Welcome to a special Sunday posting of classic Arlo & Janis, from 1994. You might notice something new on the page. I have added the ubiquitous Facebook paraphernalia. No, this isn’t the drastic remake of the Web site I’ve been promising. It’s just the result of fooling around on a Saturday afternoon. Those of you who are Facebook users can now “like” me with a minimum of effort—a distinct improvement my face-to-face friends assure me.
The Hole Story
By Jimmy Johnson
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115 responses to “The Hole Story”
But Jimmy, I like you ALL the time. Which reminds me, I need to order that new copy of Beaucoup because I gave mine to one of my boating friends who is a chicken farmer in North Louisiana and a terribly devout Baptist but loves humor and jokes.
Will you autograph the new copy, please?
Love, Jackie
Please, Jimmy, autograph Jackie’s copy…….from all of us. Thank you.
Jackie, my answers to your questions are at the bottom of yesterday’s posts. Good morning everybody.
P.S. The new copy of the book is for me but I will let Mike read it so don’t make the dedication too risqué’.
That is a joke, guys, I have never, ever gotten to meet JJ even at a book signing, not that I wouldn’t have loved to know him. We went to different schools in different states and worked on totally different collegiate newspapers. And I suspect he is younger than me.
Come to think about it, I never dated anyone I ever worked on a newspaper with? Proximity and familiarity just didn’t survive in all that cigarette smoke. And we seemed too much like “family” I think.
Love, Jackie
Thanks, Mark. I ordered the Mega Emma Peale set with 57 hours of film at an unbelievable cheap price. I wonder what the difference is with the one they wanted $250 for?”
And they offered me the Man From Uncle set in the deluxe briefcase packaging. Well, Big Brother may not be listening/spying on us but Big Amazon seems to be. I have never talked about Man From Uncle with anyone except just now here?
And they offered me a bunch of Chuggington trains set stuff too?
How do they know we need lederhosen?
Love, Jackie
sideburns, it was in the early series of stories about this character: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Craig_Kennedy
The author lived from 1880-1936.
JJ, autograph a copy for Jackie. As you sign it, ask what would Ghost Rider 6 do. 😉
Facebook is to intrusive for me, any plans for the inclusion of Twitters little blue bird in the links? And what about support for emoticons? Emoticons open a rich new dimension in communications. Just saying. 🙂
Don’t do Facebook either and doubt I will, although I do seem willing to say just about anything in print and always have?
I will however buy tee shirts and more cartoons if we have that opportunity. Oh, and another book! Like the outtakes you didn’t put in first Beaucoup, second edition.
Love, Jackie
“on the second day of Christmas,
my Rooster gave to me..
two ‘Priss’s’ cooing”
and a “crowing Rooster in need.”
(not going back to the 1st”
later………………….
Thank you, Jimmy, for the ear-piercing story. In my role as good auntie, I have edited a few of my stories over the last couple of decades when the little pitchers were nearby. Makes me value candid sharing with their parents even more. Now the kids are 15-22 and probably editing their stories when I’m around.
Today’s “Barney and Clyde” took up one of my pet peeves: the “t” in “often”. I am firmly in the “don’t pronounce” camp. How do you feel about it, folks?
On tree decorating subjects, as a “showroom designer” you are supposed to design for sales of products. So one year our boss asked me to do a gardening tree, for which we had absolutely NO PRODUCTS. Not the first time someone has done something that dumb, so I always just invent the products. Within a matter of months, the showroom across the hall was offering and selling my “inventions” but we weren’t!
But the showstopper was the plus sized, voluptuous seated model wearing rubber boots, a foul weather jacket and an umbrella and nothing else, with her legs crossed on a garden bench in a big rain puddle of ribbon roses. Mike said the shoppers would get to the top of the escalator, stop dead and the rest would pile up behind, falling into each other.
I loved doing things like that, so if anyone from a lingerie company would ask I would have done one!
Love, Jackie
OF either revving up or winding down now.
http://www.nps.gov/features/yell/webcam/oldFaithfulStreaming.html
Ah, but Jimmy… will your now using Facebook be the Kiss of Death for Facebook??
As in:
Dr. Evil: Look, I’m cool! I can do the Macarena!
Let me also raise another cheer for the “vintage” cartoons recently… and a big one for this Sunday comic from ’94. Since you have to scan anything prior to ’95 after sifting through the stacks, the effort is appreciated.
There is good stuff in every strata of the A&J archaeological digs, but the fossil record available to us prior to ’95 is sparse compared to the wealth in the Museum of GoComics.
Jackie, here’s a website about the Avengers: http://theavengers.tv/forever/
Also, as today is December 7th: https://www.google.com/maps/place/Pearl+Harbor/@21.3650361,-157.9501397,199m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m2!3m1!1s0x7c0065946253d96b:0x3ccde24ead30ea12
one last one…..been pulling up some Janis also…..what a voice…such a loss.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3GaDMYDw6A
Every December 7 I remember sitting on the floor of my office in Honolulu reading each and every Pearl Harbor file in a giant gray metal filing cabinet. They were the case files for the Federal civilian employees that died or were injured during the Pearl Harbor attack.
No one made me do this, I did it on my own time. Now I wish I had some way to have saved so many of those accounts for a book but in the 1960’s we had no way of copying anything. It would probably (yes) been a crime to do so. So, I sent all the inactive ones off to the Federal archives and kept the active ones where there were living beneficiaries there in the office.
For eight hours a day or more I was immersed in the war in Viet Nam and the thirty plus countries of the Pacific Theater that supported it. Then I’d sit there reading the Pearl Harbor files until I locked the door and went home.
I know that I was the first person to read some of those accounts since the war began.
Love, Jackie
Why, Denise Marie! Whatever would you have done that required “editing”, young lady? 🙂
Re: Pronunciation. Go to Dictionary.com, search for “often”, click on the speaker icon, and listen* to how the program pronounces it. That’s how I pronounce it.
*If anyone disagrees with us, ask them if they also pronounce the “t” in “listen”.
Jackie, I’m happy you read those files. So many stories forgotten; so many stories never known. I had the honor and privilege of knowing two WWII soldiers who survived being Japanese POWs; one of them had to survive the Bataan Death march to even get to a prison camp.
Someone once told me that when an elderly person dies, it is akin to a library being destroyed.
You know my part time yard man/helper is a Viet Nam veteran and was a prisoner of war in Viet Nam. He loves me and is so faithful and sweet. Some times we compare night terrors.
Ghost, I think what people don’t think about or realize is that for every military death or injury we have, we also have civilians who die in wars, either as contract employees, employees of the U.S. government, the military always has civilians. The foreign nationals number in the thousands and thousands, but the U.S.
wars run on American citizens who are not sworn in as military.
Love, Jackie
Silent t.
Jackie, such as the Filipinos who were able to earn US citizenship through service in the Armed Forces. Many were in various support service positions in the US Navy.
I was truly surprised when I pulled up the Google Map of Pearl Harbor a couple of years ago. I had not been there since being transferred to the Oklahoma City in 1976. At the time I was going through the basic firefighter training (required then for any seagoing position) I was assigned to a barracks on Ford Island. No causeway, you had to take a liberty boat to get from the little island to the big island. Lots of time to walk around the island and look at things, and think about what happened there, after duty hours.
And I got to travel by Navy truck on the road through the KoleKole pass while serving at the Wahiawa Naval Station. There was a brush fire at the Naval Ammunition Dump at Lualualei where we also had a smaller communication facility. A call went out for volunteers to help and I went. The ride over the mountain scared me more than the firefighting!