Depending upon the denomination of the Church of Nutrition to which you subscribe, the above strip might prove to be prophetic. Note the television cabinet. It occurred to me while looking through some old material that A&J strips from the early 90s have been under-represented on arloandjanis.com. The vast majority of strips you see here come from digital files, which begin in late 1995. Or ’94. Who can keep up? The pre-digital material I have used here, which has to be retrieved from large plastic boxes and scanned by me, has tended to be older cartoons, from the 80s mostly. In the coming weeks, I’m going to mine the years immediately prior to 1995, hoping to find a trove of comic strips we haven’t seen in a long time. Those were good years. The strip was hitting its stride. The drawing was pretty good, and the gags were getting more crisp. I’m kind of excited about this.
Thought for Food
By Jimmy Johnson
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67 responses to “Thought for Food”
“The Church of Nutrition”! Boy does that ring some bells! I like it.
How do you tell if there’s a vegan in the room? Don’t need to…they’ll tell you.
After the Tuesday strip unsure if this week is a gag. DANGER, ROCKS AHEAD!!
phil, and again, and again….
Great idea! Should be a fun project for you and even more fun for us. I can’t remember when I discovered A&J, but it was definitely after 1995. Cheers!
Fortunately, in today’s retro cartoon, Arlo and Janis *do* have their clothes on in panel #3.
Oooo, pre-gocomics archive A&J cartoons…what a good idea. More work for you, I’m sure, but I’m also sure we, your loyal fans, will appreciate it. 🙂
And also…Oooo, Janis has a “past”.
My Mom is obviously feeling even better today and is down the hall doing PT. Still hoping today will be “Home Going Day”.
Well, I’m “excited” to about the old days too! 😉
Just yesterday I was thinking about some old cartoons, so this will be good.
Any one remember Janis’s father taking risqué pics or actually getting blamed
for a new phone malfunction.
GR6, good news regarding your mom.
Thanks, sand.
Debbe 😉 I too used to do the “wake up waaay too early and can’t get back to sleep” thing. In my case it was work-related stress. The stress (but not the work) went away, and so did the sleeplessness.
“Joe and the Volcano” was kind of a sleeper movie I really enjoyed. Meg Ryan, who at the time was my movie sweetheart, played three different roles in it. And Tom Hanks seldom if ever makes a bad movie. I loved the scene where he was at the luggage shop buying the trunks to take on his trip, the ones that ultimately saved his life.
Have you ever mentioned here that Gene’s middle name is McCarthy? As in “Eugene McCarthy”?
Steve From ROM: I just got around to reading about your lawn mower adventure from the other day. Wow, the dreaded Snapper-related fire!
“Granny” Carole: Well said. As always. I’m glad you come to visit with us.
You, too, Denise Marie.
And you, too, emb.
Jackie: Ummm. Fresh green beans.
Lady Mindy, if you ever have to start wearing a flack jacket to work, it might be time to consider a career change.
I’m glad Arlo didn’t have to wait to age 90 for those news bytes to come out in various reports… even if they’re still controversial.
Quite a bit of excitement over “old” strips here, too. The online digital archive only goes back so far, and today’s “old timer” strip (pun sort of intended) is great.
Of course, there will be some unintended irony when you roll the oldies out. I recall Arlo dancing to a tune on the radio, and then he CRINGES when the announcer says, “And that was ‘Eight Days A Week,’ Number One on the charts… TWENTY YEARS AGO!” I am afraid poor Arlo would be out on a ledge if that scenario played out again today…
The “old stuff” has its own flavor and bouquet. I enjoyed it then and personally, I think it holds up very well. As for TV cabinets, rotary phones and dialup modem internet connections… it is what it is. Props to Mr. Johnson for noting this week that Facebook has been abandoned by young people… but bear in mind, that strip will need some ‘splaining 10 years from now; who will “get it” then? Time marches on, but our Bard marches with it, and when necessary, he provides a contextual comment so we can still “get it” later on when it graces this page. *applause*
oh.
ok…THAT’s why the kids aren’t replying to my messages on fb.
I’m slow. 🙂
Thanks for the art, Jimmy !
Debbe 😉 Here’s your song, hon, sung to the tune of “Rolling, rolling, rolling, Rawhide”.
Laying, laying, laying
Laying, laying, laying
Them hens keep on a’laying
Laying, laying, laying
Debbe!
Laying, laying, laying
Them hens keep on a’laying
Pick ‘em up, pack ‘em up,
Stack ‘em up, move ‘em out
Debbe!
Laying, laying, laying
Laying, laying, laying
Them hens keep on a’laying
Laying, laying, laying
Debbe!
Laying, laying, laying
Laying, laying, laying
Though the belts are a’flaying
Keep them hens a’laying
Debbe!
Laying, laying, laying
Them hens keep on a’laying
Pick ‘em up, pack ‘em up,
Stack ‘em up, move ‘em out
Debbe!
And yes, sitting in a hospital room waiting for the doctor to round does give you too much time to think of silly stuff. 🙂
Bring it on, Jimmy!!
Looking forward to it.
Lady Mindy, should miscreants continue to robbery-ish things at work, you might consider acquiring The Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch. Here are the instructions, from The Book of Armaments, Chapter 4, Verses 16 to 20:
Then did he raise on high the Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch, saying, “Bless this, O Lord, that with it thou mayst blow thine enemies to tiny bits, in thy mercy.” And the people did rejoice and did feast upon the lambs and toads and tree-sloths and fruit-bats and orangutans and breakfast cereals … Now did the Lord say, “First thou pullest the Holy Pin. Then thou must count to three. Three shall be the number of the counting and the number of the counting shall be three. Four shalt thou not count, neither shalt thou count two, excepting that thou then proceedeth to three. Five is right out. Once the number three, being the number of the counting, be reached, then lobbest thou the Holy Hand Grenade in the direction of thine foe, who, being naughty in my sight, shall snuff it.”
I didn’t become a regular reader of comics until 1995, my first year of college and the first year I discovered the wonderful interwebs. Aaaaah fond memories. I remember that it didn’t take as long to read “all the comics” back then as it does now. But then there were far fewer choices and no comment sections for me to aimlessly reminisce.
GR6, thou forgot the part about flipping the holy spoon. The pin is merely the safety, tis the flying of the spoon which starts the holy ignition cycle. As a side note the fuse length is such that there is 3 to 5 seconds from spoon ejection to when holy hell reins forth on you and enemy. Yes, kill zone is a 40 yard radius, not likely you can pitch it 80 yards.
There is no boredom like hospital wait boredom, GR6!
@Bryan
Nor anxiety like hospital wait anxiety.
OF maybe just blew, but I think it’s about to blow.
Since Jimmy is cranking up the old wayback machine, maybe folks will enjoy this article from the Madison, WI, CAPITAL TIMES in July of 1985, when they picked up the strip.
Bryan: Roger.
Tom: Amen.
sand: It must have been “The Unholy Hand Grenade of St. Mark II” of which thou bespakest.
GR6, in “The Book of Soviet” there is discussion of the F-1 grenade; referred to as the widow maker. Seems some factories short changed the fuse length. Nothing boosts spirt in the troops like poor quality control.