I was going to show you this one last week, but I didn’t get back. It is, of course, the follow-up comic strip to the previous post. Did you read about the death of Bob Denver, aka Gilligan of “Gilligan’s Island?” I read it last week, on Facebook. Of course, I also read it in 2005, when he actually died. And I’ve read it on the internet several times in between. Why do people do things like that? What is it about being online, and on Facebook in particular, that makes people mean?
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109 responses to “Office Favorite II”
Ghost thank you for asking. If I don’t hear today I call. Doctor was calling on next step, he is probably in surgery now. They did ultrasound, that goes to another doctor and then to him. He thinks encapsulated something or a cyst or lymph which in my case is possible too.
I do feel awful and I thought about anonymous friends, funny I think I am closer to this Village than anywhere I have lived in real life. Definitely more than the real people who live in the real neighborhood I inhabit. Their anonymity is real too. For many diverse reasons.
Ghost thank you for asking. If I don’t hear today I call. Doctor was calling on next step, he is probably in surgery now. They did ultrasound, that goes to another doctor and then to him. He thinks encapsulated something or a cyst or lymph which in my case is possible too.
I do feel awful and I thought about anonymous friends, funny I think I am closer to this Village than anywhere I have lived in real life. Definitely more than the real people who live in the real neighborhood I inhabit. Their anonymity is real too. For many diverse reasons.
How is that happening? I don’t think at this end. Why only me?
Why four times?
How is that happening? I don’t think at this end. Why only me?
Why four times?
I hope I am included in the”nice” category here and elsewhere. My name isn’t fake since my first name is Dominic, in the Sicilian custom of naming the first son after his grandfather, and my last name is Cangelosi and I think everyone knows that I am a proud 1967 graduate of Auburn University, hence the “au”.
Jackie, Take care of yourself. We care.
Debbe, I hope you and your girls can weather this storm. I was involved in hog cholera and anthrax outbreaks in the dim,dark past, and they are not very pleasant. I have been to Plum Island, twice, where the USDA has their Foreign Animal Disease Diagnostic Laboratory. It is an interesting place, for a veterinary pathologist, but gruesome to see those diseases that either have not been in the US or have been eradicated from the US like foot and mouth disease and hog cholera and many others, including bird flu.
Old Bear, We have something in common. Arkansas State’s former football coach, Gus Malzahn, is Auburn’s head coach and we love him.
Mark from TTown, My tigers weren’t very good hosts to Bama last night. That is a heated rivalry, sometimes too heated. I prefer being nice, even to Bama and their fans, but not so nice as to lose to them. We do enough of that.
God bless us every one.
P.S. Bird flu has been eradicated from the US several times but seems to be cropping up regularly. I sure hope it can be eradicated again. It can be devastating.
Jackie, my comment disappeared into the The Twilight Zone. I hope your problem is something simple and easily fixed.
My mom had to go to the doctor yesterday because she has a redness of the foot that started at the toes and is now about midfoot. We thought might be infection from ingrown toenail, but the doc is concerned about PVD. Mom is long-time heavy smoker, so that is a real possibility. She goes for ultrasound of that leg at noon tomorrow.
This site was flaky/non-responsive earlier, as it was at times yesterday. And I also had a comment that double-posted, I believe on Sunday or Monday.
Beginning to look like my next oil royalty (aka “haircut money”) check will not cover the cost of my next trip to see my Pneumatic & Pulchritudinous Hair Stylist. Not that that would make me skip seeing her, of course. 😉
I lost 3.6 pounds over the last seven days, which is a bit too much for one week, but it’s residual Holiday Gluttony weight, which means I only have one more pound of it to shed, so I’m OK with that.
My weight was down post surgery and is now up. Doctor says blame it on surgery. I have been slowed down. Called, he is in surgery so he’ll call this afternoon.
Debbe, something to laugh about: https://scontent-atl3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xat1/v/t1.0-9/10325150_811744765503609_9128537909577096984_n.jpg?oh=054cec1321a9e15b9aca88c0c144b85b&oe=56FBD6FC
You know if I acquire chickens out in back yard they become pets and named and I never eat them. I want some.
That was sweet cartoon.
Lying here being sick makes one think. I used the pseudonym “Aggie” once to draw cartoons and wrote a column as Agent 007 but signed my real name. My current pseudonym is Boat Widow but I use it with a byline and a Yahoo and Facebook page.
There was some reason other than Sean Connery I used 007 but to save my life I can’t think of why except my birthday?
TIP BlogSpot, no comment. Peace, emb
http://thatispriceless.blogspot.com/
Yes, Jackie, we all believe that there was some reason other than Sean Connery you used 007. 🙂
I jotted this down right after I made mentions of weight loss and my P&PHS earlier today but never had time to post it:
“As I believe I mentioned previously, Pneumatic & Pulchritudinous Hair Stylist has lost about 25 pounds over the past year or so, leaving her (as it apparently did Janis) not-quite-so-pneumatic but even more pulchritudinous. But she still rates as “more than adequate” on the Chestular Volumetric Scale™.”
Some may demur on others’ definitions of ‘adequate.’ Janis is well within adequate, as Arlo obviously agrees.
Peace, emb [originator of the famous ’emb maxim.’]
Debbe 😉 Rerun…I found this version after I posted the other one last night and liked it even better. Yes, they could dress and they were cute and Ronnie could really sell a song.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iuRsI32ykI0
For you GR6:
Two guys, one old, one young,
are pushing their carts around Wal-Mart
when they collide.
The old guy says to the young guy,
“Sorry about that. I
‘m looking for my wife, and I guess I
wasn’t paying attention
to where I was going.”
The young guy says, “That’s OK, it’s a
coincidence.
I’m looking for my wife, too…
I can’t find her and I’m getting a little
desperate.”
The old guy says,
“Well, maybe I can help you find her…
what does she look like?”
The young guy says,
“Well, she is 27 yrs. old, tall,
with red hair,
blue eyes, is buxom…wearing no bra,
long legs, and is
wearing short shorts.
What does your wife look like?’
To which the old guy says, “Doesn’t
matter, — let’s look for yours.”
Bear 🙂
Debbe 😉 More Motown in memory of my sister…
Have a heart.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_9M6kRfJes
What a great idea! Jot down notes! I was driving and heard a song, thought what a great song for Debbe! I forgot it already. Heard another, thought good one for Ghost! Forgot it. Another one made me smile and I thought Old Bear! Forgot it too.
Found out my two way wrist radio takes notes and a hellecious lot of other stuff. Will get Jesse, my smart minion to set it all up for me. This one’s smart. I won’t say why his life is messed up but I like him. I love my new pickup too and will get him to set it all up.
Called doctor, left message, no call, neck bad and hurting. They hadn’t gotten a report from ultrasound yet. I have lots of stuff in that area to hit. It’s kicked off the autoimmune army battalion regiment who are fighting themselves,
I haven’t heard from Miss Charlotte, Galiligo or Indy from Mindy, but she is fighting cat infection in cat not her.
We sent off two orange kitties to spay, both already pregnant. Makes me wonder about last two sets of minions abilities to sex cats and did we send same cats over and over? I have had males and now two females missed and there aren’t that many here. New female minion is putting paint spot in ears and we think all the house cats are done now, we’ll start trapping the semi feral we can’t catch easily that past bipolar turned loose.
I had not seen Sean Connery in a kilt at age 19 when I used 007 for my column byline. I remember it had a gun too and some other appendage like “armed to kill”. It wasn’t my body, it was an investigative and expose column. At least what the controlling university censors would let us expose. We had a half dozen rapes within a block of the newspaper office in the building by our famous Cypress Lake which we were not allowed to mention even as news.
So I wrote a column about our campus police portraying them as pecan gathering squirrels which got past the censors and got me so many tickets I had to have intercedance from the University president and my mama lied she’d been visiting me on campus or I’d never have graduated.
Always good to hear what a great hair cutter you have Ghost or would you notice? What does it look like now? Do you really look like Sir Sean? And I do like gray although I notice young men are losing their hair much younger and going gray younger, which is convenient about graying but not balding.
It was licensed to kill I think, not armed. Would a university allow that today in our pc world?
This is column I often ridiculed the Ragin’ Cajun Mouth of the South James Carville in. A period in his life that has disappeared from bio. Ghost I know where the snake name comes from. If anyone ever saw it in person they were too embarrassed to admit it. He was not popular, just loud mouthed. Has anything changed?
Many years ago, learned that hatcheries employ “chick sexers”. Always wanted to list that as my occupation on my 1040, but was never that brave. Understand IRS not noted for its sense of humor.
Hair is about half-and-half black and gray now; the gray is winning, of course. Experiencing no male pattern or any other type of baldness. P&PHS likes my hair, says is good thickness for styling and it grows way faster than most. She really does do a good job on it; the P&P eye candy is just a bonus.
Bear: P&PHS changes her hair color on fairly regular basis, not that that is much of a surprise. Blonde now, but looked great as a redhead. Been lobbying for her to go red again. Your joke reminded me of that, for some reason . 😉
Good morning Villagers….
One to two inches my butt…..let’s say it snowed more like five inches. I 4 wheeled it all the way to the highway. Anxiety setting in as I knew I had to do the “walk”. Park car, step over barricade, walk across large parking lot….but when I pulled in I saw Jonathan’s truck parked at the building. Out he came with a spray pack on his back.
Came out to my car and told me that he told the Boss that morning he was not going to let me walk through all that snow….what a gentleman for the age of 25. He sprayed my tires, and undercarriage and told me to park in the area that he cleared for me…next to the steps of the front door he shoveled enough snow so that I would not have to step in it.
Every morning, before the rooster crows, they swab 11 hens’ mouths and throats and then take them to Corp headquarter in Dubois. Domaunic1, they sure have a lot of cavities in their mouths and as you well know it all gets swabbed.
Mark, that article and pic finally showed up in yesterday’s paper. Thanks for the Indy link too. Sad they had to put down the hens, but it was for the best. Love the cartoon, too funny…made me laugh.
And, Old Bear, loved the joke and yes it does sound like something GR would say 🙂
GR 😉 as I was taking off my Carharts, I asked Jonathan what the inside temp was, he said 71 degrees, I then took off my sweatshirt, but left on the thermal top and turtleneck. Those suits get hot. AND not only do we have to wear a hair net, but Jonathan has to wear a beard net. He looked at them and said they looked like G-strings, I told him I thought they looked like jock straps……I wear the hair net over my stocking cap….my ears get cold. And to complete the ensemble…..the dust mask.
Oh, and about those “chick sexers”, they don’t always get it right. I have a few roosters out there in the hen house, and when they crow, my ‘girls’ just coo.
I want to say thanks to all of you for your moral support….this is hard, and even harder on those who lose their flocks. Let’s pray it gets contained and eradicated. It’s going to be a long two months.
Ya’ll have a blessed day…truly