I hope you had a good holiday! I did. Today’s old cartoon is a bit premature, because Rosetta Stone Day isn’t until July 19, and no, there isn’t really such a thing as “Rosetta Stone Day.” If I remember correctly, the message of the Rosetta Stone was a statement of rules and instructions for a communal bath house. That’s not as laughable as it seems to us today, for the ancients performed all manner of personal ablutions in one another’s company. It wasn’t just hot-tubbing. I should think it was important for everyone to know the rules.
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Well if it is on the internet, then it must be true!
Sounds like the communal male/female bath houses that were news to us when we occupied Japan in ’45. Do they still have those?
Today’s Rosetta Stone would be the instructions that come with almost anything in English, Spanish, French, Japanese, Chinese and sometimes Russian and German.
Did a search. They still exist but are fewer since more homes have their own baths. They are still valued as places for spacious long soaks. Generally, males and females are separated by a high screen. Lots of sites.
Rosetta Stone slips in oddball stuff occasionally when you’re learning whatever language. they use pictures, but you also write, hear and speak. I’ve learned in German, “the mans newspaper is on fire” and “the little girl screams when her teddy bear’s arm comes off”
Jimmy missed out on one. Today (July 7) is National Macaroni Day. So stick a feather in your hat. (Yesterday was National Fried Chicken Day. Yum.)
Although as usual he nailed it, cartoon subject matter-wise. At last count, I had five nice cardboard shipping cartons on hand which I’m conflicted about disposing of.
[Psst…Jimmy. If you’re stuck now, National Rat Catchers Day is coming up in a couple of weeks. You should be able to get a Ludwig cartoon out of that. Also coming up is National Take Your Pants For A Walk Day. Would there perhaps be a Janis cartoon in those pants?]
Can we get a National “Pull up Your Pants Day?
Sadly, Wikipedia says that the Rosetta Stone is “inscribed with a decree that established the divine cult of the new ruler”. But “It is the most-visited object in the British Museum.”
Maybe if you turn the stone over the bathhouse rules are on the other side.
Good thing they made this though, before becoming a stoneless society.
We must leave no turn unstoned. A list of Turns shall follow.
Turn, turn, turn
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&ei=1766U5TENbS-sQT2pIG4AQ&url=http://www.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3DW4ga_M5Zdn4%26feature%3Dkp&cd=1&ved=0CCEQyCkwAA&usg=AFQjCNFx2YAdaHYE70e-Xskq-12D22HSsw&sig2=4YBFwfbxJU9pV7xo6hAD0A
A small lad in Alaska was observed to repeatedly throw rocks at birds on the beach. When asked why, he stated he was attempting to leave no tern unstoned.
There’s an old Sydney Harris cartoon [New Yorker or maybe Playboy, not naughty] about what’s on the back of the Rosetta Stone. Did a search, cannot find it .
Today is also National Strawberry Sundae Day!
Ummm. National Chocolate With Almonds Day. Tomorrow.
Thanks Jean, you just blew our diet plans.
emb, perhaps you can find it here. Enjoy, everybody.
http://www.sciencecartoonsplus.com/index.php
Another sign the cartoonist was stuck: Four panels for a Sunday strip. Look at all that unused space!
Another sign, the amount of dialogue. Jimmy is normally a sparse user of spoken words. utilizing more “action” with illustration.
Now, back to what I said yesterday—-How many of us could be funny AND draw for a full week, a full month, for 365 days a year which for 25 years came out to more than 9,000 Arlo and Janis days?
He does darned good!
Love, Jackie Monies
I think we should get together and all write our Congressmen about making a National Rosetta Stone Day.
Bryan, it would be all Greek and hieroglyphics to them.
Jackie, a few years ago, Jimmy solicited questions about the cartoon and answered a few of them. As I recall, the first one he addressed was the very same one you have raised, about how he maintains his creative juices, day in and day out. When I have time, I will try to find his post on the subject for you. Unless someone beats me to it, which they would be welcome to do.
The other problem, the amount of dialog. When you are trying to educate your readers, you have to use words. How many of the original Sunday readers DIDN’T know the origin of the term Rosetta Stone? Bet you most think it is just computer language software and don’t know why the name is linked. Many might not know it is software either, and have no clue as to the origin or meaning of the term. (Without Jimmy, that is)
Rosetta is also a robotic spacecraft launched by the ESA in 2004. It is scheduled to land on an asteroid in August 2014 and complete a detailed study.
I’ve noticed a distinct paucity of sundresses as I’ve been out and about this year, even though the season is definitely upon us. What’s going on?
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