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The Naked Truth

By Jimmy Johnson

I said I would discuss an upcoming sale of A&J stuff, and so I shall. I am involved in a project, so involved, in fact, that I have lost a thumbnail and maybe chipped a bone in my hand. I’ll get into specifics of the project itself in coming days, but like most projects it will require more than blood, sweat and tears. I was going to contribute in my usual way, hit you up for money via an auction or sale of original art. Then, I began thinking: we’re well into the 21st Century. I thought I might try a Kickstarter campaign. Many of you will know what I’m talking about; those who don’t may go to kickstarter.com for a quick primer. I really don’t know a lot about it myself, but it will be a learning experience for us all. One advantage will be a range of A&J “rewards,” as they’re called, some much less expensive than others. I hope it will be fun. Stay tuned.

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50 responses to “The Naked Truth”

  1. TruckerRon Avatar

    Here’s a favorite fan-service bit for Whovians:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-8I9z6Y4mBY

  2. Ghost Rider 6 Avatar
    Ghost Rider 6

    Jackie, five tools or things to float off an island?

    1. Satellite phone
    2. Credit card

    Call Amazon; order boat to be delivered.

  3.  Avatar
    Anonymous

    I just drove in from exercise and am out in truck still. Ghost, you are as funny as the “bikini, tee shirt, purse, credit card and tooth brush” packing list I got last year with “knickers in pocket.”

    No, you’d probably get off an island. What’s your packing list?

    It is hot and I am ready to bail to Almost Canada.

  4. Ghost Rider 6 Avatar
    Ghost Rider 6

    Jackie, my packing list would be one forty-five caliber automatic; two boxes of ammunition; four days’ concentrated emergency rations; one drug issue containing antibiotics, morphine, vitamin pills, pep pills, sleeping pills, tranquilizer pills; one miniature combination Russian phrase book and Bible; one hundred dollars in rubles; one hundred dollars in gold; nine packs of chewing gum; one issue of prophylactics; three lipsticks; three pair of nylon stockings.

    A fella could have a pretty good weekend in Vegas with all that stuff.

  5.  Avatar
    Anonymous

    Just finishing dinner. Grapes, cheese, woven wheat crackers and fat free honey ham. Dog ate part. Having a Greek yogurt for dessert. Taking bath and going to bed.

    Have to take van in for 100,000 mile service and put in body shop for scrapes and dings. Need someone to drive it so I can take truck. They will keep van awhile

    Getting addicted to exercise again. I do that, love how I feel.

  6.  Avatar
    Anonymous

    Vegas? I thought you were offering to drive me somewhere scenic? And what would I do with most of that list? It sounds like you are heading deeper into mountains than a Ford pickup can go! Mountain survival?

    Or we could rob a casino but personally I think you could rob one closer to Mississippi. Surely the casinos are back?

  7. Old Bear Avatar
    Old Bear

    GM Debbe
    From another site:
    β€œLife is hard. Then you die. Then they throw dirt in your face. Then the worms eat you. Be grateful it happens in that order.”

  8.  Avatar
    Anonymous

    Went back and reread list, Ghost. Just the clothes on your finely honed and trained body?

  9. Ghost Rider 6 Avatar
    Ghost Rider 6

    And remember, there was a character named “Col. Bat Guano”.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vPwW7RaPO_g

  10. Ghost Rider 6 Avatar
    Ghost Rider 6

    Debbe πŸ˜‰ You were probably still wearing a training bra back then, weren’t you? πŸ˜‰

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i8O6tEYKNRM

  11.  Avatar
    Anonymous

    And what was it training for?

  12. TruckerRon Avatar

    Ghost, I knew you packing list sounded familiar… I last saw that film at a drive-in theater in Memphis around 1965, so I’d have been maybe 12?

  13.  Avatar
    Anonymous

    Trucker I saw it back when made and all I remember was Slim Pickens riding that bomb down. If I saw it at a drive in that would explain poor memory of content. I saw Ben Hur at drive in and all I saw was the chariot race.

    However, I remember to this day who I was with at that movie. Since he is alive and a pillar of respectability, as well as past board member and CEO of some legendary companies I will say no more. It was a memorable movie.

    Kubrick did some outrageous things. Funny, reading about Strangelove brought back memories of others.

  14.  Avatar
    Anonymous

    Morning Debbe. I am getting that wanderlust again with this heat, wanting to leave
    for cooler climes. Or maybe it’s just lust.

    Cannot imagine what you do in heat. It makes me feel guilty to eat an egg.

  15. Mark in TTown Avatar
    Mark in TTown

    Ghost, that is one of those movies that I end up watching all the way through, whenever I happen to run across it on tv. And Peter Sellers was great in his 3 roles in it.

    Everybody try to stay cool, and if you can’t do that, stay hydrated.

  16. Mark in TTown Avatar
    Mark in TTown

    Luddie is enjoying the attentions of Arlo rubbing his neck. Then notices an unusual odor and turns to stare at Arlo. Arlo is holding an applicator of one of those back of the neck flea repellers, which he has just rubbed in. Too late for Luddie to run from it.

  17. Llee Avatar

    oh, right…it was Indiegogo for the Geeks….. but the saving for A&J has started πŸ™‚

  18. Ghost Rider 6 Avatar
    Ghost Rider 6

    What was the training bra in training for, Jackie?

    Why for push-ups, of course.

  19. Llee Avatar

    πŸ™‚ You lot are funny! πŸ™‚

  20. Llee Avatar

    “second sound heard from colliding black holes…”

    OWWWWWWWWW!

    ok I will go away now,,it was just too hard to resist! πŸ™‚

  21.  Avatar
    Anonymous

    Llee, I consider Ghost and I to be the comic rElie part of the Village to help Jimmy maintain the reputation for A and J of an adult strip with innuendo. Someone has to accept the responsibility and step up.

    Just woke up so I am not cognizant enough to match wits with the Ghost half asleep. Left myself wide open for him to score.

  22. David in Austin Avatar
    David in Austin

    To keep up with innuendo and somewhat recent news, there is no scoring while anyone is half-asleep or unconscious.

    Causes of Rape:

    Slutty Clothes–0.00%
    Alcohol———0.00%
    Television——0.00%
    Minorities——-0.00%
    Weather——–0.00%
    Rapists——-100.00%

    No means no, and there is no “implied” consent when one is unable to respond.

  23. TruckerRon Avatar

    How about a video parody featuring Disney-owned characters and the town I live in?

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

  24. TruckerRon Avatar

    David, I saw a similar one regarding terrorist attacks, with the terrorist scoring 100%.