I’m sorry to be late with this classic A&J, but I’m a little busy helping send out T shirts! As I remember, I was supposed to be something of a figurehead and a quality-control type, but there’s been some serious mission creep, it would appear. At least you’ll know whom to blame!
Vertically Challenged
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99 responses to “Vertically Challenged”
Lay blame on your politician of choice.
Blame anyone but yourself…we appreciate your efforts
So, given the picture just above the comic strip up there, is Janis actually folding the T-shirts everyone is buying? Cool! Just how does Arlo contribute to this process? If he just wants to sit around and drink coffee, get him to run errands or something. Yes, I know that Luddie is useless in this endeavor. Except as a model.
From the earlier discussion about sweet tea… The melting ice cools, but also decreases the concentration of sugar, so that the overall equilibrium may be maintained. The real reason to put so much sugar in is so that one may drink the tea flavored sugar sludge at the bottom of the glass. 😉
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Jimmy I have never thought of you as a creep….Thanks again for offering the shirts.
DJJG Luddie adds the cat hair without which no ensemble is complete. Like all cats.
Mark – We need a “Like” button for that one 🙂
Trapper Jean, the sugar will dissolve until the tea is saturated, but just how rapidly that occurs is a different question. In general, the colder your tea, the longer it will take to dissolve the sugar. I’m guessing you’d like to be drinking the tea before that amount of time elapses; I know I would.
I like David’s reasoning for the usage of so much sugar!
Mark in TTown: My ensemble is always complete without cat hair. We have Tibetan spaniel fur instead. A & J ain’t never goin’ get a Tibbie. Too much trouble to draw. Luddie is the Ignatz Mouse of cartoon cats: simple and slightly elegant, slightly not. Is there any cartoon cat otherwise?
I just finished writing my 38th (maybe 39th or 40th?) consecutive Christmas-time family newsletter. Yep, I am one of those types. Always included is a disclaimer to the effect that I will not be offended if the recipient chooses to discard the page, use it to kindle a fireplace, make an airplane, or use it as a coaster. Whatever floats that recipient’s boat….
In turn, I always read every word of those sent to me. Some are real hoots and some are dreary or even sad; I like to be in the circle getting the information considered important.
Poll: Are you a newsletter writer? Reader?
See, Luddie wants to write a Christmas newsletter. See the way he looks at Arlo in panel two? His front paws exactly together? That’s what he’s saying. But Arlo says beat it, and now we won’t get a letter from Luddie.
If memory serves, one Christmas, Luddie’s commentary consisted solely of things he’d heard. One of them was, “Cat hair everywhere.” My only comment is, that’s what lint brushes are for.
Thanks for the reminder. I was sitting in a boring meeting, so I updated my family newsletter from last years. I always update the letter to the person that I am sending it to. However, if I am on Facebook with the family members, I don’t send a letter. They already know what I am up to.
My favorite is “Into each life a little cat hair must fall” followed by “What is the USDA limit on number of cat hairs allowed?”
Jimmy, eBay or someone may or may not have put the fifth shirt on my credit card. I will order another when that batch gets here.
Keep on a stuffin’…………..
I just heard from JJ about my order! My check goes out tomorrow, and not to the address one of you kindly provided. I do thank that source for the effort, though. Now, if they get here in time to be reshipped a thousand miles or so, all will be well.
Thanks, JJ.
c x-p: Both. Emailed my yuletide ltr. yesterday, had gotten one already. Sent earlier than usual. Receive fewer cards and ltrs. than I used to, which is fine. Convinced we know neither the year, date, site, or circumstances of Jesus’s birth, but also that it has no significance for faith. Stars don’t do that, Herod probably didn’t do that, magi probably were not there, Roman emperors were already said to be born of virgins. Non-virgins are not thereby impure.
Santa, evergreens, snow, reindeer, elves, and such have even less significance. As noted here before, our family celebrates some time in summer, when there’s less ice on the roads.
Luddie is a far superior cat to Solange, but not to Marzipan or her companion [whose name slips my over-crowded mind at the moment]. Garfield is not a cat. Is Ludwig a he, or a former he?
Peace, emb
I am pretty sure that you won’t be seeing Luddie attached by suction cup to anyone’s car window.
“Exploding death rocks from space” – tabloid headline or just a good name for a band? Tonight’s NOVA is about the large meteor that hit Russia some years back. That phrase just jumped out at me 🙂
emb, I’m pretty sure Luddie is an ex-he. I recall the strip where Arlo and Janis are watching Ludwig through the window and Janis comments how Ludwig and the other cat just sit and stare at each other. To which Arlo replies Ludwig can’t talk, has been fixed, and something else I can’t recall, what else do you expect him to do?
Left out the quotation marks, oh well.
emb: Former he, I’d say. Don’t have time to find it, but there was once a cartoon in which Janis commented that Ludwig and another cat were just laying in the yard staring at each other, and Arlo replied something like, “When you can’t talk, can’t open a beer bottle, and have been fixed, what else are you going to do?”
Mark, here is your thumb up.
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Oops. Mark beat me to it.