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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Good one today Mr. Johnson. Let the fingers dance across the keypad.
Ms. Debbe, all of the stone turning talk yesterday sounded silly. Being the day after a long weekend it sounded loonie. Loonie, get it now?
Sorry about Loon, you know how birds are.
http://www.gocomics.com/moderately-confused/2014/07/08
I believe the birds may be p.o.’d that humans have stolen “tweet” from them to use for that silly social media thing.
GR6, go figure this; sandcastler™ is a tweeter on Twitter, while Loon is not. Neither are on Facebook, one is on Linked-in and the other on Pintrest. Both own tablets and only one works on a laptop.
I just stumbled over a blog called the Comics Curmudgeon that makes snippy comments about strips. It interested me that he had not made any about A and J?
Although I have to confess I agreed with him about the entries I read. I had NO idea some of those strips were still in existence. Like Apartment 3-G and Mary Worth and Rex Morgan, MD and the Phantom and on and on. The examples he picked on were pretty pitiful!
Does anyone here read this guy?
Love, Jackie Monies
Remember that story about my male friend and his male cat going to be neutered? The cat. Who he told all the way to the vet’s that he was having an appendectomy and would be just fine?
Love, Jackie Monies
Jackie,
Browsing OLD A & J, saw this and thought you’d enjoy.
http://www.gocomics.com/arloandjanis/1994/09/23
Ghost,
Saw this one and thought of you:
http://www.gocomics.com/arloandjanis/1994/07/14
David, that was funny! I once wrote a fictional “plot” for the ultimate sailing story which like the ultimate country and western song had every element that kept wives from ever wanting to go out in a boat.
Mine had great whites biting off the end of the bow, icebergs and hitting reefs, washed ashore on a deserted unknown island.
But this was funny! Love Arlo, who is real.
Love, Jackie Monies
Thanks, David. It appears Arlo may have mastered the old “unhook-the-bra-with-one-hand” trick. Which, with practice, can even be performed with a blouse worn over the bra. I believe that’s been referred to as “a conversation starter”. 😉
Thin line between “conversation starter” and “sexual assault.” Practice with extreme caution, lest you want the courts to define where you can live and go.
Disclaimer: That particular “conversation starter” is not to be practiced with strangers or casual acquaintances. Of course.
Ref today’s (7-8-14) cartoon (which I assume is NOT about werewolves outside the house)…
Based on previous cartoons which establish that Ludwig has had a certain surgical procedure performed, I don’t think it would much matter to him what “is going on out there”.
A friend that works in a urology practice tells me they often get calls from women wanting to know how to go about getting their husbands “fixed”. Meaning a vasectomy. Not the more drastic procedure Ludwig has had. She thinks.
OK, so I am browsing around and was just on CIDU/Comics I Don’t Understand, where A and J appear to play an active part.
What exactly makes the strip so hard to understand? I seldom read the Dark Side comments for same reason.
Is it simply that I relate so much to how A and J themselves relate? I just don’t have a problem getting Jimmy’s jokes.
Love, Jackie Monies
I don’t follow the comics curmudgeon, but I do read Mary Worth, Rex Morgan, the Phantom, Prince Valiant, and several other older strips. I’ve followed them since discovering them in high school.
David, I began reading at an early age, about 4 or 5 apparently, and cut my teeth on the comics, which I have loved all my life. I do miss the old Sunday comics which were pages and pages and pages of comics. I used to follow ALL the story strips, the ones with continuing plots like soap operas.
Does the Austin paper still carry a lot of strips? Even Houston had cut back I thought before I left 20 years ago. I loved the Miami Herald when I was a young teen and they had a huge list of comics then.
I am baby sitting grandson today and browsing what people say about comics on blog or websites. I think what we say here is a lot better comments than what I have read elsewhere!
Love, Jackie Monies
Does anyone know some ancient Egyptians that I can hire to pour a driveway?
Sorry, Jerry. The only Egyptian I know is not ancient and is a cardiologist.
Jackie, one of the fondest memories of my childhood is stretching out on the floor after church and Sunday lunch, reading page after page of color comics. A pleasure I suspect few youths today have ever enjoyed.
I have heard of Comics Curmudgeon, so I must have seen it at some point, but I honestly don’t remember anything about it. The proprietor of CIDU is (was?) a semi-regular commenter here, and I sometimes visit his site. I have seen some cartoons there (not A&J ones) that are so enigmatic and/or ambiguous that I suspect the author designed them to be unfathomable, just to p.o. readers. Which seems to me a silly thing to do.
But if you are saying the cream of the crop hangs out here, I concur. 🙂
The cream rises to the top when you let whole milk set. You skim it off and churn it to make butter.
I’d say we’re the cream and some of us have also been churned, so there is butter with the cream.
Love, Jackie Monies
Here is the evil threat of a not too distant past. It sounds like this new fangled fad was going to cause the downfall of civilization. I know some in the Village still partake of this activity.
http://www.theguardian.com/crosswords/crossword-blog/2011/dec/15/crosswords-meow-meow-1920s
GR6, that section of Sunday comics became the Saturday morning cartoon shows. The cartoon shows were outdone by Nintendo and Game Boy. Later came Wii and Play Station. How far we have come from the age of playing with rocks and sticks. Today, eyes are safe, it’s the rest of the body that is in danger.
GR6- I must concur with the joy of reading the Sunday coloreds. Sad that they are near extinct.
My birthday is only a couple of days after Christmas. As a child my mother would always wrap my b-day presents in the Sunday funny papers to distinguish them from my Santa gifts. I usually enjoyed reprising the old comics pages as much as I did the gift within.
Funny, Jackie, but I don’t feel very buttery. Maybe I’m the curds that develop when said milk is left to separate just a bit too long?
Whey too much Bryan.
Some years ago, I got the idea of using sheets of the Sunday color comics for Christmas gift wrapping paper, along with fancy bows. I got many compliments from family and friends on my distinctive packages. Little did they realize I was just being cheap. 🙂
p.s.
I’m the salty butter. 😉
For those willing to give it a try:
Non-fat, plain Greek-style yogurt is fairly thick. If you spoon it out from one side of the 24- or 32-oz. container, the whey drains into the hole, and the yogurt above the whey line gets even thicker. I commonly do unsweetened, unsalted, unhomogenized peanut butter [kept in the fridge to prevent separation] and low-sugar cranberries for a lunch sandwich, instead of pb and jam. But, if I expect to indulge in more fat than usual otherwise, I use the ‘yogurt-cheese’ from the partially drained container instead of the pb. It’s not bad, tastes not much different than unsalted butter.