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Subtle Distinction

By Jimmy Johnson


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Sorry to have been gone so long! I have been working on other projects. I guess there’s just no way to avoid the “remember when” factor on this site, try as I might. Today’s classic A&J is yet another example of swift cultural change. First, “casual Friday” was introduced, when white-collar workers were allowed to dress down from coats and ties and the equivalent ladies’ apparel. Today there are coats and ties still out there, but the daily norm for what remains of the white-collar work force is distinctly casual. I’m not saying it’s a bad thing. Hey, I’m a cartoonist! I can work in my underwear if I want, although I never do. Well, not in just my underwear. You know, I get asked that question a lot, which I think is kind of weird.

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233 responses to “Subtle Distinction”

  1. sandcastler™ Avatar
    sandcastler™

    Nice evening for football in College Station. Gig em!

  2. Mark in TTown Avatar
    Mark in TTown

    Alabama-LSU will be played in a swamp tonight. We had heavy rain all night and variable rain all day. Ground is saturated. Still not in the same league as what Texas got after the last hurricane.

    Stick around Morphy. We will learn something from a new voice. I thought the screen name was a play on the Murphy of Murphy’s Law. Never heard of a Morphy number, but then again, I never could get the hang of chess either. And mathematics was my worst subject from Jr. High through High School.

  3. Ghost Rider 6 Avatar
    Ghost Rider 6

    “Murphy was an optimist.”

  4. Mark in TTown Avatar
    Mark in TTown

    I don’t recall who sent us the Woot link, but here is another bargain site. I have not tried ordering from them yet, but plan to.

    http://www.13deals.com/store/home.php

  5. Jerry in Fl Avatar
    Jerry in Fl

    Oh well. Go Gators.

  6. sandcastler™ Avatar
    sandcastler™

    Murphy never did any real engineering.

  7. sandcastler™ Avatar
    sandcastler™

    Meanwhile, on the college football score board. UCLA is having a Beaver feast in Oregon. 😉

  8. Ghost Rider 6 Avatar
    Ghost Rider 6

    I wonder what “Thinsulate Style” gloves are actually made of. I just bought a new pair of leather shooting gloves, and given the average winter temps in this area, they will probably serve quite well as winter gloves. I can always slip a pair of nitrile medical gloves over them if it’s cold and wet; I keep at least a box of them on hand, so to speak.

    And no Debbe, I don’t stock them for “playing doctor”. Or do I? 😉

  9. sandcastler™ Avatar
    sandcastler™

    Shooting gloves? Wait one moment Mr. Perpetrator while I slip on my shooting gloves.

  10. Ghost Rider 6 Avatar
    Ghost Rider 6

    Shooting gloves: Helpful for 150-200 practice rounds; not really required for 2-4 defensive rounds.

    Although, come to think of it, if someone sees you donning shooting gloves, they may decide not to try to assault you to begin with. (That’s were situational awareness comes in.) 🙂

  11. sandcastler™ Avatar
    sandcastler™

    Looks like the gig is up on this game.

  12. Gary Avatar
    Gary

    Ah Debbe, you are a girl after my own heart. My wife has whips, knives, machetes, steel batons, short, medium and long fight sticks/staffs, kama, tonfa, nuchuku and compound bows. She also is learning cane-fu (with walking canes).

  13. Sideburns Avatar

    Gary, your wife might want to get herself a shillelagh because they’re generally long enough to be used as a walking stick as well as a self-defense weapon.

  14. Debbe Avatar
    Debbe

    Good morning Villagers….

    So, Gary, does your wife wear black stilettos 🙂

    And Murphy, I’m not the brightest bulb in this Village, but I do know who Gracie was…. nice post….had to read it twice.

    And I can bet that GR will be having lunch at Hooters on Wednesday. We keep a box of those surgical gloves at work, and we don’t play doctor either, but I love to put them on, snap them and say “cough” 🙂

    I also added to the shopping cart at Home Depot a pair of leather gloves, courtesy of The Boss. They better keep my little fingers warm this winter….they will go well with my Carharts. I just bet I will be voted the best dressed hen house worker of 2015….got new boots too, $hitproof…oops, I mean water proof.

    Ruth Anne…thanks for the link…is there one of the original, like you said the sound isn’t very clear. Would love to hear the words.

    Got to get work clothes out of dryer……

    Ya’ll have a blessed day.

  15. Debbe Avatar
    Debbe

    Sorry Morphy….I typed Murphy…see what I mean about the bulb????

  16. emb Avatar
    emb

    The Sunday 9CL is all too true. Peace, emb

  17. domaucan1 Avatar
    domaucan1

    JUST JOINED IN THIS THREAD AND AM PLEASED TO SEE PAUL MORPHY MENTIONED. BEING A CHESS PLAYER FOR OVER 60 YEARS, I LOVE TO HEAR MORPHY THOUGHT OF SO HIGHLY. I ONCE READ A FICTIONAL STORY OF A MATCH BETWEEN MORPHY AND FISCHER. IT LASTED A THOUSAND GAMES AND WAS DRAWN! THOSE TWO WERE THE GREATEST CHESS PLAYERS OF ALL TIME. THANKS FOR THE MEMORIES.

    BLESSINGS ON EVERYONE.

    AND FROM THE SWAMPS OF LOUISIANA, A LOUD “WAR EAGLE!”

  18. Jerry in Fl Avatar
    Jerry in Fl

    I’m reading a book (fictional) about the American revolution. I can’t wait to see how it turns out. The name of the book is Two Crowns for America.

  19. Ruth Anne in Winter Park Avatar
    Ruth Anne in Winter Park

    Debbe: Try the link to Biddy Ditty on her website – http://www.magdahiller.com/music.html It may help to know that the names of the chickens are Straight Comb Biddy, Little Itty Biddy, Floppy Comb Biddy, and Big Red Biddy.

  20. Ghost Rider 6 Avatar
    Ghost Rider 6

    Debbe 😉 Umm. Black stilettos. Not that there is anything kinky about them, of course. I just like a woman in black stilettos. Along with an orange string bikini. Well, OK, perhaps a little kinky. 😉

    Speaking of kinky, it’s hard to believe it’s almost time for your Dance of the Seven Zippers™ to commence again. Is your new handwear black and opera glove length? 🙂

  21. Trapper Jean Avatar
    Trapper Jean

    I’ve never been able to get the hang of chess, but I’m a heck of a checkers player! I learned from my Dad, who was deadly. What my first husband never understood was that checkers can be just as much a game of strategy as chess. Or he just got mad and refused to play with me because I could beat him at checkers. 😉

    And as to chicken songs, I present this one from my favorite local Celtic band Emerald Rose. I wanted to post the video made at Dragon*Con a couple of years ago so you could actually see the band, but there was so much background noise the lead singer could barely be heard.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KVgcRn9wojk

  22. sandcastler™ Avatar
    sandcastler™

    Paranoid Sunday.

  23. Ghost Rider 6 Avatar
    Ghost Rider 6

    Giada did a holiday-party prep show today on The Food Network. I still swear she has down-sized her ornaments from previous years.