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Shaky Premise

By Jimmy Johnson

Well, not just to see cheerleaders. As we’re into the heart of football season, I thought I’d resurrect this golden oldie from 2001. I’m sorry, but I don’t have a lot of time this morning. The corporeal world is demanding attention. I always feel badly about falling back on the no-time cop-out, but I figure it’s better than not showing up at all, which happens all too often. I hope you enjoy the above comic and today’s A&J at GoComics.

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43 responses to “Shaky Premise”

  1. Jackie Avatar
    Jackie

    Tattoo sleeves done by a good tattoo artist cost thousands of dollars $$$. When you see one think how much they cost. Some are beautiful works of art. On young beautiful bodies they can be stunning.

    When I see a particularly lovely one I make a point of admiring it to owner, just as I would hair or clothes. This has led to some interesting conversations.. The most beautiful one I’ve seen extended over shoulder and dowh shoulderblade. It cost $7000 the owner said..

    My cousin the tattooist makes more than a brain surgeon.

    1. Cozmik Cowboy Avatar
      Cozmik Cowboy

      My niece and her meth-head ex got many tattoos – while sponging off parents & grandparents to support their kids.
      And while they may, indeed, look stunning on young bodies, the one thing all tattoos have in common is that they fade and spread.

      One of the main reasons I am ink-free is that in my youth I knew a bartender called “Sailor Joe”; he got his tats in the navy as a youth – I knew him in his late 80s. There is no way you could figure out what any of them had been.

      Well, that and I am old enough to remember when tattoos were an act of rebellion, instead of an act of conformance.

  2. Jackie Avatar
    Jackie

    Sunday strip and pumpkins..Janis is on trend. The greater the vsriety the better. Impossible to have too many.

    1. Mark in TTown Avatar
      Mark in TTown

      That looks like the display in front of Reasor’s at Brookside today.

  3. Jackie Avatar
    Jackie

    Have been trying to bake a pineapple upside down skillet cake for Ghost for days. First I burned spill from blackberry pie in oven, was cleaning it and knocked large glass bottle of olive oil onto ceramic floor which turned into skating rink. Cake is assembled on counter. On schedule for tomorrow along with sweet cresm biscuits. Ghost deserves that and more.

  4. David Reaves Avatar
    David Reaves

    Jackie, hope the cake is tasty!

  5. Jackie Avatar
    Jackie

    We had the butter cream biscuits for brunch around 1 o’clock! Turning last two into raspberry shortcake!

  6. Jackie Avatar
    Jackie

    Barely made it to my 3 pm physical therapy appointment after brunch. Ended up eating enchiladas and beef nachos at a favorite local restaurant. Mark likes it too.

    Cooking cake tomorrow?

  7. Jackie Avatar
    Jackie

    A out Janis and sink today. I had a grandmother my stepdads mom who insisted on spreading newspapers on any surface you were eating over including the sink, counter or table. I found her compulsively annoying. But it was only house she had ever lived in having lived in real log cabin with dirt floors and open fireplaces for heat and cooking.. i heard she was that way even in cabin.

    Janis is just compulsive.

  8. emb Avatar
    emb

    Coupla new birds in Kenya webcams today [7am CDT here = 3pm EAT there]. Red-Eyed Dove [which Elaine & I had seen there in ’87] & 3-Banded Plover [very much like our Killdeer, & member of the same genus]. Webcam operators don’t zoom in on birds as much as I’d like.
    Peace,