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Rain Maker

By Jimmy Johnson


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Comic strips such as the A&J Sunday that appeared in newspapers August 2 always are problematic. The cartoonist knows that while the August drought may have set in where he lives, there are places somewhere that still are getting more than enough “free water.” When the living room furniture is afloat, readers easily can lose their sense of humor. That’s just the way it is. However, that is not why I’m showing you the last panel from what was an admittedly weak joke. Actually, I was playing around with Photoshop, trying to simulate a driving rain. This was the result. I still think it looks OK on a monitor screen, but I noticed in the newspaper version that it was not quite as effective. At least I didn’t think so.

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115 responses to “Rain Maker”

  1. Ghost Rider 6 Avatar
    Ghost Rider 6

    Boy, do I ever remember drive-in theaters!

    Jackie, I once used melted bleu cheese and butter as a pasta topping. Once. And survived it. So far.

  2. Ghost Rider 6 Avatar
    Ghost Rider 6

    Debbe 😉 Remember the Runaways, Joan Jett, Lita Ford, et al? I remember an article about them in Rolling Stone, that included a picture of Lita, I believe wearing the same cut-off jeans and black boots as below, taken with her in her shoulders-back-pelvis-forward-guitar-riff pose that showed…well, let’s just say they were red. Racy stuff for back them. 😉

    http://imgick.masslive.com/home/mass-media/width620/img/playback/photo/the-runaways-the-runaways-4593979-500-570jpg-5c6be4366f8d3f90.jpg

  3. Jackie Monies Avatar
    Jackie Monies

    The meal was healthy except that dang bleu cheese lettuce wedge. The other stuff came in at 570 calories total! No more bleu cheese salads, although I did have some really good (what the heck, spellcheck doesn’t know what I am typing!) blue cheese veined camembert type cheese up in almost Canada.

    Boy, the hair was excessive back in the 1980’s wasn’t it? Not women, men! I actually was listening to Dr. Hook but had never seen what they looked like.

    Off to bed, I am almost asleep anyway! Love, Jackie

  4. Old Bear Avatar
    Old Bear

    Galliglo in Ohio

    I have a tin roof you can sit under.

    GR6
    I too have never liked shorts. I just like to have the skin protected – but then I also wear steel toe
    8″ high boots –

    Be careful of Bar-B-Q sauce – almost all of them the first ingredient is HFcorn syrup.
    Jack Daniels #7 lists tomato as #1 ingredient, but I can’t find it around here any more – whenever you find something good or works it goes off the market.

  5. Old Bear Avatar
    Old Bear

    Corn here is higher than an elephants eye (10+ft) Last year there was nothing– all drowned.
    When Curly was singing that song he was in Iowa.

  6. Sideburns Avatar

    If you’re going to quote that, Old Bear, you should get the line right: “The corn is as high as a elephant’s eye…” And, for that matter, there’s another song in that musical about a girl who cain’t say no.

  7. Debbe Avatar
    Debbe

    Good morning Villagers…

    Got a solid night’s sleep…..no ranting this morning (aren’t you all lucky(

    ya’ll have a blessed day

    Neal…nice yard and house.

  8. Debbe Avatar
    Debbe

    GR 😉 aww, thanks

    rats, my cut and paste are not working with me this morning……and I have no patience this morn,

  9. hc Avatar
    hc

    I did a jubilation dance this morning when we got lake (Ontario) effect rain – only .07″- it’s been dry here in July and August after 10 inches of rain in June. another vote for a “good cartoon”

  10. emb Avatar
    emb

    Again, I’ve not read the new posts, but here’s a modified email I just sent my b.c. music / literary group.

    Today’s The Writer’s Almanac has it all: Our garden back on Calihan Ave., Dick and Jane, Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson [who get into my columns and other conversations], Echo 1, which wife and I watched fly over after sunset during a Danforth Associates’ meeting at a camp [Miniwanka?] on the east shore of L. Michigan, Edith Hamilton’s The Greek way, which I read ages ago. Busy, but

    Peace, emb

  11. emb Avatar
    emb

    With a c, not a k.

    http://ayf.com/miniwanca

    Now I’ll search Am. Youth Fdn.

  12. Nodak Wayne Avatar
    Nodak Wayne

    emb, my wife’s favorite area to visit.

  13. emb Avatar
    emb

    Here’s their site:

    http://www.ayf.com/about/mission

    Not surprised to find that Wm. Danforth was one of AYF’s founders [and funders], and that AYF was specifically Christian but now embraces all faiths and other diversity. Seems to be neither an evangelical outfit nor a commie front: therefore suspicious. The NSA probably has a file on them.

    Peace, emb

  14. Dave in MA Avatar
    Dave in MA

    Llee, I had to look up the reference myself. I believe John was referring to areas that have clay under around their foundation (something I’m not familiar with since I’m in Massachusetts).

    Here’s an explanation:
    http://water.tamu.edu/watering-foundation/

  15. emb Avatar
    emb

    While at the Danforth Associates mtg. at Minicanca, we learned Dona Nobis Pacem as a round. Those are the words; not sure I can remember the 4[?] part tune. emb

  16. Llee Avatar
    Llee

    Thanks Dave!

  17. Ghost Rider 6 Avatar
    Ghost Rider 6

    Yeah, I can understand Janis’s concern…some nightgowns, even though slightly and delightfully kinky, are just unnecessarily complicated, both to don and to doff.

    https://img0.etsystatic.com/063/0/6631233/il_fullxfull.774708436_8f00.jpg

    Nothing wrong with a gown with just two plain spaghetti straps…easy-peasy. 😉

  18. Jackie Monies Avatar
    Jackie Monies

    Despite fact I slept in such a gown with two plain spaghetti straps last night, what is wrong with total lack of one? Despite fact I also slept with the ten pound dog as sole companion last night.

    Looked at the one Ghost posted photo of and it looks identical to the one Jimmy drew! So, I conclude Jimmy saw one and Ghost has total recall?

    I have bad habit of getting up in night sometimes and walking around! Or working on computer.

    Y’all make me laugh, which is good. Love, Jackie

  19. Ryan Avatar
    Ryan

    I always thought Charles Schulz rendered (drew?) excellent rain. It seems like there were many baseball game strip where ol’ Chuck was out on the mound in a monsoon. I like yours though Jimmy. It looks like you used white strokes instead of black ones.

  20. Nancy Kirk in AZ Avatar
    Nancy Kirk in AZ

    Ahem. Curly was singing about the high corn in the musical “Oklahoma,” which I believe was filmed here in Arizona—believe it or not!

  21. Mark in TTown Avatar
    Mark in TTown

    Nancy Kirk in AZ, don’t blame Curly. He was just a victim of circumstance.

  22. sandcastler™ Avatar
    sandcastler™

    At least Curly didn’t live in a dirty room.

    Historical note. Thirty-four years ago today IBM introduced their PC.

  23. Ghost Rider 6 Avatar
    Ghost Rider 6

    Jackie, nothing is wrong with a “total lack of either one”. Millionaire Widow Lady always came to bed wearing a gown, and she had some mighty interesting ones and looked fine in them. Bat-Guano Crazy Lady never wore anything to bed and looked fine that way. (I always pointed out to her, “Hey, all your clothes fell off.”) As is said about some word usages, “Either is correct.”

    Your house is probably legendary among the local Peeping Toms. 😉

    http://www.gocomics.com/arloandjanis/2002/04/19