A pithy comic strip about life, love, lust and puthy cats.

Est. 1985

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Plus Chez Arlo

By Jimmy Johnson



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.

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63 responses to “Plus Chez Arlo”

  1. Mark in TTown Avatar
    Mark in TTown

    TruckerRon, i like the original version too! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VKTT-sy0aLg

  2. emb Avatar

    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,

  3. cumudgeonly ex-professor Avatar
    cumudgeonly ex-professor

    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.

  4. Mark in TTown Avatar
    Mark in TTown

    curmudgeonly, it gave me an estimate of 72 years. That’s 10 more years by their average.

  5. cumudgeonly ex-professor Avatar
    cumudgeonly ex-professor

    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.

  6. cumudgeonly ex-professor Avatar
    cumudgeonly ex-professor

    I’m a few years beyond the average expiration date for my tribe….

  7. Bonnie Avatar
    Bonnie

    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.

  8. emb Avatar

    12 years beyond. Peace,

  9. emb Avatar

    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.

  10. emb Avatar

    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,

  11. Greg in MS Avatar
    Greg in MS

    emb,

    Its: XXIV – Happy Thought

    http://www.kellscraft.com/childsverseI.html

  12. TruckerRon Avatar

    JJ posted again, “Fin Chez Arlo.”