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Unreal Estate

By Jimmy Johnson


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272 responses to “Unreal Estate”

  1. Lilyblack Avatar

    Nope. I know that one. This is to the tune of “The William Tell Overture”

  2. Jackie Monies Avatar
    Jackie Monies

    Sorry Debbe. I have a cousin married to an ex-professional race handicapper and gambler.
    He won several trifecta’s in his career and I know that is hard to do.

    He got out of that career and into one that is a surer thing, weather related property damage.

    Love, Jackie Monies

  3. Galliglo from Ohio Avatar
    Galliglo from Ohio

    I think Rick was referring to Lancaster, OH. Could be wrong…

    Whatever – the story was sobering – and beautiful…

  4. Jackie Monies Avatar
    Jackie Monies

    It was Galliglo, it was, no matter where the town!

    Love, Jackie Monies

  5. Galliglo from Ohio Avatar
    Galliglo from Ohio

    My late ex-husband was a big fan of Spike Jones. I heard that song MANY times! Still get a kick out of it.

  6. sandcastler™ Avatar
    sandcastler™

    And any Army grunt can tell you the oxygen is very thin at 35,000ft. Either way you’re choking. One is at a slow low crawl, the other way it at 35,000ft counting miles per second. 😉

  7. Bryan Avatar
    Bryan

    It’s raining!!!! I know, no big deal for most folks but ya’ll have heard me grumbling about this never ending drought for years and the second rain in two weeks, after more dry months than I care to think about, is just down-right exciting.
    I apologize and now return you to your regularly scheduled festivities. I’m going to pour a beer, sit out on the porch and enjoy the humidity.

  8. Rick in Shermantown, Ohio Avatar
    Rick in Shermantown, Ohio

    Thank you, everyone.

    I can’t speak for anyone else, but my life is filled with many ghosts.

  9. Jackie Monies Avatar
    Jackie Monies

    Bryan, are you in California? My cousin out there said he was really glad he was no longer trying to farm when I talked to him a couple weeks ago.

    Oklahoma alternates drought with fire and brimstone and flash flooding.

    Love, Jackie Monies

  10. Charlotte in NH Avatar
    Charlotte in NH

    I’m sorry I was such a know-it-all about Indiana’s time zone; I should have kept my mouth shut! On the plus side, this did bring out lots of fascinating info about the Villagers’ sleeping habits, and their lack of sleep, some of them. Some of you guys wake up so early !! And you don’t really want to. Me, I sleep very late: 8, 9, sometimes even 10 o’clock. I keep intending to get up earlier, but good intentions …

    Lilyblack, I agree about those comic strips you mentioned. Calvin is annoying on purpose … it’s supposed to be funny; but not to me. Zits I read every day for years, till it just got to be retreads … nothing new; and I was so sick of Jeremy’s plaid shirt. And his father’s little black vest; men haven’t worn those vests for an awfully long time.

  11. Ghost Rider 6 Avatar
    Ghost Rider 6

    Lily, apparently Edda lost her little white shorts all together today. 😉

    http://www.gocomics.com/9chickweedlane/2014/06/07#.U5PXavldWa8

  12. Jackie Monies Avatar
    Jackie Monies

    While I read 9 Chickweed Lane now, when it began I found it to be stupefying boring and Edda one of the most annoying characters ever conceived. And this from a total comic freak and admirer of most well drawn comics.

    As it matured, I went back and began to read it, as he has broken a lot of ground with style and sophisticated artwork. But his plots drag on so slowly that a glacier could calve and global warming moves faster. And repartee’ is not his forte. He should let someone else write script and he draw.

    I think introducing fairly explicit sex into the daily comics was innovative, or so it would seem. It doesn’t offend me but it does some.

    I miss Bill Watterson and a lot of the older(?) cartoonists and find myself reading the reruns more than I do the new strips.

    Love, Jackie Monies

  13. Bryan Avatar
    Bryan

    The storm only lasted about 2 hours but I had forgotten how pleasing is the sight, sound, smell and aye, even feel, of a good thunderstorm. I had to go out and walk the mesas once it ended.

    I’m in New Mexico, Jackie. I live at 7500 feet on the side of some beautiful mountains At least they were till forest fires, bark beetles and drought wiped out most of the pine forests. Well, still beautiful, just much different than they were a mere 15 years ago.

  14. Mark in TTown Avatar
    Mark in TTown

    Jackie, I miss Chester Gould, Al Capp, Gahan Wilson, Charles Addams and Gary Larson, among others.

    Bryan, we just had a good thunderstorm here. It always smells so good after, and gets pleasantly cool compared to the 90 plus day temps.

  15. Jerry in Fl Avatar
    Jerry in Fl

    I thought that it was a George Jones song. I don’t think that anyone could beat The Far Side. Who knew that cows could be so funny?

  16. Jerry in Fl Avatar
    Jerry in Fl

    The song was “The Race is On”.

  17. Debbe Avatar
    Debbe

    Good morning Villagers…..

    OK, so at least I had one of the four win 🙂

    Phone just rang…it was the teens at the henhouse…seems a repaired belt is still not moving, and it is a bottom., same one that’s been down for four days…aaaggghhhh!!!!!

    Andrew rear ended a car as he was leaving town to ‘rush’ his daughter to her ball game (his ex called and said it wasn’t at 11, but at 10)….thankfully neither was hurt (but now, he has no vehicle). He came back to the henhouse, he and Ian repaired the belt, and little Brooklynne took all the eggs of the bottom and put them on other lines. She said that was hard….I grinned, yup, I said, Auntie has been doing it for at least a couple of days!

    (Brooklynne asked me yesterday what she could call me, she didn’t want to call me Debbe, so I said “Auntie”…..she liked that.)

    Told the teens, take the pin out so the roller does not move….too much slack, could be torn…right now my dears….I don’t give a …..just don’t let it hit the pit!

    Going into to see Mom……

    later

    later………………………

  18. emeritus minnesota biologist Avatar
    emeritus minnesota biologist

    I volunteer at the hospital and often see former students. My problem is trying to break them of calling me ‘Doctor’ in a hospital.

  19. Trapper Jean Avatar
    Trapper Jean

    From WWl on the men in my family came home, for which I am forever grateful.

    The two Spike Jones records that got played the most often in our house was The Race Is On and Rindercella and the Pransom Hince. In later years my grandfather found Wes Harrison and his vocal sound effects. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e38Ltx1bfUA

    Ghost dear, very little shocks or embarrasses me these days. 😉 Oh, and when I was a little girl and all the other little girls were singing Twinkle Twinkle Little Star I was singing the Caisson Song and reciting cadence calls. There was always a steady stream of Daddy’s Army buddies through our house that thought it was cute to hear me recite them.

    My problem with school buses was that when my kids were in elementary school we lived on a dirt road out in the country with no street lights. I had to drive them to the bus stop-which was nearly a mile from our house- and wait with them until the bus came. This meant I was regularly late for work and my boss, being from New York and living in a subdivision, didn’t understand why I couldn’t just leave them at the stop. After I hit him over the head with a clue-by-four he quit arguing and agreed I could stay a half hour late to finish my paperwork.

  20. Galliglo from Ohio Avatar
    Galliglo from Ohio

    Here is a link to Spike Jones’ William Tell Overture aka Beetlebaum.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UXRj9lSnJnI

  21. Ghost Rider 6 Avatar
    Ghost Rider 6

    Jean dear, some of those cadence calls were R-rated, at best, but I sure you’d have never sung any of those, would you? 😉

    I just saw Giada on TV, and she undeniably looks less pneumatic, for whatever reason. Her chestular area definitely lacks a certain je ne sais quoi.