could not buy was that “Lilyblack” routinely consumed as many as twelve cocktails in a few hours when out clubbing. That a supposedly petite, 103-pound person could do that even once is unlikely. What is more likely is that such a person would have to leave the club by ambulance and be treated for alcohol poisoning. I won’t even go into the alleged moderate-to-heavy drinking on a nightly basis which was allegedly followed by multi-mile early morning runs.
I believe I know who “The Man” is (or was supposed to be), but “The Boss” seems to be rather difficult to locate, surprisingly so in fact for an active 56-old-old female general surgeon, supposedly living and practicing not far outside of Dallas, and especially one who also runs weight loss programs and treats allergies on the side. (That would be somewhat unusual and outside the normal scope of practice for a general surgeon, but not, I suppose, impossible. I do know an OBGYN whose wife runs a weight loss clinic under his direction, although separately from his OBGYN practice, but the only physician I’ve ever personally known, other than Board Certified allergists or ENT’s, to do allergy treatments was a family practice doc who years ago hung out a shingle for that after he lost his hospital privileges for committing Medicare/Medicaid fraud.) Between scheduled surgeries and unscheduled trauma cases, the several busy and successful general surgeons I know have problems making it to the office even to see their surgery patients in follow-up.
As I believe Jackie did, I also had major problems with the supposed living/working situation. For reasons I won’t go into, I have a very good idea of what a non-nursing surgical assistant is paid. If the descriptions of the lifestyle supposedly being furnished the person are true (including vacations in the Greek isles and luxury weekends in Paris; room and board; and an apparently unlimited supply of liquor), that alone would have likely cost the employer the equivalent of quite a bit more than a usual and reasonable salary for that position. And that would be even without considering any actual salary, which supposedly was sufficient to purchase some rather expensive personal items. (Assuming there was no other source of “income”.)
I have known and dealt with quite a number of physicians over the years, and although any of them would be more than able financially to take in a former patient (even one who was a relative stranger who knocked on their door and asked to move in with their families) and support them in that manner, none of them I’ve known would be at all likely to do so for purely altruistic motives. Nor would they likely feel that an employee/assistant, no matter how important or valuable to their practice, would be worth that. (To me, the descriptions of being carried upstairs, in a drunken semi-stupor and being undressed and put to bed were particularly cringle-worthy, and I won’t add anything to that.)
Some of the regulars here have asked why someone would do such a thing. As I mentioned the other day, one cannot easily come up with a logical explanation for illogical behavior on the part of another. Jackie, who knows more about trolls and trolling than I ever will, has characterized the behavior of “Lilyblack” as troll-like. My working definition of a “troll” is the same as the one from The Urban Dictionary): “One who posts a deliberately provocative message to a (blog) with the intention of causing maximum disruption and argument.” I personally believe that declaring “Lilyblack” a troll on that basis would be a bit of a stretch. I do, however, think there were multiple personality and behavioral issues in play, and “the Village” is really not the venue where something like that should be played out. That is not at all what most of us come here to see displayed.
We will not likely ever know who “Lillyblack” really was, or what the story behind “Lillyblack” truly was. However, one thing I am reasonably sure of is that if anyone associated with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, Explosives and Really Big Fires happened to read the entry about the possession of an unregistered Class III WWII German submachine gun, someone will be looking for “Lilyblack” who is much better equipped to find out who she really is than we are.
Oh, and the “Susan Schroeder” FB page is still up as of now, but since I don’t do Book of Faces, I can’t really glean anything from it. Perhaps some of you FaceBookers can give an opinion as to whether the page appears bogus or not.
Ghost, since “Susie” was managing to disrupt and run off the majority of the members of the Village (including me who did come back three times after I kept quitting in disgust) I classified her as a troll, in that disrupting and causing the demise of popular group sites seems to be what they enjoy. Although I do agree too on the personality disorder. The apparent knowledge of stuff like military history, the guns, made me think “male” pretending to be female. And someone much older than she claimed to be. Believe me, few young people are interested in some of that stuff!
I had about settled on sociopath, incarcerated somewhere, male, older guy, access to a computer periodically.
The really bad one we tracked down I had the help of a friend who believed along with me he was a destructive troll and he and I were proved right AFTER group was destroyed. (Troll had some help there among members) And he miraculously returned to life using same computer and name after his suicide. Uh Oh. Only he was supposed to be someone else?
Anyway, I hope Jimmy’s blog here has blocks and “she” doesn’t return. The trolls seemed bad several years ago, so much that when I got a guy who was posting under name “Wardofthestate” I decided he was a blatant incarcerated criminal of some sort, writing in to a boating forum. Turns out he just worked for the state!
So, Ghost, you weren’t alone with stuff not adding up. I was feeling “targeted” a little, what with truly having been kidnapped, going through a lot of therapy, trials, anorexia. Forget the nunnery and the creepy custodians. I was saying, “Weird Texas girl with a rich dad who has stuck her in some bizarre custodial lockdown.” I meant it about small towns with strange living arrangements.
Anyway, 10# dog is barking hysterically as he only does for people. Not good sign for 1:30 in morning!
Skip this if you aren’t interested, as Ghost says.
Love, Jackie