I’m throwing in the final four map cartoons from 2000, because I think the seamless conversation within is interesting. It’s like a comic book page. The astute might recognize the joke in the second strip as one I used again just last week, in a different context. I don’t do such things deliberately, but after 30 years, it happens. Speaking of that, it is hard to believe I drew the above 15 years ago.
132 responses to “The Map All Over”
Mindy from Indy
John Connor was pulling our leg – ref. Very Tiny discussions and a certain movie.
Mark – I actually have birth/death, and so forth, up to a point. A child was indentured to the family in 1863. I have a copy of this document. What we are trying to find is the child’s birth family and the correct family he was indentured to. I am a descendant of this child. He stayed with his “adopted” family, and ultimately changed his name – which just so happened to be the same name as his adopted father. And they both were married to Elizabeths.
Old Bear – I gathered as much, but I had to play along. Especially with my ancestry woes.
Mark – I am originally from Fort Wayne. The library there is quite good, and that is where we were Monday.
Mindy
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@ Ruth Anne in Winter Park. Greetings from WF9V. I hope your Dad enjoyed getting on the radio as much as I do now. Jaws do drop when people see the whole wall covered with a map of the world. They immediately want to look for countries they may have visited or plan to visit, then the stories start.
Mindy from Indy, as to the indentured child, seems like courthouse records would be the place to follow that. Did he change his full name, or only the surname to match the new family? If you want me to help look, give me the name/dates by message on FB.
I’m sorry, but the only Fort Wayne I know of is in Indiana. Is that the one you meant?
Mindy from Indy, have you tried this website?
http://www.indgensoc.org/membersonly/county/index.php
See “Loose Parts” comic for October 15th for a fairly clever bit of humor, especially for music lovers.
Good morning Villagers….
And it’s a ‘balmy’ 34 degrees outside now. Arrrgggh!!!! Called hen house and it’s 61 degrees there, still need to shut more fans down and close windows more as temp tonight is 28 degrees. Soon I’ll be dragging out my Carharts….zippidy do da zip!
Indy Mindy, wondered where you had been all week, it was so nice of you to spend time with your grandmother. And heh, thanks for playing “Terminator” with me……when I saw the name and the mention of some sort of celestial map, and John Connor said “don’t tell my mom”….I ran with it 🙂
Old Bear, you’re pretty clever too! I had a stray cat show up a couple of weeks ago, and I will not let it in the house. It sleeps in the barn and hangs around the porch for food. You can tell it was a people cat, she’s very friendly. I’ll feed it this winter and it can stay in the barn.
GR 😉 that was some kind of map….I didn’t dare get out my magnifying glass I keep here beside the computer. You catching up on sleep? A new poster, named Susie, left you a message at the end of “Very Tiny” thread. Susie, why does that ring a bell with me?
Jerry…..now you’ve gone MIA…..what the heh???
Indy Mindy, the morning skies are very brilliant this time of the year too.
gotta go..
happy Caturday everyone
Dang it, GR 😉 I’ve lost my copy and paste touch….will work on that later….but it’s a beautiful morning……
No problem with LOL’s
love this one 🙂
https://i.chzbgr.com/full/8573721088/h33828BFA/
I am in Texas, God’s country. Party went great, no one recognized me that hadn’t seen me in June with the huge change in appearance.
Credit card company shut my card down as stolen because I was buying over $600 worth of beer on an island in Texas. It was a good party. Love.
Anonymous, if I had a dollar for every time a credit card had been shut down for buying $600 of beer, I’d have enough money to, well, buy $600 dollars of beer. 🙂 BTW, did I miss an explanation during The Last Two Weeks From Hell™ as to why you are still posting as Anonymous? I had thought for a while it had something to do with the new device you were using, but it seems you’d have been able to change that by now if you so desired. I guess it doesn’t matter, since you have become the least anonymous “Anonymous” in the Village.
Why do I get the feeling you’ve decided you’ve “lived” in OK long enough and have decided to “live” in a lot of other places now? Not that there’s anything wrong with that, of course. In fact, good on you. And it sounds as though your diet/exercise regimen is proceeding apace. Good on you, again. Mine suffered a bit during The Last Two Weeks From Hell™ (the exercise part, anyway; by now I don’t have to give the diet part much thought), but I’m head to the gym in a bit to remedy that. Take care.
Debbe… Yes, I remember “Susie”… Surely not!
Debbe 😉 Yes, hon, I did catch up on some sleep last night…some of it by falling asleep in my recliner. (Sound familiar?) That reminds me of the many times I’d stop by to visit my parents in the evening and “catch” my Dad asleep in his in front of the TV. Wish I could still do that. I missed posting your tune last night, so I’ll send you two this evening. I’m thinking one “sweet” and one “down and dirty”. Somehow that seems appropriate for you. 🙂
Hard to believe you’re having temps in the 30s already; seems it was just a month or so ago you were having 90s. Your mention of your Carhartts always makes me picture you walking the aisles and doing your Dance of the Seven Zippers™. 😉
You take care, too. And thanks for the alert about my message from “Susie”; I had not seen that. I may have to give her a shout back; you know I’m a sucker for the ladies. And I don’t think she is That Susie™, who would be a bit too young to remember 25 cent packs of coffin nails.
Hi, Gal! You seem to surviving the new job.
My godson told me this one. Some might say he has spent too much time around me…
Four guys had been going on the same fishing trip for many years. But two days before the group was to leave, Ron’s wife put her foot down and told him he wasn’t going. Ron’s friends were very upset that he couldn’t go, but what could they do?
Two days later the three get to the camp site, only to find Ron sitting there with a tent set up, firewood gathered, and dinner cooking on the fire.
“Ron, how long have you been here, and how did you talk your missus into letting you go?”
“Well, I’ve been here since last night. Yesterday afternoon I was sitting in my chair and my wife came up behind me and put her hands over my eyes and said, ‘Guess who?’
“I pulled her hands off, and she was wearing a brand new and very sheer black nightie. She took my hand and pulled me to our bedroom. The room had candles and rose petals all over. On the bed she had handcuffs, and ropes! She told me to tie her up and cuff her to the bed, so I did. Then she smiled and said, ‘Do whatever you want.’
“And, here I am.”
I can’t help but think that Just Plain Mindy would have enjoyed that joke. I still miss hearing from her. Like many others here, she was fun.
Troubling item: http://www.mprnews.org/story/2015/10/16/npr-dark-secret
At BSU, I knew of only one possible case in biology, and he [of evangelical bent] left shortly for a job in a religiously conservative area of another state, eventually retired [in good standing I think], and died at about 80, much lauded by their alums. Maybe repented and reformed. Local rumors in subjects outside the sciences, maybe some with complaints or consequences. One of two known faculty suicides was supposedly because victim was going to go public.
OTOH, I was offered sex for a grade at least twice in my early career. Nipped that in the bud by ‘incidentally’ referring often to my happily married estate during lectures and in advising sessions in my office, door opened of course. Maybe the offers stopped early on because I was getting less attractive, but wife and I did have a rep as lovebirds. Did close the door on a few occasions, e.g., when a well-loved coed and her boyfriend suggested it so they could tell me they were pregnant. Another pregnant single girl asked me to tell her other instructors. Both of these, and some others went on to fulfilling marriages and careers. Not all confidants work in the counseling office.
As to this being science’s or any other academic discipline’s ‘dark secret’, it’s a pretty open secret that men and women in power sometimes abuse that power. Vulgar cartoon in ‘Playboy’ in the ’80s or so: side view of posh office, executive at his kneehole desk, on phone saying [approx.] “Oh nothing, same old, same old.” Fully clothed hind end of kneeling woman sticking out from the kneehole. Looked more like movie studio exec office than faculty office.
And we haven’t even mentioned the clergy. Father Porter was hail-fellow-well-met youth pastor a few blocks S of our UMC. We didn’t know it at the time, but we’d had our own on board, I believe a few years earlier. Soon as we found out from victim years later, pastor contacted District Superintendent, DS contacted Bishop, B contacted culprit’s current B, culprit lost his ordination. Unfortunately, long past statute of limitations.
Peace, emb
Mindy: the Allen County library is quite good, especially if you are interested in genealogy. I went to Homestead. Did you attend HS in Fort Wayne?
Bob I am WA9URU . I’ve had my license since 1967, when I 10. Not active any more, but used to talk with my Dad I’m Fort Wayne (WA9ALY) when he was still alive. He also worked at WOWO and helped Bob Sievers with his Ham equipment.
Have any of you heard about this mushroom?
http://kutv.com/news/offbeat/scientists-discover-mushroom-that-makes-women-orgasm-just-by-smelling-it
No, but perhaps that would explain why Anonymous once expressed regret about leaving Hawaii.
Reminds me of my “Paint my house joke”. Does anyone have any idea how to post a picture to photo.net? I registered and have spent all morning trying to figure it out. If you can explain it to me like I’m three years old and know nothing about computers. Thanks.
GR6: The Ron in that joke needs to rethink his priorities!
@Steve From Royal Oak, Mi….. Yeah, there’s still a good number us us around especially since the marriage of computers and radios created the digital age on Ham radio. Lots of new faces doing exotic things on the bands these days. Keep your license current, I hope you get active again someday.
I see from her TV show that that Giada is in Italy, again pretending that she is really Italian. However, she doesn’t have to pretend that she can make a low-cut sundress look good. She actually can.
Remember the whiny “my kayak is sinking and I don’t know what to dooooo” guy? This video shows that annoying wimps come in all genders. And also that trying to appeal to a predator’s “better nature” and to “reason” with it may perhaps not be an optimal survival strategy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MI7hNdI94OQ