A little fun with silhouettes from 1997. Once our idea of a good time was to lie around in the sun literally for hours and see who could get the deepest tan. It’s a wonder we aren’t all dying of melanoma. Many of us are. When I think about why skin cancer is a scourge now more than, say, the 19th century when working outdoors was the norm, I’d have to guess it’s because most cultures until recently did not condone stripping virtually naked and doing nothing but lie around all day. With enough beer and the right company, it was fun!
I’ve gotten myself into something of a corner. I’ve been teasing you with promises to discuss what happened to Arlo’s boat. You would be within your rights to expect an elaborate and entertaining yarn. However, there isn’t one. What you see in the strip is what there is. Arlo’s boat just… disappeared! A boat is a lifestyle. Believe me, I know. A boat would have taken over the strip. That would have delighted a few hundred boat enthusiasts and bored everyone else to tears. Most readers, I think, hardly miss it; an active few won’t let me forget it. I view that storyline as a misstep on my part. Having said that, it always is possible with a little comic-strip hocus pocus that the boat might rise again. I have defended myself in the past by pointing out that a comic strip typically covers maybe five seconds of the protagonists’ day. Given that, it hasn’t been years since the boat’s appearance but mere days! Are you buying it? Anyway, I do think that one way or another the coast people will return more regularly. If the boat should reappear, expect several days of jokes about scraping, scrubbing, stench, stinging insects and misery.
108 responses to “Reason in the Sun”
Jerry, sounds like something’s in the hen house. Presumably nonhuman.
Congratulations on the marriage of your step-son and his fiance!
“Age is just a number.”
Pretty sure that was the first time I’ve seen a paddle boat do 0-30 in 3.5 seconds.
Based on where Meg lives, that could be a ‘gator in her hen house, too.
Perhaps last week’s snake went and got his older brother.
To be honest Jimmy, I wondered if turning Arlo’s longtime fantasy about a boat into a reality would come back to bite him you-know-where. Didn’t expect that it would be you that it bit instead! I would still like to see some toons based on the boat in the future, but if the muse isn’t there for you with that then so be it.
“…expect several days of jokes about scraping, scrubbing, stench, stinging insects and misery.”
And owning a boat is fun?
Fox or weasel most likely; tragedy ahead. emb
Rick, I thought JJ was describing farming.
Whatever the denouement of the Schooner on the Coast™ storyline, it will be hard put to top that of Arlo’s first sailboat.
http://www.gocomics.com/arloandjanis/2003/05/20
GR6
How did JJ ever get that one past the censors?
Bob in Orland Park, and Ghost: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bGHLCeDjH_E
Mark, how DO you come up with this stuff? The Navy?
As one who actually spent time scrubbing and scraping and compounding and buffing, vanishing and bleaching and oiling and sanding and toiling on other people’s boats for money so they could just go out and sail………
Jimmy described it pretty well.
I cannot tell you what we were called, it is and was very politically incorrect then and now.
Two items from today’s Writer’s Almanac. I’ll ignore a third.
It was on this day in 1633 that Galileo Galilei was put on trial by the Inquisition, for supporting the theory that the Earth revolves around the sun. In late April 1633, Galileo agreed to plead guilty and was sentenced to an unlimited period of house arrest in his home in Florence. He gradually went blind and died in 1641. It wasn’t until 1992 that the Catholic Church formally admitted that Galileo’s views on the solar system are correct.
It was on this day in 1945 that Franklin Delano Roosevelt died in office. He died of a cerebral hemorrhage at his home in Warm Springs, Georgia. That evening, Harry S. Truman took the oath of office. Eleanor Roosevelt called Truman to the White House with the news of her husband’s death. He asked her, “Is there anything I can do for you?” And she replied, “Is there anything we can do for you? For you are the one in trouble now.”
I’d forgotten it was 12 April, but won’t forget that day in ’45. I also remember the day in ’92, cause for various comments among science profs at BSU. Don’t remember if BUMC paid it much attention. Peace,
Peace,
Mark:
Here’s what made me think he was talking about the boat: “If the boat should reappear,…”
Did I misunderstand a context beyond the entire sentence?
Granted I shop in highly discounted stores sometimes, but hey, I love buying Ann Klein at 80% or more off?
Anyway, I had a most peculiar experience for Oklahoma, found myself the ONLY English speaking person I could find besides the two clerks. This was a large store.
Hispanics are spreading north in huge numbers. This has to be affecting a lot of things in our country like elections.
Bob, did you mean the “grab my dingy” one or the “taste me” one?
Jackie, an orange string bikini, by any chance? 🙂
Debbe 😉 After watching Emergency!, I wanted to be a paramedic just so I could meet nurses like Dixie McCall. I have dated some nurses since; they weren’t exactly like Julie, but they weren’t bad. (Well, one of them was.) 😉
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SwheXIa8Cl0
No. UT I bought a pair of black crocheted shorts and a matching part sheer and crocheted top tonight. I wonder if I should consider wearing that to the wooden boat show this weekend? It will be full of Cajun oil men but we know how that’s ging.
I was leaning to white jeans and some nautical looking top in stripes maybe.
There was this adorable pale turquoise bikini with a torn fringe from top but top was way too small.
Rick, you didn’t miss anything. I just took the portion you quoted, and applied it to farming, because it does fit.
Jackie, that was on a Dr. Demento boxed set of LP’s I once owned. So when the dinghy entered the conversation here, my memory sent me in search of it. I really miss Dr. Demento, but the only way to hear him now is by buying a subscription to his online service.
By the way, anyone near Alabama that likes classic rock has two good choices. Ian Anderson and his current band are performing in Montgomery this Friday night. And Steely Dan will be in Birmingham the next weekend.
oops…wrong day 🙂
GR 😉 Mad dogs and Englishman came to my mind….
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gRDe0PIPqj0
Jerry…14 years as a fiance….don’t think I would have taken that leap of faith…..
….TP is an issue here at my house….never enough of it,
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When we escape the cold every February, I sometimes overdo the sun that first day on the beach. Then the next two days are under the umbrella. And as a naturist, I can attest that sunburned buns hurt. 🙂
But the skinny dipping cools email right down.