Another old classic (a redundancy in the lingo of reruns) from 1996. Today’s cartoon, as was yesterday’s, was taken from the also-rans for my book, Beaucoup Arlo & Janis. They made the short list of cartoons to be included in the anthology but did not make the final cut because of space considerations. So, they were acceptable cartoons in my estimation, and you’ll almost certainly see them in the upcoming book, Pretty Good Arlo & Janis. Just don’t hold your breath.
The King of Hearts Extolled the Tarts
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104 responses to “The King of Hearts Extolled the Tarts”
Jackie, Chuggington? Don’t know that one. We watched quite a lot of Thomas the Tank Engine in our house.
Ghost, thanks! I’ve always loved Layla.
Debbe, I get it. As much as I love animals I could not work in a shelter. I would end up taking all of the animals home.
I didn’t go to my high school prom. There’s a long story behind it, but the short version is that I didn’t like any of the boys enough to go out with, and they wouldn’t have asked me anyway because I was taller than the captain of the basketball team.
Debbe 😉 Eccentric because you care? I don’t think so. But despite Jean’s comment, no, you cannot take 75,000 hens home with you. And you are correct about today’s prom dresses…perhaps one of those is what made Janis feel she looked like a tart. I had to look up “banana curls”. And I won’t say what I pictured before I looked that up. 🙂 But I’ll bet you looked cute.
Jean 😉 But then there was college, right? Which I’m pretty sure you found a hell of a lot more fun than a prom. 🙂
Yes, I remember my prom dates, junior year and senior year. More to the point, I wonder if they remember me.
Debbe 😉 Here’s a little “I’m-finally-off-work-and-think-I’ll-have-an-adult-beverage-or-six-and-kick-back” music for you.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJLxuqJO8zo
Ghost, none of the hookers around here would ever wear a long-sleeved top. Maybe a bomber jacket in some foul shade of neon. The skirt was cute. but I would never wear heels that high with it. Actually, I almost never wear heels taller than 2″, because I hate the way you have to walk in them. Or I have to walk in them, anyway. I usually walk in a swinging stride and taking those little mincing steps seems silly.
Oh, yeah, I remember my senior prom. Cerise satin short off the shoulder ball gown and white pattern stockings. I don’t think the guy was happy with me, he never asked me out again. I was tired and I wanted to go home, not neck in the park.
Should anyone other than me have a two year old to entertain, Chuggington trains are far more interesting than Thomas. For one thing, they get in more trouble than the Duck Dynasty reality t.v. guys, but with better morality/virtue lessons. Popular in England and around the world, they are shown on Disney in America and dubbed into dozens of languages. Animation is excellent actually but not done by Disney?
Since I have memorized most of the video scripts by now, watching them in Russian is sort of mesmerizing.
Yep, having a 93 year old mother and a two year old grandson, plus his mom in residence (she is ramrodding her dad’s chemo treatment) is a trip and a half. I am living in back apartment with my mom and four cats and four dogs. Scattered around since they don’t all like each other (dogs)
I will confess to coming into work late one lunch hour and announcing to entire office that I had just been arrested for streetwalking on Canal Street! One of my co-workers dryly said she wondered how I could afford to dress so well on an intern’s pay! (I meant I’d been ticketed for jaywalking!)
Love, Jackie Monies (Who still tries to check in here!)
I like high heels (as in “I enjoy seeing some women wear high heels with a reasonably short skirt”), but I’m not partial to the thick-soled ones the young lady is wearing with her short skirt. They don’t strike me as tasteful, and I call ’em “hooker heels”.
I’m surprised no one has asked if I’ve seen today’s “nightmare” strip. (Although I’m sure Mindy would have, if she were still speaking to me.) I have, and as usual, they can’t quite agree on what it all means over on The Dark Side. Myself, I believe Arlo is using the generic “you”, not a Janis-specific “you”, and that if Janis had been featured in his dream, he would not have dodged the question.
Jackie, jaywalking on Canal may be a crime, but apparently streetwalking there is not. At least not judging by my last visit there. 😉
Ghost, I don’t wear augmented soles (“platforms” some call them). I think they are vulgar and tacky. But I sure see them at the stores and being worn in malls, by well dressed women. I have a friend my height who wears them, because they make her look taller. But she dates and I don’t. I’m short and I am not ashamed of it, as the mirror tells me I look okay. Why try and be something you are not?
Yeah, I left the dark side alone today. I took it that Arlo was having an erotic dream, and not about Janis. (My reading tells me men almost never have erotic dreams about women they are “with”. Me, I have an occasional kiss, but when I am naked in dreams, I am embarrassed by it.
GR 😉 thanks for the LZ link…… 😉
I had been in such a funk…..I forgot it’s Derby Day….love thoroughbred racing…in my early twenties I worked at a couple of tracks (one was in Homestead, FL and then Ellis Park around Evansville) hot walking horses early in the morning…after they had been for their morning runs….interesting stories to tell….for another day. AND I’m off….be nice to see the woman on the gray one win (have to pull up the line-up). Just now started watching the “prepping up” on NBC. Just don’t get the hats these women wear….kind of like ‘platform heels’…..don’t like. Give me a black Fedora (which I do own) any day 😉
Thanks Jean….thanks for caring. Do you watch much Animal Planet? Love the “Too Cute” series…….
Jackie….gotta love your patience….a two year old and a 93 year old mother and 8 four legged pets…God bless you.
later……………………………………………
Nah, Lily, five two ain’t exactly Lilliputian. (No pun intended.) And neither is your nose too long.
Ghost, back in the 60’s when I was young, there was a stretch of Canal Street that was kept “upscale” with expensive department stores, hotels. Ladies wore hats, gloves and matching shoes and purses, suits. They kept the “undesirables” down the street below certain blocks, more of less, but I suppose the expensive hookers could pass for ladies?
Sadly, New Orleans probably doesn’t have much upscale anything left now. I have not been back since before Katrina, I know I would cry too much. I feel the same way about Gulf Port and Biloxi, the coast. I had finally recovered enough to enjoy it again when Katrina wiped it out again. For those not as ancient as I, there were other devastating hurricanes that took out the Gulf Coast. I made mistake of visiting coast since Katrina to spend some money which they needed and I cried and cried.
By the way, I thought Ludwig biting Arlo’s nose was hilarious, as I have had both cats and dogs nip mine while being affectionate. Just like a man!
Love, Jackie Monies
Jackie, being fortunate enough to have a lady friend who owned a condo there back in the day, I spent a good bit of time in Biloxi, pre-Katrina. I don’t get back there as often now, and yes, it is sad to see, in some regards. But it’s still “the Coast” in many ways.
Ghost, I have spent many hours looking at my nose, and I blame my Cherokee great-Grandmother
Jackie, my favorite man went to Tulane in the 60s, and I have spent a lot of time with him in the kitchen, where he is teaching me to cook. My favorite story is that when a Tulane man back then took a young lady out on the town, he put two dimes in the slits in his penny loafers, so if he ran out of money (muggers didn’t seem to exist back then) he would have the fare to take him and his date home on the last streetcar.
Lily, I had not heard the “penny loafers” Tulane story. Tell him hello for me, it is amazingly true but men in New Orleans can COOK. The joke is New Orleanians are either eating, cooking, planning the next meal or talking about the ones they have eaten or will eat.
We lived in Garden District sort of across from Tulane and most entertaining involved food and beverage. We gave a birthday party for my one year old daughter that involved a party for the children, a second party for the parents and a third party for the nannies or maids.
All parties for adults whether in morning, afternoon or night involved alcoholic refreshments. even children’s BD events.
Since we were seriously in the wine industry then, we had a good supply from the best slopes of the vineyard!
I still miss New Orleans.
Love, Jackie Monies
Woohoo!!!!!….3 of the 4 horses I picked came in…sadly, Rosie came in 19th (the grey horse)….sure would be nice to see another Cinderella story with California Chrome…..mother bought for eight thousand and stud fees were two thousand…..he came in first…..they are absolutely beautiful to watch in the morning hours….the sun rising the only horse on the track running against the morning……miss those days….
Never been to New Orleans, Jackie…..but one should see the rolling hills of Lexington, KY…and the horses….white fences…and the quiet sound and smell of…..thoroughbred horses….
Manana…….
Debbe- You and I share something here, loving horses. When I went to boarding school I learned to ride English and we rode hunters and jumpers. So, when I went to ag school for my second degree I actually knew how to ride well, as opposed to a lot of the “cowboys” in school. There was a huge development in south Louisiana about then of race horses and show horses, what with all the oil money pouring in. So, I got to ride and exercise (for no pay) a lot of very valuable horse flesh. Horses I knew I could never touch any other way, but they are wonderful, wonderful if they trust you. They love their humans too.
Have to stop this and go feed and clean dogs and cats. This afternoon is too much remembering of things best not yearned for.
Love, Jackie Monies
Debbe 😉 Put New Orleans on your bucket list, hon. It’s definitely worth seeing at least once.
Jackie, I had a wine question for you, but after seeing your last post, perhaps some other time. Hugs.
Jackie, my friend is the best nonprofessional chef I know of. When we go to New Orleans, the French Market is always high on our list of places to visit. Wonderful veggies, baked goods, and great huge prawns and shrimp that he has mailed the morning of our departure packed in ice and we enjoy the next few days. Oysters ditto, Funny when I moved in here, I couldn’t cook a lick. My mother just heats things up, apart from a very few simple things (but I have since learned that a “simple roast chicken” can be so very much better!) Others may visit NO for the booze, the strippers, and the music. For us it is always about the food.
I guess I never realized it was anything but the food myself! We were a group of “foodies” before the word had been invented, a mixture of amateurs and professionals and want-a-be’s. all cooking and chewing and drinking good wine. Fun way to make a living, chefs, some management people, lots of “amateurs with talent”. The only strippers I saw were the ones where the door was open when I walked home to the Quarter but the music and parades were hard to miss. Then we left the Quarter when crime got bad and went to Garden District where crime followed, of course.
I cried for two years when we got sent to Texas and Houston. New Orleans has a life unlike anywhere else I know of. Then I wouldn’t leave Houston for six months to come to Oklahoma until Mike said he’d divorce me if I didn’t move!
Love, Jackie Monies
Don’t know Chuggington, but I spent a couple of hours with Hank the Tank today. See the Video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SAbaFOnBxdg
“Hank the Tank” is the train, right? Where does it run? We have one in Fort Smith, Arkansas that we plan to take the little train nut on. His mother has been on more than she can remember but that was because we did that sort of stuff. Now I am looking for trips on trains for Jack, the grandson. Here I am at 70 when most people have great-grandchildren with a 2 year old! Regular grandson. My daughters say we all started late!
Love, Jackie Monies
Debbe, no, I don’t watch Animal Planet. My sister says I watch “murder porn”-NCIS, CSI, Criminal Minds, you get the drift. It’s entertainment.
I got to New Orleans late, and I loved it, but haven’t been back since Katrina. Bourbon Street is great fun, but I particularly liked sitting at Cafe du Monde and just watching the people go by.
Ghost, yes, and then there was college!
Jackie, you’re right, Hank is the nickname for number 75. The father and son in the video have bought and restored 4 of those small saddletank engines now. They travel around the country to demonstrate steam engine operations to people who would not see one anywhere else. They go to various railroad museums, having the engines hauled on flatbed semi-trucks. This weekend and next number 75 is at the Heart of Dixie Railroad Museum in Calera, Alabama. It was about 140 mile roundtrip for me but I wanted to see this one run.
http://www.haveenginewilltravel.com/
Good morning Villagers….
My son loved to watch Thomas the Tank…..and if I remember correctly, George Carlin and Ringo Starr portrayed the conductor….miss old George, loved his humor….loved his version of Snow White and the Seven Dwrafs
Jackie….every other weekend, my nephew-in-law (who is living with us and works too at the hen houses) gets his daughter Brooklyn Rose who is six years old. He returned last night from her first tap dance recital with video footage….she will probably be the closest way I’ll ever get to play “Grandma”…I look forward to those weekends….
Jean….around here, it’s the Investigative Discovery Channel….my husband and brother-in-law are glued to it (and yes, my brother-in-law has returned for another stay, his house is not livable)…..I actually got them to watch a movie on the Sundance Channel….”Blood Diamond”…with Leonardo DiCaprio….excellent movie….makes me never to want to wear a diamond.
Not working today…my son said no way I was working 13 straight days….going in early to see my Mom…..
later………..
GR 😉 ….I cannot remember why Mindy has stopped posting….do you?
…..food morning Mindy…if you’re still reading the Village Blog 🙂