Walking in Circles

by Jimmy Johnson

I’m afraid there’s more truth in this 2009 A&J Sunday strip than I’d like to admit. By the way, did you know the comic panel Family Circus will celebrate its 15th anniversary next February? What’s that? You could have sworn Family Circus has been around longer than 15 years? You’re right. It has. The world’s most widely syndicated comic panel began publication Feb. 29, 1960, a “leap day,” hence it is coming up on its 15th “birthday.” It originally was named “Family Circle” because of the distinctive circular format, but the Women’s magazine Family Circle objected and the name was changed.

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55 responses to “Walking in Circles”

  1.  Avatar
    Anonymous

    1) Ghost looks REALLY good in tight jeans. He has long legs and a really tight butt.

    2) it is still miserable in Oklahoma and so am I

    3) Staggered into kitchen and put pork roast in oven before we starve to death.

    4) If I WANTED to read/view 9Chickweed Lane I would do so I don’t and surely there is a discussion group somewhere else to “discuss* it and find those who do.

    5) This group is called Arlo and Janis for a reason.

    6) i am grouchy, irritable and downright irascible but right.

  2. Charlotte in NH Avatar
    Charlotte in NH

    Jackie, you have every reason to feel miserable and grouchy. I don’t read Chickweed Lane either, it’s annoying. Wishing you a good nights sleep and hope for a cooler day tomorrow. Sending love from NH. You can still write very expressively in spite of your discomfort; I can’t imagine how you manage to.

  3. Steve From Royal Oak, MI Avatar

    I have had to be at jury duty at 9:30-10:00, so Friday I decided to attend Mass before going to the courthouse. As I entered, I walked to the font to bless myself with holy water when a parishioner stopped me. Apparently a bat had fallen into the don’t and was flopping around it. By the time Mass ended someone had somehow removed the poor creature.

    1. Guessing Avatar
      Guessing

      Don’t = font ?

  4. Judy in Conroe Avatar
    Judy in Conroe

    @curmudgeonly ex-professor : Small correction to your Friday post on copy & paste techniques:
    2) press ctrl and c (think of “c” standing for copy; when you press ctrl and x it cuts)

    1. curmudgeonly ex-professor Avatar
      curmudgeonly ex-professor

      Judy/C – Thanks, but I admit I don’t understand what “cuts” means. I’ve been using “x”. Have I messed up the whole interwebnetcommune by doing so?

      1. Ruth Anne in Winter Park Avatar
        Ruth Anne in Winter Park

        If your goal is to share something like a web address, the difference between “copy” and “cut” doesn’t really matter. It would matter if you were working from a document of your own creation. “Copy” does exactly that, leaving in place the copied text. “Cut” does copy the text so that you can “paste” it elsewhere but deletes it from the original location.

        1. curmudgeonly ex-professor Avatar
          curmudgeonly ex-professor

          Thanks for the explanation. I do this only for addresses, so no matter – but I will change to using “c” on principle.

  5.  Avatar
    Anonymous

    How low can the bar go? Clean sheets. Shower and wash.my hair, go back to bed “nekkid” for a four hour nap. Clean pajama shorts and tee. Go ecplore kitchen for food in order to take opioids that dull pain but agitate gut causing different pain.

    Talk about walking in circles of boredom and apathy!

  6. Old Bear Avatar
    Old Bear

    c-ep
    Think of X as scissors – I try not to use it as if by error
    you copy twice before pasting the first copy is gone.
    I need a machine that can make multiple copies before pasting.

    1. Sideburns Avatar

      Look for a program that gives you a clipboard, holds the last several things you’ve copied or cut and lets you pick the one to use. I have one called Clipman that holds the last ten, plus the most recent image. It’s a Linux program, but if there’s not a Windows version, I’m sure you can find something similar.

  7. Old Bear Avatar
    Old Bear

    The girls got 2 more mice this morning 4:30 & 5:10 am.
    emb: I believe they are field mice not house mice.

  8. Jackie Avatar
    Jackie

    You all realize I have not touched anything but a phone in over 2 years? I own a brand new never used Apple expensive computer and five other new never used thing-ees like laptops and tablets?

    Traveling out to laundry room to wash something and search for pasta sauce to fake an eggplant parmesan. And I do mean fake! No garlic or onions on Fodmap or mushrooms. Tomato soup over Vietnamese rice noodles?

    Just read most fascinating article about Sir Jack Drummond who saved England from starvation during WWII, discovered and named Vitamins A, B, C and D, and was gruesomely murdered in France.

    Off to search for food that Ghost might eat that involves vegetables. He is not a vegan candidate!

  9. emb Avatar
    emb

    OB: I take it “the girls” are housecats who bring prey home. Cannot recall where you live. There may be a “Mammals of [state or region]” book that contains dichotomous keys to resident mammals. If no book is available for your state, one for an adjacent state would do. There are nation-wide field guides that may do the same. Also [and I’ve not checked] there may be similar keys available online. Are these long tailed critters with relatively large ear, or chunky ones with shorter tails and small ears? Lemme know what you find.

    Peace,

  10. Ghost Avatar
    Ghost

    Re 9-9-19 real-time cartoon: Yes, Janis, you are indeed a good little witch!
    This used to be the point at which Arlo would turn on the TV. Something must have changed. 🙂

  11. Steve From Royal Oak, MI Avatar

    So we finally delivered the verdict yesterday morning. Had a fascinating discussion with the Judge in the case as to how we arrived at it. She thought that we did a great job and while they will probably appeal, our verdict was certainly fair. We did have a paralegal and she kind of led things. It was a breach of contract and it was obvious that both were in breach, but she kept claiming that we only had to be concerned with the first breach. I should have asked for the Judge’s opinion during deliberations but after the verdict she told us that we could have ruled that both breached and entitled to damages.

    So as soon as I could I went to the internet to learn the story behind the story and that made me feel better as the party that we asked to pay damages were running a pretty shady business. The judge did a good job of making that part inadmissible, because had we known that, we really would not have awarded them any damages.