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Sirens of the City

By Jimmy Johnson


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68 responses to “Sirens of the City”

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    Nancy and Ghost, I ordered my Ancestry.com DNA kit over weekend or Friday, it shipped yesterday.

  2. Ghost Rider 6 Avatar
    Ghost Rider 6

    Tombo: I’m reasonably sure that the retro is a Sunday cartoon. And I’m reasonably sure that Jimmy colors the Sunday cartoons himself. Therefore I’m reasonably sure that you are criticizing Jimmy’s artwork.

    If you want to criticize the colorists, look no further than today’s real-time cartoon. I’m reasonably sure that is Janis’s badonkadonk sticking out from under the desk, but the colorist apparently thought it was Arlo’s and colored her clothing the same as his.

    Also, if they had dressed the same, I’m reasonably sure that they would have done the rock-paper-scissors thing and one would have changed.

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    Anonymous

    Ghost, I had the same thought about today’s strips and coloring.

  4. Tunadavis Avatar
    Tunadavis

    Is your inspiration for this either “The Old Man and the Sea” by Papa Hemingway, or “Gulf Stream” by Winslow Homer?

  5. emb Avatar
    emb

    A Chesapeake Conservancy osprey is back:

    http://www.chesapeakeconservancy.org/osprey-cam

    Peace,

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    That anon is not little Ole Anonymous me. I happen to think the gray coloring of the dream sequence is fantastic with just the destination in living color. It is emphatic.

    Ok, I knew it was Janis butt but didn’t catch the coloring.

    Off for another truck load of compost and mulch. Left Tony spraying Roundup trying to help kill the weeds. We got the grass but this is Oklahoma and the fill dirt is from someone’s farm. And they grow weeds!

  7. Steve From Royal Oak, MI Avatar

    While we are at “Whatever happened to” How about a visit to Gene? Another child on the way? How about Robin? How about work? Credit to Jimmy. I have been enjoying the strips…

  8. sandcastler™ Avatar
    sandcastler™

    Good luck on that DNA test. My last one didn’t match my fingerprints and I am now a misplaced person.

  9. Ghost Rider 6 Avatar
    Ghost Rider 6

    Also curious about how detailed the AncestryDNA test report is. Family lore on my mom’s side is that they were Scot-Irish. Some pretty extensive genealogical research I’ve seen for my dad’s family show pre-Revolutionary War arrival in America from Germany via England. Wondering if the report will be detailed enough to confirm that.

    Also wondering if a certain US Senator from Massachusetts has ever had this done.

    sand, I suppose you could just get one of these and call it good.

    http://www.worldservice.org/docpass.html

  10. Jerry in Fl Avatar
    Jerry in Fl

    Trucker, loved those high school students. Which reminds me, we haven’t had a report from the orphanage in some time. Next, I should comment that JJ is a master cartoonist but can have quite a way with the written word such as the title of that sailing strip. JJ, might you someday consider writing a book, ala Dave Barry.

  11. Jerry in Fl Avatar
    Jerry in Fl

    “A person who is nice to you, but rude to the waiter, is not a nice person.”-Dave Barry

  12. Jerry in Fl Avatar
    Jerry in Fl

    JJ, in your spare time of course.

  13. steve olsen Avatar
    steve olsen

    THE QUESTION – what the hell am I doing as a cartoonist?

  14. George Avatar

    Ghost, The DNA test won’t be very specific. If you are lucky an unknown cousin has also been tested and you’ll be able to make contact and compare notes. My advice is to enter your oldest known ancestor in the Ancestry.com search engine. Include date/place of birth within two years and where he lived. In the results look for public family trees. It’s very likely someone has already done the research for you. And several others have copied the information for their trees. Buyer beware.

  15. Mark in TTown Avatar
    Mark in TTown

    Ghost, you might take a look at these folks. They have a project going for my family name and I’m thinking about going for it.

    http://www.worldfamilies.net/

  16. Jeff Avatar
    Jeff

    The question is, “What’s the perfect spot?”

  17. Blinky the Wonder Wombat Avatar
    Blinky the Wonder Wombat

    Where the first too panels inspired by any particular paintings? The composition seems awfully familiar.

  18. Rick in Shermantown, Ohio Avatar
    Rick in Shermantown, Ohio

    Shucks.

    I was going to write, “Why are the girls wearing tops?”

  19. Ghost Rider 6 Avatar
    Ghost Rider 6

    And that’s what I was about to write, Rick, when my highly calibrated Mark I Mod 0 eyeballs registered the fact that Beach Babe Number 1 was wearing a yellow one-piece. So I went for the whole nine yards. 🙂

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    Where is my comment where I commented on the accuracy of JJs composition in the sailing panels? Very accurate.

    All y’all care about are the babes.

    About DNA test, I have back to early 1700s in America or earlier on all major lines. My primary ancestors began marrying each other in 1700 in South Carolina, loaded kith and kin on a wagon train and got to the piney woods of Louisiana and kept marrying same people from 1800 to present. My primary ancestors in North Carolina did same thing in a Quaker community for well over 200 years. I know what paper records say I am.

    What I want to know is what science says I am? Am I Irish, Scots, English? Is there Native American blood? Is there an unexpected ethic group?

    All those geanology groups of my ancestors do DNA studies but just male lines.

  21. Ghost Rider 6 Avatar
    Ghost Rider 6

    Two thousand fifty years ago today, Julius Caesar had a very bad day.

  22. emb Avatar
    emb

    ‘What I want to know is what science says I am? Am I Irish, Scots, English? Is there Native American blood? Is there an unexpected ethic group?’

    Believe I’ve mentioned this before. Some study estimates that either 10% of the babies born in America, or that 10% of American families have at least one kid, whose father is not the one who thinks he is. It may also be that about 10% of American fathers have a kid who is thought to be someone else’s. Don’t remember where I ran into that, but also don’t remember that the estimate was strongly disputed. Be careful what questions you ask; you may get unwelcome answers.

    It’s all because we no longer require sectarian prayer in godless public schools, right?

    Peace,

  23. Mark in TTown Avatar
    Mark in TTown

    Ghost, I don’t think even the one-piece has 9 yards in it! Speaking of 9 yards, look up a short story called Nine Yards of Other Cloth, by Manly Wade Wellman. It’s worth the read.

  24. Mark in TTown Avatar
    Mark in TTown

    For those of you who asked, here is Homer’s The Gulf Stream. It does not look like the retro strip. But it does remind me of some trips to Wally World, especially around the Black Friday sales.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gulf_Stream_(painting)

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    My great great great grandfather was a badtard. He took his father’s name after said parent died. I think I got enough greats?

    My biological father who married my mother was not his father’s child, nor was his cousin his cousin but his half brother, also an illegitimate. I know that, know even more from doing genealogy searches. Don’t think my MILs father from Canada ever divorced or lost the Canadian wife before marrying the American in California.

    Not looking for what I have found, curious if there are even more interesting things.