In English, the Rosetta Stone translates, “Very expensive language instruction that can be had at the local bookstore for a fraction of the price.” In the age of the internet, one must be careful. There are many “this date in history” sites that are not entirely reliable, particularly concerning celebrity birthdays. This, one finds out the hard way.
Secrets of the Deadline
By Jimmy Johnson
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201 responses to “Secrets of the Deadline”
When I was single I had a couple of “This date IS History”!
You trying to spoil us, JJ? 🙂
Debbe I remember Way Out Russell. The other of course was Lilyback, who’s ramblings made more sense once she was outed. However I missed John and Mindy leaving us. We were getting a ton of posts and then poof. Maybe they got swallowed up by the bamboo?
Because I got through it sort of half-way in high school, 40 years later I decided to get Rosetta Stone for German, pretty cool, there is no translation, if you go through it slowly and properly it all makes sense, but still there were a few times that I had to look up a translation on a word; and once you buy the actual download lessons, they make more money trying to get you to pay extra for live instructor sessions where you also speak with other learners, you get a free trail of that at the beginning but it was too weird for me
So how many times can cartoonists work “heretofore” in their strips?
And exactly how does JJ get a picture into the strip? Photocopy?
I LOVED today’s real time strip! I think Jimmy must both read our comments and those of the Dark Side as well. I cannot do that, sorry guys. Jimmy you are a braver cartoonist than I am a reader!
Off to give blood to the vampire blood suckers at my hospital lab for my perpetual life record. I wish they would just implant that chip in my arm and be done with it so they can point a laser at it and read my medical history. Oh right, that’s someone’s conspiracy theory plot isn’t it?
Then going to the pool and exercise and work on my fitness and tan. Someone has to do it.
Good morning and good day all, Love, Jackie
And Jimmy, I never say this enough but if you do read what we write I will. Not only are you the ONLY cartoonist alive whose work I still read AND admire, you are also the best caption writer I have ever run into. I absolutely love the titles you give the retro cartoons, like today.
Secrets of the Deadline.
Fabulous play on words and genre and archaeology and reality shows and all that jazz. And I am friends with more than one punster who work it into daily conversations. Don’t know if you can do that but you are a fantastic punster and wordsmith as well. Love, Jackie
Just in case anyone missed the date in the margin of the historical strip, the anniversary of the Rosetta Stone discovery is July 19th.
Steve– I think Simply Fargone has non-virtual (or at least e-mail) contact with John & Mindy (alter ego/sister Ginger). I don’t think the bamboo got them…
When my dad first arrived at his new job in Birmingham, people kept asking him “Bama or Auburn?” Being from out of state, he learned the safest answer was “What’s an Auburn?”
So, since I don’t have a dog in the fight, here’s something to stir the pot:
http://auburn.247sports.com/Bolt/Auburn-fans-have-best-grammar-Tide-fans-have-worst-39073394
If I gave Jimmy props for every smart, funny thing he comes up with here and in the cartoon, my posts would be “all kudos, all the time”.
Jimmy,
Am I to understand that you’ve made a mistake about a celebrity birthday based on information sourced from the internet?
Surely not…everyone knows that if it’s on Teh InterWebNet, it’s got to be true. And how else would one learn the truth about things like Jade Helm 15?
Debbe 😉 Thanks for the Mike Jagger “cardio video”, but I don’t think that “rooster pecking move” of his would earn me any cred at a gym. Unless I started going to the Zoomba or whatever-you-call-it classes. They do offer those classes at my gym, and I stopped by one day to discover what appeared to be a group of slightly chubby but very cute young Hispanic ladies auditioning for stripper jobs. I guess that’s what a friend meant when she once said,” Zumba…because those poles won’t dance around themselves.”
Yes, Jackie, I can only guess where TDS went with a cartoon with the word “yeast” in it. And no, I didn’t look to see.
One I don’t have to look up…on this date in 1939, Germany invaded Poland. No, I wasn’t there, but it was in all the papers, and I read about it later.
If memory serves, JJ has made this point on at least one other occasion, but I don’t remember when.
Jackie, when it comes to giving blood, I’m a turnip. In fact, I go to a convention every year that has a Heinlein Memorial Blood Drive, and on the day of the drive, I hand out white ribbons with the word TURNIP in red to those of us who have medical reasons that we can’t donate. (One of my friends is a big donor, but sometimes he can’t because of timing, and it’s always amusing to see that somebody who’s given several hundred pints is a turnip.)
Ghost I am afraid that is the cleaner version of where the Dark Side went! They are males I suspect.
As much as I like the Rolling Stones I have to admit Mick always reminds me of a banty rooster. He can sing though!
Jackie, I do love Ray Stevens but I don’t think I’ve ever heard Would Jesus Wear A Rolex, so thanks for that! And speaking of televangelists, I don’t know if you’ve ever heard of John Oliver, but he had a word or two to say on the subject. The video is about 20 minutes long, but well worth the watch:
http://uproxx.com/tv/2015/08/last-week-tonight-irs-televangelists/
Ghost Sweetie, I’ve seen a few videos of men pole dancing, and let me tell you…!!!!
Sideburns once my autoimmune diseases and hepatitis and other issues were on my record my donations cannot be of any use. Unfortunately I still give a lot of blood every 90 days or more often and I console myself that it goes for medical research and knowledge. One of my docs once told me all his patients were research cases!
So I am a turnip now too. Love Jackie
Two people sitting at a table with their hands in their laps is another clue. Putting the time you finished the drawing in the corner with the date might give the cognoscenti a secondary chuckle.
Male pole dancers, eh, Jean dear? Thanks. Perhaps there is a previously unforeseen new career in my future. 😉
I haven’t snarked about 9CL lately, so here goes…
One can only hope that at least several of the characters will be garroted by those “amusingly” flexible panel border lines. Feel free to post your lists of suggested garrotees.
Jackie, I’ve given blood twice, about 30 years apart. Both times I went into shock and my blood pressure dropped through the floor. The second time, I wasn’t able to stand for over an hour, and was wobbly for the rest of the day. And, ever since the first time (of two) that I was hospitalized because I had a dangerously-low blood platelet count, I’ve been under doctor’s orders not to donate. My count has gradually come back to normal over the last five years, which isn’t what usually happens, but donating still isn’t a Good Idea for me. Some people can donate regularly with no ill effects, including my sister, but I’m very much NOT one of them.
I have a friend who does her best to collect every possible ribbon when she goes to a convention, once gathering enough to make a skirt, but she doesn’t ever get a TURNIP ribbon because the only reason she doesn’t donate is that she doesn’t want to, and that doesn’t qualify. That ribbon is for people who can’t donate, not for those who just won’t. I do, however, have a ribbon that’s mostly for trading that I’ll give her: THE RIBBON OF RASSILON because that one’s just for fun.
Jackie, the biggest drawback to the implant idea is this, how far away could someone read the data on the chip? Since they are now stealing credit card information from RFID equipped cards, I am concerned about keeping the data protected.
I don’t recall any prior usage of the perfectly fine word THERETOFORE, although HERETOFORE is familiar. Nice of JJ to increase our vocabularies that way.
BTW, Jackie, how did I merit the address “crud professor” a few days ago? [Au 30 @ 1:08 pm] This inquiring mind wants to know.
Jackie, blame it on spellcheck!
cex-p, at least it didn’t come out crude ex-professor, if that’s any consolation.
Mark hit it, I losty air pen fory Smartphone and my little cuddy fingers don’t work well. I am often azed at what is send so I left this uneducated to show you what it does to me.
The other day I wrote a male friend and spllcheck substituted thong for thing for me, told him 5th at I was thinking about a lot of thongs. He would believe that I was so I corrected that one with a sebond email an hour later.
Love Jackie