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”
So, Mark and GR….I’m raising the stakes….great audience participation at the end:
But I did find this one…..dang, wish my CD player worked in my car……
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=egJR3K6UIJY
…not to mention the drum solo in the beginning…..
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Ghost – I’m going to say false to your question. I remember a strip where Arlo sings “song titles” in the shower, spaced by bah bahs and dum de dums, but he didn’t specifically sing that one.
And then there’s this one from 1987- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3pS_eQT0Uz8
I’ve not read the posts above, but here’s todays TIP. We may have seen this before, but I’m not sure.
http://www.gocomics.com/that-is-priceless/#.U7QS52dOXUM
Debbe: I don’t remember it, and you’d think I would. emb
I ran across a LONG “beach series” of cartoons from 1996 that I had either never seen or had totally forgotten. (The latter is unlikely.) And I totally loved the part of it that ran from June 19th to July 6th, featuring Gene. (See link below.) Especially the one on 7-4-1996. Did I ever mention that I had a thing for older young ladies when I was young? 😉
http://www.gocomics.com/arloandjanis/1996/06/19#.U7QevPldWa8
And based on comments, many would probably feel this is the quintessential A&J cartoon. (Hey, I’m staying “on topic” today. Imagine that. And imagine what the “comment haters” are missing.)
http://www.gocomics.com/arloandjanis/1996/07/25#.U7QkafldWa8
Funny Ghost. Is there a National Flash the Cartoonist Day?
Ghost. you may have mentioned liking older women as a boy-child? I may have mentioned the cute little neighborhood boy who waited for the bus with me and was always shivering in the winter? Then he’d beg me to let him get under my coat with me?
His shivering ears seemed to be about chest high.
Thought about him the other day when I was in town for my aunt’s funeral. Funny the things you remember about people.
Love, Jackie Monies
Realized I had not seen that series either and then figured out why. That was about time I moved from Houston to Oklahoma and lost most contact with computers, cell phones and Houston newspapers! We are catching up here somewhat now.
Love, Jackie Monies
We were in Athens Greece for the holidays ’70-’71 and the division officer, an Ensign came down the ladder into our berthing compartment and eyes wide open said “I see nothing” and flew back up the ladder. He said the next day we shouldn’t be so obvious.
http://news.usni.org/2014/07/01/hundred-years-dry-u-s-navys-end-alcohol-sea
Mark in TTown, No, I never knew there are dog and cat clocks … when you told us, I laughed out loud, the idea was so funny. Since they don’t sing … the barks and meows must sound really peculiar!
Chest high, eh, Jackie? 😉 If that young lad was that persuasive, he probably went on to hold a high elected office.
FA, I suppose any day could be “Flash the Cartoonist Day” if the occupant(s) so desired.
Lady Mindy, after a conversation (if one could call it that) with Angus, I determined that he is not aware that you are no longer at your old store. (Don’t worry, I didn’t tell him otherwise.) This could be related to the fact that he recently (somehow) discovered 151 proof rum. Also, he was trying to talk like pirate, which, believe me, was not a pretty sight.
Debbe 😉 Because, you know, sax.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MfAJLGFWxYo
Testing: Nobody has posted for almost 5 weekday evening hours. Odd.
Heard some good h.s. brass [a quintet] at the Presb. Ch. at noon. We have a summer W noon church musicians series, half hour [+] recital followed by an inexpensive or free will lunch. Some of us are as interested in the quality and variety of the food as we are in the music. There’s also a free will basket for the Area Ch. Mus. group, which supports 1 [or more?] scholarships. First trombone today was a newly graduated recipient of one.
EMB, I am sitting here listening to fireworks next door and all around me. About this time of year I pray for rain and that my house doesn’t get set afire by errant rockets. Giant marathon of amateur fireworks until they shoot them all up and the stands fold and go away for awhile.
Dogs and cats do not care for fireworks, so I will go comfort them with a blanket to hide under.
It still pales compared to Chinese New Year in Hawaii, which I would actually take the cats across the island from Waikiki and go hide out at husband’s office at Sea Life Park which was quieter.
I figured everyone was out of town?
Love, Jackie Monies
eMb, wish I could have heard that group; that’s the kind of music that I like best. Trombone is especially appealing. Also very fond of woodwind groups, love the bassoon, cor anglais too … and orchestral music of course. You say you have a fine bass voice; another favorite. You must have heard Ezio Pinza, at least on records. Maybe even in person; you may have lived in NYC at the time he was starring in “South Pacific”.
Yes, it’s distinctly odd there have been so few posts! Could be weather related?
Great weather brings out my wife’s desire to go places and do things. Me, I’d be a homebody nowadays if I could after logging a few hundred thousand miles several times over. Then there’s catching up on all the shows I missed on the road… I’m currently in the 7th season of the Doctor Who reboot and glad my daughters are building up a DVD library with the Doctor and a few other good SF series I missed out on.
You’re all dead. The challenge was Mickey and the password was Mouse. 1940’s Germans knew nothing about Mickey Mouse. Even the guys on our side who were not the brightest wouldn’t forget it though. Weather prediction-Arthur will cause high surf, rain and wind going up the east coast. Long term-it will not be as quiet in the Gulf this year as it has been recently.
Sure; nothing to it.
http://www.armystudyguide.com/content/army_board_study_guide_topics/guard_duty/countersigns-and-parole-w.shtml
Anyone remember back in the day when, if Jimmy went two consecutive weekdays without a new post, some would start panicking and wondering if he’d had a heart attack? Not so much anymore.
You have one little cardiac episode, and you never live it down. Hopefully. 🙂
Tell me about it! Some folks still watch me all too closely at my daughter’s karate school even though it’s been almost 5 years since I had a cardiac arrest there. 🙂