A little bathroom humor from 2008, for a Friday morning. This is why I like 100% cotton tees.
Throwing in the Towel
By Jimmy Johnson
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182 responses to “Throwing in the Towel”
An Ogden Nash-like poem, + other neat stuff. Peace,
http://writersalmanac.org/episodes/20170428/
Berry youngsters fly well but often return to nest. Parents likely still feed them there, maybe. Peace,
http://www.georgiawildlife.com/BerryEagleCam
The new-style blowers are much better, actually, though you do still have to do the clothing wipe to get off that last little bit of water.
https://img.memecdn.com/strange-looking-urinal_o_2619653.jpg
This is the only daily cartoon I ever recall that featured a urinal.
And apparently one of those “will-it-or-won’t-it” auto-flush urinals, at that.
Dislike hand blow-driers in general, and see little advantage in that one. Diagram on top may be helpful. Restrooms in the ‘new’ BHS auditorium have them [not that style], so there are no paper towels for enrollees to drop on the floor. I just wave my hands through the air en route down the hall back to the auditorium.
Very good acoustics. BSO + choruses w/b doing ‘Messiah’ there Sun. 1500. Peace,
Ghost: Sorry; you posted while I was writing. I think it’s a hand drier. That same BHS restroom has a “will-it-or-won’t-it” auto-flush stool. Peace,
Steve, my prayers and thoughts are with you, your brother, and all your family. Had your brother and sister-in-law been in Norfolk long?
Jimmy, there’s a hand dryer in a restaurant in West Branch, Michigan, that sounds like a jet engine and will blow you into the middle of next week. But yes, you have to flap for 30 seconds in front of it to turn it on.
Jackie, I don’t mind laundry or ironing, but do hate folding. I just can’t imagine all the folding you’re doing! Eeeek!
I just have to smile each time of think of Debbe having wheels again. Roll on, girl!
I think it is a towel dispenser, those little lights seem designed to mess with you. You wave and wave and nothing but you turn to walk away and it spits out towels onto the floor.
emb, I really like Ogden Nash, and that poem was very like him.
As far as towel dispensers go, I always felt they were mounted high to save paper towels. By the time you had reached up and pulled the handle several times to get enough to dry with, the water had run down your arms and into your sleeves (long sleeves of course) and then you didn’t need the towel anymore.
Not sure if Jimmy has time to read these comments, but wanted to weigh in to say that I LOVE the current story line and really want Arlo and Janis to move! Shake things up a bit for all of us.
Also,t he quality of drawing has been awesome lately. I noticed that in the car ride home, the back seats were down, just like IRL.
Steve, my condolences to your family. Sometimes it is not necessary to understand someone, just to love them as they are. I know you will be the brother your brother needs.
That is a “blade” air dryer, as opposed to the standard blower type we’re used to. I first used one on a trip to Germany, where they were old hat.
Li’l Smigz, the opposite also holds true for some “hot air” hand dyers. I have encountered some, especially at convenience stores, that produce such an anemic stream of barely-warm air it takes longer to dry one’s hands than it does to fill one’s vehicle fuel tank.
Definitely a urinal in far left panel of first panel. I agree with Ghost about Jimmy breaking ground and barriers. Always.
Art is improving definitely. I noticed the perspective of the panel seen from back seat of car looking over back seats. Lots of good work being done and I wondered if new possibilities were stimulating Jimmy?
I too favor the move because there opens up so many avenues for our author to meander down.
Love you JJ. Keep on growing.
From the comments we have all encountered unreliable public toilet facilities. Even these simple fixtures have met the digital world with mixed results.
A Minnesota high school sports team almost had their team photo left out of the yearbook this year, for violation of a school policy against showing guns in yearbook photos.
Wait, what? It was the school’s TRAP SHOOTING TEAM!
No word yet on whether members of the school’s baseball team will be allowed to pose holding their “evil, dangerous, blunt-force-trauma weapon” baseball bats. Not to mention the track and field team with their long-range large-caliber pointy-staby javelins.
Ghost, let’s not forget the most dangerous thing in the school! School lunches: https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/originals/a9/3f/98/a93f98e36541f3a68b2653ce59253936.jpg
I have three hours college credits in butchering which involved large sharp knives I was taught to sharpen, not to mention horticulture courses where we used saws and knives high in pecan trees. And other farmyard tools with sharp blades and dangerous teeth and moving parts.
Throwing in the towel. Just thought about that. Still washing towels.
You must remember we have been dealing with clogged bathrooms and flea infestations for months here.
I may see the end or at least the floor. Now about my bed……………?
OF predictions are back. OF due 1518-1538 CDT.
https://www.nps.gov/features/yell/webcam/oldFaithfulStreaming.html
Peace,
Ghost: Not to worry, apparently. Online paper says principal has OK’d the photo. Likely an instance of someone doing the letter of the law rather than its spirit. Generally, that’s how we train our civil servants, business flunkies, and non-coms, + Lt. Fuzz, no?. Peace,
All the dirty laundry has moved to laundry room and I can see end of washing and drying today.
All the clean laundry has moved to my bedroom and bed. Not sure I see end of folding and putting away today but one can hope.
Discovered big pile of once clean towels in laundry but they may have to be rewashed. I hope not. Washed? Not put away for sure.
Except, emb, my experience was that it was the 2LT or the Ensign that was the “letter of the law” interpreter. The NCOs, at least those above E5, were pretty good about the spirit of the low unless it was basic/advanced training. Remember, it’s the sergeants that “work for a living.”