I told you when I began showing you this little series on Tuesday that I like it. Having seen it again, I haven’t changed my mind. Not all but most of the gags involve the dry, conversational humor I like to think I’m good at. Anyone who has followed baseball will tell you that if you hit a single every time you come to the plate, well… you’d only be the greatest baseball player who ever lived. Most of these are singles and doubles. I’m not holding these strips up as great, but if you’re at all interested in what the guy who draws this stuff likes, this is it. I like this.
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🙂 me too
[Extracted here from the end of yesterday’s run.]
“David in Austin on 10 Jun 2017 at 6:57 am # 39. … EMB, thanks for the tidbit on the common dandelion. Never realized it was an invasive species. It certainly is prolific for being sterile! Interesting that most common dandelions are clones. I also learned that “Apomixis” is the term for cloning via seeds. So, that must mean that any variation in the species must be due to externally induced modification to the reproductive cells when producing the seeds? I immediately wondered what purpose the pollen serves, since it isn’t used for reproduction. I found some information that suggests while the pollen is not useful to the individual, it is essential for the species. Here’s the abstract for one article/book chapter (I didn’t buy the full text).
https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-90-481-2770-2_22 Thanks again for the excursion.”
David, That book would be a pretty expensive read, but it was good to learn from the chapter abstract that they now have nailed the dandelion apomixis gene. In ’65, when I and maybe 2 doz. other bio. profs from as many different colleges attended Baker’s week of lectures at UC Chapel Hill, we could not yet nail individual genes. I utilized material from that workshop in teaching Organic Evolution for almost 3 decades. NSF got their money’s worth from that 3 wk. workshop, and from the U OR 8 wk. marine bio summer inst. in Charleston, OR in ’62.
Peace,
GM Debbe & Mizz Charlotte
That last strip is typical of my helpers. I think they have a TARDIS.
“I turn around and they(you) are gone.”
Some one must know that quote.
I’ve had helpers like that too. And some who were bigger helps when they left! Good series, Jimmy.
Here’s the answer to my visual pun, posted yesterday:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJ9rUzIMcZQ&list=PLeoBVKHKNsGriWnBb7u2FrwRC-izVytZg
Mark
As my Dad said “Thank you too much.”
Mark, that link took me to Bohemian Rhapsody… I was guessing “Knock on Wood” covered by many over the years. For me, I usually hear it in Donna Summers’ voice.
Mark, on your pun, I thought it had to do with airframe recognition so I failed. Best I had was end of times, cats and dogs playing together. I felt the grey matter stretch though, so thanks.
Yeah the first strip reminded me of Ghost for some reason…I can hear him chuckling from Michigan.
Morphy, The planes were P-47 Thunderbolt and P-38 Lightning.
The song line goes, “It’s like thunder, lightning. The way you love me is frightening. You better knock, knock on wood, baby.”
The one and only Batman is gone.
We have had a busy day and I wiped out totally. Dickens and I are on the new king sized bed resting. Dickens only cares that there IS a bed and I am in it.
Ghost will no longer get shoved out of bed by a ten pound dog. We know because the ones in hotel are just fine for size even shared with Dickens.
He can report on all the day’s activities, I took pain meds and going to sleep.
David and Morphy, one verse of Bohemian Rhapsody goes “thunderbolt and lightning, very, very frightening”.
Jackie, I got my aerobics yesterday evening assembling and setting up a new queen=sized bed frame. Sweated profusely during the assembly and slept very well last night.
https://www.amazon.com/Modway-Horizon-Queen-Frame-White/dp/B01MZ1HU4F/ref=sr_1_1?srs=7590667011&ie=UTF8&qid=1491963672&sr=8-1&keywords=folding%2Bqueen&th=1
Actually wouldn’t be hard to assemble with more room and a second pair of hands. It was mostly preassembled, except for fastening the two halves together, then turning it right side up and putting it where it needed to go.
Been meaning to cite 2 oddly funny GoComics.com strips, but am only now getting to it. Let me emphasize that these are already several days old – maybe more than a week – so you may need to look NOW or risk missing out.
They are Unstrange Phenomena and Perry Bible Fellowship. One size doesn’t always fit all, so you may or may not agree with me on them.
Short nap. Ghost heading “downtown ” which is pretty crowded with the weekend and lake people. Our merchants need that, the spurt of cash they bring.for a few months.
My deputy sheriff friend Glen is here for weekend to work on house. He is out painting porch and will touch up breezeway and paint the finally finished broom closet out there. We will be able to finally put furniture out there and use as our kitchen entry.
Soon as porch floor gets repainted with nonskid we can get porch furniture and plants out there to use it.
Ghost loves to grill and cook outside. He defrosted all kinds of meat, sausage, pork loin, steaks and he and Glen are going to grill it all up for weekend. My contribution will probably be cooking squash and a tomato, onion and cucumber salad.
curmudgeonly, liked the Unstrange Phenomena better.
http://www.gocomics.com/nonsequitur
David, Nancy K, and others, I have loved hearing about your dogs! Thinking about them has me smiling right now…thank you! All life is fascinating (I just spent a little time watching a bee on a heuchera and a black swallowtail laying eggs on dill), but our animals companions can be extra special.
Steve, that is such a shock about Adam West. I sort of imagined him going on forever. For many of us, he will.
I’m back from “downtown”, much of which seemed to be closed for the afternoon, unless it was a purveyor of fast food. I needed power strips because, as all men who have been involved in furniture moving know, the wall electrical outlets are never within reach of the relocated table lamps’ and other electrical devices’ power cords. For those wondering, the needed power strips were not acquired, as burger joints do not sell them. Which is why, one supposes, you never hear anyone ask, “Uh, you want fries with that power strip?”
Terrie the Leggy Domestic Engineer wore denim short-shorts with what I felt was an unnecessarily demure t-shirt, but perhaps that was just me. She has become the Animal Husbandry Engineer as well, since the livestock population seems to be swelling around here. I gave her another job title commensurate her new duties, but I can’t say what it is on this family-friendly forum. 😉
Perhaps I can revive Jackie sufficiently for her to take a photo of Gypsy and Tramp to post.
Smigz: The shock to me was that he was 88. But when I did the math, of course he was. There have been some celebrity deaths, especially rock stars that I never heard of, or frankly didn’t care for. I let others grieve in their own way and just keep my mouth shut.
The Batman TV show was like the Saturday wrestling shows in that we KNEW it was farcical and just laughed at it. It seems like some people these day take wrestling and Batman way too seriously. I remember my wife and I were watching the 1960s Batman movie when her brother called and we started watching the movie together and laugh hysterically. We were both going through a tough time and the silly movie helped us both.
Mark, (lead) Oh Mamma-Mia, Momma-Mia! –(chorus) Momma Mia let me go!
Good morning. No one fell out of new bed. Dickens loved it. Wants to know when we check into next hotel and he didn’t realize those beds moved?
Poor Ghost is still struggling with my ice machine that pumps ice into ice pad strapped to my leg. It stops working in night and he has to engineer it and often refill ice.
Leg is doing great. I have pretty much abandoned walker and walking around house or holding onto Ghost. I use shopping carts at big stores but do carry it along in car for use.
Good day to all. Ghost trying to sleep with Dickens cuddling on his leg.
Kitty humor: https://scontent-dft4-3.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/18485329_10154608412998581_1625300851305338769_n.jpg?oh=bcb22210b3d32393ce4bfaafae79f024&oe=59D65BB4
Read new strip.at 3 odd something this morning while having ice changed on my leg by Ghost. It is VERY subtle and VERY funny Jimmy. Ghost noticed the lovebirds in tree, I did not. He lived the detail.
Apparently his aerobics class had zumba too with cute pneumatic Hispanic girls. It is suggestive he says.
We are downtown buying gas for Bullet and there was a bike run here this weekend. Someone hit a bike on Main Street just now, two ambulances and a police escorts. We are a no helmet state, so often sad end.
From a FB friend: So if Cher were cloned, would you call the pair of them Cher and Cher alike?
Heads up, dog people!
http://www.babwnews.com/2017/06/something-vicious-is-killing-dogs-across-the-u-s/