This not-so-old comic strip is from 2014. It is more current than that, however, at least around this house. We’ve had a bit of similar action the past 24 hours or so, with feral and semi-feral cats congregating in nearby underbrush to, judging by the sound of it, disembowel one another with dull switchblades. Our three pampered cats look at one another and then to me, seeking explanation. That’s when we have kitty treats!
66 responses to “The Wild Party”
Charlotte, if I may, there has been some double, triple meaning flying around regarding the initials TR. Without devoting an hour plus to reviewing 200 posts, it can be confusing. Just buckle up, most of us are not worried about misunderstanding. And can clear it up quickly, when it happens.
Always curious about dialects: would your handle be ‘shar let’ or ‘SHAR lot’ or even ‘shar LOT’?
We look at each other and smile when similar sounds radiate from the twenty some things who live above us.
The easiest way to live in the Village is to not set your political and religious detectometers on too sensitive a setting. We tend to subscribe to the it’s OK to be different and we don’t have to agree to like each other. We don’t subscribe to political correctness nor conventional suburban mores’ nor do we listen to the same music nor read the same books.
We’re an interesting diverse group of intelligent beings, some with formal educations, some less conventional. We have formed a loving and protective friendly shelter and we circle the wagons around any perceived offenders.
A local community organization put Spielberg’s Lincoln on the big screen today. I enjoyed it, but was jarred by the bit of profanity that he put in. My mother and grandmother taught me that gentlemen (politicians and officers) didn’t talk that way in the 1800s, especially when in a session of Congress or when talking with the Commander in Chief. I’ve also read that Lincoln reproached those who swore in his presence.
Do any historians here care to comment on that?
TruckerRon: https://pastinthepresent.wordpress.com/2012/12/12/lincoln-gets-his-mouth-washed-out/
My grandmother who raised me had a mother who lived into the late 1960s. So, I grew up around many who were born about time of Civil war or shortly afterwards. Can’t speak for Yankees but us Southerners were polite and not profane by example. I learned to curse expertly when mama sent me off to that prestigious Pennsylvania finishing school to prepare for a more upscale marriage.
At least I learned to eat fried chicken with a knife and fork, as well as not pick up corn on the cob and chew off the cob but slice it with a knife and fork. So why the heck bother to serve it on the cob?
Lincoln? Were we on Lincoln? Gettysburg wasn’t far away and those Yankees sure could curse!
Jackie, you just described my favorite pub from twenty-five years back. Pub as in public. This is not a private playground, until the gated community of membership is installed. The problem is today’s taverns seem to be filled with college age trying to find their way (entertaining but exhausting), or aging, undiagnosed drunkards (toxic). It is very much why I am here. I and the collective you are in the awkward stage of dating. I feel no reason to give my c.v. or portfolio, and you rightfully are suspicious. I suck the air out of the room trying to show I’m worthy, make mistakes, and hope to be accepted. The collective you gets to decide if I can pay my way, or if something is added to my beverage, and I get clobbered in the alley. I’ve done this before, and if it doesn’t work here I’ll move on. Strong relationships have been built on worse.
I would add that I am currently dealing with the guy in the corner who seems a bit more judgmental than your description.
TruckerRon: I had the same feel. But lacking a time machine, it’s just an opinion. Spielberg could be as accurate as I.
…and Spielberg sells more tickets
My life is littered with coincidences. Browsing GoComics and found Beardo. I may be seeing it out of context, but I swear it looks just like my last post.
Perhaps Facebook will be more calm and peaceful…
Charlotte: “emb, didn’t you mean Trucker Ron, one of our favorite Villagers right here?”
No, I didn’t. Far as I know, there are just a few POTUSs who are/were often known by their initials. Only TR, FDR, HST, and JFK come to mind. Quite possibly, TR wasn’t in his own time, but he was commonly after FDR came on the scene. I was just being playful, not particularly political. Couldn’t resist twisting someone’s statement for fun. Mea culpa.
Actually, since TR was a trust-buster, I suspect many of the current members of the GOP would put him in the same category as Bernie. As to where to put JFK on the L-R spectrum, no comment.
Peace, emb
And let us not forget LBJ while we’re at it.
Do y’all prefer BHO or BO?
WOW! What happened to our peaceful village?
I don’t know, Bob. Maybe I need a vacation…
Gal it is still peaceful and serene. Worried about Mississippi and Alabama. Believe tornadoes went through there. I need to look.
Love us all to peaces my friends. Jackie
Mindy there’s a message from me after yours. Go back. Love, Jackie
I don’t have a clue what’s going on and I think that I prefer to leave it that way. Lincoln was a man of great contradictions, but aren’t we all? I am pro-life pro-choice and I don’t see any problem with that.
No tornadoes in TTown, yet. And I hope none at all.
Right, forgot LBJ. [Egotist named everybody/thing in family w/ those initials, no?] Maybe it’s a +/- modern thing, but it didn’t happen to Nixon, Ford, Carter, Reagan, Clinton, either Bush [except for later distinction btw. H.W. and W.], or Obama. Have never heard it re any 19th c. POTUS; some historian may know of some.
Re possible 2016 winner, if it’s Clinton, wouldn’t be surprised if popular tag is Hillary. Women do this to other women. We had a Dr. ‘Jones’ in Physics. Hired his wife on Biology, and the secretaries called her Dr. ‘Greta’ [not the real names]. Lots of folks at SHB refer to an obgyn. as Dr. ‘Louise.’ Not a conspiracy by us male chauvinist pigs, just a social habit that repeats in various institutions, often initiated by female employees. Happens to some MDs who share a last name [Johnson at SHB, back when it was NCRH]. NW MN is Johnson and Anderson territory. When I came here in ’58, there were only some 900 students and 5 Andersons on the faculty.
Peace, emb
Morphy,
Question: Do you play chess?
Blessings on everyone.
In one of Joseph Wambaugh’s novels, there were two patrol officers with the same last name working the same shift. One was male and the other female, so naturally they got tagged Balls Hadley and No-Balls Hadley. (Sorry, Ludwig.) Perhaps not the best choice of ways to distinguish the Clintons, though.
Back to my dentist.
When I started it was a father / son practice so
naturally they were called Dr (first name)
whether by extension or what new Dr.s are by first name.
If memory serves, emb, Nixon was sometimes referred to as RMN, but it never really caught on. I have a friend who likes to call the current POTUS Barry O’Bama, but again, it’s not common. My guess is that if Hillary is elected everybody will either be a devoted supporter or be calling her Billary.
RWR didn’t catch on either. And should I have put a 😉 with my prior post? It was meant to be tongue-in-cheek.