The cartoons this week are from 1994, the first year of A&J digitalization, 20 years ago. I’ve been using this “new” method of storing and transferring my artwork for well over half the time I’ve been drawing the strip. My, my. I intended to skip the above strip, to move this little beach narrative along, but I decided to rerun it for you, as this year is also another significant anniversary. More than a handful of readers might actually get this one this time around.
Tourist Invasion
By Jimmy Johnson
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188 responses to “Tourist Invasion”
Best wishes to our Canadian friends – It’s Canada Day! – Just got back from Ottawa – they were celebrating already.
Even if today’s classic had been posted on 6/6, chances are good the Operation Overlord would have gone over the head of many.
Let’s take the beach Gen. Eisenhower! That would be Omaha Beach BTW.
John and I (and therefore Ginger) had ancestors at Omaha Beach (as did Shelly). John’s were a few miles further inland and got there first. The local D-Day celebration (not a formal community affair which says a lot) was spectacular. The police were called only twice. Those officers came back when they got off duty and brought co-workers and families so the third call to the police was basically ignored. As were the fourth, fifth and sixth, after which the State Police was called but two of their number were present. What I was going to say before I was distracted by fingers tracing my spine — stop! dammit! — (can I say that?) was that Ike was a politician, not a combat soldier, so he should have brought Patton in sooner.
Happy Canada Day, ay! Another reason to celebrate celebrating!
Bye bye.
Gee now I’ve got Peyton Manning’s snap count stuck in my head….Guess I should have steak tonight.
Actually, I may have to cook up everything in the fridge. We lost power at 3:30 AM last night and still no word as to when it will come back on. I the 23 years that we lived in Royal Oak, I can count on one hand how many times the power went off for more than an hour. 2 years ago, it went out twice (for several days) in 2 weeks. That time the Electric workers were going house to house as the issue was particularly pesky. This time it was due to high winds, so hopefully they can get it fixed this afternoon. Fingers crossed as it is supposed to get up to 88° today.
and Patton wanted to go on and take out Stalin, or at least George C Scott said that in character
Is that really you, Mindy?
Fits her M.O., so I’m guessing “yes”.
Mickey–?
On topic, on today’s current cartoon. I have a clock that does bird calls on the hour, gift of daughter, have owned for 20 years. Every TIME those birds “ring” my 93 year old mom goes “What’s that? What’s that?”
Has done so for 20 years! For 20 years I say, “It’s a bird mom.”
“Where? Where’s the bird?”
Love, Jackie Monies
You’ll miss it.
Actually, it was a lot more than just Omaha Beach. The US also landed at Utah Beach to the west and the Canadians and British landed at Gold, Juno, and Sword beaches to the east of Omaha. But before that, the US dropped two divisions of paratroopers behind Utah and the British dropped their paratroopers behind their beaches. I could say a lot more but let’s leave it at that.
Steve, good luck with fridge and maybe freezer. With Mike in hospital/rehab in Tulsa we haven’t cooked much lately but seem to keep fridge packed. Opened fridge yesterday morning to find everything hot and melted. Thank God that helper/housekeeper had made it to work, so threw it all away. I hate doing that but we figured it had been out a couple days?
Helper defrosted and cleaned and plugged back in and it worked!
A miracle!
Love, Jackie Monies
Debbe 😉 Because, you know, guitars.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ucTg6rZJCu4
I missed the “Overlord” connection mainly because I have heard D-Day so often, I keep forgetting it *had* a codename.
And it finally happened: the geniuses with the cement mixer completely blocked me from my parking spot. You could get in from one side, but not all the way around and navigating the slalom course of a carport was rough. One of the geniuses watched me pull in the far drive, yet did nothing to warn or stop me from proceeding. You could see the surprise when I wriggler my way back out again without hitting anything.
cxp, I ended up working thirds last night on very, very little sleep. Caught the weather update as I was running out the door. Was HOPING for a whopper of a storm to knock the power out for a few hours so I could lock the doors and catch a nap. No such luck. It was dark green rain (to use a Janis-ism), but that’s about as bad as it got. However, it *did* rain hard enough to wash all the crusties off the sidewalks and my Herbie-mobile, so I guess its … wait for it
… a wash. Ha!
Debbe – That curflunkle is a bit mean-spirited, even for Angus. Maybe Angus has a distant cousin haunting your chicken runs.
Jerry! How’s Florida? And you keep breaking my heart – no weather updates.
Jackie – I do not have an automatic defrost fridge. I can break down the freezer compartment, defost the coils completely and have it back together in only a few hours.
Ghost, guitars! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=293Irm-vxtE
My son works at Ford and is on summer shutdown. He and his wife live 6 blocks away and he was out of power too. Fortunately at 1:51 He texted me that the power was back on! Hooray!
Ah, yes, rain. Here in Atascadero, California, that’s just an aging memory.
Have y’all see http://comicsidontunderstand.com/wordpress/2014/07/01/i-swear-sometimes-jimmy-johnson-draws-these-things-just-to-mess-with-me/#comments today?
There is an entire blog built around the concept of CIDU (Comics I Don’t Understand). Yet very seldom does anyone here ask for help with understanding an A&J cartoon. (They often do over on TDS, though.) So do the comic-strip-impaired not hang out here? Or do they just occasionally sneak over to CICU? 🙂
Food afternoon Mindy and Gang….. 🙂
Did you see that small plane landing in San Antonio?????? Spectacular!!!! Watched it live…
GR 😉 But there’s something to be said about B B King…..
later……………………………………………………………………………..
Good one, Jean….
You want guitar….really want guitar….love the ending to this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2SF1iLXSQto&feature=kp
it’s good to be King….just for a while….and yes, it was another hot, humid, hostile day.
I’ve got to change cassettes in my car…stuck on Tom Petty….and I do have the duet by BB King and Eric Clapton….
Debbe 😉 That was a 1974 Beech Bonanza (A36) registered out of Baytown TX. (That’s right, a 40-year-old airplane. Take care of them, and they will last a long, long time.) The pilot did a good job, but it wasn’t nearly as dramatic as it may have looked. A landing is a landing, gear down or not. N136EL will fly again, perhaps for another 40 years.