This Saturday post features a not-so-oldie from February, 2017. And I think I’ll continue posting a link to a bonus classic, this one from December, 2006. For those of you haven’t visited the “bonus” comic strip yet, it is a link to another old A&J in the GoComics archives. I want to remind you (ahem) that if you do visit the “bonus” comic strip, you are free to like it or share it or comment on it, just like the current Arlo & Janis, which will be available on GoComics as always.
Weighing the Options
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30 responses to “Weighing the Options”
Judy:
Good to know I’m not the only Edda & Amos fan. Wonder how many of us Amos would consider a quorum? Maybe others are still in the closet. Peace, emb
Count me in. I keep being afraid Brooke will give it up, but he keeps going. Love his artwork.
This is the day my mother (had she lived) would have become a centenarian. (She did pretty well, being less than four months from reaching age 97 when she passed.) Happy Birthday, Mom. <3
We always remember our mom’s birthday… and with love…
Re “honey-glazed chicken” retro cartoon: Perhaps instead of “The birds and bees are really at it today!”, Arlo might have told Janis, “The squirrels and rabbits are really at it today!”, leading to less ambiguity on her part. Also, Janis must never have heard this song…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lXYKGL6MgKM
I’d heard it before on the radio, even realized back then the double-entendre “Letts do it” [fave contralto, Elina Garanca, is a Lett], but saw it done live [and well], finally when Bemidji Community Theatre did their first musical, “Anything Goes.” Elaine was in the chorus. Year isn’t on the sweatshirt, but I’m guessing late ’80s. My role in BCT was mostly supportive spouse. Peace,
For those to whom that is news, here’s Cole Porter’s second verse:
And that’s why birds do it, bees do it
Even educated fleas do it
Let’s do it, let’s fall in love
In Spain the best upper sets do it
Lithuanians and Letts do it
Let’s do it, let’s fall in love
The Dutch in old Amsterdam do it
Not to mention the Finns
Folks in Siam do it–
Think of Siamese twins
Some Argentines, without means, do it
People say in Boston even beans do it
Let’s do it, let’s fall in love.
Peace,
Good song!
You cannot type diacritical marks directly in this blog, but purists might appreciate that some will transfer in from other sources, this time from an essay in The Bemidji Pioneer: El?na Garan?a. [which makes it, approximately AyLEEnah GahRANtchah].
Peace,
PS. Italics won’t transfer; tried that with the paper’s title.
You’ve got me wondering what will type in from my Mac’s keyboard. Let’s try a few
è
ê
ü
ñ
ô
é
¶
Wrong: they will transfer here but a ? replaces the letter and its mark up there. The first ? was an i with a line over it, the second ? a c with an upside down cedilla [like a UK non-com’s stripe] over it. So much for attempted erudition.
Peace,
The local Chamber of Commerce in Eufaula OK is sponsoring their Annual Cookie Crawl competition for the downtown merchants. Jackie prepared the ones we are serving at the boutique. This is part of the handout we are offering to customers who try our cookies…
Christmas Ornament Cookies
INGREDIENTS
1 stick Unsalted Butter, softened
1/3 cup White Sugar (or 1/2 cup Brown Sugar)
1/2 teaspoon Vanilla
1 Egg
1/4 teaspoon Salt
1 cup All-purpose Flour, shifted
Candied Sprinkles
DIRECTIONS
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Cream butter and sugar together with mixer. Add egg and vanilla; sift in flour and add 1/4 cup sprinkles. Blend until the ingredients all come together. Refrigerate 30-40 minutes. Scoop out 1 tablespoon ball of dough and roll in sprinkles. Place dough balls on a cookie sheet and press flat with the bottom of a glass to form 1 inch diameter cookies. Bake for 15 minutes. Makes approximately 36 cookies.
***
Jackie has been baking these cookies for about fifty years. This is a great recipe for involving children in baking Christmas Cookies. (It’s also great when your child says, “Mom, I need three dozen cookies to carry to the school party tomorrow.” The recipe is very flexible, and crushed nuts, crushed peppermint, M&Ms, lemon drops, crushed cereal, crushed pretzels, colored sugars, etc. may be used in place of the sprinkles. Use your imagination!
Thanks Ghost
We set a place at table on special occasions for close ones that have “stepped on the Rainbow”
Birthdays are special occasions.
Yes, they are, OB. Always.
I guess this(so far) is the only comment regarding the cartoon.
“Janis, maybe the doctors scales is reading 7 lbs under.”
I was just thinking…I seem to have the opposite problem as Janis. I weigh more in the doctor’s office than at home. Of course, I’m not wearing any clothes when I weigh at home.
I don’t suppose Janis is reversing that and stripping down to weigh at the doctor’s office. Especially since all the ones I go to have the scales out in the hallway.
Related to cheesecake, if you’re in the Birmingham area, try this place: https://www.klinglers.com/ . It’s worth trying. Between the baked goods and the German food, oh man.
Ummmm. Smoked Sausage Platter. I do love me some German sausage.
Have you gotten to try the Siegi’s Sausage restaurant in Tulsa? Good food, and they make their own. Multiple varieties. https://siegis.com/menu/
I have not. But I just looked at the menu, and the mysterious gypsy woman seems to be foretelling that I will soon have a close encounter with Siegi’s.
A close encounter of the wurst kind?
I don’t mind the reminder to “Like” a strip. I forget. But I always enjoy them.
So, after following the bonus link, I started clicking on “random,” for fun and to “like” a few more.
Six clicks in, I got https://www.gocomics.com/arloandjanis/1999/10/06
Three more clicks gave me https://www.gocomics.com/arloandjanis/1999/11/05
Something of a theme there.
An interesting array of weird critters. Some of the comments may be worthwhile, but I won’t vouch for complete accuracy. Will have to check whether the Sri Lanka frogmouth [a bird] is really an owl. Laptop actually got through all 40 without hanging up.
https://www.science101.com/orig/bizarre-animals-never-knew-existed/40/
Peace,
It’s not. Frogmouths belong to the Caprimulgidae [goatsuckers, which includes whip-poor-wills, nighthawks (not true hawks), and nightjars]. Goatsuckers mouths might fit around a goat’s teat, but, as long as their nostrils are not under water, birds cannot suck. No secondary palate separates the mouth from the nasal passage.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sri_Lanka_frogmouth
Peace,
Wrong: Frogmouths belong to the nightjars’ order, Caprimulgiformes, but to a different family within that order, the Podargidae. [Reminds me of lines from the college drinking song, “Old Man Noah”: “Because he knew a thing or two, He thought he knew it all.”]
Peace,
We always remember our mom’s birthday… and with love…
The cookies Jackie made for the boutique were so well received today that we’re thinking of opening a donut shop next to one of Eufaula’s legal marijuana shops and calling it “Glazed & Confused”.
Or, maybe, “Glazed Over”? (I think that’s better than “Overglazed”.)
Siegi’s drinks list includes no milk. I’d ask for it; if I had teens or younger kids w/ me, I’d go elsewhere. Peace,