Butt! Butt! He said, “Butt!” Believe me, it was not easy to slip such profanity into the comics back in the good ol’ days of United Media. Over at Universal Press Syndicate, strips like Doonesbury and Bloom County had been using words such as “damn” and “hell” and “snugglebunnies” for years, but UM prided itself on upholding a very old and rigid standard in the comics. “Butt” was a huge win for the forces of darkness. Gene and family will continue next week in the current strips, and we’ll resume our previous conversations then. I hope you enjoy your weekend!
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Jackie, I think you meant Mickey Rooney. Andy would only be good for commentating on how well you did.
2″ fresh snow, p.c., 18F, light breeze. Supposed to reach 33F today. Ground no longer real cold. May mostly melt today. Poss. snow showers tonight, but 38F pred. / Sunday. BSO concert 1400 Sun. Hope it’s our last snow this winter. Peace,
Yes, the short cute one, not the grouchy curmudgeon, with Judy Garland in movies, always hyper and enthusiastic and organizing events and adventures.
What were the movies? It was a series.
Andy Hardy which is why I thought Andy. There were 15 between 1930 and 1940.
Fifteen movies in ten years, an average of eight months each. Hollywood used to grind out films almost like TV series episodes today, and a lot of them were pretty darn good. Now it often takes ten years just to get one movie written, options bought, green-lighted, rewritten multiple times, a director attached, a cast signed, product placements sold, shot, edited, re-edited, re-re-edited, publicized, and released. And most of them still stink.
Bonnie from Gloucester: I noticed Gene’s hair color too. But remember from many months/years ago, JJ told us that he does not do the colors. I’m guessing the colorist does not remember what Gene looked like.
Could be as simple as the colorist has an infatuation for blonde surfer types, hence Gene is her dream hunk.
In the comic above, Gene looks blond to me. Arlo is also blond.
Mechanical noise at the G.H. owl site. Not a chain saw. This is the second time I’ve seen what appear to be white leghorn feathers on the nest.
http://cams.allaboutbirds.org/channel/46/Great_Horned_Owls/
Lots more sticks on the Chesapeake osprey nest. Both birds were there, but the one w/ the tan nape took off just after I logged on about 1409. Also, two crows mating on Salisbury Plain here in Bemidji, sighted from the Prius at about 1400. Now know that, at least sometimes, they mate on the ground. Considering birds’ typical anatomy, sounds more practical than in the air. Peace,
P.S. Only snow left is on shaded N slopes, and maybe in woods. emb
Lost in A**2, that is quite conceivable, given the “black and white” nature of things as they appear above. But as it turns out, when Our Humble Author himself colors the Sunday strips, Gene has brown hair, and Ludwig is actually purple. =O
According to Gene, Mary Lou has hair “the color of home-baked bread.” With eyes that are “black pearls.” Methinks Our Humble Author was recalling someone when he wrote that…
And am I just mis-remembering, or did it turn out that Ruth was a redhead?
Debbe
My girls would rather eat out of the bulk bin than their individual
dish right there.
emb
Plants are going to be confused – Lilacs are starting to bud so it is time for
Crabgrass Preventer but it has been too cold & windy for lawn work.
emb
Snow still on cars after last night.
reposted from yesterday
April Fools on MPR
Old Bear
on 01 Apr 2016 at
This is hilarious
Anna Russell: The Ring Cycle: An Analysis
Anna Russell, voice and piano/The Anna Russell Album
Sony 47252 (21:50)
Also had Spike Jones
Alan Sherman – Hello Mudder
Listen here – the whole program is an hour.
http://www.classicalmpr.org/story/2011/04/01/april_fools
It’s sunny/cloudy/rainy/snowy/windy/still today. The only constant is cold. Yesterday was warm. Apparently, Indiana’s April Fool’s is Mother Nature flipoing through the season cycle every five minutes for a weekend. 🙁
Same around here, Lady Mindy, without being quite so cold. Still very much a case of, “If you don’t like the weather, just wait about fifteen minutes.”
Debbe 😉 Another kind of crazy…
I always kinda liked this video, for some reason. OK, that reason was probably Alicia and Liv. And no, that wasn’t me sitting outside the gas station.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NMNgbISmF4I
Funny thing happened. I was looking for something online and up popped the A and J blog from two years ago with my comments and yours of course, all of you. Dang, we were funnier then. Downright clever and chatty and conversant, full of wicked humor.
What happened? Life?
Question for those who live in the snow belt. Where does the white go when the snow melts?
Trying to post something, but am getting rejected. Don’t know why.
‘Where does the white go when the snow melts?’
Couple of answers [yesterday there might have been more, but one day a year is enough].
1. All snow is at least a little dirty. As ice crystals gradually turn to water, which trickles down to the ground, the dirt gets left behind. The snow gradually loses its whiteness and becomes snirt [also sp. ‘snert’]. [The whiteness becomes invisible and migrates poleward for cold storage, whence it emerges and migrates south next fall, right?] Since snirt absorbs more light than pure driven snow, it melts faster, hastening the process, leaving little crooked streaks of black on sidewalks, signs of impending spring.
2. Since snow is white because it reflects all the colors in sunlight, it mostly goes back through the air into space, keeping things cool. In Bemidji’s summer, usually about Bastille Day, the same amount of white light arrives, but most of it is absorbed by soil, plants, concrete, blacktop, and critters, warming things up. The light absorbed by green plants and such, drives the complex process of photosynthesis*, the primary source of energy of energy for most of Earth’s ecosystems, and for storage as combustible carbon in peat, coal, and oil. Some state legislators don’t want us to talk about ‘side’ effects of burning that stuff, stored over millions of years, in just a few centuries. Actually, some don’t want us to talk about anything that took over 6,000-10,000 years.
*Photosynthesis actually traps only a few % of Sol’s visible light. The rest is reradiated as heat, and evaporates a lot of water. Peace,
Peace,
Hope all with snow on the ground are there out of necessity. I’ve cut my grass four times since the end of January. It will probably be weekly form now on but it is a little cooler here. Low tonight will be in the low 40’s but rain and noon day heat make the grass grow. I’m not fond of cold. I’ll take my chances with hurricanes. Pax te cum.
God bless us every one.
Good morning Villagers…
JJ slipped one in on us….yeah, I read the morning’s TDS post and someone asked why is Homer Simpson behind the clouds. Sure enough he is there.
gotta go
have a blessed day
right now it’s 29 degrees on my front porch and the high today is supposed to be 60 degrees.
GR 🙂 I have no idea how this video got into my U Tube file…..but it’s good and the video is well done….and I have no idea who is singing…must research.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZHUZamNozo
all dressed up and no place to go….
http://cheezburger.com/8762760960