There were a lot of interesting comments yesterday about boats and comics and such. Later this week, I will address a few of them. There’s a lot going on around the homestead this morning, though, so I hope you’ll excuse me for skipping out. However, it also is that time of year, time for Janis’ new swimming attire for the season–another grand old theme over the years.
78 responses to “Speaking of Flak”
Well, Ghost, my smallest swimsuit could be used as the fabric for ten bikinis. I have an abdominal scar that I am shy of showing
Makes sense to me, Blinky.
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Lily, they do make two-pieces with high-rise bottoms, you know.
Charlotte, the mail boat I knew was named (I think) the Tonimar – too lazy to try to google it now. I’m speaking of the 1948-1957 era so maybe the Uncle Sam had finished its run. Did you take the Mt. Washington cruise around the lake? On my first such trip – with parents & sister – the steering went out near the Weirs and we were shuttled back to Wolfeboro on the much smaller Sophie C, a few at a time. My second trip was during my/our honeymoon and went perfectly.
My parents honeymooned at the Wawbeek in ’36; we followed suit in ’62. The rented cottage referred to was that of my mom’s former minister. No doubt he liked the extra income it brought in now and then. I recall the nice flower beds in the back, courtesy of the famed 1938 New England hurricane. The minister lost 5 dozen full-grown trees, and not a single one hit his cabin! Removal of the downed trees afforded the space for his flowers. When one has a bunch of lemons….
Ghost: My scar runs from my xiphoid to my pubis, what they call a “midline laparotomy incision.. Simpler just to cover the whole thing
Lily: Wow. I understand. Poor baby.
emb is 84. His swimsuit is also one piece.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/13/science/earth/collapse-of-parts-of-west-antarctica-ice-sheet-has-begun-scientists-say.html?_r=0#
I was browsing through my copy of “Bop til You Drop” tonight. For those of yo who haven’t had a chance to read this collection of the first year of A&J, let me report that JJ hit the ground running- the jokes are great and it had real heart.
I found it interesting that the first Veteran’s Day comic was revisited and expanded years later into probably the most discussed A&J arc:
PANEL 1: Arlo is talking to a young and very attentive Gene: “Your Grandfather was in the war, but he doesn’t talk about it much.”
PANEL 2: “When I was a boy, I would ask him to tell me stories, but he couldn’t. It gave him nightmares.”
PANEL 3: “He would get a vacant look in his eye, and you’d know he was raveling back in his mind– But he didn’t talk about it.”
PANEL 4: “Actually, your grandfather told me a lot about war.”
A touching, brilliant strip.
Remember the swimsuits in Gidget or Doris Day movies? Sandra Dee? Those were considered bikinis in the day, they barely showed your navel and not much cleavage.
However, by the time I made it to Hawaii bikinis were six stringed, two on the bottom part and four on the top and three small patches just enough to keep you from being arrested.
One I owned was crocheted with large holes, which many of the period wore sans any lining.
As I recalled mine had a tiny lining on the front and strategic part of the two top pieces which were held together usually with another string! Clever name, they were called “String Bikinis”.
Far cry from Gidget. I think the heroine wore one on the beach in the movie 10.
I’m OK with a month of Janis in bikinis or whatever. June is closer than Janus.
Love, Jackie Monies
Blinky, all of Jimmy’s Veterans and patriotic strips make me tear up usually.
Love, Jackie Monies
Comment on my post above: The combined area of the floating ice shelves of West Antarctica [roughly figured out in my head] is at least that of the land area of Mexico. That does not include the part of W. A. ice that is on rock, much of that rock below sea level.
Okay, I was *almost* worried about the appropriateness of my antidote; however, since bikini season has begun in some fevered imaginations … I am a warm-blooded person, as is one of my assistants. The auditor today, well for her, the a/c was a bit too much for her. To quote her, ” Holy crap! Had I known it was going to be THIS cold in here, I would have worn more layers and a thicker bra!” Her wounded look when I burst out laughing only made it worse.
Jackie: a song on topic.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HVTJ3LcPJQs
Lady Mindy, it’s probably been a long time since anything regarding pokies would have been considered inappropriate around here.
Jackie, your story of the crocheted bikini reminded me of the “Friends” episode where Chandler accidentally caught Rachel topless, and she grabbed an Afghan to cover her chest. She didn’t realize how loose the weave was until Chandler confessed that he could still see her “nippular” area.
Here’s another cartoonist who is good with cats (and dogs too), George Booth. When the page loads, click to enlarge the picture.
http://www.condenaststore.com/-sp/Dog-and-cat-sleep-side-by-side-Dog-awakes-violently-and-disturbs-the-cat-New-Yorker-Cartoon-Prints_i8562892_.htm
emb: So, since the floating ice that calves doesn’t add to the rising sea level, how much is coming off the land? And how much is offset by the increasing ice on the other end of the continent? In short, how significant is it?
Good morning Villagers….
Now Mark, why did I know you were going to post that song 🙂
And why is it when one (me) finally gets a good night’s sleep (8) hours, I’m more tired than when I went through my sleep deprivation last week?
My husband’s best, and I mean best, friend and fishing buddy met his end of life yesterday. He died at home, with his family around him. I grieve for my husband badly….not only was Roy is best friend, but the two of them would go fishing almost every day. My husband didn’t know what to send to the funeral home…flowers or a keepsake….I told him to put a fishing lure in Roy’s casket.
Ya’ll have a blessed day……
Debbe, my condolences to your husband. The lure in the casket is a good idea.
The TIP and TIP blogspot
http://thatispriceless.blogspot.com/
are the same today, but the blogspot is bigger.
Debbe, my condolences to your husband.
Ghost I never saw that ep of Friends. It would be a pretty tight weave to hide me, but, then, I lock my bedroom door when I change clothes. I have to keep a spare suit of underwear (or two) in my locker at the hospital in case we get into what we call an “underwear case”, but we don’t worry much about being surprised there as after a few years we prety well know what there is to know about one another in the women’s dressing room.
Today is one of those rare ones when I don’t “get” the real-time cartoon. I am familiar with Janis’s remark (“There’s no fool like an old fool!”), but the only usage I’ve ever known for it (at least in the South) is to describe a situation where an older man becomes infatuated with a younger and (often) sexually accommodating woman. I can’t see how that at all applies to what is portrayed in today’s cartoon.
And I wouldn’t go quite so far as to say that Janis’s response sounds mean-spirited under the circumstances but it seems awfully close to being so. But perhaps that’s just because I don’t understand where she’s coming from with that response.
Ghost, I took it to mean, and the Dark Side seems to agree, that she think he is too old to still be interested in sex. Not that, in my experience, men ever are. I have a hospital story about that, but it is too indelicate to post.
If that’s the case, then I definitely think she is being snarky, considering that he is, after all, paying her the compliment of signaling to her that he still finds her physically attractive. And it’s not like she should find the attention unwelcome, seeing as how she was on the one who drug him into bed just the other day.
And as far as what The Dark Side opinion is…meh.
Lily, I’ve been told that women check out other women’s bods as much, if not more so, as men do. I tend to believe that, as I also subscribe to the old axiom, “Women don’t dress for men, they dress for other women.” For empirical evidence, there was the tall, slender and rather busty lady bartender I met a number of years ago when I was doing some relief bar-tending who told me that many more women than men expressed an interest in the size of her breasts.
As it turned out, hers were natural (no implants), but that’s a story for yet another day. 😉
Ghost, all I can say is that among the (many) pieces of advice that my mother gave me was “Before you go out the door, look in a mirror. And look at your butt. Everybody else will.”
Sure, we check out other women’s bodies, but not as much as their clothes and shoes. They are, after all, the competition.
Ah ha!
I actually didn’t look this up until after I had written my post about it. Obviously it was fixed in my memory, for some reason. 😉
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q5wFeAmUGfM