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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. Ghost Rider 6 Avatar
    Ghost Rider 6

    Debbe 😉 Pensive? As in thinking deep thoughts? Me? Nah. 🙂 My Mom is doing well enough that I have been able to begin catching up on personal chores that have been placed on the back burner for a while. Also, my creative juices seem to be drying up a bit, and I haven’t felt I’ve had much interesting to say lately. How *does* Jimmy do that, anyway?

    Jackie, parts of OK, TX, LA, AR, MS and AL were displayed in Technicolor on the radar map this morning. I hoped you weren’t planning to head south today. Everything from a squall line to snow accumulation has been forecast for the Deep South. “Winter Storm Ream-Us” may be “Winter Storm Wrecked ‘Em” before it’s over.

    Yes, Jean dear, but if one stands in one place too long, one runs the danger pigeons mistaking one for a statue. 🙂

  2. emeritus mn. biologist Avatar
    emeritus mn. biologist

    OF blew at 1111, but also provided a natural history lesson. Physical theorists are likely right when they tell us that everything that happens in the physical universe affects [NB: NOT “impacts”] everything else. Fine, but often best add, “not very much.” Case in point: the time and physical characteristics of an eruption are largely the results of factors downstairs: the geometry of the chamber beneath the blowhole, the amt. of water present, the temp* and pressure within the chamber, the heat flow into the chamber from the massive magma reservoir in the basement, and the dimensions of the blowhole itself. The time of day, the ambient temperature and wind direction upstairs, the cloud cover and precipitation, if any, the people/bison upstairs, and such have little effect on what comes up from the blowhole. *Temp will be over 100 C. if the pressure restricts expansion of liquid water into steam, which it often does.

    But above ground factors sure affect our perception of an eruption. There is a moderate NW wind today, coming toward us from front and left. Therefore, when the jets cool to form a cloud, it may obscure the jets. It’s partly cloudy, so OF was in the shade part of the time. But it was also late morning MST. Sol was behind us to our right. When the condensing vapor cloud was higher than the jets themselves, we had a grey geyser, erupting into its own shade. I left while OF was winding down, and the webcam operator had not chosen to zoom out to show the benches and walkway and overall basin, so I know nothing about people or bison, but doubt OF was much influenced by them either.

    Peace, emb

  3. emeritus mn. biologist Avatar
    emeritus mn. biologist

    OF due 1229-1249 CST. Time for pre-lunch workout. emb

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

  4. Jackie Monies Avatar
    Jackie Monies

    Ghost, I heard from my Texas friends and no, I am delaying leaving. Mostly packed but will now go get hair and nails done.

    How many sailor adventurers do you hear that one from? Boats and water and some talent is OK but personal appearances count for something too I suppose. When I was selling cars it counted for a lot!

    Personally, I miss your humor but isn’t it hard to do that? Sometimes I do write humor and not just feelings but it is hard to keep it up. What about Dave Barry or writers who churn it out like Erma Bombeck did? I think my favorite stab at humor in recent years was when I wrote the ultimate “peril on the high seas” account where I threw in everything from dismasting to being bitten by a great white that took off the bow and ended with a splintered boat on a deserted island.

    That is why I am such a fan of JJ’s and he is the master of puns and double meanings, not bad on limericks too.

    I just broke down and joined FaceBook. Pigs are flying past my office window right now.
    My editors wanted me to, nay asked me to, as a writer for them. And of course now all my sailing events have FaceBook sites so I guess I’ll have to do that too.

    Love, Jackie

  5. Charlotte in NH Avatar
    Charlotte in NH

    Laughing out loud at Jackie’s “pigs are flying”, can hardly type! I’ve been out of the loop for a few days but am okay and thanks are due to the dear friends who are asking for me. I hurt my ankle two weeks ago and it’s swollen really a lot, and painful. Makes it hard to walk around, cook, drive the car — slowed me down badly. It has worked out well, I am glad to say, for my birthday was a few days ago and lots of family had already planned to visit on or before the 22nd (George Washington and I share a birthday!) It was fun seeing them and I also got good advice and help getting to the doctor.

    Will write more later, need to lie down and put my foot up as high as possible; this helped a lot yesterday. Love and good luck to Debbe and Jackie and all who are struggling with this awful weather. Thinking of you guys and wishing the best.

  6. Ghost Rider 6 Avatar
    Ghost Rider 6

    Happy Belated Birthday, Miz Charlotte. Sorry to hear about your injury, but a sprained ankle is better than a broken hip, any day. Take care.

    And you’ll know when I get a Book of Faces account, because that is the day the NWS will put out a Winter Storm Warning for Hell, and I don’t mean Michigan.

    You ever been to Hell, Denise? 🙂

  7. Jackie Monies Avatar
    Jackie Monies

    Ghost, I really almost didn’t admit that one, I was so afraid of your scorn. Sorry, I have two magazines who wanted/asked/requested I do so.

    Online magazine wants instant updates from the Everglades Challenge posted on their FB site and photos. I type slowly without a keyboard but the tablet has that.

    It turns out I have hundreds of friends it seems or are they followers? I think that is Twitter or Tweet or Linkd or something. I have a lot of friends on Linkd so I guess I need to become tech savy somehow. Anyone want to volunteer to tutor?

    Love you all, Jackie

  8. Jackie Monies Avatar
    Jackie Monies

    No, but I have. It intrigued me. We had a town in OK during wildcat days called Hell Town but they changed name now.

  9. Jackie Monies Avatar
    Jackie Monies

    Sand could of course because he tweets, twitters, links and faces.

  10. Ghost Rider 6 Avatar
    Ghost Rider 6

    You forgot reddits, ‘grams, pinterests and tumblrs . Whatever those mean.

    Actually, Jackie, FB makes perfect sense for someone like you…you already have a following and those followers obviously are interested in keeping up with your adventures and your comments about them. (Unlike some of my adventures, that would either make people run away, screaming, or simply stand and say, “Huh?”) And, of course, blogs are dead, or so say those-in-the-know, done in by FB and Twitter, that themselves have probably already been done in by something you and I have never heard of.

    Remember the old saying, “I’m just road-kill on the side of the Information Superhighway”?

  11. Denise in Michigan Avatar
    Denise in Michigan

    Charlotte, happy belated birthday! Elevation and ice should be helpful for your ankle.

    Ghost, I’ve been to Hell and Paradise, both; Paradise has pasties!

    David, you’re in our thoughts and prayers.

  12. Jackie Monies Avatar
    Jackie Monies

    I actually moderate and run several boating groups forums and I can say that we are being knocked out of activity by FaceBook, which is why my “boss” wants me on FB. I am actually a “co-owner” of his forum group and moderate it, so I understand what is going on. My own group Sail Oklahoma remains active but not as much as earlier. Some groups are totally dead and blogging not so much except for some of the main stream ones like run by magazines, etc.

  13. emeritus mn. biologist Avatar
    emeritus mn. biologist

    OF spouting now 1554, next due 1706-1726. emb

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

  14. Mindy from Indy Avatar
    Mindy from Indy

    Happy belated Charlotte! Hope your ankle heals soon!

  15. Ghost Rider 6 Avatar
    Ghost Rider 6

    Say what, Denise?

  16. Galliglo in Ohio Avatar
    Galliglo in Ohio

    Denise: Would love to have a pastie!

    Charlotte: Happy belated birthday!

    David: Continuing prayers.

    Ghost: 😉

  17. Denise in Michigan Avatar
    Denise in Michigan

    The U.P. edible delicacy, Ghost. Oh dear, I’m making it worse. 😉

  18. sandcastler™ Avatar
    sandcastler™

    Happy birthday. Get well. And I don’t do Facebook. ????

  19. sandcastler™ Avatar
    sandcastler™

    ????<<emoji missing

  20. Mark in TTown Avatar
    Mark in TTown

    Here you go Ghost!

    Happy Birthday Charlotte. Take good care of yourself. We want you here for a long time!

  21. Mark in TTown Avatar
    Mark in TTown

    Sorry, I forgot the link. http://www.pasty.com/

    I feel like Charlie Brown trying to write to his penpal, continually blotting my electronic paper and forgetting things. Then I end up making multiple posts like he kept adding P.S.

  22. Ghost Rider 6 Avatar
    Ghost Rider 6

    OK, Denise, and what edible delicacy does the L.P. have to offer? 😉

  23. Jackie Monies Avatar
    Jackie Monies

    Connected to miners and Welsh I believe? Cornish? I believe they are very popular in New Zealand too, kind of like a Southern fried pie and full of meats and other things. They could hold them in their hands while nibbling. Well, this isn’t getting too much better is it?

    Taste better than they look, just like Southern.

    Listening to Kris Kristopherson and sorting out about 20 huge garbage bags of my mom’s clothes that the ex-housekeeper bagged up. Very depressing. And finding a few laundry hampers full of my clothes housekeeper had shoved back there. Except I am giving mine away too, not all but a lot of them. My mom and I were not the same sizes, HK was lazy more than anything. There are some I’d like to find.

    Cool, the new privacy fence is looking good! After 20 years I no longer have to look at neighbor’s mess. We have no neighborhood standards, so you have to build fences or put up landscaping. Or both.

    Ghost, I knew the minute someone said “pasties” what you’d think!

    Love, Jackie

  24. Jackie Monies Avatar
    Jackie Monies

    Fantastic pies and fruits. Goes together.

  25. Ghost Rider 6 Avatar
    Ghost Rider 6

    That is a type of pastie that has somehow escaped my notice.

    As a long-time pokies fan, I of course consider the other type of pastie an abomination, in much the same class as pantyhose. 🙂