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Rearranged Marriage, fini

By Jimmy Johnson



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I had a different old cartoon picked out to show you and to discuss today, but I decided for once to finish something I’d started. Here are the final two episodes of “Rearranged Marriage,” completing the entire sequence that first appeared for one week in 2005. You might recall that not long ago I reprised this idea in a rather colorful Sunday. Did I deliberately sneak back and crib from the older comic strip? Not really. Not consciously. What usually happens in these situations is that I’ll get started on an idea and in creeps the nagging question: Have I drawn this one before? The answer in this case was, Yes.

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170 responses to “Rearranged Marriage, fini

  1. curmudgeonly ex-professor Avatar
    curmudgeonly ex-professor

    “Helmericks”

  2. Rick in Shermantown, Ohio Avatar
    Rick in Shermantown, Ohio

    Jackie:

    I have never thrown away a book, and I doubt that I ever will.

    I have recycled a few that were made of wood pulp and were beginning to flake away.

    Otherwise, I donate them to our local library, the Maywood Mission, St. Vincent de Paul, or to The Book Exchange.

    But to throw away or – even worse – burn a book seems tantamount to eradicating part of humanity.

  3. Jackie Monies Avatar
    Jackie Monies

    Rick, I should have said that I agreed with Jeff because I too cannot burn a book, although I can a magazine or newspaper. Even magazines I try to recycle and take to an office or waiting room where they will be read or go home with someone else!

  4. domaucan1 Avatar
    domaucan1

    Sorry to be so late. Jackie, your article for the boating magazine was GREAT. I’m not a boating person but what you said could apply to anything in life. Prayers for everyone who needs them and I’m sure we all need prayers. God bless us every one.

  5. Mark in TTown Avatar
    Mark in TTown

    I have not read any of the Johnson’s adventure books, but I have heard of them. One of the books I read as a kid was this one: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3064067-i-ll-trade-you-an-elk

    This is a fun read, and the author saw the Johnson’s give a talk combined with movie footage they had shot. Thanks to Mr. Goodrum, I know who you are talking about.

  6. Mark in TTown Avatar
    Mark in TTown

    Oops, if you like animals and amusing stories, find Gerald Durrell’s books about his collecting and preservation efforts. The only title that comes to mind presently is “Catch me a Colobus”.

  7. emeritus mn. biologist Avatar
    emeritus mn. biologist

    Osa Johnson’s “I married adventure” is one of the books I read as a kid. If you are interested in reading non-fiction about critters, written for intelligent laypeople, get ahold of a copy of Sarah Blaffer Hrdy’s “The langurs of Abu” [Harvard Univ. Press]. Sarah is a good writer, also a good speaker, and a gracious host. Wife and I visited her, in spring ’86, I believe, a sabbatical quarter that I [successfully] scheduled around viewing Comet Halley over the Everglades, after the visit to CSULA and U.C.Davis, below.

    She was then 41, teaching at U.C. Davis, and pregnant with her 3rd child. They knew it was a boy, and had chosen the name Niko, after Niko Tinbergen, a pioneer in the study of animal behavior. Heard her speak twice* at an annual Nobel Conference at Gustavus Adolphus College in St. Peter, MN. *Address during a panel, and also the banquet address. Tops.

    I own the above book, and two others, both mentioned in:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah_Blaffer_Hrdy

    Peace, emb

  8. curmudgeonly ex-professor Avatar
    curmudgeonly ex-professor

    I attended 1 or 2 of those wonderful Nobel Conferences, too – about 35 years ago. I wonder if we happened to see each other, not that either of us would have known.

  9. Old Bear Avatar
    Old Bear

    Mark
    I too have most all Louis L’Amour’s books – though toward the end he could have had a better
    editor – I did not mind him repeating himself but not in the same book 10 pages apart.
    Louis L’Amour lived the life before writing about it.

  10. Mark in TTown Avatar
    Mark in TTown

    Old Bear, yes he did. His autobiography is more interesting than some of his Westerns. It’s something how many of the writers, etc, of that time period had parallel lives. Carl Barks, who wound up being known as The Duck Man for his work in comic books, was a logger, railroad employee, farmer, chicken rancher, and drew cartoons and edited a risque (for the 1920’s) humor magazine.

  11. Debbe Avatar
    Debbe

    Good morning Villagers….

    Jackie, what a beautifully written essay that was truly inspired from your heart. Thank you. I have bookmarked it to reread whenever I get in one of those ‘funks’

    Miss Charlotte….you OK?

    …and still no word on David, I am concerned….prayers…………….Amen

    GR 😉 you have been too quite lately….pensive perhaps? I love the ‘mistake” quote, going to write it down and put in on the bulletin board at work…..that will keep The Boss wondering 🙂

    So we have winter storm “ReamUs” 🙂 coming up….oh, the names they come up with….at this point nothing can bring me down any more with this stinking winter weather.

    We’ve been throwing cat food out the back door, as the woods is not too far from our back door. So far we had a possum come up yesterday, and a couple days of a juvenile skunk’s appearance….going to bring home some chicken feed today and feed the birds in front. (Ran out of bird feed.) Kylar and his mother and Andrew stopped in yesterday….Kylar got all excited when he saw the red bird….he hollers “red bird’….we’re working on his enunciation. He has trouble with word endings…such as yesterday when he seen he was coming here, he repeated all our names and then said ‘hores’ for horses that one of my nephews has on our front pasture.

    Ya’ll have a blessed day

    =^..^=

  12. Debbe Avatar
    Debbe

    I bet this cat sees two of everything 🙂

    http://cheezburger.com/8452149504

  13. Debbe Avatar
    Debbe

    Jerry????? Are you still in the lurking mode?

  14. emeritus mn. biologist Avatar
    emeritus mn. biologist

    19th century porn for the rich. Looks a lot like the Bathsheba of a week or two back. Janis’s “Not in my living room!” makes more sense here; there’s no tree.

    http://www.gocomics.com/that-is-priceless/

    BlogSpot and Comic are the same, and now the same size.

    Peace, emb

  15. Jackie Monies Avatar
    Jackie Monies

    Debbe, thank you. Column #2 is at editor’s in Australia and #3 hasn’t happened but it will. I seem sometimes to be looking in hearts like Jimmy looks in our windows. I get a LOT of fan mail, believe it or not, those whose souls I seem to touch and that is a good thing for me. My publisher lives in Texas, my editor in Australia and my readers seem to live all over the world actually. When I wanted to ship my friend’s ashes around the world to go in the oceans I put up a request and sent them world wide, I know he must be pleased and having a great trip.

    David is worrying me. I will be down in Texas the next couple days and off and on in next few months, I wish I could reach him for us all and I pray he is OK too. Jerry, come out again!

    You too, Ghost. I hope you are in a happy place and enjoying yourself. You bring us all a lot of joy, you know that. I have been worrying too, not just Debbe.

    Debbe, I keep promising my aunt to come visit when the snow in Indiana melts but it looks as though it will never stop. I might add that I had no idea there was so much drama in the egg business and chicken houses. Used to think the floral business was one big soap opera and apparently so did Steve Skelton who draws Two Cows and a Chicken because he had a strip called Bloomers. Ate two eggs on a whole wheat English muffin in your honor. Medium size eggs, not big ones.

    Later Village, Love, Jackie

  16. John in Richmond Texas Avatar
    John in Richmond Texas

    Old Bear – Donald Hamilton sounds perfect thank you. … For when I want some real stuff I have every single issue of American Heritage, Invention and Technology and American History, that I pull at random. .. .. on a different topic, I can’t believe Wild Wild West was cancelled in 1970 for being too violent, Has anyone seen any of Gotham? one example, last episode, someone is trapped by the body part hunters, so to make her eyes less valuable, she gouges one (of her own eyes) out and smushes it on the floor

  17. Trapper Jean Avatar
    Trapper Jean

    Bear, yes, I agree about goose p00p, and I don’t know why my Dad used that saying about owl p00p, but he did.

    And Ghost Sweetie, as long as the pigeons just p00p on statues we’re safe. 🙂

  18. emeritus mn. biologist Avatar
    emeritus mn. biologist

    Geyser basin a bit foggy, no OF prediction for today yet, nobody watching. emb

    http://www.nps.gov/features/yell/webcam/oldFaithfulStreaming.html

  19. emeritus mn. biologist Avatar
    emeritus mn. biologist

    Somebody mentioned hair [and feathers?] in owl guano. I’ve noticed that stuff under GH Owl nests [probably stolen from a Red-tailed Hawk; they don’t build their own, I believe], but have never examined it. Owls in general get rid of bones, hair, and feathers by coughing up pellets. Once those dry, they have little if any odor, and make a fine exercise for JHS, HS, and college labs, mostly / identification from skull parts, particularly teeth. You need reference skulls, of course, which is what mammalogist-style mouse traps are for.

    Peace, emb

  20. TRex Avatar

    I remember seeing the same comic in today’s paper some years ago.
    Hope all is well with JJ and he is just taking some well earned vacation.

  21. TRex Avatar

    I went back and looked again. It isn’t the one I remember from years ago, but on the same subject as the one I remember.

    And Arlo did express the same opinion years ago.
    Janis didn’t comment back then. I think she slept through that one.

  22. John in Richmond Texas Avatar
    John in Richmond Texas

    it is a repeat though from 2012, that’s the date on it

  23. Jackie Monies Avatar
    Jackie Monies

    Northeast TX and route out of here is iced and snow now. UGH! Leaving later now.