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”
Debbe 😉 Because, you know, drums.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fhyhP_5VfKM
This song was once featured in an A&J cartoon. True or False?
Dear Jackie Monies, I too have a clock with bird songs on the hour, a gift from a daughter. It’s a source of innocent merriment, for the songs never line up with the right bird picture. If anyone is surprised, I say “it’s the bird clock”. Would this help with your mother?
Oh, gee, that’s awful, losing all the food in your refrigerator. I’m sorry it happened and hope it doesn’t happen again.
Steve in Royal Oak, how are you doing with your power outage and maybe thawing food in refrig?
Charlotte, the songs on my bird clock do not line up either! Blamed it on myself, not knowing how to reset them. When something starts chirping, my husband says “That’s the six o’clock bird” (or whatever time it is) since it usually is obviously not right bird call.
Yes, I tell mom “that’s the bird clock” but then she wants to know when I got it.
And yes, I am sure I will miss all the things that drive me crazy now. It is funny, I was always good about calling and talking to aunts, mother in law, mom, even when they often drove me nuts.
But I miss the ones who are gone, especially the ones who traveled a lot with us.
Did I mention my husband would have made a wonderful tour guide because he was so patient with the elderly relatives, all of whom were widowed?
Love, Jackie Monies
About understanding A and J: I had not until now read the Comics I Don’t Understand, although I knew of its’ existence. From that sampling of comments and the ones over on The Dark Side, I have decided this group is made up of a lot of Mensa members. This one, not the other two.
Everyone here seems to get JJ’s humor, and yes, it is often subtle, often requires a broad frame of knowledge, maybe more than the other groups possess?
Love, Jackie Monies
Ah Canada Day. I was in an open field this afternoon in Ottawa. A fair was set up and a number of stages battling to drown out each other. I was helping set up the music for our martial arts demo.
We have had a number of days of straight sun. Today is cloudy, windy with threats of showers. And a tornado advisory. They we taking some of the tents down before they blew away and ended up in Kansas.
The demo finished before anything bad happened.
Well, Happy Birthday, Canada. And Many Happy Returns. 🙂
GR 😉 …drums! you want drums: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g8D4AsLzlM0
gonna look up some Phll Colllins…………………..tag
Found it……………
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sA3rJXV4R4E
tag………….
Ahhh…Jackie…as we relieve our lives in what we tell you………….
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ILxVQwmbAs
tag…GR 😉
maybe you need to go out on your porch with your…what is that thingy dingy called../Ipod….I’m not not done, yet….
Because the Invasion has been mentioned, I will now state this:
I had no idea that Arthur C. Clarke was involved with the Days’ vacation trips to the beach.
I’m done…storms moving in…………….besides…I can’t find what I’m looking for
Debbe – That song is by U2. That help? 😉
For a catchy song that will still in your head,
http://youtu.be/PIh2xe4jnpk
Night all!
If I go out on porch right now, we may end up in Kansas as well.
Even daughter is worried, says those big trees are whipping around out there. The rotations are just south of us, along with hail and heavy, heavy rain, flash flooding.
Got insurance questions answered and paid except part about whether flood insurance can actually be bought in this section of the county!
Hope everyone is OK in Indiana.
Love, Jackie Monies
I hope you don’t end up in Kansas Jackie.
So far, no touch downs but flash flooding warning until after midnight. The massive ditch project is coming along and onto last stage mason says, so we can hope it works. I am gonna bet the officials here in our little “tip of the county” didn’t do paperwork for flood insurance. When Allstate says they need to research more, that means they don’t know!
Love, Jackie Monies
Dear Jackie, I hope you get safely through these threatening storms! Good that you’ve taken care of those pesky insurance issues, and we’ll see if the masonry stands up okay. Wish you could send photos of your yard construction … all the Villagers are eager to see the results.
Don’t “blame” your bird clock lineup on yourself. There are instructions on the back near the battery compartment, but they’re hard to follow. I have simply given up and let it do as it pleases.
Charlotte, I have a nice Allstate agent/owner who breeds and shows coon dogs (which just got allowed at Westminister) called “Treeing Walker Hounds” as opposed to running ones I think. He is very nice and helpful and told me he had never had a single claim on earthquakes and told me where the fault lines ran in Oklahoma. So hopefully, we won’t have one under the lake and suddenly drain it!
We were discussing my restoration of the “dry creek” back to drain water, where the previous owners had filled in creek with soil to get more yard, which then washed into lake. He said, “I bet everyone in subdivision is directing their water onto you too.”
Which is exactly what happens in these rural developments. There are no restrictions and people do as they please. And insurance agents know this.
Daughter finally sees need for spending $$$ on project now that she is here all the time.
Love, Jackie Monies
Debbe 😉 Because, you know, John Bonham.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r9-42mu1D9Y
Ever hear about the girl who was so dumb she thought Moby Dick was, uh, never mind.
GR6, I’ll see your John Bonham and raise you a Nick Mason. Because, you know, Pink Floyd!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1kZ6M2aMvw
Jackie Monies, actually there probably is some Federal regulation about filling in a creek. EPA would play hob with somebody over that!
Jackie and Charlotte, on the bird clock. Did you know they have those in Dog and Cat versions too? Although I think the cat version would annoy your housecats. http://www.amazon.com/Mark-Feldstein-Meowing-Cat-Clock/dp/B002I9B546
First storm of the tropical season is going to apparently become an Atlantic hurricane. One doesn’t make a trend, but perhaps this will be another East Coast storm year rather than a Gulf Coast one.
Jackie, see if there is any helpful info here on your flood insurance: https://www.owrb.ok.gov/hazard/fp/floodpronemaps.php
Jackie, it has happened, as I’m sure you know. Though this one was apparently the result of a drilling faux pas.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3cXnxGIDhOA
Jackie, you might want to keep in mind the fact that your insurance agent was only able to tell you about the known fault lines in Oklahoma. Remember, the Northridge Earthquake was on a previously unknown fault.
Good morning Villagers…
What wake up calls…..from Pink Floyd to Led Zepplin..thanks guys, all been bookmarked 🙂
Storms brought in much needed, cooler temps…high today 79, down to 58 tonight, gonna open up the windows.
Good thing I copied the link that was posted in “our recommendations”….anyone remember this one: http://www.gocomics.com/arloandjanis/1994/07/14 GR 😉 ?
Thanks for helping me out there, Indy Mindy….that is a good song by Bono/U2, but I was looking for a Genesis tune, and I found it this morn. Persistence pays off. It was “You’re No Son of Mine”.
oops can’t post two links in same comment…