Happy New Year! If this cartoon seems familiar, it’s because it ran only two years ago. I hope you’ve enjoyed the holidays. I like years when Christmas and New Years Day come on Friday. It’s as if everyone tacitly agrees the official holidays will be stretched out for an extra two days. However, Monday can be a hard landing. Brace yourselves!
112 responses to “Spirit of Resolution”
To the gentlemen of the village – what is the etiquette for wearing a stovepipe hat indoors? Saw a guy wearing one today in Rural King. Modern wear clothing (mercifully no camouflage-print, someone PLEASE make Real Tree and such go away!), and a stovepipe. Clean-shaven. Looks really weird when not on Abe Lincoln, by the way.
Maybe he has a head like the ancient Egyptians. ( :i)
Never wear your cover indoors unless under arms. Army taught me that much, still abide by it.
Here’s an old sailor joke you heard.
Passerby by, “I say, that’s a nice pair of oars you have there my good man!”
“Thems no oars, that be me wife and daughter.”
But, sand, I’m almost always under arms. But yeah…me, too. Old habits die hard.
Lady Mindy, the proper etiquette for a gentleman wearing a stovepipe hat indoors is…
1. Walk outside.
2. Locate the nearest Dumpster™.
3. Deposit hat in Dumpster™.
4. Walk away and do not look back.
Charlotte,
Thanks for the kind words. My life has been one blessing after another, not exciting, but surely blessed by God.
Mindy,
I don’t have a stovepipe hat but I do have an authentic Indiana Jones hat, given to me by my son, which I wear but remove when indoors. I was also trained in the military and Catholic school.
God bless us every one.
Doma can I will,see when your symphony is performing and lake a trip to coincide. I love symphonic music more than opera but when I was in college they needed someone not Cajun to do,the opera programs on air. I loved symphonies from the first recording I ever heard. Get back to you with dates S soon as I look it up.
Anyone want to go to Dallas in spring to see Porgy and Bess with Dallas opera? My date has stood me up. I will get date for that one too. Wait, maybe that was operatic version of Showboat we were supposed to be going to? I will check it too. I saw both years ago with Houston grand opera, wonderful with those voices.
Fat Bottomed Girls just came on so appropriately.
Ruth gave me link on great museum in Winter Garden to go see Tiffany exhibit, the best in America. Are you going with me Ruth? And we have to do lunch. I am going to enjoy 2016 a whole lot more than 2015 although 2015 wasn’t the worse year of my life by a long shot.
New blank pages are great but you can never erase the back story, just write a new chapter. Love, Jackie
emb: YAYAYAY for grandson!!! Good for you for letting us know!
Debbe 😉 Well…don’t you? 🙂
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uPudE8nDog0
Yeah, I know; I owe you one from last night.
And no, I don’t wear eye shadow and mascara.
At least not when I’m not El Fantasma. (Lady Mindy will never let me live that down.)
Debbe 😉 I love to dance, but I probably couldn’t keep up with you.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nMol0ZypWrs
Whoa, that is weird because a song or so back that song Ghost posted just now came on the mix I am listening to Don’t You Want Me? I had not known that one and I didn’t read notes on it but don’t think that is who sang it?
What is history of the song?
And the Portuguese subtitles? That was to confuse El Fantasma.
Jackie, according to Wikipedia, Mandy Smith later released a cover of “Don’t You Love Me Baby”, as did the Swedish band Alcazar, although I only ever remember hearing the 1981 Human League version of it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C7Wb_zWp-yg
When Mandy Smith released her version of “Don’t You Love Me Baby” as a single, the flip side song was “If It Makes You Happy”. I couldn’t find her doing it on YouTube, but I did find this better-known version…which ain’t none too shabby in its own right.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iY-W7EA8uB0
The brain with a prompt from Google just remembered it was Dallas Grand Opera performing Show Boat on Sunday May 1 at 2 p.m. a time chosen to coincide with an airplane I will not be meeting. This is quite good done by opera companies, I first saw it in Houston and then took it to Broadway I believe. If you have only seen this as a movie this is far superior .
Doumacan, I tried to fit a performance around my travel but they aren’t going to let me travel that far until end of January.
Have to tell you later the comedy that is my local Ford dealership, need to get some sleep. It is funny. You all think I am strange? The locals here have been confused ever since I got here. It reminds me of growing up as I did, too exotic for my location.
Watch out for pencils. They have sharp points.
Good morning Villagers….
Wait a minute, just wait one minute…did I just read my name, in (), in the same sentence referencing old biddies, drinking wine?? I’ll have you know Miss Jackie….that I did at one time know Jeremiah… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yf-d-Ka30EY 🙂
domaucan1…I attended a Catholic grade school and two years of Catholic high school, in grade school, we went to Mass every morning, still remember it being said in Latin. I treasure my Catholic education, I learned more from them than when I attended the last two years of high school in a public education setting. But, boy we could play basketball then, it was all about basketball…..I think there are a couple of posters here who have heard of Jack Butcher.
Jerry, mechanical pencils have sharp points too, but they break easily.
later………..got some to links to click on when I clicked on those links…..(old biddies….exits muttering &^%E#^)
GR 😉 a different take, this will get you BP going……
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kum4O_fh0_E
Yup, went back and reread, and in the same sentence too. Old Biddy…not, Spent Hen…maybe!
for some reason, I wanted to hear some more Billy Joel, and this song came to my mind in a New York second…..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q6yQ14TGB8U
Retro strip:
Possible solution: Turn off TV. Go to bed earlier.
Nah.
Ain’t gonna happen.
I do believe the Piano Man has been upstaged by a music student from Vanderbuilt….good one…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bceuh8c-4kg
Ever wonder why ‘old biddies’ are still around??????
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bceuh8c-4kg