I had a little weekend away, and it was great. I can report, there are significantly fewer oysters in Apalachicola, Florida, than were last Friday. I have returned, though, refreshed and prepared to carry on. There is big news coming in the cartoon world, but I am sworn to secrecy. Admittedly, it is news of an “inside” nature that will interest and affect many cartoonists but probably not so much you, the readers. You might hear about it elsewhere first, but I’ll give you my two cents worth when I can.
Plus Chez Arlo
By Jimmy Johnson
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63 responses to “Plus Chez Arlo”
TruckerRon, i like the original version too! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VKTT-sy0aLg
And this scene as well: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t9zp1e4-K0E
It’s “The world is so full of a number of things, I ’m sure we should all be as happy as kings.” From somewhere in Robt. Louis Stevenson’s “Child’s garden of verse’ which is too long for me to scan at bedtime.
Peace,
DeathAnalyzed.com is an interesting site for stats on longevity listed by surname and place of SS number, not residence at death. I just ran across it. I suppose maiden names or married names could be used for slightly different reasons. Just enter the surname and click the supposed magnifying glass symbol.
It uses data from the social security listings, no doubt the reason for filing by place of SS number.
curmudgeonly, it gave me an estimate of 72 years. That’s 10 more years by their average.
PS: By experiment, you can enter a full name, even including middle initial. Middle names don’t seem acceptable, at least for the few I tried.
For some names – but not all – one can select only those from a given state to shorten a search for a particular person.
I’m a few years beyond the average expiration date for my tribe….
We missed Jimmy in Apalachicola by less than a week! We were just passing through and got there on a Monday and found the Hole in the Wall was closed on Mondays, so went to Papa Joe’s. Stayed around an extra day so we could eat at the Hole in the Wall on Tuesday.
12 years beyond. Peace,
That was last name only, and it’s about 8,000th most popular. No data for given + sur. Ran into one other online decade or so ago. Kid in TX on h.s. basketball team, if I remember. Hope he’s survived college.
Snow on the Decorah nest, but expect the folks will see that all goes well.
http://explore.org/live-cams/player/decorah-eagles-north-nest
Peace,
emb,
Its: XXIV – Happy Thought
http://www.kellscraft.com/childsverseI.html
JJ posted again, “Fin Chez Arlo.”