The good Lord willing and the Creeks don’t rise, I’ll be in Chattanooga when the sun goes down today. Have you ever heard that expression? (Southerners, be quiet and sit on your hands for this one.) I’ve heard it most of my life, and of course I first assumed it meant, If providence allows and the roads don’t flood. I have since learned an alternative version. “Creeks” refers to the Creek Indians, a dominant eastern tribe when European settlers appeared in North America. That’s probably correct; it makes sense. Not far from where I was born in Alabama is Horseshoe Bend on the Tallapoosa River. There, in 1814, Andrew Jackson and an army of Tennesseans attacked a fortified Creek village during the climactic battle to subdue the Creeks in Alabama after years of skirmishes. The source of all this friction was, of course, a desperate attempt by the Indians to hang on to their natural-born place in this world. It didn’t work. More Native Americans died in battle on that day than on any other day during all the 19th Century Indian wars. From there, Jackson and his bunch marched to New Orleans, but that’s another history lesson. And Chattanooga? Well, we’re out of time.
207 responses to “The Sound of Music”
Blatantly political was damned funny emb so thank you for pointing it out. I love Opus.
Titillating and hope for us all, even penguins with mackerel breath to be sexy!
Funny, Hal wrote pussy. I had to change it. Crazy cat lady.
High winds, heavy rain, lightning, power going off and on.
emb, Mallard Fillmore is on the King Features site. Comics Kingdom, I think it’s called. Along with other favorites that GoComics hasn’t acquired yet.
And Mother Goose and Grimm is at Grimmy.com
Stay safe, Jerry.
I feel so crummy I may have to resort to taking one of those Dangerous Narcotic Benadryl™ tablets.
If so (and since I have no HAL on which to blame it), I decline responsibility for anything I may post during the next 12 hours.
Ref the 1981 Bloom County cartoon, when Earl Butz was the Secretary of Agriculture he told the story of how he arrived at work one day to find over a hundred civil servants standing on the steps of the Dept of Ag building, wailing and crying. “What’s wrong?” he asked.
“Our farmer died,” one of them sobbed.
Will Rogers famously said, “It’s a good thing we don’t get all the government we pay for.” He might be surprised if he were still around today.
In the middle of the day it looks like night outside although it is relatively calm right now.
Yep, comicskingdom.com gets different set of ‘toons.
“Not my circus, not my monkeys. Oh, crap! Those ARE my monkeys!”
I goofed. ‘Doonesbury 2017 is blatantly political, so don’t go there.’ should be ‘ “Bloom County 2017” is blatantly political, so don’t go there.’ Doonesbury is almost always political, as is Mallard Fillmore.
Peace,
Steve,
Sorry for the crisis with your brother-in-law. Problems while traveling are always magnified and this would be very major even at home.
Political but oh so funny. Of course one MUST enjoy political cartoons to find them funny. I also find religious cartoons to be hilarious, especially when drawn by political cartoonists.
I have always thought the cartoon sitcom King of the Hill did both with no malice and no specific agenda. The one where Bobby Hill stole all the gefliette fish at the Methodist Church social, ate it resulting in horrible smelly excretion, burned matches to hide evidence and burned church down in process was just awesome.
Oh, Sally Fields did voice over on the woman female pastor who had come to Texas from upper Michigan to fill the ministers position, bringing the gefliette fish recipe thought the stolen fish dish and subsequent burning of church was directed at her for being a female ordained minister, making the one plot both political and religious and maybe even anti upper Michigan too.
Great show!!
From my Dangerous Narcotic Benadryl™ addled brain: Mandrake the Magician gestures hypnotically and Nadia, his lovely and already skimpily-dressed stage assistant slowly begins to…quack like a duck.
Non-political and funny: https://comicskingdom.com/barney-google-and-snuffy-smith/2017-04-03
And so’s this one: https://comicskingdom.com/mother-goose-grimm/2017-03-31
Having red polish done for my fingers and toes at salon. Manicure and pedicure for gypsy loose woman who tells fortunes and steals your wallet while charming you with hypnotic movements to divert your attention elsewhere.
Sandals need red toes as do those moving fingers.
Jackie, you really need to tell your spelling checker how to spell “Gefilte fish.”
My Dangerous Narcotic Benadryl™ addled brain reminds me I always wanted one of these t-shirts.
https://img0.etsystatic.com/024/1/9060607/il_340x270.565135774_ijqm.jpg
Sideburns, my apologies! Wrong episode of King of the Hill too.
Bobby ate all the lutefisk at the Methodist Church social when he burned the church down with matches in bathroom.
He ate the gefilte fish in the episode when he hung out at Jewish delicatessen and ate so many purines he developed gout in his big toe and got issued a handicapped scooter to use in school because he couldn’t walk.
That boy would eat anything. I put both dishes in Hal now.
For the Ghost to enjoy while his brain is addled by Dangerous Narcotic Benadryl™ .
https://youtu.be/ZtbouY3fw9E
Here’s the Queen of synchronized swimming, Esther Williams and a bevy of underwater pole dancers for Ghost to enjoy.
https://youtu.be/xYW64moSLKg
People just loved these in the 1950s when Esther Williams ruled but I found them going back to 1930s on film. Somethings just remain classic.
Skimpy costumes and beautiful athletic women. I bet Roman’s or the Pharaohs invented synchronized swimming as entertainment.
https://youtu.be/FRqcZcrgPaU
The strip of 04.04.17 hits close to home because, even though my health is great right now, I know that I am far closer to a cane and then a walker than I am ever to running a half-marathon all the way.
Years ago, I realized the truth: Gray hair makes a man look extinguished.