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”
Had I seen the previous strips I probably would not have asked, but that’s ok. At least one person answered, kind of. Lately I feel like I forgot the password to get in here.
Jackie
No Yellow Polka-dot Bikini?
emb
You have a good memory – mine will come back someday – the old geezers disease-
Reminisces. Not TOO soon I hope.
Remember Miss Penosian 1st grade, Miss Diamond (Because she wrote a schedule for us to copy
from when we were to get up – brush teeth – go to toilet – eat – etc.
Mrs Fuchs 6 th grade introduced us to music, reading appreciation and science.
PS132 on Amsterdam Ave.
She also had a great Salt and Pepper shaker collection.
Debbe
Love the mustache on the http://cheezburger.com/8764014592
you know why.
Steve From Royal Oak, MI
Tried to get Christmas at Tiffany’s at the library – no joy.
Even inter-library loan.
Karen Swan only.
No Marianne Evans is she in paper?
I mean paper books – not E-Books
Jackie, an open MRI machine? I would have thought you would fit just fine in a closed one. Or do you mean available? They put me through closed MRI before wrist surgery two years ago. I’m not claustrophobic, but it was a very tight fit. Now I know how those cavers feel crawling through those tight tunnels.
https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/236x/be/9f/82/be9f820313378bacefd47313e73f825d.jpg
Glad they didn’t have one of these in mine.
emb-
One addendum to your note about Galileo’s run-in with the Catholic Church- his was convicted not for supporting the Copernican model of the solar system (which nearly every educated person of the time, including Pope Urban, accepted) but for a perceived insult of the Pope in one of his published defenses of his view. As it was, his sentence was light- he was allowed to receive visitors and to continue to study and write.
Great! So he could have been killed or tortured. And still, 1992?
Further, the notion that anyone has that much power over other men, in the name of a loving deity, is repulsive and, to my mind, sells Elohim short. Power and status and hierarchy have little to do with the [mostly] gentle prophet from Galilee, to whom is attributed the Sermon on the Mount.
Peace,
Sorry, I should have mentioned that I’d know that since some time in the ’60-’70s. Peace,
Just woke up. I have an hour I can eat a snack in. I honestly thought it was morning. Nothing after midnight and I fell asleep and skipped dinner.
Mark, I am most claustrophobic. The way I got through the tunnels in the caves connected to Carlsbad Caverns that require a lamp on your hard hat and crawling was:
1. I was VERY tiny back then. 2. I closed my eyes while crawling. 3. The tunnels were short. 4. Couldn’t do it now. Younger.
Just found out I can still open a bottled Coke without a bottle opener in a hotel room. Have not used that knowledge in 50 years.
Works for beer bottles, too.
Debbe 😉 And now for something almost completely different…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F6d1-k2p1Ck
Jerry – I am glad you still drop in. Also congratulations to your son. How are you doing otherwise?
Jerry, losing your mom is hard. I do read you but you asked me to ignore you. I was but still read. Take care of you.
Good morning Villagers…
Ruth Anne, thanks for the NY Times link, it is still scary around here….I pray we (the whole SIN) don’t let our guards down…we still follow strict protocol at my hen house.
Yesterday’s strip followed me to work, I kept thinking about that dog running with the hen. But, then, the only fox allowed in the hen house is me 🙂
Old Bear, yup.
Good to see Indy Mindy dropping by…
later….
GR 😉 Leon Redbone!!!!! Had not listeded to him in years…..trying to find the music score from the Bill Pullman movie ‘The Virginian’, woke up to the movie last night ten minutes into it. Great scenery and sound track…..
GR 😉 Leon Redbone!!!!! Had not listeded to him in years…..trying to find the music score from the Bill Pullman movie ‘The Virginian’, woke up to the movie last night ten minutes into it. Great scenery and sound track…..and I found it….
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QYzWNjtPfq8
🙂 http://cheezburger.com/8764272384
emb-
I am sure you did know that, but most people think Gallileo was persecuted due to ignorance of science, especially looking back with the benefit of 500 years of hindsight and experience.
There is no doubt that by Gallileo’s time, the papacy was more concerned with earthly power than spiritual salvation (hello, Luther). Still, there were many men of the cloth still doing good Godly work and scienctific work- the Jesuits for instance were a leading force in astronomy and have for centuries directed one of the most important observatories in the world.
Still, then, as know, it is easier to try to frame issues in black and white instead of shades of gray. Usually, the truth almost always in the gray areas.
Old Bear:
Her books are available at Amazon and most are in print. She will have a book that should be in bookstore distribution called Forgiveness, but that probably won’t be out until November. All of her books are available from her publisher in e-books at
http://pelicanbookgroup.com/ec/index.php?main_page=advanced_search_result&search_in_description=1&keyword=marianne+evans
Thanks for looking.
Hi Jackie. . Nice to meet cha.
GR6, the Guy Dawes reference missed me. . No matter, I suppose.
As for drones, I live in a state where outdoor nudity isn’t really legal. So not an issue. And really, if someone wants a photo of this aging and slightly overweight body, well hell. I’ll pose for them. Spencer Tunick maybe. ?
I think Arlo and Janis could visit a C/O resort, sure! No hanky panky on the beach though. Strictly prohibited. (and awkward-let’s be honest)
Otis, Guy Fawkes is a person from English history. He was part of a plot intending to blow up the British Houses of Parliament. Guy Fawkes Day is a holiday commemorating his capture, where kids set off fireworks, like we do for July 4th.
Debbe 😉 You can be the fox in my hen house anytime. 😉
I had some students that landed Cessnas pretty much the same way as Hover Cat.
Clothing optional resorts are full of people Ghost might prefer to have keep their clothes on. Oklahoma offers shelter to people from other states who come here to enjoy our “liberal” laws.
Go figure!
It’s hardly about sex.