This oldie is from 2003. I was experimenting yet again with Janis’ hair, trying to come up with a cartoonish, stylized ‘do. Apparently I haven’t succeeded yet. I regularly get email asking, “What’s with Janis’ hair!?” I am at a loss as to what the writers mean, and they rarely elaborate, but it seems to agitate them greatly. It’s cartoon hair! I think they just remember her hair from the early days when it was long and prefer that. In my opinion, it looked pretty weird back then, too, but for some reason no one ever complain back then.
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Janis’s hair is fine as is now.
Pelicans, ring-billed gulls, geese, terns [cannot tell which.}
https://explore.org/livecams/raptor-resource-project/mississippi-river-flyway-cam
Arrrh, matey, don’t miss the opportunity to talk like a pirate for today is “Talk Like a Pirate Day”
Avast Ye, here be some help:
https://www.piratevoyages.com/pirate-lingo/
Drat, I hate it when a new browser doesn’t remember me!
I can remember occasions when Janis apparently turned the air blue around her over something Arlo did. This may well have been another one.
OK, I’ll play.
Arrr! Give up yer booty, me buxom beauty!
I love this one! I mean, I really love this one!!!
What do you get when you cross a pirate with a zucchini?
A squash buckler.
I don’t get it, Texas Jack. What does that have to do with Talk like a Pilot Day?
I didn’t start reading A&J until Janis’s hair was pretty much the way it is today. (I retired and had time for comics.) For a long time, I thought she was always wearing a hat. It was very distracting, but I loved everything else about the strip. I still have a hard time seeing a hairdo, but I’m used to it now and don’t focus on her hair anymore. If you were going to change it, I’d vote for just smoothing the sharp points.
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Today’s retro makes me think of something else. Anybody else notice that when sitting on the couch, Arlo is the first to go to sleep while Janis stays awake? Then when they go to bed, Arlo sits up watching tv while Janis zones out. Quit sleeping on the couch, Arlo, and then maybe you’ll both go to sleep at the same time.
I’ve never owned a drone, but I’m sure I’d find another way to get rid of wasps/hornets:
https://www.ksl.com/article/46393504/have-you-seen-this-maybe-not-the-best-way-to-remove-a-wasp-nest
Where are the drones?
There ought to be drones.
Send in the drones.
Don’t bother … they’re here
That’s funny, Rick and Desiree.
TruckerRon, there might be better ways, but I guess the guy had fun doing it with his toy. At least it kept him out of reach of the stingers. And having tangled with a yellowjacket nest, I can say that is a huge plus.
Mark:
Thanks!
Trains have been a frequent topic here, so I thought that I should offer this cam site:
https://railstream.net/live-cameras/item/chesterton-in-west-free
About 75 trains a day can be seen, along with seeing drivers take ridiculous chances by driving around the barriers so that they don’t have to wait for the trains to pass.
Ah, to be young and crazy again…
https://speedsociety.com/worlds-largest-slip-and-slide-out-of-an-airplane/
Kenya, mom & child, I think.
https://explore.org/livecams/african-wildlife/african-river-wildlife-camera
Peace,
Apparently a herd in the area. This is one of 4 sites; scroll down.
https://explore.org/livecams/african-wildlife/african-animal-lookout-camera
Same crowd as yesterday on the Miss. R., SE MN. Loon fishing in background.
https://explore.org/livecams/raptor-resource-project/mississippi-river-flyway-cam
Tulsa vs Temple, har-de-har!
Some things you don’t want cooked rare!
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I thought that Arlo was trying to whisper his request in her ear to control her mind.
In regards to her hair, I did not care much for it in the old days, but find it acceptable now.
However Arlo’s hair and nose…..
The Temple Owls are favored over the Tulsa Golden Hurricane. One would not think an owl would stand much of a chance against a hurricane, would one?
Wondering when Tulsa last had a hurricane come visit. And also what made it gold in color.
Probably the same thing that made the Golden Driller golden, Ghost.
The bear whisked through.
Bird of Prey Passes Big Wind
Final:
Temple Owls 31
Tulsa Golden Hurricane 17
The score was actually tied 7-7 at the beginning of the second quarter. Arlo had probably already consumed all the comestibles and dozed off by then.
A sign of the End Times occurred last night.
The Browns won.
Should have known better than to think that was Ivy League football. Have no idea what Brown’s standing is there, nor Cornell’s, for that matter. Today, etting admitted to either school is not a breeze, nor to the other 6.
Peace,
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Arlo: “Well, duh, Janis. You’ve ‘progressed’ from the storied yellow bikini to a ‘flack jacket’ swimsuit to a ‘swim dress’.”
Funny article from Alabama newspaper website: https://www.al.com/news/index.ssf/2018/09/alabamas_best_ever_mascot_name.html
Good one, Mark!
book mark / bear track
In my younger, wilder (OK, military) days, we actually would celebrate the Autumnal Equinox much the same way we did New Year’s. We’d sit outside and toast every leaf that fell.
Yeah, pretty much any excuse would do.
These prairie dogs have obviously been putting on wt. for the winter.
https://explore.org/livecams/bison/plains-bison-grasslands-national-park-cam-1
Peace,
More fun with physics:
https://www.ksl.com/article/46395098/have-you-seen-this-this-aint-your-childhood-marble-run
Looks easy when the quarterbacks do it, eh, Arlo?
There will be no speculation on my part as to whether that makes Janis the “tight end” in the family. You’re welcome.
It isn’t worried about them, and they aren’t worried about it. Edenic.
https://explore.org/livecams/raptor-resource-project/mississippi-river-flyway-cam
Peace,
That’s presumably a parent and two offspring. They’re just as big, but won’t go “bald” for 3 yr. All 3 waiting to scavenge any migrating waterfowl that happen to die on/near the dammed Miss. R., SE of the Cities.
https://explore.org/livecams/raptor-resource-project/mississippi-river-flyway-cam
Peace,
Well, the eagles have been replaced by pelicans, but here’s today’s “Shoe.” I guess “When in Rome, do as the Romans do”, is enforceable.
https://www.gocomics.com/shoe/2018/09/24
Peace,
Bear track
Thanks for the marble run TR
eMb: yesterday, 6:24pm: what was “it”?
Perhaps he knew this comic strip was coming?
http://hubriscomics.com/comic/hubris-it-girl/
c x-p: “It” was a full-sized immature [= brown] bald eagle, perched on a stump in shallow Miss. R. water, surrounded by unconcerned white pelicans, gulls, and terns, hence “Edenic.” Later saw an adult lone eagle* and 2 immatures perched in a similar area. Not “he” or “she” because only obvious sexual dimorphism = females average larger, as in many buzzards, hawks, and falcons.
*Be interesting to know how many Villagers know the reference.
Peace,
emb: Charles Lindberg (sp?)
Charlotte, you beat me to it! There’s also a movie from 1927 by that name about a Great War pilot.
Last Sunday evening, thanks to a cooperative chap in Germany (who helps run a great site), I learned of four new-to-me ancestors and the fact that they were, indeed, related to me. Yesterday I found a different but similar chap, and today found another twenty-six hitherto-unknown-to-me ancestors!
Considering all the ancillary data provided [names/dates/places/events] I shall be busy for quite a while listing them all on my tree.
One line now goes back to 1580. I’d really like to find the line which bears the family name….
Just a note since I am awake with insomnia. Many of you are Facebook friends and already know my metastatic breast cancer was metastatic when diagnosed in 2017. It has again metastasized and is now in my left long leg bone.
We begin treatment this week or so to try and slow it down. It cannot be cured but can be slowed. Ghost doesn’t like this because he thinks I should be the one exception to that statement..
Don’t know yet what treatment will be tried i am on hormone modifying medications for last two months that has caused menopause symptoms for third time in my life. Hot flashes and sleep disorders.
Jackie, First only because I’m up early [volunteer day at Sanford Health]. Thoughts and prayers, and gratitude to Ghost. Peace,
Jackie, prayers. Doctors don’t know everything. After all, it wasn’t long ago that one of yours told you the tests said you shouldn’t be able to walk. But you walked in and walked out of his office, didn’t you?